About the Game

G.A.L.A.C.T.I.C.A.L. is a story-driven superhero management RPG with visual-novel storytelling, difficult choices and turn-based boss encounters.

You take the role of a Handler working for G.A.L.A.C.T.I.C.A.L., the corporation responsible for registering, controlling and deploying superpowered people known as Assets.

Your team can save thousands of lives, but every Asset has personal limits, fears, loyalties and breaking points. Your decisions influence their trust, their mental and physical condition, the corporation's reputation and the future of Ascension City.

G.A.L.A.C.T.I.C.A.L. saves people.
G.A.L.A.C.T.I.C.A.L. controls people.
Sometimes both happen during the same mission.

Features

• Story-driven superhero management RPG
• Visual-novel presentation with branching decisions
• Meaningful choices with lasting consequences
• Turn-based boss encounters
• Asset loyalty, trauma and corruption systems
• Public relations and crisis-management decisions
• Recruitable characters with individual personalities and abilities
• Multiple narrative paths
• Several endings planned for the complete game

Demo Content

• Playable prologue
• Story Arcs 1 to 7
• Several side missions
• Boss encounters
• Recruitment and management systems
• Relationship, loyalty and corruption mechanics
• Detailed mission and decision statistics
• Bonus section with information about the novels

The demo currently ends after Story Arc 7. It provides an extended preview of the characters, systems and conflicts that will continue in the complete game.

One Universe, Two Timelines

The game and the novel series share the world of Ascension City, G.A.L.A.C.T.I.C.A.L., the Assets and the Aether.

The game begins in 2062 and follows a Handler responsible for an unstable Asset response team.

The novels begin in 2071 and follow fifteen-year-old Echo after an Aether incident turns him into Asset 042.

Both stories are designed to stand on their own. You do not need to read the books before playing the game, and you do not need to play the game before reading the books.

Read the Novels

Explore another part of the G.A.L.A.C.T.I.C.A.L. universe in the first Echo novel, available in German and English.

Information about both editions can also be found in the new Bonus section of the game's main menu.

What Is New in Demo v1.1?

• Revised presentation and interface elements
• Updated game content and balancing
• Improved navigation and player information
• New Bonus section in the main menu
• German and English information about the Echo novels
• Direct links to the corresponding Amazon editions

Content Warning

This game contains violence, psychological stress, moral dilemmas, character death, body-horror themes and mature language.

Save Games

The browser version stores save data locally. Clearing your browser storage may remove your save files.

Private browsing modes may prevent save data from being stored permanently.

Development Status

This is a public demo of a larger game currently in development. It is intended to gather feedback on storytelling, balancing, combat, management systems and player decisions.

The complete game is planned to include additional story arcs, Assets, missions, boss encounters, management systems and multiple endings.

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