Olympus 2249 Karmic Types — The Five Worldviews and How to Pick One

Olympus 2249 Karmic Types are the five worldviews you choose at character creation, and they are the single most consequential decision in the game. The store page states that your Karmic Type, one of five, shapes the entire playthrough, and that people react to you differently as a result. Dialogues change, quests change, opportunities change, and karma keeps shifting with your choices, so the archetype you start with is not necessarily the one you finish with.

What a Karmic Type Actually Does

Think of the Karmic Type as your character's stance toward a harsh world, and the game as a set of reactions to that stance. The store page names two ends of the range, Moralist and Asshole, and places the rest somewhere in between. Because the type changes people's reactions, it is also a content gate: quests, dialogue branches and opportunities attach to specific worldviews, so the type you pick decides which parts of the game you can even see. The developer frames the system as role-playing that refuses to let you be good at everything, and the Karmic Type is the first expression of that idea.

How the Five Types Change Dialogue and Quests

The dialogue rules are more permissive than a strict alignment lock. According to the developer's explanation on the Steam forums, dialogue options depend on your karma, and you can access responses tied both to your own archetype and to the two adjacent archetypes. That adjacency is what lets a character migrate across the scale over a run instead of being trapped at one extreme. The developer also adds non-combat specialization lines plus situational options triggered by holding a particular item or standing in a specific situation.

The quest side is where the stakes land. The developer gives two concrete examples: a pure good character can never join the caste of ruthless warriors, and a self-centered jerk can never take a job as a warehouse manager. Those examples show the shape of the system without naming the missing types.

Karmic Type aspect	What is documented
Number of types	Five
Named ends of the range	Moralist and Asshole
The middle of the range	Described as somewhere in between
Full list of five names	not documented yet
Dialogue options	Own archetype plus two adjacent archetypes
Quest access	Some quests open for one worldview only

Karma is also not locked at creation. It moves with your choices, and the developer treats that drift as a feature: the person who begins the story does not have to be the person who ends it. Practically, that means dialogue and quests feed karma and karma feeds back into dialogue and quests, in a loop you steer a little at a time. Because access to the adjacent archetypes is available, you can nudge your character toward a neighboring worldview rather than having to jump straight from one extreme to the other.

How to Choose at Character Creation

Since the full roster is not documented yet, the sensible approach is to reason from the two named ends and the drift rule. Pick the end that matches the dialogue you would genuinely choose rather than the one that sounds strongest, because consistency is what the karma loop rewards and because the extremes unlock the most distinctive quests. Then hold the plan loosely: keep a save before conversations that feel weighty, and accept that a run toward one extreme will close the opposite blocs. If a particular faction or quest line is your goal, check the factions page and the endings page before you commit, and read the guide for how the choice fits the rest of the systems.