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Hosted Games has a new game for you to play! Navigate unknown waters, deadly politics, and ancient magic to save your clan! Diaspora is 33% off until August 13th! Diaspora is a one-million-word interactive novel by Vincent Cunningham and JJ Laurier. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Vincent and JJ 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

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We’re excited to announce that the free demo for our upcoming game Hunter: The Reckoning — Day for Night is available now on Steam! These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? Hunter: The Reckoning — Day for Night is an interactive novel by Josh Labelle set in the World of Darkness. It’s entirely text-based, 1,000,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Hunter: The Reckoning — Day for Night will

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Unlock the secrets of Gigantea! Today, we are thrilled to release a major, free expansion to Spire, Surge, and Sea, the Nebula Award Finalist post-apocalyptic science fantasy novel by Stewart C. Baker. Today’s update to Spire, Surge, and Sea is available at no additional charge. To celebrate, both of Stewart’s Nebula Finalist games are on sale for 40% off until July 30! Whether you are a returning voyager or braving the Worldsea for the very first time, there has never been a better time to play Spire, Surge, and Sea. What’s New in the Free Update?

We’re excited to announce the release date for our upcoming game Hunter: The Reckoning — Day for Night on September 17th. Wishlist it now on Steam! These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? Hunter: The Reckoning — Day for Night is an interactive novel by Josh Labelle set in the World of Darkness. 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 your imagination. Hollywood is full of monsters. From

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Oaths & Ashes is a narrative-driven vampire visual novel set in present-night Berlin, after the fall of the city’s Prince left the Camarilla in retreat and the Anarchs fighting over the wreckage. You play two Kindred whose fates collide: Alice, a disciplined Ventrue sent in to keep the city from unifying, and Lenz, a burned-out Thinblood alchemist who survives on the Ashes – a drug refined from the ashes of destroyed Kindred. Their weapons are words, influence, supernatural Disciplines and forbidden Alchemy. Every choice you make will redraw Berlin’s map of power. It is a story about what people are

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Hosted Games has a new game for you to play! When midnight strikes, public streets turn into racetracks and every turn has a price. In Los Santino, everyone answers to the call of adrenaline pumping speed, including you. Build your legend as a top racer or become another name lost in the huddle. Velocity: The Race Begins is 30% off until July 9th! Velocity: The Race Begins is an exciting 300,000-word interactive racing novel by Matt Ryland, 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. Choose

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Happy Pride! Choice of Games is proud to be gender-inclusive and LGBTQ+-affirming all year round, but during the month of June, we’re featuring writers whose work connects especially closely with those themes. Today we’re sitting down with Harris Powell-Smith, author of five titles for Choice of Games, including the hit Crème de la Crème series. The Crème de la Crème series plays with a setting that is traditionally single-gender – boarding school – but that in your world is gender-inclusive. Can you talk about that journey and how you arrived at the gender dynamics that you did for your gameworld?

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Pride isn’t just for a month! All year, we work to bring you games that offer a diverse and expansive view of love, family, and identity. But we’ll take any excuse to celebrate, and so we’re putting games on sale every week of June that showcase and explore that diversity, and we’re featuring interviews with the authors of those games. This week, we’re featuring five games by Harris Powell-Smith. Crème de la Crème, Noblesse Oblige, Royal Affairs, Honor Bound, and Blood Money are up to 40% off until June 29th!

Happy Pride! Choice of Games is proud to be gender-inclusive and LGBTQ+-affirming all year round, but during the month of June, we’re featuring writers whose work connects especially closely with those themes. Today we’re sitting down with Charli Battersby, author of Kidnapped: A Royal Birthday and Cheerleader’s Choice: New York Spirit. Cheerleading is an environment that can sometimes be very heteronormative, but can also play with ideas about gender. How did you approach those issues when you were writing Cheerleader’s Choice? Female cheerleading is definitely heteronormative. Even on LGBT teams. And male cheerleading used to be heteronormative too. In fact

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Pride isn’t just for a month! All year, we work to bring you games that offer a diverse and expansive view of love, family, and identity. But we’ll take any excuse to celebrate, and so we’re putting games on sale every week of June that showcase and explore that diversity, and we’re featuring interviews with the authors of those games. This week, we’re featuring two games by Charli Battersby. Cheerleader’s Choice: New York Spirit and Kidnapped! A Royal Birthday are up to 40% off until June 22nd! Cheerleader’s Choice: New York Spirit — Be heroic! B-E heroic!Kidnapped! A Royal Birthday

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