Разработчик: Choice of Games
Описание
Chronicon Apocalyptica is a 250,000-word interactive medieval fantasy novel by Robert Davis. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
You are an Anglo-Saxon scribe in the year 1000. You hold a Book of secrets written generations ago, including this prophecy: "When Æthelred II is King, he shall not be King, but there shall be an elven changeling in his stead. Should it gain this book and its ink, the world he shall rend asunder."
The witan advisors to Æthelred have tasked you with a secret mission to research whether the Book is true. Build an unlikely party of adventurers: a nun, a holy warrior, a bard, a beekeeper, and his bee, each with a mysterious past. Judge a witch trial, infiltrate the magical land of the elves, and even travel through time on your quest to extract fact from fiction.
Lovers of England's mythic history will delight as you meet Excalibur, the Green Children of Woolpit, and the Tremulous Hand, a creepy disembodied hand with a predilection for parchment. Put your analytical, investigative, and storytelling skills to the test as you decide where your loyalties lie: to the church, the crown, or the people of England.
Will you uncover the secret at the heart of English history, or succumb to the evil of the most deadly book ever created?
- Play as male, female, or non-binary; gay, straight, bi, or asexual.
- Discover rare sources, excavate ruins, and collect local legends.
- Fight the forces of darkness, or outwit them with your sharp intelligence.
- Explore decaying strongholds, funeral barrows, and even time itself.
- Choose romance or rivalry with your greatest foe.
- Determine who sits on the English throne.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Mac
- OS: 10.13
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04
Отзывы пользователей
Brilliant and unique. Well-written and complex.
It's good, but it's very hard to understand, at least for me, 6/10
God this game has intrigue and I want to learn more about it but the game's mechanics itself won't let me be interested. There are way too many stats to keep track of, such that I don't think the creator properly factored in the crossover of having certain combinations. You will almost always hit walls of choices where none of your stats are suited for any options, and it doesn't feel intentional or good to play. The game doesn't clearly communicate which stats mean what and the crossover between stats makes it all the more confusing. I didn't even get a chance to decide if I was honorable or cunning in the tutorial so I went through the game without the ability to choose either option. And in choices where 2/3 were the honor and cunning choice I'm obviously restricted.
Its suprisingly big and has a lot of details witch make it also a good story inon how many chapters it has realy suprised me and i kept wanting to read more i give it a 10/10 personally
This story was one of my favorites from Choice of Games so far. The characters are all fun to get to know, and I also appreciated the attachment to actual English legends. Truly, my only complaint about the story is that it feels rather short. I would definitely recommend giving this a read through though. 8/10
It's not bad but not great either. There are many good ideas like team building, but they were not played out very well. Characters are two-dimentional and lacks depth. You could almost guess what a certain person would say or do in a certain situation. Their "big secrets" does nothing to make them more interesting or attractive. And the most important thing: story just gets blander and blander after each chapter.
An interesting and engrossing story that is much more accurately medieval despite fantastic elements than most fantasy.
This was a hard read. To be honest I was constantly fighting between wanting things to go a certain way, and raging at the book when they didnt. Its like my choices always went wrong, but the story carried on anyway. As with all cya games, your mileage may vary depending on the choices you make, and of course you can always play again and choose differently. Still I always go by my first play throughs with these sort of games, As that when Im "choosing" the way I would, as opposed to knowing things and choosing to avoid bad things based on that knowledge.
All that being said, the writting is good. I believe I only saw one grammatical error the entire length of it. The world setting and the plot line are very interesting. The other characters in the game need a bit more fleshing out, the few opportunities I had to get to know them better didnt really tell me much more than their abbreviated backgrounds followed by a quick choice of how i felt about that. Also a certain character really really needs to be taken to accounting. I think I was actually more infuriated with how they were handled than the rest of how the story turns out.
So if your looking for something different and dont mind your choices having some strange / unexpected / dissapointing results, this will definetly provide you with several hours of diversion.
Dechipering a mysterious book is the centre of this well-written story. Though contains the usual medieval-fantasy adventure tropes, the plot is very well paced and developed for each chapter without being dull. The side-characters are also interesting, even the ones having minor roles. For the price we pay, it is a very well worth adventure. Almost every decision have note-worthy effect. Only flaw is multiple numbers of stats that come into account for decision making, sometimes the phrasing kind of confuses me which stats come into account for the choice. If we can grasp that, the game becomes very enjoyable.
9.5/10
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Choice of Games |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 16.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 78% положительных (9) |