Gamebook Adventures: Infinite Universe App Reviews

without in-app purchases

C

This is an extremely well done and polished app. A must have for anyone who enjoys choose your own adventure or gamebooks. I would love to see more scifi like this added to the collection.

Not free as you have to buy anything after chapter 1, which I promptly did. The game is not only well designed, it has an in depth development system which integrates into the game perfectly. The story itself is beautifully written, and has kept me hooked for hours. No shortage of humor either. Definite buy.

The book is good itself, unfortunatly unstable. Book crash and does not open again. Also, if you unistall and reinstall, they want you to pay again to get the chapter you already paid for... Do not recommand this apps

As far as "Choose your own adventure" style of book goes, Tin Man Games made a wonderful job in integrating technology in it with the Gamebook Adventure series! This new sci-fi book improves the rules with skills, which is great! The price, at 4.99$, may be a bit steep compared to many other apps out there, but to see this genre revive in such a nice way makes me want to spend that 5$ without remorse.

the main problem with this book is that u read too much and nothing really happen , u don really have to make choice , and skill (talent ) are pretty useless , i have use them like 3 or 4 time , hvnt been used the good way , plus when u finish the book , and no what to do . u can finish the book in less than 20 minute when the first time it took more than 10 hours and again nearly no combat , no choice , and really weird ending . compare to other book this one was not so great every other i was really great

Begins to feel less like a choose your own adventure and more like a real text based RPG

Great app, good story Worth the 5$? Hell yeah!

First off, Im a big fan of the series who has played and finished every gamebook adventure before this one. Unfortunately the writer they used for this particular one is utterly terrible. While the overall story arc is fine, the writer just doesnt seem to understand how to write in an engaging way. Every page is filled with huge run on sentences describing the exact dimensions of random items in a completely stilted way. You end up having to reread sentences multiple times just because his writing style is so unnatural. On top of that theres barely any choices to make, half the time youre just rolling the dice to randomly get sent to a different section. I do like that they tried to implement a skill system, unfortunately its done just as badly as the writing. Oh and the attempts at humor all pretty much fall flat too. An all your bases joke? Really? Please never use this writer again, thanks.

The new update doesnt let me play the game when you touch play at the menu screen

This is a book where you have to press buttons to select choices. They work when you press them maybe a third of the time. Considering that making choices is the most important part of the game, you can imagine the quality of the rest of the app. Do not buy.

Really good u control your book if u want to kill a donkey u can choose to kill a donkey ( dosnt really kill a donkey ) u make your stats make your decisions and basically ( not trying to sound cheesy) u choose your fate

This game was amazing. I couldnt put it down I just had to know what happened. In fact I managed to get the best ending my first time through and was sad because I was looking forward to going though the game again!? But guess what I still can (and am doing so)! Love everything about it: Story, Characters, Humor, and Skills. Lots of choices and lots of laughs. I must recommend to any that like Gamebooks or even games and books in general. It was so good in fact I think this is the first review I have written because I just had to share. Look forward to a sequel or at least some more science fiction from Tin Man Games.

My only real complaint about this Gamebook was the forced ethnicity and ethnic point (or lack there of) of the storyline. The ethnicity of Caucasian is thrust upon the player out of nowhere. In the middle of the adventure. When gender certainly is an option. The player is forced to tolerate ethnicity based negative comments for completely no reason what-so-ever. It was weird. Im sure the author was attempting to make some kind of comment on race in Australia, and how poorly the Caucasian community is treated by the aboriginal people, but it really ruined the book for me. Its only point in the story was interpreted by me, as nothing more than a shoddy attempt at saying "see, theyre the ones being racist!" I repeat- WEIRD. The big question remaining: WHAT WAS THE POINT? Why didnt you just ask the player what they look like in the Infinite Universe? Not every "Average Joe" is Caucasian. BUT STILL 4 STARS because the game experience was better than the trope-abusive storyline.

I really enjoyed this choose your own adventure book. I own all of the tin man books. This was pretty cool and worth it.

Liked this one too. Was entertaining and let you get I new bookmark at each chapter. Though I found a glitch that lets you get as many a u want on classic lol. Cant wait for the sequel.

I had difficulty getting into this story. The plot starts you in an amnesia scenario in which you have no memory of your past, which is a great hook. And then you are thrust into some action. So far this is a great way to hook your reader and start the story with a bang. But this promising pace at the beginning quickly evaporates when you soon find yourself in a series of rooms with excessively long descriptions -- or one big room with many corners to explore and random encounters throughout. The pace has vanished and has been replaced by "maze traversal" and wearying room descriptions. The grammar is jarringly bad, and this happens a bit too often: misplaced commas, incorrect use of adverbs, excessively piled-on prepositional phrases, random changes in tense, and many other amateur writing errors. Case in point: "Roll a dice" is just elementary bad grammar! These errors made the prose clumsy enough that it gave the game a very amateurish feel overall and that detracted significantly from my reading pleasure. This gamebook would benefit from the thorough attention of an editor. I applaud the efforts at improving the game engine, since thus far the GA game engine has been essentially bare bones. The addition of skills, medals, and long-range weapons is a start. But I found these disappointing as well. Having long-range weapons merely means that you have two weapons in your inventory instead of one, and otherwise long-range and short-range combats are *identical* in how they play out, so nothing new has really been added there. The medals are entertaining but otherwise dont impact the plot, so they are essentially pointless. Moreover, the medals actually become a nuisance: I was told at least 4 times that I had acquired a Dodge medal, and since this occurs as a parenthetical remark right in the midst of the text, these constant reminders provide yet another needless distraction from the story. The music is decent. I like the combat music. However the in-game music feels a bit sleepy during the text reading. Or maybe the text itself was sleep-inducing. In reality, it was probably the combination of the two (music plus text) that put me to sleep. The artwork has a certain simplistic effectiveness, and I liked it. In all I would rate this is as one of the weakest entries in the GA series. I appreciate that they made this game expandable through in-game purchases of additional chapters. This allowed me to try it for free and decide not to waste my money on the future chapters. If youre looking for a good sci-fi gamebook for the iPhone, check out Star Breed. Its writing, pacing, game engine, and music are all far superior to this lackluster addition to the GA series.

I am using the first paragraph in page 228 in my classroom. Ill use it to show my students what a comma disaster looks like. Seriously, though, the writing is quite poor at times. Nobody expects Shakespeare, but theres a couple of passages that are unacceptable. Still, the game is fun and the story seems intriguing. Is just annoying how careless writing gets in the way.

I love your guys books, so I was very Disturbed when I bought the full version and the game froze. First I tried to shut all of my apps and then restart my Ipad when that didnt work I uninstalled the app and re-installed it, much to my surprise the app was saying that I needed to re purchase the app even though I still recieved the email from Apple showing my purchase. I know I may only be one customer, but I also find it insensitive when i send you guys an email and never recieve a reply back, so now I must resort to writing this review. I will ask only once. Please Help. Sincerely, Simenson PS Simenson is pronounced like this "Sigh-men-Son"