The developers at Quantic Dream and its founder, David Cage, often talk about how they hope their games will invoke emotions and move people as players work through them. At the very least, the two demos of the studio’s next game, Detroit: Become Human, are a pair of intense story moments, with ideas that will likely get an emotional rise out of players.Detroit takes place in a future where human-like robotic androids are common in the world. From what we’ve already seen, it seems that some androids in the game have achieved sentience, and are sick of their lot in life. They’re starting to break their programming and experience emotions. Some have even organized to resist and seek independence from their enslavement to humans. The parallels to racism and slavery are easy to draw.

Detroit: Become Human' wants to make you uncomfortable about robot-human relations