I tried the Skyrim game for Amazon Echo that everyone thought was fake - here's how it went

I didn't feel like fighting, so I chose to flee.

“The mighty dragonborn manages to scamper off successfully," Alexa said, mocking me. Inside the cave and past the Khajiit that I ran from, I fought a few spiders. After that, I was finished with the cave.

The apprentice ice mage proved no match for my ability to say commands to an Amazon Echo.

"Weapon," I replied.

After I continued, another apprentice ice mage tried to fight me. After quickly dispatching of him, Alexa informed me that I had inexplicably and automatically replaced my waraxe with the small iron dagger I found on his body — something that happens every time you find a weapon on a body — even though different weapons didn't seem to preform differently.

Regardless, I continued on, only to be met by a third apprentice ice mage who died the same way as the previous two. I could tell I was getting closer to the end of the quest — because Alexa told me that.

"Flee," I said. There is nothing more terrifying than a mudcrab, especially a giant one. I wanted nothing to do with it.

"Flee," I repeated.

"Flee," I said for a third time.

I realized that this wasn't getting me very far, and I would have to fight this mudcrab.

"Spell," I said — which for some reason caused Alexa to close out of the game, making me think I had lost my progress.

"Safe travels, adventurer," she said to me as she shut down Skyrim Very Special Edition.

After having Alexa launch the game again, she luckily gave me a recap of where I was, and once again made me choose my method of attack. I killed the mudcrab, which was actually pretty easy, and then completed the quest.

I ended the game here, because the game gets quite repetitive after a while. It mostly serves as a self-aware joke — a nod to the gaming community that says "we get it, we're in on the joke too," but nothing more than that. It's a fun way to spend a few minutes, and sometimes hearing Alexa make Skyrim-related observations and prompts can be pretty amusing.

You can try the game for yourself by asking Alexa to enable the "Skyrim Very Special Edition" skill, or adding it manually via the Alexa app.