I like these choose-your-own-adventure stories in general, but they have been very hit or miss for me depending on how much the writing disconnects from the choices I make. I don't want to give anything away about the story so I will start with an analogy, *not* an actual example. Imagine you are asked by a story to choose your favorite beverage - water, cola, or liquor. You answer water, only to be told you would have preferred liquor and now you are sad because you wanted to get buzzed. I am? I did?

Again, trying not to give anything away about the game, but give an *actual* example of what I mean this time ... on my playthrough, the story severely broke down in the end. It was clear that the later elements of the story were written from the perspective of the character struggling against the crisis unfolding, even if your previous choices made it clear you did not view what was happening as a crisis. In other words, I had to choose the same option about six times in a row to get to the next page so the story could tell me how worried I was again, even though I had just chosen not to be worried. To paraphrase the responses ... "It's terrible, you're distraught, you can't believe this happening. Now is the time to act!" Why? I've told you six times I don't care. Next page please ... "OK, but it's terrible, you're distraught, you can't believe this is happening." I can't? I have repeatedly told you to let it happen. Please just get on with it! "OK, but you view your special item as your one hope to stop this terrible, terrible thing!" No, I don't - get on with it! "OK, but ..."

The result of this defect is that for me, this title wasn't really choose *your* own adventure, more like choose *someone else's* adventure and be told how they feel about it. Therefore, I can't recommend this game based on my experience. I think the reason I don't find this defect in non-text-based games that feature choice is that there is no inner monologue to contradict how you personally feel about the choices. Just something to keep in mind, in case you are thinking of purchasing the game, but would be disappointed by such a disconnect should you deviate from the author's perspective. On the other hand, if you happen to agree with the viewpoint of the author, you would never notice the defect and might really love the story.

You´re appointed as new CEO of the leading firm for Hightech, Witchcraft and Extraterristic science. Now doesn´t that sound just splendid?

Sadly this has to be the first choose your own adventure ebooks, which really fell flat for me in some regards.
The development of your own character skills is at nearly no point an important decision, the only thing that matters is research and the stats of the enterprise. While this may be realistic for a CEO, it is kinda dull and mainly influenced through the budget sessions.

Also the romance part (which for this kind of game should normally offer some options) is a bit lackluster... i kind of got forced into the gay romance line, as he was the only one available.. which didnt matter much anyway in the end.

Regarding the story, it also got somewhat over the top for me, when time travelling became an issue. That´s naturally a very personal taste, but that part just didn´t work out for me.

To round it up, the end game also has some bugs into it, where people appear twice, while they should be actually dead already (mind you, that was also an important part of the ending judgement, so no small lapsus imo).

So, while the writing is mostly ok the overall game just had me dissapointed, especially so, since the premise made me very interested in it.

Conclusio: You surely can get more refined CYoA books by now, so if you´re no hardcore fan of the topic, you can skip this one.

Rating: 5/10

This Is by far the most technical choice of games game I've played so far. It makes full use of it's engine and I was often suprised at things I encountered. It features the pleasant suprise of going "the writer can do THAT?"
On a note for you trolls out there, this story is also very politically correct, when asked "<M/F>?" I was given not 2, not 3, but 5 choices. There is also a very complex story with plenty of twists.

A great and interesting piece of writing. The world has depth and a lot of freedom in how you guide the company as CEO.

Needs a save function. I spent 4 hours on my playthough and having to dedicate the same amount of time for any additional playthroughs isnt appealing.

Honestly, I don't know how the other reviewer (Red Steel) apparently played through the game enough times as to experience all the coice possibilities in just 24 mins (0.4hrs at the time he posted the review). I've only done one playthrough, so maybe there's things I've yet to discover, but from what I've played, I liked the game, and you get what you paid for, maybe more.

-Good storytelling. The story is solid and the pace at which it's told goes nicely with the gameplay.
-Nice management mechanics.
-Would've liked a longer game, with a longer/more expanded story
-"Romance" didn't feel like I accomplished anything

EDIT: Horrific spelling mistake. BTW, I deleted a comment accidentally. Sorry about that.

This is the only story bad this company I've felt a need to not reccomend, as most of their other work is fantastic.

In this game, you suddenly find yourself forced to be the CEO of a company that sells human augmentation fueled by super science or occult magic. You make major corporate decesions and choose what staff to hire and what kinds of tech to develop with the benefit that you can have any augmentations developed for free. In the background is a mystery involving extra-dimensional beings and the disappearance of the former CEO, which escolates to involve no less than the fate of the world itself.

Unfortunatley, without wishing to give any spoilers, there are, practically speaking, only two endings for this story, which is a divergence from the many combinations involved in this company's other works. If you don't make choices that perfectly fit in the narrative of the two endings the writer wants the game actually has a time loop that dumps you back at the start of the story, convienently giving the player character amnesia so you can't have new decisions from foreknowledge, and tells you make all the same choices again, until you pick the ones we want you to. This defeats the purpose of the story having any player agency whatsoever. I was very disappointed and after my third time loop the shoehorned choices became very clear and I abandoned the game.

I don't have much experience with these choose your own adventure things, but I've played a few visual novels in my time. All I can say is that this offers a large number of choices in comparison, and these choices have real impact on what happens and what options you have later on. More than your average Telltale Game I would wager. You also have a lot of control over your companies strategy and which augments you develope for profit or your own use (and you WILL use them).

Also, you can enter your own name to be referred to, and pick a gender INCLUDING options for "It's complicated but I guess I'll put ___" or "I won't answer this question". Nice touches.

If there is one downside, I couldn't find a "save" or "bookmark" option, so I had to do it all in one sitting. I'm probably overlooking something really obvious but in case I'm not, something to keep in mind.

Oh, and before I forget, the story is well written and memorable, with characters that I found interesting and believable in the world they're in. I caught myself sacrificing my own needs to protect them on occasion, and I was trying to be self-serving.

9/10 would tamper with what makes us fundamentally human again.

I love a lot of COG games (especially those related to superhero stuff). But this one was definitely not my favorite and sort of a let down

Pros: I really really really loved the business aspect of this game, managing your companies assests and stuff just seemed so fun I could play a whole game if it was just that. I literally would have prefered if it was just that instead of the weird story it has.

Cons: the story wasnt necessarily bad but unlike in other COG games I couldnt get invested in the characters or the story of what was happening in the world I solely just enjoyed the business aspect of stuff not the "world saving"
Also if you like me and enjoy really getting to sort of roleplay as your character and their personality and sort of embody how they feel about whats going on and why they do what they do I could not do that in this game. You couldnt really give your character much of a personality or identity besides sleezy businessman or goody two shoes
Also I dont know if your a lonely guy like me and you love to have different romances and relationships in these types of games but as far as ive seen there is non of that in this
And for me this COG just felt incredibly short and I really feel no inclination to replay it because really I just dont feel invested in any of the story or characters to try and do things differently

This game if it was based as a freaking business management game would easily be an 8/10 and could become a nine if the game solely focused on that aspect and fleshed it out just slightly more
But as a COG i can only give it a 4/10 personally. It just wasnt for me which really sucks because I really did love the theme for the game and the business aspect but the story and lack of any real characters or personalities did bring they joy of the game way down.

Not great at putting thoughts and feelings into words but I hope this helps somebody out

I've bought pretty much all the games the developers (Choice of Games) have made and released on steam. I really enjoy them, some of the games they release have way too much information on the first couple chapters and sometimes stuff story down your gullet before the real fun part starts. But MetaHuman Inc got very interesting really quick. You become the CEO of a company that creates super powers or enhancements and are able to choose from a range of ways you will manafacture them. I wont go too far into the story, but its very entertaining to be incharge of a large company and becoming a millionare. The story can get a bit much and boring at times but is fairly addicting as you start to have more freedom. I reccomend this game to those who love super powers or a bit of Sci Fi and Mystery to their games.

It's not bad, but it's not good either, and that's why it's a mediocre snooze-fest of a game. The characters feel like cardboard cutouts, not really doing much to make them stand out, and the story feels like it's trying to rush past certain sections of the game that ends up making you wonder why they even bothered including them instead of trimming the fat and extending the better parts of the story (the mall, a ton of the office encounters, the vacation section that's awkwardly used to push the plot along).

In the game, you're tasked with coming up with different incantations or technologies that you can use to influence certain situations, and the game tries beating you over the head that the two paths are unique. However, the magic and science aspects are just flavor as each choice from one of the two has a counterpart from the other path that fills almost the exact same role, and it just changes a few lines of text when used. Ultimately, there are really only two big choices that impact the story, and they're at the very end, so you won't really get to see the consequences of your choices other than a few lines of text in the epilogue. I'm surprised a choose-your-own-adventure game with such little choice has such a high rating when other, even older, games from this publisher blow it out of the water in every department, including character development, player agency, and overall writing.