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The Superlatives: Shattered Worlds is a 218,000-word, text-based interactive novel with no graphics or sound effects. You play as the Arbiter, a planet-hopping operative tasked by the Divergent Conclave with stabilizing a peace summit between Mars, Venus and Earth. When Queen Victoria becomes the target of an assassination attempt, you must find her killer, expose the Mysterious Officer they serve and stop an otherworldly invasion.

Politics and mystery

You can try to win the Divergent Conclave’s support to protect Earth, though its members may also recruit you for their own agendas. As the summit falters, you can placate its participants or choose a faction. Your choices shape how you confront the invasion and the political chaos surrounding it. Along the way, you solve murders, negotiate with pirates and uncover interplanetary conspiracies.

Allies and enemies

You fight alongside allies using aetheric artifacts and your own wit and skill. The story brings you into conflict with assassins, alien invaders, automata and other threats across new worlds. You can uncover a double agent within the Queen’s Superlative Service and face a final foe who is both strange and strangely familiar.

Your Arbiter

You can import a character from The Superlatives: Aetherfall or create a new Arbiter. Choose to play as male, female or non-binary, and as gay, straight, bi or aromantic. You can approach danger as a battle-loving brawler or a persuasive pacifist, and wield your own invisibility cloak.

Relationships

You can romance a driven detective, a stylish secret agent or your violent Martian secretary. The story also lets you charm aliens ranging from multiform, jellyfish Jovians and miniature Mercurians to furry Saturnians. You can build a reputation among cats—or perhaps just one cat.