As a new recruit in a repair shop for synthetic bodies, your boss puts the pressure on to prepare a few hard drives for refurbishing. The trouble is, they're very alive, and it's up to you whether you can actually do the job. With a complex morality system, your interactions with each drive can be as sinister or altruistic as you believe you are. And most importantly, every drive seems to be obsessed with the original owner of the body you're using for the drives, "Local," but she must be long since disposed of, right?
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LOCALHOST offers a lot of opportunities for choice and role-playing in a mostly single-screen package. The player character is a technician on their first day, whose job it is to wipe some hard drives. But they’re locked, and the only way to get them to unlock is to plug them into a busted android body and talk to whatever they contain. Moral dilemmas centered around the Turing Test ensue. Themes about embodiment, consciousness, labor, and exploitation ensue. Not bad for a game that takes only about 20 or 30 minutes for a playthough!