Steve Jackson's Sorcery! now available on all major consoles

Steve Jackson's Sorcery! The Complete Collection is now available for Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch, and is already taking the gaming community by storm.

Indeed, Finger Guns recently called it, "a real page turner," while The Xbox Hub has rated it 4.5/5.

Sorcery! was a Game of the Year finalist for TouchArcade and Mashable, while Rock Paper Shotgun called it, "one of the finest RPGs ever made."

The Sixth Axis has rated the game 9/10, as has the Use A Potion video game review site.

If you've not played inkle studios' adaptation of Steve Jackson's seminal gamebook quartet, the release of the quadrilogy on Switch will provide you with the perfect opportunity.

Journey through hills, forests, cities, dungeons, and even time in the magical world of Sorcery! where every choice matters. Fight, explore, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive and craft your own unique story! Each part can be played on its own, or you can load your character from one part to the next, carrying over equipment, stats, and narrative choices.

Features: 

 - Freedom to explore

 - pick your own path and make your own choices, thousands of them

 - Progression that counts - load your progress from the previous part and continue your journey

 - Spellbook full of wonders - a plethora of weird and wonderful spells that can affect the narrative in wild and unpredictable ways

 - Swindle with the best of them

 - Play Swindlestones, a game of cunning and deceit, for profit or for information

 - God(s) be with you - multiple deities, each with their own quirks and powers

 - Life of the city - hundreds of characters to interact with

 - Slay the night - fight hundreds of unique monsters

 - Storytime - adapted from the best-selling gamebook series by legendary game designer Steve Jackson

 - Music to my ears - listen to a beautiful soundtrack by the "80 Days" composer, Laurence Chapman

Jon Ingold, inkle's Narrative Director, will be attending Fighting Fantasy Fest 4 two months today, on Saturday 3 September at the University of West London in Ealing.

Authors attending Fighting Fantasy Fest 3

As well as Fighting Fantasy co-creators Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, there are a number of other authors who will be attending Fighting Fantasy Fest 3, including...

Peter Darvill-Evans - author of Beneath Nightmare Castle, Portal of Evil, and Spectral Stalkers.

Jamie Thomson - co-author of Talisman of Death, Sword of the Samurai, and The Keep of the Lich-Lord.

Jonathan Green - author of Spellbreaker, Knights of Doom, Curse of the Mummy, Bloodbones, Howl of the Werewolf, Stormslayer, Night of the Necromancer, and You Are The Hero - A History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks.

Jon Ingold - narrative director of inkle studios, and chief writer on Steve Jackson's Sorcery!

PJ Montgomery - comic writer and adaptor of Steve Jackson's The Trolltooth Wars.

Fighting Fantasy Fest 3 is happening in just seventeen days, on Saturday 31st August. If you haven't got your ticket yet, don't miss out and grab yours today!

The Sorcery! 4 Launch

On Thursday 15th September, inkle Studios had the launch of the final part of their adaptation of Steve Jackson's Sorcery! epic - Sorcery! 4: The Crown of Kings - at the Loading Bar in Stoke Newington.

The celebrations were marked by the recording of a special IGN podcast, during which a very enthusiastic audience helped the podcast panellists - which included inkle's Narrative Director Jon Ingold, the Gamesmaster, if you will - decide which route to take, which risks to brave, and which monsters to fight! After all, as the original advert for the Sorcery! series put it, "Why should kids have all the fun?"

Steve Jackson also made an appearance - his arrival being greeted by a round of applause from the audience and embarrassed blushes from the panellists - and chatted with fans afterwards.

The Archmage had concocted various magical potions for the evening's festivities and so the Warlock felt duty bound to sample some of them. Indeed, those who did Test their Luck in this way, were rewarded with download code for the game, which will be released simultaneously on mobile and desktop on 22nd September.

Congratulations to all concerned for a fantastic evening, and I could see the Sorcery! cocktails becoming a feature of future Fighting Fantasy events...

One of the esoteric potions concocted for the evening.

Sideswiping a Birdman!

Jon Ingold of inkle and Steve Jackson of Sorcery! fame.

You can see more pictographic representations of the evening's events here.