Author name: Michael Reilly

Mask of the Plague Doctor

Choice of Games’ latest interactive adventure, Mask of the Plague Doctor, is a 410,000-word medieval fantasy tale of swords and surgery written by Peter Parrish. A strange and terrifying sickness is inflicting misery on the residents of Thornback Hollow, preventing those infected from sleeping. With the town situated on an important trade route, the Crown …

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Gamebook playthroughs – Part 2

Following on from our earlier article about Fighting Fantasy playthroughs, here’s a broader selection of audio and video adventures covering many different series (including more Fighting Fantasy), from classics such as Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf gamebooks to modern role-playing solos for D&D 5th Edition and Call of Cthulhu. The Dark Eye [Ulisses International] Ulisses International …

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It’s Your Adventure: Battle for Hearth Valley

Become a courageous adventurer in Eyal Aradi’s It’s Your Adventure – an exciting Print & Play pocket series of four linked adventures, beginning with Book 1: The Caves of Danger. Delivered as a special print-at-home PDF, this physically tiny (and therefore both convenient and able to easily fit into any pocket) gamebook series features a …

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MINI REVIEW: James Armistead Lafayette

You are James Armistead, a compassionate and daring young man of colour enslaved on a Virginian tobacco plantation when a timely fire provides an opportunity to obtain your freedom; how you achieve this dream is for you to decide. James Armistead Lafayette is one of the two initial releases in Chooseco’s SPIES sub-series of their …

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Lone Wolf: Trail of the Wolf – Collector’s Edition

The 25th gamebook in Joe Dever’s classic Lone Wolf series has now been rereleased in a special Collector’s Edition hardback from Holmgard Press. Lone Wolf has been abducted by the forces of the Dark God Naar and imprisoned in a remote city-fortress on the border of the Darklands. Subjected to relentless attacks by the minions …

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Cursed Painting

An interactive audio RPG for Amazon’s Alexa, in Wanderword’s Cursed Painting you explore ancient ruins in order to uncover the secret of a cursed painting hidden deep inside an abandoned castle. Choose from three different backgrounds – thief, adventurer or noble – and stop the undead curse plaguing the kingdom in this interactive role-playing experience. …

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Blackstone Academy for the Magical Arts

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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2020 Spring Thing Festival

The 2020 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction features twenty new interactive stories submitted by authors working across the spectrum of text-based games. The Thing focuses on bringing together new text games of all kinds: choice-based stories, gamebooks, hypertext fictions, visual novels, text adventures, narrative roguelikes, and wild new experiments. Participants choose to place their …

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UPCOMING: Pendragon

Pendragon is a character-driven narrative strategy game from inkle (creators of 80 DAYS and Heaven’s Vault). This dynamic, self-narrating digital board game will see you journeying across Dark Ages Britain, facing wild creatures, brutal rogues, and Sir Mordred’s dark knights. Fight turn-based battles with simple yet deeply strategic combat where position is everything, losses are …

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Fighting Fantasy playthroughs

Watching, listening and interacting with someone else playing a gamebook is an entertaining way to experience our favourite pastime. With modern technology, the internet, and numerous social platforms making it relatively easy to share content and connect with a worldwide audience, quite a few online content creators have produced videos, streams, podcasts and audience-influenced playthroughs …

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The Complex

The Complex is an interactive, choice-based sci-fi thriller from Wales Interactive, the publisher and developer of numerous FMV games, including Late Shift, The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker, and The Shapeshifting Detective. After a major bio-weapon attack on London, two scientists find themselves in a locked-down laboratory with time, and air, running out. With CYOA-style …

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