Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft, navigating a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits… The Old Gods are reawakening, clawing their way back […]
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Placeholder Gameworks’ Death and Taxes is a narrative-based game where you take the role of the Grim Reaper… on an office job, deciding who will live or die. The choices you make, your relationship with your boss and the way you play will determine whether you save the world or condemn it to damnation. Meet
Embrace or resist the demonic influence around you in Demonheart: Hunters from Rolling Crown – a CRPG with an emphasis on player-driven conversations, character interactions and romancing your companions. The young rogue Bright has a demon heart, which gives her supernatural powers. She is both blessed and cursed, for her heart makes her a target
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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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This month we’ve got a sizeable selection of printed gamebooks and digital games for your perusal, plus links to video highlights of the recent Fighting Fantasy Fest. Any of the choice-based experiences featured here would make excellent gifts for readers of interactive fiction – or people you know who should be – so remember to
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This month we bring you news of interactive adventures set in different times and places: 6th-century Scandinavia, fantasy lands featuring marshlands and winter storms, Zanzibar in the late 19th century, an Australian small town, and war-ravaged Syria. • • •Beowulf Beastslayer Jonathan Green’s 4th title in his ACE Gamebooks series, Beowulf Beastslayer, has now been
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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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This month we have news about forthcoming print gamebooks; interactive games playable on PC, Mac and in your web browser; an audio adventure for Alexa; and a solo storytelling game. • • •Draw Nine Draw Nine is a short narrative Twine game created by Damon L. Wakes, in which you play the role of a
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Created by Maciej ‘Aureus’ Gajzlerowicz, a Polish writer and designer from independent developer Moral Anxiety Studio, Roadwarden is an interesting game of many components, mixing isometric pixel art and a branching narrative with RPG mechanics, visual novel features, and the traditional use of items and complex conversations seen in classic text adventures. In Roadwarden you
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Vagrus – The Riven Realms is a narrative strategy-roleplaying game from indie game development studio Lost Pilgrims. Players in Vagrus take charge of a comitatus (an armed travelling company) that can engage in trading and fight as mercenaries, exploring perilous locations for treasures in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world irrevocably scarred by an arcane cataclysm. Embark
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Bird of Passage is an interactive visual novel from Italian developer Space Backyard, an independent creative crew made up of Alessandro Arcidiacono, Simone Tranchina, Maddalena Grattarola and Gianluca Pandolfo. A short, minimalistic game of conversations and self-discovery incorporating a branching narrative relating to The Great Kantō earthquake of 1923, Bird of Passage offers an intriguing
Independent French game studio Nova-box has released their interactive graphic novel Seers Isle. A narrative game consisting of eight endings and approximately 7500 lines of text and dialogue, Seers Isle is set in a fantasy version of medieval northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters. “The island… It was
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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