Mark Lain’s Venom of Vortan, the third title in the Destiny’s Role gamebook series, has just launched on Kickstarter. It features cover art by Mike Tenebrae (Fantasy Flight, Avalon Games) and illustrations by Gary Ward (Fighting Fantasy). Venom of Vortan’s Kickstarter campaign offers a special edition hardback print, not available in stores. The book will …
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A 150-section mini adventure set in the world of his upcoming Hellscape Gamebook series, David Lowrie’s Jailbreak is the first atmospheric release in the Shadow Thief series, which has been inspired by the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks (especially Midnight Rogue written by Graeme Davis). Your name is Shadow, and you are a thief. An exceptional thief. …
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The long-unavailable solitaire Tunnels & Trolls adventure written by Stefan E. Jones and published by Flying Buffalo, Dark Temple, is available again! This massive 413-paragraph quest pits the player against the sinister Cult of Krestok. Sub-quests, random encounters and multiple victory conditions give Dark Temple great replay value, and the adventure has now been corrected …
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Dane Barrett’s latest gamebook, The Defenders of Dusk, is a ‘Fighting Fantasy-esque’ interactive adventure featuring dice rolling and a combat system, and matching the old tradition of 400 sections, with only a single successful path and ending (though there are a variety of different solutions to most situations, and several ‘sudden deaths’ have been thrown …
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The Fog Knows Your Name from Choice of Games is a 300,000-word interactive teen horror novel written by Clio Yun-su Davis. It’s senior year of high school. Your classmate Rex Keller was found dead six months ago, and you were the last person to see him alive. Half the town thinks you murdered him, including …
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Mark Lain’s second title in his Destiny’s Role series of gamebooks influenced by Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf and Golden Dragon, Mistress of Sorrows, is now seeking funding via Kickstarter. Featuring a cover painted by Alan Langford, and internal illustrations by Mike Tenebrae, Mistress of Sorrows puts YOU in the role of an adventurer who chances upon …
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The City of Thieves may be viewed as a basic gamebook to the modern reader – somewhat thin on the sort of detailed, logical adventuring now seen as standard in most new releases featuring this type of urban setting. Author Ian Livingstone is infamous for his love of the irksome ‘treasure hunt’ formula, and here …
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James Schannep has recently completed writing his fourth Click Your Poison book – Pathogens – and has now released the vibrant cover artwork by artist Brian Silveira: Unlike other books in the series, this is the first one where you don’t ‘play’ as yourself. Instead, you can choose a character and see how that person …
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Author Ashton Saylor has just announced that he has now completed writing the upcoming The Good, the Bad and the Undead – an interactive novel set in the Weird West, where cowboys have shootouts at high midnight with vampires! Texas, 1870. The small, dusty mining town of Affliction, alone and isolated in the middle of …
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