"You don't have to save everyone," she said softly.

Players follow a walkthrough to unlock specific story paths and "companion quests" that deepen the relationship between the lead characters.

She decided, pragmatically, to accept the update. The lights in the building had been failing and when the city’s quick-response line now pinged through Herozip, the landlord did send an electrician within the week. The update made things faster and, in her life, faster was often kinder. Still, some nights she sat and considered what privacy meant in a small apartment where everyone’s lives intersected with one another’s through wires they didn’t own.