Imperium Bureaucracy Hero [v0.2.4]

Overview:
What kind of bureaucrat are you?

A visual novel set in the far darkness of the grim future. You’re not a heroic space marine or imperial guardsman – you are a bureaucrat. A mid-level servant of the paperwork and red tape it takes to run an empire of a million worlds. It’s your job to cut through that horrifying mess – resolve disputes, fix problems, listen to angry people. It’s not your job to have sex – but you’ll meet people from every walk of life in the vast Imperium. Lonely guards, bored scribes, women willing to use their body to swing your decisions or just to have some fun in their bleak lives.

Don’t grind! There is not a single moment of grinding. You’re a reasonably high-ranking official of the organization that runs everything – you don’t need money. Your word is better than money. There’s a reason some folks try and bribe you with sex and not fat stacks of cash.

Choose your traits! Are you a schizophrenic empath? A paranoid bureaucratic genius? A nihilistic manipulator? Try and do your job. Endure your horrible empire. Serve the God Emperor. Meet interesting women – and fuck them.

Or just do your job and play literal Bureaucracy Simulator. You can do that. The sex is optional.

Thread Updated: 2024-10-15
Release Date: 2024-08-13
Developer: Munitions Mori Patreon – Twitter
Censored: No
Version: 0.2.4
OS: Windows, Linux, Mac
Language: English
Genre:

2DCG, Adventure, ai cg, Dystopian Setting, Fantasy, Male Protagonist, Parody, Science Fiction, Romance, Vaginal Sex, Oral Sex

Installation:

1. Extract and run.

Changelog:

v0.2.4 – 2024-10-15

Two new storylines as part of a single overall arc
2.5 h-scenes
New Temporary Areas: Administration Waystation Abraxas-Siprian-12, Sisterhood Soupline Deep Interior, Sister Syrene’s Room
Upgraded visuals in 2 previous h-scenes
Fully save-game compatible with v0.1, v0.2
Approximately 1hr of new content
- 5.5 hours of content total

v0.2.3 – 2024-08-13

Three new storylines
2 h-scenes
Returning & Expanded Areas: Factory Nero-Siprian-39, Warehouse AGRI-3 Great Justice Hall 41/57 Interior
Upgraded visuals in 1 previous h-scene
Fully save-game compatible with v0.1, v0.2
Approximately 30m of new content
- 4.5 hours of content total

v0.2.2 – 2024-07-16

New long storyline
1 h-scene
New City District: The Tradeward
New Areas: Crescyt Mécanique Temple-Headquarters, Justice Hall 41/57
New Temporary Areas: Leeward Skybridge, Warehouse Valley
Fully save-game compatible with v0.1, v0.2
Approximately 1 hour of new content
- 4 hours of content total

v0.2.1 – 2024-05-21

Two new storylines
2 h-scenes
New Area: Undercity Noirmarket
New Temporary Area: Administration Chainway Maintenance Void
Fully save-game compatible with v0.1, v0.2
Approximately 30m – 1 hour of new content
- 2.5 – 3 hours of content total

v0.2 – 2024-04-20

Unexpected resurrection
3 new storylines
2 h-scenes
Full overhaul of background art
Full overhaul of UI
New Majoris Facet: PANOPLY
New Alternative Facets: ACQUIESENCE, INTIMATION, COMPORTMENT
New Areas: Crescyt Chainway, Longlift, RaR Station 04-4
Fully save-game compatible with v0.1
Approximately 2 hours of content

v0.1 – 2022-02-22

Initial demo release
3 h-scenes
Approximately 1 hour of content

Developer Notes:

This is a story-focused experience. If you’re looking for a quick fap, look somewhere else. This isn’t a –

-just kidding, this is a porn game. But it does have a lot of words for the genre. I hope I found a good balance.

Gameplay:

In the far darkness of the grim future: “Battlemace 69,000” . . .
Run around and talk to people. There’s no money, no affection meter, no grind – just dialogue and some options. How you perceive a situation and what you can say is influenced by the traits you choose – the different trait combinations share major story beats, but the tone and possible solution to each scene can be wildly varied.
Resolve disputes: talk to folks, learn about the problem, accept or reject ‘bribes’, then make your decision.
Meet random people. Learn their story. Commiserate about the misery of living in the Imperium of Hope and Mourning. Bang them?
Help people. Hurt people. Get involved in side-stories that far exceed the responsibility of your job.
Approximately 4 hours of content.

Planned Features:

More locations, more people. The core of this game is running around and solving disputes/meeting weird folks, so variety is life. I have a lot of plans. The Imperium d’Espoir et de Deuil is a big place.
A Lijkorps of Krijg guardswoman that can’t function in human society. The dozen other noble houses of Crescyt and the bribery they’re willing to resort to get in your favor. Beltline workers, haughty imperial adepts, gutter-trash gungirls, militia troopers, other nuns (big seller, I think), a mecaniqué repairer, a choir member in the local chapel, and on and on.
Travel places! Leave the City on a rail line. Go to the planetary map, see farms and villages and Emperor knows what else.
Leave the planet. That’s the big one. That’s the long-term goal. And after that? We’re talking tau, warzones, pirates, elves, feudal worlds – every imaginable scenario that a mid-level bureaucrat won’t get instantly killed in.
I’ve recovered my love of writing this. I’ve been nerding out over this lore for a long time, and now I’m making it my own and exploring every grimy nook and cranny. The sky isn’t even the limit – we have spaceships.

AI Disclaimer:

The backgrounds of most images were made with Stable Diffusion 1.5 – custom mix, lots of editing, lots of excuses, yada yada – it’s still AI. I have to point it out. If this is a dealbreaker, I understand.
All portraits and key art are still handmade. Four h-scenes as of v0.2.3 contain AI elements – I draw a base, then img2img on top of it and edit. All h-scenes going forward and some retroactively will be AI-assisted in this way.