If you just found out about Gamebooks, or you're a returning aficionado after some years of hiatus, this simple guide might help you get into this hobby. If you're a current Gamebook veteran, you might find something new in this list.
Before I start, here is a short disclaimer:
- This list will be updated every couple of months.
- All of the books I show here are IN PRINT and can be bought new at regular prices in most places.
- This list only shows books that I know a lot about or I've read.
- You can suggest other books, and I'll try to add them to this list.
- This entire list is just my opinion.
The gamebooks listed here should be great for someone completely new to this hobby. It doesn't mean they are easy or hard to complete, but, they are easy to understand and progress. But, before we start, consider reading these two guides I've made. One is about what you need to have on hand before you read a Gamebook, and the other is more important since it'll teach you how do to mapping, which will be a useful skill to have in a lot of Gamebooks.
Warlock of the Firetop Mountain (The first Gamebook ever)
There was a series of books called ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ which were published earlier. I had the third one, ‘By Balloon to the Sahara’ which was published in ‘79.
Warlock of Foretop Mountain was ‘82.
Software for creating gamebooks
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Choose-your-own-adventure style RPG Fighting Fantasy was a UK obsession in the '80s, and it's finally coming to the US
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Remember those 'choose your own adventure' fantasy books? Well, now they're coming back in this delightfully chonky e-ink console
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Judge Dredd: Choose Your Own Xmas
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Gamebook History - Writing Solo Adventures by Joe Dever (1990)
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The best gamebook series you've never played is coming to tabletop in 'Lone Wolf - Adventures in Magnamund'
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Fighting Fantasy is coming back to U.S. marketplace
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Combat Heroes: the 1980s RPG gamebook craze got so wild they were implementing multiplayer grid-based dungeon crawlers in print
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Ace of Aces: or, why you should Do Maths as a game designer
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The Making Of: Nintendo Adventure Books, Mario's 'Fighting Fantasy' Period
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Ranking Choose Your Adventure Book Covers of the 20th Century
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'Fortress of Death' is Reinventing How We Play RPGs 34 Years Later
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Bloodbones' carving puzzle
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All of Netflix’s weird interactive movies and shows, ranked
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Netflix is launching a new series of story games, starting with Love is Blind
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Never Mind The Warlocks: Fighting Fantasy at 40
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Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks Are Still Going Strong
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40 years of Fighting Fantasy
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Ten of the Best: Fighting Fantasy Books
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'Ace of Aces' Reenacts WWI Dogfighting With Just Two Books
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My Fighting Fantasy gamebooks
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Lemmings Adventure Gamebooks
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