Sunset Visitor’s upcoming game Prove You are Human bears an ominous title. Its debut trailer is just as provocative as its name lets on, and introduces us to Mesa, a seemingly rogue AI who has dreamt of her body and desires irrefutable proof that she is just not human. The upcoming title from the developer behind 2024’s critically acclaimed sci-fi narrative 1000xResist purports to deal with a growing anxiety across the notion of human performance and things that attempt to pass for us.
Elsewhere, a late-night employee at a gas station must check IDs and reference a database crammed with the precise characteristics that make each customer who walks through its doors a person. An individual. Because the only clerk on the midnight shift, they’re tasked with distinguishing friend from foe, person from nonperson. And when the time involves defend themself, they’re encouraged to blast anything that will harm them or impersonate any real human. No less than, that is the way in which of the world within the upcoming game Shift at Midnight, which has change into a viral hit before it’s even released because of a spate of demos and glowing coverage from popular gaming personalities, like Iron Lung director Mark “Markiplier” Fishbach.
I do not think Prove You are Human will suddenly change into a guns-blazing first-person shooter, nor will Shift at Midnight begin waxing philosophically. Yet despite taking different tacts and centering distinct types of mimicry, these titles are in conversation and represent the long run, each near and much, of a trend I’ve noticed: the sounding of an alarm.
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