Independent French game studio Nova-box has released their interactive graphic novel Seers Isle. A narrative game consisting of eight endings and approximately 7500 lines of text and dialogue, Seers Isle is set in a fantasy version of medieval northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters. “The island… It was […]
Sentient Play is teaming up with Fighting Fantasy co-founder Ian Livingstone and an amazing collection of writers, animators, developers, cartographers and artists (including Iain McCaig), to create a new type of computer RPG, where interactive fiction and roleplaying mechanics merge to produce a dynamic single-player fantasy videogame with a classic style and feel. Incorporating elements
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Now seeking funding via Kickstarter, Into the Dungeon is an illustrated choose-your-own-path gamebook with hundreds of different paths through the story. To be published as an A5 softcover with a matt-laminated cover, Into the Dungeon will feature 100+ pages, with black & white illustrations of monsters, dark passageways, traps, characters, loot and more, as well
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This month’s round-up includes another wide selection of interactive products that are sure to be of great interest, including: immersive audio adventures; text-based digital games; micro-adventures for Kindle; two computer RPGs; and new enhanced print editions of a highly recommended gamebook, previously reviewed on GBN. Malice From the Middle Vale – Colour Editions New full-colour
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Jonathan Green has launched a Kickstarter campaign for the latest gamebook in his ACE Gamebooks series. Beowulf Beastslayer is a brand new take on the Anglo-Saxon epic, re-imagining the events described in the poem as an interactive gamebook. Will you follow the course of events as laid down by the scops and skalds of old,
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Guardian Episode One is a text-based interactive game from writer Edwin McRae and the Auckland game studio Metia Interactive. Part one of a trilogy of adventures focussing on a young Māori warrior in a dark fantasy version of Aotearoa (New Zealand), the Guardian series is a hybrid historical/science-fiction story that draws on the mythology of
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We’ve got quite a variety of new interactive games to report on this month – there’s surely something for everybody in this interesting and diverse selection! Trap for Winners A sci-fi interactive narrative featuring tabletop elements, Trap for Winners is the forthcoming title currently in development from Prime Games (developer of Hwarang and Kumiho,
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The four new Dungeons & Dragons: Endless Quest gamebooks – Escape the Underdark, To Catch a Thief, Big Trouble and Into the Jungle – have recently been released by Penguin Random House and Candlewick Entertainment. Play as a fighter, rogue, wizard and cleric in Matt Forbeck’s CYOA-style gamebooks, exploring the Forgotten Realms – the enduring
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5e Solo Gamebooks has released The Saviour of Sharn – a Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition adventure set in the World of Eberron – a magical setting of swashbuckling action, greed and conflict, deep intrigue and great mysteries. Aimed at Level 4 players, this 279-section gamebook features 5e mechanics without the need for a Dungeon
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There mere mention of Spellbreaker can bring some Fighting Fantasy adventurers to their knees, so having recently discovered that 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of Jonathan Green’s notoriously difficult gamebook, I decided that now would be the ideal time to undertake a journey within this infamous adventure, experiencing all of the joy and (no doubt)
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A late round-up article this month, however, the delay has beneficially allowed us to feature a few more titles! Plenty here for gamers seeking all types of interactive fiction – old, reimagined classics and continuing series in both print and digital, and new adventures featuring various game systems. Fighting Fantasy Classics: Trial of Champions
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5e Solo Gamebooks has now released Citadel of the Raven, the third in their series of D&D solo adventures. A sequel to Tyrant of Zhentil Keep, Citadel of the Raven is also playable as a standalone adventure, however, there are a few clues and artefacts to be gained in Tyrant of Zhentil Keep, therefore players
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Stuart Lloyd’s Asuria Awakens, the 12th and final title in Tin Man Games’ long-running Gamebook Adventures series of apps, is a captivating mystery-adventure full of ever-changing objectives and diverse locations, featuring many exciting moments of suspense, action, surprise and genuinely disturbing horror. Taken to the palace of Grand Duke Fernando Orlande V, and tasked with
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Flying Buffalo are currently running a Kickstarter campaign for the Vaults of K’Horror – a gamemaster adventure for Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls complete with maps, characters and background material. Of interest to solo gamers is the inclusion of a brand new 19-page solo adventure for Wizards, Vampire’s Vault, written by T&T creator Ken St Andre
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