80 Days!

[yendi]

Hey, Android owners! The best video game of 2014, 80 Days, is on sale at the Amazon App Store for $.99 (80% off)! Note that there's no qualifier in that last sentence -- it's not the "best mobile game" or "best story-driven game" or somesuch. Just the best game released in 2014. Go buy it (it's certainly worth the full $5, too, if you're on IOS or don't catch it while it's on sale).

There are supposedly 500K words of content in the game. That's more than the entire LOTR trilogy or any book in A Song of Fire and Ice. In other words, there's a lot of content, and a lot of replayability.

Comments

[jadelennox]

I did love 80 Days! I only played it because of

Beside me singing in the Wilderness (15998 words) by norah
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 80 Days (Video Game 2014)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Behiye bint Kasim, Bulbul, Manussiha
Additional Tags: Steampunk, Robot Harm, Character of Color, Action/Adventure, Misses Clause Challenge, Pirates
Summary:

The adventures of Behiye bint Kasim, Captain of the pirate ship Canavar, and her engineer and companion Bulbul.

And then I played it through about 7 times.

(Although I am also really excited by Never Alone, which I've heard great things about, and Hadean Lands, which I haven't had time for yet.)

[yendi]

Ha! I hadn't even thought to look for fanfic (especially since 80 Days is a transformative work anyway). I'll have to add that to my list.

I'm also excited about both Never Alone and Haadean Lands (the latter in particular, since "Hunter, in Darkness" is the game that got me back into playing IF some twelve or so years back.