Adventure game AI Confidential announced for PC
"Mend everything from broken parts to broken hearts."
Developer Critical Wit has announced AI Confidential, an adventure game in which players must utilize “high-tech tools and old-fashioned empathy to mend everything from broken parts to broken hearts.” It will be available for PC via Steam. A release date was not announced.
Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:
About
Artificial Intelligence, Real Problems: You are Makenzy Turner, an affable RoboTechnician employed by AI megacorp, Indelligent Solutions. With your trusty assistant ARI, use high-tech tools and old-fashioned empathy to mend everything from broken parts to broken hearts.
Key Features
- A unique, playful and intuitive emoji-driven dialog system.
- An unforgettable cast of purpose-built patients to meet and help.
- An array of environments in a solarpunk future to explore.
- Classic adventure game inventory puzzles… minus the moon logic.
- From hardware repair, to virus removal, assist your patients with invasive aplomb.
- Decommission “lost causes,” and return their cores to research and development.
Just (Re)Act Naturally!
AI Confidential‘s emoji interactions place the emphasis on disposition and emotional intent. Unlike conventional (text-driven) dialog systems, react to what’s been said, using emoji to influence the tenor and tone of conversations.
Robotic Rehabilitation in Four “Simple” Steps
- Step 1: The Owner, the Bot, and the Boss (Case Briefing) – Meet your purpose-built patient to get their perspective. Get marching orders from HQ, and a hot take from the broken bot’s owner.
- Step 2: Solarpunk Sleuthing (Explore and Investigate) – Uncover possible causes of malfunctions and misbehavior. Chat with other AI in the area for clues and leads.
- Step 3: Subjective Solutions (Diagnosis and Treatment) – Determine a diagnosis, and evaluate a possible treatment… or three. Execute the “best” option, or consider doing something… unsanctioned.
- Step 4: Rocks and Hard Places (Metanarrative Mindfulness) – What’s best for the patient isn’t always what the customer or your company wants. Your decisions dictate the fates of your patients, relationships… and career.
Watch the announcement trailer below. View the first screenshots at the gallery. Visit the official website here.