Currently seeking funding via Kickstarter, unmemory is a creatively immersive text-driven noir mystery set in the Mediterranean coast during the 90s. Using logic, deduction and discovery skills to overcome challenging puzzles, you’ll bring order to your memories to solve the mystery and discover an uncomfortable truth. A highly innovative blending of narrative, graphics, interaction and […]
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Choice of Games have released their latest game, I, Cyborg, a 300,000-word interactive space opera by Tracy Canfield. Outfly, outshoot, and outwit your enemies as an outlaw cyborg on the run! You’re a cyborg copy of Ypsilanti Rowe, the interstellar outlaw, whose enemies (and exes) are gunning for you. Can you upgrade your brain and
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5e Solo Gamebooks has now released Citadel of the Raven, the third in their series of D&D solo adventures. A sequel to Tyrant of Zhentil Keep, Citadel of the Raven is also playable as a standalone adventure, however, there are a few clues and artefacts to be gained in Tyrant of Zhentil Keep, therefore players
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Stuart Lloyd’s Asuria Awakens, the 12th and final title in Tin Man Games’ long-running Gamebook Adventures series of apps, is a captivating mystery-adventure full of ever-changing objectives and diverse locations, featuring many exciting moments of suspense, action, surprise and genuinely disturbing horror. Taken to the palace of Grand Duke Fernando Orlande V, and tasked with
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Flying Buffalo are currently running a Kickstarter campaign for the Vaults of K’Horror – a gamemaster adventure for Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls complete with maps, characters and background material. Of interest to solo gamers is the inclusion of a brand new 19-page solo adventure for Wizards, Vampire’s Vault, written by T&T creator Ken St Andre
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Martin Noutch’s impressive Steam Highwayman series is highly reminiscent of the open-world Fabled Lands gamebooks, incorporating similar player mechanics regarding structure, progress and navigation, and employing the same multi-book interconnection with other forthcoming titles. Similarly, you’ll also find the familiar codewords and tickboxes used to track progress, and it even replicates the two-column text format
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If you’re new to solitaire gaming in the world of Tunnels and Trolls, or wish to introduce someone else to its unique role-playing system, then The Necropolis of Death offers a perfect tutorial quest for beginners, in which you learn the rules as you complete the adventure, gaining the knowledge needed to undertake further, more
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The Way of the Quail is a long-term gamebook project that showcases the creative talents of Simon Wiese (author) and David Staege (illustrator). These two German residents discovered a shared love for interactive fiction, and together produced ‘Der Weg der Wachtel’ for German readers. Gamebook News recently got in touch with both Simon and David
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Asmodee Digital and Nomad Games have announced Fighting Fantasy Legends Portal – an upcoming sequel to their hugely popular and successful game Fighting Fantasy Legends. Fighting Fantasy Legends Portal is a gateway to adventure in the Fighting Fantasy world! Play as a novice adventurer and rise up through the ranks to saviour of the world
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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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From Prime Games, the creator of Dust and Salt, comes the next tale from the Sin Lands: The Battle for Murk. An interactive narrative set in a low-powered, gritty medieval world, you must save your hometown from falling into the hands of a cruel and barbaric leader. Play as Corporal Mandrake from the City Watch,
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The Artifice Archipelago is a nautical ‘choose your own ending’ novel from Connor A. Wilkinson, in which the reader decides how to navigate the dangerous environment of the archipelago. With extensive choices, traps, deaths and many strange events happening, will YOU be able to make it through safely? Currently seeking funding on Kickstarter (it has
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Before Joe Dever’s untimely passing in late 2016 he completed revised editions of his post-apocalyptic series Freeway Warrior for Swedish publisher Åskfågeln, updating the original timeline to the year 2033 (rather than 2020 as in the 1988 edition) and changing some aspects of Cal Phoenix’s story to better match the expectations of a modern audience.
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Choice of Games: The Road to Canterbury The Road to Canterbury is a 175,000-word interactive medieval adventure novel by Kate Heartfield, where your choices control the story. Enter the medieval world of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, where your journey, and the stories you tell, will change history. The Hundred Years’ war is heating up: will you
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