Interactive teen supernatural mystery! You and your friends have developed magical psychic powers. Solve the case, save your school, find a date for prom!
User reviews: Positive (31 reviews)
Release Date: 12 Dec, 2014
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"If you loved "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" or "Veronica Mars," imagine yourself as the hero of your high-school in this interactive fiction."

About This Game

When the kids at your high school start developing psychic powers, you and your friends must team up to stop the principal from taking over the world!

"Psy High" is an interactive teen supernatural mystery novel by Rebecca Slitt, 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.

Play as male or female; gay, straight, or bi. Will you be a jock or a brain? Popular or ignored? Use your psychic powers to help others, or to take what you want. Win a coveted scholarship, star in the Drama Club play - or lose it all and spend your senior year in juvenile detention. How much are you willing to sacrifice to get ahead in the world?

Can you solve the case? Can you save the school? And most importantly, can you find a date to the prom?

  • Solve mysteries in the classic teen-detective genre with a supernatural twist
  • Find your place in the cutthroat high-school social scene: be an athlete, an actor, a brain, or a rebel
  • Uncover the truth about your small town and its secrets
  • Instead of stopping the principal, why not steal his powers for yourself, or even join him in his plan for world domination?
  • Find your one true love, or more than one! (They never talked about love triangles in trigonometry!)

System Requirements

Windows
Mac OS X
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows XP
    Minimum:
    • OS: 10.6
    Minimum:
    • OS: Ubuntu 12.04
Helpful customer reviews
17 of 25 people (68%) found this review helpful
3.5 hrs on record
Posted: 23 December
This game is not perfect. In fact, its story is quite predictable. If you can put aside that the mystery isn't REALLY a mystery and more of a puzzle, then you will enjoy this game.

If you, like me, love watching arbitrary sliders go up for acting like a Lannister, you will enjoy this game. If you had a good, or at least not-awful time in High School, chances are you will enjoy this game.

It's not amazing, it doesn't have tons of depth. But it does have a lot of replayability, and the story it tells is interesting no matter what angle you come at it with, even if you want your Player Character to be a delinquent to a Model Citizen.

Just don't click fast. The one bug is that clicking fast will cause text to not show up, or skip a scene entirely.

Honestly, sell some trading cards and pick it up for change. You definately have worse ways to spend your time.
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15 of 26 people (58%) found this review helpful
1.8 hrs on record
Posted: 22 December
Got this Game right after I played Choice of Robots and I love it.
It's really alot of Fun and very fantasy based this Time. The Storyline was Great, and the Decisions you can do there are awesome. Just like in Choice of Robots, you can have a ton of Playtime in this Game. The Decisions were sometimes even harder for me this time.
As Usual, a great game by the Choice of Games makers.
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
3.9 hrs on record
Posted: 29 December
"Solve the case, save your school, find a date for prom!"
Anyone remember Heroes? Save the cheerleader, save the world? Well, this game is nothing like Heroes, but for sure its something unique that you will probably enjoy playing/reading. Its an interactive story, like Telltale's Walking Dead game, but with nothing but the texts. Dont think that this game is cheesy or superfluous just becouse of the high school theme, the story can be simple and easy to understand, but will you face tons of hard choices to make, and you can take various different paths through the game. It kinda reminds me of my teenage high school times, and you will probably relate the game to your memories. I highly reccomend addint this title to your collection, its very cheap and it will be worth your time.
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
0.4 hrs on record
Posted: 29 December
I love reading and I think CYOAs are a great way to immerse yourself in a story. But this is the lamest CYOA I've ever bought from Steam. This game is full of generic, forgettable characters and the writing is very dull. The writer somehow manages to take something cool and exciting and make it UNexciting and dull. Maybe making fun things suck is her superpower? In addition to that, in this story you go to school in what is practically San Francisco with Gay Pride Week and all. The writer specifies that you are happy to be there - as is everyone else in the story - and that if this or that happened, such as two boys going to the prom with each other, neither you nor anyone else would even blink because you and everyne else in this story supports that. I'm not being insulting to any LGBT people but come on. People are individuals and when a writer stupidly introduces an extremely divisive subject like homosexuality (or abortion or illegal immigration or any other unpleasant real-life subject) and tells the player how they feel about the topic they stupidly destroy the immersion if the player's opinion is different. So this game sucks both in my opinion and as a CYOA.
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
0.9 hrs on record
Posted: 29 December
A little eccentric at times, and somewhat easier to beat than I expected. All in all though this "choose your own adventure" game is like the high school experience I wish I had growing up.
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5 of 9 people (56%) found this review helpful
9.3 hrs on record
Posted: 26 December
A very nice game! Some of the situations are predictable, but it still manages to get you into the story and makes you think about your choices. Choose to be love-erveryone-good or drug-selling-bad and deal with the consequences of your choices.
It's not really expensive and I think it gives you enough playtime and fun for your money and more. You should really try picking it up!
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8 of 17 people (47%) found this review helpful
1.6 hrs on record
Posted: 23 December
Intereting game, fun story.

However, the stereotypes at times (despite not being cringeworthy) impede on the affect of the choices, but otherwise, a very diverse, and intrigueful plot.
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4 of 9 people (44%) found this review helpful
3.6 hrs on record
Posted: 27 December
This game isn't super long, but it really sucks you in. I finished it all in one day and have no regrets. There are more significant choices than I'm used to in this kind of game, and I got exactly the ending I wanted.
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2 of 5 people (40%) found this review helpful
5.3 hrs on record
Posted: 28 December
This game is just great. I really loved playing it. Unfortunately I ruined the first run with my decision and had a break up even though I helped everyone :/ Made me kinda sad, but I guess I just need to play this over and over again.

Every single choice in this game influences the outcome, which is making this super fun to play.
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2 of 6 people (33%) found this review helpful
2.1 hrs on record
Posted: 28 December
<<>>WARNING<<>> THIS ISN'T A GAME!!! THIS IS A BOOK WITH DECISION
Man, I love this. I have been reading this for 2 hours and I'm not Chapter 4.
<<>>STORY<<>>
Your a 16 year old teenager who has a little bit of a secret. You have supernatural powers. Your parents don't know about your powers and your trying to make it into collage.
<<>>RATING<<>>
Tyrone Rates it:
8/8 So no b8 m8!
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1 of 4 people (25%) found this review helpful
3.1 hrs on record
Posted: 28 December
I really enjoyed the game. It had an interesting store, as well as a lot of fun character progresion. It also sticks to its setting well, for better or worse. (If you despise high school drama, this probably isn't the game for you.) I would suggest playing it all in one sitting, just be aware that there are 10 chapters and that it took me about 3 hrs. to complete. Be aware that once you make a choice it can not be changed with out completely restarting the gsme.
All in all 9/10 will continue to play.
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4 of 11 people (36%) found this review helpful
6.3 hrs on record
Posted: 25 December
As a writer myself, the game was fun and really inspiring. It had me laughing and rolling around on my bed from the feels. It might've been a bit cliche at times, but I don't think it ruined the game at all. And the option to become a potential drug dealer was a kicker. c: money well spent in my opinion.
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3 of 9 people (33%) found this review helpful
3.9 hrs on record
Posted: 25 December
This game is great. I loved reading the choose your own adventures books, and this game was very interactive.
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0 of 3 people (0%) found this review helpful
5.4 hrs on record
Posted: 28 December
it's a fun and suspenseful "game" for those who like mysteries and reading
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3 of 10 people (30%) found this review helpful
7.7 hrs on record
Posted: 25 December
20/10! I have never, And I mean NEVER been so drawn in by a story in my life, And the replayability is huge. I promise you that if you like games like this. you'll LOVE PSY High
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2 of 8 people (25%) found this review helpful
1.1 hrs on record
Posted: 25 December
A really nice game with a suprisingly complex gameplay.. even if there are no pictures in this text based rpg- it's up to you mind to create them in your mind.. I totally love this game, this it what I'm looking for!
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2 of 8 people (25%) found this review helpful
19.8 hrs on record
Posted: 24 December
THis game is awesome and a lot of fun to play when you let the story play itself out.
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1 of 7 people (14%) found this review helpful
4.0 hrs on record
Posted: 27 December
Wow.

I ♥♥♥♥ed up, unfortunately. I couldn't stop the Nexus completely, Ms. Clay became principal, Kingsport turned out a ♥♥♥♥-ton of boring zombies, and I got dumped.

On the other hand, I won the Kingsport Scholar Award, I started dating in college, and life got better for me.

I have to admit, I was adamant about trying this game. After playing it, however, I'm very impressed by it. There was a little to be desired (graphics would have enhanced it, but imagining my own scenes and settings and characters with limited details was very appreciated) but overall, the game approaches the "suffer your own consequences" angle very nicely, and I'm excited to play it again. Totally worth the money.
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0 of 6 people (0%) found this review helpful
1.2 hrs on record
Posted: 25 December
Ended up enjoying the game more then I should've.
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1 of 9 people (11%) found this review helpful
8.9 hrs on record
Posted: 23 December
I ♥♥♥♥ed it up 10/10
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