Feb 13
2025
New Heart’s Choice Game! “Devil on Your Shoulder”—Love and fame, and all it costs is your soul!
Posted by: Mary Duffy | Comments (34)
We’re proud to announce that Devil on Your Shoulder, the latest in our “Heart’s Choice” line of multiple-choice interactive romance novels, is now available for iOS and Android in the “Heart’s Choice” app. You can also download it on Steam, or enjoy it on our website. It’s 30% off until February 20th!
See your name in lights on Broadway! Find fame, fortune, and true love! All it costs is your immortal soul.
Devil on Your Shoulder is an interactive urban fantasy romance novel by Lisa Fox, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, 300,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
It’s the ’90s! You’ve just moved to New York to chase your dreams of Broadway stardom. Every day you walk past the theaters where legendary shows debuted. Rent! Les Miserables! Phantom of the Opera! Smash hits bring audiences to their feet and launch the careers of people just like you. You’ve landed an audition for a new production of Alice in Wonderland, which could be your big break, but hitting it big is harder than you ever imagined.
Meanwhile, you’re trying to make another one of your dreams come true: to find love. Will it be with your neighbor Cris? He’s an award-winning photojournalist, daring enough to go into war zones, with luxurious long dark hair, strong tattooed arms, and very sexy dance moves.
Or will you fall for Ryan, a rising politician from a fabulously wealthy family, with sparkling sapphire eyes and movie-star good looks? He’s always looking to the future, full of ideas about how to make New York a better place: will you be part of the next political dynasty with him?
But then, you and your roommate accidentally summon a powerful demon. A very [i]handsome[/i] powerful demon named Davin, who instantly turns all of his infernal might towards helping you! With a wave of his hand, he can grant your every wish. Land that starring role? Take down your rival? Save your local bookstore from gentrification? Win the lottery? It’s done!…as long as you give him a bit of your soul.
The demon is always whispering in your ear. There’s a reason the phrase ‘handsome as sin’ exists—and it might be because of his flowing golden hair and supernaturally sharp suits. He’s enormously powerful, yes—but he’s got some metaphorical demons of his own haunting his past, and with your help, he just might be able to break free.
Become everything you’ve dreamed of in the glorious, glamorous, gritty concrete jungle of 1990s New York. Dance at a star-studded gala; sing your heart out at auditions; stroll through Central Park; dive deep into the graffiti-filled subways. Will you give in to temptation so that you can achieve stardom, or try to make it on your own and risk losing it all?
• Play as a woman romancing men.
• Find love with a daring photojournalist, a visionary politician, or a tempting demon.
• Preserve your soul, or spend it freely to gain effortless rewards!
• Try to land a starring role on Broadway: choose your performance style and charm the producers!
• Mingle with the poets, dreamers, and eccentrics of the East Village! Help them resist gentrification or make way for the next millennium.
• Join a political campaign to bring in a new era in New York City politics!
• Befriend your professional rival, or do whatever it takes to cut her down.
• Dig deeper into arcane mysteries to understand your demon’s mystic powers—or to break free of the bonds that tie you together.
How far will you go to see your name in lights?
We hope you enjoy playing Devil on Your Shoulder. We encourage you to tell your friends about it, and recommend the game on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and other sites. Don’t forget: our initial download rate determines our ranking on the App Store. The more times you download in the first week, the better our games will rank.
Huge congratulations @Lisa_Fox! I hope you can do something nice to celebrate this achievement!
I couldn’t be happier to add this game to my collection.
There’s so much to love in Devil on Your Shoulder. Its lighthearted, irreverent take on the Faustian bargain theme is delightful. Lisa Fox’s depiction of 1990s New York thrums with life. If you’ve ever done theater (or just really, really, really wanted to, like me), you’ll enjoy this story of Broadway dreams, from audition jitters to backstage backstabbing. If you love '90s music and fashion and remembering (or imagining, for all you young whippersnappers out there) the thrill of living on the cusp of a new millennium, this game is for you. There are some great romance options - an idealistic and ambitious political hopeful, an edgy photojournalist with hidden depths, and a demon who is absolutely, 100%, not concealing a heart of gold beneath his sinfully suave exterior. And if none of the guys appeal to you, it’s possible to play without romance and still read a good story.
I recommend trying out this game with a few different character builds. It’s fun to give in to temptation at every turn and watch everything you’ve ever wanted fall into your hand like ripe fruit, but one of my most satisfying playthroughs was one in which I was a
self-inserttotal wet blanket, much to my demon companion’s increasingly bemused - and amusing - consternation.I enjoyed A Pirate’s Pleasure, but Fox’s second game for Heart’s Choice is a much more assured and confident work, bigger and bolder and better. I hope this won’t be the last we hear from her.
“I can fix him” diary day one:
Congrats on the release! What’s the spice rating on this time?
Congrats Lisa!!! I’m excited to read this one.