Choice of Magics

Choice of Games LLC

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About this game

Your magic can change the world, but at what cost? Battle dragons, skyships, and evil Inquisitors, as you protect your homeland, conquer it, or destroy it forever.

"Choice of Magics" is a 550,000-word interactive, post-apocalyptic fantasy novel by Kevin Gold, author of our best-selling game, "Choice of Robots." It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

Thousands of years ago, the ancients destroyed civilization with five schools of magic. Each spell comes at a terrible price. Glamor charms your adversaries, rotting your body from the inside. Divination reveals faraway secrets, exposing your own secrets to others. Automation gives objects the spark of life, destabilizing the climate. Vivomancy can heal or change living things, with bizarre side effects. Blast your enemies with Negation energy, forming permanent clouds of deadly fallout.

As a young scrounger of antiquities, you hope to build your ruined world anew with these rediscovered spells. Now you must decide which of these magics can transform your post-apocalyptic society, and what you'll risk to bring hope and light to your kinsmen.

• Play as male, female, or non-binary; straight, gay, bi, or ace.
• Design your own pet, hatch a baby dragon, and build your own golems.
• Win a war, win the crown, or win your best friend's heart.
• Transform an evil Inquisitor into a talking tortoise, out for revenge. (Eventually.)
• Collect magic items: rings of power, an alchemy set, a “light sword” (wink, wink)
• Romance your village's geeky mayor, a goofy swordfighter, or even the queen.
• Help a stuffed monkey to repaint all of the murals in the Cathedral dungeon.
• Test out the mayor's new board game.
• With over 30 different endings, and 100 achievements, there will always be another secret to uncover.

Can you bring the world back from ruin and shape a new society? Use your magics well, and you could become as a god; use your magics poorly and destroy the world all over again.

Ratings and reviews

I've done 2 playthroughs already and I'm amazed at how different the stories were. I've rarely read a CYOA with this much variety. I get the feeling I haven't even scratched the surface of all the possibilities, either! This story is well worth the money. I see myself reading through it many more times. One of the best things about this app is the chapter summaries that are included on the stats page. More CYOAs need to do that!

An excellent choice for a unique CYOA game. The characters and plot are extremely engaging and I really enjoyed my first playthrough. There are plenty of opportunities to change the plot and customize your story and the various achievements and ends make it hold my attention for replays. I love the games that you all at Choice of Games are releasing, but some of your stories can run expensive, if you release bundles for a slight discount I would buy more. Thanks, and keep up the great work!

The writing is good, but it seems easy to put yourself in an unwinable sutuation. For example, I was told I had no friends or pets even though I've had multiple pets and several friends and the book pretty much just took them away for the part that would kill me. Seems contrived at best. Good writing with glaringly bad design (no chapter save, accidental clicks can advance, etc, randomly losing equipment, pets, and friends then being punished for it). Probably worth 7 bucks in the end.

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 "Choice of Magics", please leave us a written review. It really helps!