5 Gamebooks in one big bundle!
FIVE (5) Interactive Gamebooks in one big bundle! Out now at DriveThruRPG. Includes these five books: Get them all in this big pack and get more than 50% discount!
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The Horror of the Lighthouse – second gamebook in the series!
Another solo adventure gamebook, The Horror of the Lighthouse, is now available at DriveThruRPG, written and created by J. Pingo Lindstrom (me). For total openness: I am the one controlling the GamebookNews.com website as well – so I am publishing news about my own book here. Ellen Wittgrave (from the first book, The Secret of
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REVIEW: The Houses of the Dead by Jamie Thomson
At GBN we love reviewing books by veteran authors. In the past few years, we have offered our perspective on works by illustrious names such as Joe Dever, Ian Livingstone and Jonathan Green and have not been disappointed. So when the chance came to review The Houses of the Dead by Jamie Thomson (the first
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Serania – Path of the Scion
Serania – Path of the Scion is a fast-paced, choice-based roleplaying text adventure, set in a Nordic style medieval fantasy world where your quest is to uncover the mystery of your ancestry. In doing so, you must escape the king’s feared Blackblades, find friends and fight foes, discover forgotten places, work undercover in the town,
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New games from Choice of Games & Hosted Games
A bunch of different games have been released by Choice of Games / Hosted Games over the last few weeks. In October, Hosted Games released Too Different, a multiple-choice interactive-fiction game, available for Steam, Android, and on iOS via the Hosted Games app. In it you must unravel the mysterious past of your parents and
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Along the Edge & Seers Isle are heading to Nintendo Switch
Nova-box, the studio behind Across the Grooves, are releasing Along the Edge and Seers Isle on Nintendo Switch on October 15. Both games have been successful on Steam and can be found on several platforms. Along the Edge and Seers Isle are both visual novels. Along the Edge is set in the European countryside and
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NEWSBYTE: Choice of Games releases
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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GAMEBOOK FEATURE: Adventure Snack
We at GBN understand the enjoyment of diving into an adventure gamebook. Whether it’s a classic piece of Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf or one of the exciting recent additions to the genre, interactive fiction opens doorways into worlds of the imagination that can be as cinematic, engaging and memorable as any other form of entertainment.
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New solo adventure: “The Last Day in Iram”
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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Tales of the Black Death – Italy
Tales of the Black Death from the Czech independent game developer Doubleton Game Studio is a 14th century interactive survival adventure. Tales of the Black Death – Italy is the first installment in an expansive three-part series, to be followed by Part 2 – France, and Part 3 – England. In Tales of the Black
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MINI REVIEW: James Armistead Lafayette
You are James Armistead, a compassionate and daring young man of colour enslaved on a Virginian tobacco plantation when a timely fire provides an opportunity to obtain your freedom; how you achieve this dream is for you to decide. James Armistead Lafayette is one of the two initial releases in Chooseco’s SPIES sub-series of their
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REVIEW: Beowulf Beastslayer
In the land of the Danes, there’s a monster abroad. One too powerful for ordinary warriors to withstand; a fen-beast who can smash oak timbers aside like driftwood, and rend men limb from limb. A devourer of flesh and bones, a drinker of blood and a hater of mirth. He’s a real piece of work,
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UPCOMING: Pendragon
Pendragon is a character-driven narrative strategy game from inkle (creators of 80 DAYS and Heaven’s Vault). This dynamic, self-narrating digital board game will see you journeying across Dark Ages Britain, facing wild creatures, brutal rogues, and Sir Mordred’s dark knights. Fight turn-based battles with simple yet deeply strategic combat where position is everything, losses are
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Ironheart
Ironheart from Choice of Games is a 250,000-word interactive novel by Lee Williams – a swashbuckling alternate medieval history where you get to pilot and customise a giant iron war mech. In 1182 AD, the Papacy, the Caliphate, and the Mongols are at war, and they all possess hulking war robots, powered by energy from