Review by Matt S.Tin Man Games is the indie workhorse of the iOS games market; every couple of months it releases a new gamebook title, and every couple of months I get hooked on the genre all over again.
If you've never played a gamebook, then you're probably younger than I am, but for the children of the 80's, the gamebooks were our single-player RPGs when we weren't able to get a group together for some Dungeons & Dragons. In the absence of narrative depth in the early PC RPGs and the likes of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, we instead read (and played) Fighting Fantasy and Lone Wolf. Tin Man Games has made a specialty out of the gamebook genre on smartphones and tablets - a natural platform for digital reading. What's especially exciting about these digital gamebooks is that they're often NEW books, and the prospect of new gamebooks is enough to excite the nostalgic amongst us.
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