Choice of the Deathless
Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make…
Choice of the Deathless is an indie developed by Choice of Games LLC, released 5 July 2014 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Choice of the Deathless is
Choice of the Deathless is an indie game developed by Choice of Games LLC and released in 2014. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on ChoiceScript.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first. "Choice of the Deathless" is a necromantic legal thriller by Max Gladstone, Campbell Award-nominated author of Three Parts Dead and Two Serpents Rise. The game is entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Explore a fantasy realm with a rich and evolving backstory, based on the novels published by Tor Books.
How it plays
It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 32 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Choice of the Deathless holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
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What it launched against
Choice of the Deathless launched on 5 July 2014, within three weeks of The Last of Us Remastered, Shovel Knight, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove and Divinity: Original Sin. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Last of Us Remastered, Shovel Knight, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Divinity: Original Sin.
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