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VERSUS: The Lost Ones -- Eliminate your enemies by stealing their powers!

SAN FRANCISCO--August 21, 2015: Choice of Games announced today that "VERSUS: The Lost Ones," the latest in their popular line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available on Steam, iOS, and Android.

Steal alien powers and absorb their memories! Can you outlast your opponents to escape from planet Versus?

"VERSUS: The Lost Ones" is a thrilling 123,000-word interactive novel by Zachary Sergi, author of our best-selling "Heroes Rise" trilogy. 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.

Become an interstellar warrior, gifted with the power to ransack the thoughts and abilities of others. Transported to an unfamiliar world beyond your wildest dreams, you must invade the minds of your fellow captives to survive.

Seduce Lady Venuma, a self-proclaimed goddess, or clash with Empress Vaccus, a tusked monster and the sworn enemy of your home world. Triumph in gladiatorial combat, or in the deadly politics of planet Versus.

For example, when you find yourself teleported to Versus, thrust into battle with the monstrous Empress Vaccus and half a dozen alien strangers, what will you do?

A) Flash-absorb the abilities of one of the alien strangers.
B) Fight Empress Vaccus directly, using my custom suit of armor.
C) Stun the monster with a mindbolt.
D) Reconnoiter, searching the monster for weak spots.
E) Assume the mouth is a weak spot, and focus my attack there.

Absorb the right talents, and you just might save the galaxy!

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About the Author

Zachary Sergi is a television and fiction writer. He is the author of the "Heroes Rise" Trilogy, the "Versus" series and the "Heroes Rise" spinoff series, "The Hero Project" (coming Winter 2016). Zachary grew up in New York City and studied writing at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he writes his Choice of Games projects and develops pilots for TV.

"The idea for VERSUS has been with me for a long time, a place to play with androids and goddesses and super heroes and spirits and monsters and pirates and warlocks and trolls and angels and soldiers and zombies and vampires and much, much more," said Zachary Sergi, author of "VERSUS." "It is also a place to explore the kinds social structures and the belief systems that shape a person, for better or worse. In my wildest dreams, I hope for VERSUS to be a genre-bending adventure that combines space operas, dystopian societies, fantasy epics, and science fiction; it's Game of Thrones politics set in Star Wars space, with the character backstory exploration style of Lost or Orange Is The New Black. Too ambitious? Probably. But that's for you to decide, so get reading!"

About Choice of Games

Choice of Games was founded by Dan Fabulich and Adam Strong-Morse in 2009. They produce text-based interactive novels for mobile platforms and the web, combining the delicious freedom of the 1980s' choose-a-path gamebooks with the depth and scope of a bestselling novel. Choice of Games adventures have been awarded First Place in IntroComp 2011 (Choice of Zombies), "Best Roleplaying Game of the Year" by JayIsGames (Choice of the Dragon), and Honorable Mention in the IGF Nuovo Awards (Choice of Broadsides).

In addition to developing their own games in-house, Choice of Games has created an easy-to-use programming language for writing text-based games, ChoiceScript, and publishes games written by other designers.

Contact:

Dan Fabulich
Choice of Games LLC
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