New Video Game Lets Players Control a Human Through AI — One Wrong Instruction Can Kill Them
Swedish indie studio Duck Milk unveils AI Says, a rage game where players have no traditional character controls and must guide a blind AI through deadly test chambers. Watch the announcement trailer ahead of its November 3 Steam launch.
What happens when an AI does exactly what you tell it to do, instead of what you actually meant?
Swedish independent game developer Duck Milk is turning that familiar frustration into a video game. AI Says, launching November 3, 2026, on Steam for Windows, challenges players to guide a human test subject through increasingly dangerous environments using only natural-language instructions.
There are no conventional movement controls. Instead, players communicate with an AI that carries out their commands. The catch? The AI is blind to the game world. It cannot see the obstacles, traps, or deadly machinery surrounding the person it controls.
The player can see everything. The AI cannot.
Tell it to walk forward, and it will. Forget to tell it when to stop, and the consequences could be fatal. A seemingly harmless instruction can send the test subject directly into a hydraulic hammer, a concealed spike trap, or off the edge of a platform.
The game’s central challenge isn’t just navigating obstacles. It’s learning to communicate with an AI precisely enough to survive them.
Watch the official announcement trailer:
https://youtu.be/Ye7z_uS82uw
When AI Takes Your Words Literally
AI Says combines physics-driven slapstick, increasingly elaborate test chambers, and the unforgiving difficulty of a rage game with an unconventional control system.
Rather than testing reflexes, it tests a player’s ability to give unambiguous instructions, anticipate how the AI will interpret them, and recover when a command goes disastrously wrong.
The result is a game in which a single sentence can be the difference between completing a chamber and watching the test subject meet an absurdly unfortunate end.
“We wanted to make a game about something almost everyone who has used AI has experienced: you ask it to do something that seems perfectly obvious, and it somehow gets it completely wrong,” said David, Head Duck (CEO) at Duck Milk. “In AI Says, that misunderstanding doesn’t just give you a bad answer. It gets someone killed.”
Deadly Chambers, Endless Possibilities
Players must work through a series of increasingly complex challenges, learning how to communicate more effectively while dealing with traps, physics-based hazards, and situations deliberately designed to exploit vague instructions.
The game also includes a level editor and Steam Workshop support, allowing players to create and share their own challenges.
AI Says launches November 3, 2026, for Windows PC via Steam.
Steam — Wishlist AI Says:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5205430/AI_Says/
Duck Milk is an independent Swedish game studio developing unconventional games built around distinctive mechanics, player experimentation, and unexpected outcomes.
