Gamebook Adventures 7: Temple of the Spider God Reviews

great series!

bimbosoup

All the volumes are wonderful. Takes me back to 'my choose your own adventure' books.

Wow, another great adventure!

Clever21nj

Wish there were more like this out there on OS. These games take me back to my childhood and bring me an epic sense of living an adventure. Don't pass this one up!

The best of the GA series so far, Spider God introduces a new phobia element to the series. As a phobia roll is alway against a target of 7, it remains a challenge even on novice difficulty. There are far fewer instant death passages, making it quite a bit fairer than earlier books. The writing is evocative and immersive. It only suffers in the vagueness of several "Or do you do something else?" entries. Full colour art is a nice addition to the already high production values of the series. Highly recommended!

A step up from an already high-level gamebook series!

Juuicetin

Having owned all the previous installments of Tin Man Games previous gamebooks, this one is a great improvement on the pre-existing system. With the addition of phobia checks and partners to help you in battle, it really helps to add more diversity to the gameplay. The illustrations in the book are very high quality and the best by far and the story is on par with the better gamebooks in the series from judging after my first playthrough. Overall, I am enjoying the new game mechanics and I would recommend to anyone already a fan of the series or even a newcomer who has read the description and seems mildly interested.

Woah!

kento bean

I'm surprised that these things aren't more popular! I never played one before but I saw this on sale and gave it a try. I'm glad I did it's flippin addicting! I wanna get the other ones now.

Fix

Plymab

Fix the combat system...you keep having to re-fight fights you just won on the next roll check. Also, while youre at it, spice up the combat with more depth , variables etc....rolling a 6 sided dice over and over gets tedious.

Please fix!!!!

Krell717

Would enjoy game better if they would fix the re-rolling of checks and combat. Very annoying to have to re-roll results and fail them after you passed them the first time. Giving one star until the problem is fixed.

Needs to be fixed

Methehand

I agree with earlier reviewers that this game is not worth playing until they fix the repeating roll/combat bug. Once that's done, it should be fun and will deserve a new review.

Fix it please

PartyMarty710

As soon as you fix that re-combat bug you'll have a winner

Buggy on iPad2 as well

Dave in San Francisco

This is a fun take on the old Choose Your Own Adventure books, with a simple combat system added in. I'd give it 4 or 5 stars, except for a few bugs. I experienced a few random crashes on my iPad2. Not necessarily a big deal - restarting the app took me right to where I'd left off. A few times, I did a fitness or a phobia roll and then wound up back on the page without any possible action. I had no choice but to restart the game from scratch. A couple of other times, I undefeated a monster, and then in the next battle. I'd wind up facing that same monster rather than the one I was supposed to be facing. If I won, I'd wind When up on a page once again with no valid option to move forward. As above, my only choice was to restart the game from scratch. I did manage to play the game all the way through once to the end, which is why I give it 2 stars rather than one, But bugs that make you restart from the beginning are pretty much a deal breaker for me. When these issues get fixed, I'll happily change this to a four or five star rating.