Posthuman: Guardians vs Psion

Posthuman: Guardians vs Psion is a 300,000-word, entirely text-based interactive superhero novel. Your choices shape the story as you lead a team of superheroes, travel from Earth to the moon and Mars, and try to stop PSION—or join them. The game has no graphics or sound effects.

Guardians and PSION

Decades ago, the legendary hero Adam Atom founded the Guardians, an elite force of posthumans meant to protect the world from people who use their powers to harm others. PSION, the Posthuman Supremacy International Organized Network, formed in response. The United Nations calls the group terrorists, while PSION describes itself as a liberation army defending posthumans from human persecution.

PSION is now preparing its most ambitious plan yet. As a Guardian, you and your team investigate missing allies, search for PSION’s new secret base and try to discover why its leader, BrainSkull, is gathering so much power—and what he intends to do with it. Your investigation ranges across Earth, the moon and Mars, as you confront the possibility of another Posthuman War and question whether PSION’s members are truly the villains they are said to be.

Build your hero

You can play as male, female, nonbinary or agender, and as gay, straight or bi, as well as asexual and/or aromantic. Choose from over 20 superpowers, including shapeshifting, super-strength, telepathy, weather control, gravity-bending, technomancy and energy manipulation. You can level up to expand your powers and discover new ones.

Lead the Guardians

Your team includes super-genius Pi, teleporter Taikonaut, elementalist Moxie, healer Gilead, brilliant fighter Vogue and Basilica, who can grow to 20 feet tall and turn her skin to stone. You can develop your powers, train new cadets for the next generation of Guardians and travel the world to recruit people before PSION reaches them.

You can also manage the Guardians’ public image by answering questions at press conferences and making sure the team looks good in the Planetary Bugle.

Relationships

You can pursue romances with a supergenius carrying a tragic legacy, a class-clown elementalist, an intense former vigilante who became a healer, a friendly teleporter or a rebellious new recruit with stone skin. You may also still have feelings for an Academy classmate who changed sides.