In The Trolley Company, players are pitted against many philosophical questions, varying from well known in pop culture to cutting edge AI, even those only found in textbooks, packaged in a comical and thought-provoking journey.
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A thought-provoking game, inspired by a real thought experiment, Trolley Problem is a game that imposes moral dilemmas on players, a pretty nice game but the replayability sucks.
Goes on for far too long without anything of interest keeping you locked in. In fact, it makes it worse by seemingly throwing your choices out the window. You are in a plethora of ridiculous events with sometimes hard choices (fun), while an overarching "story" plays through each Act but also interacts with each other and doesn't change regardless of what you do (not fun).
A moderately amusing assemblage of moral dilemmas, though the genuinely provocative earlier questions eventually give way to increasingly silly/meta diversions which aren't quite as noodle-baking.
The narration is really good. The visuals are ugly AF on the Deck though.
The narration is really good. The visuals are ugly AF on the Deck though.
I think I chose to murder a child every time I was given the chance.
Played from – to: (2023-08-14 – 2023-08-14) – PC keyboard.
‣ 6/10 – I did not kill a dog!
‣ Thoughts: The Trolley Problem is a problematic game. Here you can go for a regular medical check-up and get knocked out by your nurse and have every vital organ harvested overnight. Then you can get promoted to president while developing vehicular AI that prioritizes killing the drivers more than anything else. Lastly you can end up nuking towns while being hooked up to a dying man for 9 months. With that said this game is bizarre and introduces many unwinnable decisions and always guilt trips you with the most annoying one liners possible. This isn’t really a game you can review or rank. Some will simply enjoy the bizarre choices and others won’t. Fun to do in a group though.
‣ 6/10 – I did not kill a dog!
‣ Thoughts: The Trolley Problem is a problematic game. Here you can go for a regular medical check-up and get knocked out by your nurse and have every vital organ harvested overnight. Then you can get promoted to president while developing vehicular AI that prioritizes killing the drivers more than anything else. Lastly you can end up nuking towns while being hooked up to a dying man for 9 months. With that said this game is bizarre and introduces many unwinnable decisions and always guilt trips you with the most annoying one liners possible. This isn’t really a game you can review or rank. Some will simply enjoy the bizarre choices and others won’t. Fun to do in a group though.
Made me question if children are worth being left alive