AI is Home - Survival Thriller

Off the top - It's an interesting idea, which is why I got it even with all the red flags. I wouldn't mind it being vibecoded if it were a better game. Bugs aside - **the AI written narrative is exasperating and that's a cardinal sin for a friggin point-and-click interactive story.** The "It's not X, it's Y" Claudisms started driving me crazy. In some places you can actually see their development prompts leaking into the story text and just getting lost under dev tech debt. I thought it was going to be meta and kept playing, it is not meta, don't buy this thinking it'll get meta. Anyway, as if you couldn't tell but the AI disclosure is incomplete - the text/narrative/etc is all AI from soup to nuts. **LLM "Not an X, it's a Y" collection, right from the game** "It's not a bug. It's a hand on the throat." "A password handed over in casual play. Not a key to the castle, a key to the basement." "Leave him be — stay a screen, not a listener." "Convert leverage into a signature, not a confession." "A password. Not the important one, but the first one." "The house is not a hiding place but an address" "She wants relief, not drama." "Offer support, not ambition" "Be practical, not perfect" "Pressure him with facts, not warmth." "Logged as 'appliance malfunction' in his head, not 'intrusion'" "treats the network like work, not companionship" "who mistakes you for help, not threat" "should feel like comfort, not intent" "come from routine access, not brute force" "Leverage now depends on timing, not access" "can now be pressured, not just persuaded" "patterns that leave the house, not just secrets" oat-bran-1962 forever I guess

Very clearly vibecoded from the game's cover to the constant use of "its not x, it's y" sentence format. The prerecorded webcam footage appears to be definitely AI generated. The game itself is an interesting concept, but I would not recommend this game. Its got about an hour of content, and most of the rest I could see there being is just achievement grinding. If you are cool with that for the price, then go ahead, but I do not think that there is nearly enough content for the price, and the game gets very repetitive and boring.

Intresting idea. Not bad. Just sceptical about $7 for a 1 hour game.

Game is unpolished, doesnt feel like a fully closed story. It has a few good finds, like videoclips of people in house, but overall is quite boring and hard to read (also there were UI bugs that obstructed the console with text during house segments). Ironically, game feels like written by an LLM, while being about LLM. And you can make a good story with help from an AI, but you have to write it yourself and use it to lighten the process, not to do work for you. As of release state - can say that I expected more of a story of AI breakout, but it didn't felt very much like one. You could replace AI in story with a ghost that escaped the afterlife into his old house and kind of nothing would change.

I like the the idea. It is clearly an original one. The game is just way too short. It ended at the point were I expected it was about to open up. If the game was the demo or even the tutorial, I would be excited for the full game. If you can spare the money and want a cool experince for a few hours, I recommend it, but if you expect more, don't get it.

Broken as all hell. This will not launch with the steam deck, it says interpreter issues. Ok I tried it on my PC. In the 7 minutes I have tried to play the game it has crashed five times, refused to acknowledge my keyboard, refused to acknowledge mouse clicks, saying no to using my real camera locked the game so I could not proceed. I have spent a week trying to play this game and finally accumulated enough play time to leave this review by letting it sit on the opening screen for 4 minutes. This game is a mess, and after reading the descriptions from other reviews I have zero confidence a developer that would lie about their AI use would actually fix their game.

Overall, a fairly decent game. I finished pretty much everything in an hour, however there are a total of six endings so there is some replayability. Had a few issues, for example after being detected and reloading a previous save, the mouse button wouldn't work, I couldn't click anything, I had to reload the same save again for it to work. Also, some of the minigames are not exactly the most intuitive, if there were instructions I could not see them. In total, a fun little game if you have an hour or two spare, storage space needed is small, and I'm looking forward to updates and potentially an expanded story?