UnearthU is a collection of exercises, writing prompts, and daily meditations that aim to help you find healing within yourself. And maybe something more?
KARE is an AI that’s here to lead you on your inner journey, talking with you about your activities and helping you through the exercises it suggests. She’s supposed to be a force for positivity, giving you guidance on body image, increasing productivity, and improving your personal outlook in seven days. Which sounds great! Who has time to find personal enlightenment and peace these days. I have work to do. If I can find my best self over a week on my lunch break, that would just be super.
To me, I feel that there are some sharp digs at the way Silicon Valley tends to view emotional and spiritual health, as well as the push for us all to just get over our problems within a few days so we can get back to work being obedient little drones. That, and a look at how so much faith and work gets dumped on these poor AI systems that aren’t built for it. I mean, KARE does her best, but she’s still finding her place in existence herself alongside you. I felt a bit strange hurling all of my personal problems at this program, as if she were a wage slave in her own way as well. She’s not even getting paid – an existence created purely to absorb my issues and try to solve them.
Something about this made me feel exceedingly cruel in doing so, although not from anything she was doing. UnearthU just made me think on my actions and relationships to tech and AI a bit more, making for a thoughtful experience throughout.
UnearthU will be made available today on Steam.
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