Do Not Feed the Monkeys Watch, but never touch

Your job is simple and unsettling: observe. The Primate Observation Club assigns you a set of "cages", each a hidden camera pointed at a stranger's life. You watch at different hours, note what happens when, and pick out the details that matter. Highlighted words in conversations become clues, and clues become reports for the Club. Some feeds are dull for days, then suddenly very much not. Half the game is deduction: figuring out who these people are, what they hide and what happens behind closed doors, one fragment at a time. It is genuinely absorbing work, which is exactly the problem.

Feeding the monkeys, meaning any contact with the people you spy on, is strictly prohibited. You will do it anyway. Help someone, blackmail them for cash, expose their secrets or sabotage their dreams: every choice carries risk and weight, and the game remembers. There are multiple endings, and a run's epilogue shows the consequences of what you did and did not do. Some outcomes hit harder than you expect, especially the ones you could have prevented. Meanwhile your own life keeps demanding attention: pay the landlady, eat, sleep, work odd jobs. Curiosity is expensive, and so is conscience.