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Put your wits to the test with our latest quiz Survival & Crafting I convinced myself that I could easily win Squid Game, but after putting myself through the Roblox version it's clear that I absolutely would not walk away champion One of Roblox's biggest experiences right now is a bizarre Italian Brainrot character-stealing simulator and, lord help me, I now understand why it's so popular Google DeepMind's new AI is nearly here, finally giving us an interactive world that runs at 720p, 24fps, and only remembers what you did for 1 minute Please enjoy this short, cheap, upsetting psychological horror game about hacking a terrifying supertech machine from the developer of Buckshot Roulette Who needs Silent Hill? The 'anxiety horror' game I'm most looking forward to is this freakish, grotesque thing about who you let stay at your house in the apocalypse The New York Times thinks generative AI is like Pac-Man ghosts and also the Matrix, because nobody gets to be normal about this stuff anymore 'Gaslight-driven development': ChatGPT was convinced this app had a feature it didn't, so the devs decided to add it in anyway 'I have been fooled': Reddit user endures the roasting of a lifetime after asking how to download a 487MB book they worked on with ChatGPT for over 2 weeks Baby Steps review: One of the funniest games I've ever played is also one of the most frustrating The adaptation you've been waiting for since 1996 is finally here: Bop It! is now a videogame Sketch crew Aunty Donna's latest improv piece turned their set into a giant side-scrolling videogame and it's great Finally, I can get a straight flush with cabbages: Our favorite idle farming sim just got a Balatro crossover This browser game transforms the reviled reCAPTCHA into a delightfully silly puzzler 27 September 2025 Identify chihuahuas and solve word searches in Neal Agarwal's latest slice of Internet nonsense. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Neal Agarwal) I was already beginning to suspect that I am, in fact, a robot, given my historic ineptitude when it comes to filling out reCAPTCHAS. It's the ones where you need to click all the squares of a bicycle or whatever that catch me out. There's always one tiny bit of wheel or handlebar that the system can never decide whether it counts as a bicycle or not, and I go from simply trying to access a web page to a full-blown existential crisis. But my possibly synthetic brain was sent into overload by I'm Not a Robot, the latest browser-based caper by game developer and Internet mischief maker Neal Agarwal. I'm Not a Robot takes the Internet's reviled not-really-a-security-check and stretches it to its most preposterous limits. The first few levels of I'm Not a Robot are straight remakes of reCAPTCHAS (a re-reCAPTCHA, if you will). Click the button to declare your status as a sentient organism, type out some swirly letters, and select all the squares that contain a Stop sign (which, of course, I failed at). But things take a weirder turn once you're asked to start selecting vegetables from a mixture of fruit, veg and, well, you'll see. Related Articles The deflating realization that a neat little game was AI all along 'This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot' says agentic AI as it reportedly clicks the 'I am not a robot' button How well do you know your hacking minigames? Put your wits to the test with our latest quiz Before you know it, I'm Not a Robot is adding full-blown word searches into its reCAPTCHAS, having you play a game of Tic Tac Toe against an AI, and trying to tell the difference between chihuahuas and blueberry muffins. There are some great jokes hidden among them, particularly level 11, which folds in another classic game of identification into the mix. (Image credit: Neal Agarwal) I made it as far as level 17, which requires you to draw a circle with 94% accuracy. Turns out I am really bad at drawing circles with a mouse. The closest I got is 92.2%, aka "squashed satsuma". In my defence, I'm Not a Robot only lets you move your mouse so slowly, which makes drawing the circle more challenging. Even so, I am now ashamed of being bad at something I didn't know it was possible to be bad at, which is what videogames are all about! I'm Not a Robot is hardly Agarwal's first game that stretches a humdrum part of the Internet to absurd extremes. Mollie Taylor was driven to distraction by The Password Game a couple of years back, which requires players to come up with passwords according to increasingly demanding parameters. More recently, Jonathan Bolding yielded his brain to a tsunami of Internet nonsense in the perfectly pointless Stimulation Clicker. While Agarwal's reCAPTCHAs are as baffling and annoying as the real thing, it's worth noting that they're considerably more benign. A study conducted in 2023 revealed that reCAPTCHA's are nothing more than 'a tracking cookie masquerading as a security service' which has generated nearly $1 trillion in revenue for Google. And all it cost me was my grasp on reality. Isn't the Internet fun? The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsBy submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. Best laptop games: Low-spec life Best Steam Deck games: Handheld must-haves Best browser games: No install needed Best indie games: Independent excellence Best co-op games: Better together Contributor Rick has been fascinated by PC gaming since he was seven years old, when he used to sneak into his dad's home office for covert sessions of Doom. He grew up on a diet of similarly unsuitable games, with favourites including Quake, Thief, Half-Life and Deus Ex. Between 2013 and 2022, Rick was games editor of Custom PC magazine and associated website bit-tech.net. But he's always kept one foot in freelance games journalism, writing for publications like Edge, Eurogamer, the Guardian and, naturally, PC Gamer. While he'll play anything that can be controlled with a keyboard and mouse, he has a particular passion for first-person shooters and immersive sims. You must confirm your public display name before commenting Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name. The deflating realization that a neat little game was AI all along 'This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot' says agentic AI as it reportedly clicks the 'I am not a robot' button How well do you know your hacking minigames? Put your wits to the test with our latest quiz I convinced myself that I could easily win Squid Game, but after putting myself through the Roblox version it's clear that I absolutely would not walk away champion One of Roblox's biggest experiences right now is a bizarre Italian Brainrot character-stealing simulator and, lord help me, I now understand why it's so popular Google DeepMind's new AI is nearly here, finally giving us an interactive world that runs at 720p, 24fps, and only remembers what you did for 1 minute Latest in Games I played China's 'anime GTA' Ananta and I wasn't surprised to find Spider-Man swinging and Batman punching, but I wasn't quite ready for the vampire who vomits rainbows Silksong player uses every speedrunning trick in the book to lock poor Hornet in bug jail forever: 'I don't know why anyone would want to do this, but I have done it anyway' REPO devs are adding a new mechanic that'll let you grab things while tumbling and—more importantly—kill things with butt physics Path of Exile 2 is making a surprise Atlas overhaul next week to liberate its players from tower tyranny The more book tracking apps I try, the more I think we as gamers don't realize just how good we've got it with Steam Silent Hill f's finicky combat doesn't actually have to be an issue if you follow these cardinal rules Latest in News EA is reportedly about to be sold in a record-setting $50 billion buyout to an investor group that includes private equity and Saudi Arabia Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law Worst people alive hack nursery chain and start posting pictures and personal info of literal toddlers on the dark web End of an era as Bowser (no not that one) retires from Nintendo This browser game transforms the reviled reCAPTCHA into a delightfully silly puzzler Turns out, Microsoft will offer Windows 10 security updates for free until 2026—but unfortunately not in the US or the UK HARDWARE BUYING GUIDES LATEST GAME REVIEWS Best gaming laptop in 2025: I've had my hands on the best laptops for gaming of this generation and these are the ones I recommend Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the fastest and the best value solid state drives to perk up your PC Best Hall effect keyboards in 2025: the fastest, most customizable keyboards for competitive gaming Best PCIe 5.0 SSD for gaming in 2025: the only Gen 5 drives I will allow in my PC Best graphics cards in 2025: I've tested pretty much every AMD and Nvidia GPU of the past 20 years and these are today's top cards Corsair Sabre V2 Pro Ultralight Wireless gaming mouse review Glorious Model O3 Wireless review Hades 2 review Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles review Baby Steps review PC Gamer is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. 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