Superhuman Industrial and Immaterial, Incorporated

An fun, light, choose-you-own adventure game that shows superheroes in a new light! I enjoyed the take that superheroes are so ordinary, so everyday, it's not exciting anymore. Mayhem WILL ensue so buckle up, you're only human after all!

So I just played this with my best friend and we loved it let me tell you. It was simple, fun, and not too long. Everything we needed for a quick activity before having to leave each-other (because of French Covid curfews).

We put our own twist to it: we both rolled the dice to quickly finish the randomized part of the game and then acted everything out as if two employees were meeting up after work and telling stories about their daily work life. I'd recommend this if you guys want a multiplayer spin on this. 

I played Superhuman Industrial on stream (I've linked the vod), and I thought it was SUPER solid! Sure, I stumbled over stepping on the prompt's toes a little bit, but that's on me for thinking too far ahead! It's a great little way to generate on the fly story prompts, and I enjoyed it thoroughly! Not only is the concept a fun angle to build off of, but the roll 1d6 to get the next piece of the prompt is easy, intuitive, and simple. If you've got some kind of writer's block, I'd heartily suggest this as a warm-up prompt generator, especially if you find storytelling in this genre easy.

Superhuman Industrial is a single-player journaling game about working in a superhero-adjacent manufacturing career. 

It's 12 pages, and the gameplay is relatively short but focused. You roll on a few charts to determine what happens at specific points in the story, but otherwise the story has a specific structure and will head you in a particular direction.

Unlike gamebooks, your choices don't change the direction of the story---that's down to the random tables---but you do have a lot more freedom to describe how your character reacts to things.

Overall, if you're in a writing mood, I think this produces a fairly solid short story. The layout is also solid and thematic, and there's some nice opportunities for humor.

Minor Issues:

-Page 7, You just sat down #4, "starring one your Capes" one of

This is meant to be singleplayer, right?

I played this game today and it was fun! Especially as a writing exercise. Made me very confident and happy! I'm so glad this exists ^u^