Cliffhanger: Challenger of Tomorrow
Choice of Games · 2021 · RPG, Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Text-Based, Alternate History
PC
9 user reviews89% · 9
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About Cliffhanger: Challenger of Tomorrow
Punch out Fascists and unravel conspiracies in this explosive pulp adventure set in a retro-futuristic 1930s world of airships, fast cars, and two-fisted action!
Cliffhanger: Challenger of Tomorrow is a 300,000-word interactive novel by William Brown, author of The Mysteries of Baroque. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Here, masked and caped adventurers with ray guns and rocket boots blast down the gleaming Art Deco streets of Manhattan. Sinister criminal masterminds scheme from tropical island lairs. Dinosaurs stamp and bellow in fog-shrouded jungle plateaus. Fearless archaeologists discover incredible secrets and terrible curses under the desert sands. Master thieves plot daring heists among the glittering casinos of Monaco.
And you? You're Challenger, the most famous adventurer in the world—or, if you like, the most infamous scoundrel. You were raised as an orphan by Dr. Cosmos Zeta at his Tomorrow Institute, where he and his crack team of scientists have developed "zeta rays," providing free energy for the whole world, and granting mysterious powers to a lucky few.
But now, Dr. Zeta has been assassinated before your very eyes, and replaced by a doppelganger, who accuses you of attempted murder. To clear your name and avenge Zeta's death, you'll have to chase the assassin around the world—and beyond!
Will you defend Earth against a sinister mastermind? Will you crush the axis of Fascism that rages across Europe? Will you uncover the shocking truth about the zeta rays?
There's only one way to find out! Play "Cliffhanger: Challenger of Tomorrow" today!
Play as male, female, or non-binary; gay, straight, or bi Protect the Earth from interstellar and extradimensional invaders! Find friendship, love, rivalry, and enmity among a colourful cast of stalwart heroes, brooding warrior princes, shy scholars, charming rogues, ruthless gangsters, enigmatic spies, inscrutable mystics, fast-talking reporters, and brilliant scientists! Travel across a huge, gloriously strange world, from the sky-high speakeasies of New York City to the whispering bamboo groves of Taiwan, from the dark streets of Fascist London to the raucous nightclubs and casinos of the Shanghai Bund! Blaze across the skies on a jetpack of your own invention, learn the secrets of invisibility and mind-reading, or swing from building to building using the incredible slingshot grappling hook! Conquer the Mansions of the Moon, the last great stronghold of a decadent empire, or attain enlightenment amongst the snowy peaks and ageless monasteries of Shangri-La! Build a network of spies, contacts, and allies across the world! Play guitar with Django Reinhardt and Duke Ellington, party with Texas Guinan and the Aga Khan, drink whiskey with Al Capone, swap ideas with Hedy Lamarr, and shoot Hitler in the face! \
Cliffhanger: Challenger of Tomorrow is a 300,000-word interactive novel by William Brown, author of The Mysteries of Baroque. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Here, masked and caped adventurers with ray guns and rocket boots blast down the gleaming Art Deco streets of Manhattan. Sinister criminal masterminds scheme from tropical island lairs. Dinosaurs stamp and bellow in fog-shrouded jungle plateaus. Fearless archaeologists discover incredible secrets and terrible curses under the desert sands. Master thieves plot daring heists among the glittering casinos of Monaco.
And you? You're Challenger, the most famous adventurer in the world—or, if you like, the most infamous scoundrel. You were raised as an orphan by Dr. Cosmos Zeta at his Tomorrow Institute, where he and his crack team of scientists have developed "zeta rays," providing free energy for the whole world, and granting mysterious powers to a lucky few.
But now, Dr. Zeta has been assassinated before your very eyes, and replaced by a doppelganger, who accuses you of attempted murder. To clear your name and avenge Zeta's death, you'll have to chase the assassin around the world—and beyond!
Will you defend Earth against a sinister mastermind? Will you crush the axis of Fascism that rages across Europe? Will you uncover the shocking truth about the zeta rays?
There's only one way to find out! Play "Cliffhanger: Challenger of Tomorrow" today!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I can see what the author was going for and why most people might like it. It has fast cuts and keeps the cliffhangers coming nonstop. It also plays to the spy-fi superhero crowd. What I found jarring was that too much of a good thing turned it terrible. The characters just kept being introduced non-stop. Every few pages, a couple of new characters and factions are introduced until the whole thing becomes a mess. A first draft with potential. Probably needed a firm editor to step in.10 found this helpful
Honestly, I'd recommend this just for the fact that somebody actually understood Casablanca and wrote Rick and Louis the retirement they deserve. I'm a little disappointed I didn't get to throw a Nazi through a propeller... and that's really just about my only complaint. And was probably the result of my choices. The pacing can be a bit weird, and it drags a bit around the 2/3 mark, but it perfectly delivered the globetrotting two-fisted Nazi-punching dieselpunk pulp adventure I was promised. And the Rocketeer jet pack as optional equipment. Other things worth mentioning: The breadth of some of the choices is kind of shocking. It looks like some of the scenes have extremely high variability, though I've not replayed yet to see. (My play time is wrong, it's only ~6 hours.) The skills system actually makes sense, which can rarely be said for these games. And there's a really interesting global resource mechanic, in addition to the usual stat/personality combination you see in these, where your choices change the state of the world (e.g. degree of freedom of the press) and these can later come back to help you.7 found this helpful
Really good really gay1 found this helpful
我得说我才刚完成了第一轮游戏。 首先我非常喜欢作者的写作风格，有趣的设定，通过一些我们熟知元素的组合，加上部分科幻幻想，形成了故事里独特的世界。每个章节之间的广告是我比较中意的部分，还有章节结尾总结，我几乎能听到它们以老电影旁白的语调读出来。整个故事是一个影片一样的故事情节，一步一步引导主角到达故事结尾。当然我希望能有更多的参与度。 有一些不太满意的地方我不得不提，故事里身为主角的你有一个团队在你身边，甚至需要招募一些形形色色的帮手，可惜的是我并没有通过剧情很好的了解他们，剧情中MC和每个单独角色直接的对话和互动很少，使我很难深入了解一个人物。 就我的第一轮游戏来看，似乎并没有什么浪漫路线，可能由于是我对游戏简介中第三条错误的理解，总之我仍然会在接下里的游戏中继续进行更多的尝试。 还有就是关于游戏中MC的属性数值，它们变动很少（现在我猜测，可能是因为zeta射线的关系，在故事开始时我们的MC已经成长的足够强大了LOL） ，这和我其他玩过的text-based游戏不太一样，以至于我一直以为还在整个故事进行的前期。 PAST,PRESENT&FUTURE和FRIENDS,FOES&SIDEKICKS下的数值，即使是我完成游戏了，他们仍然只有很少的变化，通常在其他同类型游戏中， 他们的增减是很显而易见的。 总的来说我还是很喜欢这款游戏，它是一个吸引我去读的故事，我觉得作者是找对创作方向的，我很期待之后会有什么样的作品：） 以下是通过翻译软件的评价，因为我英语很烂但还是想为其他人提供参考。 The following is the evaluation by translation software, because my English is POOR but I still hope to provide references for the others. I have to say I just finished my playthrough. First of all, I really like the author's writing style and interesting settings. Through the combination of some familiar elements and some science fiction fantasy, the unique world in the story is formed. The ads between each chapters were my favorite, and the chapter summaries, which I could almost hear read out in the voice of an old movie narrator.It'…1 found this helpful
This was a fun read. Good story and a vibrant world. Playing the Mc was also quite enjoyable as the choices given made me feel like my character truly deserved their status as such a well known figure, i.e, they made you feel powerful and competent. I did find however, that some choices are just glorified next page buttons. Which isn't a bad thing most of the time, as long as the immersion isn't broken but some you could clearly tell the text you got immediatly after was meant for any choice you had picked. I know there's limitations but I think a sentence or two would've fixed these situations. Nevertheless I don't think that's big enough of an issue for me to say it breaks the whole game.
13/10 game lets me be OP and bully nazis
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