Choice of Alexandria

I love these games choice of games. Especially the idea of playing it through multiple times taking different routes. There are plenty of achievements and I'm eager to play again & discover the other storylines. I like the stats too.

A very short but well put together adventure. The heavy focus on real world history does distract a little from the story being told, in my opinion, but only at times. Worth a try if your interested.

This game has 200 endings (I counted them with the help of Todd Howard). You can end up being killed by an angry mob or you can completely change the course of history and send a woman into space by 415 C.E. Seriously, this is one of the best choose-your-own-adventure I've ever played and I still don't know if I got all the possible endings.

While both Choice of Robots and Choice of Magics are superior to Choice of Alexandria, the way I see it, what we have here is by no means an unsatisfying read. Choice of Alexandria is a competent work that's utilizing a fantastic setting, and I feel there's a perfectly good amount of agency being granted to the reader. I'll definitely be going back to hunt down at least some of the other endings.

This is my second-favourite Interactive Fiction. The first is the same author's Choice of Robots. If you like this sort of thing then get this one. If you don't know if you like this sort of thing or not then get it to try; it's a cheap and casual game that you can return to for different story branches and endings. If you know you don't like this sort of thing, what are you even reading this for?

Even for a work written in the genre of alternate history the factual inaccuracy of this game is close to unbearable. There were some good attempts at immersion, but the horrible pacing of the narrative and the horrendous portrayal of characters broke all that could be good in the title. What's worse, many of the choices seemed to be superfluous and led to nothing, the story overriding the player's agency in the most blatant of ways. Perhaps I was expecting a slice of life and not a chain of naive scenes and chunks of anachronistic rhetoric. A clever device was employed in the final chapter, but my version of it quickly dissolved into stale banality.