Do Not Feed the Monkeys

Do Not Feed the Monkeys hands you a membership in The Primate Observation Club, an organization that watches strangers — "monkeys" — through compromised webcams and surveillance cameras. The club's single rule is the title: observe, take notes, sell the information, but never interact with the people you're spying on. The game is built around the friction between that rule and your own curiosity.

Each subject opens with a single fixed camera angle into their life — a kitchen, an office, an interrogation room, a museum corner. Names, addresses, motives and dangers all surface through patient watching. From there you can switch over to your in-game PC and use real-looking websites, social networks, online stores and forums to dig deeper, piece together identities and figure out what's actually going on in each frame.

Meanwhile your own life is collapsing in slow motion. Rent is due, food is running out, the day job is dull, and the apartment is the kind of place that doesn't reward staying inside it. Time spent investigating one camera is time not spent earning, sleeping or feeding yourself — and feeding the monkeys, the action the club explicitly prohibits, becomes the temptation that keeps players bending the rules to influence the lives they're watching.

How you respond — intervene in the name of justice, sabotage a stranger's dreams, extort someone with what you've learned, or simply do nothing while the worst happens — has consequences across the whole run. Every camera carries multiple outcomes, and the title is more a quiet provocation than a warning.