
As usual, I’ve bought a few more, but also been doing my best to play through my collection. Still looking for interesting scifi games about artificial intelligences as characters, while trying to avoid “AI”-generated slop.
Justice.exe - short and basically abandoned early access game with an interesting premise: acting as an attorney for sentient AI, such as a laundry machine that developed sentience one day, or an old robot injured by contractors. I would have loved to see this more fully fleshed out.
The Automaton of Second London - short but enjoyable little gamejam creation
Overboard! - Inkle game where you play as a murderer concealing her role in her husband’s death. For an Inkle game, I didn’t enjoy it that much.
Em-a-Li - Another short indie game about an AI.
Interregnum Chronicles: Signal - Cross between an idle game and a walking … I mean floating simulator set aboard a space station. I enjoyed the story, but not taken by the gameplay.
Remember - Short game about interacting with an AI. I didn’t really get into it.
MOTHERED - A ROLE-PLAYING HORROR GAME - absolutely loved this. The story takes place within the same universe as The Enigma Machine, and explores many of my favourite themes in this dark and sad story. There is an add-on DLC [HOME] hidden within the demo version of this that goes to even sadder places. Definitely not a game for everyone, but right up my street.
Nobody Wants To Die - I bought this basically because I thought it was going to be a story about uploaded minds. In the end it was something a bit different. Lots of interesting ideas and I loved the crime scene mechanic, but I found the final 1/3 of the game a let down.
Do Not Feed The Monkeys 2099 - fun little scifi themed puzzles based around surveillance. Rooted for the homicidal kitchen AI.
Gris - looked beautiful. Didn’t enjoy it.
Trans Neuronica - puzzle game with a story about a mind within a machine.
FAR: Lone Sales - short and beautiful.
1000xRESIST - WOW. Unless something incredible comes along, this is going to be my favourite play of the year. Felt like I was playing an Octavia E. Butler short story. Beautfiul.
Neon Blood - short cyberpunk game that I enjoyed until it fell into some tropes that I don’t enjoy.
Robotherapy - short visual novel about a world where robots have destroyed their human creators. Decent.
Technotopia - enjoyable puzzle game with a story about a city-manager AI. I felt compelled to complete it fully and it was addictive in that mobile game way.
Year Unknown - simple but existentially sad game about AI in a far future setting. Enjoyed it with an oof.
Obreno - unfinished sort of illustrated novel about ways of life in the far future. I found it beautiful and interesting, though incomplete.
Still Wakes The Deep: Siren’s Rest - DLC that should theoretically have been everything I want in a game, but the mechanics intruded a bit on me enjoying the story. Still glad I played it.
Titan Station - right up my street. Walking sim full of my favourite themes.