Ratings and Reviews by Dan Fabulich

The game's premise is charming. The game is pretty short, and there are only a few choices in it. I think I would have enjoyed more choices, especially near the end game, when (Spoiler - click to show)interacting with the unfrozen human.

(It also strains belief that this alien would know the difference between Cash Assistance and SNAP, which is to say that the alien knows what "cash" is, but doesn't know anything about why these programs are administered so poorly. Maybe give me a choice about why I think the HRA is run like this?)

The game is a parody of a personality test that a corporation would administer to potential employees. They're widely reviled, and so it's a pretty easy target. In addition, the author has imagined the test to be administered by AI, another easy target.

But, as a result, the game never gets all that funny. It starts off with a surreal question, and remains surreal and random throughout. In my opinion, to get to be actually funny, you have to be surprising, but inevitable in hindsight. Starting surreal and staying surreal doesn't give the game enough room to make the player expect something, so I could never really be surprised by anything.

EDIT: Replayed today at the SF Bay Area IF Meetup and we discovered the (Spoiler - click to show)dating simulator endings. Now that's what I call surprising but inevitable in hindsight. I've changed my review from 3 stars to 4.

To get to those endings: (Spoiler - click to show)Play along with the survey enough to receive a job offer, then choose "Not Awesome" and refuse to work there. When asked why, say that the survey isn't even really an AI.

I think I would have given this game 5 stars if all of the endings had been that good.