It is an odd feeling to be playing this game in the year 2024, where crypto-turned-nft bros have moved on to “AI” as their next big panacea. It is a game that imagines AI as both less and more than it is today, where its mechanical force is to effectively play the game out in front of you in order to put obstacles there (something we’ve been able to do for decades, at least) but its plot force is to effectively be the singularity, a superintelligence far outside the capabilities we can imagine. But it’s surprisingly easy to suspend that part of my disbelief. I can engage with each part of the game as two sides of the same coin. Or maybe, instead, as one treats a model of the solar system: one a toy of the other.

But it is surprising, which half felt lackluster to me. Its platforming, while serviceable and tight, too-infrequently makes use of its own predictive conceit. The story, on the other hand, was engaging and well told - if a bit basic. It was a pleasantly unique perspective into the genre. It is not so often that we get stories from after the singularity, and very much not in this medium.