Crime & Noir

Telling Lies

Telling Lies is the new live-action video game from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. An investigative experience with non-linear storytelling, Telling Lies revolves around a cache of secretly recorded video conversations of four characters targeted by surveillance. A complex and absorbing crime fiction thriller, Telling Lies sits you in […]

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ERICA ~ an interactive live-action thriller

A cinematic murder mystery, ERICA is a gripping interactive thriller developed for PlayStation 4 by Flavourworks and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. ERICA marries high-fidelity film production values with choice-based gameplay, allowing you to reach into the game world and take control of the action. Immerse yourself in live-action video and make tactile choices through

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She Sees Red

Independent Russian entertainment studio Rhinotales has released their live-action thriller She Sees Red, a short but high-quality interactive film full of drama and violence, where your choices will affect the plot and reveal the various pieces of the puzzle. A female detective continues to do her best to catch an elusive criminal who murdered several

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August ROUND-UP: Mystery, monsters and murder

Another bumper round-up this month, covering multiple genres, platforms and products, and diverse styles of adventurous play. Will YOU test your deductive abilities to solve a mystery, visit a steampunk Paris or participate in a live action thriller? We have news of games, tools, art and tomes of information – something to please anyone seeking

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Children of the Painted Apple: an interactive adventure

The debut gamebook from New Zealand author Dane Barrett, Children of the Painted Apple is a near-future mystery adventure mixing real events with fictional elements, set on the ‘land of the long white cloud.’ You are a police officer with an extraordinary power. Your name is Hugh Hatch, and in the year 2045 you have

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COMING SOON: Night Call

Night Call is an upcoming neo-noir murder mystery set in Paris, featuring 200,000+ words and more than 400 in-game unlockable achievements. A collaboration between indie developers Monkey Moon and BlackMuffin Studio, and published by Raw Fury, Night Call is an atmospheric narrative game full of secrets and consequences, with an emotive black & white visual

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CHRISTMAS ROUND-UP: new releases and coming soon

Our round-up of interactive adventures is back for a pre-Xmas update. This month we have some new digital, audio and print products, an updated gamebook and new versions of a popular mobile game.   Bury me, my Love Bury me, my Love is coming to Nintendo Switch and Steam on January 10th/11th. Inspired by real

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KICKSTARTER: SNAKES and GESTAPO

A solo role-playing campaign in a gamebook format, SNAKES and GESTAPO, Act 1: Consumed from the Inside incorporates a complex game system to appeal to a modern, mature audience. Translated from the French gamebook Dans le nid du mal – Acte 1: Rongé de l’intérieur, created by Guillaume Gagnon and written by Patrick Boulanger, SNAKES

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KICKSTARTER: unmemory

Currently seeking funding via Kickstarter, unmemory is a creatively immersive text-driven noir mystery set in the Mediterranean coast during the 90s. Using logic, deduction and discovery skills to overcome challenging puzzles, you’ll bring order to your memories to solve the mystery and discover an uncomfortable truth. A highly innovative blending of narrative, graphics, interaction and

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Choice of Games: I, Cyborg

Choice of Games have released their latest game, I, Cyborg, a 300,000-word interactive space opera by Tracy Canfield. Outfly, outshoot, and outwit your enemies as an outlaw cyborg on the run! You’re a cyborg copy of Ypsilanti Rowe, the interstellar outlaw, whose enemies (and exes) are gunning for you. Can you upgrade your brain and

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JUNE ROUND-UP: new and upcoming

This month’s extensive round-up includes a choice selection of recently released and upcoming titles, covering sci-fi, horror, fantasy and cyberpunk – in print and digital formats.   You Are Deadpool All five issues of Marvel’s unique interactive adventure YOU ARE DEADPOOL, have now been released. Written by Al Ewing with art by Salva Espin (issues

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MAY ROUND-UP: new and upcoming

Choice of Games: The Road to Canterbury The Road to Canterbury is a 175,000-word interactive medieval adventure novel by Kate Heartfield, where your choices control the story. Enter the medieval world of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, where your journey, and the stories you tell, will change history. The Hundred Years’ war is heating up: will you

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Destiny’s Role: Zero to Hero

Renowned gamebook blogger Mark Lain has just released the first gamebook in his new ‘old school’ series Destiny’s Role. The introductory book (numbered zero), entitled Zero To Hero, contains four short adventures, which introduce some of the themes and concepts of Destiny’s Role. Two of the adventures (Master of the Tiltyard and The Cult of

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KICKSTARTER: Graphic Novel Adventures

Van Ryder Games, publishers of the hit solitaire game Hostage Negotiator and the investigative board game Detective: City of Angels, is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter for their latest project, Graphic Novel Adventures – five visual gamebooks in the style of graphic novels. What if a gamebook implemented GRAPHICS into the gameplay? What if, instead

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