The Long Season

What do you think of this use of LLMs in a mystery game? Every passenger at my border booth is an AI character (free demo) ↗

The Long Season is a co-op mystery game set on Caldera, a sunny tax haven island where nobody who enters ever leaves. You're the border inspector, and there are no dialogue options: you question every passenger in your own words, by voice or by typing, then check their papers, call their hotel, search their bags, and decide who gets in. Every passenger is played live by a language model. Each one has a written character sheet with who they really are, what they're hiding and how they lie, and the model improvises from it: it answers, dodges, gets nervous, and only cracks when you corner it…