Lux, City of Secrets
Hosted Games · 2021 · RPG, Interactive Fiction, Text-Based, Casual, Lore-Rich
PC
Mostly Positive75% · 32 📉 Recent reviews down 67%
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About Lux, City of Secrets
Welcome to Lux, City of Secrets, the third book in The Evertree Saga!
It's time to make a name for yourself in the city of Lux. In this first half of a two-part epic, you will discover a vibrant and dynamic metropolis full of mysteries. Meet and mingle with characters old and new, uncover clues and solve cases, wield weapons and magic, and rise to the top before the city drags you under!
Lux, City of Secrets is a 500,000 word immersive interactive experience by Thom Baylay. It’s entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast unstoppable power of your imagination.
The mayor of Lux believes someone is trying to kill him, and he has chosen you to save his life. But protecting the Luxican aristocracy is not your only priority. Will you be able to balance the responsibilities of life in the big city or will you be swallowed up by an unforgiving urban jungle? Will you prioritise your friends, your reputation, your career? In an open world where, more than ever, the choices you ignore matter as much as the ones you explore, you will need to choose carefully if you are to survive.
Reunite with old friends and enemies, continue to build the relationships you started in Evertree Inn and Sordwin, or abandon it all in pursuit of something new. It's time to find out if you have what it takes to uncover the mysteries of Lux, City of Secrets!
Lux, City of Secrets is the first half of a two part adventure which will be concluded in Lux, City of Lies.
It's time to make a name for yourself in the city of Lux. In this first half of a two-part epic, you will discover a vibrant and dynamic metropolis full of mysteries. Meet and mingle with characters old and new, uncover clues and solve cases, wield weapons and magic, and rise to the top before the city drags you under!
Lux, City of Secrets is a 500,000 word immersive interactive experience by Thom Baylay. It’s entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast unstoppable power of your imagination.
The mayor of Lux believes someone is trying to kill him, and he has chosen you to save his life. But protecting the Luxican aristocracy is not your only priority. Will you be able to balance the responsibilities of life in the big city or will you be swallowed up by an unforgiving urban jungle? Will you prioritise your friends, your reputation, your career? In an open world where, more than ever, the choices you ignore matter as much as the ones you explore, you will need to choose carefully if you are to survive.
Reunite with old friends and enemies, continue to build the relationships you started in Evertree Inn and Sordwin, or abandon it all in pursuit of something new. It's time to find out if you have what it takes to uncover the mysteries of Lux, City of Secrets!
- • Continue a story started in Evertree Inn/Sordwin or play as a brand new adventurer.
- • Explore the city of Lux over several days: pursue a career, investigate chilling mysteries, or head out into the local wilds in search of adventure.
- • Customize your character’s experience, including five different houses and twenty different professions, each with their own stories to be discovered.
- • Build a reputation among the clergy, the Watch and the aristocracy; become a champion of the poor or pursue a life of crime.
- • Stick to a plan, or be constantly side-tracked by a myriad of mysteries. More than ever, the choices you ignore matter as much as the ones you explore!
- • Meet a cast of vibrant new characters, and reunite with acquaintances from past adventures.
- • Develop a romance from Evertree and Sordwin or seek new experiences in the Luxican taverns.
- • Play as male, female or non-binary.
- • Play as gay, straight, bisexual or asexual.
Lux, City of Secrets is the first half of a two part adventure which will be concluded in Lux, City of Lies.
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 318: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆☆☆ (7/10) Man, what a bummer. Book 1 and Book 2 has built upon the foundations of each other, and I think the author's excellent prose and use of a Clue system is unrivaled. So, I thought this sequel would be bigger, deeper, and more satisfying. And to be clear: the writing is still great, the atmosphere is compelling, and there are a ton of branching paths to explore. But in trying to go wide,[i] Lux [/i]feels shallow. What’s here is good—but what isn’t here might matter more. 🥇[b] Pros:[/b] [list] [*]Fantastic writing and immersive tone. No complaints about the prose. It’s vivid, stylish, and brings Lux to life as a gritty, sprawling, mysterious city full of secrets. The setting is well realized and layered with enough history, flavor, and tension that it feels like an RPG city hub... if only you had time to explore it. [*]Genuinely high replay value. The amount of choice is impressive. There are a crazy amount of career paths, romance options, alliances, branching investigations, and multiple approaches to the same scenes. It’s clear a lot of work went into letting players tailor their character …4 found this helpful
Book 3 of Evertree Saga. Characters we met in previous two books and well written as always.BUT as author says this is just the "first half of a two-part epic", though we have some sub cases can close, the main story still unfinished. If you interested in this book, I recommend you to play Evertree Inn and Sordwin first. Then you can know better about those characters in the whole Evertree world(YES, I mean know more about our ROs...heheh). For all I know City of Lies is working in process, hope to read it soooooooooon.3 found this helpful
holy moly choices and customization galore
Story branching is great, many different options to choose from and different variations. The storytelling & world building itself is also great, details from the first game like the organisations are carried over, Although when playing the 1st game it made me think some details were extra things that the author put in to make it so call more interesting but after playing the 3rd installation I realised it was part of the world building. I like that details from this game didn't just come out of nowhere and its a continuation from previous work. The only issue I have is that the game is shorter than I would have liked it. I understand there is a part 2 to this game and that there is a lot of different routes but I would have liked even a day more cause of the sheer amount of things that can be done.
NOTE: this review is a review of the series as a whole. The three books thus far are a contiguous story, so I believe your purchase decision should be influenced by whether you want to read the series. I wanted a more challenging / involved story, so I have read through the books of the Evertree Saga with a few blind playthroughs each (no guides, obviously I used my own memory on the latter ones). It's a contiguous story (think episodes of a mystery show), not as much a continuous one like Lord of the Rings, but the books do significantly influence one another and many characters, relationships, and some ongoing story points carry through, so I believe a joint review is more appropriate than reviewing each in tandem. Overall thoughts: These books, at their core, are mystery RPG books. There is an answer to who committed the main events, and from what I have found, that does not change during each playthrough. There are many clues to follow in the books, both real insights on characters and red herrings. However, from what I have found, you always find out in the end. (This may not be true in the second book; I guessed the person correctly the first time) I love this. There is a…
"Trust cannot be taught like fear." -Mother Thalia This series has been really great. It's impressive how the first three books seam together. Did you like Daisy in the first? Or help the Half-orc? Well then, chances are they're your best friend in Lux, City of Secrets. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Never have I played a CYOA game that had such replay-ability. And that extends thru all three books. It may end on a cliffhanger but it's only the first part of a two-book adventure. I'd say this one is totally worth the money and you should try all three books in order to get some amazing results. 8/10
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