The Superlatives: Aetherfall
Choice of Games · 2017 · Indie, Adventure, RPG, Choices Matter, Text-Based
PC
Positive89% · 27
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About The Superlatives: Aetherfall
Lead a superpowered team of "Superlatives" to defend 19th-century Victorian London! Battle a Martian warship, clockwork monsters, and nefarious inventors.
The Superlatives: Aetherfall is a 260,000-word interactive novel by Alice Ripley. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
The prestigious Society for the Advancement of Individuals of Superlative Talent and the Protection of the Queen has invited you to become their newest member! But on the very day the Society plans to initiate you, unknown Villains destroy the Society headquarters and kidnap your colleagues! As the sole remaining full member of the Superlative Society, you must initiate new recruits to investigate the abduction.
Meet your team: Nimble—faster than lightning; Wailer—a "banshee" with sharp blades and sonic shriek attacks; Arturek—the gruff Martian warrior; Tua—a Venusian who commands the power of plants; and Black Orchid—a strangely familiar new recruit. Your efforts are bolstered by your faithful Clockwork assistant, Gatsby, and your always-butting-in rival, Hallow.
Will your gain your team’s trust and convince them to work together, or will they fall apart under the pressure? Will you cut a deal with London’s Villains, or even turn the Society into Villains yourself? Will you trust the mysterious Dusk and Mr. Ink, who offer you help, or will you uncover their many secrets?
Don your mask, take to the skies, and God save the Queen!
The Superlatives: Aetherfall is a 260,000-word interactive novel by Alice Ripley. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
The prestigious Society for the Advancement of Individuals of Superlative Talent and the Protection of the Queen has invited you to become their newest member! But on the very day the Society plans to initiate you, unknown Villains destroy the Society headquarters and kidnap your colleagues! As the sole remaining full member of the Superlative Society, you must initiate new recruits to investigate the abduction.
Meet your team: Nimble—faster than lightning; Wailer—a "banshee" with sharp blades and sonic shriek attacks; Arturek—the gruff Martian warrior; Tua—a Venusian who commands the power of plants; and Black Orchid—a strangely familiar new recruit. Your efforts are bolstered by your faithful Clockwork assistant, Gatsby, and your always-butting-in rival, Hallow.
Will your gain your team’s trust and convince them to work together, or will they fall apart under the pressure? Will you cut a deal with London’s Villains, or even turn the Society into Villains yourself? Will you trust the mysterious Dusk and Mr. Ink, who offer you help, or will you uncover their many secrets?
- Play as male, female, or nonbinary; gay, straight, bisexual, asexual, or aromantic
- Draw power from your preternatural nature, alien heritage, or genius gadgets
- Protect the Earth from torrential aetherfalls
- Keep your identity secret from your nosy landlady, Mrs. Rathbone
- Negotiate with minute Mercurian monarchs (Mercurians stand only four inches tall)
- Push your teammates to transcend their origins or pursue their destiny
- Foil the Nefarious Clockwork Contraptions of Dr. Eisengeist and discover his origins
Don your mask, take to the skies, and God save the Queen!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Pro: You get to befriend a nice plant lady from Venus. Con: You don't get to flirt with the nice plant lady from Venus. Despite being part of a series, The Superlatives: Aetherfall provides a complete story with a proper ending unlike some other choicescript games. I'm looking forward to reading the sequel and hopefully this time they'll let me flirt with the nice plant lady from Venus.3 found this helpful
The belle-epoché superhero novel. Uses a lot of themes from victorian science fiction and later authors like Jule Verne. is however more a gaslamp-fantasy retelling of modern superhero storys. Statmanagment is okay, but the climax can get confusing. However, if you expect something new or unique, this isnt it. just a generic superhero epos in victorian dressing.
This game is short but amazing. The story is great, the characters interesting and well developed, the writing excellent, the pace is fantastic, it's immersive, and exciting. It's really fun and worth full price. It's so good I wonder if the sequel will be this good but it probably is with the high quality of this one. 10/10! I recommend buying it and playing it one or two sittings for maximum fun :-)
Very lukewarm about this one, as there really isn't anything exciting about it besides a few pleasant surprises. Tried replaying it here on Steam, but gave up half way. Don't get me wrong, its an alright game. But that's it.
This book is a real gem, that I have played again and again. The only slightly disappointing bit is that you cant romance your team members. Of the three romance options available, I only ever find one of them interesting, tbh Id really rather romance one of the aliens ; ) an alien is an option in the second book: Shattered Worlds but their gender is set and saddly not to one (of 5 lol) Id be interested in. Even so Id not let that stop me from rereading this or from recommending it to you. Its a high adventure romp with a ton of depth to it.
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