180 Files: The Aegis Project

Choice of Games LLC

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About this game

Uncover a web of evil as an elite superspy! You might break a few rules—or a few hearts—but you won’t break cover. As Agent 180, a star secret agent, you've never found a problem you couldn't solve with guns, gadgets, or a devastating quip. But after a personal tragedy sends your life off course, your next mission will test you to your very limits.

180 Files: The Aegis Project is a 184,000 word interactive spy thriller by Karelia Hall, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

An ex-informant is dead—and you’re sent to find out why. As you go undercover at the sinister company he worked for, dangerous secrets begin to emerge, along with shadows from your own past. Can you infiltrate the company in time to stop a deadly plot? And with your career in the balance, will you follow orders to the bitter end—or be tempted into a deal with the devil?

• Play as male, female, or non-binary; as gay, straight, bisexual, demisexual or asexual.
• First place winner of the Choice of Games Contest for Interactive Novels
• What lurks in Agent 180’s past? Choose the background that led you here.
• Use tech knowledge, charm, strategy, brute force, or sheer nerve to achieve your goals.
• Choose from an assortment of gadgets to help you.
• Decide what's more important to you – the mission, or yourself.
• Participate in a cover-up to please your employers, or expose the truth to get justice.
• Try to build genuine relationships – or manipulate people for your own ends.
• Romance an intrepid reporter, a charming executive, or a brilliant scientist – or pique the interest of a dangerous enemy agent.

Ratings and reviews

It's not bad. The story is pretty good, but your skills are essentially set at the beginning of the game and if you don't pick just the right choices you'll have a bad time. You also don't know how your choices impact anything. I went thru the game twice and got two completely different endings, but I couldn't tell you how. And just when it starts getting interesting, the story cuts off. You want to see all the cool enemy agent drama? It cuts off as if waiting for a sequel to tell you.

This could easily be called Life of a Secret Agent. You are an agent like James Bond: tasked with stopping a supervillain from using the Aegis project to control people remotely. This story has a good plot with excellent dialogue and stats that work perfectly. While this is written well; it's still a short story that has limited romance options. I would recommend that you pick a stat and play to your strengths to win, this game has tough stat checks. It's a decent read.

So... after reading this... I've come to the conclusion I'd be an awful agent considering I'd literally flirt with anyone especially enemy agents. >< On a serious note I ended up staying up reading this the moment it came out. It's a great read :o I got hella attached to the characters throughout the course of reading. I know people don't like a lot of stats but golly I loved looking at them throughout the story. This CYOA has so much to say and boy oh boy did I devour each and every word. The ending also makes it seem like there could be a sequel(?) and if thats the case I'm hella excited for when it happens but until then I'm going to keep replaying this with different choices! And god the amount of achievements to go thru! :D I'm a sucker for achievement hunting. Thanks so much for giving me something to sink my time into.

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