Deathless: The City's Thirst
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | $3.99 | Choice of Games LLC | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
“Deathless: The City’s Thirst" is a 150,000-word interactive novel by Max Gladstone, author of “Choice of the Deathless” and the "Craft Sequence" novels, nominated for the John W Campbell Best New Writer Award, the XYZZY award, and the Lambda Award. Your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
You won the God Wars, killing the rain god and taking over his desert city. But now the city needs water, and it’s your job to make it rain. As a rising associate at a god-killing public service conglomerate, you can monopolize your city’s public utilities, or fight to keep water affordable for everyone. Build alliances with powerful necromancers, or help local farmers hold onto their land. Find love, or betray your friends. Overcome the trauma you suffered in the God Wars. Prevent murders, or commit them.
Just keep the water flowing.
• Play as male or female; straight, gay, or bi
• Match wits with master necromancers, real estate magnates, and journalists
• Climb the social ladder of Dresediel Lex
• Help the needy, or laugh callously as the world burns
• Drink with undead kings over the ruins of a destroyed civilization
• Kill people you may later really wish you hadn't killed
• Betray trusted friends and their entire society
• Fight giant scorpions and renegade priests—or join forces with them
• Look for love in extremely wrong places
Reviews
One of the best!
Talnesa
Absolutely one of the best Choice Of...games I’ve played in a long time. Unique characters in a fascinating world tell a compelling story with numerous choices to make it your own. Highly recommended!
Dunestrider
Deathninja5551
Yes. That aside, this was an interesting mix of the previous game. A good note that charm isn’t as flexible as it was in the previous game (I pretty much won with a maxed charm stat) so you actually have more importance in everything else.
Fantastic!
Spaphgirl
Max Gladstone is a great author and has done a fantastic job with this game. Highly recommended!
Crashes
43BNJ
Like all new choice of games, I'm exited to play this one. The only problem is that every time I try to open the app, it crashes. I'm giving it 5 stars anyway because I assume it's great, but please do a bugfix.
Alright
giant_cookie
I did not enjoy this game as much as the first one. I think the characters were lacking a certain charm that the ones from the previous Deathless app had. The Red King/Kobil was the only one that stood out. I gave it four stars because the ending was pretty bland. But not less because it was well written, after all.
Better Than the First
Nikola Quixote
I had a great time playing the first Choice of the Deathless game from Max Gladstone, but this one is a step above. It's the closest you can get to actually living inside one of his novels. The only problem I've experienced is looking up bleary-eyed to find I'd lost far too much time trying to negotiate water rights.
Crash on startup
SilverSyntho
Can't even play it. Complete waste of money. Huge disappointment, love your other games.
Fantastic journey, but anti-climatic ending
True Immortal
Title explains the reason why I gave this game 4 instead of 5 stars. When I first completed the game, the ending was written in such a manner that I was convinced that it was just an early death ending. Not the actual end of the game. Played through the entire game a couple more times till it hit me: that's the end! It's not as obvious, for lack of a better word, that you've reached the end like the first game. It's also not as satisfying as the first game's ending too. Despite that, the writing and imagery was utterly fantastic! As beautiful and poetic as the first game! In fact, whenever I replay this game it always feels fresh and lively thanks to the vocabulary. Characters were not as in-depth as the first game, and there wasn't enough story behind each individual to really enjoy interacting with each one. I did enjoy interacting with the 'Kind, it reminded me of the demons in the first one: misunderstood and fun to interact with if you play your cards right. Speaking of demons, I love the prosthetic arm/leg you can choose to have in the very beginning of the game- interesting mechanic to have tiny demons inside it, like hamsters in an exercise ball that generates power, I assume. To sum it all up, I did enjoy this game; great writing, visual imagery, and lore, but anti-climatic ending and almost one dimensional characters. A solid 4/5 with replay value!
Awesome
Victoria045218
Honestly I love all the choice of games, they are my favorite apps..this one is very interesting and I really enjoyed it.
Utterly Excellent
C_A_S91
The first Deathless game was wonderful, but I have to say I think this one is even better. The characters were nuanced and multiple play throughs let's you see their motivations. I loved the gray morality of it and I especially love the culture built up in its narrative.
