Choice of Alexandria (2016)

Developer

Choice of Games

Platforms

Windows, macOS, Linux

Genres

Adventure, Indie, RPG

Rating

4.7 of 5, 78 player ratings

Typical playtime

about 3.1 hours

Where to get it

Steam

How it feels

You read and make decisions in a quiet, historically grounded library setting, guided by text and imagination without graphics or sound.

text-basedinteractive fictionchoice-drivenhistoricalatmosphericcontemplativebranching narrativeslow-paced

What players say

Players call this a short text-based game where choices have long-term consequences in an alternate history setting. Some find the pacing slow and the romance shallow, but many praise how much player agency and historical detail the game packs into its roughly two-hour runtime.

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