Buy Street Jam: The Rise PC key

Street Jam: The Rise is a 370,000-word interactive novel in which your choices shape the story. Set in one of the world’s largest metropolises, it follows a new street fighter trying to rise through the city’s circuit for money, fame or a confrontation with the police. The story is entirely text-based, with no graphics or sound effects.

Your fighter and the city

Choose your character’s gender, whether they are cis or trans, and their sexuality: gay, straight, asexual or aromantic. Select from 14 backgrounds, including military, detective, rapper, stripper and a sports star with four distinct sports options. You also set your proficiency across six attributes, including brute strength, intelligence and charisma, shaping whether you become a wrestler, martial artist or another kind of fighter.

Fight your way through clubs across the city, including rich, poor, crazy, wrestling and karate clubs. You can rely on your own skills, money, a gang or the police to overcome brawlers and other challenges.

Choices and consequences

Your approach can be honorable and merciful, relying on your fighting skills; murderous and scheming, using guns on the streets; or that of an ambitious undercover officer using the police force. Your personality affects your journey as much as your victories, and actions have consequences, even when they seem small at first.

You can pursue love or lust with more than eleven characters, including an experienced older woman, a laid-back young man and a muscular woman. You can also settle a rivalry dating back to elementary school through a bloody vendetta or forgiveness. Your choices can change the city and its circuit as you strive to become the world’s biggest fighter.