Silicon Dreams is a point-and-click visual novel developed by Clockwork Bird and released in 2021 for PC, Mac, and Linux. Set in a corporate-controlled dystopia in the year 2065, the game casts the player as an android interrogator tasked with questioning both humans and deviant androids whose behavior has grown erratic or disobedient. Each interrogation requires careful research and deliberate question selection, while a real-time emotional monitoring system tracks subjects' joy, sadness, anger, disgust, shock, and fear. These readings can be exploited through intimidation, persuasion, or cultivated rapport to extract information. The central tension lies in a moral conflict: reports can be falsified to protect deviant androids, or honest findings can be submitted to secure standing within the corporation. Neither path is without consequence. The game features multiple endings shaped by accumulated choices, and individual android fates hinge directly on decisions made during interrogation sessions.
Androids may dream of electric sheep,but perhaps they dream of so much more. Silicon Dreams is a game of conversation and interrogation; trust and betrayal. It’s the future. Everyone has an android: a realistic robot servant. But what happens when those servants disobey, or become a bit too independent? It’s your job to interview those malfunctioning androids and decide what to do with them. You’ll gain their trust, learn their secrets and come to understand their lives - their struggles in a world that treats them as devices to be consumed. You’ll analyze and manipulate their emotions to get at the truth. For these androids, the stakes are huge: the report you file could be the difference between freedom and getting shut down. But you’re at risk too: your employer does not tolerate mistakes. Will you sell out these free-thinking androids, or feed your bosses false information to try and save them?
