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Choice of Games LLC was founded by Dan Fabulich and Adam Strong-Morse in 2009. They produce text-based interactive novels for mobile platforms and the web, combining the delicious freedom of the 1980s’ choose-a-path gamebooks with the depth and scope of a bestselling novel.
In addition to developing their own games in-house, Choice of Games LLC has created an easy-to-use programming language for writing text-based games, ChoiceScript, and publishes games written by other designers.
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Reviews
Date |
Game |
Website |
Quotations |
| May 10th, 2017 | Welcome to Moreytown | MobyGames | |
| May 8th, 2017 | Welcome to Moreytown | Stately Play | |
| March 21st, 2017 | Mesozoic Time Machine | Eating the Fantastic | Podcast, turning to the game around 1:14. |
| March 2nd, 2017 | Runt of the Litter | Gaming Trend | The most notable detail about the story is your very own gryphon. He or she is the focus of the story, and thus should be the most compelling character, which they are. When I chose my male gryphon, I certainly got attached to him. I got to decide what kind of gryphon he would be, so when I saw the words “barn owl and snow leopard”, I was sold. I got to name him and shape his personality and his strengths. I got to read him growing up and coming into his own. I grew emotionally invested very easily, which is the sign of good writing in any media, |
| February 18th, 2017 | Cannonfire Concerto | Heterogenous Tasks | The grand journey is a somewhat unusual pattern for a Choicescript game: the Choicescript playbook typically operates on a grander scale than a single trip, and it also calls for an ensemble cast of NPCs, who need to be given opportunities to recur. And recur they do! but because you’re on a journey, this isn’t just a matter of you moving in the same circles. It contributes to a sense of paranoia, of spies and machinations: early on you’re told of the existence of a master-spy in Bonaventure’s employ, and everybody else is freaked out about spies, so having the same people coincidentally crop up all the time gets you twitchy. |
| February 3rd, 2017 | Metahuman | Brash Games | |
| January 12th, 2017 | Cannonfire Concerto | TouchArcade | While the overall backbone of the story is linear even by the usual standards of these books, there’s a great deal of variability along the edges. With all of the factions and people vying for your attentions, you can choose who and what you want to get mixed up with. Or you can simply try to stay above it all, and make it all about the music. Sooner or later, though, trouble will come to your doorstep, and how you deal with that is going to depend heavily on the relationships you have or haven’t forged along the way. This structure makes Cannonfire Concerto quite a bit of fun to replay. You’ll easily recognize the portions of the story that are the same and can zoom through them, while the various side adventures mean you’ll have something new to read for at least a few playthroughs. |
| January 1st, 2017 | Saga of the North Wind | GameBook News | I genuinely enjoyed the storytelling of this text-only adventure from Tom Knights, as the grimness of the landscape, and of your tribe’s menacing predicament, adds a realistic quality to this personal saga; a journey where your leadership will be tested on many occasions. After leaving your settlement of Tar-Domos, you’ll find that the game requires you to regularly manage personalities, loyalties and friendships within your tribe (using balancing stats to measure dominance, charisma etc.) and to determine your destiny via responses to situations and opponents met during your travels. |
| December 9th, 2016 | Congresswolf | Emily Short | The campaign structure is a natural fit for a Choice of Games piece: there are several different goals you could reasonably have when running a campaign, especially a campaign overshadowed by a murder investigation. There’s enough predictability to let the player attempt a strategy, but enough variation not to get boring. Your campaign includes some cyclical, predictable tasks like setting a budget for the next month and picking ad strategies, together with increasingly high stakes events, such as meetings with the press and debates with the other candidate. |
| October 20th, 2016 | Sorcery is for Saps | MobyGames | |
| September 1st, 2016 | Robots | Now Loading | |
| August 31st, 2016 | Midsummer | TouchArcade | The overall plot is satisfying, the characters are well-done, and the references to both the original play and Shakespeare’s works on the whole are a lot of fun. As long as you don’t mind that it doesn’t venture outside of the box mechanically, it’s an easy gamebook to recommend. |
| August 29th, 2016 | Midsummer | Shakespeare Geek | As I work my way through this one I honestly can’t tell how I’m affecting the story because it just continues to flow smoothly as if my decision was the one the author had in mind all along. |
| August 26th, 2016 | Midsummer | MobyGames | A loving Shakespearian pastiche (notably of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, and The Winter’s Tale), this interactive story lovingly collides classic dramatic tropes from the back catalogue of the Bard and his contemporaries at the Mermaid Tavern, such as star-crossed lovers, mistaken identity (and outright impostors) and of course the play-within-a-play. |
| June 15th, 2016 | Alexandria | MobyGames | All of this intrigue and duty plays against a mosaic of life in Antiquity, from the Olympic games to the siege of Syracuse, populated with a cast of real-life figures including Archimedes and Euclid and historical locations such as the Colossus of Rhodes, the Pharos of Alexandria, and the Great Library. In spare moments, players may find themselves changing the course of history by coming up with inventions years or centuries before their time, and a variety of endings explore the profound marks inadvertently made on civilization by their choices. |
| June 14th, 2016 | Pirate | TouchArcade | …the plot is fun and pulpy in mostly good ways. There aren’t any shocking twists or meditations on the nature of humanity. It doesn’t get more sophisticated than a moderately easy-to-predict mystery about the Pirate King’s identity. While the setting certainly echoes real history with some pretty obvious stand-ins, there’s a thick streak of magical fantasy painted across the canvass. Don’t worry too much about it, the game seems to urge. There are giant monster octopi to kill and curses to lift, after all. Don’t you want to find the legendary treasure? |
| May 22nd, 2016 | Pirate | MobyGames | Freedom is truly the word for it — in this idealized nautical setting, an array of gender expressions and sexual preferences are accommodated, exemplifying the game’s offerings of diverse and varied approaches to success, depending on players’ preference of approach: combat, magic, trickery, seamanship or diplomacy: here they are all viable paths to untold riches and glory! |
| May 21st, 2016 | Pirate | IndieGamePlay | Abbott manages to infuse a lot of action and drama featuring a surprising amount of scenarios. You can pick up a haunted ship, betray (or side with) your former captain, abandon piracy entirely for a life in service of the crown, and much more. It’s a game that’s packed with not just replay value, but equally engaging plots no matter what you choose to do. |
| May 13th, 2016 | Sea Eternal | TouchArcade | The game’s story covers a lot of different ideas, but the main ones it focuses on are mortality, freedom, and the reliability of memories. Would you want to be immortal, even if that means being in perpetual servitude? Would you prefer a life of comfortable ignorance, or painful truth? You’ll have to answer these questions as best as you can through the process of playing this adventure. |
| April 29th, 2016 | Sea Eternal | MobyGames | |
| April 21st, 2016 | Sea Eternal | Pocket Tactics | |
| April 20th, 2016 | Choice of Games | Spooky Action at a Distance | |
| April 12th, 2016 | Redemption Season | MobyGames | |
| February 12th, 2016 | Daring Mermaid Expedition | Deus Ex Machinatio | |
| February 11th, 2016 | Daring Mermaid Expedition | Pocket Tactics | In Mermaid you’ll have the chance to fight pirates (or, maybe, even become one), practice dubious academics, and maybe even find a mermaid or two |
| January 6th, 2016 | Metahuman, inc. | TouchArcade | |
| January 5th, 2016 | Robots | Autostraddle | The game doesn’t question your sexuality, but it may raise questions for you. If robots could love, should you love them back? Is there something disturbing in building your own companion? If your robot leaves you for another robot, can you really blame her? |
| December 30th, 2015 | MetaHuman | Hardcore Gamer | MetaHuman Inc. is a CYOA title which tells an oddly compelling story and leaves tons of room for replayability. |
| December 21st, 2015 | Pendragon Rising | TouchArcade | …there’s enough challenge, action, and drama here to make it a solid adventure. |
| December 18th, 2015 | A Study in Steampunk | TouchArcade | My hat is off to author Heather Albano for her outstanding writing in A Study Of Steampunk. I always get into these kinds of games to an extent, but I’m not sure I’ve been this deeply moved by one in some time. It’s thrilling, emotional, bombastic, quiet, exciting, and fascinating all at once, and it manages such a range of colors simply by taking its time and doing things right. |
| November 24th, 2015 | Diabolical | TouchArcade | I really enjoyed the climax of the game, too. Other than a somewhat odd side-story just before the halfway point, Diabolical is very good about having each chapter top the last. The scale gets bigger, the action more intense, and the enemies more dangerous as you go along. While the narrative isn’t following a single thread, the writer makes sure in each part of the story to seed things that lead into or play some part in the finale. The ending is quite satisfying, too, particularly since it gives you a lot of choices as to how exactly things wrap up. |
| November 13th, 2015 | Choice of Games | Tom’s Guide | The City’s Thirst is a many-layered supernatural thriller that sees you pitting your wits against mundane and supernatural forces, from sorcerers to real estate moguls, magical scorpions, to people just trying to get by in a dry and dusty world. |
| October 30th, 2015 | Deathless: The City’s Thirst | Guardian | |
| October 28th, 2015 | Ratings War | Hackneyed Gaming | |
| October 22nd, 2015 | Deathless: The City’s Thirst | Pocket Tactics | |
| October 15th, 2015 | Ratings War | TouchArcade | I think that’s why I enjoyed Ratings War as much as I did. Instead of being another gamebook about conquering enemies or traveling through dangerous, fantastical worlds, it opts to focus on more relatable topics like obsession, the value of truth, and whether people who do bad things for good reasons deserve second chances. Those thoughts are woven into a enjoyable, fresh, fast-paced story about investigative journalism, making for a pretty strong package all-around. |
| October 9th, 2015 | Ratings War | GameAxis | |
| October 5th, 2015 | Ratings War | Altered Confusion | I personally really liked the way the writing was done in this game, I was drawn into the world, definitely could feel the corruption, and I definitely felt the weight of the choices that were presented to me. |
| October 4th, 2015 | Choice of Games | Parallax | Unlike a peacocking AAA game which forces you to behold it’s visual brilliance, Choice of Games LLC elects not to constrain the player in this fashion. Your surroundings are not dictated by the power of your chosen gaming system, and the creativity of a overworked visual designer. Instead, cliche as it sounds, you are constricted only by your imagination which interprets the narrative. This allows the focus of the writers and developers to be on the characters, the setting, and the plot-line, as the superficial is left to the end-user. |
| October 3rd, 2015 | Ratings War | EddyFate | |
| September 17th, 2015 | It’s Killing Time | Indie Game Mag | |
| September 14th, 2015 | A Wise Use of Time | Guardian | |
| September 5th, 2015 | A Wise Use of Time | Pixel Dynamo | |
| September 1st, 2015 | VERSUS: The Lost Ones | TouchArcade | |
| August 28th, 2015 | VERSUS: The Lost Ones | Game Actu | |
| August 10th, 2015 | It’s Killing Time | iPhone App Review | As a whole, I found the flow, suspense, and writing of this app to be very impressive. |
| August 7th, 2015 | Robots | Geek and Sundry | Choice of Robot‘s greatest strength is its ability to evoke guttural emotion from its decisions and their fallout |
| August 7th, 2015 | Choice of Games | Discourse | |
| August 6th, 2015 | Champion of the Gods | Out of Game | …as I am not a big fan of books, and this being a game with no graphics nor any music or sound effects I quite frankly did not expect to get so sucked into the lore and that invested in the future of Agossa as I did. |
| August 5th, 2015 | It’s Killing Time | 148Apps | Besides offering gender and look options that would put many more expensive games to shame, you get plenty of chance to mould your character exactly how you want them to be. |
| August 4th, 2015 | It’s Killing Time | AndroidTapp | |
| July 29th, 2015 | Champion of the Gods | TouchArcade | [Valuckas] puts together a compelling story that manages to maintain its momentum through its many twists and turns, and provides a satisfying conclusion worthy of your hard efforts. The would-be antagonist of the story is a particular stand-out among the cast of characters, at once detestably cruel and yet credibly tempting in his protestations about your actions. |
| July 27th, 2015 | Champion of the Gods | Walking Nerd | |
| July 27th, 2015 | Champion of the Gods | 148Apps | It won’t appeal to those wanting a more action packed experience, but those after a more compelling read than most will savor feeling in charge of their destiny. When you eventually reach a conclusion, you can easily dive straight back into things, roleplaying a different character and seeing an entirely new experience. |
| July 21st, 2015 | It’s Killing Time | iOS App Lists | |
| July 17th, 2015 | Champion of the Gods | MobyGames | |
| July 14th, 2015 | Champion of the Gods | Pocket Tactics | |
| July 1st, 2015 | Rebecca Slitt | Valley Nerd Watch | |
| June 27th, 2015 | It’s Killing Time | MobyGames | |
| June 19th, 2015 | Hollywood Visionary | Heterogenous Tasks | The really striking thing about Visionary is that its major subplot is about McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklist, and that it draws strong parallels between the McCarthyite witch-hunt and certain contemporary reactionary movements in videogames. It doesn’t insist on the parallel in all its details; these are two separate things. But it does present the question: what does one do, as an artist, when you find yourself at risk of being targeted by unscrupulous radical conservatives, who might identify you as an enemy based on the most arbitrary and ridiculous of grounds, and who are eager to destroy anyone who doesn’t toe the line? How much of a stand are you willing to take for your art, or your politics, or on behalf of friends and colleagues who get it worse than you? If you’re going to take a stand, where should you make it? And how much damage is done directly, and how much by nervous moderates who don’t want to take a risk on controversial artists? |
| June 11th, 2015 | Creatures Such as We | Cheat Sheet | The game dives into how people cope with the loneliness they face and the philosophical discussion of how games tie into our everyday lives. It’s a thoughtful exploration about our human nature to want for companionship and the lengths we go to ease the pain of loss. |
| May 2nd, 2015 | Mecha Ace | Steam 1st | |
| May 1st, 2015 | Petal Throne | TouchArcade | |
| April 30th, 2015 | Hollywood Visionary | Game Mob | |
| April 29th, 2015 | Hollywood Visionary | Pocket Tactics | |
| April 7th, 2015 | SLAMMED! | Mondo Cool Cast | |
| April 1st, 2015 | Hero of Kendrickstone | MobyGames | |
| March 31st, 2015 | Robots | AccessWorld | Detailed descriptions of people, places, and events within the game give it the feel of a really good book. Because characters in the game are so well developed, there are times when you might actually take quite a bit of time deciding how you want to proceed. |
| March 17th, 2015 | Hero of Kendrickstone | 148Apps | The Hero of Kendrickstone is just a very gripping tale. It’ll last you a long time, even if you’re a fast reader, and there are enough options to make you want to go back and try things differently. |
| March 4th, 2015 | SLAMMED! | Gaming Trend | It bridges the gap between reality and professional wrestling perfectly and puts long time wrestling fans in the boots of a character that experiences situations we have dreamed of being a part of. On top of that, it expands your view of wrestling and makes you quickly realize that things are far from roses and rainbows once you begin to achieve the stardom you desire. |
| February 27th, 2015 | Deathless | L’antre du geek | Mais, contrairement à de nombreux jeux basés sur un scénario fort, dans Choice of the Deathless, on a réellement l’impression que nos décisions ont influencé le cours de l’histoire et son dénouement. |
| February 23rd, 2015 | Creatures Such as We | Wall St. Cheat Sheet | The game dives into how people cope with the loneliness they face and the philosophical discussion of how games tie into our everyday lives. It’s a thoughtful exploration about our human nature to want for companionship and the lengths we go to ease the pain of loss. |
| February 15th, 2015 | Eerie Estate Agent | Pyramid IF | It’s a bit Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead for the real estate broker walk-on character at the beginning of every horror movie who sells a creepy house to the main characters. I love the meta. |
| February 3rd, 2015 | Deathless | TechRaptor | The writing is good. Really really good. I found myself laughing out loud several times, and the story is very well written and it really is “novel quality”. This isn’t just some random guy typing up his fantasies. The writing is organized, the language is very diverse and very fleshed-out while still remaining easily readable. And it’s just really funny at times, which I don’t know if I really expected it to be. |
| January 19th, 2015 | Robots | Pocket Tactics | …as a gamebook, I’m hard-pressed to find better ones out there. Most gamebooks don’t get more than 2-3 reads from me, whereas [Choice of Robots] is already on its fifth. |
| January 19th, 2015 | Robots | Emily Short | |
| January 18th, 2015 | Robots | Spoil Everything | |
| January 18th, 2015 | Mecha Ace | A Gaming Nation | |
| January 8th, 2015 | Robots | VentureBeat | Because every choice can steer the story in a different direction…they carry huge meaning. In other games, that might not be the case. Gamers haven’t always been too happy about how light the connection between choice and consequence can be in games like BioShock or Mass Effect 3. |
| January 7th, 2015 | Robots | Critical Indie Gamer | Kevin Gold deftly interweaves humour, suspense, sci-fi and romance in Choice of Robots. At points I felt saddened by the results of my actions,at others I laughed heartily at the fact I was dating a robot. Everything flows together so neatly that the game’s distinct thematic differences feel natural and intriguing. |
| January 6th, 2015 | Robots | JayIsGames | Thoughtfully written with warmth, humour, and intrigue, Choice of [Robots] is an intensely satisfying text adventure that will keep you coming back for more with its myriad of endings and decisions that let you play the game how you want to, making for one of the most compelling text games in a long time. |
| January 5th, 2015 | Creatures Such as We | MyLadyLydia | …Glasser’s focused writing raises interesting, pertinent questions for anyone who creates and/or consumes media. |
| January 5th, 2015 | Robots | AppAdvice | |
| January 3rd, 2015 | Robots | AddAltMode | …I couldn’t resist getting attached to my robot, Ratchet (although an interesting choice of default names are available, type your own is an option so all of mine have had Transformer names, I couldn’t resist) and repeatedly picking options that ended up turning him into a strange and wonderful mechanical child. |
| December 31st, 2014 | Robots | iMore | I wasn’t planning on actually playing Choice of Robots today, but after just about every one of my game-loving friends started praising the text adventure, I sat down and opened it. My initial intention was to play the first chapter or so while I waited for some article photos to upload; and yet, two hours later, I found myself glued to my iPhone for the closing scene. |
| December 30th, 2014 | Robots | Wicked Baggins | Choice of Robots knows it’s a game. But its sheer plethora of choices, well, that’s a statement as well as a very effective life-sim mechanic. Most games know they’re games. Choice of Robots is one of those that also posits that games can be like life. |
| December 28th, 2014 | Robots | MyLadyLydia | One of the situations I stumbled upon during my fourth game made me profoundly uncomfortable and nervous because the writing made me care about all four of those particular characters. I’ve been less interested in the major plot threads of novels than I was in those two chapters focused on small family interactions. Major win. |
| December 23rd, 2014 | Mecha Ace | Spoil Everything | |
| December 22nd, 2014 | Psy High | MyLadyLydia | Setting the story in high school let me select the dumb options. I can forgive a sixteen-year-old for being an idiot more easily than a thirty-something. |
| December 22nd, 2014 | Black Cat / Psy High | Emily Short | There’s also an interesting passage involving a teacher you admire, and whose help you try to enlist, who turns out not to have as much moral courage as you might have hoped: it felt like a fairly Mars-esque storyline, about the idealism of youth and the often disappointing pragmatism of adults who have a lot to lose. |
| December 20th, 2014 | Black Cat | Steam 1st | |
| December 18th, 2014 | Creatures Such as We | 148Apps | Far from being one for adrenaline junkies, Creatures Such As We has the ability to make you think for longer than just while you’re playing. Remaining open-minded throughout, it’s an interesting deviation into the importance of offline, as well as online, social interaction. Plus it’s a fascinating take on the conventional interactive novel. |
| December 5th, 2014 | Choice of Games | GamerTime | Through powerful storytelling and open ended story, players can choose a multitude of answers to dilemmas they face, bringing not just huge flying robots to battle but raising questions about more intimate issues such as the human cost of war, personal affairs in war and even romance whilst being a general. |
| November 14th, 2014 | Choice of Games | Indieorama | |
| November 14th, 2014 | Alter Ego | Digital Antiquarian | |
| November 12th, 2014 | Dragon | Indieorama | |
| November 10th, 2014 | Choice of Games | Indieorama | |
| October 10th, 2014 | Heroes Rise: the Prodigy | Steam 1st | Many years later, though, Choice of Games’ Heroes Rise series fulfills the true promise of the Choose Your Own Adventure series in a big way. I simply cannot recommend these enough. |
| October 10th, 2014 | Yeti’s Parole Officer | 148Apps | Yeti’s Parole Officer proves that looks aren’t everything in this entertaining, if plain, piece of interactive fiction. |
| October 8th, 2014 | Sabres of Infinity | MyLadyLydia | Your character has be-completely-clueless options. Want to ask the bastard why the gentry seem to have a problem with his being in command? Want to ask another officer to give you basic information about the highest ranking nobleman from your own area? I love the little retorts the characters have when answering. |
| October 1st, 2014 | Mecha Ace | IndieRPGs | |
| September 30th, 2014 | Yeti’s Parole Officer | 148Apps | |
| September 28th, 2014 | Yeti’s Parole Officer | MyLadyLydia | |
| September 26th, 2014 | Neighbourhood Necromancer | IndieRPGs | |
| September 26th, 2014 | Yeti’s Parole Officer | IndieRPGs | |
| September 23rd, 2014 | Yeti’s Parole Officer | PocketTactics | If you’ve heard a better pitch for a game this year than one in which you play the parole officer responsible for giant cryptid in the far future, please post it to me immediately. |
| August 8th, 2014 | Mecha Ace | Ideas Without End | …for someone who is an avid giant robot fan, Mecha Ace is certainly an entertaining slice of more easily forgivably hammy science-fiction… |
| July 29th, 2014 | Life of a Mobster | MyLadyLydia | Bottom Line: Recommended. I like this one even more than Life of a Wizard. |
| July 24th, 2014 | HeroFall | 148Apps | HeroFall is an engaging entry into the series, delivering the suspense, surprises, and tough decisions that make interactive reading so much fun. The possibilities for character identity and customization are great, the relationships are believable, and the repercussions of life and death decisions can be felt throughout – right up until one of the many alternate endings. |
| July 20th, 2014 | HeroFall | MyLadyLydia | Sergi obviously made some characters available for romances at players’ requests, but he makes sure the player knows he judges those choices and does not think they make sense. |
| July 17th, 2014 | Hero Project | Darkstation | |
| July 16th, 2014 | HeroFall | Real Gamer Newz | Overall, HeroFall presents an emotionally gripping tale that puts you on the edge and starts off packed with action keeping a steady pace throughout while tackling deep issues of bigotry, discrimination, hate, power, corruption, self discovery, and even love. |
| July 16th, 2014 | Life of a Mobster | Lloyd of Gamebooks | This was my original plan: I play the game, explore its nuances, then write a comprehensive review. But, you know, since I formulated that plan I’ve played through this game four times, start to finish. And I feel I’m still only scratching its surface. |
| July 12th, 2014 | HeroFall | AppAdvice | Being the third and presumably final book in the Heroes Rise series, this game is just as thrilling and challenging as fans would hope. |
| July 2nd, 2014 | Choice of Games | Game Design Round Table | |
| July 1st, 2014 | Mecha Ace | Android Rundown | Mecha Ace is written extremely well. The brutality of war and the uniqueness of people are portrayed extremely well and small touches like descriptions of body language and details of massive starships exploding really help illustrate the story in the player’s eyes. The story changes completely due to player choice and the inner monologue describing why the player character feels the way they do is always spot on. And indeed, the plot itself is excellent. Full of twists and genuine suspense, Mecha Ace is a gripping tale until the end. Its believable characters and surprises really make it captivating reading. The way it personally involves the reader every step of the way makes it impossible to put down until the book is finished. |
| June 30th, 2014 | Neighbourhood Necromancer | Zombies, Run! | …deliciously daft and fun, in a way that only a skeleton’s tea party can [be]. |
| June 27th, 2014 | Mecha Ace | MobyGames | A ripping interstellar war yarn unfolds across nine episodes and several interludes, in which the player will be charged with escorting civilian transports to safety from their base on the CWS Caliburn, recovering a top-secret project that could turn the tide of the campaign, clashing against an aristocratic enemy duellist, surviving the unleashing of an enemy superweapon that threatens to end the war for good, and undergoing torture and interrogation as a prisoner behind enemy lines. |
| June 25th, 2014 | Heroes Rise | Rock, Paper, Shotgun | The big mysteries of the show are also sold well, with potential suspects everywhere and some very well timed twists and turns if you can ignore the fact that most of the people in the game are absolutely awful and the idea of being on a team with really any of them is about as tempting as getting a testing job in an enema factory. |
| June 23rd, 2014 | Mecha Ace | 148 Apps | …a well-written adventure that could theoretically justify multiple read-throughs due to the fact that player choices actually have repercussions throughout the universe their character inhabits—whether they’re significant or just minor fluctuations. It’s an action-packed, engaging and fully-realized experience that will hook readers in until it reaches its satisfying conclusion. |
| June 23rd, 2014 | Steam | PC Gamer | |
| June 22nd, 2014 | Steam | Game Debate | |
| June 21st, 2014 | Mecha Ace | Lady Geek Girl | The NPCs themselves are also racially diverse: your cocky second-in-command is of Middle Eastern descent, the anxious young bridge controller is Japanese, one of your commanding officers is Chinese, and the chief of the hangar crew is Black. This is a nice change from a lot of media set in space that pretends aliens are a reasonable substitute for human racial diversity. |
| June 20th, 2014 | Mecha Ace | PocketGamer | If you’re already a fan of Choice of Games’s books, Mecha Ace is worth a purchase regardless of how you feel about sci-fi and mecha media. Its strength is in its choices and the places you wind up because of them. |
| June 19th, 2014 | Steam | Polygon | |
| June 19th, 2014 | COG | Broken Binding | |
| June 19th, 2014 | Steam | Emily Short | |
| June 19th, 2014 | Steam | Storycade | |
| June 18th, 2014 | Steam | Rock, Paper, Shotgun | |
| June 18th, 2014 | Steam | Linux Game News | |
| June 18th, 2014 | Steam | Gamers Hell | |
| June 18th, 2014 | Steam | Gamers’ Temple | |
| June 18th, 2014 | Steam | Gamers Honest Truth | |
| June 17th, 2014 | Steam | Gamasutra | |
| June 17th, 2014 | Steam | SegmentNext | With the Greenlight surge on Steam, a lot of oddball games have made it to launch recently, but the two latest entries might be one of the biggest surprises. |
| June 15th, 2014 | Mecha Ace | AppAdvice | In short, this app is a beautifully addictive combination of a science-fiction book and a game. If you have the patience to play it, you’ll surely lack the will to stop. As you build your own fantasy character, live for honor and glory, and design your own weapons, you’ll be lost in Mecha Ace for hours on end. |
| June 14th, 2014 | Mecha Ace | Portable Gaming Region | Basically, the game lets you take part in an interstellar civil war from the comfort of the cockpit of a giant killer robot. Can it get more awesome? |
| June 14th, 2014 | Mecha Ace | My Lady Lydia | Recommended. I played the game four times and still have choice combinations I want to explore. |
| June 13th, 2014 | Mecha Ace | Pocket Tactics | |
| June 13th, 2014 | Mecha Ace | Shoost | |
| June 10th, 2014 | Dragon | Lady Geek Girl | All I’m saying is that it’s pretty cool that somewhere out there is a game where you can create a genderqueer bisexual dragon. |
| June 9th, 2014 | Dragon | Apple With Many Seeds | |
| June 2nd, 2014 | Life of a Mobster | Lloyd of Gamebooks | When I was younger, and a band I liked put out a new album, there’d be a tense period before I managed to hear it when I desperately wished and prayed that it would be as good as I was hoping. That’s kind of how I’m feeling about Life of a Mobster. Please be good. Please be as good as Life of a Wizard. |
| May 23rd, 2014 | Planetary Quarantine | The Forecaster | |
| May 23rd, 2014 | Rock Star | MobyGames | Gigs start as clandestine affairs after school, then as the band expands and develops, the intrepid crew of musicians graduates to bar-band status, competitors at battles of the bands, a meager existence in a tour van, and, if lucky, opening spots for international headliners and TV appearances. |
| May 21st, 2014 | Neighbourhood Necromancer | 148Apps | Even from the first page, Neighbourhood Necromancer manages to meld teenage angst, amusing side interactions, bumps in the night, and commanding the dead in a way that is not only organic, but provides the reader with compelling story choices along the way. |
| May 19th, 2014 | Neighbourhood Necromancer | MyLadyLydia | |
| May 18th, 2014 | Choice of the Deathless | Black Gate | But one of the highlights of Choice of the Deathless is the experience of playing a game that ties in with a larger world. I’d read the novels first (including a draft of Max’s forthcoming Full Fathom Five, which is my favorite in the series yet), so I already felt at home in the world, and I was excited to be a Craftswoman myself. But I’ve also read the books again after playing Choice of the Deathless, and there are elements that cross over beautifully, allowing the game to inform how I read the books. This is how a good cross-format experience should work — not unlike my experience with Marvel’s cinematic, TV, and (oddly) Facebook game formats. Each element enhances the others and my overall experience is more fun because I’m participating so fully. |
| May 18th, 2014 | Planetary Quarantine | MobyGames | |
| May 17th, 2014 | Neighbourhood Necromancer | MobyGames | The big question is: what will the player choose to do with this power? Conceal their newfound talent or flaunt it with an honour guard of Thriller dancers in the school hallways? (Or compromise: only on Hallowe’en?) Settle old scores, punishing the unjust and tragically banal at the chip shop and city council, or share the anomie of doomed youth writ large, laying waste to the whole town in hopes that it grows less crooked next time around? |
| May 16th, 2014 | Neighbourhood Necromancer | Shoost | |
| May 14th, 2014 | NOLA Is Burning | MobyGames | |
| May 11th, 2014 | SLAMMED! | Addicted to Wrestling | It’s certainly a unique approach to wrestling fans everywhere who want to feel like they are professional wrestlers, and one which, if I may say so, does its job very well. |
| May 9th, 2014 | NOLA Is Burning | 148Apps | |
| May 2nd, 2014 | NOLA Is Burning | Pocket Tactics | |
| March 7th, 2014 | Zombie Exodus | Gamemoir | The Walking Dead and Zombie Exodus are choose your own adventure stories with a heavy, heavy focus on interpersonal relationships. |
| March 1st, 2014 | Tin Star | Moby Games | |
| February 8th, 2014 | Heroes Rise: The Prodigy | Black Gate | |
| January 10th, 2014 | SLAMMED! | Black Gate | …I was also intrigued by the structure Chikiamco uses–the choices were so well-built into the narrative, I had trouble figuring out where the game branched off and came back. I never felt roped into the narrative, and the sense that I as a player was driving the plot forward was incredibly well done. |
| January 8th, 2014 | Unnatural | MobyGames | |
| January 3rd, 2014 | Burn(t) | MobyGames | |
| December 29th, 2013 | Deathless | Emily Short | …the most solidly written Choice of Games piece I’ve yet played. |
| December 26th, 2013 | Deathless | MobyGames | In the towering spires of the changed city of Shikaw, business is conducted and contracts are written. With demons. This extraordinary variety of corporate law demands an extraordinary species of corporate lawyer, men, women, and fleshless skeletons who practice the Craft — a mixture of ritual magic and jurisprudence. |
| December 20th, 2013 | Deathless | JayIsGames | Ever have one of those days at work where pouring your blood, sweat, and tears into the job is a literal thing, where cutthroat competition is not a metaphor, and your clients tend to be demons from another dimension? No? Would you like to have one of those days? |
| December 20th, 2013 | Deathless | Tor.com | Turns out that while I understood the independent skill sets of writing and adventure design, their overlap was a new beast in which elements of both combined to form an entirely new animal. |
| December 20th, 2013 | Deathless | Next PowerUp | |
| December 19th, 2013 | Deathless | 148Apps | |
| December 12th, 2013 | Zombie Exodus | IndieRPGs | |
| December 9th, 2013 | Reckless Space Pirates | IndieRPGs | |
| December 6th, 2013 | Reckless Space Pirates | 148Apps | |
| November 30th, 2013 | Vampire | I Hate Loading Screens | |
| November 25th, 2013 | Showdown | IndieRPGs | |
| November 1st, 2013 | SLAMMED! | Rock, Paper, Shotgun | |
| October 22nd, 2013 | Dragon | Black Gate | |
| September 23th, 2013 | Hero Project | 148Apps | |
| September 20th, 2013 | Hero Project | JayIsGames | From the way people perceive you, to potential romances, unexpected events, battles and beyond, The Hero Project is all about giving you the freedom of choice to succeed… or fail. |
| September 19th, 2013 | Broadsides | Jenny Hamrick | What I did NOT expect was the way I perceived these gender differences. At one point in Broadsides, I am asked whether I want to trust a Gaulish (their version of the French) lieutenant or not. Picturing a charming French woman, I decided to trust her. However, I asked myself whether I would have acted the same way had the Gaul been a man, and my instinctual answer was “No”! For some reason, I was willing to trust a female, but not a slimy Gaulish male. This game forced me to recognize my own sexist prejudices (which I didn’t even realize I had)! |
| August 30th, 2013 | ‘Til Death | MobyGames | This game’s plot points kick things into Act 3 overdrive, with the player having to make the hard choices needed to overcome the ruler’s illness and subsequent reactionary paranoia, an orchestrated assassination attempt (so maybe it’s not paranoia after all), and mesmerism of the entire court by the monarch’s illegitimate son, all against a backdrop of a magical revolution wherein the unique powers of Life and Death Mages can be imbued into an inanimate object and activated by others. |
| August 20th, 2013 | ‘Til Death | IndieGame Magazine | |
| August 10th, 2013 | Zombie Exodus | Free Zombie Fiction | |
| August 8th, 2013 | Paradox Factor | TouchArcade | |
| August 6th, 2013 | Land of 3 Classes | MobyGames | |
| August 5th, 2013 | SLAMMED! | TouchArcade | Another thing I’m really liking about Slammed! is that it doesn’t shy away from the nitty gritty, behind-the-scenes world of pro wrestling. On the surface pro wrestling offers larger-than-life characters, daytime drama-esque story lines to follow, and plenty of impressive in-ring acrobatics that, pre-determined outcome or not, take a lot of skill to master. Beyond that surface, pro wrestling can be a cutthroat business as performers jockey for the spotlight and promoters try to make money off of sometimes naive talent. |
| August 3rd, 2013 | Vampire 2 | MobyGames | |
| August 1st, 2013 | Ninja | MobyGames | |
| July 15th, 2013 | SLAMMED! | GameWoof | Even though the power bombs and clotheslines are presented via text, what I liked about SLAMMED! is it gives us a backstage pass in the behind-the-scenes of wrestling. You start your wrestling career struggling in an indie wrestling promotion. As you progress, you will ultimately join the big leagues of professional wrestling, Global Wrestling Alliance (GWA). In real life, it may be compared to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). In GWA, you have to manage the politics, backstage drama, camaraderie, backstabbing and your matches in the ring, in front of the fans. |
| July 11th, 2013 | SLAMMED! | Calm Down Tom | By the time I was reaching the end, I was eager to discover how Kevin ‘The Scottish Sensation’ O’Donnell’s story would end. And that is SLAMMED!’s biggest achievement. I wasn’t gripped by the story, I was gripped by MY story. |
| July 10th, 2013 | SLAMMED! | Gamebooks Unlimited | |
| July 9th, 2013 | SLAMMED! | IndieRPGs | |
| July 2nd, 2013 | SLAMMED! | Unigamesity | Following a ton of chapters with flashbacks in the past and a ton of choices that will put you in deep moral dilemmas, SLAMMED! starts with the energy of a rookie wrestler and keeps the pace up all the way to the entertaining end. Which is shaped on your actions, decisions and style of play. |
| July 2nd, 2013 | SLAMMED! | Worlds Factory | |
| June 30th, 2013 | SLAMMED! | Unigamesity | What I liked about Slammed was that, up to a point, could be compared to the amazing Walking Dead game from Telltale: some of the choices that you had to make were so difficult and none seemed right, that it really tested out your personality. And what you get in return is the exact response to who you are: a fair player, a mean villain or somebody who’s interested in nothing but revenge and fame. |
| June 29th, 2013 | SLAMMED! | MobyGames | In and out of the ring, on reality TV, radio interviews and on social media, backstage and in the locker room, a player will sculpt and direct their wrestler’s trajectory through training, tag-team bouts, title championship matches and novelty extreme conflicts like cage matches and a ladder-and-scaffold match. All this against a rich tableau of true-to-life wrestlers of various divisions with fleshed-out family backgrounds, shticks, and fighting styles, as well as the requisite intrigue from management and hints of heartbreak and doping scandal. |
| May 17th, 2013 | Way Walkers | Examiner | The best comparison that I can come up with is to say it is reminiscent of a high fantasy Harry Potter. But even that isn’t doing it justice. It is so much more than that. The setting is built upon quantum and metaphysical theorems that lend its system of magic much more believable than the Harry Potter world. If something floats, there is a reason it floats. |
| May 2nd, 2013 | Treasure Seekers | PocketTactics | |
| May 1st, 2013 | Treasure Seekers | MobyGames | |
| April 24th, 2013 | Kung Fu | the Leet | Players can just fight their way through to the end without delving into the games mysticisms and myths as there is plenty of combat throughout however to get the full experience of being a true to life martial arts expert, subtlety and curiosity is advised. |
| April 19th, 2013 | Treasure Seekers | the Leet | |
| April 17th, 2013 | Treasure Seekers | GameZebo | …an interactive novel about a band of intergalactic “treasure hunters” in search of loot and fame. It falls a bit heavily on the genre’s clichés at times, but its quick pace, crisp writing, and myriad story choices should keep you engaged without a problem. |
| April 13th, 2013 | Treasure Seekers | IndieGameMag | …the game also uses traditional adventure game elements like exploring different areas, collecting useful items (Translation for folks who didn’t grow up on Sierra games: That means stealing everything that is not nailed down.) and using one’s inventory to solve puzzles. |
| March 17th, 2013 | Life of a Wizard | MobyGames | The career trajectory can be that of a helpful and virtuous sorcerer or that of an underhanded and sinister enchanter, all determined by the player’s choices and their character’s ability to back those choices up with cultivated ability. |
| March 15th, 2013 | Life of a Wizard | Internet Box | You get to live the life of a Wizard of your own make in a fantasy kingdom filled with diverse, in-depth inhabitants and many mystical creatures. You can live said life in almost any way you’d like. |
| March 12th, 2013 | Life of a Wizard | IndieRPGs | Can I become an undead lich, then get married and have children? Because that sounds…well, kind of gross, actually. And yet, intriguing! |
| February 22nd, 2013 | Mobile Armored Marine | Fruity Gamers | Part 2 |
| February 22nd, 2013 | Mobile Armored Marine | Fruity Gamers | Part 1 |
| January 23rd, 2013 | Kung Fu | Indie RPGs | |
| January 11th, 2013 | Fleet | Pocket Tactics | |
| December 21st, 2012 | Kung Fu | Touch Arcade | I wasn’t expecting Choice of Kung Fu to be my new favorite in the Choice of Games lineup. My first thought was “okay, a gamebook fighting game, well, why not.” I expected plenty of fight scenes and lots of attacks named after animals. The opening scene of the game, a bandit attack, immediately delivers on both. What I wasn’t expecting was the depth of historical, mythological, and philosophical accuracy to the game. |
| December 21st, 2012 | Kung Fu | JayIsGames | Choice of Kung Fu‘s contemplative tone, cleverly structured events, and sprawling narrative make it one of the best pieces of interactive fiction you can get for your mobile device. |
| December 21st, 2012 | Kung Fu | A Role Model | With brilliant storytelling and a sense of immersion that will match even the best of AAA titles, Choice of Kung Fu is an absolute must for gamers wanting to get wrapped up in a rich narrative. |
| December 20th, 2012 | Kung Fu | Moby Games | |
| December 17th, 2012 | Imprisoned | Moby Games | |
| December 17th, 2012 | Fleet | Moby Games | The Fleet presents a SF epic of loss and retribution with all of the juicy stuff: alien invasion, military command, starfaring exile in resistance, intergalactic diplomacy and betrayal. |
| November 30th, 2012 | Fleet | IndieRPGs | It reminds me a bit of Choice of the Star Captain, but much less campy in tone. |
| December 3rd, 2012 | Fleet | JayIsGames | The Fleet is a sturdy little sci-fi text adventure that will keep you busy for a while. It’s smart, well constructed, and an intriguing bit of space-faring drama. And remember, if the you-know-what really starts to hit the fan, you can always blame Worf. |
| November 30th, 2012 | Fleet | Unigamesity | |
| November 15th, 2012 | City of the Clouds | TouchArcade | So take your hallucination-inducing antimalarials, zip up your fancy weatherproof jacket, and stop to get a cup of chicha (fermented quinoa) before heading out into the jungle. There are ruins to be documented and/or pilfered! |
| October 27th, 2012 | City of the Clouds | MobyGames | |
| October 26th, 2012 | City of the Clouds | IndieGameMag | There are subtle jokes and references for players with an archaeological background, but there’s plenty of story and activity for those who don’t think that failing to gather a consistent volume sample or choosing an irresponsible screening mesh size are comedy gold. |
| October 16th, 2012 | Way Walkers | A Bit of Dash | Way Walkers: University is set in a rich, lush, and incredibly detailed fantasy world. I would love to read a standard novel set in this world. The writing is excellent and has plenty of humor. |
| October 14th, 2012 | Way Walkers | RPG.org | All in all, the story was exciting, and kept me pumped. I started thinking I’d get 15 minutes in or something, and then three hours later I’m hollering at my screen as if playing a video game or watching a movie. |
| October 6th, 2012 | Heroes Rise: The Prodigy | Pixelated Baloney | |
| October 5th, 2012 | Eerie Estate Agent | Calm Down Tom | |
| October 3rd, 2012 | Star Captain | Superlevel.de | |
| October 3rd, 2012 | Eerie Estate Agent | Emily Short | |
| September 30th, 2012 | Star Captain | Harbinger of Doom | |
| September 28th, 2012 | Star Captain | MobyGames | |
| September 26th, 2012 | Star Captain | Indie RPGs | [Dorian] has one hell of a [professional game-writing] pedigree. I find the fact that he nonetheless decided to sit down and make a text-based indie game delightful. |
| September 21st, 2012 | Way Walkers | Digital Diva | We like this game very much. We think you’d like it too. If not, there’s very clearly something deeply, fundamentally wrong with you. It’s fun, creepy, exciting, intriguing and well put together. |
| September 19th, 2012 | Eerie Estate Agent | Scottish Games | We like this game very much. We think you’d like it too. If not, there’s very clearly something deeply, fundamentally wrong with you. It’s fun, creepy, exciting, intriguing and well put together. |
| September 17th, 2012 | Vampire | Mrs. Giggles | And the story line is actually a pretty compelling one, if not exactly original. There are laments of heartbreak, pathos, and drama that are pretty nicely done. Some of the secondary characters are memorably written, and the doomed love affairs can prick the heart a bit. Also, there is considerably evocative use of historical details to add color to the story line. Your character observes and occasionally participates in the social and political turmoil of America in the 19th century, and often, you will feel that you really are in your character’s shoes. Or pointy heels, depending on how you like your vampires. |
| September 7th, 2012 | Zombies | Game Craic | There’s hours of fun to be had crafting your own stories and Choice of Zombies even gives you a run down of your statistics once you reach the end, so you can brag about your zombie survival prowess with your pals. |
| September 5th, 2012 | Way Walkers | IndieRPGs | |
| September 2nd, 2012 | Way Walkers | MobyGames | This game additionally features occasional illustrations beyond those found in earlier CoG offerings. |
| September 1st, 2012 | Eerie Estate Agent | MobyGames | But the player is under Glengarry Glen Ross pressure to outperform a corporate rival or find themselves in the dole queue, [choosing] what rent rate to ask of the nice family, which aspects of the neighbourhood to emphasize when making the sell and whether to dispatch an exterminator when they complain of scratching in the walls at night. |
| August 31st, 2012 | Eerie Estate Agent | GhostStorm | |
| August 31st, 2012 | Choice of Games | Indiegraph | |
| August 31st, 2012 | Eerie Estate Agent | JayIsGames | Eerie Estate Agent is one of those rare text adventures whose breezy, engaging dialogue is so effortlessly glib and chatty it’s a little enviable. Despite some genuinely creepy moments, it’s funny without ever feeling like it’s trying hard to be so, balancing humour both dry and dark. |
| August 31st, 2012 | Eerie Estate Agent | IndieGames | Eerie Estate Agent is the latest game in Choice of Games’ stable and a brilliant one at that. |
| August 24th, 2012 | Way Walkers | IndieRPGs | |
| August 17th, 2012 | Eerie Estate Agent | GameZebo | It’s one thing to read a novel featuring a protagonist that suffers a dire fate. It’s another thing entirely to push said protagonist down the stairs yourself. |
| August 17th, 2012 | Heroes Rise: The Prodigy | TouchArcade | Sometimes, gamebooks offer blind choices, force illogical decisions, or allow for strategic decision making but not moral conundrums. Heroes Rise does a great job with the design and writing of its decision points. Some are pure action and strategy, but most are focused on who you are as a hero (or, potentially, a villain) and how you will relate to those around you. |
| August 16th, 2012 | Eerie Estate Agent | IndieGame Magazine | I thoroughly enjoyed the time I had with the game; it is so well written that as I played I developed a sense of what your horrid boss looks like without looking at any promotional material. Then I saw the official screenshot and my rendition was strangely similar. |
| August 7th, 2012 | Heroes Rise: The Prodigy | IndieGame Magazine | Identifying with one’s character is quite easy, after you’ve chosen your name and gender, customized your herosuit and powerset, and chosen a personality for your omnipresent MeChip virtual assistant. You also impact interpersonal relationships by the dialogue you choose, making the characters and relationships so much more engaging. |
| August 1st, 2012 | Heroes Rise: The Prodigy | Moby Games | In this entirely textual superhero game, the player gets to customize story-relevant attributes of a Power user — sex, sexual orientation, motivation — and then parachutes them into this would-be hero’s life story, leaving behind their unglamorous day job as a tester for virtual reality Power simulators and hitting the vigilante scene with the DRPR (Department for the Regulation of Powered Resources) license their grandma bought them for their birthday. |
| July 27th, 2012 | Choice of Games | Indiegraph | As you can see, this is a great group and I hope you find their games as fascinating as I do. |
| July 22nd, 2012 | Heroes Rise: The Prodigy | Lloyd of Gamebooks | |
| July 19th, 2012 | Heroes Rise: The Prodigy | Rock, Paper, Shotgun | There’s a great deal of angst, possibilities for romance and plenty of conspiracies and crimes, some of which I’ve been committing myself. Adam Apple, also known as Fantabulous, creates energy shields with ease, has punched thugs into submission, soars through the air with ease and attempts to seduce everyone he meets. The little tinker would seduce a death ray into submission if he thought it would respond to his dubious charms. |
| July 18th, 2012 | Heroes Rise: The Prodigy | IndieRPGs | |
| July 16th, 2012 | Heroes Rise: The Prodigy | IndieGames | Though best for those who love comic books and super heroes, Heroes Rise remains an excellent entry into the company’s roster of titles. |
| July 14th, 2012 | Heroes Rise: The Prodigy | JayIsGames | |
| June 19th, 2012 | Zombies | Gastrogamer | Providing the user choice over their actions gives a sense of meaning and interactivity to any action that players take within the game. |
| June 12th, 2012 | Choice of Games | PocketNow | |
| June 11th, 2012 | Choice of Games | Otome Gaming Diary | |
| June 10th, 2012 | Zombies | Buy Poe | Interactive fiction games can be fun when they are typo-free and well written which is exactly what Choice of Zombies is. There are plenty of paths to choose from in this multiple choice adventure, all of which are pretty much guaranteed to eat up all of your free time especially for those who enjoy reading in the first place. |
| June 4th, 2012 | Zombies | The Sleepy Kitten | Other than being great for teaching you how to survive, this game is (in my opinion) beautifully written, action packed, and Jennifer… I know a Jennifer. There is no way they could have made her more realistic than they did. |
| May 21st, 2012 | Choice of Games | Gay Gamer | |
| April 17th, 2012 | Zombies | Explosion | Interactive fiction games can be fun when they are typo-free and well written which is exactly what Choice of Zombies is. |
| April 17th, 2012 | Zombies | IndieRPGs.com | Pro tip: zombies like brains. Use brawn. |
| April 16th, 2012 | Zombies | 148 Apps | Players have a surprising amount of freedom in deciding what to do with their game, be it trying to band together with other survivors for safety or simply going out and slaughtering the undead horde. |
| April 14th, 2012 | Zombies | Moby Games | Player choices… inform the makeup (if any) of the travelling fellowship of other zombiepocalypse survivors traveling along with the player, all of whom have different strengths and weaknesses and not all of whom get along with each other very well under stressful situations. |
| April 13th, 2012 | Zombies | Jay Is Games | The writing is not only engaging but it displays how much thought and time the authors spent making this a great tale… It’s worth taking the extra time to play through the entire story then restart and try different choices. There are multiple endings, different people you can save, and more chances to beat previous zombie kill scores. |
| February 22nd, 2012 | Choice of Games | Ashton Saylor | “I really like the focus on story in the Choice gamebooks. They are less about adventuring and more about navigating political or social interactions.” |
| February 8th, 2012 | Zombie Exodus | Android Tapp | “It’s a good novel combined with a good little text-based game, and the combination is enough to make for a compelling app.” |
| January 7th, 2012 | Zombie Exodus | Reelfoot Hoodrat’s Thoughts | “I liked making my own character, she was cool and kicked zombie butt.” |
| January 3rd, 2012 | Intrigues | Pop Matters | “Choice of Intrigues continues the great writing and character drama found in its predecessor, Choice of Romance but raises the stakes as you defend your reputation and the power that you have established.” |
| January 2nd, 2012 | Zombie Exodus | Here be Zombies | |
| July 23rd, 2011 | Affairs | Gods, Witches, Space and Stars | “Every decision the game asks you to make has consequences for multiple levels of politics at the same time. No one decision affects just you… [I]t’s like a microcosm of How Intrigue Plots are Done Right.” |
| July 20th, 2011 | Intrigues | IndieRPGs.com | “In fairness, having now taken the game for a spin, I can report that you don’t actually have to play as a pretty pretty princess.” |
| July 6th, 2011 | Affairs | Indie Game Reviewer | “So if your cup of tea is sitting back and reading a good romance novel, why not make your own story with this series?” |
| July 5th, 2011 | Intrigues | GayGamer | “Which is why the decidedly other, banal details struck me more. Sure, as two mages who can hurl fireballs instead of making sure we can make children, the king and I could not create a life mage to be heir to his throne. However, it just underscored the needless ways we complicate our worlds. And for what? Power.” |
| March 16th, 2011 | Dragon | Character Arcade | “Finally, proof that the text-based genre is not dead…” |
| February 25th, 2011 | Choice of Games | Geek Mom | |
| February 23th, 2011 | Dragon | Time Well Wasted | That’s right. This game has a f*cking disdain meter. Seriously. It actually keeps track of how much you don’t give a sh!t about puny humans and their laughable ways. Racking up those disdain points gave me way more joy than a 20-minute long multiple choice adventure game has any right to, and for that I raise my leathery wing to it in a salute. |
| February 4th, 2011 | Romance | Mobile Appmerica | |
| February 1st, 2011 | Romance | Appolicious | |
| January 30th, 2011 | Broadsides | Old Salt Blog | What makes “Choice of Broadsides” fun is that is contains virtually every cliche in Georgian naval fiction. |
| January 25th, 2011 | Choice of Games | Kindle User | |
| January 20th, 2011 | Broadsides | Your Critic is in Another Castle | Something deep in me socialized such that even in a completely fictional situation with no actual consequences, when surrounded by other women I strove to act diplomatically and to maintain as much harmony as possible in the unit, while assuming this would serve my self-interest in the long run. As a man surrounded by men, I was able to flip the switch to, “I’m getting mine, fuck y’all.” |
| January 16th, 2011 | Choice of Games | Android Dreams | |
| January 14th, 2011 | Choice of Games | Booksprung | |
| January 11th, 2011 | Broadsides | Broadsides | |
| January 4th, 2011 | Choice of Games | Emily Short | |
| December 30th, 2010 | Vampire | Bite This! | |
| December 22nd, 2010 | Choice of Games | Gamasutra | |
| December 22nd, 2010 | Broadsides | Game Pron | |
| December 19th, 2010 | Broadsides | Find eBook Readers | If you like gamebooks, you’ll love Choice of Broadsides. Its unique approach to interactive fiction allows larger, deeper, and richer stories than traditional gamebooks. |
| December 6th, 2010 | Dragon | Borderhouse | |
| December 6th, 2010 | Dragon | Rock, Paper Shotgun | Hidden under this free browser game’s superficially shallow, box-ticking presentation is a smart roleplayer-lite. |
| October 14th, 2010 | Popcorn | AppSafari | |
| October 7th, 2010 | Vampire | AppSafari | All in all, it was a pleasure to read about vampires with a little bite for a change, instead of toothless teenage fantasies, so if you’re the type who could use a little dark and dangerous text adventure fun, Choice of the Vampire should be right up your alley. |
| October 5th, 2010 | Vampire | RoboAwesome | |
| October 3rd, 2010 | Vampire | MobyGames | Certain elements of the story veer into Choice of Romance territory, these vampires caught up in soap operatic machinations to rival Anne Rice’s best. |
| October 1st, 2010 | Romance | Moby Games | |
| September 30th, 2010 | Romance | AppSafari | A wonderfully fascinating and addictive experience that will leave you playing it over and over again as you attempt to discover each new ending. |
| September 20th, 2010 | Vampire | In the Company of Grues | |
| September 17th, 2010 | Romance | Simpson’s Paradox | “Choice of Romance was very open-ended, and while I felt that my actions had consequences, I didn’t feel like the game was out to trick me or punish me for a wrong choice. You’re able to pursue the king, a wealthy older lord, and a young rebel, and dive into politics, make subtle changes or steer clear of the whole thing, for several satisfying endings.” |
| September 16th, 2010 | Choice of Games | In the Company of Grues | |
| September 9th, 2010 | Choice of Games | Epic Randomness | |
| September 2nd, 2010 | Romance | Jezebel | |
| September 1st, 2010 | Vampire | 148 Apps | “While it might look simple on the surface, a deeper look reveals Choice of the Vampire to be a historically grounded, complex “game” that blends RPG elements with excellent storytelling. You won’t find Twilight-esque vampires here: this is New Orleans, circa 1814, and you character is exactly what you make of him…or her.” |
| August 31st, 2010 | Romance | Ferretbrain | “Suddenly we realised how clever the game had been. Without telling you anything more than that you were a noblewoman (or nobleman) going to court to find an advantageous marriage, the game had put you into the shoes of one of the most famous women in English history without even realising what you were doing…” |
| August 28th, 2010 | Vampire | Jay Is Games | “Whether you rise from obscurity to become a terror in vampire Society, or find yourself unable to resist the comforts and emotions of mortals, Choice of the Vampire is an exceptionally ambitious and well made adventure that shouldn’t be missed by any fan of text games.” |
| August 23rd, 2010 | Romance | Gay Gamer | |
| August 23rd, 2010 | Romance | Dealspwn | |
| August 20th, 2010 | Romance | Jay Is Games | “Despite following a certain story, the narrative affords you a lot of freedom. You’re still only choosing a response or action from a set list, but they’re generally varied enough to give you a sense of character development as you choose. The game even gives you the option early on in setting your preference for men or women regardless of your gender, which makes the game accessible and more immersive for everyone. For a game with the word “romance” right there in the title, it’s nice to see one that is open to all types of love.” |
| August 20th, 2010 | Romance | Hack Education | |
| August 4th, 2010 | Broadsides | The Guardian | “I played [Choice of Broadsides] as a woman, putting me in the deliciously mind-bending position of agreeing that allowing delicate young men to join the Navy is a disgusting idea, and becoming part of a ship crewed entirely by women. It’s hilarious, but an innovative and fascinating way of tackling gender – I’ll be eagerly awaiting the company’s next game.” |
| July 26th, 2010 | Broadsides | Deux Ex Machinatio | |
| July 14th, 2010 | Broadsides | Metafilter | |
| July 8th, 2010 | Dragon | 148 Apps | “The game is an old-fashioned, text-based RPG in which you pick from multiple-choice answers and follow branching paths through Choice of the Dragon’s loose plot. Simple? Yes. Boring? Never.” |
| July 2nd, 2010 | Broadsides | Play This Thing | |
| June 22nd, 2010 | Broadsides | Ferret Brain | |
| June 17th, 2010 | Choice of Games | Hack Education | |
| June 15th, 2010 | Broadsides | IndieRPGs | |
| June 1st, 2010 | Broadsides | Simpson’s Paradox | |
| May 11th, 2010 | Broadsides | Secret Identity (Podcast) | |
| May 10th, 2010 | Broadsides | Border House | |
| April 20th, 2010 | Broadsides | Game Set Watch | |
| April 9th, 2010 | Broadsides | Android and Me | |
| April 7th, 2010 | Broadsides | Moby Games | |
| April 5th, 2010 | Broadsides | Dealspwn | |
| April 4th, 2010 | Dragon | Moby Games | |
| April 2nd, 2010 | Broadsides | Jay Is Games | “Surprisingly deep and well written, Choice of Broadsides is an ambitious adventure with a lot of twists and turns that should provide a lot of meat for fans of text RPGs to sink their teeth into.” |
| April 1st, 2010 | Dragon | App Safari | |
| February 9th, 2010 | Dragon | Jay Is Games | |
| February 1st, 2010 | Dragon | Metafilter | |
| January 23rd, 2010 | Dragon | Acid for Blood | |
| January 20th, 2010 | Dragon | Gay Gamer | |
| January 20th, 2010 | Dragon | Edge Online | …branching narrative is so compelling and the urge to see the other outcomes so strong that I wondered: why not get rid of all the scut work? Why not play a game like [Dragon Age] in which I make the big decisions and don’t have to slog through the dungeon crawls to get there? |
| January 15th, 2010 | Dragon | Apple Gazette | |
| January 11th, 2010 | Dragon | io9 | “The best part of the game, however, is the narrative voice crafted by designers Dan Fabulich and Adam Strong-Morse. It’s a perfect blend of Monty Python humor and RPG geekery.” |
| January 11th, 2010 | Dragon | Giant Monsters Attack! | |
| January 10th, 2010 | Dragon | Beeps & Boops | “Based on the strength of their first project, I think the folks at choiceofgames.com are worth keeping an eye on. They’re directly tackling one of the biggest issues in game development and I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw some striking developments in the upcoming months.” |
| January 7th, 2010 | Dragon | Examiner |
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