Do you have the strength, wits, and courage to become a hero? Find out in Steve Jackson’s Sorcery!, the bestselling narrative game now available for the first time on PC and Mac. Today’s release combines the first two Sorcery! chapters, “The Shamutanti Hills” and “Kharé, Cityport of Traps,” into a single volume priced at $9.99 / £6.99. Better yet – through February 9 it’s on sale for 40% off!
Store Links
Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/411000
Humble Store: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/p/sorcery_parts1and2_storefront
About Steve Jackson’s Sorcery!
Liberally adapted from a cult classic gamebook series, Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! is an epic fantasy game with a sprawling storyline that literally writes itself around tens of thousands of choices you make along your adventure. Created by inkle, developer of the BAFTA-nominated 80 Days, Sorcery! is an engrossing narrative game that blends modern interactive fiction, massively adaptive storytelling, and strategic turn-based combat with beautiful hand-drawn illustrations and a rich orchestral score.
The Story
You are an aspiring hero on a quest to recover the stolen Crown of Kings. The journey begins in the Shamutanti Hills, a treacherous landscape peppered with monsters, magic, and traps to snare the unwary. But those hills are a cakewalk compared to the twisted city of Kharé, where restless citizens, crazed Nobles and a brutal goblin army are about to come to blows. And even if you do survive, the far gate into the wastelands will only open for those who manage to uncover Kharé most ancient secrets…
The Gameplay
In this intricate narrative game, intrepid players choose a path across a lush illustrated map, face off against strange enemies in turn-based battles, interact with curious country dwellers and wily townspeople, puzzle through devious traps, dip into a massive book of (sometimes) helpful spells, and dabble in the dice-bluffing game Swindlestones. All the while an elaborate fantasy story is writing itself on the fly, based on your decisions – making you the hero of a unique, personalized adventure that offers up tons of replay opportunity.
The Adventure Continues
Following today’s Sorcery! debut on Steam, the third installment, “The Seven Serpents,” will come to PC and Mac this spring. The fourth and final Sorcery! game, “The Crown of Kings,” is planned to release on all platforms (PC, Mac, iPhone/iPad, and Android) later in 2016. For players who wish to continue an adventure they started on previously on another platform, end-of-chapter saves can easily be imported between the mobile versions and PC/Mac.
About This Game
An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through the Cityport of Kharé, home to thieves, corrupt nobles and deadly mutants, as you attempt to recover the Crown of Kings. Armed with your sword, and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a journey of a thousand choices where every one is remembered and will change your story. This is Parts 1 and 2 of a four-part series.
As played by the Yogscast, Sorcery! is a narrative adventure like no other, that creates your own unique fantasy adventure as you play.
* Explore a 3d hand-drawn map, and venture inside the buildings of the city of Kharé
* Unique bluff-and-strike based combat system which procedurally narrates your battles
* Over fifty weird and wonderful spells, whose effects alter the narrative in wild and unpredictable ways
* Over half a million words of story content that adapts around your choices – created using the same inklewriter technology as the multi-award-winning 80 DAYS
* Hundreds of characters, hundreds of stories to uncover
* Over forty unique monsters to fight, all with their own strategies and combat styles
* Play Swindlestones, a game of cunning and deceit, against the citizens of Kharé, for profit – and for information
* Freedom to explore – rewind whatever choices you want
* Based on the million-selling series by Steve Jackson
* All of your choices are remembered, shaping your adventure now – and in the future
Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2 are the first half of an epic quadrilogy. Sorcery! 3 takes the adventure to the wilds of the Baklands and creates a fully open-world experience, and will be out shortly on Steam. Sorcery! 4 is due later this year, to finish the adventure. Each part can be played on its own, or you can load your character from one part to the next, carrying over equipment, stats, and narrative choices.
Reviews
“One part fantasy novel and one part game, Sorcery! is a rich, personalized adventure that shouldn’t be missed.”
8.8 – IGN
“The Fighting Fantasy books were a wondrous feat of interactive fiction, each page brimming with possibilities and dripping with tension. Inkle’s adaptation of the Sorcery! takes the genre to a whole new level.”
Kotaku
“If you have any kind of interest at all in fantasy fiction or role-playing games, you simply must play Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! It really is just that good.”
85 – Metacritic