Playing God

Playing God (2020)

Ben Fredericks [Collaborations] · September 7, 2020 · VR, Interactive Fiction, Sci-fi, Philosophical, Choose Your Own Adventure

Playing God is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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About Playing God

Imagine you are the captain of a space station. A space station suddenly presented with a humanitarian crisis. When given the choice, who will you save?

Playing God is an interactive VR thought experiment that lets you imagine you are the captain of a space station, suddenly presented with a humanitarian crisis. It challenges its audience with a series of scenarios and questions based upon the narrative allowing the audience to explore how they would deal with a humanitarian crisis themselves.
    Gameplay
  • 15-minute experience for VR headsets
  • Dynamic film with an interactive narrative
  • FMV style
  • Multiple narrative threads
  • Discover different storylines by replaying the experience

NEW: Desktop version available for use without a headset

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Playing God — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Feb 9, 2026
i became more mentally ill
10 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 11, 2026
It is an interesting choice-matter game, where you are the captain of a spaceship, and you need to make different choices. My only pet peeve is that you can't skip scenes on your second playthrough. It is short and free, so there really isn't a reason not to try it out. [quote]Follow us for more [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45113328-Awesome-Adventure-Friends/] Awesome Adventures![/url] [/quote]
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 4, 2025
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1 found this helpful
Not recommended Jul 24, 2026
Boring propaganda poorly disguised as a game. This whole game is to push you to support refugees illegally entering your country and it's so lazy/ham fisted that the video clips of people in space life pods are wearing lifejackets (i.e. water floatation devices). Why the eff would you have that when evacuating into space! ;D So stupid. They just wanted to use footage of real Mediterranean illegals or they were so lazy they didn't want to create new FMV footage. Pathetic either way. Even setting all that aside, there's no content in the game. You make a couple choices, don't seen the consequences of anything, and then the game ends. Basic and boring.
Not recommended Jan 11, 2026
I cannot play Playing God because the game never responds to my clicking. It just freezes with only music on. I tried all 4 options of launching the game, from playing Playing God to steam VR mode. None of them worked.
Recommended Nov 16, 2025
Игра "Playing God" — это настоящее погружение в мир, где вы сами вершитель судеб. Управление ресурсами, развитие цивилизаций и, конечно же, вмешательство в ход истории — всё это доступно игроку. Отличная графика и продуманный геймплей затягивают с первых минут. Возможность наблюдать за последствиями своих решений, видеть, как маленькая деревня превращается в величественную империю, или, наоборот, как неосторожное действие приводит к краху, — это то, что делает игру по-настоящему захватывающей. Есть, конечно, моменты, где баланс мог бы быть чуть лучше, но в целом, это достойный представитель жанра симулятора бога. Однозначно стоит попробовать всем, кто любит стратегические игры с глубоким смыслом.

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