Nemesis of the Nin Witch is a Woven Paths fantasy gamebook and the second in the acclaimed Scythe-Bearer Trilogy written by David Sharrock, continuing the tale from book 1, Malice From the Middle Vale. The hunt for the Nin Witch continues in another high quality, full colour, illustrated A4 gamebook featuring 800 entries! As with […]
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Written and illustrated by D.L. Lewis, The Demon Sorcerer is the first book of the new Demon’s Bane Series. You are a demon slayer, a loner, skilled with a sword and driven by the thrill of adventure. When the Demon Sorcerer begins to amass an army, you set off on a dangerous mission to avert
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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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Trap For Winners is a gripping sci-fi interactive thriller with tabletop elements from indie game studio Prime Games (developer of the impressive Dust and Salt series), that lets you shape your own character and his morality. The fate of a conquered alien world is in your hands. YOU are Steve Harrison, an undercover agent for
Last year, Van Ryder Games delivered the next evolution of gamebooks with Season 1 of Graphic Novel Adventures. Now they’re back with five new adventures in an exciting second season – visual gamebooks where you’re the star of a graphic novel, including a 2-player Sherlock Holmes mystery. Encounter foes, puzzles, traps, riddles, and much, much
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Michael J. Ward’s DestinyQuest series has recently emerged from scandalous publisher-driven turmoil with an exciting new book full of various improvements and bold ideas. Gamebook News has been closely following the unfolding Kickstarter delays and drama, and was keen to further examine the circumstances and fallout from Michael’s informed perspective – an unwitting participant caught
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The browser-based, gamebook-style RPG Sryth is currently seeking funding via Kickstarter to raise the necessary funds to continue operation as a full-time endeavor. Having now reached its 16th year online, Sryth’s creator, writer and developer, Matthew H. Yarrows, is on a quest to locate campaign backers to help meet the game’s operational, development and equipment
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The new year is certainly well underway so it’s time to catch up on a few recent releases, together with some interesting news regarding new projects and old favourites. Graphic Novel Adventures Van Ryder Games has revealed the cover artwork for the upcoming second season of their Graphic Novel Adventures visual gamebooks: Sherlock and Moriarty
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Bird of Passage is an interactive visual novel from Italian developer Space Backyard, an independent creative crew made up of Alessandro Arcidiacono, Simone Tranchina, Maddalena Grattarola and Gianluca Pandolfo. A short, minimalistic game of conversations and self-discovery incorporating a branching narrative relating to The Great Kantō earthquake of 1923, Bird of Passage offers an intriguing
Blood Sword is a series of five gamebooks originally written in the late 1980s by Dave Morris and Oliver Johnson. Using spells, swords, guile or secret lore to overcome your foes in a combination of tabletop tactics and interactive story, the books form an epic saga for one to four players. Banished from the world
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Fans of Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf series are invited to sample VisionizAR Ltd’s upcoming augmented reality roleplaying game, Lone Wolf AR, with the launch of the Postcards Competition. Travel between the real and virtual worlds while exploring both indoors and outside. Befriend wizards, fight monsters, develop skills, learn magic and solve puzzles while progressing on
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Rising Phoenix Games has released their third adventure in the Choose Your Destiny series of solo / 1-on-1 adventures. Compatible with fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons and set in Scarthey, University of the Arcane, Companionable Darkness continues on from Death Queen and Forest of Secrets, but you don’t need to have played those to enjoy
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A 2D, top-down RPG with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling, in Sunless Skies you are the captain of a steam locomotive, eking out an existence from port to port with your crew, smuggling and trading where you can, hoping to find wealth, fame, or the truth: why are the stars going out? It
‘TWAS – The Krampus Night Before Christmas is a brand new interactive adventure in Jonathan Green’s ACE Gamebooks series. Inspired by the poem A Visit From Saint Nicholas, by Clement Clarke Moore, as well as other winter- or festive-themed classics, such as Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen, and John Masefield’s The Box of Delights, ‘TWAS
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