Deathless: The City's Thirst
Choice of Games · 2015 · RPG, Indie, Choices Matter, Choose Your Own Adventure, Text-Based
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About Deathless: The City's Thirst
Negotiate water rights from scorpion gods in this necromantic legal thriller! Discredit your boss, solve murders, and reanimate your own corpse to keep your city from drying out.
Deathless: The City’s Thirst is a 150,000-word interactive novel by Max Gladstone, author of Choice of the Deathless and the Craft Sequence novels, nominated for the John W Campbell Best New Writer Award, the XYZZY award, and the Lambda Award. Your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
You won the God Wars, killing the rain god and taking over his desert city. But now the city needs water, and it’s your job to make it rain. As a rising associate at a god-killing public service conglomerate, you can monopolize your city’s public utilities, or fight to keep water affordable for everyone. Build alliances with powerful necromancers, or help local farmers hold onto their land. Find love, or betray your friends. Overcome the trauma you suffered in the God Wars. Prevent murders, or commit them.
Deathless: The City’s Thirst is a 150,000-word interactive novel by Max Gladstone, author of Choice of the Deathless and the Craft Sequence novels, nominated for the John W Campbell Best New Writer Award, the XYZZY award, and the Lambda Award. Your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
You won the God Wars, killing the rain god and taking over his desert city. But now the city needs water, and it’s your job to make it rain. As a rising associate at a god-killing public service conglomerate, you can monopolize your city’s public utilities, or fight to keep water affordable for everyone. Build alliances with powerful necromancers, or help local farmers hold onto their land. Find love, or betray your friends. Overcome the trauma you suffered in the God Wars. Prevent murders, or commit them.
Just Keep the Water Flowing.
- Play as male or female; straight, gay, or bi
- Match wits with master necromancers, real estate magnates, and journalists
- Climb the social ladder of Dresediel Lex
- Help the needy, or laugh callously as the world burns
- Drink with undead kings over the ruins of a destroyed civilization
- Kill people you may later really wish you hadn't killed
- Betray trusted friends and their entire society
- Fight giant scorpions and renegade priests—or join forces with them
- Look for love in extremely wrong places
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Wow... That was... Rather pointless. Word of advice: stick with the 1st game - as several other reviewers have already stated, it's by FAR the superior of the two... *Le sigh*... Honestly, times like these, I'm really forced to wonder why I keep bothering with these text adventures..? (Sadness over lack of Fallen Hero pt2 intensifies)2 found this helpful
2/5. The Previous game was significantly better. This one was good, until the end. Very anti-climatic. Not really worth playing or buying in my opinion, and that's saying something since I would recommend every other 'choice of games' game that I've played.2 found this helpful
I enjoyed the first one better, as here you don't really have a connection of the Craft to the Law, which was imo one of the best parts of game 1. But it's been fun nevertheless and I recommend the game.
Such a treat to stumble upon a creatively crafted urban fantasy series (Craft Sequence, see what I'm doing here? Wink wink), and then to discover TWO IFs set in the same world by the author! Absolutely delightful! MC is a corporate necromancer, similar to that in Choice of Deathless, fighting for water rights around the desert metropolis city. The writing is still sharp, keeping a crisp pace with a more put together plot than Deathless. Volume-wise it is on the lighter end, but is polished and has meaningful choices.
A very well done text game
Deathless: City's Thirst, is well written and well-paced, and definitely a favorite of mine in the choose-your-own-adventure novels. (Max Gladstone also authored a book series based in this setting, if you enjoyed the game.) High replay value, and an interesting real-world historical nod to the St. Francis Damn (though events can play out differently, depending).
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