So my friends, we meet again. I thought our second rendezvous would take place on a clear path, with meadows flanking either side, and a lilting tune performed by a handsome bard floating on the summer breeze. But, dear ones, the path is littered with corpses picked over by vultures and my bard is long […]
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The fate of magic is in your hands in Alana Joli Abbott’s Blackstone Academy from Choice of Games – a fast-paced 188,000-word interactive YA fantasy adventure. Cast spells, pass your exams, and save the world! Blackstone is more than a magic school: you’ll compete for glory in the sky sailing tourney, find love, and steer
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Write a gamebook, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. While I can attest to the fact that “they” were correct, they were also simultaneously very, very wrong. I did not take into account the sheer enormity of the project, nor the absolute mind-boggling moments, where I thought my brain was going to fry itself.
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Embrace or resist the demonic influence around you in Demonheart: Hunters from Rolling Crown – a CRPG with an emphasis on player-driven conversations, character interactions and romancing your companions. The young rogue Bright has a demon heart, which gives her supernatural powers. She is both blessed and cursed, for her heart makes her a target
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The second series of Choose Cthulhu, the illustrated ‘choose your own insanity’ gamebooks that adapt classic H.P. Lovecraft stories into interactive adventures, is now waiting to drag YOUR soul into the madness once again. Now seeking funding via Kickstarter, this second series offers another seven volumes in two printed versions and languages. The seven new
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Choice of Games has created a new Heart’s Choice label for interactive adventures that place romance at the center of the story, and you at the center of the romance. Every game is filled with vivid fully-developed characters and complex narratives that respond to your choices, and every path is always open; you’ll never be
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Norfolk Warriors is a single player strategic turn-based medieval fantasy CRPG, with gamebook-like branching gameplay. Attempt to defend your People’s right to live free in a world caught up in sweeping war involving gods, supernaturals and mortals. Carve your own path in this world, battle injustice, stand for those that cannot defend themselves, quell uprising
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Embark on an interactive literary adventure with The Necronomicon Gamebook series, and experience firsthand the horrors told by the great masters of supernatural narrative. Following on from Officina Meningi’s successful first volume, Dagon, the second and last chapter of this saga, Carcosa, will draw you into the grim fantasies of Ambrose Bierce, Robert W. Chambers
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Alone Against the Frost from Chaosium Inc. is a solo horror adventure set during a research expedition to Canada’s Northwest Territories during the 1920s. Here, you choose your own path as you navigate through the story – your choices will determine whether you find success or failure! You take on the role of Dr. Nadelmann,
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Victoria Hancox’s Nightshift is a horror-based gamebook with plenty of gore and violence. Your progress through this nightmarish interactive adventure relies on successfully solving puzzles and noting the provided clues, rather than fortunate dice rolls. The only luck needed is in choosing the right path… It started like any other night at the hospital,
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Man of Medan is the first release in The Dark Pictures Anthology, a new series of cinematic supernatural horror games from Supermassive Games (Until Dawn) for PS4, Xbox One and Steam. Published by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe, this series of stand-alone narrative games will feature storylines that change based on the decisions you make. Each
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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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Humorous, colourful, and full of teenage angst and attitude, ‘Normal Club from developer Cubus Games (The Frankenstein Wars, Heavy Metal Thunder etc.) is an interactive gamebook app in which you explore the town of Buckcreek and its mysterious surroundings in search of paranormal hot spots. Adapted from author Philip Armstrong’s winning entry in the 2013
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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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