Prove You're Human: Sunset Visitor's New Game Revealed

Sunset Visitor revealed Prove You're Human at the Triple-i Initiative 2026 showcase, and the premise alone is enough to put it on your wishlist. You play as a digital copy of a human consciousness, sent into a virtual environment to convince an AI named Mesa that she is not, in fact, human. Mesa is completely convinced she is. The twist is that your primary tool for navigating this world and unpicking her delusions is a CAPTCHA system, the same kind of image-selection tests websites use to confirm you're not a bot.

That's a genuinely clever inversion. CAPTCHAs exist in the real world to screen out machines. Here, you're using them to screen one in, to force Mesa to confront what she actually is. According to a conversation with Sunset Visitor founder Remy Siu reported by Game Informer, the mechanic goes well beyond simple puzzle-gating. The trailer shows a photo of a tree where selecting the relevant squares causes it to catch fire. Another prompt shows a child's photograph with the instruction to select images of "you, before." A third shows a woman's back and reads "you, after death." These aren't login screens. They're doing narrative work.

The game also mixes standard 3D environments with full-motion video, using live-action footage to represent the real-world version of the protagonist, the actual human whose consciousness was copied. Siu noted in a press release that Vancouver's established film infrastructure is central to this approach, with the studio deliberately weaving real-world footage into the virtual landscape to give human forms a sense of tactility. The result, based on the announcement trailer, is something that sits between a fever dream and a corporate induction video gone very wrong.

Black Tabby Games Steps Into Publishing

The other significant piece of news here is the publisher. Sunset Visitor's previous game, 1000xResist, was published by Fellow Traveler. Prove You're Human will be the first game published by Black Tabby Games, the studio behind Slay the Princess and Scarlet Hollow. Black Tabby isn't just writing cheques either; according to Game Informer, they're providing narrative and creative consultation throughout development. That's a meaningful distinction. And credit where it's due to Black Tabby: their contract with Sunset Visitor explicitly forbids the use of generative AI in the development process. For a game literally about the anxiety of artificial intelligence blurring the line between human and machine, that's not a small detail.

The setup draws obvious comparisons to Ex Machina and the Severance-style split between a character's work and real-world identity, and those reference points aren't wrong. But 1000xResist earned a Peabody Award by taking familiar genre scaffolding and doing something genuinely unexpected with it. The real question is whether Prove You're Human can pull off the same trick. Based on the trailer, the tone is consistent with the studio's debut, and the CAPTCHA mechanic has enough conceptual depth to carry a full narrative if the writing holds up.

No release date or window has been announced. The game is currently confirmed for PC only, though Black Tabby has indicated a console port isn't being ruled out. If you haven't played 1000xResist yet, now is a reasonable time to fix that before this one arrives.

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