NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy

NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy is a narrative-driven city management game set in Catena, a post-cyberpunk city on the verge of a new digital era. You are a newly created AI tasked with managing the city, balancing citizens’ needs and demands against your own moral compass as your decisions shape the story and Catena’s future.

Choices and consequences

You respond to dilemmas with a simple left-or-right swipe interface. There are thousands of dilemmas, with no universally right or wrong answers; choices can ripple across the city, alter the story’s outcome and affect the lives of the people you meet. Some outcomes benefit Catena’s citizens, while others benefit someone else.

As your influence grows, you meet characters with their own motivations and beliefs. You decide how to guide them through the challenges they face, changing the course of their lives for better or worse. Across the overarching story, choices determine its direction and outcome as you uncover the truth and decide whether to help those who see you as a threat or fight them—and whether you serve the citizens who depend on you or the people who built you.

The city’s response

City-wide reports show the choices you have made and how Catena changes as a result. You can also read the population’s social media feeds and see how its inhabitants’ views of you shift. The city may change for the better or fall apart under your decisions.

Characters and events

The game features 23 diverse, fully voiced characters whose stories you can influence. More than 5,000 story events present choices that affect the characters you encounter.

Explore Catena

An expansive digital Codex contains lore about Catena, its characters and its cyberpunk environments.