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We’re proud to announce that Diabolical, the latest in our popular “Choice of Games” line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available for Steam, iOS, and Android. It’s 25% off until November 13th. Start practicing your evil laugh! As the world’s greatest criminal mastermind, choose a lair, hire a minion, and steal the world’s largest ball of aluminum foil! (Or, destroy the world. FINE.) “Diabolical” is a 130,000-word interactive novel by Nick Aires, 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. Famous, feared, or filthy rich–why

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There’s a new game in our Hosted Games program ready for you to play! Win the Steam-Powered Fight for a Nation! In Attack of the Clockwork Army, by Felicity Banks, when the battle for Australia begins, will you join Her Majesty’s new clockwork army to keep Australia peacefully British once and for all—or will you cast your lot with a ragged crowd of ex-convicts? Will you be a deadly fighter, or torn between the conflicting loyalties of those you love? Can you overcome your fatal flaw before it’s too late? Are you ready to turn the tide of history? Play

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Fight Clockwork Men and Bushrangers in the Battle for Australian Independence!

As a criminal mastermind, choose a lair, rob a bank, hire a minion, and steal the world’s largest ball of aluminum foil! (Or, destroy the world. FINE.)

We’re proud to announce that Deathless: The City’s Thirst, the latest in our popular “Choice of Games” line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available for Steam, iOS, and Android. It’s 25% off until November 2nd. Negotiate water rights from scorpion gods in this necromantic legal thriller! Discredit your boss, solve murders, and reanimate your own corpse to keep your city from drying out. “Deathless: The City’s Thirst” is a 150,000-word interactive novel by Max Gladstone, author of “Choice of the Deathless” and the “Craft Sequence” novels, nominated for the John W Campbell Best New Writer Award, the XYZZY award,

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We’re happy to announce that one of our bestselling Hosted Games, Zombie Exodus, is now available on Steam for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Buy it today for 25% off the regular price! Zombie Exodus is an interactive survival novel by Jim Dattilo (author of A Wise Use of Time). It’s over 700,000 words long. It starts with a daring escape from a zombie-infested city; it ends at Zombie Exodus, when a horde of zombies swarms outlying settlements like locusts. We’ve published a number of popular games on Steam under our “Choice of Games” label, and earlier this year we published

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Negotiate water rights from scorpion gods in Max Gladstone’s necromantic legal thriller! Discredit your boss, solve murders, and reanimate your own corpse.

Killer robots, warriors in well-tailored robes, interviews that test your skill with a stun baton — all just another day in the world of The Founders.

We’re proud to announce that Ratings War, the latest in our popular “Choice of Games” line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available for Steam, iOS, and Android. It’s 33% off until October 9th. Implant cameras in your eyes to win the news wars of 2061! Record your way through dystopian New Angeles, solving multiple murders and conquering the airwaves as you go! “Ratings War” is a thrilling 80,000-word interactive novel by Eddy Webb, 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. Outwit your rivals at

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Max Gladstone, author of Choice of the Deathless, is working on a delightful new serialized (non-interactive) novel, Bookburners, with our friends at Serial Box. (Serial Box is like HBO for books: top-shelf writing in weekly episodes.) Magic is real, and hungry—trapped in ancient texts and artifacts, only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Detective Sal Brooks is a survivor. Freshly awake to just what dangers are lurking, she joins a Vatican-backed black-ops anti-magic squad: Team Three of the Societas Librorum Occultorum. Together they stand between humanity and magical apocalypse. Some call them the Bookburners. They don’t like

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