
In 1996,
Monocle Games with designers
Martyn Oliver and
Colin Thornton released
City of Chaos, one of the first true story telling games to hit the market. And now 22 years later,
Ares Games has
announced a new edition of this ground breaking classic. In
City of Chaos, 1-6 players travel the city of Byronitar, solving mysteries, building their characters, fighting monsters and dealing with random events. The city is built one tile at a time, and together with the random plot and world generator, players are ensured a unique experience every time they play.
City of Chaos was also one of the first games to use a look-up book of paragraph stories, a mechanic adopted recently by such masterpieces as
Tales of the Arabian Nights,
Above and Below, and
Near and Far. Finally, players must deduce how to win the game from clues left in the paragraphs they read. You can read the
full press release from Ares Games here, and keep an eye out for the new edition of
City of Chaos in the second half of 2019.