Take a long look. This will be the last picture you see, and it’s the splash screen.
I’ll admit that I was skeptical about the interactive fiction offerings from Choice of Games, mainly because of their presentation. Seriously, these gamebooks look like Word and Excel had an incestuous lovechild. When I finally took the dip with Choice of Robots, the depth of the writing and storytelling simply blew most other gamebooks out of the water. Here was a book that forced you to make real, hard choices instead of just asking you if you wanted to take the left or right corridor.
Choice of Games’ latest leaves the future behind and heads to a setting where gamebooks have always thrived: fantasy. The new book is called The Hero of Kendrickstone and it puts you in the titular hero’s shoes. Of course, being a Choice of Games book, it’s huge at over 240,000 words and the choices you make aren’t always cut and dried.
The Hero of Kendrickstone is available right now for iOS Universal, Android, and Kindle devices and will run you $3 through March 27. After that, the price goes up. You can always play the first three chapters for free, if you want to try before you buy (scroll all the way to the bottom).
Check out the trailer after the break. In true Choice of Games form, it looks like it was built using PowerPoint.
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