Created by Maciej ‘Aureus’ Gajzlerowicz, a Polish writer and designer from independent developer Moral Anxiety Studio, Roadwarden is an interesting game of many components, mixing isometric pixel art and a branching narrative with RPG mechanics, visual novel features, and the traditional use of items and complex conversations seen in classic text adventures. In Roadwarden you […]
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Although not an interactive experience, this new feature-length documentary from X-Ray Films and Cavegirl Productions will surely interest anyone who appreciates the important role that fantastic imagery has played in the ongoing success of RPGs and other forms of fantasy gaming. Eye of the Beholder: The Art of Dungeons & Dragons explores the history, influence
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We’ve compiled a bumper round-up article this month, featuring a wide assortment of printed gamebooks recently released or coming soon, a couple of online games that are FREE to play, some very interesting video games, a pdf D&D adventure, and an Advanced Fighting Fantasy sourcebook for fans of FF. • • •Nemesis of the Nin
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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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Vagrus – The Riven Realms is a narrative strategy-roleplaying game from indie game development studio Lost Pilgrims. Players in Vagrus take charge of a comitatus (an armed travelling company) that can engage in trading and fight as mercenaries, exploring perilous locations for treasures in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world irrevocably scarred by an arcane cataclysm. Embark
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Night Call is an upcoming neo-noir murder mystery set in Paris, featuring 200,000+ words and more than 400 in-game unlockable achievements. A collaboration between indie developers Monkey Moon and BlackMuffin Studio, and published by Raw Fury, Night Call is an atmospheric narrative game full of secrets and consequences, with an emotive black & white visual
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Paths: World of Adia is a tabletop RPG published by Smunchy Games that supports both classic Game Master group play and solo/co-op gameplay via their GM-in-a-box system. In Paths: World of Adia, players adopt the role of a denizen in a rich, multicultural world: a planet of extremes that is in constant flux as its
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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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EndGame Gaming has released the first book of its brand new Savage Realms Multi-Quest gamebook series, Labyrinth: The Lich Lord’s Lair. Created by Brian Henson and TroyAnthony Schermer, with illustrations by Ilya Shkipin and graphic design by Brianna Schermer, Labyrinth: The Lich Lord’s Lair offers interactive fantasy adventuring in the world of Ataraxia. ‘A fool’s
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Legendary Kingdoms is an epic open-world fantasy adventure gamebook series from Spidermind Games, where you lead a party of adventurers (of your own design, or by choosing four of the six pre-generated characters) in a world that intelligently adapts to your actions. You can proceed to explore this enormous setting, which is divided into six
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There’s plenty happening in interactive fiction just at the moment (which is how we like it!), so here’s a very healthy selection of interesting news items, information on new and forthcoming releases, and FREE stuff to download or play online. Nocked! True Tales of Robin Hood A new desktop version (PC & Mac) of the
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Publisher Raw Fury brings the award-winning space exploration game Out There (by French developer Mi-Clos Studio) to the Nintendo Switch. In Out There: Ω The Alliance you play as an astronaut sent to Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, in order to find resources that can rescue the exhausted Earth of the 22nd century. However, your
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Daniel J. Heck is the author of the Thomerion Trilogy: The Seal of Thomerion, its sequel The Gate to Thomerion, and the yet to be completed conclusion The Wrath of Thomerion – all self-published adventures set on the exotic continent of Ambrosinia. His story-based interactive fiction is based upon considerable roleplay experience as a Dungeons
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The Oregon Trail was the major overland route from the Missouri River to the Pacific coast of the United States (particularly from 1846–69), taking those travelling to Oregon or the California goldfields, or other destinations such as Salt Lake City in Utah, across plains, prairies, rivers, mountains and deserts to reach their desired destination in
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