The Empathy Algorithm

Overall, this game has a lot of potential! 4/5 stars! I saw this one day and I had to really search for the game because I couldn't remember the title and it just showed up one day and it was gone. The graphics are really nice and I really enjoyed the voice actors, I think the creators chose well. I like that I am able to immediately go back if I made the wrong choice. I definitely would want the game to be longer and have more in-depth dialogue. I was able to go through 3 different endings in less than an hour which makes sense for the game to be free. Even though, there are 4 separate endings, they all felt too similar. I think it was kind of clear if both test subjects were humans and/or androids so adding more psychological disarray would add to the game. Focusing on the cognitive dissonance aspect and being able to bond with Ji-jeon in a more "human" manner, whether it is romantic or platonic can help as well. I loved the blade runner reference, that was funny. The game also reminds me of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K ♥♥♥♥, which is my favorite sci-fi novel.

I guess the game just isn’t for me. I don’t find the story interesting at all. It is free though, so who am I to complain? It was also made by a very small team, including one Bob Miller (or just Bob) and a certain Yvo “Zeitgeist” Warmers, I think (not too sure about this fellow).

Love the concept of the game. Be nice if it was longer and would love to see a second version to this game.

Hey, it's free, give it a shot. It's a bit janky, but its short and has a sorta clever idea in there.

Don't bother. Melodramatic. Takes itself too seriously. Full of f-bombs (because, you know, all the cool kids are swearing these days). And super-short, like less than one hour. But even free, the hour's not worth your time.

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Finally letting me review. Immediately wanted to narration to go away. Outside of that it's a tiny questionnaire game with one emotional character in a strange, beige hypothetical. Answering multiple choice in a linear story game is boring. I needed the text to flow better, literally the action of clicking buttons to get to the point and hurry the game along, and every time the options came up it would freeze the game for a second and eventually bring out options, a pink haze, and all of the options would vibrate like there was an iota of tension in these decisions. Ending 4 is lame, then the game just loops into the next cycle. I don't want to see the rest of it. Narrator didn't have to be voiced, could have spoken faster. The characters being voiced made the hysteria more annoying. It.. is... okay? For a freebie game, if you like kind of answering some hypotheticals that might lead to some implications, doesn't hurt to bad to get to an ending. Sucks that these questions are asking for answers in regards to a character that isn't the player, and what that character has experienced while the player has no experiences of this character to understand how to answer.

what?

Solid story with great voice acting. The menu was my favorite part of the game (well worth the five minute wait), but the rest was also good enough that I went back after finishing it and got every ending.

Визуальная новелла, исследующая вопросы человечности и сознания в эпоху искусственного интеллекта. Плюсы: Глубокий сюжет — философские дискуссии о любви, идентичности и свободе воли; Эмоциональная атмосфера — напряжённые диалоги и неожиданные повороты; Озвученное повествование — добавляет игре эмоциональности. Минусы: Краткость — игра проходится за 60 минут; Ограниченные выборы — несколько концовок, но мало вариантов действий; Текстовый формат — мало интерактивности за пределами диалогов. Итог: для любителей философских игр и визуальных новелл. Заставляет задуматься о природе человечности и искусственном интеллекте, несмотря на краткость и ограниченное взаимодействие.