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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Core Runner is a single player non-linear cyberpunk adventure that takes place in a post-apocalyptic city’s industrial zone. Its exploratory gameplay consists of variable interactive fiction implementing unique dice mechanics that provide high replayability. The player acts as a core runner; a hired agent gathering power cores from derelict electronics for profit. The player’s excursion
This month we have news about forthcoming print gamebooks; interactive games playable on PC, Mac and in your web browser; an audio adventure for Alexa; and a solo storytelling game. • • •Draw Nine Draw Nine is a short narrative Twine game created by Damon L. Wakes, in which you play the role of a
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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
Asteroid Run: No Questions Asked is a 325,000-word text-based interactive science fiction novel written by Fay Ikin and published by Choice of Games. Cargo runs between Earth, Mars and the Asteroid Belt are commonplace, but deadly. You’re the captain of a merchant vessel, but this time, your contract has a twist: don’t open the cargo,
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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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Following on from Themeborne’s highly successful Escape the Dark Castle, the independent design studio returns with a Kickstarter campaign for their second narrative adventure game – Escape the Dark Sector. Inspired by classic sci-fi books, films and TV programmes (inc. Alien, the original Star Warstrilogy, Star Trek: TNG etc.), Escape the Dark Sector also has
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We’ve compiled a bumper round-up article this month, featuring a wide assortment of printed gamebooks recently released or coming soon, a couple of online games that are FREE to play, some very interesting video games, a pdf D&D adventure, and an Advanced Fighting Fantasy sourcebook for fans of FF. • • •Nemesis of the Nin
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Fog of War: The Battle for Cerberus is a 170,000-word military sci-fi game written by Bennett R. Coles, set in the universe of his Virtues of War series of action-packed adventures. You’re fresh out of battle school with a lot to prove. Will you win hearts and minds, or grind this planet to dust? Take
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Publisher Raw Fury brings the award-winning space exploration game Out There (by French developer Mi-Clos Studio) to the Nintendo Switch. In Out There: Ω The Alliance you play as an astronaut sent to Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, in order to find resources that can rescue the exhausted Earth of the 22nd century. However, your
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This month’s round-up features a new D&D adventure from the very popular 5e Solo Gamebooks series, an indie app about love and fate, two interactive novels from Choice of Games, and a time-travelling adventure in a haunted house. The Tortured Land 5e Solo Gamebooks has released The Tortured Land, the fourth in their series
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Trap For Winners is a gripping sci-fi interactive thriller with tabletop elements from indie game studio Prime Games (developer of the impressive Dust and Salt series), that lets you shape your own character and his morality. The fate of a conquered alien world is in your hands. YOU are Steve Harrison, an undercover agent for
The interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, in which viewers are asked to make choices that determine the direction of the branching storyline, is now available to view on Netflix. Set in 1984, Bandersnatch follows young programmer Stefan Butler as he adapts the adventure gamebook Bandersnatch into a video game for the company Tuckersoft. Written by
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