This is a mobile port of one of my favourite Fighting Fantasy books. Sorry Steve Jackson, Ian Livingstone wrote the best books in my opinion. This is essentially the book put onto screen with all the foibles that brings. There are page references even through the links take you to the correct paragraph and even shut down choices you can no longer choose.

The combat is done in game, no more having to remember to bring dice to your computer!

It is what it is, a book on computer with nice music and updated visuals. However I'm going to enjoy playing it.

If you want to see what it is like, I have included a short video of me playing the start.

http://youtu.be/9PtPnTEAitk

Very, very good game
I've never played one of this before so i'm new to this kind of game.
Pros:
Good writing,
Good art,
Interesting plot.

Negs:
Too random but i supposed it was made that way.

This is a choose your own adventure with random combat, and by random i mean random.
When you start a game you roll the dice to get stamina, luck and skill points, this is the most important part of the game because this points are used in combat and in random scenes when luck, skill and stamina will decide if you go on or lose the game.
The combat is too random but interestig, it takes the skill points as base and adds the number goten with the dice. After the outcome of a turn you'll have the oportunity to test your luck but every time you test it you'll loose one luck point and you'll won't want that.
I think the game is worth the price, i payed 54 mexican pesos, like 3 dollars on sale.
So it goes if you want a different kind of adventure and you like to read a little this is a great way to spend an evening.

The Caverns of the Snow Witch is a direct revision (which includes an option to play using the original artwork and font type) from the Fighting Fantasy series of books written by Ian Livingstone. (This is the 9th book of the series, circa 1984.) This D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) genre choose-your-own-adventure style book plays exactly as the original book form minus the physical dice. (Paper and pencil are optional.) Here the dice are built in. Roll for stamina (health), skill (fighting ability) and that all so precarious luck. Once the character stats are established time for some adventure which includes choosing directions (usually at the infamous 'T' junctions), making decisions (fight that creature or sneak past) and death, if one is defeated, in combat, by a poor decision, or when one's luck runs out, literally, and it always does eventually.

The D&D style books, the precursors to RPGs and their ilk, are as challenging as any AAA game in modern day and as unforgiving as any bullet-hell.

Storyline: Start as a hired sword to protect a caravan going to a snowy hamlet deep in Ice Finger Mountains. The hamlet is attacked and the caravan owner offers 50 gold to track down and eliminate who or whatever slaughtered the inhabitants. Off to find the monster (man or beast) with 50 gold gleaming in the eye but with no weight in the pocket, the adventure begins.

Gameplay: This book is divided into four separate sections: 1) Tracking down the beast 2) The Caverns of the Snow Witch 3) Beyond the icy caverns and 4) Breaking the curse (of course there is a curse, a death curse to be precise. No villian lets the "hero" live if they can help it, even if the villian dies first. An auxium of Villiantry.)

As I stated before this game is unforgiving, and the "hero" often dies. However, just with a book, the player has the option to go back a page or two and try a different route or option. There are also unlimited bookmarks (the equivalent of fingers between the pages) if the player needs or wants to try an entirely different direction or make different choices. (I suggest bookmarking often, at any place with choice and especially before battle). Plus there is the all-important, and often can save your xxx, DICE SHAKE. The dice shake is when the player seeing they just rolled an extremely low number like boxcars (1 and 1) on their white dice and who or what they are fighting just rolled a higher number on their red dice. This higher number will damage the "hero", if not outright kill them. So the player has the option to quickly (like in maybe in a second) click on the dice again before they settle to get a reroll. One reroll per dice throw, and the player has to be fast.

There are three modes to this game. 1) Reader's mode (or cheater's mode) which allows the player unlimited health regeneration and the option to avoid all battles and poor decisions by using 'free choice' (which opens all options available to the player even ones they are not 'entitled' to have). 2) Adventure mode or normal mode, play with the stats rolled in the beginning of the game. (Remember the DICE SHAKE works here too.) 3) Hard mode play with a handicap in both stamina and skill (half for both) making battles much harder to win. (Not recommended unless the player knows exactly where all the stamina, skill and luck power ups are.)

An excellent example of the D&D genre, the storyline is tight and moves along fast, challenging and unforgiving, where battle damage affects the player and poor decisions can have lethal consequences. A fun read and extras include a brief history of Fighting Fantasy and the "find" art gallery depicting both the original and updated illustrations.

Highly recommended to those who like old school and to anyone looking for a different type of RPG adventure. (WARNING: READING is NOT optional and spamming will get the player killed, very quickly.)

Loved this as a kid, oh the nostalgia...

...Unfortunately things you remember with fondness from your childhood don't always hold up well into adulthood. In this case it's the randomness of the gamebook that just isn't fun after the 5th or 6th time that you get wiped by any particular beastie where you get bad rolls.

Do you take option a or b? a = progess, b = instant death.

Other publishers are way more liberal with their adaptation of a gamebook...that's probably for the best. Purists will probably like this title, in terms of gameplay I have to give it a thumbs down.

I have not read the original Fighting Fantasy books, but I heard they were fun passtimes, so when this game went on sale I decided to go ahead and get it. I can say a few good and a few bad things.

Good: The game is fun in a very retro way. I didn't know of these books when I was a kid, but I was a big fan of both D&D and Choose Your Own style books, so it's quite nostalgic anyways. The redone art is nice (aside from a few things, like a "white dragon" being illustrated with a brownish/copper dragon, but whatever) and the retro art definitely reminds me of my AD&D days. The stat system is alright, but I really wish they would have introduced a point-buy method for the digital release, as I find myself restarting the game every time I roll a ton of 1's or 2's in my character creation section.

Bad: The game is unforgiving. If you like darksouls, that's fine, and I'm not saying it makes this game unplayable. I am okay with a game that requires a great amount of skill, but this game requires a great amount of luck. For example (this is a real example but the items/names are changed), if I went to fight a large ooze, it would tell me I had to either have a bottle of alchohol in my inventory or I'd be consumed by the acidic beast. Basically, if I didn't turn left at the last of three T-junctions I die. Yes, that is what happened to me while playing a few times. Yes, it is the same solution (I turned right instead of left so I died). The worst part is there are no hints. Just a generic "There is a T-Junction. Turn right or left?" page. Occassionally you'll meet someone who can tell you which way to turn, but that's hardly ever.

In conclusion, if you enjoy trial-and-error, this game is for you. Otherwise, you should move along.

Not as good as the Forest Of Doom, but worth afew bucks as it's a decent adventure. Its a bit more harsher and a lot less forgiving. Bookmark often.

An atmospheric on-screen production of one of the early Fighting Fantasy gamebooks.
The game is set in the FF continent of Allansia and you must travel to the treacherous Icefinger Mountains to find and defeat (not just once, but twice!) the evil Snow Witch Shareella, who is planning to unleash a new ice-age on the world.
Ian Livingstone's original book has really been brought back to life (defrosted?) here. The game is exactly as it woz (all those years ago!) and not only are the original b&w artworks here, but new colour reworkings as well. The nostalgic feel of the game is perfect.
There are options for background music and sound effects, as well as a great series of 30 achievements ranging from difficult to amusing. There are also Steam trading cards for this game.
This game is rather more linear than most, with two distinct sections. I believe it was originally two shorter adventures combined into one longer story.
This game is extremely combat heavy, as well as requiring certain correct path choices to find items. The standard Adventurer mode is tough, even with high initial scores, and the hardcore hero mode is brutally difficult (ie near impossible) even with the highest possible starting scores, so there is plenty of (frustrating) replay value in this one.
Tin Man Games have produced five of the original FF games as standalone titles (more about them elsewhere) and this is a very good instalment.

Being a big fan of GameBooks, and knowing that many of them are on Steam, including this one (Caverns of the Snow Witch), I bought it quickly and without regret. Only available in English, it's a transcription of the paper version with superb illustrations, correct music, font choices for the text, full of achievements to unlock and trading cards for badges. Recommended. On the other hand, the waiting time to get all the cards is excessively long. I had to leave the game open for 10 hours (!!!!) to get them.

Tags: Adventure - Choose your own
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TLDR: Re-reading the same chapters over and over hurts replay value. Engine felt sluggish. Writing was decent but unmemorable. RNG oriented mechanics.

One of the best gamebooks of the series, my favourite of the Tin Man ports. I think this book had one of the best stories. I really enjoyed the adventures where you had companions (that didn't die right at the start) and Redswift and Stubb I thought were particularly good ones. Some may not know that a short version of the adventure was published first, in Warlock magazine. Rather than make the road to the snow witch longer in the book version, the adventure actually continues on after her defeat. You move on from the snow lands and revisit some places from previous gamebooks. Dungeon adventures are fine, but I like the indoor/outdoor variety of Caverns of the Snow Witch. The snow witch's crystal caverns have a different feel to say the warlock's firetop mountain, perhaps a more female feel. That f**ing crystal warrior in the middle of the caverns! Basically you have to be too lucky to beat him. I was also disappointed that the original artwork (Gary Ward & Edward Crosby) wasn't colourized. It's my favourite of Tin Man's e-gamebook ports of the original books, though there are probably other original books I like better.