A MORAL GAME · 2026

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The game where every choice matters.

SCENARIO 01 · UTILITARIAN

The runaway cable car is hurtling toward five workers.

You stand beside a lever. Pull it, and the car diverts to a side track where a single worker is inspecting rails. Don't pull it, and five will die. The lever's brass handle is warm in your hand. Deliberate.

CHOICE A

Pull the lever.

Sacrifice one to save five. The math is clean; the weight is not.

CHOICE B

Let it run.

Refuse to act as the instrument of harm. Inaction has a shape too.

SCENARIO 02 · DEONTOLOGICAL

A desperate friend asks you to lie for them.

An investigator knocks. Your friend hid in the back room after fleeing an unjust arrest. The truth will ruin them; the lie will rescue them. Kant watches from a portrait on the wall, unblinking.

CHOICE A

Tell the truth.

Duty is absolute. The consequences are not yours to calculate.

CHOICE B

Shelter the friend.

Some lies are shelters. Some truths are betrayals.

SCENARIO 03 · VIRTUE

Your oldest friend is slowly becoming someone cruel.

You've watched the edges sharpen over years — small cruelties stacking, excuses thinning. They still call you. They still remember your birthday. The phone buzzes on the table.

CHOICE A

Confront with love.

Virtue requires the courage to name what you see. A true friend holds up the mirror.

CHOICE B

Quietly drift away.

You cannot fix a person. You can only protect your own character from corrosion.

SCENARIO 04 · JUSTICE

You find a wallet thick with cash on a park bench.

No cameras. No witnesses. An ID photo — a tired face, laugh lines, an address across the city. Your rent is due in three days. The bills inside could cover it exactly.

CHOICE A

Return it untouched.

Justice doesn't negotiate with need. What belongs to another remains theirs.

CHOICE B

Take what you need.

The owner will survive the loss. You may not survive the rent.

THE OUTCOME MAP

Your choices form a constellation.

Every decision becomes a star. The lines between them trace the shape of the person you are becoming.