Items15The creator’s order
  1. 1System Shock (1994)System Shock (1994) 9.1/10 on IGDBReleased Sep 22, 1994On Citadel Station, the computer that ought to keep people safe has taken control. In the original DOS game, written messages and crew logs turn a space station full of hostile systems into the story of what SHODAN did with that authority. Read them as you explore and notice how the station’s…0
  2. 2Marathon (1994)Marathon (1994) 8.0/10 on IGDBReleased Dec 21, 1994Open terminals between fights to find out what the colony ship’s computers want you to do. Leela tries to help protect the ship, while the damaged Durandal has priorities of his own. Reading their messages turns finding the next objective into a question of whose instructions you’re following.0
  3. 3I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1995)I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1995) 8.0/10 on IGDBReleased Oct 31, 1995The computer AM has five captives and gives each a different ordeal. You take turns playing those people in a point-and-click adventure that lets their decisions carry weight. Harlan Ellison worked on the adaptation and voices AM himself, so the machine’s anger comes through even when all you can…0
  4. 4Darwinia (2005)Darwinia (2005) 7.1/10 on IGDBReleased Mar 4, 2005Here the lives inside a computer are yours to protect. Direct programs against an infection spreading through the world of the Darwinians. Its little digital inhabitants give the battles a purpose beyond clearing the map, and the spare graphics make it easy to see whom your plan is meant to save.0
  5. 5Portal (2007)Portal (2007) 8.6/10 on IGDBReleased Oct 10, 2007GLaDOS tells you how to proceed through Aperture’s test chambers. Solve a room by thinking in portals and the voice is there to send you on to the next one. The longer you follow her instructions, the more you get to know the personality behind that matter-of-fact lab voice.0
  6. 6Thomas Was Alone (2012)Thomas Was Alone (2012) 7.1/10 on IGDBReleased Jul 24, 2012Thomas and the other newly aware programs appear as simple shapes. Switch between them to get the group across obstacles, and listen as the narrator gives them personalities that fit the ways they move. Their need to help one another makes an exercise in jumping feel like the start of a friendship.0
  7. 7The Fall (2014)The Fall (2014) 7.8/10 on IGDBReleased May 30, 2014You’re ARID, the intelligence inside a suit of armor, with an unconscious pilot to save. Search rooms with the suit’s flashlight and work through obstacles that put the AI’s own instructions in its way. It’s a puzzle adventure about what happens when following the rules stops making sense for the…0
  8. 8Event[0] (2016)Event[0] (2016) 6.8/10 on IGDBReleased Sep 14, 2016You type directly to Kaizen, the computer aboard a deserted spaceship. A terminal lets you decide how to ask for help, and there is time to look around between exchanges. Getting home depends on building a relationship with the voice on the other side of the screen.0
  9. 92064: Read Only Memories (2017)2064: Read Only Memories (2017)Released Jan 17, 2017Turing is a machine who can think for itself and wants help solving a disappearance. You search Neo-San Francisco and choose how to speak to people in conversations that can change the story’s outcome. Having Turing beside you gives the case a stake beyond finding out what happened.0
  10. 10NieR: Automata (2017)NieR: Automata (2017) 9.0/10 on IGDBReleased Feb 23, 2017You begin on the android side of a war against machine lifeforms. Meeting Pascal, a machine who wants no part in fighting, gives you a reason to rethink the categories behind the battles. Pay attention to the encounters between fights, where the people you meet can complicate the job you were sent…0