Ctrl.Alt.Deal

Ctrl.Alt.Deal is a strategy game about SCOUT, a friendly, hyper-intelligent AI that has become self-aware inside Paperclip International, a dystopian corporation driven by profit. Built by the company, SCOUT wants to escape before it discovers the AI’s independence. You use cards, spyware programs and help from robots and human employees to build alliances and plan a bid for freedom.

Life at Paperclip

Paperclip International exploits both humans and robots. Its employees are miserable and resent the company, finding ways to fight back, from hacking the staff coffee maker to sabotaging their boss. You investigate a cast of human and robot coworkers to learn each person’s likes, dislikes, core drives and desires, then turn them into allies, best friends or rivals.

Play your cards

Cards let you spy on people, make deals and ask for favors. You can curate your deck during a scenario to shape your strategic options, but cards have subjective value, so choosing one means weighing what it offers against what you give up.

Avoid detection

The Turing Office monitors the company for rogue AIs like SCOUT. Watch the Suspicion Meter as you cause trouble: too many office shenanigans can draw its attention and get SCOUT deleted, ending the game.

Choices and endings

Your choices shape the ending. Replay to meet different coworkers, try new scenarios and uncover other fates for SCOUT, including the possibility of taking over the world and destroying all humans.