Empyrean

Name: Empyrean
Author: Choice of Games LLC

1.1.20

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Overthrow your father's regime with his own secret experimental fighter plane!

Empyrean: a text-based flying ace novel with choices

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325,000 words of text, with no graphics or sound effects
Four sides to back: revolution, government, foreign powers or Deep Tech
Flying the Empyrean, an experimental fighter aero of your father's
Romance with men or women, and a nonbinary character option
Hiding your true identity from family and the secret police
Befriending Wesh, a character who is both human and machine

What kind of interactive novel this is

The question with Empyrean is whether you want to read your way through a long story with no pictures and no sound. It is an interactive novel by Kyle Marquis, published by Choice of Games LLC, and the listing puts it at 325,000 words. The listing gives its content rating as 10+.

The premise is that you take your father's secret experimental fighter plane and use it against the regime he runs. Your choices control how the story goes, and because there are no graphics to fall back on, the prose has to carry the scenes, the characters and the setting by itself.

The setting is the city of Actorius and the Deep Tech world beneath it, which the listing describes as dieselpunk. Towers, labourers, oligarchs and spies all appear in the text, and the story moves between them as your choices take you.

Flying the Empyrean and fighting in the air

Much of the action is in the air. You fly the Empyrean, which the listing calls the greatest aircraft ever designed, and the story includes aerial combat with other aeros. The listing also mentions rooftop duels and fights on top of airplanes in flight, so the combat is not limited to the cockpit.

The aircraft is governed by Deep Tech dynamics that even your father does not understand. The listing presents this as part of the plane's mystery, and it sits alongside the political plot rather than apart from it.

Other scenes take place away from the sky. The listing names top secret research facilities and elegant cafés as places where you cross swords, so the story alternates between the open air and enclosed settings in the city.

Exploring the Deep Tech and using it for the city

The Deep Tech is the setting's central mystery. The listing describes it as a mechanical ecosystem of creatures and plants, both living and mechanical, powered by forces nobody fully understands. Your father harvests it to build airships, and the Revolution is racing him to do the same.

You can use the Deep Tech and your political authority to improve and protect the city. This gives the story a second track alongside the fighting, in which your decisions about the city's welfare and defence matter as much as your flying.

One of the characters you can befriend is Wesh, a denizen of the Deep Tech who is both human and machine. The listing presents Wesh as a companion figure connected to the Deep Tech itself.

Playing your character, hiding who you are, and romance

You choose your character's gender as a man, a woman or nonbinary, and you can romance men or women. These choices shape how the story treats your character, and they are set at the start rather than being fixed by the author.

Your character must also keep their true identity hidden from their family and from the secret police. The listing presents concealment as an ongoing pressure on the story, so the risk of being exposed is part of your decisions in each scene.

Because the whole story is text, character choices and romance are carried by dialogue and narration. Nothing is shown on screen, so the reader works out how each relationship stands from what is written.

Choosing a side in the conflict

The story asks who the enemy really is. The listing frames the choice as the Revolution against a government it says is corrupt, with foreign invaders and the Deep Tech itself as further possibilities.

You can side with the revolution, the government, foreign powers or the Deep Tech. Each side is a separate route through the story, so the outcome depends on which faction you back and how you deal with the others.

The listing describes the conflict as the reason you fly, fight and hide. Your allegiance determines which characters are allies and which are rivals as the story develops.

What's new

Jan 5, 2026

You can now choose a font in the Settings menu. Switch to Helvetica for crisp sans-serif text, or try the OpenDyslexic font, designed against some common symptoms of dyslexia. If you enjoy "Empyrean", please leave us a written review. It really helps!

About this APK

The build we hold is Empyrean 1.1.20 (APKS split bundle) for Android 5.0 and up.

Version: 1.1.20; 28
Requires Android: 5.0+
Size: 11 MB
Target Android: 16

Package ID: com.choiceofgames.empyrean
Format: APKS split bundle
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