The Golden Rose: Book One

Hosted Games

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About this game

You are a recent member of The White Company, a mercenary guild on the far side of the law. Your job consists of hunting artifacts and roaming ruins that the Church has forbidden to mention. One of your expeditions, however, leads you down a path that is much deeper than you ever anticipated.

"The Golden Rose: Book One" is a thrilling 1.2-million-word interactive fantasy novel by Ana Ventura, 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.

Juggle friendships, new alliances, and flames of romance in this epic adventure that will take you to a Europe where History took a different turn.

• Play as male or female; straight, gay, or bisexual.
• Find romance, friendship, or rivalry with a cast of colorful characters.
• Hunt down the thief that stole your forbidden maps!
• Fight against bandits and city guards while trying to stray away from the all-seeing Eyes of the Church.
• Explore ancient ruins and the cobble-stoned streets of the medieval city of Tarragona. Step into a grand cathedral, a sprawling market, a multicolored harbor, the dark gates of the city, or an aqueduct that no one dares to come close to.
• Bond with a stubborn old horse.
• Choose to ally with a street urchin or the feral captain of the Guard.
• Uncover what is true in a world where denial reigns supreme.
• Start to unravel your own mysterious past.
• Immerse yourself in a world rich with characters, story, and lore.

Do you believe in Destiny?

Ratings and reviews

Hands down one of the best, if not THE best choice games out there, and this is only the beginning! Beautiful writing, loveable (and equally hateable, in the best way) characters, an interesting and mysterious storyline involving the player character that keeps you on the edge of your seat and invested until the very end. Well worth the money, would buy it all over again. I simply cannot wait to watch the rest of the story unfold.

The most immersive Hosted Games piece to date. Its only crime is that I do not know what will happen next! This work does brilliantly at balancing an MC (you) with depth while offering plenty of choices for your reasons, motives and actions. For once, I truly felt like I was making my choices based on what I want my MC to think and believe, rather than just wanting to ensure that they are of a certain personality/for stat check purposes. Highly recommended.

Definitely an interesting story and I'm wanting to see what's next. While I give it a good rating, I do feel like there was a lack of interactions for ROs. Based on my first few runs trying to go for the ROs other than the first two you intlitially meet, most of the time when their name appears in a choice, it was mainly just reminiscing about the one to two times you actually did talk with them. It's still the beginning, so I can forgive it, but I hope it gets rectified in the sequels.

What’s new

Fixed a bug (for real, this time) where the app could lose progress when the app goes into the background. If you enjoy "The Golden Rose: Book One", please leave us a written review. It really helps!