Sorcery! app for iPhone and iPad

4.4 ( 6224 ratings )

Games Adventure Role Playing Book
Developer: inkle

4.99 USD

Current version: 1.6.2, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 02 May 2013
App size: 165.82 Mb

An epic four-part adventure through a land of monsters, traps, and magic. Start your story here! FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY!

*** Rock Paper Shotgun Best RPG of 2016 ***

"You should choose to own this adventure" -- Eurogamer

"Inkles adaptation of Sorcery! takes the genre to a whole new level" -- Kotaku

"This is some of 2013′s best interactive storytelling" -- IGN UK

"Beautifully realised ... this gripping tale has us well and truly hooked" -- Pocket Gamer (Gold Award)

"Incredibly impressed" -- Touch Arcade

Top 10 Best Mobile Games of 2013, Mashable.com
Top 20 of 2013, Touch Arcade
Top 25 of 2013, Gamezebo

+ Plot your own journey across a hand-drawn 3D world map
+ Fully interactive story, with 1000s of choices
+ The story is rewritten on the fly based on how you play
+ Unique touch-based sword-duelling, with procedurally-generated descriptions of the action
+ Adapted from the best-selling gamebook series by legendary game designer Steve Jackson
+ Outwit monsters by learning their weaknesses and tells
+ 48 magic spells to master, with weird and wonderful effects that change the story

"Sometimes I feel like Im wasting my time writing a review when I should really just be pointing at a game and demanding that people play it. This is one of those times. Steve Jacksons Sorcery! is an absolutely marvellous fantasy storybook adventure. Lushly illustrated and expertly told, it should not be missed by anyone even remotely interested in the genre." -- Gamezebo

"Let’s not mince words here... Sorcery’s unique blend of tabletop-like roleplaying (including an incredible combat system quite unlike anything I’ve seen before), and elaborate branching pathways with custom scripts preserving the feeling of Steve Jackson’s work make me now want to… no, HAVE TO acquire an iOS device" - Just Press Start

From legendary designer Steve Jackson, co-founder of Lionhead Studios (with Peter Molyneux), and Fighting Fantasy and Games Workshop (with Ian Livingstone); and inkle, the studio behind the award-winning, App Store featured Frankenstein, Sorcery! is an interactive adventure like never before.

The app uses inklewriter technology to tell your journey in real-time, shaping the story around your choices. The text itself changes based on how you play and what you do, and in combat, the action is description on the fly based on how you play.

Featuring original illustrations by John Blanche, new character art by Eddie Sharam (DC Comics), an interactive map by Mike Schley (Wizards of the Coast) and music by David Wise (Donkey Kong Country).

"The Shamutanti Hills" is Part 1 of 4. Part 2, "Kharé: Cityport of Traps", is out now, and will load all of your completed Part 1 games to continue your adventure. Part 3 is coming later this year (but while you wait, check out our new game, 80 DAYS).

Pros and cons of Sorcery! app for iPhone and iPad

Sorcery! app good for

It is not to short when trying to experience all possible paths. It is exciting to figure out what would happen in case of a different action.

Good adaption of the old RPG-books. I especially like how the parts of the text are coming together and the fighting is also quite good adapted. I do not like the magic too much as there are too many spells in the book and its not not clear whether you could use a specific spell in a certain situation.

Ill admit that the first game feels pretty short if you only play through once. But its part of a larger story, and every decision influences the next. Im a little ways into Sorcery 3 and still feeling the consequences of decisions I made in the first game. Its absolutely brilliant and I cant wait for the fourth entry!

For those complaining about how your "wasted" five bucks on something that only lasts a couple of hours, I would suggest that you should also avoid going to the movies. Movie tickets cost more then $5, you will only get a couple of hours of story and whats worse you cant control what the actors do on screen. Honestly I wish there where more good short games. I enjoy playing epic RPGs like final fantasy, but Im getting tired of needing to dedicate 40+ hours just to see how the story ends. Sorcery is a fun quick game where every time you play its different depending on the choices you make.

This is mobile gaming and storytelling at its finest. The telltale games (the other standard) require full attention, in Sorcery, everything is turn based and can be rewound if needed. Fantastic story.

I didnt have any expectations about this game, but I enjoyed playing through it a few times. The combat is easy to learn and you can retry battles if you do poorly and get yourself killed. Its more choose your own adventure style than open world choice. If you like that style of game then you will enjoy this game as it is done in a great visual way with a backtracking choice for those who mind dying from a mistake. However, with this game there is no going backwards to revisit things, if say you want to back and revisit a store after leaving it, for example. Its not long if you choose to push through the optimal route, but there are plenty of spells and story choices to try. It took a couple of tries for me to get to the end and I thought this story was well thought out and fun to play.

Some bad moments

Its an okay game for an hour. It does not last long, and is not worth the money.

I dont know what I expected, but this game certainly didnt meet my expectations. It was a little boring. Just not my cup of tea, I guess. A lot pf reading, rewinding on bad decisions, and the "battles" were not exciting at all. This is just my humble opinion, though. Other people seem perfectly content with this game!

I really actually liked the game quite a lot, but I was pretty miffed when I got to the end and it asked me to buy part 2 for another $4.99. This game didnt even take me a full hour to complete, its a complete rip off for the price that it costs.

interesting game play but really boring and short too. Terrible combat and rewinding makes it just about completely pointless. Again, wow.

Great game, too bad it took me 30 minutes to play through it :-(. They should give you all 4 games for 4.99, not just one chapter! Great fun to play, not enough content.

No thought to strategy. Just a series of random choices and character deaths. Game lasts 2 hours at best then they want another 5 bucks.

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