Choice of Alexandria (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Choice of Alexandria

Choice of Alexandria is an interactive novella. Your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based - 90,000 words, without graphics or sound effects - and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your…

10 June 2016

What Choice of Alexandria is

Choice of Alexandria is an adventure game developed by Choice of Games and released in 2016. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on ChoiceScript.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The year is 245 BCE; you're a heroic polymath librarian, invited to Alexandria to tutor prince Ptolemy IV. The real Ptolemy IV fell under the sway of his evil advisor Sosibius, and brought the empire to ruin - but perhaps under your tutelage, things will turn out differently. Or disregard your responsibilities to focus on inventions instead! With the help of Archimedes and Euclid, you can discover the steam engine, the germ theory of disease, or even robotic automata, thousands of years ahead of schedule. Will you deplete the libraries of other cities to enrich your own? Achieve popularity for your scientific inventions, or protect the legacy of the empire? Will Ptolemy IV grow up…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Choice of Alexandria launched on 10 June 2016, within three weeks of Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch, Inside and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine.

Released around the same time: Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch, Inside, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine.

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