"Eternal Affairs"—Recover stolen magic and lose your heart!

Originally published at: “Eternal Affairs”—Recover stolen magic and lose your heart! - Choice of Games LLC

Eternal Affairs

We’re proud to announce that Eternal Affairs, 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 40% off until July 3rd!

Recover a stolen artifact and lose your heart as a secret magical agent! Can you uncover an arcane conspiracy before the clock runs out?

Eternal Affairs is an interactive urban fantasy romance novel by Jamie Maurer. It’s entirely text-based, 100,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

After you lost your beloved brother in a magical anomaly, you joined the Bureau of Magic to investigate magical anomalies and prevent the same tragedy from befalling anyone else. Of course, it takes magic to investigate magic: when thieves can use shadow manipulation charms to evade security cameras and hackers can insert necromantic malware into computers, you need to learn some tricks of your own. You can shapeshift, move objects with your mind, teleport, heal the most grievous injuries – or cause them by flinging fireballs. You can even manipulate time itself, gazing into the past or future.

When a dangerous artifact is stolen right out of one of the Bureau’s most secure vaults, you and your partner are tasked with recovering it. But your investigation turns up a web of conspiracies that lead to the highest levels of the Bureau, into other worlds – and even into your own traumatic past.

As the portals spin and the spells fly, your heart is beating with much more than just the thrill of the chase. Maybe you’ll be drawn to rogue mage Charlie, a loose-cannon Bureau consultant with platinum-bleached hair, a whole gallery’s worth of tattoos, fabulously tight leather pants and a cheekily rebellious attitude. Or, there’s Lex, your ride-or-die partner at the Bureau. Loyal, serious, with brown hair and freckles, a stocky build and a soft face that resembles an anxious teddy bear in times of trouble – but had you ever noticed before how all those hours at the gym have built up Lex’s muscles to fill out the Bureau uniform?

When you reach the top of the conspiracy, which of them will be by your side?

  • Play as male, female, or non-binary; gay, straight, or bi/pan.
  • Choose your magical specialty: matter, energy, time/space, or antimagic.
  • Enter the kaleidoscopic magical realm of the Fae to negotiate the delicate balance between their world as yours – or just dance the night away at a fabulous Fae masked ball!
  • Play by the book and do your best to keep magic secret – or become a loose cannon and rebel against the Bureau’s restrictive policies, sharing magic with the world
  • Navigate the arcane bureaucracy of an arcane Bureau, dealing with your boss, red tape – and worst of all, your smarmy arrogant rival
  • Turn to the dark side and defy death!

All magic has a price. What will you pay in pursuit of the truth?

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The first time I played the beta of Eternal Affairs, I was grinning ear to ear pretty much the whole way through, and when I went to sum up my experience in my report, I started with “Wow, this was FUN!” It’s a short game that can be played through completely in a few hours, but it’s packed with clever dialogue and fun twists and appealing characters (along with a few who are melodramatically fun to hate) and a unique magic system in which spells have the colors of printer ink and are responsive to your mental state.

The most obvious comparison is Forbidden Magic, another urban fantasy romantic suspense in which you’re an agent dealing with supernatural threats; Eternal Affairs is faster-paced and less cozy, but if you enjoy one you’ll almost certainly enjoy the other. It should also appeal to fans of urban fantasy workplace stories like Social Services of the Doomed or fantasy mystery like the Evertree Saga. I also found myself reminded at times of The Luminous Underground and Leas: City of the Sun, for reasons I’ll let fans of these games discover for themselves.

I definitely recommend snapping this up while it’s on sale this week - it’s the perfect way to kill a few hours when you’re in the mood for a straightforward story of romance and intrigue. Replay value isn’t the highest - unlike some mystery games, which still have a lot to discover about the bigger picture even when you know “whodunnit,” the suspense storyline is pretty straightforward - but there’s enough to discover in character backstories and cool fun moments to justify several playthroughs.

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That sounds really nice, Aletheia! Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

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Congratulations to the author :heart:
I really like the story so far, the characters are cute and intriguing, I’m torn between Lex and Charlie :laughing:
I bought it and enjoy now some nice hours with it :grinning_face:

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I bought and read this last night. For a game where you visit a fae orgy, it’s surprisingly tame. Heart’s Choice is wild in how different the titles can be. You never know until you try it whether it’s going to be more like AWPW or something where people blush at an exposed ankle. :sweat_smile:

Charlies seems nice but also in love with me after like, less than a day? Obviously I tried to hook up with the Grim Reaper instead. As of the epilogue it’s still playing hard to get but I’ll win its heart in the end.

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Every game has a spice level, from one to five :hot_pepper:. (Eternal Affairs is :hot_pepper:, AWPW is :hot_pepper::hot_pepper::hot_pepper::hot_pepper::hot_pepper:.) You can see the spice rating in the Heart’s Choice app, or on the HC website.

Obviously it’s fairly subjective, but aside from a game or two that are blatantly miscategorized, it’s pretty reliable.

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Yeah, I was disappointed by the spice rating too. Hopefully the next release is higher in spice.

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Yeah, that whole…thing with Charlie was strange. I felt nothing for any of the ROs to be honest. I was more attracted to the idea of Guy than I was to any of the actual romanceable characters (why was Moth not romanceable? It feels like a missed opportunity, but I suppose it was due to length?) and he was barely in the story.