Light Years Apart
Can you and your sister outfox a galaxy-spanning AI to save your home planet?
About Light Years Apart
Can you and your sister outfox a galaxy-spanning AI to save your home planet? A rollicking adventure with space pirates, spies, and snarky computers.
"Light Years Apart" is a 230,000-word interactive sci-fi novel by Anaea Lay, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
You trained at the Kempari College, an academy for super spies, fighting against the Aydan-machine interplanetary AI. Aydan-machine and its affiliated megacorp, the ICA, have monopolized control over FTL weft-drives.
You resigned from the College when your teachers ordered you to commit murder. Since then, you've wandered the galaxy for a decade, so long that your shipboard computer has become your surrogate parent.
But now, the ICA has blockaded Kempus, and you're in a unique position to prevent thousands of unnecessary deaths. Will you ally with the enemy, or return to the rebels who once betrayed you?
What's more, your hacker sister has brought your old flame back into your orbit, and the love you left behind is now mission-critical. As a former spy, you have flexible morals, but there are certain lines you won't cross. The blockade is real, and it's killing kids.
When your planet needs you, will you step up or storm off?
• Play as male, female, or non-binary; gay, straight, bi, poly or asexual.
• Unleash artful and infinite swearing.
• Swap stories and strategies with your secret agent peers.
• Drink yourself silly on extraterrestrial moonshine!
• Team up with space pirates!
• Watch a planet breed with its moon.
• Smuggle two weird teenagers past an interplanetary blockade.
Light Years Apart details
Light Years Apart is a free Role Playing app for Android with 5,000+ installs on Google Play and a 4.0/5 average rating from 97 ratings. It was released on June 8, 2020 and last updated on January 5, 2026. It's developed by Choice of Games LLC. It requires Android 5.0 or later. The app contains ads and offers in-app purchases.
- Category
- Role Playing
- Rating
- 4.0 / 5 (97 ratings)
- Installs
- 5,000+
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- Yes
- Ads
- Contains ads
- Current version
- 1.2.16
- Requires Android
- 5.0
- Content rating
- Teen
- Released
- June 8, 2020
- Last updated
- January 5, 2026
- Developer
- Choice of Games LLC
What’s new in Light Years Apart
You can now choose a font in the Settings menu. Switch to Helvetica for crisp sans-serif text, or try the OpenDyslexic font, designed against some common symptoms of dyslexia. If you enjoy "Light Years Apart", please leave us a written review. It really helps!
Version 1.2.16 · Updated January 5, 2026
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