No, I'm not a Human is a great game that I would recommend anyone to play at least a few times over. I'd actually go as far as to say this game is high quality enough to pay the full $15.00 for, which is rare for me since I buy almost everything on Steam during the annual sales.
Without getting into any spoilers, the highest praise I can give the game is that it has very interesting characters, incredible dialogue, and fantastic character interactions from start to finish. The music is great, the art is great, the humor is great... quite frankly there isn't much about this game that I can say isn't great.
The story of the game, along with its setting, and the events that unfold throughout, are wrapped in a massive amount of subtext, and it becomes more and more clear that almost nothing that your character is being told, or shown, is necessarily the truth. The question, though, is whether or not you're being told outright lies, half-truths, or delusions that the other characters genuinely believe to be true.
The only thing that is certain, is that many of the characters are hiding things, including some of the characters that you might trust the most. Even the main character may be hiding dark secrets that you might not fully understand until you've played through the game multiple times.
This game has over ten different endings that you can get, some of which are easier than others, as well as a ton of hidden dialogue and character interactions. Those hidden endings and interactions require you to accept different characters into your house and pass specific dialogue checks, while simultaneously keeping them alive for days at a time, without them being either murdered by a "visitor", or being kidnapped by the government agents. I ended up finishing seven of the endings, and decided to write this review and drop the game at this point. Some of the endings are much harder to get than others. Just to give you an idea, less than 4% of players have actually gotten the achievement for accomplishing all of the game's endings.
This leads me to my biggest complaint about the game, which is that it is simply too RNG dependent and repetitive across multiple playthroughs to justify sinking any more time into it than eight hours. In terms of actual "gameplay", there's nothing here; you are literally just walking back and forth through the same L-shaped hallway 28 times per run, talking to people inside of your house and at your front door, until the game eventually ends. The game is fun, and incredibly vibey, but at the end of the day, it's basically like reading a choose your own adventure book where the main plot is more or less the same every time.
Once you've played through the game about ten times, figured out the gist of how it works, and have gone through every daily interaction and met most of the characters, all you are left with is basically just grinding to try and get a small number of secret interactions and endings, which are heavily dependent on luck in order to pull off... some of which you are not even capable of getting during any specific playthrough due to the fact that certain necessary characters have a chance of either not spawning at all during your run, or being killed through no fault of your own, or being kidnapped by the government agent due to pure RNG. There are some strategies and decisions that you can make along the way that mitigate some of those outcomes, but those decisions only ever slight the odds in your favor; they are never truly fully preventative.
If you're someone who is heavily motivated to go after all of the achievements, then you could easily sink what I imagine would be 50+ hours into this game. If not, you will probably get somewhere in the range of 7-10 hours out of this game, and then the rest of the interesting content which you may have either missed or couldn't pull off during your run can be absorbed later on through lore and explanation videos on YouTube.
You can tell the developers here put a lot of love and thought into making this game feel meaningful, and special. So hats off to them for making this, it's an achievement.
