Grand Academy for Future Villains

Evil education gets a sharp, funny spin in this choice-driven interactive novel about earning a degree in world domination. Set in an academy that exists beyond ordinary time, genre, and reality, the story casts you as an aspiring menace surrounded by future tyrants, mad scientists, cursed heirs, and suspiciously heroic classmates. Its tone is knowingly ridiculous rather than grim, poking fun at fantasy quests, superhero dramas, corporate villainy, and the familiar drama of campus life. Beneath the jokes, however, the school year becomes a personal story about ambition, loyalty, identity, romance, and deciding exactly what kind of villain you want to become.

Reading and choosing are the entire experience: there are no illustrations, combat animations, or voiced scenes to carry the adventure. Instead, you steer conversations, classroom decisions, schemes, internships, relationships, and major moral—or gloriously immoral—turning points through branching text choices. One path can focus on forbidden research and monstrous transformation, while another builds a political legacy, pursues a dark family destiny, or challenges the institution itself. Your decisions shape alliances and rivalries as well as the larger fate of the Academy, allowing you to graduate, seize control, turn traitor, or leave on your own spectacular terms. It plays at a relaxed pace, but choices can have long-term consequences, making careful role-playing more important than reflexes.

Katherine Nehring’s writing stands out through its broad genre awareness and willingness to let players define villainy in many forms, from theatrical super-crime to cold corporate cruelty or reluctant antiheroism. The enormous word count supports multiple character concepts and makes repeat runs worthwhile, especially for players curious about alternate romances, allegiances, and endings. Fans of Choice of Games-style fiction, visual novels without visuals, or character-heavy RPGs such as The Arcana and Monster Prom should find plenty to enjoy in its comedic school setting. It suits newcomers to text adventures because the premise is easy to grasp, while veteran interactive-fiction players get the most from replaying it with wildly different ambitions.