Visual Novel

Bird of Passage

Bird of Passage is an interactive visual novel from Italian developer Space Backyard, an independent creative crew made up of Alessandro Arcidiacono, Simone Tranchina, Maddalena Grattarola and Gianluca Pandolfo. A short, minimalistic game of conversations and self-discovery incorporating a branching narrative relating to The Great Kantō earthquake of 1923, Bird of Passage offers an intriguing […]

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KICKSTARTER: The Crusoe Crew

Van Ryder Games, publishers of the Graphic Novel Adventures series, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for their first ever cooperative Graphic Novel Adventures game, The Crusoe Crew. In The Crusoe Crew, you’ll work together with other players (or play solo) to explore islands, solve puzzles, and find rubies, pearls and statuettes that will allow you

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SEPTEMBER ROUND-UP: new and coming soon

We’ve got quite a variety of new interactive games to report on this month – there’s surely something for everybody in this interesting and diverse selection!   Trap for Winners A sci-fi interactive narrative featuring tabletop elements, Trap for Winners is the forthcoming title currently in development from Prime Games (developer of Hwarang and Kumiho,

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JUNE ROUND-UP: new and upcoming

This month’s extensive round-up includes a choice selection of recently released and upcoming titles, covering sci-fi, horror, fantasy and cyberpunk – in print and digital formats.   You Are Deadpool All five issues of Marvel’s unique interactive adventure YOU ARE DEADPOOL, have now been released. Written by Al Ewing with art by Salva Espin (issues

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KICKSTARTER: Graphic Novel Adventures

Van Ryder Games, publishers of the hit solitaire game Hostage Negotiator and the investigative board game Detective: City of Angels, is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter for their latest project, Graphic Novel Adventures – five visual gamebooks in the style of graphic novels. What if a gamebook implemented GRAPHICS into the gameplay? What if, instead

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MINI REVIEW: The Rooms

The Rooms is something ‘other’ – a mysterious and uniquely interactive horror novelette in which you explore the strange events that occurred during the night in the apartment directly above your own: a terrific mechanical grinding, sobbing, and then a dull thud. The old man who lives in the apartment, known to you as ‘Babe’,

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YOU ARE DEADPOOL

Marvel has announced a new five-issue limited miniseries featuring their famously unpredictable Merc with a Mouth: Deadpool. However, this isn’t Marvel’s standard comic, but a playable interactive adventure in which the reader controls Deadpool’s story, rolling dice, making decisions and getting into fights as you travel through time in a whirlwind adventure. “YOU ARE DEADPOOL

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ROUND-UP: recently released and upcoming

There’s been quite a bit of activity in the last few weeks regarding games and books that GBN has been following, so here’s a quick round-up of a few that have recently become available: Dust and Salt Prime Games’ text-based tactical adventure game, Dust and Salt, is now available on Steam. A compelling medieval story

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Coming Soon: The Mind’s Eclipse

The CORE, a private research station, 2352. Celebrity scientist Jonathan Campbell awakens to this fallen utopia and must search for his loved ones – with the help of L, a mysterious AI companion. The Mind’s Eclipse is a brooding sci-fi visual novel from developer Mind’s Eclipse Interactive. Featuring hand-drawn graphics and emotional narrative-driven gameplay, The

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The Ballad Singer – write your own fantasy story!

The Ballad Singer is a unique and ambitious videogame designed by Riccardo Bandera from Italian developer Curtel Games. Inspired by RPGs, visual novels and gamebooks, this ‘narrated graphic experience’ asks the player to build their own path during each game, creating challenging, immersive stories where decision-making and consequences will directly determine your fate. Featuring both single

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Miss Fisher and the Deathly Maze – Ep. 1

Become Phryne Fisher, the independent, feminist super-sleuth from the ABC TV series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. Guide Phryne around the world on a modish dance of adventure, murderous mayhem and mystery in this investigative visual novel from the award-winning gamebook developer Tin Man Games. Armed with her golden gun and with her companion, Dot Williams,

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Ian Livingstone’s FREEWAY FIGHTER: The Comic

Ian Livingstone’s 1985 Fighting Fantasy adventure FREEWAY FIGHTER is being adapted into a full throttle comic series by Titan Comics: Critically acclaimed writer Andi Ewington (Just Cause 3, The Six) teams up with original creator Ian Livingstone and artist Simon Coleby for FREEWAY FIGHTER – a furious, three-part road trip like no other, speeding from

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