Vampire Hunter Belladonna is a solo programmed adventure from Gaming Ballistic, authored by noted game writer and designer David Pulver for The Fantasy Trip – the old-school RPG from Steve Jackson Games. This adventure doesn’t require a Game Master, as a system of branching paragraphs directs you from encounter to encounter as you make your own […]
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Welcome to the new decade – the 20th year of the 3rd millennium – and (more importantly) to this freshly upgraded and visually enhanced version of Gamebook News! Five years ago J. Pingo Lindstrom, GBN’s founder and Executive Editor, revisited the first Fighting Fantasy gamebook: Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone’s classic The Warlock of Firetop
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Choice of Games’ An Odyssey: Echoes of War is a 250,000-word interactive retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey by Natalia Theodoridou (author of the Nebula nominated Rent-a-Vice), in which you fight the sea god’s wrath to reclaim your throne, and attempt to free yourself from the ghosts of war. The war is over – Troy has
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This December update is the final Round-up article we’ll be posting on GBN. Due to recent alterations to our category structure and further upcoming improvements to the site, we’ll now make a switch to separately listing all news items as either a normal post set in our standard formatting, or as a brief ‘NewsByte’ for
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Choice of Games has released The Magician’s Workshop – a 190,000-word interactive historical fantasy novel by Kate Heartfield, whose first ChoiceScript game, The Road to Canterbury, was nominated for the 2018 Nebula Award for Game Writing. In 1512, Florence is known for ruthless politics, art, and magic. The infamous Medici family has returned after years
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Paizo has launched a unique voice-based interactive experience of its science-fantasy roleplaying game Starfinder on Amazon’s cloud-based voice service, Alexa. Based on the short solo adventure Scoundrels in the Spike by Amanda Hamon from the Starfinder Beginner Box (shown below), this FREE pilot episode is currently available in English in the United States. It will
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New Gaia is the new sci-fi gamebook from Samuel Isaacson – the author of The Altimer (released earlier this year) – which takes place in the same mid-22nd Century setting following the discovery of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. This second interactive adventure in the Entram trilogy picks up from where the storyline of The Altimer concludes:
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In the Service of Mrs. Claus is a 167,000-word interactive fantasy thriller by Brian Rushton – the first holiday-themed game from Choice of Games. You play as a non-human protagonist not tied down to any one body because you possess the amazing ability to transform yourself at will! In the Service of Mrs. Claus is
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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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Broken Roads from independent Australian game studio Drop Bear Bytes is an old-school, narrative-driven RPG for PC and console that brings exploration, strategic turn-based combat and meaningful philosophical choices to an all-new Australian post-apocalyptic setting. Blending together traditional and all-new role-playing elements on top of a classless system offering near-unlimited character development options, Broken Roads
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In the burst of the Z virus, the world that everyone knew ceased to exist. It’s now up to you to lead a group of survivors through the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse in a fast-paced, challenging game. Survive, interact, loot, explore, build, craft, defend, and attack! Finally out of its long beta phase, GoldenGod
Filled with narrative-driven interactions and branching choices, the recently released Court of Ashes from Cratel Studios is an immersive turn-based strategy game where you must learn to rule before there is nothing left to rule over. With your king assassinated, and the country in the midst of a war, experience the events that unfurl as
Curious Panda Games’ The Iron Oath is a turn-based tactical RPG set in a dark fantasy world. Recruit and manage a roster of adventurers across decades and centuries, and send them on missions where they must confront their mortality. Every decision made carries weight and can have a minor or major influence on the world
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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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