Choice of Games announced today that “Mecha Ace” is now available on Steam. The game is entirely text-based-without graphics or sound effects-and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
It’s available for 34% off during launch week.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/318330/
Interactive Fiction on Steam
Text-based interactive fiction is still a rarity on Steam. Earlier this year, Choice of Games launched the first ever text-only games for Steam, the “Heroes Rise” trilogy. With the launch of “Mecha Ace,” there are still only six text-only games on Valve’s platform, including five games from Choice of Games, plus Zoe Quinn’s “Depression Quest.”
“Our goal is to release our entire catalog of interactive novels on Steam,” said Dan Fabulich, co-founder of Choice of Games. “Based on the performance of ‘Heroes Rise,’ Valve has allowed us to ship ‘Choice of the Deathless,’ ‘Thieves’ Gambit: Curse of the Black Cat,’ and ‘Mecha Ace.’ We’ll need to continue to deliver outstanding results to prove that interactive fiction can be successful on Steam.”
About Mecha Ace
Step into the cockpit of a giant robot in an interstellar civil war! Customize your mecha to duel against enemy pilots with “monosaber” plasma swords. Find glory, disgrace, and even love.
“Mecha Ace” is a thrilling interactive sci-fi novel by Paul Wang, where your choices control the story. The game is entirely text-based-without graphics or sound effects-and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
For example, after bluffing an Imperial reconaissance unit into retreating, what will you do?
A) Let them go. Only savages kill unarmed men and women.
B) Let them go. It’ll be easier to convince other Imperials to surrender if we do.
C) These people know too much. Take them out.
D) We don’t need an excuse to kill impie scum. Light’em up!
Who will you be, pilot? Hero, villain, or renegade? Will you lead a unit of elite pilots to victory? Defeat your enemies with skill, cunning, determination, or heavy firepower? Fight for glory, for power, or for an enduring peace?
• A 230,000-word story of conflict, love, and sacrifice, set in the midst of an interstellar war between Earth and its colonies.
• Customise and pilot your Combat Armature: your very own 20 metre tall mecha.
• Defend the innocent as a valiant hero, or revel in your enemies’ deaths as a violent sadist.
• Turn your comrades into friends, enemies, or even lovers.
• Discover the history, politics, and technologies of the Interstellar Era, an original sci-fi setting.
• Decide the fate of humanity: a new order? An enduring peace? Or everlasting war?
https://www.choiceofgames.com/mecha-ace/