IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.

<h2 class="bb_tag" >Turned to the last page of history, in the far and dark of a nightmare nearly over...</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >The <i>Imperium d'Espoir et de Deuil</i> rules the stars. Heretics and horrors press in from every side. Humanity sits on a cliff-edge at the end of time, and struggles mightily in its countless millions to buy another breath.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" >There are no cults or apocalyptic end-times - only the gears of the world turning and crushing men in their wake. The impossible task of fixing this faltering machine is <i>yours. </i></p><h2 class="bb_tag" >AS AN AUDITOR OF THE ADMINISTRATION</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >You're not a superhuman warrior; you're an upgraded bureaucrat, a servant of the paperwork and red tape it takes to (badly) run a galaxy-spanning empire. A moderately important person. Someone who would be missed. That's more than most can say in this rotten age. </p><p class="bb_paragraph" >You are the farthest thing from a hero.</p><h2 class="bb_tag" >FIX A DYSTOPIA OR DIE TRYING</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" > </p><p class="bb_paragraph" ><strong>Yet you<i> can</i> be a hero</strong> to the people you meet, or the worst villain in their story, or a faceless drone. These problems are &quot;small&quot; but they are life and death - a child's future, a family's ruin, a pension paid versus the Crown's money saved.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" ><strong>Choose</strong> to help people, hurt people, or do the worst thing - the minimum, and then walk away. Is duty all there is, or will you linger in their lives?</p><p class="bb_paragraph" ></p><p class="bb_paragraph" ><strong>Enjoy enormous freedom</strong> of choice and explore<strong> branching narratives</strong>. Maneuver through many and varied situations and find a way to climb the ladder - or just to be able to look at yourself in the mirror. A different mirror each morning-</p><p class="bb_paragraph" ><span class="bb_img_ctn"><img class="bb_img" src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3545250/extras/1334502f3856c4d1942b8ec6e82a5b4a.avif?t=1763227360" data-big-src=https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3545250/extras_big/1334502f3856c4d1942b8ec6e82a5b4a.webp?t=1763227360 width=1560 height=441 /></span></p><h2 class="bb_tag" >EXPLORE A RICH, BITTERSWEET SETTING</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >March across the planet of Marqui IV - from the claustrophobic streets of the man-made mountain of High Crescyt, to dark forests and quiet taverns, all the way to the sea and a sedate port city.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" >Delve into the innards of immense machines and meet their dwellers; tell stories about the star to underworld gangsters who've never seen the surface - listen to a lady strum her guitar and sing along a spray-soaked wharf.  Go to soup lines to meet saints and search sad ruins in the shadow of a revolution.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" >A vast world awaits for your bureaucrat to explore, as a trespasser, an honored guest, an unwelcome variable, and many more. Ride the rails of the Supracité Network to heartbreak and hope and everyday life, and watch people dance between their prison-bars.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" ><span class="bb_img_ctn"><img class="bb_img" src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3545250/extras/123645a1a43cc0524a6eec95623fcb18.avif?t=1763227360" data-big-src=https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3545250/extras_big/123645a1a43cc0524a6eec95623fcb18.webp?t=1763227360 width=1560 height=255 /></span></p><h2 class="bb_tag" >A MIND THAT YOU DEFINE</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >Craft your perfect bureaucrat by choosing your MIND FACETS. Become a paperwork god, a bleeding heart, a self-serving striver, a paranoid wreck, or a dangerously insane man - or some combination of the above. </p><p class="bb_paragraph" >Listen to your mind discern and opine, then follow its advice - or not.</p><h2 class="bb_tag" >THE MANY AS VARIED AS THE STARS</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >A dizzying collection of characters await - to meet, befriend, ignore, or become sworn enemies with. Rival bureaucrats, bizarre researchers, downtrodden workers, lively revolutionaries and scheming nobles; soldiers, thieves, human sensors and censer bearers. Reformed gangsters and dehumanized veterans, lonely guards and tired soul searchers - they are the tapestry of the Age.</p><h2 class="bb_tag" >Other Features</h2><ul class="bb_ul"><li><p class="bb_paragraph" >An immense, melancholy soundtrack sourced from the most obscure corners of the Internet</p></li><li><p class="bb_paragraph" >Novels' worth of writing in branching paths and alternative dialogue; great replayability</p></li><li><p class="bb_paragraph" >No grind, no resources, no wasted time; dozens of stories to take at your own pace, wherever you go</p></li></ul><p class="bb_paragraph" ><span class="bb_img_ctn"><img class="bb_img" src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3545250/extras/24ee0cce4f1af25289b743d5470a455e.avif?t=1763227360" width=1560 height=152 /></span></p><p class="bb_paragraph" ></p>

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Imperial Bureaucracy Hero Achievements