A horror-themed gamebook with plenty of gore and violence, Victoria Hancox’s The Alchemist’s Folly is an interactive adventure where you’ll quickly find yourself caught in a desperate struggle to survive, attempting to determine just who the real monsters truly are. Can you save yourself and all the Discarded Ones? Do you have what it takes […]
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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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Vampire Hunter Belladonna is a solo programmed adventure from Gaming Ballistic, authored by noted game writer and designer David Pulver for The Fantasy Trip – the old-school RPG from Steve Jackson Games. This adventure doesn’t require a Game Master, as a system of branching paragraphs directs you from encounter to encounter as you make your own
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Choice of Games’ An Odyssey: Echoes of War is a 250,000-word interactive retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey by Natalia Theodoridou (author of the Nebula nominated Rent-a-Vice), in which you fight the sea god’s wrath to reclaim your throne, and attempt to free yourself from the ghosts of war. The war is over – Troy has
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Aeon Trespass: Odyssey from Polish design studio Into the Unknown, is a 1-4 player, cooperative, narrative-driven tactical campaign game about adventures, exploration and fierce battles with giant monsters. Set in an alternate Antiquity, where a reality-shattering cataclysm killed the Olympian gods and unleashed the scourge of the otherworldly Primordials, Aeon Trespass: Odyssey places the players
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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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It’s been another busy period since our last round-up, full of interesting news and new releases to report on from a broad range of interactive fiction. Our selection for this month includes some printed gamebooks (brand new and updated versions), a programmed adventure, text-based apps, and a role-playing video game. • • •Choice of Games
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Gods and monsters feature in myriads of ancient legends, beliefs and cultural superstitions. Powerful beings that challenge mankind’s place on earth, their appearance asks questions of our origin and purpose, and suggests that our early ancestors were once subjected to stupendous supernatural forces and creatures of unimaginable magnitude. In Lewis Manalo’s The Spy and the
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