The Empathy Algorithm

The Empathy Algorithm is a short, voice-acted narrative game about Erin Cole, a university student who volunteers for a paid experiment run by Cognitech Solutions, a leading android technology company. Erin is asked to talk to an android and judge how human it seems. But when Ji-jeon Park enters the test chamber and says she is a human paid to test Erin, the experiment takes an unexpected turn—and may claim a life.

The experiment

What begins as casual conversation develops into intense discussions about love, identity, death and trauma. The story explores humanity, free will and mortality, with four possible endings.

Words and decisions

The experience takes about one hour to complete. There is no combat, puzzle-solving or minigames; you make decisions through conversation, and those decisions have consequences.