---
title: "Mission: It's Complicated"
description: "You are a mild-mannered PhD candidate studying superheroes. More specifically, how they form bonds in high-risk situations. That is, until another you from an a"
image: "https://t.vndb.org/cv/84/45984.jpg"
---

# Mission: It's Complicated

![Mission: It's Complicated](https://t.vndb.org/cv/84/45984.jpg)

**Developer:** Schell Games

**Release date:** Feb 14, 2020

**Platform:** Windows, macOS

**Language:** English

**Rating:** 6.7/10 (11 votes)

## Description
You are a mild-mannered PhD candidate studying superheroes. More specifically, how they form bonds in high-risk situations. That is, until another you from an alternate Earth contacts you and warns you against the impending destruction of the Earth at the hands of Gidheron, Eater of Possibilities. To stop Gidheron, you need to find the Possibility Stone and you need two heroes to wield it. And they need to be in love.

## Characters
### Professor L
- **Gender:** Unknown
- **Role:** Scientist, Gender Choice

### Cody Price
Bitten by a radioactive shark, Cody Price gained the power to control water! Also shark teeth, and a sweet fin on his head. For a long time, he hid his powers, but now he really needs a job, and so he's become... Riptide!

[From the in-game character profile]

- **Gender:** Male
- **Alias:** Riptide
- **Hair:** Blue, Elemental
- **Clothes:** Dress Shoes, Jacket, T-shirt, Jeans, Hoodie, Beanie
- **Body:** Young-adult, Tanned, Fish Fins, Shark-like Teeth
- **Role:** Superhero, Gamer, Homosexual, Barista, Hydrokinetic, Cryokinetic
- **Personality:** Energetic, Whimsical, Trans Man
- **Eyes:** Cyan
- **Engages in:** Job Hunting
- **Subject of:** Bipolar Disorder

### Nicole Case
Wifi experienced a temporal event when she was an infant that sent her into a far-distant future. When she returned, all the electronics around her began talking to her. Most of her friends growing up have been machines, which she can talk to but has never bothered to learn how to use "the normal way."

[From in-game character profile]

- **Gender:** Female
- **Alias:** Wifi
- **Hair:** Black, Short, Curly
- **Personality:** Donkan
- **Body:** Young-adult, Dark, Nail Polish, Freckles, Makeup
- **Clothes:** Earrings, T-shirt, Shorts, Hoodie, Headphones, Turtleneck Sweater, Fingerless Gloves, Coke-bottle Glasses, Utility Belt
- **Role:** Superhero, Hacker, Gamer, Lonely
- **Items:** Mobile Phone
- **Engages in:** Time Travel
- **Subject of:** Discrimination, Social Anxiety Disorder, Fixation with Former Lover

### Roxanne Trel
Roxanne was a geologist studying alien rocks when they suddenly fused with her, giving her the ability to turn her body into diamond-hard crystal. Nigh invulnerable in her diamond state, she splits her time between fighting crime, writing papers for the Journal of Extra-Terrestrial Geology, and working out. She's in it for the (female- or nonbinary-identifying) cuties.

[From the in-game character profile]

- **Gender:** Female
- **Alias:** Zirconia
- **Hair:** Brown, Short
- **Body:** Muscular
- **Clothes:** Shirt, T-shirt, Jeans, Tank Top, Helmet, Cape, Ankle Boots
- **Role:** Superhero, Scientist, Homosexual, Superstrength
- **Engages in:** Unarmed Fighting, Wrestling, Working Out
- **Personality:** Smart, Workaholic

### Sam Feng
Sam was born as part of a top-secret genetically engineered assassin program at a mysterious facility called "The Workshop." It was destroyed by Lexica and her Judgement League, and he became her sidekick for a while. But that was a long time ago.

[From in-game character profile]

- **Gender:** Male
- **Alias:** Nightgaunt
- **Hair:** Black, Short, Stubble
- **Body:** Pale, Young-adult
- **Clothes:** Coat, Jacket, Gloves, Belt, Hoodie, Watch, Turtleneck Sweater, Fingerless Gloves, Tactical Suit, Eye Mask
- **Personality:** Secretive, Stoic, Reserved, Distrustful, Pessimist, Mysterious, Loner, Gloomy
- **Role:** Superhero, Assassin, Bisexual
- **Subject of:** Mental Affliction, Confinement, Genetic Research, Human Subject Research, Nightmares
- **Engages in:** Working Out

### Zael
Zael was exiled from their home planet for daring to care about "lesser beings." Their home is technologically advanced, but the ruling family is insular and isolationist, preferring to ignore less-advanced species when possible, or destroying them if they become a nuisance.

[From in-game character profile]

- **Gender:** Unknown
- **Alias:** Yizael
- **Hair:** Bald
- **Clothes:** Trousers, Baseball Cap, Turtleneck Sweater, Futuristic Suit
- **Eyes:** Red, Unnatural Sclera
- **Body:** Unnatural Skin Tone, Humanoid (Non-human)
- **Role:** Superhero, Extraterrestrial
- **Subject of:** Exile
- **Engages in:** Flying
- **Personality:** Non-Binary

### Pugsly
- **Gender:** Unknown
- **Alias:** The Pugilist
- **Clothes:** Glasses, Lab Coat, Overall
- **Role:** Superhero, Mentor, Dog, Retired

## Shops
- [Official Website](https://www.schellgames.com/games/mission-its-complicated/)
- [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1041210/)
- [Itch](https://schellgames.itch.io/mission-its-complicated)

## Releases
### English
- **2020-02-14**: Mission: It's Complicated - [Official website](https://www.schellgames.com/games/mission-its-complicated/), [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1041210/), [SteamDB](https://steamdb.info/app/1041210/info/), [Itch.io](https://schellgames.itch.io/mission-its-complicated)

## Tags
Hacker Heroine, Multiple Endings, No Sexual Content, Extraterrestrial, Floating Textbox, Dark Skinned Heroine, Superheroine, Scientist Heroine, Scientist Protagonist, Assassin Hero, Only Good Endings, Gamer Heroine, Non-Binary Characters, Transgender Hero, Muscular Heroine, Non-Binary Love Interest, Superhero, Relationship Chart

## More Games from Schell Games
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