COMPLIANCE.

Core Concept

COMPLIANCE. is a VR game and a social experiment that tests how players react to compliance trials in a confined gaming environment, where they are forced to repeat commands to avoid "punishment." Set in a totalitarian dystopia that appears thriving on the surface, players act as a tiny cog in this authoritarian machine. Their task is to complete a day's work: manually censoring social media content.

Inspired by The Stanley Parable, the game uses pressure and control to force players through an uncomfortable progression. Through this experience, it aims to expose how the illusion of a peaceful society is packaged under an authoritarian regime, and how even those within the power hierarchy remain mere gears controlled and coerced by the system. The game was developed entirely in Unreal Engine, with all in-game voiceovers generated using Google Cloud Text-to-Speech.