Ichth.ys
Steganographia Games · 2021 · RPG, Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction, Cyberpunk, Story Rich
PC
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About Ichth.ys
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Navigate a censored surveillance state as an amateur hacker drawn into the world of Ichth.ys, an underground free internet haven, uncovering secrets through branching narrative choices and turn-based combat. This story-driven RPG explores themes of activism and morality across 17,000+ words of dialogue, multiple endings, and a unique in-game forum that evolves as you play.
Cascadiana, a technologically advanced surveillance state. People disappear regularly and the internet is highly censored. But there remains one free place online and the few who know of it call it Ichth.ys.
Fraser Watson was just an amateur hacker when he became involved with the creators of Ichth.ys, but he will soon find himself wrapped up in a dangerous world of secrecy, technology, and betrayal!
Enter a world of deception, paranoia, love, and board game cafes in Ichth.ys!
Fraser Watson was just an amateur hacker when he became involved with the creators of Ichth.ys, but he will soon find himself wrapped up in a dangerous world of secrecy, technology, and betrayal!
Enter a world of deception, paranoia, love, and board game cafes in Ichth.ys!
- A thrilling story
- Multiple endings
- Over 17,000 words of dialogue
- Turn-based RPG combat
- In-game forum updates as you play
- Explore themes of censorship, activism, and morality
- Featuring LGBT characters
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Let me post the first review. Ichth.ys is a really interesting VN with a nice sci-fi/hacking plot. I really like the writing, the whole plot is revealed almost only through the dialogues, and this makes it amazing! The player discovers step by step the protagonists' characters and the whole topic, but at the same time, the player never knows who is right and who is wrong, and what will happen next. Normally, I'm not too much into VNs, but here I got caught and kept playing and playing, the story is so thrilling, it is really difficult to stop! Well done. The graphics are made of an interesting mix of low-poly 3D renderings and filtered images, this really fits the story and definitely has its charm. The music is well balanced and nicely put in the scene. It also has some hacking "combats" to tease the whole up, which is a nice diversion to the readings and brings some spices into the gameplay. I also really like the side information coming from the ichth.ys app, which I first discovered after a while... it brings a lot of deepness to the story! People are chatting in that app on their own, it really feels like it could get out of control... I'm wondering why it has no review a…6 found this helpful
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