Featuring a branching narrative that puts you in the role of a 14-year-old boy with magical powers, The Shadowborn Trials is set within Joseph Daniels’ fantasy universe of The Hermacles Divide. Consisting of 1008 sections and over 400 pages, The Shadowborn Trials is an adventure in which you will rarely be alone. Your allies will […]
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This month we’ve got a sizeable selection of printed gamebooks and digital games for your perusal, plus links to video highlights of the recent Fighting Fantasy Fest. Any of the choice-based experiences featured here would make excellent gifts for readers of interactive fiction – or people you know who should be – so remember to
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Darkness on a Foreign Shore is the first gamebook in the new Unravel Your Destiny series created by G R Jordan, written for a teen/YA audience, or anyone who enjoys choice-based narrative fiction. Complete missions by solving puzzles and taking actions, all under the pressure of unwelcome discovery. If you’re up for a challenge, Darkness
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Choose your destiny in Mark Fischbach’s interactive video adventure, A Heist with Markiplier, as you make life-or-death decisions during a museum heist. This first interactive film from YouTube Originals presents an engaging first-person perspective where it’s up to you to choose which direction to take or how to react to situations arising during your escape
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FoxNext Games and Fogbank Entertainment have recently launched their Storyscape app, where world-class writers bring you immersive tales of romance, intrigue and adventure, and every decision you make transforms your story. Storyscape delivers high-quality interactive storytelling from some of the most creative minds in the world, combined with the technology to bring those stories to
The Fog Knows Your Name from Choice of Games is a 300,000-word interactive teen horror novel written by Clio Yun-su Davis. It’s senior year of high school. Your classmate Rex Keller was found dead six months ago, and you were the last person to see him alive. Half the town thinks you murdered him, including
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The world may be going to hell in a handcart, but at least with Rob Sears’ Choose Your Own Apocalypse With Kim Jong-un & Friends, you get to choose how it ends! There are many ways civilisation could end, even with wise, benevolent leaders like Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin watching over us.
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The Collector’s Edition of Rune War from Holmgard Press – the next step in their completion of the hardback collector’s series – will be ready to ship worldwide from December 1st. The book features the much-loved original Brian Williams illustrations, a gorgeous new map from Francesco Mattioli (as shown), and striking new cover art from Alberto Dal Lago
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Ransom Publishing has released Dan Metcalf’s Pick Your Path series of CYOA-style mini-adventures as repackaged books for reluctant readers – also known as HiLo (High Interest, Low Reading Age) – where the limited paragraphs and exciting choice-based gameplay are a perfect fit for readers with lower reading levels. In the Pick Your Path series every
Samuel Isaacson’s first gamebook, The Altimer, begins in the mid-22nd Century, following a time of global political turbulence, climate upheaval and, more recently, the discovery of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. A new cohort of astronauts has begun training – YOU are one of them. The year is 2162, intelligent extra-terrestrial life has been discovered, and a
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Written and designed by Greg Favro, Spire’s End is a solo and cooperative fantasy/horror card game that hearkens back to the gamebooks of the ’80s, with enemy encounters, interactive story-driven scenarios, and high-end art and design. It’s a unique gaming experience without a lot of baggage: a simple set-up, intuitive rules and minimal components. No
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A Sharp’s Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind is a combination of interactive story and turn-based strategy that immerses you in a land of myth. Hundreds of small interactive stories build into an epic, where you guide a small clan, help them navigate a hostile world, and find a path to long-term survival. Six Ages
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Much anticipated by fans of Fighting Fantasy, the Atlantis Miniatures range of exclusive, highly detailed 28mm resin miniatures is now funding via Kickstarter. Sculpted by Damien Sparks and Daniel Jack, the unpainted and unassembled Fighting Fantasy Legends range includes many of the most iconic heroes and anti-heroes from the world of Titan, including: Zagor Balthus
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Embark on an interactive literary adventure with The Necronomicon Gamebook series, and experience firsthand the horrors told by the great masters of supernatural narrative. Following on from Officina Meningi’s successful first volume, Dagon, the second and last chapter of this saga, Carcosa, will draw you into the grim fantasies of Ambrose Bierce, Robert W. Chambers
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