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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 Nebula award winner Natalia Theodoridou, author of Rent-A-Vice, An Odyssey: Echoes of War, Vampire: the Masquerade–Sins of the Sires, and Restore, Reflect, Retry. First, congratulations on being a Nebula finalist again! This time it’s for your debut novel Sour Cherry, which takes on the Bluebeard legend: a story with toxic masculinity, gendered power dynamics, and abusive relationships running through it. There’s also a

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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. These four Choice of Games titles by Natalia Theodoridou are up to 40% off until June 8th! Vampire: The Masquerade—Sins of the Sires — In this elegy of blood, Athens is burning!An Odyssey: Echoes of War — Fight Poseidon’s wrath

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Hosted Games has a new game for you to play! Samurai of Hyuga: Book 6 is the spine-tingling sequel to the interactive tale you know all too well. Or do you? Prepare for a role reversal (to put it mildly) as our favorite ronin faces perils unlike any before—including homework, final exams, and love confessions after class, too! And don’t get me started on the extracurriculars. Samurai of Hyuga is 30% off until May 28th! Devon 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

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Today is the 15th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day! The idea for Global Accessibility Awareness Day was conceived in 2011 by web developer Joe Devon and accessibility expert Jennison Asuncion, to call attention to the importance of creating digital spaces accessible to all users. At Choice of Games, we’re proud to create accessible games. There are no sound effects, no complicated motor controls, and our apps are fully compatible with screenreaders such as VoiceOver. This year, we also added support for OpenDyslexic font in all our apps. Gaming should be for everyone, and we’re constantly working to ensure that as

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Samurai of Hyuga Book 6 releases this Thursday, May 21st. You can try the first four chapters today for free and wishlist it on Steam!

We’re proud to announce that Wizard Confidential, 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. It’s 34% off until May 21st! Sling spells and crack the case in a city full of bootleggers, corrupt cops, and vampires. Can you save your partner before a wizard dooms Seattle? Wizard Confidential is an interactive urban fantasy noir novel by Anthony Eichenlaub, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, 210,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects, fueled

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Sling spells and crack the case in a city full of bootleggers, corrupt cops, and vampires. Can you save your partner before a wizard dooms Seattle? Wizard Confidential is a 210,000-word interactive urban fantasy noir novel by Anthony Eichenlaub; I sat down with Anthony to walk about his upcoming game and the rest of his oeuvre. Wizard Confidential releases this Thursday, May 14th. You can try the first three chapters today for free and also wishlist it on Steam—even if you don’t plan to purchase it there, it really helps! Wizard Confidential is your first game with us, and it

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We’re proud to announce that Posthuman: Guardians vs PSION, 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. It’s 30% off until April 30th! Choose from 20+ distinct superpowers! Lead your team of superheroes to the moon and beyond, and stop the supervillains of PSION—unless, of course, you join them. Posthuman: Guardians vs PSION is an interactive superhero novel by Evan J. Peterson, author of Drag Star!, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, 300,000 words and hundreds of

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Steam’s Medieval Fest begins today! Plus, we’ve put more of our medieval titles on sale alongside it! We’re happy to share that several of our games are now on sale as part of Steam’s Medieval Fest! And we’ve added a couple more to the mix as well. For the next week you Chronicon Apocalyptica, A Squire’s Tale, Mask of the Plague Doctor, I, the Forgotten One, The Sword of Rhivenia, Pendragon Rising, Fool! and Ironheart are on sale! And, we’ve created a Steam Medieval Bundle for extra savings! Now available up to 40% off until April 27th on Steam! Chronicon

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Choose from 20+ distinct superpowers! Lead your team of superheroes to the moon and beyond, and stop the supervillains of PSION—unless, of course, you join them. Decades ago, legendary hero Adam Atom created the Guardians: an elite force of posthumans to protect the world from those who use their powers for harm. In response, PSION—the Posthuman Supremacy International Organized Network—sprang up. The United Nations calls them terrorists; they call themselves a liberation army protecting posthumans from human persecution. Now PSION is hatching their most ambitious plan yet—and it’s up to you and your fellow Guardians to stop them. Posthuman: Guardians

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