Game Overview
A debt-ridden private investigator navigates a near-future city where people pay to feel somebody else’s dangerous pleasures without risking their own skin. Rent-a-Vice frames its cyberpunk noir mystery around a brutally uncomfortable idea: “feeders” lease out their bodies so wealthy clients can experience everything from reckless indulgence to lethal thrills at a distance. The case begins with a missing lover, but the investigation quickly becomes entangled with political hypocrisy, corporate exploitation, addiction, and the protagonist’s fight to keep custody of their child. Its mood is grim, intimate, and morally charged rather than action-heavy, with every apparent solution carrying a human cost.
Play unfolds as a substantial choice-driven interactive novel, with your decisions shaping the investigator’s methods, relationships, ethics, and eventual role in the Vice economy. Leads come through conversations, favors, deductions, and direct encounters with the unsettling virtual-experience technology, requiring you to decide whom to trust, pressure, protect, or betray. Character creation supports male, female, and non-binary protagonists, along with gay, straight, and bisexual identities, while personal struggles such as debt, substance use, parenting, and a complicated ex remain central to the plot. Branches allow for compassionate detective work, cynical self-enrichment, resistance against the system, or a more destructive route that turns the investigation into a campaign against the entire industry.
What stands out is how seriously the writing treats its speculative premise instead of using cyberpunk imagery as background decoration. The virtual experiences create room for disturbing perspective shifts, while the story repeatedly asks whether consent and payment can ever make exploitation acceptable. With no visuals or voice work, the experience depends entirely on prose and player imagination, closer to Choice of Games-style narrative RPGs than to a conventional detective adventure. Fans of Disco Elysium’s political unease, Black Mirror’s technology nightmares, and branching fiction with meaningful moral consequences find plenty to engage with, especially if they prefer difficult choices over clean heroic victories.
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Installation
- Click the green button below to be redirected to UploadHaven.
- Wait 15 seconds, then hit “Free Download.” (Free downloads may be slower — upgrade to UploadHaven Pro for faster speeds.)
- Once downloaded, right-click the .zip file and choose “Extract to Rent-a-Vice.” (You’ll need 7-Zip for this.)
- Open the extracted folder and run the game as administrator.
- Enjoy! 🎮 If you see missing DLL errors, check the _Redist folder inside and install what’s needed.
Setup Guide & Troubleshooting
How do I fix missing DLL errors for Rent-a-Vice?
After extracting Rent-a-Vice, navigate to the _Redist or _CommonRedist folder inside the game directory and install DirectX, Vcredist, and any other dependencies included.
What should I do if the downloaded file is corrupted?
The full archive is 89.12 MB — make sure your download completed fully before extracting. Use 7-Zip to extract the files. If you still see a "file corrupted" error, re-download and try again.
Why should I run the game as administrator?
Right-click the game executable and select "Run as Administrator" to avoid save file issues and permission errors. This is especially important on the first launch.
How do I update my GPU drivers for this game?
The game won't launch — what should I try?
Try running in compatibility mode, install the latest DirectX runtime, or install the All-in-One VC Redist Package.
My antivirus is blocking the game — is it safe?
Antivirus false positives are common with pre-installed games. Temporarily pause your antivirus during extraction to prevent it from quarantining game files. You can re-enable it after the extraction completes.