Do you hate games where the good and evil choices are too obvious? Well Trolley Problem, Inc has you covered. The game has launched on PC via Steam and Epic Games Store and promises to be a deeply thoughtful and awful narrative game.
You’ll make decisions based on philosophical problems that will cover everything from immigration, corporate espionage, religion, vaccinations, and even decision making itself. You’ll answer 55 multiple choice questions in 90 minutes of game play, then you can compare your answers with other players.
Multiple profiles will let you compare with your friends in the room or you can check our world stats. There will even be a streamer mode for the really self punishing who feel the need to justify their choices to a wide audience. You’ll come across many unlockables in the game and you’ll be treated to voice acting from Jan Ravens known for Dead Ringers, Spitting Image, and Skins.
There are 10 available languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Arabic. Personally, this game sounds torturous to play, which is by design. According to Samuel Read-Graves, developer of the game:
Everything is awful at the moment… …so what better way to take your mind off that fact by playing something which will make you feel worse? Trolley Problem, Inc. presents some genuinely testing and morally challenging scenarios based on philosophical problems and has been designed to spark debate in a format only possible through video games. The journey isn’t entirely bleak – there are moments that I hope will make players laugh out loud – but ultimately, it’s a game about making hard choices and discovering more about yourself and how your moral compass compares with the rest of the world.
Personally, as someone who agonizes over the choices in video games, I am not sure if I could handle 90 minutes straight of morally difficult questions. It would be interesting to see how my answers would stack up to everyone else, but I’m not sure how I feel about playing a game that is purposefully trying to torture you with difficult questions. It actually reminds of the trolley problem scene from The Good Place in which the problem keeps getting more and more convoluted in order to torture one specific character. If this sounds like your kind of game, you can pick it up now for $10.99.