Eliza is a visual novel game developed by Zachtronics, released on Windows, macOS, and Linux on August 12, 2019, with a Nintendo Switch version on October 10, 2019.
The player takes the role of Evelyn, a young woman who was initially successful in the high-tech industry of Seattle before burning out, and was mostly disconnected from life for about three years.
Evelyn is required to stay on script produced by Eliza, but this creates difficult choices for her in how she talks to the clients and to others including old friends.
[5] He found the demo "unsettling" as it "was just so strange to see this computer analyzing someone with such a human problem" and thought how that could apply to a larger scale.
Burns felt that Seattle was a high-technology driven city, both by Microsoft and Amazon.com, but has gone through several boom-and-bust cycles reflecting the burnout exhibited in the game.