Planned Release Date: August 2026

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Manual Override is an adult visual novel. It contains frequent, fully explicit sexual content rendered in an anime art style, including full nudity and clear depictions of genitalia, oral sex, and penetrative sex. The sexual content depicts consensual encounters between adult characters and is reached through normal story progression.

Players who may be sensitive to certain themes should also be aware that the story includes the consumption of alcohol; depictions of corporate misconduct and the concealment of internal safety data (criminal acts) within a fictional industrial-safety inquiry; and references to an off-screen workplace death, a related fictional civil wrongful-death lawsuit, and the grief surrounding it.

The game does NOT contain any sexual violence or non-consensual sex, incest, or characters depicted as minors. It does not depict self-harm, suicide, illegal drug use, or graphic violence or gore.

About This Game

The line doesn't take jobs. It made this one.

Anthros Robotics turned the dead GM stamping plant in your hometown into the world's first lights-out humanoid factory — forty Echo units building more Echo units in the dark. You're the engineer who made them run, and the local face who sold the town on the idea that the machines were the jobs coming back. In eleven days the company goes public, and the whole story rests on one word: Autonomous.

Three weeks ago, in a trainer cell forty feet from your desk, an Echo unit swept through its certified path into the space a person's body was in. Her name was Josie Pell. She was twenty-seven, you recruited her yourself, and the safety stop that should have caught it was inhibited.

You signed off inhibiting it.

Eleven days. Three people who know. One question: who pays.

Manual Override is a mature, choice-driven visual novel about the week the cover-up starts to come apart — and the three women tangled in it, each holding a different piece of the truth.

• Annika — the engineer who can prove what the logs really say.
  
• Sadie — the one who refuses to let Josie become a line item.
  
• Zola — the one whose job is to make the problem disappear before the bell rings.

Features

• Three full romance routes with distinct branching paths and endings
  
• A tense corporate-thriller story about automation, accountability, and guilt
  
• Mature themes and explicit adult content (18+)
  
• Hand-crafted art, animated CG scenes, and an original score
  
• Full localization in 7 languages: English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Simplified Chinese

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI generated art, video, voice-acting, music, and writing.