Who's Steering This Ship?
Five inner voices, messy life choices, and one question: who's really in control?
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Listen to five inner voices, examine past memories, and make everyday life choices in this narrative game about balancing boundaries and relationships.
How to play
- Read the current social dilemma and listen to the initial debate from your five inner voices.
- Open the archive to examine two past memories, separating actual facts from your emotional interpretations.
- Challenge a specific voice's claim to reveal a more nuanced perspective on the situation.
- Select your final decision and choose the underlying motive that drives your chosen response.
- Review the outcome, see how your committee reacts, and complete all four chapters to finish.
Controls
- Touch
- Tap the screen to select dialogue choices and navigate through memories.
- Keyboard
- Not supported.
- Mouse
- Click to select dialogue choices, challenge voices, and navigate through memories.
More about this game
In Who's Steering This Ship?, you navigate four everyday social dilemmas, from a birthday invitation to a family group chat with twelve relatives. Your inner committee of five voices—Guard, Planner, Star, Little A, and Sleuth—offers conflicting advice based on past hurts. You must examine two specific memories per chapter to uncover the facts behind their warnings. By choosing how to respond and deciding your underlying motive, you manage your energy and connections to reach one of four distinct endings.
Tips
- Always check the archive before deciding. Memories often reveal that a voice's warning is based on incomplete facts, like mistaking a 40-minute drive for an endless obligation.
- You can challenge a voice's advice directly. This earns you agency points and forces the committee to provide a less tidy, more realistic answer to your dilemma.
- Your underlying motive matters just as much as the action. Choosing to act out of defiance or careful management changes your final stats and which of the four endings you unlock.
FAQ
- How many endings are there?
- There are four different endings to discover: Autopilot, The Perfectly Managed Life, The Great Rebellion, and Captain, Not Dictator. Your result depends on your choices, motives, and how often you challenge the committee.
- Do I have to listen to all five voices?
- No, you can choose to act immediately without checking memories or challenging the committee. However, skipping the investigation often leads to the Autopilot ending because you leave assumptions untested.
- What happens if I change my interpretation of a memory?
- Revising a memory increases your flexibility stat. It allows you to separate a proven fact, like a real privacy breach, from the assumption that a relative can never respect your boundaries.
