Our round-up of interactive adventures is back for a pre-Xmas update. This month we have some new digital, audio and print products, an updated gamebook and new versions of a popular mobile game. Bury me, my Love Bury me, my Love is coming to Nintendo Switch and Steam on January 10th/11th. Inspired by real […]
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Choice of Games has released another interesting adventure in their ongoing series of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games. Weyrwood is a 174,000 word interactive fantasy novel by Isabella Shaw. Set in a Regency England-period magical world, Weyrwood contains supernatural creatures, social rules, customs, and the deeply complex mysteries of the forest. Advance in Society and bargain with
Intudia is a new entertainment platform for interactive audiobooks and eBooks. Created by childhood friends Nicki Blådal (Manager of development and administration, and co-founder of a Danish software development company) and Nicolai Vedel Kellberg (Lead author, with 15 years of experience with interactive storytelling, and a master’s degree in educational psychology), Intudia believes that being
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Stronghold: A Hero’s Fate, the latest adventure from Choice of Games, is a 250,000-word interactive fantasy novel by Amy Griswold and Jo Graham, where you must manage personalities, relationships, conflict, threats, and the ongoing realities of life in a small town. Defend your stronghold from invading monsters and lead your people to glory! Rule your
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This month’s round-up includes another wide selection of interactive products that are sure to be of great interest, including: immersive audio adventures; text-based digital games; micro-adventures for Kindle; two computer RPGs; and new enhanced print editions of a highly recommended gamebook, previously reviewed on GBN. Malice From the Middle Vale – Colour Editions New full-colour
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It’s time for another round-up! In this edition we’ve got details about a forthcoming pulp-style multiplayer game; more Cthulhu; classic solo adventures forming part of the return of an early RPG system; the third book in a well-received sci-fi series; a steampunk update; and a new fantasy game/novel featuring golems, dragons and magical weapons.
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Werewolves: Haven Rising is an alternate timeline, 280,000-word interactive adventure by Jeffrey Dean, acclaimed author of the Road Less Traveled series of post-apocalyptic gamebooks. Taking place in New Haven, Connecticut, where thousands of innocent humans were killed after an outbreak of violence between two werewolf packs, the surviving werewolves are now imprisoned in the ruins
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MetaArcade (creators of Tunnels & Trolls Adventures) have now released their second game, Cthulhu Chronicles, developed in partnership with Chaosium Inc. A narrative horror game inspired by the cult favorite RPG Call of Cthulhu, Cthulhu Chronicles is set against the classic H.P. Lovecraft backdrop of 1920s New England. Unlike many RPGs, the focus of Cthulhu
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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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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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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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MetaArcade’s Tunnels & Trolls Adventures has been updated and expanded, now featuring the brand new solo release Caravan to Tiern – the 18th adventure you can play for free within Tunnels & Trolls Adventures, and the 8th and final chapter of The Crown of Klade campaign arc (see below), which explores the origins of your
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Set off and explore the world of Catan like never before with Asmodee Digital’s Catan Stories: Legend of the Sea Robbers, a text-based adventure set within the Seafarers expansion campaign for the classic resource-management board game. Seventy years after the first settlers arrived on Catan, the island is enjoying peace and prosperity, but for how
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