Explore London’s many secrets in the next intriguing volume of Martin Noutch’s open-world Steampunk Adventure Gamebook Series. Steam Highwayman III: The Reeking Metropolis is the third title to be released in his impressive series of connected gamebooks, where each can be played as a stand-alone adventure, but together, by use of codewords and interlinked passages, […]
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Choice of Games’ Sky Pirates of Actorius is a short 37,000-word interactive adventure story by Kyle Marquis, the author of several other Choice of Games titles: Empyrean, Silverworld, Pon Para and the Great Southern Labyrinth and Tower Behind the Moon. Escape to the skies above the world of Empyrean in Sky Pirates of Actorius and
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Mi-Clos Studio’s award-winning space exploration game Out There: Ω Edition has received a free major update – now incorporating the content found in ‘The Alliance’ (previously only available on Switch), which includes new spaceships, new aliens, alien escort missions, updated graphics, new achievements and a new ending! You are an astronaut awaking from cryonics not
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Branching Narrative’s Deathtrap Dungeon is an interactive video realisation of Ian Livingstone’s multi-million selling Fighting Fantasy gamebook – one of the most popular titles in the celebrated series. Starring British actor Eddie Marsan as the narrator and guide, this video storybook showcases Branching Narrative’s new Interactive Fiction engine, and features nearly 5 hours of video,
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Christopher Samuel Stone’s unofficial interactive adventure Doctor Who and the Fescan Threat is available to preorder again for a limited time due to popular demand, with all proceeds raised from book sales going to MIND in the UK – the non-profit mental health charity providing advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health
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The long-unavailable solitaire Tunnels & Trolls adventure written by Stefan E. Jones and published by Flying Buffalo, Dark Temple, is available again! This massive 413-paragraph quest pits the player against the sinister Cult of Krestok. Sub-quests, random encounters and multiple victory conditions give Dark Temple great replay value, and the adventure has now been corrected
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Tombs of Egypt is the second Escape This Book! title written by Bill Doyle and illustrated by Sarah Sax – a series of action and adventure books for younger readers where you doodle, decide and demolish your way out of some of history’s greatest events. Become the star in this unique mix of interactive fiction,
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Vampire Hunter Belladonna is a solo programmed adventure from Gaming Ballistic, authored by noted game writer and designer David Pulver for The Fantasy Trip – the old-school RPG from Steve Jackson Games. This adventure doesn’t require a Game Master, as a system of branching paragraphs directs you from encounter to encounter as you make your own
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Welcome to the new decade – the 20th year of the 3rd millennium – and (more importantly) to this freshly upgraded and visually enhanced version of Gamebook News! Five years ago J. Pingo Lindstrom, GBN’s founder and Executive Editor, revisited the first Fighting Fantasy gamebook: Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone’s classic The Warlock of Firetop
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Choice of Games’ An Odyssey: Echoes of War is a 250,000-word interactive retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey by Natalia Theodoridou (author of the Nebula nominated Rent-a-Vice), in which you fight the sea god’s wrath to reclaim your throne, and attempt to free yourself from the ghosts of war. The war is over – Troy has
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This December update is the final Round-up article we’ll be posting on GBN. Due to recent alterations to our category structure and further upcoming improvements to the site, we’ll now make a switch to separately listing all news items as either a normal post set in our standard formatting, or as a brief ‘NewsByte’ for
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Choice of Games has released The Magician’s Workshop – a 190,000-word interactive historical fantasy novel by Kate Heartfield, whose first ChoiceScript game, The Road to Canterbury, was nominated for the 2018 Nebula Award for Game Writing. In 1512, Florence is known for ruthless politics, art, and magic. The infamous Medici family has returned after years
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Paizo has launched a unique voice-based interactive experience of its science-fantasy roleplaying game Starfinder on Amazon’s cloud-based voice service, Alexa. Based on the short solo adventure Scoundrels in the Spike by Amanda Hamon from the Starfinder Beginner Box (shown below), this FREE pilot episode is currently available in English in the United States. It will
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New Gaia is the new sci-fi gamebook from Samuel Isaacson – the author of The Altimer (released earlier this year) – which takes place in the same mid-22nd Century setting following the discovery of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. This second interactive adventure in the Entram trilogy picks up from where the storyline of The Altimer concludes:
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