Serania – Path of the Scion is a fast-paced, choice-based roleplaying text adventure, set in a Nordic style medieval fantasy world where your quest is to uncover the mystery of your ancestry. In doing so, you must escape the king’s feared Blackblades, find friends and fight foes, discover forgotten places, work undercover in the town, …
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Mythion Adventures is a newly released interactive fiction mobile app for iOS and Android devices. The mobile, multiplayer IF game was created by Arizona-based game development company, Mythion Games. CEO and co-founder Kyle Aulerich partnered with Brynn Mountain to develop the new game concept that integrates their shared passion for adventure stories with interactive gaming. Aulerich and …
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Several online gamebooks have recently been released – but there are also some new additions to 5e, all of which are covered in this newsbyte. Shipwrecked is an interactive narrative solo adventure for level 1 5e characters. It is written by Blaise Wigglesworth with art by Anja Svare. Barely surviving a storm at sea, a …
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The fate of magic is in your hands in Alana Joli Abbott’s Blackstone Academy from Choice of Games – a fast-paced 188,000-word interactive YA fantasy adventure. Cast spells, pass your exams, and save the world! Blackstone is more than a magic school: you’ll compete for glory in the sky sailing tourney, find love, and steer …
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Escape into an epic fantasy quest in Blades of Light and Shadow from Pixelberry Studios. Become the Human, Elf or Orc hero you want to be in this choice-based narrative game by earning XP to learn new Skills and open up gameplay possibilities. Undertake optional Side Quests to deepen your relationships with party members, and …
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Canadian developer StoryFix Media has released their gripping sci-fi text adventure game The Pulse. A modern CYOA-style narrative, The Pulse adds new layers of interactivity to the medium made popular by the books and games of the 80s by allowing players to further shape the storyline by gaining or losing a protagonist’s trust, rewarding exploration, and …
Humorous, colourful, and full of teenage angst and attitude, ‘Normal Club from developer Cubus Games (The Frankenstein Wars, Heavy Metal Thunder etc.) is an interactive gamebook app in which you explore the town of Buckcreek and its mysterious surroundings in search of paranormal hot spots. Adapted from author Philip Armstrong’s winning entry in the 2013 …
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Pon Para and the Great Southern Labyrinth is a 430,000-word interactive Bronze Age fantasy novel published by game developer Choice of Games. Written by Kyle Marquis (the author of three other Choice of Games titles: Empyrean, Silverworld and Tower Behind the Moon * ), The Great Southern Labyrinth is the first game in the Pon …
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Fog of War: The Battle for Cerberus is a 170,000-word military sci-fi game written by Bennett R. Coles, set in the universe of his Virtues of War series of action-packed adventures. You’re fresh out of battle school with a lot to prove. Will you win hearts and minds, or grind this planet to dust? Take …
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This month’s round-up features a new D&D adventure from the very popular 5e Solo Gamebooks series, an indie app about love and fate, two interactive novels from Choice of Games, and a time-travelling adventure in a haunted house. The Tortured Land 5e Solo Gamebooks has released The Tortured Land, the fourth in their series …
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Intudia is a new entertainment platform for interactive audiobooks and eBooks. Created by childhood friends Nicki Blådal (Manager of development and administration, and co-founder of a Danish software development company) and Nicolai Vedel Kellberg (Lead author, with 15 years of experience with interactive storytelling, and a master’s degree in educational psychology), Intudia believes that being …
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This month’s round-up includes another wide selection of interactive products that are sure to be of great interest, including: immersive audio adventures; text-based digital games; micro-adventures for Kindle; two computer RPGs; and new enhanced print editions of a highly recommended gamebook, previously reviewed on GBN. Malice From the Middle Vale – Colour Editions New full-colour …
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Guardian Episode One is a text-based interactive game from writer Edwin McRae and the Auckland game studio Metia Interactive. Part one of a trilogy of adventures focussing on a young Māori warrior in a dark fantasy version of Aotearoa (New Zealand), the Guardian series is a hybrid historical/science-fiction story that draws on the mythology of …
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It’s time for another round-up! In this edition we’ve got details about a forthcoming pulp-style multiplayer game; more Cthulhu; classic solo adventures forming part of the return of an early RPG system; the third book in a well-received sci-fi series; a steampunk update; and a new fantasy game/novel featuring golems, dragons and magical weapons. …
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