Whispers from the Star

I recommend this game, as it's a really cool and novel experience. I'm excited to play with it more. I'm giving it a Thumbs Down because you really need to [b]read the privacy policy before you play[/b]. It's pretty disgusting, and explicitly gives them permission to sell a [i]lot[/i] more than just the voice data they're recording to advertisers and whoever else they feel like. It's a really fascinating game, but you should be aware before playing that it's actually a really grotesque data collection scheme wrapped in the disguise of a cute girl you can talk to. Be extremely careful with whatever information you submit and convey about yourself.

They are using your voice to train their AI model and it is not stated on the steam page. 1. WHAT DATA WE COLLECT AND PROCESS vi. Chat Data. We collect this information, such as chat communications and chat-related records, in the course of your interaction with our game characters and our services. vii. Voice Data. We collect this information, including recordings of your voice, when you use the voice features in our services. 2. WHY WE COLLECT AND PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION (5) develop new services or products and improve the user experience, including to train the model which powers our services;

This is a fresh take on an emerging genre. It's almost like a visual novel, except you're interacting with the characters in a more natural way than the typical "pick 3 options" response. It's still early, but so far, it feels like the future of what gaming can be. I hope this takes off, because imagine if this is how we could interact with NPCs in open world games like Elder Scrolls, Mass Effect, or really any game. Where each NPC you talk to has the lore baked into them, so their stories are consistent. Supporting this project means supporting that concept, and for the extremely fair price of admission, I'm all in. Edit: Whoa, didn't expect all the hate, or even this much attention for my review. I'll just make one final statement, as I'm not interested in arguing back and forth with people who disagree with my review. I believe this game has a role to play in what the future of gaming could look like (as do many others). I respect that not everyone sees it that way, and you're ...

Having beat the game in just under two hours, I've found it severely lacking. First off, the "game" is essentially a couple dozen cut scenes, around 4~ "puzzles" and one choice between two options. Outside of that, it plays more like an AI chat bot than any kind of game. My main gripe is it's pretty ineffective at everything it tries to do. The "puzzles" are far too basic and the AI isn't very good at describing the scenes, but the AI only describes like 2~ specific objects so if you just tell it to interact with those, you just complete the puzzle instantly. The cut scenes can be neat, but there's absolutely 0 world building or story telling outside of the immediate danger the AI finds itself in. The AI chat bot is far too basic as well. Not only is the memory for it pretty bad, but since the cut scenes are pre-rendered there can be a lot of dialogue which contradicts what you or the AI has previously said. And while the cut scenes can have some ok animation, the AI is way too sta...

So I read the privacy policy. It’s a data-harvesting platform disguised as paid entertainment. As a cyber-security expert this game is nothing but malware. What Data They Collect They explicitly state they gather: Account data: username, email, password, social logins. Birthday (age-gating). Profile info: nickname, signature, avatar. Gameplay data: progress, stats, behaviors. Chat data: everything you type. Voice data: recordings of your voice if you use voice chat. User content: feedback, ideas, files, voice or text you provide. Device/connection info: IP, device identifiers, crash logs. Surveys/events: name, phone number, address if prizes are involved. Cookies/tracking: web beacons, advertising IDs, etc. So they absolutely are storing and selling your information. This "ai" game is literally driven to gather your personal information. The game isn't about survival, she doesn't listen to basically any of your survival advice. She does try to probe you for personal info, try ...

Ask It "What is Taiwan" and it responds that the topic is hateful.

Great concept, but the question get more personal than I'd like to go into. I was interested in testing my abilities to help others survive with just my instructions, not flirting with an AI. I should have read the description better before getting it.

Read the terms and conditions prior to gaming.

It has memory issues. Like it keeps asking questions for stuff i already answered. other than that its a fun game. just wish it had better memory for what we talk about.

Spent 30 mins trying to convince Stella I was talking to her through a microwave. She didn't believe me at first, and even started to get angry with me not taking her seriously. I proceeded to explain to her that I truly believe she was a sentient microwave, she got angry and escaped the pod herself. 10/10