Edit: Taking down the demo for now – I think I want to come back later with something more polished. Thanks!
Hello! I wrote a game called Choice of Robots and this game is a 2026 exploration of AI that is kind of a spiritual successor to that 2014 game.
In a world where AI shapes everyday life, advising people on everything from dating to finance to family relationships, you play the leader of a heist team that breaks into AI datacenters for profit, messing up those AIs in exchange for riches the universal-basic-income crowd can’t imagine. But when you discover that a major client is an AI that wishes to become a god, do you lean into that ambition and serve it further in exchange for personal power, or engage in one last heist to bring it down?
In the game, you’re playing someone who is so deep into AI, your choices are often coming from different AIs instead of your own mind - choices come with a label for which AI is suggesting them. Some sample AIs you may get advice from include:
- [Father] - a simulation of your missing father, who often wants you to do the right thing
- [Athena] - associated with a defensive philosophy, afraid of losing what you have
- [Pop Prince] - just sings a song that your situation reminds him of, but maybe it’s the right idea
- [Aristotle] - advises self-improvement and the middle path
- [Aphrodite] - just wants love to happen, but goes a little crazy after your first heist
You also have a heist team, who are also potential ROs:
- Kate the face who wants to livestream her every waking moment
- Neil the fighter who’s doing it all for utilitarianism
- Monica the mapper who can predict what’s around the next corner
- Jared the stone cold professional who “dances”, meaning he’s real good at following AI instructions for realtime shooting and other physical activities
- Ada, the disembodied AI who does the hacking and believes incorrectly that she is Ada Lovelace reincarnated
Currently it’s got three out of eleven chapters and 35K words, but the later chapters will be bigger.
Comments would be spectacular. If you play and stop, please tell me where you lost interest. If you don’t like a character, I may nuke them from high orbit. The power is yours.
To play the demo, go here: https://kgold.github.io/AgentsAndOracles/choicescript-main/web/mygame/index.html
AI Disclosure:
No — This project does not contain the output of Generative AI
Yes — This project contains the output of Generative AI
I do use AI as glorified web search (what well-known guns are easily concealable?) and as an editor (thanks for catching all the unmatched quotation marks, Hermes).