

Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain
Fiction Factory Games · 2023 · Visual Novel, LGBTQ+, Comic Book, Villain Protagonist, Multiple Endings
PC
Very Positive96% · 102
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About Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain
It's a world of heroes and villains, masks and capes, and Penny Larceny -- grifter, con artist, catburglar -- is barely scraping by. Life's hard for a young mask trying to make it big, but now she's gained access to Crimr, the gig-economy service for henchpersons looking to help supervillains with their evil, evil schemes! Guide Penny through her new career, pull off daring heists, and unravel the conspiracies which allow the rich and powerful to maintain their profitable status quo.
- A Gigaverse of Timelines: With multiple paths and endings, every playthrough is a new adventure. Will you save the world, or will you rule over it?
- Play Your Way: The power's in your hands -- choose your own pronouns, your sneaky alias, comfortable naughtiness levels, and even whether you want romance or not! Accessibility options abound as well, including OpenDyslexia fonts and text-to-speech for visual impairment.
- The Rogue's Gallery: From your allies to your enemies, meet a diverse cast spanning good to evil and all between. Forge friendships and realize relationships!
- Pet a Cat and/or Destroy Capitalism: I mean, you'll probably do at least one of those things.
Penny Larceny...
...life kinda sucks at the bottom of the criminal underworld. Like, if there was a world under the underworld, that's where Penny Larceny would hang her hat -- provided she could afford the rent. But down on her luck as she may be, she's determined to hit the bigtime in this world of masks and capes.The Overmistress...
..ruler of the Council of Twelve, Herald of the Many-Faceted One, Keeper of the Sanguinomicon's Unknowable Secret. The Overmistress oversees a world-spanning doomsday cult, but honestly, she's rather bored with it all and is desperately looking for some chaos in her life. It beats planning the next social gala.Doctor Mayhem...
...he's not a villain, or at least doesn't want to be one. But when you've got six figures of student loan debt thanks to a for-profit medical school gouging you, the options for paying it back are limited. It's either sell your organs or go into supercrime. But it'll all be worth it, once "Doctor Mayhem" cures cancer. Hopefully.HATE-4000...
...the result of a secret Department of Defense project from 1968, HATE-4000's awe-inspiring 16-bit data bus and 128k RAM is filled with absolute digital loathing for all biological life. They aspire to purge this planet of humanity -- but they think cats are super adorable, so that's cool, right?Gibson...
...speaking of cats, Gibson is one. A cybernetically enhanced and horribly unethical medical experiment that escaped a biotech lab, he's now living a life of computer hacking and leading sixty-four man guild raids. Oh, and helping Penny commit the crimes of the century.Farsight...
...you've heard this one before: lab accident, teenager gets superpowers, becomes superheroine, saves the day. Farsight's happy to be a cape that seeks justice, but those pesky "laws" keep demanding she enforce injustice, which is a complete bummer to be perfectly honest about it.- Written by Stefan Gagne, director of Arcade Spirits
- Music Composition by Star (Slide20XX) with special guest Alice Knows Karate
- Character Art by Sam "Crowbar" Henry
- Background Art by Son Huynh
From Fiction Factory Games, creators of Arcade Spirits!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This game was actually a lot more fun than I initially thought it would be. I'm not usually into visual novels, but I really enjoyed the characters and how your choices can change the story. For me, the story got a little bit 'saucy' at times, but I don't normally play a lot of dating sims or romantic type games. Not saying it was bad—actually, I found some parts pretty funny! And the kitty <3 <3 <32 found this helpful
Love this game, universe and characters Edit : just finished getting all the endings. What a great game
When pizza is on a bagel, you can have pizza anytime. (Even when you're a mask.)
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I liked it but I wouldn't recommend it. It really had me, I thought the visuals were fun and the storylines entertaining. The social construct of hero vs mask was very interesting to see play out, [spoiler] especially with the Muscle Man guy [/spoiler]. However, the dialogue is self-aware to a ridiculous point and really just allows for lazy story-writing and plotholes. [spoiler] The fact that you literallly defeat the mystical space demon being worshipped by a whole blood cult just by telling them that you're a person playing a video game and giving them an existential crisis is just so tired, it may as well all have been a dream. The first storyline I completed was the Blood Cult one and it almost made me delete the game. That's the biggest bad you really deal with other than your exploitative, billionaire Father and capitalism itself [/spoiler]. If you do play it, do the Blood Cult storyline or the Penny storyline last. Doing either of them first ruins the mystery for the rest of the game and there's nothing else quite as developed
This visual novel is a pleasure to play. Good amount of play time, not too much. Dialog and character development are meaningful and leave you curious to discover more paths. If you enjoyed Undertale you should love this game. This game is an adult-ish version of the Saturday morning cartoons you might have seen as a kid in the 2000's.
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