Zero Sum

A testing department manager gets bumped up to run Project Icarus, the launch of an algorithm that reads people's vulnerable moments and jacks up their taxi fares accordingly. The more it learns about a customer, the more it bleeds them for. He starts to suspect the promotion wasn't luck but a leash.

The story follows him as the project's ethics curdle around him, with someone else already circling who knows more about Phoenix than they should and is just waiting for him to slip. Choices along the way land on both the algorithm's fate and his own, including a real fork tied to Alice that carries weight into what comes after.

You play through his side of it in first person, making the calls that decide how far he'll let the project push people and how much of himself he's willing to trade for the promotion. It's a small-scale story about a bad algorithm and worse incentives, told with more humor than the premise probably deserves.