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Positive — 82% positive (22 reviews) · 6 achievements
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Shouldermen is a puzzle game that uses your voice as the controller. Help an angel and a devil escape a virtual reality prison by helping them guess the password. The fate of the world hangs in the balance until they are free to stand on shoulders and guide people towards right and wrong.
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Navigate the challenges of Shouldermen by guessing passwords with an angel and devil to guide them out of their virtual reality confinement. Use your voice as the controller in this unique puzzle adventure that impacts the fate of the world.
About this game
Shouldermen
You know the devil on your shoulder? The Shouldermen are those tiny angel and devil doppelgangers that stand on your shoulder giving advice when you are making tough decisions. An evil genius has sparked global chaos by trapping everyone's Shouldermen in secure VR prisons leaving humanity to make decisions at random.
Your job? Hack into the VR prisons and help the Shouldermen to escape by getting them to say the password out loud.
Gameplay and Features
Dialog Driven Gameplay: Engage in real-time spoken conversations with the characters to play the game.
Text Input: Direct control over what you say.
Word Puzzles: How will you coax the Shouldermen into saying the password so they can escape.
Who Will You Become?
Shouldermen isn't just about saving the world. It's about discovering who you are. Your journey through this AI generated labyrinth will leave you reflecting on what makes us human long after you've played.
Generative AI
This game uses high quality voices from Eleven Labs.
Voice recognition is handled by Deepgram.
The character dialog is generated using GPT-5 from Open AI.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 3 GHz Intel or AMD
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia or AMD 4GB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Recommended
- OS: Windows 11
- Processor: 4 GHz Intel or AMD
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia RTX or AMD 12GB
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Push to talk fixes
Fixed small bugs related to push to talk. Thank you to Xplorer for helping to test.Read full article on Community Announcements (Keys)Patch NotesOfficial
Deepgram + Bug Fixes
New Version!I had time to upgrade the speech to text software to Deepgram instead of Amazon Transcribe. It's faster, more accurate and has a much nicer API. In repsonse to feedback I added support for older hardware, but you can still change all the graphics settings to Ultra if you have a powerful machine. Included with this were dozens of bugs fixed that were reported by the community. Special shout out to Baezil for reporting the bugs he found. Also a huge price drop that will be the new price until release.Read full article on Community Announcements (Nully)Patch NotesOfficial
Response time
Improved the response time of the transcription feature.Read full article on Community Announcements (Nully)Patch NotesOfficial
Small bug fixes
- Fixed a problem where you could not interrupt the angels the first time they spoke. - Fixed a problem with the AWS Trascribe audio which should improve the speech to text accuracy a bit. - Made the bad guy slightly more evilRead full article on Community Announcements (Nully)Patch NotesOfficial
Voice Recognition Update
🎤 Update Time! 🧠✨ Hey everyone! Just pushed a new update that makes the game smoother, smarter, and a little easier on your machine. Here’s what’s new: 🔊 Voice Recognition Overhaul Swapped out the old local voice model (it was kinda greedy with your CPU) for AWS Transcribe—a top-tier, real-time transcription system. It’s faster, way more accurate, and doesn’t hog your system resources. Win-win. 👄 New Lip Sync System Out with the homebrew animation code, in with a slick new 3rd-party lip sync library. It looks way better and gives characters some extra life. You’ll see what I mean. 🖥️ Performance Boosts Did some under-the-hood graphics optimization so things should run smoother, especially on lower-end PCs. Your toaster might just run it now. (No promises.) 🗑️ Simplified Voice Credit System Since we're still a cozy little community, I removed the complex voice credit setup. Let’s keep it simple and focus on the fun. Thanks for playing and being part of this wild little experiment. More to come!Read full article on Community Announcements (Nully)
