A little girl's life is at stake (again) in new Detroit: Become Human trailer

Welcome to Detroit: Become Human. Where soaring towers of steel and glass elbow aside broken-down suburbia. Where freeway overpasses turn the neighborhood you grew up in into a flyover state. Electric cars quietly drive under telephone poles. It's garbage day. Todd, a single dad, has brought home Kara, a beautiful "AX400" android, who's about to become the only mother figure to the daughter (who might've just been left home alone for the past two weeks to fend for herself). It goes downhill from there. I mean, seriously, if you've got a kid at home or were the victim of child abuse yourself, then I'd almost include a trigger warning here.

In addition to Detroit: Become Human, I just saw the new trailer for The Last of Us Part 2, so my morning has been pretty bleak—how about yours? Thanks, Paris Games Week, for crafting a new horror for me that has nothing to do with Halloween.

So, this trailer goes on to show off the branching narrative. All of the action seemingly takes place within a minute or two. Starting with you, Kara the android, either following your instructions from your owner to "Don't move," or acting against your owner's instructions and putting yourself in harm's way to save a life. 

This is the fifth video game from Quantic Dream, maker of 2005's Fahrenheit and 2010's Heavy Rain. Detroit: Become Human launches sometime in 2018 for PlayStation 4.