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Deathtrap Dungeon: The Interactive Video Adventure

March 31, 2023

YOU become the adventurer in Deathtrap Dungeon but this time you get to listen. Deathtrap Dungeon: The Interactive Video Adventure is an audio/video experience where Eddie Marsan reads Deathtrap Dungeon to you, and you click the choice. It really is Deathtrap Dungeon, word for word, the same critters and maps and all – just read […]

Deathtrap Dungeon Trilogy Video Game

May 16, 2019

This sequel to Fighting Fantasy Legends brings three more classic FF gamebooks into video game form. This time, the books are the Baron Sukumvit trilogy: Deathtrap Dungeon Trial of Champions and Armies of Death But they’ve changed a few things, not all of them for the better. For a start, there’s an opening menu to […]

Fighting Fantasy Legends

Fighting Fantasy Legends is a medley/mashup of three of the most popular Fighting Fantasy titles: Warlock of Firetop Mountain Citadel of Chaos and City of Thieves The playing style is an open world, where you discover these three interconnected adventures while poking about town. You don’t need to do them in any specific sequence — […]

Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf HD, the Video Game

Joe Dever’s famous Lone Wolf series of gamebooks was immensely popular. Not only did these two men make over 30 gamebooks, and later grant rights to have them freely published online, but they also created a really fun video game. It’s a really well done combination of book (lots of text and illustrations), multimedia video […]

Infinite Universe

June 24, 2018

YOU become the chosen prophesied one … Yes, really. Stop laughing! The earth government of the galaxy has pulled you 1,000 years into the future, to track down and eliminate the leader of a separatist freedom-fighting organization. Sorry, I meant terrorists. I think. It’s so hard to tell the difference. Why don’t they just use […]

Lords of Nurroth

May 10, 2017

YOU become a thief in the infamous Nurroth, Orlandes’ own version of Port Blacksand. You’re hired for a simple task of stealing a document, and are offered double your usual rate. Who would pass up a deal like that? But what comes after the heist? That’s up to you. There are many paths to happiness. […]

Sultans of Rema

April 5, 2017

YOU BECAME a slave but this time you’re on a mission. In Slaves of Rema your introduction to the southern continent of Rema was less than friendly: slavery, gladiatorial combat, and a plot to overthrow the Grand Duke of Orlandes. It’s a year later. The Reman empire has continued to decline, and the United Emirates […]

Songs of the Mystics

January 29, 2017

YOUR MOM BECOMES the Earth Queen, the priestess-chieftain of a tribe of insular, xenophobic druids living in a forest at a lake which is the center of all life in the world. She is disturbed that the forest is weakening, that the lake needs a sacrifice to become strong. She offers a sacrifice of life, […]

Curse of the Assassin

January 18, 2017

YOU ATTEND the funeral of an old friend, one of your adventuring buddies from back when you were kids. You find out that he was murdered for investigating a local cult, and you are out for revenge. In the process, you find a connection to Eltane, the would-be usurper in GA #1, Assassin in Orlandes, […]

Asuria Awakens

August 14, 2016

YOU BECOME the investigator when a religious sect claims that Asuria, the beneficent god of humanity, is returning to earth. A generous and helpful god sounds like something good… but when Asuria died he left a note saying that if he comes back from the dead, then it’s a fake and you should kill it […]

The Wizard From Tarnath Tor

August 8, 2016

YOU BECOME a really ticked-off assault victim when you’re robbed, tied to a tree, and left to die. Days later, a wizard is passing through and needs a favor from you because you seem like you can handle yourself in a fight. (huh? really?) Just go to the lost legendary city of Tarnath-Tor (can’t miss […]

Siege of the Necromancer

July 17, 2016

YOU BECOME a miner returning home to your family after a year in the mines, earning money for backbreaking work. You find your hometown burned and pillaged, deserted except for goblins and a dying soldier. The soldier tells you that a necromancer named Erid Buul has taken up residence in the lord’s castle, and commands […]

Slaves of Rema

When YOU BECOME a gladiatorial slave in the empire of Rema across the sea, suddenly your homeland’s saying “We fight wars so that we can have peace, and we use slaves so that we can have freedom.” is not sounding so great anymore! Can you escape the gladiatorial prison, find passage on a ship home, […]

Catacombs of the Undercity

July 6, 2016

YOU BECOME a very unhappy thief when the local thieves’ guild catches you picking pockets at the market. The band of brigands has thrown you into the sewer (not at all a catacomb despite the name) where you’re sure to be eaten by blood rats and hagfish, or be killed by the brigands and sorcerors […]

An Assassin in Orlandes

June 16, 2016

YOU BECOME a forelorn lover, getting drunk after a breakup. On your stumble home, you witness a murder, then find out that your ex has been kidnapped! Now it’s an adventure through sewers and catacombs, monasteries and mountains, halls of records and bazaars, to find out where she is… then to make good her rescue. […]

Temple of the Spider God

June 10, 2016

YOU BECOME a pest-removal specialist when some clown mails a giant poisonous spider to the king. Despite your deathly fear of spiders, you’re still the king’s choice to sleuth out an assassination attempt involving mind-control spiders (maybe “because of” your deathly fear? it doesn’t say that the king likes you). Your investigation exposes a much […]

Revenant Rising

June 1, 2016

YOU BECOME a petty crook, when a friend talks you into burglarizing a necromancer’s dungeon. What could possibly go wrong? Well, let’s put it this way… When you anger a necromancer, betrayal and murder are just the beginning. Review and Opinion This was my first of the Gamebook Adventure series, as it had the […]

Gamebook Adventures

Tin Man Games publishes the digital versions of Fighting Fantasy for Android, iOS, etc. Through this connection, I found Tin Man Games’ own adventure series, Gamebook Adventures. Some time when you forget your book bag but have your iPad handy, give one of them a try. 1 An Assassin in Orlandes 2 Siege of the […]

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