In the burst of the Z virus, the world that everyone knew ceased to exist. It’s now up to you to lead a group of survivors through the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse in a fast-paced, challenging game. Survive, interact, loot, explore, build, craft, defend, and attack! Finally out of its long beta phase, GoldenGod […]
Ransom Publishing has released Dan Metcalf’s Pick Your Path series of CYOA-style mini-adventures as repackaged books for reluctant readers – also known as HiLo (High Interest, Low Reading Age) – where the limited paragraphs and exciting choice-based gameplay are a perfect fit for readers with lower reading levels. In the Pick Your Path series every
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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Kismet Interactive Fiction’s Day of the Worms is a new Android app featuring parasitic zombie worms, allotments, and 12 different kinds of biscuit! Urban gardening meets the zombie apocalypse! Inspired by cheesy horror flicks from the 1980s, Day of the Worms is an interactive fiction game, set at the dawn of the zombie takeover, and
You just can’t stop the zombie advance as they determinedly shuffle their way into every single corner of modern print and electronic media. I’m not a major fan of these decomposing antagonists, but they’ve certainly found many friends who enthusiastically enjoy their gruesomely destructive ways. Thankfully, Highway to Hell joins this wealth of current material
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This is the second zombie gamebook from author Max Brallier, creator of Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?, which was released in 2011. Inspired by films like Dawn Of The Dead and Mad Max, and the ‘vehicular combat’ PlayStation series Twisted Metal, Highway to Hell is set in a world where the zombie apocalypse is
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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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