Snag a free Main Assembly beta key and get a chance to win a Reign SENTRY MKII gaming PC
Built-a-robot workshop.
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
You are now subscribed
Your newsletter sign-up was successful
Want to add more newsletters?
Every Friday
GamesRadar+
Your weekly update on everything you could ever want to know about the games you already love, games we know you're going to love in the near future, and tales from the communities that surround them.
Every Thursday
GTA 6 O'clock
Our special GTA 6 newsletter, with breaking news, insider info, and rumor analysis from the award-winning GTA 6 O'clock experts.
Every Friday
Knowledge
From the creators of Edge: A weekly videogame industry newsletter with analysis from expert writers, guidance from professionals, and insight into what's on the horizon.
Every Thursday
The Setup
Hardware nerds unite, sign up to our free tech newsletter for a weekly digest of the hottest new tech, the latest gadgets on the test bench, and much more.
Every Wednesday
Switch 2 Spotlight
Sign up to our new Switch 2 newsletter, where we bring you the latest talking points on Nintendo's new console each week, bring you up to date on the news, and recommend what games to play.
Every Saturday
The Watchlist
Subscribe for a weekly digest of the movie and TV news that matters, direct to your inbox. From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we've got you covered.
Once a month
SFX
Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month!
We've secured 55,000 Steam keys for the beta of Main Assembly, Bad Yolk Games and Team17's robot building sim. Rather than attempt to fashion them into a fearsome robot made entirely of ASCII, we've decided to pass them along to you.
Main Assembly sets you loose on a powerful, free-form crafting tool that lets you build robots in pretty much whatever shape you fancy. A car robot? You can do that. A plane robot? Sure. A robot robot? You're the boss. Once built, you get to assume direct control—taking your creations across all-terrain sandboxes, or even testing their limits through various challenges.
Or you can make use of the in-depth programming interface to create complex logic chains, giving your creations life. Or at least a predictable, defined approximation of it.
The beta currently features three challenge sets featuring a total of 11 levels, two sandbox maps and over 60 parts. Plus you can build (and compete) with up to three friends in online multiplayer. These keys will give you access until the end of the beta on June 8, ahead of Main Assembly's Early Access release on June 11.
To grab a key, simply enter your email address into the widget below. This is a first-come-first-serve giveaway, so once they're gone, they're gone.
Note: if the key widget isn't working, you'll need to disable adblock.
There's more. Anyone who grabs a key will also be able to take part in the creation contest that's running on the PC Gamer Forums, to win a Reign SENTRY MKII gaming PC worth over £2,000. It features an RTX 2070, an i7-9700K and is built for 1440p gaming. Head here to submit your creation. The competition runs until 11:59 PM ET on June 12, 2020, at which point Team17 will be picking a winner.
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
This competition is subject to Future's competition terms and conditions.

Phil has been writing for PC Gamer for nearly a decade, starting out as a freelance writer covering everything from free games to MMOs. He eventually joined full-time as a news writer, before moving to the magazine to review immersive sims, RPGs and Hitman games. Now he leads PC Gamer's UK team, but still sometimes finds the time to write about his ongoing obsessions with Destiny 2, GTA Online and Apex Legends. When he's not levelling up battle passes, he's checking out the latest tactics game or dipping back into Guild Wars 2. He's largely responsible for the whole Tub Geralt thing, but still isn't sorry.

