Game Description
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is an interactive quest based on the novel of the same name “I Have No Mouth, but I Must Scream” by science fiction writer Harlan Ellison. The story centers on morality and psychology, touching on moral dilemmas, madness, selfishness, sexual violence, genocide, and a variety of other complex themes. The story tells about artificial intelligence A.M. (Allied Mastercomputer), which destroyed the entire population of the planet, except for five people. The motto of the game is the famous philosophical phrase of Descartes: “I think, therefore I exist.”
A supercomputer has been holding people hostage and torturing them for over 100 years. Each hero is a personality with his own character. AI tries to identify the shortcomings of human nature, so it builds a digital cyber trap where they are faced with their vices, shortcomings and phobias. Defeat A.M. There is only one way: to make the right choice to prove to artificial intelligence that living beings are better than perfect robotic organisms. The game features 7 endings, depending on what choices the player makes in the final episode. Gameplay I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is a classic quest where you have to move around locations, communicate with different characters and solve a huge number of puzzles. The interface consists of several screens where the Action Window, Message Line, Control Panel, Inventory and Spiritual Uplift Indicator are available. Dialogues and actions are distinguished by the presence or absence of square brackets. Story Characters:
Benny is a handsome and strong guy, turned by AI into an ugly primate; Gorrister is a truck driver who beat his wife, and in the virtual world he is on an airship soaring in the sky; Nimdok - a World War II Nazi sent to a concentration camp by AI; Helen is a girl who hates the color yellow, and is now forced to sit in a cage made of walls of this shade; Ted is a cowardly and pathetic gigolo, located in the Middle Ages, where the world is ruled by magic and total evil.
