Subject: New game! "Deathless: The City's Thirst" by Max Gladstone > Reply-To: Choice of Games <supp...@choiceofgames.com> > > > Download “Deathless: The City's Thirst" today on Steam, iOS, or Android. > View this email in your browser > > We have two exciting announcements for you today! First, Deathless: The > City’s Thirst, the latest in our popular “Choice of Games” line of > multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available for Steam, iOS, > and Android. Second, we're announcing that Zombie Exodus is out on Steam. > Both games are 25% off until November 2. > > Deathless: The City's Thirst -- Wizard Lawyers vs. Scorpion Gods! > Negotiate water rights from scorpion gods in this necromantic legal thriller! > Discredit your boss, solve murders, and reanimate your own corpse to keep > your city from drying out. > > “Deathless: The City’s Thirst” is a 150,000-word interactive novel by Max > Gladstone, author of “Choice of the Deathless” and the “Craft Sequence” > novels, nominated for the John W Campbell Best New Writer Award, the XYZZY > award, and the Lambda Award. 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. > > You won the God Wars, killing the rain god and taking over his desert city. > But now the city needs water, and it’s your job to make it rain. As a rising > associate at a god-killing public service conglomerate, you can monopolize > your city’s public utilities, or fight to keep water affordable for everyone. > Build alliances with powerful necromancers, or help local farmers hold onto > their land. Find love, or betray your friends. Overcome the trauma you > suffered in the God Wars. Prevent murders, or commit them. > > Just keep the water flowing. > > Play as male or female; straight, gay, or bi > Match wits with master necromancers, real estate magnates, and journalists > Climb the social ladder of Dresediel Lex > Help the needy, or laugh callously as the world burns > Drink with undead kings over the ruins of a destroyed civilization > Kill people you may later really wish you hadn’t killed > Betray trusted friends and their entire society > Fight giant scorpions and renegade priests—or join forces with them > Look for love in extremely wrong places > “Deathless: The City’s Thirst” is set in the world of Max Gladstone’s Craft > Sequence novels, the most recent of which, Last First Snow, hit stores in > July 2015. The previous Craft Sequence books are Three Parts Dead, Two > Serpents Rise, and Full Fathom Five. The next Craft novel, Four Roads Cross, > will publish in 2016. > > > Zombie Exodus on Steam > Zombie Exodus is an interactive survival novel by Jim Dattilo (author of A > Wise Use of Time). It’s over 700,000 words long. It starts with a daring > escape from a zombie-infested city; it ends at Zombie Exodus, when a horde of > zombies swarms outlying settlements like locusts. > > We’ve published a number of popular games on Steam under our “Choice of > Games” label, and earlier this year we published our first game under our > “Hosted Games” label, Tin Star. Based on the success of Tin Star, Valve has > allowed us to launch a handful of our bestselling HG titles on Steam, > starting with Zombie Exodus. > > We need your support to continue delivering our games on Steam. Our goal is > to release our entire catalog of interactive novels on Steam. Based on the > extraordinary performance of Choice of Robots and Champion of the Gods, both > which made it onto Steam’s front page this year, Valve has allowed us to ship > a handful of additional games. We’ll need to continue to deliver outstanding > results to prove that interactive fiction can be successful on Steam. > > We’re asking all of our fans to follow us on Steam. Even if you don’t use > Steam that much, it will be a big help if you sign up to follow us there, > because the more followers we get, the better visibility we get on Steam’s > curator list. (Our goal is to hit 3,000 followers for our Steam curation > page; we’re about 80% of the way there as I write this!) > > When you follow us, you’ll see our games and our recommended games right on > your Steam home page. It’s free, and it’s a big help to us, so follow us > today! > > We hope you enjoy playing Deathless: The City’s Thirst and Zombie Exodus. 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