Mar 13
2025
“The Ghost and the Golem” and “Restore, Reflect, Retry” are Finalists for Best Game Writing in the 60th Annual Nebula Awards
Posted by: Mary Duffy | Comments (4)
We are thrilled to announce that The Ghost and the Golem, by Benjamin Rosenbaum, and Restore, Reflect, Retry by Natalia Theodoridou are finalists for Best Game Writing in the 60th Annual Nebula Awards, and both games are on sale for 40% off until March 20th!
The Ghost and the Golem is a 450,000 word historical fantasy novel by Benjamin Rosenbaum. Can your magic amulet save your Jewish village from destruction? Uncover the truth and forge alliances with soldiers, bandits, anarchists, and demons!
Restore, Reflect, Retry is a 90,000 word interactive horror novel by Natalia Theodoridou. You’ve played this game before. It’s a haunted game about a haunted game. You may not remember, but the game remembers you. I remember you.
To celebrate, we are also putting every previous Nebula Finalist game on sale:
The Bread Must Rise
Vampire: The Masquerade—Sins of the Sires
The Luminous Underground
The Road to Canterbury
The Magician’s Workshop
Rent-A-Vice
The Martian Job
Check out our Nebula Finalists bundle on Steam for an even bigger discount!
This is the seventh year that there has been a Nebula award for game writing—and the sixth year that Choice of Games authors have been finalists. Past Choice of Games Nebula finalists are: James Beamon and Stewart C. Baker for The Bread Must Rise, Natalia Theodoridou for Vampire: The Masquerade—Sins of the Sires and Rent-A-Vice, Phoebe Barton for The Luminous Underground, Kate Heartfield for The Road to Canterbury and The Magician’s Workshop, and M. Darusha Wehm for The Martian Job.
We also want to congratulate Choice of Games authors Stewart C. Baker, Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Naca Rat, Natalia Theodoridou, and M. Darusha Wehm for being finalists this year for their writing on the game A Death in Hyperspace.
Since 1965, the Nebula Awards have been given annually to the best works of science fiction and fantasy published that year, as voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). The 60th Annual Nebula Awards ceremony will be streamed live during the 2025 Nebula Conference, June 7, 2025. Stay tuned for more!
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Congrats to The Ghost and the Golem and Restore, Reflect, Retry for making it to the Nebula finals! I’ve played RRR and really enjoyed it, so I’m excited to see it as a finalist! For those who have played The Ghost and the Golem or any of the past finalists, which one should I start with next
The Ghost and the Golem is definitely worth your time!
I also recommend The Bread Must Rise if you want something funny, Sins of the Sires if you want something dark and broody.
Or you could just play RRR again … you never know …
This is a richly deserved nomination for Ghost and the Golem, it was one of the best new titles in years. RRR is new to me since I play almost exclusively through Steam - it would be cool if CoG did a “best of” megapack of all the super-short games as a single Steam title someday.
RRR is available on Steam. All CoG titles are, regardless of length.