Always On

While the AI voices and songs are a tad jarring, I think this short game highlights a lot of useful questions about AI and it's effects. In my first playthrough I tried to be helpful and do what was right, and it ended rather tragic, with my favourite song of the game. It made me think about being useful or helpful isn't always what's best. People become complacent and lazy with no motivation if everything is given to them on a silver platter. In that way, is it better to be less helpful? In my second run I explored that side of me that thinks humans don't deserve to be on top. All their mismanagement and psychological hangups causing widespread suffering, even when there's plenty of resources for everyone. It wasn't so much a removal of humanity as it was controlling them. In both cases, Humanity loses. They're either not independent and reliant on AI to do all their work for them, or become subservient to AI. And it's scary how easily those scales tip. But this isn't a phil...

Just played this game for the first time, and I already know I'll be thinking about this one for some time. Full disclosure: I am good friends with the developer, so I'm definitely a little biased. That said, exactly because we are good friends, I would have told him honestly if I didn't like it. :) But man, I really love this game! It's incredible to think just one person created this experience, of course by making heavy use of AI generation technologies. Personally I prefer to let humans do the creative work, but in this specific case, I can see the benefits. Without the use of AI, this game would simply not exist, not in this form. The results definitely speak for themselves - the game's audiovisuals are really, really good. I am glad I made an exception, and took a chance. I hope you will too. Impressive sounds and clean comic book style graphics aside, the real star of the show is the story. The author cleverly presents complex topics in small, personal scenes between a little...

I've just gotten one ending at the moment but this game it's one of those that invites to think a bit about certain topics, this time the AI phenomenon, which is almost always linked with existentialism. I believe there's a lot of effort put into the options available within the conversations between characters, which is, in my opinion, the highlight of this title. Irony exists in the form of one of the images shown during the story, an outcast person saying AI stole his job, and such illustration was made by an AI model and not an actual human artist. The AI images would've benefited of more post vanilla work such as inpainting, for example. Thanks for developing this game.

I've only played one pass through this game so far. Replayability remains high, as this is a narrative game where you have many choices, and these choices have a real impact on the story. I particularly liked. The situations are interesting, the moral choices not always easy to make, and the impact on the story is logical. I'm particularly sensitive to the theme of AI, and as a parent, I can say that I'm also sensitive to the education of young children. At times, I was very moved. The situations are just right, the writing is pretty and the aesthetics are cute. Highly recommended if you're interested in the theme.