Description
Magically illustrated gamebooks bringing together thrilling stories, picture puzzles, and exciting dice-based combat. Epic adventure books where YOU are the hero! Solve the fiendish puzzles to save the the day!
You might know gamebooks from the Choose Your Own Adventure line, paperbacks in which you play the main character – follow the story’s directions, pick your actions, flip forward and back through the book until the tale is told. Usbourne Adventure Gamebooks are the scrappy, slightly darker and more modern cousin to CYOA books.
Six titles place you at the center of a different fantasy mystery. Each gamebook is a self-contained world full of twists, turns, and magic. Intricate visual puzzles by illustrator Tom Knight drive the story, from grand halls and haunted catacombs to strange machines driven by fantastic creatures. There’s even a simple d6-based combat system! If you’re really hep to details of 80s-era game-adjacent narrative paperbacks, I can tell you that these books are a bit of cross between the Fighting Fantasy books and the old Usbourne Puzzle Adventure books.
Choose from six titles:
Curse Breaker, in which a humble guard has a chance encounter and must unravel an epic mystery
Goblin’s Revenge, in which a solitary goblin attempts to stop an evil sorcerer from conquering the land
League of Thieves, in which a highly-trained thief must use all their skills to break into an infamous castle, rescue a friend, steal a treasure, and reveal an ancient secret
Portal of Chaos, a sci-fi adventure in which a bounty hunter attempts the mission of a lifetime
Shadow Chaser, in which a mysterious group recruits you to travel the land and, perhaps, save the kingdom
Storm Quest, an adventure on the high seas, in which you’ll battle monsters and save your true love from the waves
- Choose from six titles: Curse Breaker, Goblin’s Revenge, League of Thieves, Portal of Chaos, Shadow Chaser, and Storm Quest
- Designed for solo play but perfect for families to tackle together, ages 9+
- Requires d6 dice and something to write with
