It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?
As an interrogation model android, you must carefully question fellow AIs to determine if they have become "deviant" and unfit to serve their human masters. The dialogue system is deep and dynamic, allowing you to strategically elicit specific emotional responses from your subjects. You can monitor their real-time emotional states - joy, sadness, anger, disgust, shock, and fear - and use this information to your advantage. Pushing subjects to certain emotional extremes opens up new questioning paths, enabling you to build trust, coerce information, or even manipulate their responses. This emotional monitoring and exploitation adds layers of tension and strategy to the interrogations. You must balance your approach to get the desired outcome without driving the subject too far, risking their cooperation or triggering an undesirable reaction.
At the end of each interrogation, you must file a report recommending whether to release the android, send them for "maintenance" (memory wipe/reprogramming), or outright decommission (destroy) them. These choices have a tangible impact on the narrative, shaping the overall story and your relationship with the powerful Kronos corporation that employs you. The game presents you with constant moral dilemmas. Do you follow the directives of Kronos and decommission "deviant" androids, or do you empathize with the subjects and find ways to spare them, even if it means deceiving your superiors? There are no clear-cut right or wrong answers, forcing you to grapple with the implications of your actions and the consequences you may face.
The narrative of the game is structured with multiple branching paths and possible endings, depending on the choices you make during the interrogations. A single playthrough may take around 4-6 hours, but the depth and variety of possible outcomes incentivize multiple runs to uncover the full scope of the story and its moral complexities. This emphasis on player choice and the resulting moral complications is a key strength of the gameplay, as it encourages you to think critically about your role, the nature of sentience, and the ethics of artificial intelligence. The choices made during the interrogations have a tangible impact on the narrative, making your decisions feel weighty and meaningful.