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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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
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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Choice of Games has released their latest interactive fiction game by Rebecca Slitt – Psy High 2: High Summer – the sequel to her 2014 title, Psy High. This 270,000-word teen supernatural mystery adventure follows events from the first game, with the choices made by returning players making a genuine difference in this continuing storyline.
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Mines of Immortia is an interactive game for mobile devices that leans heavily on the rules created for the tabletop role-playing game, Dungeon World. Written, designed and developed by Steve Radabaugh of Radical Bomb Games, Mines of Immortia is Powered by the Apocalypse, which means that it plays very similar to an old CYOA gamebook.
Narrative indie game studio Nova-box (creators of Along the Edge and Seers Isle) has released details of their forthcoming interactive graphic novel, Across the Grooves. Developed for PC/Mac/Linux, Across the Grooves is set in a magical-realism universe, where your decisions affect the destiny of Alice, the main character, drastically changing her reality and allowing her
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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
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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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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An unsettling narrative into the world of psychotherapy, Catalyst, developed by Doubleton Game Studio, is an interactive story told via newspaper articles, notes, letters, tape recordings and a unique journal that evolves throughout the game based on insightful analysis of an unusual therapy session. After the mysterious death of Dr Pokorny, Dr Novak, relatively unknown
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A distinctively different type of gamebook experience, Omniverse: Book 1 – Prologue by Leona Rose is a unique puzzle adventure that combines interactive fiction with the immersive mechanics of RPGs, video games and escape rooms – all wrapped up in a wonderfully gloomy dystopian narrative. Its non-linear emergent gameplay is presented in a format that
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Canadian developer StoryFix Media has released their gripping sci-fi text adventure game The Pulse. A modern CYOA-style narrative, The Pulse adds new layers of interactivity to the medium made popular by the books and games of the 80s by allowing players to further shape the storyline by gaining or losing a protagonist’s trust, rewarding exploration, and
The second gamebook from EndGame Gaming in the Savage Realms Legorian Kings Saga, Escape from Darkmoor Keep, has now been launched for funding on Kickstarter. A multi-quest gamebook written in the style of the Choose Your Own Adventure and Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, YOU (and/or your party, if you are playing with multiple players) determine the
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It’s been another busy period since our last round-up, full of interesting news and new releases to report on from a broad range of interactive fiction. Our selection for this month includes some printed gamebooks (brand new and updated versions), a programmed adventure, text-based apps, and a role-playing video game. • • •Choice of Games
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