Chronicon Apocalyptica
Choice of Games · 2019 · Adventure, Indie, RPG, Text-Based, Choose Your Own Adventure
PC
Positive80% · 10 📉 Recent reviews down 70%
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About Chronicon Apocalyptica
Battle Norse raiders, ghosts, and changelings to save medieval England! But beware, if the elves can capture the Book you hold, the world will end.
Chronicon Apocalyptica is a 250,000-word interactive medieval fantasy novel by Robert Davis. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
You are an Anglo-Saxon scribe in the year 1000. You hold a Book of secrets written generations ago, including this prophecy: "When Æthelred II is King, he shall not be King, but there shall be an elven changeling in his stead. Should it gain this book and its ink, the world he shall rend asunder."
The witan advisors to Æthelred have tasked you with a secret mission to research whether the Book is true. Build an unlikely party of adventurers: a nun, a holy warrior, a bard, a beekeeper, and his bee, each with a mysterious past. Judge a witch trial, infiltrate the magical land of the elves, and even travel through time on your quest to extract fact from fiction.
Lovers of England's mythic history will delight as you meet Excalibur, the Green Children of Woolpit, and the Tremulous Hand, a creepy disembodied hand with a predilection for parchment. Put your analytical, investigative, and storytelling skills to the test as you decide where your loyalties lie: to the church, the crown, or the people of England.
Will you uncover the secret at the heart of English history, or succumb to the evil of the most deadly book ever created?
Chronicon Apocalyptica is a 250,000-word interactive medieval fantasy novel by Robert Davis. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
You are an Anglo-Saxon scribe in the year 1000. You hold a Book of secrets written generations ago, including this prophecy: "When Æthelred II is King, he shall not be King, but there shall be an elven changeling in his stead. Should it gain this book and its ink, the world he shall rend asunder."
The witan advisors to Æthelred have tasked you with a secret mission to research whether the Book is true. Build an unlikely party of adventurers: a nun, a holy warrior, a bard, a beekeeper, and his bee, each with a mysterious past. Judge a witch trial, infiltrate the magical land of the elves, and even travel through time on your quest to extract fact from fiction.
Lovers of England's mythic history will delight as you meet Excalibur, the Green Children of Woolpit, and the Tremulous Hand, a creepy disembodied hand with a predilection for parchment. Put your analytical, investigative, and storytelling skills to the test as you decide where your loyalties lie: to the church, the crown, or the people of England.
Will you uncover the secret at the heart of English history, or succumb to the evil of the most deadly book ever created?
- Play as male, female, or non-binary; gay, straight, bi, or asexual.
- Discover rare sources, excavate ruins, and collect local legends.
- Fight the forces of darkness, or outwit them with your sharp intelligence.
- Explore decaying strongholds, funeral barrows, and even time itself.
- Choose romance or rivalry with your greatest foe.
- Determine who sits on the English throne.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Reviewing (mostly) every game (or DLC) in my library, part 471: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆☆☆☆☆ (5/10) Arghhhh. I never feel bad for writing a negative review, but since IndieGems and the writer has so kindly given me a free copy, I do feel bad. Still, I always have to be honest, no matter how big or small the dev/writer is. Thankfully, [i]Chronicon Apocalyptica[/i] has quite a few aspects I enjoyed: its descriptive, period-appropriate writing, its hook, and its love of history. However, its flaws sadly outweigh its highlights. The characters are bland, poor romance, the plot taking baffling, confusing turns, and a lack of player choice. Still, I would be happy to check out more of Robert Davis' work. [b]🧚♂️ Pros:[/b] [list] [*] What a hook. You play as an Anglo-Saxon scribe in the year 1000 where you happen to come across a mysterious, sentient Hand and a Book that tells the future. Or maybe not. It's a big question. The first chapter involves writing and transcribing historic texts, and my first thought was [i]Pentiment.[/i] It has the writing chops to be a text-based [i]Pentiment[/i], and [i]Chronicon Apocalyptica[/i] has one of the strongest hooks I've read. [*] Intriguing premise. Relig…7 found this helpful
God this game has intrigue and I want to learn more about it but the game's mechanics itself won't let me be interested. There are way too many stats to keep track of, such that I don't think the creator properly factored in the crossover of having certain combinations. You will almost always hit walls of choices where none of your stats are suited for any options, and it doesn't feel intentional or good to play. The game doesn't clearly communicate which stats mean what and the crossover between stats makes it all the more confusing. I didn't even get a chance to decide if I was honorable or cunning in the tutorial so I went through the game without the ability to choose either option. And in choices where 2/3 were the honor and cunning choice I'm obviously restricted.1 found this helpful
This story was one of my favorites from Choice of Games so far. The characters are all fun to get to know, and I also appreciated the attachment to actual English legends. Truly, my only complaint about the story is that it feels rather short. I would definitely recommend giving this a read through though. 8/101 found this helpful
Brilliant and unique. Well-written and complex.
It's good, but it's very hard to understand, at least for me, 6/10
Its suprisingly big and has a lot of details witch make it also a good story inon how many chapters it has realy suprised me and i kept wanting to read more i give it a 10/10 personally
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