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Choice of Broadsides

58% positive of 12 Steam reviews

Released: 2017
Steam Deck: Not tested
Platforms: Steam

Made by Choice of Games.

About the game

A swashbuckling naval adventure, in the spirit of C. S. Forester's Hornblower or Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin books, with a dash of Jane Austen. Choice of Broadsides is a 60,000 word interactive novel, 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.

Tagged by players

RPG
Choices Matter
Adventure
Choose Your Own Adventure
Text-Based
Interactive Fiction

What players say

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Mixed

What players say

Not recommended
A really short game, but to be expected from a story with only 60,000 words. However, this causes fast pacing and being thrown into the middle of the story with no real good explanation of things and makes it hard to get invested in. There are also way too many stats to keep track of for such a short game and it sometimes seems like stats get affected for no reason and that half of them don't even matter. I didn't…
1 h played when written. 24 found it helpful.
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Recommended
One of Choice of Games' original browser/mobile releases ported to Steam after several years, I remember going through this many times on browser years ago. Of the early games, it's one of the better ones, with a strong theme and some interesting scenarios, though it doesn't meet the quality of more recent titles. Regarding choices and consequences, your choices do matter to an extent, but it is mostly treated as a…
3.8 h played when written. 11 found it helpful.
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