I appreciate that you came here to clarify, but admittedly you didn’t do a lot of actual clarification.
8 Likes
I LOVE inkles’s 80 days. I haven’t tried Sorcery. Is it good? Is there humor in it? One of the reasons I love 80 days is becuase of the humor it it. It makes the playing experience much more interesting.
I also played choices; I don’t like their blatant romance stories as I’m not a fan of pure romance in general, but some of their adventure stories are interesting. It is very expensive to get the full experience so I tend to play the ones I don’t like to collect diamonds only.
4 Likes
@lynossa I love 80 days. I’ve had Sorcery for a while but to be honest had trouble really getting into it and haven’t gotten far into the game. (I pick it up from time to time but it doesn’t have the same appeal for me that 80 days did and it has quite different in mechanics.) In saying that some people love Sorcery more than 80 days, so I guess it depends on what you like to play 
4 Likes
I liked most of the ways they updated Sorcery! from the old 80s books. Though I think it got a bit convoluted when they got to some of the revisions on the 4th book.
Still a cool series overall.
1 Like
I have played an app that is AWESOME. It is called Storyscape. The art is amazing, like movie-worthy amazing, and so far the one story I’m playing, “Eternal City” has a very good storyline. I’m terrible at summaries so I’ll post theirs:
In an ancient metropolis ruled by power-hungry factions, magic, and secrets, a single life will change everything. The City once provided for its citizens richly, but corruption lives at the heart of the Garden and the people are growing desperate as food grows scarce. From child slave to powerful elder, you will live an entire lifetime and your choices will shape or destroy this world.
If you have played other interactive fiction like “romance club” or “choices: stories you play” then I implore that you to try this app too.
Here is the link to their website:
https://www.storyscape.com/en
9 Likes
Oh cool! Last time I checked, I couldn’t get this in my region. I’ve heard great things about the Titanic one, plus it’s written by Meg Jayanth, who co wrote 80 Days, so it’s bound to be good.
6 Likes
Ooh x-files. Sold! (Downloads, now I just need the time to read it 
)
2 Likes
It’s still not available in my region 
1 Like
I love choice of games but “And The Sun Went Out” by tinman games is the best interactive fiction out there, I re-read it all five times and all the five times got me emotional, choices matter and you’ve got plenty of them, even though romance is not the focus when it does happen, it’s everything… and well, there’s Moti!
(and to be honest I’m utterly surprised nobody has mentioned it before 
)
6 Likes
That’s written by an HG author here @Felicity_Banks if you’re looking for more of her work
2 Likes
There’s a thread about the second story, “Choices That Matter: And Their Souls Were Eaten” here. (Choices: And Their Souls Were Eaten (fantasy steampunk)) I wrote all of it, set in the same steampunk world as my published “Antipodean Queen” trilogy and several other interactive tales.
I could have sworn there was one for “And The Sun Went Out” (fun fact: the end was released originally on Christmas Day, because my co-writers are evil).
In other news, yes. Moti. dissolves into weeping with love at that sweet child
5 Likes
I just found this app too and I’m so in love. It is definitely geared toward a more adult audience versus a teenage one as many in the same vein appear to be, it tackles complex issues and addresses mature themes, and it doesn’t shy away from more mature and complicated romance.
I’m super excited for one of their upcoming ones called Ageless. It’s right up my alley. :,)
To quote from the website, it’s a:
“Gothic, sexy, horror epic meets high-fashion drag theater. It’s a spectacle.”
- Meghan Thornton, Studio Lead Writer, writing Ageless
From their website/the subReddit, here’s what the MCs will look like. (1.They’re absolutely gorgeous. And 2.They offer a non-binary MC, which is a first I’ve seen from apps like these.)
Non-binary, make, and female:
So very hyped.
5 Likes
oh my god how come I didn’t know you were here as well!!! yes I read that one too!!! just as amazing and I’m currently waiting for and their heroes were lost to update (even though it hurts because tactical one reminds me of moti…) I’m forever grateful because your stories were the reason I got into cyoa games 
2 Likes
Oh! Thank you so much! I’m writing a prequel to “And Their Souls Were Eaten” at the moment (sort of writing two prequels, actually, but one doesn’t have any character links to other games). There’s a full list, in recommended reading order, here.
Basically, whenever I learn a new story system I write another steampunk tale in that system.
2 Likes
What I’ve seen of Heaven’s Vault so far has been really good. (Same company as 80 Days and Sorcery!)
10 Likes
Ahem… can you actually choose your gender in these games? Titanic and X-Files sounds good though I hope they’re not the types with ‘buy every chapter for five bucks’ or ‘crystals for every choice!’ 
1 Like
In Titanic you play a female character, I can’t speak to the others.
I suppose that makes sense, though it would be nice to play as a Jack Dawson type and romance Rose as with the other way round. X-Files probably suits multiple genders more with the genre.
I do find the habit of these apps to snap up licences and use them for so so cash grabbing tales with little to no actual interactivity disconcerting. Though if Disney authorised a romance Disney Princess/Marvel character/Star Wars character game I might be interested…, 
1 Like
In the eternal city I played as a female. I know one of their future games are not gender locked.
1 Like
The scary spinoff to XOXO Droplets has been released. And it’s FREE. Here is the synopsis:
JB has been attending the fancy boarding school Saint Sara Belle for almost a year now. Along with six other students, she’s forced to join an after-school group created for those that are deemed ‘unfriendable’. JB is fine with that, especially because one of the awful people there is her special someone. Well maybe.
As much as JB is fixated on her chosen suitor at the start of the tale, the guy may not be worth the great deal of trouble it’ll take to actually be with him. The amount of ridiculous, winding ways the story can unfold is frightening. All you can count on for sure is that it will be crazy.
2 Likes