# Suck Up!

*Game* · `suck-up` · status: **sourced**

A voice-controlled comedy game in which the player, as a disguised vampire, talks AI-driven townspeople into letting them inside, with each resident's replies generated by a language model from its personality and the player's words.

| field | value |
|---|---|
| year | 2023 |
| year full release | 2025 |
| developer | Proxima Enterprises |
| platforms | PC |
| subgenre | AI-native |
| subgenre secondary | Social sim |
| sim domain | Social / interpersonal |
| player role | Inhabitant |
| agency model | Conversational, Direct avatar |
| time model | Real-time |
| sim scale | Individual |
| fidelity | Stylized |
| perspective | Third-person |
| win structure | Scenario goals |
| failure model | Soft / recoverable |
| narrative mode | Generative |
| multiplayer | Single-player, Async / shared content |
| modding | Content |
| production tier | Indie |
| agent count order | ~10 |
| emergence | 2 |
| influence | 1 |
| boundary case | True |
| cluster *(computed)* | C08 |
| core count *(computed)* | 2 |
| mechanic count *(computed)* | 6 |

## Summary

A voice-controlled comedy game in which the player, as a disguised vampire, talks AI-driven townspeople into letting them inside, with each resident's replies generated by a language model from its personality and the player's words.

## Core Loop

pick a disguise -> knock on a resident's door -> speak a pitch aloud -> the model replies in character and weighs trust -> get invited in and feed, or get refused -> next house

## Design Notes

At runtime a language model plays each resident: the player's spoken words go to a hosted model (the Steam page lists ChatGPT from OpenAI; the December 2023 terms name GPT 3.5 and Llama 2 and meter use in tokens) along with the resident's authored personality, and its reply, delivered in voiced audio, decides whether the player has earned entry. The challenge is social engineering against a model that has been told to be suspicious, so disguises (knight, superhero, a previous victim) work as context that changes the model's judgment. Players author new residents' personalities and whole neighborhoods and share them on Steam Workshop. It is a boundary case: the persuasion is judged by the model rather than by a simulated social state.

## Relations

**uses**

- [Natural-language interaction](../mechanic/natural-language-interaction.md) (core): The player talks to residents with a real microphone, and the store page says responses depend on tone and strategy.
- [Generative content on demand](../mechanic/generative-content.md) (core): A hosted language model (ChatGPT from OpenAI per the store page) generates each resident's reply and in-character decision in real time from its personality prompt and the conversation.
- [Personality traits](../mechanic/personality-traits.md) (supporting): Each resident has an authored personality and behaviors that condition the model, and players can write their own.
- [Content sharing](../mechanic/content-sharing.md) (supporting): Steam Workshop shares player-made characters and full neighborhoods.
- [Direct avatar control](../mechanic/direct-avatar.md) (supporting)
- [Scenario objectives](../mechanic/scenario-objectives.md) (supporting): Modes include Love Bites (split up couples at a Valentine's Day party) and Mic Drop (rap battles against characters).

## Backlinks (computed)

**precedent for:** [Local-first AI simulation games](../opportunity/local-first-ai-sims.md)

## Claims

- Suck Up! was publicly playable through Proxima's own launcher before its Steam 1.0 release on 2025-10-01; the site's terms, last updated 2023-12-05, already metered AI-model use in tokens, and the site calls the launcher build early access. *(confidence: medium)* [[62](../source/src-proxima-2023-suck-up-terms.md), [63](../source/src-proxima-2026-suck-up-site.md), [64](../source/src-steam-2026-suck-up.md)]

## Sources

- [Suck Up! on Steam](../source/src-steam-2026-suck-up.md)
- [Suck Up! official site](../source/src-proxima-2026-suck-up-site.md)
- [Suck Up! Terms of Service](../source/src-proxima-2023-suck-up-terms.md)

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Provenance: created in run `2026-10-24-catalog-gd`.