Buy On the Run: Rogue Heroes PC key

On the Run: Rogue Heroes is a 200,000-word interactive novel about teenagers with superpowers. It is entirely text-based, with no graphics or sound effects, and hundreds of choices shape the story.

For decades, people with abilities such as super-strength and flight have faced lifelong conscription in W.I.N.G.S. (the Weaponized Individual National Guardian Services), a military branch whose activities are mostly secret. Its publicly known heroes include Ms. Midnight, Phantom Phaeton and Sergeant Smash. You and your older sister grew up with your grandmother, who sheltered you from the truth about W.I.N.G.S., your parents and the deadly genetic disease you and your sister share. After you both develop powers, W.I.N.G.S. arrests and conscripts your sister. You escape with your grandmother, pursued by government agents with powerful psychic abilities, and race to save your sister and yourselves.

Your powers and allies

Your abilities grow stronger as you travel. You can outrun cars with super-speed, pull down telephone poles with super-strength, shatter glass with supersonic cries or turn invisible to avoid danger. You choose a portfolio of super-strength, super-speed, heightened senses, supersonic shouts or invisibility, and use your powers and judgment as you uncover secrets that could affect every Activated person on earth.

You can seek help from people resisting W.I.N.G.S., including Micah, a long-lost friend with shoulder-length locs and a secret to protect; Alex, a pickpocket and con artist with illusion powers and a lot of eye makeup; and Knockout, a vigilante with a red-brown ponytail and a homemade mask-and-cape costume. You can befriend or romance a childhood sweetheart, a runaway con artist or a powered vigilante.

Your choices

You choose your character’s gender and whether they are gay, straight, bisexual or asexual. You can uncover the truth about your family and rebuild your relationship with your long-lost mother, or leave that history behind and rely on your friends. Your choices also determine whether you fight W.I.N.G.S.’s control of Activated people, join its secret organization and grow more powerful, or try to make peace between opposing factions.