I, Cyborg

I, Cyborg is a 300,000-word interactive science-fiction novel told entirely through text, without graphics or sound effects. You play a cyborg copy of interstellar outlaw Ypsilanti Rowe, whose enemies and former lovers are hunting you. As your cybernetic brain fails, you travel across the galaxy to find a rare, obsolete part that can restore its systems, and decide whether you can make one last heist.

Across the galaxy

You can shoot down enemy ships or jam their sensors to avoid detection, dogfight beneath high-gravity stormclouds and race pirates through the mined-out tunnels of an asteroid. Your pursuits also include ambushing a weapons shipment above a gas giant’s rings, smuggling alien pets, breaking into a comet prison and befriending an intelligent starship.

You can work for local crime lords, turn them against one another or report them to the Intersolar Police. You can also infiltrate the halls of power and steal top-secret data with your augmented fingertips.

Your identity and upgrades

You can play as male or female, and as gay, straight, bisexual or asexual. Cybernetic upgrades let you improve your skills. You can favor your human instincts, your custom software or a balance between the two.

Ypsilanti Rowe

Ypsilanti’s enemies and former lovers are part of the danger you face as their copy. If Ypsilanti appears in the original flesh, you decide whether the two of you become a team or compete for a place in the galaxy.