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Is A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight worth it for you?
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Play it if you…
Good fit- Interactive-fiction readers who want a long, choice-driven mystery
- Steampunk fans who want investigations and political decisions
- Players seeking flexible romance and allegiance choices
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking graphical scenes, animation, or sound effects
- Players who prefer linear stories with fixed outcomes rather than branching decisions
- Readers looking for a short interactive novel rather than a 277,000-word story
Our take on A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight
Rather than using visual scenes or a fixed sequence of events, this RPG places a 277,000-word branching novel at its center. Investigation, political allegiance, romance, and magic take the place of a more conventional linear structure.
What is A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight?
This interactive mystery novel combines steam-powered machines, forbidden sorcery, and a gaslit setting influenced by classic detective and gothic fiction.
The 277,000-word story is entirely text-based, with choices that alter its direction. Players can solve mysteries, pursue criminals, confront enemy spies, and investigate conspiracies involving the Vlaski Empire and ancient sorcerers. Political paths include defending the Empire or opposing it from within, while philosophical choices involve science, reason, and forbidden magic. Relationships may develop into friendships, rivalries, or romance with men, women, both, or neither. Exploration takes place across a fog-shrouded city, where hidden details and secrets can be uncovered. Possible outcomes include becoming a healer, freedom fighter, vigilante, or traitor.
How A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight plays
- 01Branching Story
- Decisions affect political allegiance, relationships, magical choices, and possible outcomes.
- 02Mystery Investigations
- Cases involve criminal pursuits, espionage, imperial conspiracies, and ancient sorcerers.
- 03Relationship Paths
- The narrative includes friendships, rivalries, and romance involving men, women, both, or neither.
- 04Text-Only Format
- The story uses written passages without graphics or sound effects.
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A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight: platforms & release
Is A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight worth it?
It is worth it if: interactive-fiction readers who want a long, choice-driven mystery. Skip it if: players seeking graphical scenes, animation, or sound effects.
Where can I download A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight?
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What platforms is A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
