Into the Industry

Brad Mercer just lost his only client to a rival agent, he's three months behind on the desk rental, and he doesn't have a single name left on his roster. Then he spots Lisa at a bar — a designer with a boyfriend, a life, and no reason to know who Brad is or what he does.

That gap is the whole game. Brad sees an opening and takes it, and Into the Industry follows the slow process of pulling Lisa toward the industry he can't get anyone else into. Nothing about her life points this way at the start; the story is about how that changes.

You play Brad from the inside, making the calls that decide how far Lisa is willing to go and whether Daniel ever finds out. The story runs on choices rather than a fixed script, so the same opening can end in very different places. Later on the perspective doesn't stay fixed on Brad building his angle — at least once, he ends up on the other side of it, finding out what his own machine looks like from underneath.