Summerfall Studios’ CHORUS is a choice-based adventure musical, one part narrative-driven adventure and one part interactive musical. Written by former BioWare lead writer David Gaider, scored by award-winning composer Austin Wintory, voice directed by acclaimed actor and director Troy Baker, and starring the extremely talented Laura Bailey, CHORUS is an urban fantasy tale with a […]
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Shadowborne Games’ Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood is a dark fantasy miniatures game for 1-4 players that brings together a novel-sized, interactive story and epic tabletop battles where you stand toe-to-toe with intimidating nightmares. Oathsworn is a grimdark RPG of multiple paths, where realism matters and your choices change the flow of the story, preparing or hindering you for
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This month we bring you news of interactive adventures set in different times and places: 6th-century Scandinavia, fantasy lands featuring marshlands and winter storms, Zanzibar in the late 19th century, an Australian small town, and war-ravaged Syria. • • •Beowulf Beastslayer Jonathan Green’s 4th title in his ACE Gamebooks series, Beowulf Beastslayer, has now been
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Alone Against the Frost from Chaosium Inc. is a solo horror adventure set during a research expedition to Canada’s Northwest Territories during the 1920s. Here, you choose your own path as you navigate through the story – your choices will determine whether you find success or failure! You take on the role of Dr. Nadelmann,
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Mark Lain’s second title in his Destiny’s Role series of gamebooks influenced by Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf and Golden Dragon, Mistress of Sorrows, is now seeking funding via Kickstarter. Featuring a cover painted by Alan Langford, and internal illustrations by Mike Tenebrae, Mistress of Sorrows puts YOU in the role of an adventurer who chances upon
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Bulgarian independent game studio Prime Games (creator of Trap for Winners, Dust and Salt etc.) has announced that they are developing an official, fully fledged computer role-playing game based on the open-world Fabled Lands gamebook series created by Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson. An epic series of interactive fiction with the scope of a massive
Simon Palmer’s first gamebook, Sandbrook: The cult wants you, is an epic fantasy/horror adventure that takes place in a classic fantasy setting with added Lovecraftian undertones. Featuring 491 pages, more than 800 individual choices (in 5 chapters) and multiple different endings – and of course many ways to die – Sandbrook is a lengthy and
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Interactive fiction is one of the few forms of entertainment media that provide the opportunity to explore imaginary worlds of original design, where the storyline is directly shaped by individual decisions and personal preferences, resulting from an eagerness to take risks and investigate possible threats. This narrative ‘in the mind’ nature of gamebooks subsequently gives
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Backbone: Prologue is a game demo of an upcoming noir-inspired detective adventure from Canadian developer EggNut, where you get to play as a highly relatable raccoon in a trench coat. Step into the shoes of Howard Lotor – anthropomorphic raccoon and private eye – and explore the beautifully rendered 2.5D pixel art environments of dystopian
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Dane Barrett’s second gamebook, The Mystery of Dracula, is an interactive retelling of Bram Stoker’s 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula, incorporating puzzles, riddles and more than a little clue seeking. It includes the same keyword system used in Children of the Painted Apple, Barrett’s previous gamebook, in which the reader is rewarded certain clue keywords
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Hero or Villain: Genesis is a 330,000-word interactive game by Adrao (creator of Highway Wars and Tokyo Wizard), published by Hosted Games. The game is text-based, and while it does feature some artwork, the choices you make entirely control the outcome of your adventure. Become the greatest hero or villain that the world has ever
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Italian developers Open Lab Games and Demigiant have released their narrative choice-based game Football Drama, where you play as Rocco Galliano, the existentially troubled manager of a struggling football team. Football Drama uses cards and power in fast turn-based matches as part of a football championship, implementing in-match controls to allow for the choice between
Victoria Hancox’s Nightshift is a horror-based gamebook with plenty of gore and violence. Your progress through this nightmarish interactive adventure relies on successfully solving puzzles and noting the provided clues, rather than fortunate dice rolls. The only luck needed is in choosing the right path… It started like any other night at the hospital,
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It’s been yet another busy month for interactive fiction, with many interesting releases recently hitting retail outlets or seeking finance via crowdfunding. We’ve gathered together a wide variety of books, digital games, board games and more to tempt you – surely something for both young and old, and every taste and wallet! • • •Savage
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