Choice of Magics

by Choice of Games
2.9 out of 5 stars96 customer ratings
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Languages Supported: English

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Product Details

Release Date: 2018
Date first listed on Amazon: August 10, 2018
Developed By: Choice of Games
ASIN: B07G8NWJLY
Customer reviews:
2.9 out of 5 stars96 customer ratings

Product features

  • 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.

Product description

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.

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Size: 9.3MB
Version: 1.0.22
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Minimum Operating System: Android 5.0
Approximate Download Time: Less than 90 seconds

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Customers enjoy the interactive fiction game's compelling story, with one review noting its many different narrative paths. The game receives positive feedback for its creativity, with one customer highlighting its unique magic system, and customers find it well worth the price.

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10 customers mention "Story quality"10 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the story quality of the game, describing it as compelling and interesting, with one customer noting there are many different ways the narrative can unfold.

"...from other games all by itself... and the game features lots and LOTS of spellcasting! The result is truly immersive...." Read more

"it was stunning, fun, and beutiful. 10/10 characters and story 9/10 fun. 10/10 amazingness. Just buy the danm thing already" Read more

"...I attempted to get the route to victory, but you see choices from heart are easy but if you try to get a certain ending its quite difficult" Read more

"...but I just wanted to you know this is an amazing creation the story is very good and very different from other books I've seen so if highly..." Read more

6 customers mention "Value for money"6 positive0 negative

Customers find the mobile application to be well worth the price, with one customer noting its replay value and another describing it as beautiful.

"...But it's well worth it! I heartily recommend this game to all would-be wizards out there. Try it -- you'll like it. I promise. :)" Read more

"it was stunning, fun, and beutiful. 10/10 characters and story 9/10 fun. 10/10 amazingness. Just buy the danm thing already" Read more

"One of the best CoGs I have played in awhile. The magic system is very unique, cant think of any story that did something similar...." Read more

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5 customers mention "Creativity"5 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the creativity of the game, with one highlighting its unique magic system and immersive experience.

"...The result is truly immersive...." Read more

"it was stunning, fun, and beutiful. 10/10 characters and story 9/10 fun. 10/10 amazingness. Just buy the danm thing already" Read more

"...use the review system but I just wanted to you know this is an amazing creation the story is very good and very different from other books I've seen..." Read more

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Top reviews from the United States

  • Erin
    1.0 out of 5 stars 6.99 Really?
    Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2018
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    It costs 6.99 for a small story. Really? Why on Earth would i buy this? Why? WHY?
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  • G. Parks
    5.0 out of 5 stars Only ONE Word Is Appropriate For This Game: Wow!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2018
    Verified Purchase
    I've been playing this game repeatedly for approaching SIX MONTHS now, and I must say, I haven't played a game this enjoyable for a very long time. I haven't yet come even CLOSE to experiencing the game's advertised 30 different endings!

    The game certainly doesn't waste any time: right from the very outset, this game has you slinging spells about. As the game opens, you have just found an ancient textbook of Vivomancy, for which offence you and your partner are both being pursued by an angry and relentless crossbow-wielding Inquisitor, who seems quite intent on killing the both of you. He has already wounded your partner, Tal, in the leg! What will you do to escape from him? Will you --

    * Part an outside wooden wall (as if it were the Red Sea!), whisk indoors with Tal, then close the wall up again?
    * Sprout wings, pick up Tal, and fly the two of you out of range?
    * Heal Tal's wounded leg so that the two of you can run to a place where you can both make a stand?

    The breadth of choices offered at the various "choice points" is impressive; seldom is a choice NOT offered, that I would have thought of in a given instance.

    And speaking of choices -- don't underestimate some of the choices you are offered! When you are asked if you are "bookish and spectacled," or "handsome and dashing," DON'T assume the game is merely concerned with your appearance! "Bookish and spectacled" will give you both greater knowledge and greater intelligence (a choice I personally strongly recommend, as it will make your understanding of the "dialect of the ancients" -- see my further comments on this below -- MUCH greater and more accurate); "handsome and dashing" will merely boost your charisma. (Unsolicited hint: this is NOT a game that sees a lot of melee fighting, and wanton violence against other people in the story won't do YOUR character any good at all.)

    The casting of magic is particularly, uhm, "realistic." So to speak. Where another game might simply say, "You cast a Divination Spell," THIS game says:

    "You place your left thumb and forefinger on your temples and hold up your right hand with fingers splayed. Willing your senses to expand, you intone, 'Mysterion gnomai! Amicus gnosia exanthus!' Before your eyes appears a vision of an ancient stone golem..."

    In a word or several, this game doesn't merely TELL about you doing magic, it SHOWS it -- a profound difference from other games all by itself... and the game features lots and LOTS of spellcasting! The result is truly immersive.

    You might notice here that the author is using a different language. This is the fabled "Dialect of the Ancients." I very much doubt the Author is always using actual Greek or Latin -- although there are occasions when he clearly is. Though I'm no Latinist, I know a sufficient smattering of Latin to recognize it -- and the Author's words certainly do have enough Latin or Greek roots in them that most words can be understood or at least guessed at, and if that fails you can usually make a guess based on the context. In the above passage, you should be able to pick out such words as "mysterion" (mystery), "gnomai," (think "gnosis" or "agnostic" -- it means "knowledge") and "amicus" (an actual Latin word -- think "amicable." Your character is trying to learn whether there are any potential allies lurking about -- with emphasis on "potential," since the initial contact is anything but friendly.)

    When you actually MEET that golem, "it booms in the dialect of the ancients, 'Visitorii non legitimus. Egress or au thanatize vu.'"

    (Now, THAT'S not very friendly, Mr. Golem. In fact, that's downright HOSTILE!)

    The golem's first three words are so similar to English that you should be able to understand them with no help from ME! "Egress" comes from Latin, and is an actual English word (look it up!). "Thanatize" comes (ultimately) from Greek (Thanatos was the Greek god of death) and means "kill." So, the rough translation is, "You don't belong here! Get out, or I'll kill you!" (And yes, you CAN tame this golem. The question is... how?)

    The author sprinkles this "dialect of the ancients" constantly throughout the text of the game, adding immensely to both the game's atmosphere, and its immersiveness.

    There ARE times, by the way, where the "Dialect of the Ancients" is definitely Latin. For example, there is an episode where a mob tries to burn your house down; if you've tamed the golem, its conversation with you as it explains its attempt to put the fire out, and the fire's origin -- "Extincta ignus," "Extra" -- is pure Latin. (In the original Latin, "Extra" doesn't mean "added," it means "outside" -- a meaning we still occasionally see even in English, in terms such as "extra-terrestrial.") In yet another (and quite different) part of the game, if you converse with the Neighbor, your conversation is in absolute, PURE Latin.

    At other times, this "Dialect Of The Ancients" is pure Greek. In fact, the spell for starting up the factory is such perfect Greek that -- just for once -- Google Translate has no difficulty with it at all. "Ilektriki, energeia metakiniste cet ergostasio!" translates as, "Electricity, move factory set!" (It would, by the bye, be difficult to mistake that for Latin, especially since the letter "k" doesn't exist in the ancient Roman alphabet.)

    Then on yet another hand, there are passages which are -- at least for me -- of no recognizable language at all! "Pauve auxilize-vu mou?" asks a disembodied spirit, which the author translates as, "Can you help me?" Sounds somewhat like French, but then I know no French. But if it's Latin or Greek, I'll eat my hat! Be that as it may, the author's use of "the dialect of the Ancients" is an undoubted stroke of literary genius.

    I'm also impressed by the staggering breadth of the decision tree -- I've seldom had any play of the game end the same way as any other play, in all the months I've been repeatedly playing it!

    Balancing your use of the various magics against their inherent costs (read this game's "Product Description," above) is a genuine challenge. For example, cast one too many Glamors, and you may eventually find yourself dying painfully from Rot. (And, in one utterly dumbfounding turn of the game that left me absolutely flabbergasted, it turns out that NOT ONLY is this NOT necessarily the end of the story, it's not even necessarily a bad thing! And if that doesn't merit the exclamation mark I just gave it, I'll eat crow!)

    Yes, your choices really DO make a real difference in how this game proceeds!

    Almost-lastly, the way the game handles failure (especially death) is interesting -- the game pretends that the unfortunate ending was merely a divinatory vision, and offers you the chance to repeat the last chapter over, possibly "cheating" with boosted stats. Unfortunately, some "bad endings" have their origin, not in the last chapter, but in a chapter before that, so that the offer to replay the last chapter isn't always helpful.

    And finally, be aware that although the game download itself is free, if you want to play more than just the first few chapters, you'll have to shell out several U.S. bux.

    But it's well worth it! I heartily recommend this game to all would-be wizards out there. Try it -- you'll like it. I promise. :)
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  • Jalahan
    5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful story
    Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2019
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    it was stunning, fun, and beutiful. 10/10 characters and story 9/10 fun. 10/10 amazingness. Just buy the danm thing already
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  • M. Farley
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great but kinda confusing
    Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2019
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    I instantly loved it but after being banished I attempted to get the route to victory, but you see choices from heart are easy but if you try to get a certain ending its quite difficult
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  • Mark T
    1.0 out of 5 stars Gonna Cost Yih, NOT Free
    Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2019
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    First chapter free, rest of the game is $6.99. Blow it out your .....
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  • Wholesome
    5.0 out of 5 stars The best so far
    Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2018
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    Hello I rarely use the review system but I just wanted to you know this is an amazing creation the story is very good and very different from other books I've seen so if highly recommend this book it you have not tried it yet and thank you to the creator
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  • Tracey
    4.0 out of 5 stars Unfair but decent
    Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2020
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    I bought it restarted and now I have to buy it again please fix it
    I beg you in the name of magic out of heart do repair what has
    Broken.please out of kindness grant this that I ask.
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  • Rockett
    1.0 out of 5 stars Eh
    Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2019
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    Eh
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good product- would recommend
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 25, 2019
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    Good product- would recommend
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  • mark
    5.0 out of 5 stars Nice easy game
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 25, 2021
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    Mystery easy and relaxing to play
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