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It’s fun to be a villain—and this week, you can enact your nefarious schemes for less! Get Neighbourhood Necromancer, Diabolical, The Bread Must Rise, Grand Academy for Future Villains, Grand Academy II: Attack of the Sequel, and Top Villain: Total Domination on our website this week for up to 40% off!  These discounts are only available on choiceofgames.com, and only until August 1st. We hope you enjoy playing our comedic villainy games, and we encourage you to tell your friends about them and to recommend them on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and other sites.

Quench the thirst of 1920s Prohibition New York! Build a criminal organization to distill and peddle whiskey, and you could end up rich, famous, or dead. Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire is an interactive historical novel by Drew Morrison. It’s entirely text-based, 150,000 words and hundreds of choices. Choice of Games editor Mary Duffy sat down with Drew to talk about Prohibition, ChoiceScript, and his writing process. Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire will be available on Thursday, August 22nd. You can wishlist it on Steam in advance of its release—it really helps! I think this is your first time writing interactive fiction, but you’re

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Can your magic amulet save your Jewish village from destruction? Uncover the truth and forge alliances with soldiers, peasants, bandits, anarchists, and demons! The Ghost and the Golem is an interactive historical fantasy novel by Benjamin Rosenbaum. It’s entirely text-based, 450,000 words and hundreds of choices. Choice of Games editor Rebecca Slitt sat down with Benjamin to talk about fantasy, reality, history and more. The Ghost and the Golem will be available on Thursday, August 8th. You can wishlist it on Steam in advance of release—it really helps. In this game, you’re revisiting the setting that you created for your

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We’re proud to announce that These Thieving Hearts, 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 30% off until July 25th! 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. It’s entirely text-based, 280,000 words and hundreds of choices, without

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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? You can now play the free demo of These Thieving Hearts here. To get a peek behind the scenes of this project, you can read an interview with the author, published a few weeks ago, here. And, before you go, make sure to wishlist the game on Steam! This is the second Heart’s Choice title by Raven de Hart; you can play his previous game, Freshman Magic: Spellbooks and Tangled Sheets, for free with

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We’re proud to announce that Restore, Reflect, Retry, 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’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. It’s free to win, and paying to turn off ads is 40% off until July 18th!  Restore, Reflect, Retry is an interactive horror novel by Natalia Theodoridou. It’s entirely text-based, 90,000-words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects, and

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None of you remember who first found the game: the black rectangular box with the small screen on which instructions appear. Of course it piqued your interest: this is the 1990s, after all; and there isn’t much for teenagers to do in your small town. Your friends were intrigued; you were intrigued. So you started to play. And play. And play.

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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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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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!