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There’s a new game in our Hosted Games program ready for you to play! Steam-powered mechs meet forbidden sorcery! Inspired by Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jack the Ripper, A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight is an epic 277,000-word interactive mystery novel by Heather Albano, co-author of “Choice of Broadsides,” “Choice of Zombies,” and “Choice of Romance: Affairs of the Court.” 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. It’s 25% off until December 1. The game is afoot! In a world of gaslit

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We’re changing the way we sell the “Choice of Romance: Affairs of the Court” trilogy, including raising some of our prices, and lowering others. Overall, the price of Romance is going up, but if you buy today, you can still buy the trilogy at our lowest price ever. Confusingly, we have two apps on the iOS App Store for “Choice of Romance: Affairs of the Court,” one paid app, and one free app partially supported by advertising. (We only have one Android version, which is free to download.) Both apps included five different kinds of in-app purchases for $0.99 each,

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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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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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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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There’s a new game in our Hosted Games program ready for you to play! Killer robots, masked warriors in well-tailored robes, job interviews where you’re judged on your skill with a stun baton — this is all just another day in the world of The Founders — a world where you either start a business, fight for one, or end up conscripted to The Farm. This is your world and you must decide how you’re going to survive in it. Will you live by your brains, your business savvy, your silver tongue, or your ability to punch people really hard

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We’re proud to announce that Choice of Games is now a qualifying professional market for membership in the SFWA! If we publish your interactive fantasy, science-fiction, or horror novel under our official “Choice of Games” label, you’ll qualify to join the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America as an Active Member. Active Membership includes the right to recommend, nominate, and vote on works for the Nebula Awards. Are you ready to try your hand at writing an interactive novel for us? We’re always looking for writers!