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Jul 03

2024

Life as a Lich—Experience undeath as a powerful necromancer!

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Hosted Games has a new game for you to play! You awake as an undead lich after performing a powerful ritual and will have to recruit undead minions and manage your underworld domains, exploring to discover the dark secrets within them and travel to other planes of existence to interact with fellow immortals. You will have to carefully balance the pursuit of your research of new spells, the logistical challenges of managing large numbers of undead minions and cultists, and the threats originating from your own world and other planes of existence. Life as a Lich is 33% off, and Tokyo

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Jun 26

2024

New Heart’s Choice Author Interview! Raven de Hart, “These Thieving Hearts”

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Pull off legendary heists to steal the world’s most magical treasures, and stay one step ahead of your rivals. What’s hotter: the goods or the guys? These Thieving Hearts is an interactive high-heat gay romance adventure novel by Raven de Hart, author of Freshman Magic: Spellbooks and Tangled Sheets. I sat down with Raven to discuss their upcoming game and what they’re reading these days. These Thieving Hearts will be out on July 18th, 2024; you can wishlist it on Steam in advance of release—it really helps. So excited to be sitting down for another author interview with you! Freshman

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Jun 20

2024

The Mage’s Adventures—free update and expansion!

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The Mage’s Adventures by Samuel Young has been updated with a new ending that wraps up the storyline, making the game complete on its own. In addition to 52,000 words of new content, the update features improved and simplified stats as well as a customizable spellset. This update is free for all customers who have already purchased the game, and for those who haven’t: You can get The Mage’s Adventures and The Magician’s Burden on sale until June 27th!

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Jun 13

2024

Unsupervised—Once, you were a sidekick. Now, you kick ass!

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We’re proud to announce that Unsupervised, the latest in our popular “Choice of Games” line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available for Steam, Android, and on iOS in the “Choice of Games” app. You and your friends were teenage sidekicks of the world’s greatest heroes. But now, the heroes are missing. It’s your turn to kick ass and save the world! It’s 40% off until June 20th!  Unsupervised is a 660,000-word interactive superpower novel by Lucas Zaper and Morton Newberry, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of

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Jun 10

2024

Author Interview—Lucas Zaper and Morton Newberry, “Unsupervised”

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You and your friends were teenage sidekicks of the world’s greatest heroes. But now, the heroes are missing. It’s your turn to kick ass and save the world!

“Unsupervised” is a 660,000-word interactive superpower novel by Lucas Zaper and Morton Newberry, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Which is not as cool as an actual superpower, but you get the idea.

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Jun 06

2024

EXODUS: Climate Activist—Become an activist as you take down polluters.

Posted by: K L | Comments (26)

Hosted Games has a new game for you to play! EXODUS: Climate Activist is 33% off until June 13th! Daniel developed this game using ChoiceScript, a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice interactive novels like these. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience. Write your own game and Hosted Games will publish it for you, giving you a share of the revenue your game produces.

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May 23

2024

New Heart’s Choice Game! Love Undying: A Kiss Before Dawn

Posted by: K L | Comments (31)

We’re proud to announce that Love Undying: A Kiss Before Dawn, 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 33% off until May 30th! Since 2009, the team behind Choice of Games has created high-quality interactive novels in all genres. Now, our new Heart’s Choice label puts romance at the center of the story, and you at the center of the romance. Heart’s Choice games contain no graphics or sound

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May 20

2024

Heart’s Choice Author Interview—Lauren O’Donoghue, Love Undying

Posted by: K L | Comments (3)

Hunt your prey as a vampire on windswept Victorian moors! Who will capture your unbeating heart?  Love Undying: A Kiss Before Dawn is an interactive romance novel by Lauren O’Donoghue. It’s entirely text-based—190,000 words and hundreds of choices—without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. We sat down with Lauren to talk about her work and her process. Love Undying: A Kiss Before Dawn releases this Thursday, May 23rd. You can play the first two chapters for free today! You came to ChoiceScript having written your own interactive fiction in the past. Tell

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May 16

2024

33% off Choice of the Vampire

Posted by: K L | Comments (15)

Choice of the Vampire is 33% off until May 23, including its two game-length DLCs, The Fall of Memphis and St. Louis, Unreal City. Slake your thirst—without becoming a monster! Blessed with the blood-soaked gift of immortality, will you tend the flock of humanity—or twist it to your whims? When a brash young country clashes with a brash young vampire, who will come out ahead? Choice of the Vampire is an epic interactive novel by Jason Stevan Hill. It’s entirely text-based, 900,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of

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May 09

2024

The Butler Did It is now on Steam, and it’s 30% off!

Posted by: K L | Comments (1)

We are happy to announce that our Hosted Game The Butler Did It, by Daniel Elliot, is now available on Steam for the first time ever! To celebrate, you can buy The Butler Did It for 30% off until May 16th. Life in Port Terris is tough. There’s never quite enough to eat, nor quite enough work, and your friends have a nasty habit of being snatched up by the Constables and their bots. When the majordomo of a Great House offers you employment, a warm bed, and all the food you can eat, it’s a tempting offer. Never mind

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