Sunset Visitor Unveils 1 AI Horror Game for PC, Probing Labor and Personhood

1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Aug 10

Prove You’re Human casts players as Santana’s digital clone, sent to test a corporate system called Mesa that is convinced it has a body and is alive.
Mesa drives the game’s psychological horror: players navigate surreal 2D and 3D Captchas, investigate a cyber-world and try to stop spreading hallucinations.
Sunset Visitor says the project grew from debates over AI-era micro-labor and the idea of splitting a person so a physical self can live while a digital self works.
Close-up conversations with Mesa use programmed micro-expressions tied to dialogue, aiming for an uncanny realism inspired by older internet aesthetics and Serial Experiments Lain.
The PC game continues the studio’s socially reflective approach after Peabody-winning 1000XResist, with founder Remy Siu framing it as a story about personhood, labor and possession.