You Are Jeff Bezos is a satirical text adventure game, developed and released in 2018 by indie developer and writer Kris Lorischild, then known as Kris Ligman. The game's premise involves the player waking up one morning as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and being tasked with spending his entire US$156 billion fortune.
Plot
The game opens with the player character awaking from "unsettling dreams", only to notice that they have transformed into "a monstrous vermin" – Jeff Bezos. The game then claims that spending all of Bezos' money may allow the player to return to their real body and identity, as spending all his money would "disintegrate his physical form". The player is then given a variety of options of things to spend Bezos' money on, such as repairing Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria, paying for the Mexico–United States border wall and then not building it, doubling the salary of every Amazon employee and ending homelessness in the United States. As options are completed, various text appears describing reactions to the player's actions, including praise, confusion and concern from fellow billionaires. Eventually, the player is accosted and tied up by bodyguards and members of Bezos' extended family, before escaping and continuing to spend his fortune. The game contains multiple different endings, including some hidden ones based on options that can only be triggered under specific circumstances.
Development
Lorischild wrote You Are Jeff Bezos using Twine over the course of four days.