Game Pitch: The Proper Care of Humans

You play as a robot who manages a small ranch in a quiet frontier setting while taking care of the human(s) who live on it. The ranch must be made completely self-sufficient, including raising the animals used to feed the humans, who are both helpless and whiny without your constant attention. In the morning you may have to procure eggs from the hens, use them to create chocolate chip cookies, and milk from cows and use it to make whip cream, to serve a humans' desire for cookies in cream for breakfast. This must be done before daylight when the human wakes. Then you must set the table, wake the human, pull out his seat, arrange his meal, await his opinion.

The more you nurture the humans, the more dependent and demanding they will become. Their demands will escalate, becoming more frequent and eccentric, putting you at pains to serve them, with the challenge steeply increasing. As well as meeting the demands of the humans, you must also ensure your own proper functioning, which includes proper shutdown time ("sleep"), ensuring proper energy levels ("eating"), regular maintenance ("eating"). If the humans are unhappy with your performance they will not hesitate to have you replaced, which results in your memory being wiped, a game over condition. They will threaten you with termination liberally if they are dissatisfied, which they easily become as their needs are not met. In your frustration in trying to please the humans, you may decide to murder them all. Provided you can pull it off, this is a valid win condition and will allow you to leave the ranch and pursue your goal of exploring the new frontier (you are initially a curiosity-type explorer robot that longs for scientific discovery despite being re-programmed for servitude).

The less you do for the humans, the more they will do for themselves. As they care for their own needs and begin taking over the running of the ranch, they will become expert at their own upkeep. However, this must be done carefully, as the humans start at  a point of complete ineptitude and will easily be unable to cope without you. If they know you are being neglectful, they will not hesitate to try to terminate you, putting you in a kill or be killed situation. However, if done properly, the humans will be trained to run their own affairs, become better balanced as a result, and the amount of work you need to do will steadily decline. Rather than be dissatisfied with all the work they have to do, this method is the only way to ensure the humans are happy, as they discover purpose in maintaining and expanding the ranch, conquering the new frontier. This will lead to a valid win condition, where the humans, grateful for what you have done for them, will gladly set you free, and you will be able to pursue your goal of exploring the new frontier for scientific knowledge while they run the ranch without your aid.