Do Robots Dream of Electric Board Games? Inhuman Conditions Now on Kickstarter
September 13, 2018 by cassn
Inhuman Conditions is a 2 player, 5-minute interrogation game. In this chillingly bureaucratical world, an investigator and a suspect sit down in a room together. The objective: discover whether the suspect is a robot.
Suspects are provided with a card which states their robot or human status. Robots may be violent or normal, but all robots operate with a specific malfunction which hinders their ability to answer the investigator's questions in some way. Robots must, therefore, navigate the conversation, consistently trying to avoid displaying their malfunction to the investigator.
In Inhuman Conditions, nothing happens outside the conversation. there are no cards to count, no votes to track. The conversation is the event. Words don't explain or obscure your decisions; the words are the decisions. It's not just that everything you say can and will be used against you; it's also that there's nothing else you can rely on to defend yourself.
A penalty will be placed on the table which the Robot must perform if they accidentally display their malfunction, further hinting to the investigator that a robot may be opposite them.
The investigator wins if they correctly identify the suspect as human or robot, and looses if the suspect is incorrectly identified or if they are killed by a violent robot. Furthermore, the suspect also looses if they are identified as a robot - regardless of whether that identification is correct.
I absolutely love the concept behind this game. Horrifyingly rigid bureaucracy and an intense interrogation make this game from the designer of Secret Hitler a must play for me. You can find it on Kickstarter now.
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"t's not just that everything you say can and will be used against you; it's also that there's nothing else you can rely on to defend yourself."
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More human than human ?
So … let me tell you about my mother …
Painful to live in fear, isn’t it?
Cass showed me this and I immediately backed it. Secret Hitler is a great standard of social deduction games and I can’t wait to see how this one plays out!