Fit check
Is Choice of Rebels: Uprising worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Interactive-fiction readers who want large-scale branching decisions
- Fantasy players who prefer text-based storytelling over audiovisual presentation
- Players interested in rebellion stories with political, religious, and personal choices
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking graphics, sound effects, or action-focused combat
- Readers who prefer short, linear stories over a 637,000-word choice-driven narrative
- Players looking for puzzle-solving or exploration in a navigable game world
Our take on Choice of Rebels: Uprising
Rather than presenting rebellion through combat scenes and exploration, the game makes written decisions the main structure. Survival, recruitment, religion, romance, betrayal, and warfare are handled through the protagonist's choices in a text-only format.
What is Choice of Rebels: Uprising?
Lead an outlaw uprising against the Hegemony in a 637,000-word interactive fantasy novel.
The story is entirely text-based, with choices determining the course of the rebellion. Play as a male or female character with gay, straight, or ace orientations, and choose a background as a renegade aristocrat or defiant slave. Develop as a self-taught mage, general, or mystic priest while gathering support from groups across the empire. Decisions cover survival through winter, religion, romance, espionage, mutiny, and conflict with soldiers, assassins, mages, and mutant hounds. The rebellion can become compassionate or ruthless, and its outcome depends on what the character is willing to sacrifice.
How Choice of Rebels: Uprising plays
- 01Choice-driven narrative
- Player decisions shape alliances, betrayals, religious change, rebellion, and the story's outcome.
- 02Character backgrounds
- Characters can begin as aristocrats or slaves and follow magical, military, or priestly paths.
- 03Rebel management
- The outlaw band must gain support from yeomen, helots, merchants, priests, and aristocrats.
- 04Text-only presentation
- The interactive novel uses written scenes without graphics or sound effects.
- 05Romance and identity
- The protagonist's gender and sexual orientation can be selected, with romance available among fellow rebels.
Choice of Rebels: Uprising compared to similar games
Choice of Rebels: Uprising is a text-only interactive fantasy novel, while Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition presents its unconventional role-playing story with characters and a soundtrack. The alternatives listed do not provide enough functional detail to establish a closer comparison.
Choice of Rebels: Uprising: platforms & release
Is Choice of Rebels: Uprising worth it?
It is worth it if: interactive-fiction readers who want large-scale branching decisions. Skip it if: players seeking graphics, sound effects, or action-focused combat.
Where can I download Choice of Rebels: Uprising?
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What platforms is Choice of Rebels: Uprising on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
