When They Came For Us
NarrativeEngage in an extraterrestrial experience. Aliens have come to Earth and have taken you and others captive. When They Came For Us is the first interactive VR experience that allows you to have a conversation with an alien. A conversation that will challenge many things you have taken for granted. But this conversation will also decide about your freedom: Will you manage to convince the alien life form to release you? Or will you remain at its mercy, to be used as it pleases?
| comfort | ⦾ Not rated |
| age rating | 10+ Everyone |
| website | whentheycameforus.com |
| developer | Demodern GmbH |
| publisher | PETA |
| connection | Internet required |
| app version | 0.8.6 |
| languages | English ∙ German |
Reviews 29
Bad Ai
If you want an AI system that only makes you feel bad this is the game for you. You are pretty much set in front of an alien and no matter what you ask, it asks you why you eat animals, asking you why can't you change your life? It got old in 3 min.
Fake AI
This is not an AI is just a bunch of premade dialogue ,I did it twice and got the same answers and when you try to disagree with the game idea it just cuts the conversation and says something random to keep you in the dialogue lines ,there's no winning just a "Follow these steps to get the *good* ending" ,good idea but is not nearly good.
Thought-provoking and interesting
This game actually uses AI and it actually responds to what you say. It's quite intelligent and rather impressive as far as the technology goes and the message it delivers is remarkable and thought-provoking.
“When They Came For Us” – When They Came
I thought I was stepping into a horror-survival VR experience. What I got instead was a thinly veiled lecture wrapped in cheap scares and emotional manipulation. This game doesn’t just try to unsettle you with monsters—it tries to guilt-trip you into veganism.
It paints hunters and meat-eaters as villains, pushing a black-and-white worldview where anyone who’s ever shot a deer or eaten a burger is morally bankrupt. That’s not storytelling—that’s propaganda. And it's insulting to anyone who understands real-life hunting, conservation, or how food systems actually work.
I play games to experience other worlds, not to be judged in mine. There’s a fine line between raising awareness and shaming people who live differently. This game steamrolls over that line and then has the nerve to pretend it's profound for doing so.
If you enjoy being scolded by self-righteous developers through a headset, this one’s for you.
For the rest of us who respect ethical hunting and actual freedom of choice?
Skip it.
PETA Guilt Trip Spanking
Ugh. This was so distasteful. It’s just an unforgivable chastising session without fact based, logistical and societal considerations , let alone evolutionary facts. It’s an alien that doesn’t need to consume trying to school life forms that do. Total garbage that’s meant to antagonize, not help. Gross!!🤢
Nope
I didn't like it and the alien or whatever pissed me off. This one was stuck on animal exploitation. Stupid.