Choice of Magics

About

Choice of Magics is a text-driven RPG where every decision shapes a post-apocalyptic world ruled by dangerous magic. You play a scavenger navigating a broken society, choosing how to wield five cursed schools of spellcraft. Each power offers benefits and dire tradeoffs, like healing that mutates or foresight that leaks your secrets. The game unfolds through branching narratives, letting you build factions, forge alliances, or dominate through force. Outcomes depend on how you balance survival, ethics, and the escalating costs of magic. Developed by Choice of Games, this 550,000-word story prioritizes player agency over spectacle. With no graphics or combat buttons, the focus stays on moral dilemmas and long-term consequences. Players often cite its layered choices and the weight of deciding which magics to revive. The publisher’s track record includes Choice of Robots, a top-rated title in the same format. At its heart, it’s a slow-burn strategy game where rebuilding civilization feels both hopeful and precarious.

Storyline

Thousands of years ago, the ancients destroyed civilization with five schools of magic. Each spell comes at a terrible price. Glamor charms your adversaries, rotting your body from the inside. Divination reveals faraway secrets, exposing your own secrets to others. Automation gives objects the spark of life, destabilizing the climate. Vivomancy can heal or change living things, with bizarre side effects. Blast your enemies with Negation energy, forming permanent clouds of deadly fallout. As a young scrounger of antiquities, you hope to build your ruined world anew with these rediscovered spells. Now you must decide which of these magics can transform your post-apocalyptic society, and what you'll risk to bring hope and light to your kinsmen.