From Obsidian’s Ceres to Portal 2’s GLaDOS, female A.I.’s in video games tend to be extremely bad apples that make for very good games. Now along comes J.U.L.I.A., the computerized titular star of Cardboard Box Entertainment’s unique new sci-fi adventure, who is determined to restore the good name of artificially intelligent beings while still delivering an engaging interactive experience. Waking astrobiologist Rachel Manners from decades of cryo sleep in the year 2430 because their interstellar probe has been badly damaged by a meteor, J.U.L.I.A. has only the best interests of Rachel and the mission to find extraterrestrial life at heart. After all, she says so, and despite claiming that part of her memory has been inexplicably wiped, she can surely be trusted, right? Right??!

There are no answers to that question here – not when the journey to find out for yourself is so much fun. J.U.L.I.A. is an innovative kind of adventure, seamlessly blending logic puzzles, text-based exploration, and a variety of minigames into its futuristic storyline. Rachel handles ship functions herself, from nanobot repairs to planetary scanning and resource harvesting, while the planets below are investigated through video feeds from a hulking mechanical robot guided from afar by remote control. Each planet has its own unique terrain, challenges, and even dangers, and the more you learn in your travels through desert, ocean, jungle, and ice-covered worlds, the more you’re confronted with difficult realities that finally culminate in a moral choice of crucial importance.



With the game about to release in the UK, in the interest of interplanetary curiosity we’re ready to send five willing volunteers to accompany Rachel with a boxed version of the game, completely free of charge thanks to Lace Mamba Global, J.U.L.I.A.’s publisher. We won’t even make you test for it on that spinning astronaut ride that makes everyone barf (though it’s tempting). No, all you need to do is correctly answer the three quiz questions below to be eligible. And if that’s too hard, rest assured that all the answers you need can be found in our preview of the game. It’s so easy, even a monkey could do it! But we’ve been there, done that with the whole monkey-in-space thing. Now it’s your turn.

The contest will run for one week, ending Monday, March 5th, and winners will be randomly chosen by computer and emailed at that time – what could possibly go wrong?