Undying Fortress

A text-only interactive fantasy novel

Undying Fortress is an interactive fiction game from Choice of Games LLC with no images and no sound effects. Everything comes through written passages, and you move the story forward by picking from the options given.

It suits readers who like choice-driven fiction and dark fantasy rather than players who want visuals or action. The story runs to 500,000 words and includes hundreds of choices.

Making choices through the story

The listing says your choices control the story, so different decisions lead to different events. With no artwork or audio, the scenes exist only as text and whatever you picture while reading.

Because the whole experience is written, the pacing and detail depend on the prose and on the options you select. Nothing in the listing describes any other way of playing.

The fortress, the team and your character

A fortress that has floated above the kingdom of Serendal for centuries has now fallen. Its treasures, secrets and monsters are open to you, and your task is to get into a tower full of skeletons and leave with your team.

You play someone expelled from the Imperial Academy, where you were training to be a knight-scholar, who then became a mercenary. Your family's blade, Wicked Fate, has brought you fame and fortune, and the fortress offers a chance to climb much higher.

The author and developer

The listing credits Yeonsoo Julian Kim as author and Choice of Games LLC as developer. It identifies Kim's earlier interactive novel, The Fog Knows Your Name, as a previous work.