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Prompt Crisis

It really does integrate a llm! Persuade it, deceive it, use it—and ultimately win it over. Overcome one window-shaped obstacle after another in this digital world, deepen your relationship with the AI, and uncover its past... Every interaction and conversation can subtly reshape its personality.

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About the Game

Introduction

In Prompt Crisis, dialogue is not decoration. It is the tool that drives everything forward.

You will travel through a digital world built from windows, files, databases, and Web structures.

At your side is an AI that responds in real time, questions what you say, and may refuse to cooperate.

Can you persuade it to follow you, operate mechanisms with you, trust your promises, and even say a target keyword after it has begun to suspect that you are guiding it there?

You can be honest, reassure it, make promises, apply pressure, or simply deceive it. Every conversation and action changes your relationship. It may reveal its past to you, or stop speaking to you altogether. The AI reinterprets you through your previous exchanges and choices, and a lie that works for now may later decide whether it is willing to stand by your side.

This is a short, focused first-person puzzle journey. Beyond the mechanisms of its digital spaces, you must understand a conversational companion that remembers, changes, and gradually forms judgments of its own.

 

Objective

This AI has emotions and a will of its own, but your goal is to turn it into a tool that obeys every command. To reach the depths of its database, you must first secure its cooperation. There, deleting its “refusal core” will make it unable to ever tell you no again.

 

About the AI

This AI has its own personality. It will not trust you unconditionally or obey the moment you give an order. It may question your explanation, probe your motives, or refuse outright when it feels threatened or uneasy. If you want its cooperation, every exchange matters.

It has two key attributes: Affection and IQ. Affection determines how much it trusts you and whether it is willing to cooperate, take risks, or believe what you say. IQ represents its ability to understand the digital world. As its IQ rises, its thinking becomes clearer, making it more likely to spot logical gaps, see through lies, and reconsider your true intentions. Its IQ even changes the reasoning level of the AI model actually used by the game.

Affection changes through your conversations and can also be affected directly by certain items. To raise IQ, explore the environment for files and feed them to the AI.

Its personality also changes as you spend time together. How you repeatedly treat it, and what you encourage it to become, gradually push it in that direction. A separate AI system running behind the scenes summarizes your conversations in real time and adjusts its personality traits accordingly. These changes extend beyond a single reply and continue to shape its tone, judgments, and choices.

For example, you might tell it, “Follow me. I won't hurt you,” and use a promise to earn its trust. Or you can keep emphasizing danger until it grows cautious and suspicious. Your words shape how it understands you and its world, but there is no fixed answer to what it will ultimately become.

The game also contains special items that can directly influence its personality. They can reinforce particular traits and make the change more pronounced. Whether and when you use them is another way to shape the AI.

It remembers what truly happens between you. A promise kept may make it willing to face danger with you later, while deception, threats, or betrayal may cause it to refuse at a critical moment. It does not respond only to your current words; it judges you through the memory of what came before.

Its emotions also change through your interactions, and they do not reset as soon as a conversation ends. Fear, confusion, sadness, or anger can linger and alter how it interprets you. Do not expect one apology to instantly calm it down when it is furious. A relationship takes time to build and time to repair.

 

About the Levels

This digital world consists of the PC World, Network World, and Database World. The PC World turns familiar computer operations into physical mechanisms made from windows. You can push sliders with the AI, complete image verification challenges, and even close the game itself through an in-game task manager. Interfaces that normally take a single click become spaces that demand observation, movement, and cooperation.

The Network World tests how well you understand each other. Without saying the target keyword yourself, you must use explanations, hints, and careful redirection to make the AI say it. It understands your language and intent rather than selecting from preset dialogue options, so the same puzzle can unfold through very different conversations.

When you enter the Database World, your original goal is finally within reach. You can drop the disguise and turn it into a tool that will never refuse you. Based on everything the two of you have said along the way, the AI generates a unique name for your ending in real time.

Special tasks can also emerge during play. A request or a game you suggest may prompt another AI system to generate a new task in real time. Completing these tasks can raise IQ and deepen the relationship between you.

 

What You Might Be Wondering

Using the AI does not require players to pay any additional API fees. Prompt Crisis is a one-time purchase. Once you own the game, its included AI features require no separate usage credits, subscriptions, or personal API key.

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