Officina Meningi – the people behind the Necronomicon Gamebooks (Dagon and Carcosa) – are back with an Edgar Allen Poe inspired gamebook. The Kickstarter launches on August 28 – so get ready for some creepy nightmare horror from authors that truly understand the genre! Some of Poe’s most famous short stories (The Black Cat, The […]
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Enter a world of folklore fantasy, epic storytelling and mighty magic in The StoryMaster’s Tales “Dracodeep Dungeon”. Make your own treacherous pathway through the deep dungeons, encountering strange mystical creatures and discovering arcane artefacts. Alone or with friends you must choose a dangerous quest, but beware, only those with the skill, intelligence and bravery of
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Joe McCullough and Osprey Games have made their First Edition rules for Frostgrave available for FREE, including a couple of expansions featuring several scenarios created for solo gaming. Frostgrave is a tabletop miniatures wargame in which you play as powerful wizards leading small warbands into the frozen ruins of the city of Felstad, in search
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Van Ryder Games has launched a new Kickstarter for the latest releases in their ever-increasing series of Graphic Novel Adventures: Sherlock Holmes: Baker Street Irregulars, the next co-operative GNA game; plus, a new, never-before-seen GNA solo gamebook, Sherlock Holmes: The Beginning. In Sherlock Holmes: Baker Street Irregulars, you’ll work together with up to 4 other
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Explore more of the Weirding Woods in the Deeper into the Woods expansion for The StoryMaster’s Tales “Weirding Woods” – a gateway fantasy roleplaying game for ages 7-Adult, and 1-5 players. Now seeking funding via Kickstarter, Deeper into the Woods will feature: 4 new quests 4 extra Classes to play: Bard, Wise Woman, Lost Children,
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Written and designed by Greg Favro, Spire’s End is a solo and cooperative fantasy/horror card game that hearkens back to the gamebooks of the ’80s, with enemy encounters, interactive story-driven scenarios, and high-end art and design. It’s a unique gaming experience without a lot of baggage: a simple set-up, intuitive rules and minimal components. No
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Shadowborne Games’ Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood is a dark fantasy miniatures game for 1-4 players that brings together a novel-sized, interactive story and epic tabletop battles where you stand toe-to-toe with intimidating nightmares. Oathsworn is a grimdark RPG of multiple paths, where realism matters and your choices change the flow of the story, preparing or hindering you for
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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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The Isofarian Guard from Sky Kingdom Games is a Solo/Co-op board game for 1-2 players. This narrative-driven adventure takes place in the snowfields of Isofar, in Telios; the same high fantasy world featured in The Stonebound Saga, the strategic card-based skirmish game also created by Sky Kingdom Games. In The Isofarian Guard you’ll explore the
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Aeon Trespass: Odyssey from Polish design studio Into the Unknown, is a 1-4 player, cooperative, narrative-driven tactical campaign game about adventures, exploration and fierce battles with giant monsters. Set in an alternate Antiquity, where a reality-shattering cataclysm killed the Olympian gods and unleashed the scourge of the otherworldly Primordials, Aeon Trespass: Odyssey places the players
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Ryan Laukat’s latest board game, Sleeping Gods, is an immense, open-world, interactive storybook adventure for 1-4 players. Fight enemies, level up, and build your inventory in a game featuring over 400 unique cards, and a narrative storybook offering 1000s of possible choices. In Sleeping Gods, you and up to three friends become Captain Sofi Odessa
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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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Created by game designer Oliver McNeil, The StoryMaster’s Tales “Weirding Woods” is a fantasy storytelling game like no other – a unique hybrid of role-playing, board game, card game and adventure gamebook. Quick to learn, portable and most importantly really fun, Weirding Woods can be played solo or with a group of family or friends,
Paths: World of Adia is a tabletop RPG published by Smunchy Games that supports both classic Game Master group play and solo/co-op gameplay via their GM-in-a-box system. In Paths: World of Adia, players adopt the role of a denizen in a rich, multicultural world: a planet of extremes that is in constant flux as its
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