Do you have a child in your life who’d love to read and play a full-colour, illustrated gamebook? Written for children aged 3 to 9, GameTale: The Big Adventure of the Little Gremlin is Bulgarian award-winning author Nikola Raykov’s interactive fairy tale featuring his little gremlin, Gremmy. He has little adventurous pawsies that don’t get tired […]
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The enjoyment of a gamebook is derived from many interlinked parts, including: mechanics, story, choice, interaction, imagination and presentation. These factors then create an overall experience that is based on the quality and style of each component. Heroes of Urowen can claim success with its setting, structure and storyline, however, these positive features are unfortunately
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As our own world increases in complexity and continuously demands more from us just to survive the unending grind of daily life, it’s often welcome to escape our modern difficulties by embarking on a relatively straightforward journey that recalls the simplicity of gamebooks of old, where your main tasks were to fight monsters and find
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Great news for all Fighting Fantasy fans! Scholastic UK has acquired world rights to the series, announcing that the classic gamebooks will be ‘republished, repackaged and reignited for a new generation’. They will also publish Ian Livingstone’s upcoming new adventure, The Port of Peril, in August, and have stated that further new titles are planned
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The release of the new edition of Highway Holocaust, the first book in Joe Dever’s Freeway Warrior series from Swedish publisher Åskfågeln, is now imminent, with the book being printed and prepared for delivery. Pre-orders are currently open at Åskfågeln’s webstore, so those who missed the Kickstarter campaign last year can now order a copy
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Heroes of Urowen is a new fantasy gamebook created by Spanish author David Velasco, a writer of novels and gamebooks, and a translator of English video games and apps, including An Assassin in Orlandes by Tin Man Games. Heroes of Urowen is based upon his fantasy trilogy The Manuscripts of Neithel – a thrilling saga
A Kickstarter for The World Reborn, the second gamebook in the Midnight Legion trilogy that began with Operation Deep Sleep, has just been launched, offering something new for existing supporters of the original book, or for those now wishing to join as an Agent of the Legion. More than four centuries have passed since the
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The rich history and mythology of ancient Egypt, and the influential importance of their many deities in Egyptian society, present limitless fantastical material for gamebook adventuring. In Sete-Ka’s Dream Quest you follow the story of the young Sete-Ka, Prince of Upper and Lower Egypt. Called upon by the goddess Bast during a terrible fever, Sete-Ka
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West Australian illustrator and zine creator Bodie Hartley produces the ‘pick your path’ adventure gamebook series SlowQuest – a hand-drawn and handmade mini zine full of awesome illustrations reminiscent of early Dungeons & Dragons rulebook artwork. His felt-tipped pen drawings are inspired by his keen interest in playing Dungeons & Dragons, and this love for
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Megara Entertainment have now launched their new Kickstarter campaign for the second gamebook of the Autumn Snow series of Lone Wolf adventures: Autumn Snow 2: The Wildlands Hunt. This hardback Collector’s Edition will be similar to the first book, The Pit of Darkness, and will again feature some fantastic black-and-white interior illustrations and page fillers
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The evident computer game influence within Michael J. Ward’s DestinyQuest: The Legion of Shadow stands boldly at the forefront of what it is that differentiates this series from many other gamebook formats. Within its pages we find individual quests (which can be undertaken in any order), no permanent death and a multitude of collectible items
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Ulisses Spiele North America have recently released an English-language edition of the popular German RPG The Dark Eye, set in the rich and immersive fantasy setting of Aventuria: a magical continent featuring lizard people, dwarves, orcs, elves and barbarians. The Vampire of Havena is a 64-page softcover solo adventure occurring within the city of Havena
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Jeffrey Dean’s impressively elaborate and skilful world-building has already been on display throughout the preceding volumes of his ‘Road Less Traveled’ series: both Westward Dystopia and Spire Ablaze have delivered detailed story-driven adventures overflowing with an assortment of interesting and complex characters, memorable environments and unique situations. Book 3: The Lords of Benaeron continues his
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The long-awaited new gamebook from J. Pingo Lindstrom has now been released! This post-apocalyptic adventure is the largest book in the Random Solo Adventure series so far, featuring 224 pages of tense adventuring in The Wasteland. Decades ago the world was crushed in a disaster few of the living remember. You know that the key
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