Pinocchio Is Broken is Now Available on Itch.io
“A machine can have memory. But can it hold regret?”
In a sterile courtroom bathed in artificial light, one being stands alone.
They are not flesh and blood, yet they speak, feel, and choose.
Three judges must decide: Is this android a tool, or a person?
Pinocchio Is Broken is a one-session roleplaying game for four players, where one portrays an android fighting for their right to be recognized as sentient, while the others serve as a tribunal questioning their claim to humanity. Through rounds of philosophical inquiry, emotional tension, and strategic argument, players explore the line between man and machine, and what it truly means to be alive.
No dice rolls. Only shifts in judgment. Tension builds across four rounds of testimony. The outcome is uncertain… until the final ruling is made.
Inspired by Star Trek: The Next Generation, Blade Runner, and Ex Machina.
