Asteroid Run: No Questions Asked is a 325,000-word text-based interactive science fiction novel written by Fay Ikin and published by Choice of Games. Cargo runs between Earth, Mars and the Asteroid Belt are commonplace, but deadly. You’re the captain of a merchant vessel, but this time, your contract has a twist: don’t open the cargo, […]
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The brand new Lone Wolf website, magnamund.com, is now open for business! The site features new and reprinted gamebooks, art prints by Alberto Dal Lago and Lukas Thelin, a Brief History of Lone Wolf written by Jonathan Green (together with a visual timeline of all Lone Wolf products), and includes a link to the Lone
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The second gamebook from EndGame Gaming in the Savage Realms Legorian Kings Saga, Escape from Darkmoor Keep, has now been launched for funding on Kickstarter. A multi-quest gamebook written in the style of the Choose Your Own Adventure and Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, YOU (and/or your party, if you are playing with multiple players) determine the
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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: Story Creator Mode is an all-new quest creation tool available for free to owners of the Assassin’s Creed Odyssey video game from Ubisoft. Story Creator Mode allows you to write your own stories in the world of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and discover community stories on the Story Creator Mode website and add
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It’s been another busy period since our last round-up, full of interesting news and new releases to report on from a broad range of interactive fiction. Our selection for this month includes some printed gamebooks (brand new and updated versions), a programmed adventure, text-based apps, and a role-playing video game. • • •Choice of Games
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The title and cover for the 72nd Fighting Fantasy gamebook, Assassins of Allansia, has been revealed today on the Official Fighting Fantasy website. Written by series co-creator Ian Livingstone and published by Scholastic, this brand-new Allansian adventure features the distinctive cover art of Robert Ball – who has also produced the book’s interior illustrations. Struggling
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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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Already previewed in our April Round-up, a Kickstarter campaign for Scape-IT’s retro-style dark fantasy game SKALD: Against the Black Priory has now been launched. Inspired by legendary titles such as Ultima and the Gold Box series, and with the narrative ambition of a modern RPG, SKALD will see players develop and lead a party of
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Following on from Themeborne’s highly successful Escape the Dark Castle, the independent design studio returns with a Kickstarter campaign for their second narrative adventure game – Escape the Dark Sector. Inspired by classic sci-fi books, films and TV programmes (inc. Alien, the original Star Warstrilogy, Star Trek: TNG etc.), Escape the Dark Sector also has
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Created by game designer Oliver McNeil, The StoryMaster’s Tales “Weirding Woods” is a fantasy storytelling game like no other – a unique hybrid of role-playing, board game, card game and adventure gamebook. Quick to learn, portable and most importantly really fun, Weirding Woods can be played solo or with a group of family or friends,
Ulisses Spiele has launched a Kickstarter for Magic of Aventuria, a 240-page supplement of new spells, magical traditions, and advanced and optional rules for their popular RPG The Dark Eye. Included in this campaign is a new self-contained 64-page solo gamebook adventure, Conspiracy of Mages, which is a great way to learn all about spellcasting for
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TOMBCRAWL is a brand new mini-gamebook from Static Void Records that is housed inside a high quality 40+ page zine. In TOMBCRAWL you play as an unnamed victim with no memory and no hope for survival. You are trapped within a pitch-black underground labyrinth and must fight for freedom, or become a permanent fixture of
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The third part of Joe Dever’s post-apocalyptic Freeway Warrior series has now been released by Swedish publisher Åskfågeln. As with the two previous books, this updated new edition of The Omega Zone is another beautifully produced hardcover, featuring a wrap-around dust jacket with a full-colour region map printed on the inside, handy book ribbons, and
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Fool! is Choice of Games’ latest release: a 420,000-word interactive fantasy novel by Ben Rovik – author of the self-published Mechanized Wizardry series, a playwright (as Ben Kingsland) and professional actor. Jest your way from obscurity to royal acclaim as the King’s pet, beloved by all! As a talented young court fool with dreams of
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