The team at EverySecond has been quietly chipping away at Omi since our last update back in 2023. While the download has been slow (somebody is still running dial-up), we're finally ready to share what we've been working on!
Omi Oh My AI is launching in full on January 28, along with a demo for new players!
A Game About AI, Made By Humans
With the rise of generative AI over the past few years, we've watched the real world start to echo a lot of the concepts we wrote for Omi years ago. Because of that, we want to be entirely transparent: no generative AI is used on Omi. Our game is made by a team of talented people in Western Australia. Omi's puzzles are built from real photos and images that we created or sourced from real people. Omi is an AI, but generative AI wasn't used to develop Omi.
It is important to us that we tell an authentic story. And, well, it has fun to explore ways that humans could make something that was hand crafted to feel AI generated.
A Journey 30 Years in the Making (Sort Of)
Development of Omi Oh My AI began in 2019 with support from Screenwest. From the beginning, we wanted to create something that captured the magic of the early internet: mysterious forum threads, Blingees, personalised websites, and the constant need to prove you weren't a robot. But we also wanted to tell a story that took typical AI tropes and turned them on their head.
Since we started, we've seen the rise of generative AI in a way that we never could have predicted. There's been a lot of discussions among the team about the (sometimes creepy) ways the real world has echoed concepts that we wrote about Omi years go. It became impossible to not acknowledge the very real impacts generative AI is having on our world today.
How Did We Get Here?
Originally, we planned to release Omi Oh My AI episodically as a living story. But game development is organic; we didn't want to make promises we couldn't keep about the narrative or the player experience. Our story and concepts continued to evolve right through to the end of 2025.
As the landscape shifted, we made the decision to release everything at once. We want you to enjoy an ARG-lite experience at your own pace - solving puzzles and uncovering lore without us defining when or how or when. After all, the mystery is already out there waiting for you to solve it.
What’s Next?
While we wait for Omi to finish "polishing all the dogs" (their words, not ours), head to our Steam store page and be sure to wishlist Omi Oh My AI!
If you are an existing player you'll find that things have changed a lot since we last spoke (and more changes are on the way). Your save will be wiped when you launch the game, but you will be able to play all the way through an early version of Act 2 right now!
And if you are not sure about picking up a copy of Omi, don't worry, we understand - it's a little bit weird. But we'll have a demo available just for you come January 28 (and it might even be a little different from the rest of the game).
Thank you for being part of Omi’s development journey. We’ll see you on release day!
- The Humans at EverySecond Studio
