Dispatch

Dispatch (2025) is a satirical adventure about a washed-up superhero turned desk-bound dispatcher managing a roster of ex-villains-for-hire. Play involves triaging city emergencies on a retro computer, matching heroes to incidents as office politics and branching narrative unravel around you. It stands out for blending a sharp, TV-quality ensemble cast with choice-driven management—letting you be the hero’s boss rather than the caped saviour—across an eight-episode season.

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You play former Robert Robertson III after his mech-suit is destroyed and he starts working for the Superhero Dispatch Network. From a dispatcher’s console, you field incidents across the city by picking the right hero for each job based on their abilities and personalities. Along the way, you decide how conversations unfold and work on upgrading your hero's abilities.

As you progress, you take on new crises that require team dynamics. But it's the relationships and narrative that are as important as the crime-fighting. You have to make tough decisions about firing a teammate or reshuffling the roster in ways that ripple through later scenes. Mission assignments evolve as hero stats, injuries, and cooldowns force tradeoffs, while your choices in conversations open or close relationship beats and plot angles.

The result is like playing a TV show (the game was even released via weekly episodes). This makes it a snackable challenge with its short, tightly written episodes with cliffhangers and recurring gags. It takes the Telltale style branching story and injects high-quality writing along with its mix of lite dispatch decisions, mini-game puzzles and tongue-in-cheek take on superhero life - think Invincible meets Watchmen.

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Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Dispatch 4 weeks ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 3 weeks ago.