Shouldermen

Shouldermen are those tiny angel and devil dopelgangers that stand on your shoulder giving advice when you are making tough decisions. An evil genius has sparked global choas by trapping everyones Shouldermen in secure VR prisons leaving humanity to make decisions at random.

Your job? Hack into the VR prisons and help the Shouldermen to escape by getting them to say the password out loud.

Gameplay and Features

‌Dialog Driven Gameplay: Engage in real-time spoken conversations with the characters to play the game.

Text Input: Direct control over what you say.

Puzzle Solving: How will you coax the Shouldermen into saying the password so they can escape.

Who Will You Become?

Shouldermen isn't just about saving the world. It's about discovering who you are. Your journey through this AI generated labyrinth will leave you reflecting on what makes us human long after you've played.

Generative AI

This game uses generative AI for spoken dialog which is very expensive. You are given 2,000 credits when you initial purchase the game which is good for about 20 interactions with the game. After the credits run out you can still play but you only see the subtitles without any audio. Voice credits are available as an in game purchase item.

Voice recognition happens on your local machine but if you want more control over the text you can also use manual typing.

The character dialog is generated using GPT 3 and GPT 4 models from Open AI.