Disclosure: The featured gamebook has been written by GBN’s very own writer and editor, KJ Shadmand. Re-imagining classic works of literature as gamebooks is not an easy task. After all, novels tend to be linear and have a single ending, whereas gamebooks thrive on branching narratives that not only allow multiple paths to the story’s […]
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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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Gamebook releases are coming thick and fast, so it seems a great time for The Gamebook Zine – a free upcoming magazine dedicated to gamebooks, interactive fiction and related materials – to hit the shelves. The magazine’s first issue (Spring, 2021) will be released digitally on Itch.io, DriveThruRPG and as a printed magazine via Lulu
Would you be interested in a piece of interactive fiction that claims to be “the biggest gamebook ever written”? If so, you’ll be glad to hear that ALBA – a post-apocalypse science fiction gamebook – is currently on track to fund on Kickstarter. ALBA seems to tie into several different sci-fi genres, promising an open-world
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This feature is a departure from GBN’s usual content. It is not a newsbyte about a recent release of interactive fiction, nor a review of a gamebook author’s work. Rather it concerns something a bit more serious and markedly less fun: the very survival of Gamebook News.com. But first, some backstory! Recently, GBN applied for
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First things first: MASTER is a brutal sixty page dark fantasy story filled with violence, monsters, and psychedelic visuals. You play a great warrior whose superlative training in destroying daemons has developed your sight to the point where you can see into the bodies and minds of your opponents. Useful? Yes! Especially when your sole
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GBN was excited when Soren Jonsson – a creator of two augmented reality gamebooks – got in touch and offered to talk about the first two installments in the Peasoup Smartbook series: Firemaster and The Archmage Tower. Aimed at 9 to 13 year olds, these books use the Firemaster app (available via Google Play or
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Metal Heroes and the Fate of Rock is a new gamebook filled with all the pitfalls, clichés and famous figures that the rock scene has to offer. Combined with a goodly portion of humor and tough talk, this is an adventure with a difference that invites you to master its challenges. You are Taylor, a
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There are several gamebook Kickstarters currently running – and Gamebook News is delighted to present you with two outstanding examples: What Dreams May Come and The Haunted Tower. The Haunted Tower is a choose your own adventure story where you play the role of Quick, the Clockwork Knight. You must rely on your wits, courage, and
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Get ready to experience a brand-new adventure in the mountain of Eldrafell. You are Snurri, a lowly dwarf who finds himself on the run from vicious bounty hunters. The king wants you dead, you have no way to get home, and a dragon just bit off your arm. What do you do? Strap on a
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Shelby is the first gamebook of illustrator and comic book artist Francesco Mattioli, where you must help a little mouse find his way home. Originally written in Italian and later translated to French, the English version is a collaboration with Jonathan Green. So how does it work? All you need to do is choose a
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Mythion Adventures is a newly released interactive fiction mobile app for iOS and Android devices. The mobile, multiplayer IF game was created by Arizona-based game development company, Mythion Games. CEO and co-founder Kyle Aulerich partnered with Brynn Mountain to develop the new game concept that integrates their shared passion for adventure stories with interactive gaming. Aulerich and
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Halloween approaches, so what better time for GBN to report on the upcoming release of Psycho Killer, the latest gamebook from David Lowrie, author and artist of the Hellscape Book 1: Straight to Hell. Promising to be an adventure not for the faint of heart, readers brave enough to open its pages will enjoy (and
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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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