The Legendary Kingdoms series from Spidermind Games is easily one of the most exciting gamebook projects to be announced recently: a massive, 6-book series of interconnected adventures – similar to the structure of the acclaimed Fabled Lands series – combining the best of interactive fiction with the narrative immersion of a full-party RPG campaign, into […]
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Telling Lies is the new live-action video game from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. An investigative experience with non-linear storytelling, Telling Lies revolves around a cache of secretly recorded video conversations of four characters targeted by surveillance. A complex and absorbing crime fiction thriller, Telling Lies sits you in
Mi-Clos Studio has announced the sequel to their award-winning space exploration game Out There: Ω Edition, developed in collaboration with indie game publisher Modern Wolf. Retaining the core mechanics of the original game (roguelike, resource management and interactive fiction), Out There: Oceans of Time now delivers them in a much more ambitious manner, offering completely
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A cinematic murder mystery, ERICA is a gripping interactive thriller developed for PlayStation 4 by Flavourworks and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. ERICA marries high-fidelity film production values with choice-based gameplay, allowing you to reach into the game world and take control of the action. Immerse yourself in live-action video and make tactile choices through
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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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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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Mines of Immortia is an interactive game for mobile devices that leans heavily on the rules created for the tabletop role-playing game, Dungeon World. Written, designed and developed by Steve Radabaugh of Radical Bomb Games, Mines of Immortia is Powered by the Apocalypse, which means that it plays very similar to an old CYOA gamebook.
Narrative indie game studio Nova-box (creators of Along the Edge and Seers Isle) has released details of their forthcoming interactive graphic novel, Across the Grooves. Developed for PC/Mac/Linux, Across the Grooves is set in a magical-realism universe, where your decisions affect the destiny of Alice, the main character, drastically changing her reality and allowing her
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Independent Russian entertainment studio Rhinotales has released their live-action thriller She Sees Red, a short but high-quality interactive film full of drama and violence, where your choices will affect the plot and reveal the various pieces of the puzzle. A female detective continues to do her best to catch an elusive criminal who murdered several
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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Lone Wolf AR brings the high-fantasy world of Magnamund and the Kai Lords into your neighbourhood using Augmented Reality (AR) on your mobile phone. Building on the heritage of Joe Dever‘s Lone Wolf gamebooks, his son Ben and VisionizAR are using the latest AR and location technology so you can get up off the sofa
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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
Vengequest is a narrative fantasy adventure game created by independent Australian developer Besepic Entertainment. A game for fans of RPGs, interactive fiction and tabletop roleplaying who appreciate beautiful art, quirky humour and pseudo-random adventures, Vengequest takes place on the continent of Emberpoint. It’s host to a diverse range of locations from your peaceful hometown of
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Heroes of Myth by Abigail C. Trevor is a 560,000-word interactive novel from Choice of Games. Everyone thinks you saved the world three years ago. It was all a lie. The truth is, the ‘dark lord’ you and your friends supposedly slew never existed; you used magical illusions to fake a prophecy. But now, as