Starship Traveller (Standalone)

A great on-screen production of one of the early Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. A change of direction from the usual sword&sorcery style games set in the world of Allansia, this one is set on board a spaceship [i](as if you hadn't guessed)[/i] which has been trapped in a parallel universe to Earth. Steve Jackson's star-trek style original book has been brought back to life [i](beamed down?)[/i] on screen here. The gameplay is just as it woz [i](all those years ago!)[/i] and altho the original artwork has been redesigned with new, colour illustrations, it complements the game perfectly. There are options for futuristic background music and sound effects, as well as a series of 20 Steam achievements ranging from tricky to amusing. There are also Steam trading cards for this game, if you like that sort of thing. In addition to your own skill, stamina & luck scores, you have a small specialist crew with their own individual scores, who may need to fight with you or make skill roles in their area of expertise. Your starship has scores for weapons and shields. As well as the standard FF combat, this game also has systems of combat for personal phaser duels (quick & deadly!) and ship-to ship battles. You have the option to custom name your character, crew, ship & even the ensign. The game is not very combat heavy, but does need very specific path choices to find the info required to make your way safely back to Earth. The game is quite short, but that is because the original book woz only 340 references rather than the usual 400, so not a fault of the developers. TinManGames have produced several of the original FF games as standalone titles (more about them elsewhere) and this is an enjoyable variation on the theme.

If you have an itch for a Fighting Fantasy book on steam, just get Forest of Doom instead.

Gamebook game style, Not for me. The interaction with the history is very limited, it feels like one of those books where "if you choose to go to the purple star, go to page 85." "If you choose the distant gray planet go to page 102" With the limitation that you had to take a dice roll to see if you can go to page 102. The history feels forced, the character creation is very limited, only three skills, and one of them is "skill". The other ones are luck and stamina.

Robot Comamando is the best book ever...not this Check the game here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEFdIHizTxg

i loved these books!!! I have most of them but im missing a few i would love to see them all on the pc!

This is a faithful reproduction of the pen and paper Fighting Fantasy-style gamebook from Steve Jackson/Ian Livingstone (who would go on to create Games Workshop/Warhammer 40K). The game works properly in full screen and has a variety of gameplay tweaks to let you pick your own pace. The game works fine, as an interactive novel, the writing is far better than most on Steam because it's an actual published book by accomplished authors. The asking price is a little high, but the game is worth picking up in bundle or on sale for fans of the older Fighting Fantasy RPG novels and for this fringe genre it's better than 99.9% of the rest of the stuff on Steam.

Definitely one of the better CYOA games out there. Love the story along with how interactive the game is (especially with using dice as well as being able to set skill, stamina, etc). I enjoyed finding all the pictures as well as experiencing all the different choices. The music was pretty decent, would've been great if there was voice acting but no biggie though. The art was also pretty decent Overall, if you like CYOA games, this one is for you. Not badly priced either, considering all the time I spent playing the game, it was definitely worth it.