Zip! Speedster of Valiant City
Use your speedster powers to defeat the superpowered Sloth and save the day, all while tracking down a deadly new weapon threatening your city! There’s no room for error in the hero business, not even for the fastest person in the world. One tiny mistake against your deadliest foe threatens to end your career and plunge your city in chaos.
Zip! Speedster of Valiant City is a 48,000-word superpowered interactive novel by Eric Moser. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
As a superpowered hero, you’ve beaten the Sloth before, but this time he’s finally gotten the upper hand (claw?) and he’s aiming his deadly new device right at the innocent citizens of Valiant City. It’s up to you to stop him and his terrible machine before time runs out!
- Play as male, female, or non-binary; gay, straight, or bi.
- Use your speed powers to battle an array of superpowered foes.
- When facing especially tough decisions, use your limited supply of Juice to run even faster.
- Focus on your struggling relationship with your romantic partner or flirt with a new hero.
- Train your snarky sidekick to prepare for battle with the Sloth, or leave her to make her own mistakes.
- Unleash your powers to run for mayor, land a lucrative endorsement deal, or run your enemies out of town.
- Destroy the Sloth’s machine, learn how to disarm it, or even convince to Sloth to give up his criminal scheme.
Are you fast enough to thwart the Sloth’s scheme and save the day?
Game Discussion
Steam User 2
The game is great, but don't expect it to be long. In 3 hours I have finished it a few times, which isn't a problem because it has A LOT of replayability. It is incredibly fun and the goals are pretty easy to accomplish, but you can't pursue all of them in one go. The characters are interesting even if we don't have much time to know them. (I would love a second game to know them more)
The only con I can see is that the game is quite fast-paced, but story-wise is logical since the protagonist is the fastest person in the world :P
(If you don't want to pay for just a few hours of entertainment, it is free on mobile, with ads. And if you play the game and enjoy it, pls check the saga Community College Hero, it is by the same author and one of my fav games)
Steam User 2
I normally would not bother with CYOA games this short but the author is the same as the excellent "Community College Hero(CCH)" series so I bought it on sale. Plus, it also has a superhero theme. I noticed a lot of the negative reviews are due to how short it is. Hello? it only has 40 some thousand words and it says that on the store page. My next smallest game has 87 thousand words. I KNEW it would be short.
Anyways, short game aside, it is similar to the "low powered heroes and villains " of the author's other games, and fun. Buy it on sale if you like the author's "CCH" series . Otherwise, I doubt others would feel it was worth it.