qualia

qualia

CMY2K · March 13, 2025 · Interactive Fiction, Philosophical, Choose Your Own Adventure, Text-Based, Point & Click

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About qualia

Intellica believes that positivity and happiness are the keys to self-sustaining thinking programs. By taking part in the A.M.T. Study, you can help make it happen! QUALIA is a retro-inspired Interactive Fiction text game where you analyze and categorize two participants based on their responses to a series of questions. Are they really human? Are you?Remember, the A.M.T. Study is not a measurement of intelligence, but a questionnaire designed to determine the ability of an AI to be able to convincingly appear as a human. It is up to you to decide whether or not the participants are Human or Artificial. featuring...
  • 6 endings!
  • over 20,000 words!
  • over 300 possible unique playthroughs!
  • audio visual media to satisfy your senses!
  • the weight of extreme existential dread!
  • clinically insane levels of world-building for a short text-based game!
  • retro aesthetic for anyone born before 1984 to feel nostalgic for!
  • educational lore!
  • one jumpscare!
  • ambition far beyond the dev's reasonable means!
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qualia — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

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

Not recommended Sep 19, 2026
You call this ♥♥♥♥ an ending?
Recommended Sep 5, 2026
The Orange Ending brought me to tears. Even the thought of going through something so horrifying struck me enough to write a review. I barely ever write reviews T^T W game W music and W no AI
Recommended Aug 29, 2026
it feels like a journey
Recommended Aug 16, 2026
think happy
Recommended Aug 13, 2026
Nothing like a bit of good ol' existential dread...and interesting thoughts about AI and our future. I think it's worth spending an hour or so to get all 6/6 endings, as the final one is (in my opinion) the most interesting one, and you also get a cute easter egg at the end. Just a small note on sensory issues: you can turn off the screen flicker in the "Settings" tab at the start - it looks very cool and convincing, but made my eyes hurt a bit after a while. Also, although the game is quiet for 90% of the time, the other 10% is LOUD and a bit jarring. Worth experiencing once (and having audio on for the videos of course), but you don't lose any information or plot if you turn the volume all the way down after the first playthrough.
Recommended Aug 11, 2026
It has such lovely music, kinda hard at certain points

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