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Colobot, released in 2001, was a game like this. You used a C++-like language to program robots as an astronaut on a planet somewhere.

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I never thought I'd see a mention of Colobot on HN - but yes, you could play the entire game like a normal action-adventure 3D game, or program robots to do everything for you and just sit in one place the entire game. It was amazing.

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