From the co-creators of Secret Hitler & Better Myths: a Blade Runner-inspired, five-minute party game for two players.
Inhuman Conditions is a five-minute, two-player game of surreal interrogation and conversational judo, set in the heart of a chilling bureaucracy.
Each game has one Investigator and one Suspect. Armed only with two stamps and a topic of conversation, the Investigator must figure out whether the Suspect is a Human or a Robot.
Robots must answer the Investigator's questions without arousing suspicion, but are hampered by some specific malfunction in their ability to converse. They must be clever, guiding the conversation in subtle ways without getting caught.
Humans may speak freely, but may find this freedom as much curse as gift. There are no right or wrong answers, only suspicious and innocuous ones, and one slip of the tongue could land Humans and Robots alike in the Bureau's Invasive Confirmation Unit. There, alongside Investigators who make improper determinations, they will await further testing ...
—description from the publisher
- Fantastic concept based on sci-fi robot detection scene
- Fundamentally broken because if the person is human, it's not interesting
- Nothing to catch as the human
- Science fiction
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Hidden role — One person tries to guess if the other person is a robot or human
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- man, I I I love this game
- I don't know what happened here. This game has been universally scorned
- It's a fantastic experiment from Freriedman Freeze, but I don't want to buy a game where a lot of the games aren't that great
- robots versus ducks. You know, the never-ending war
- This is fantastic a game, but I think it's fundamentally broken
- I really want to like this game
- One of the creepiest covers of all time. The animals are staring into your soul
- definitely for me one of the best of the Uve Rosenberg tile laying games
- I hate. I really do hate this game
- It's a really funny little game