Three new digital gamebooks from Choice of Games and Hosted Games have landed. As always, all three games are entirely text-based — without graphics or sound effects. Werewolves 2: Pack Mentality is a 360,000 word interactive novel in Jeffrey Dean’s acclaimed “Claw, Shadow, and Sage” series, where your choices control the story. It’s a war […]
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Holmgard Press recently published a collector’s edition of The Fall of Blood Mountain, book number 26 in the Lone Wolf series. In The Fall of Blood Mountain, you must journey to the subterranean kingdom of the dwarves and attempt to save your ancient allies from the wrath of the Shom’zaa. This collector’s edition features Brian
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Officina Meningi – the people behind the Necronomicon Gamebooks (Dagon and Carcosa) – are back with an Edgar Allen Poe inspired gamebook. The Kickstarter launches on August 28 – so get ready for some creepy nightmare horror from authors that truly understand the genre! Some of Poe’s most famous short stories (The Black Cat, The
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Detective X is an audio work of interactive fiction, released for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, developed by the Toronto-based Budgie voice app design studio. Do you have what it takes to catch a killer? Or will the killer catch you? The chase is on in Detective X! A choose-your-own-adventure-style thriller with roots in narrative-driven
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Not only is this summer proving to be a scorcher, it’s also full of HOT gamebook news! Tons of things are happening – fresh Kickstarters, interactive audio adventures, print gamebooks, and much more. We’re in for a treat! Here’s a peek at some new and upcoming projects. Roll Player Adventures is currently live on Kickstarter.
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Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf will hit your TV screen as an interactive live-action series! UK based production company ChorMedia together with Holmgard Ltd are adapting Lone Wolf, Variety reports. Neil Chordia (Urban Hymn) and Ben Dever (Joe Dever’s son) are executive producers, bringing the fictional world of Magnamund to life. Since this will be an
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Unmapped Path is releasing Night in the Unpleasant House, an interactive mystery story for iOS. Night in the Unpleasant House is a branching work of interactive fiction – a twisted tale of loss, revenge, local politics, and pseudoscience. It’s been ten years since your father disappeared after learning a dark secret about his boss, the town’s Mayor. After working your way
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Myrrk Book One: The Blighted Well, written and illustrated by UK-based illustrator Joe McEvoy, is being launched on Kickstarter. Myrrk is a unique fantasy adventure gamebook that features isometric illustrations. The story is set in a chaotic world called Hexwynd that has been ravaged by warfare and thrown into an age of darkness and sorcery.
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Choice of Games has recently released two games – War for Magincia on their Hosted Games label and the sci-fi adventure Light Years Apart. In Light Years Apart you and your sister set out to outfox a galaxy-spanning AI to save your home planet. It’s a rollicking adventure with “space pirates, spies, and snarky computers”.
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Cirsova – the “Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense” – has, for the first time ever, published a solo gamebook adventure. This will be included in its latest issue, #2, the Summer Special of 2020. The Last Day in Iram is a 200 paragraph solo adventure, written by James Hutchings. Iram is doomed. It
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Several online gamebooks have recently been released – but there are also some new additions to 5e, all of which are covered in this newsbyte. Shipwrecked is an interactive narrative solo adventure for level 1 5e characters. It is written by Blaise Wigglesworth with art by Anja Svare. Barely surviving a storm at sea, a
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Bix Six Adventures recently released the first solo adventure for the Hero Kids roleplaying game system. Hero Kids is a fantasy roleplaying game and rule system developed by Hero Forge Games, to help parents introduce roleplaying games to their kids. This is mainly aimed at kids aged four to ten. As such, it has a
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Hosted Games has just released The Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Two, a sequel to Book One. Both gamebooks are available at Steam, Android, and iOS in the Hosted Games Omnibus app. Two months have passed since the bloody showdown with Murphy. Wayhaven has returned to its peaceful routine and you’ve returned to your less-than-thrilling job as
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Choice of Games has teamed up with Paradox Interactive and is planning a trilogy of gamebooks based on Paradox‘s Vampire: The Masquerade, set in the World of Darkness story universe. The three books are Night Road written by Kyle Marquis, Out for Blood by Jim Dattilo and Parliament of Knives written by Jeffrey Dean. Night
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