Creator / Delight Games

Making reading and thinking addictive.

Delight Games is a limited-liability company which produces text-based, multiple-choice, Choose Your Own Adventure-style games for mobile.

The games contain branching routes of narrative and situations based around figuring out and selecting the best option possible out of those presented. Similarly to the titles released by Choice of Games, however, they include stats, differing between games which contribute towards the score at the end, decide whether you die with the consequences of the next choice if the player has suffered too much life point deductions, or can even construct further options for the player. On the other hand, the branching is limited because each game is divided into chapters ("volumes"), and every chapter except the last must end where the next chapter begins.

Their book series include:

• Wizard's Choice, centering around the adventures of a wizard in a fleshed out fantasy setting, thwarting countless demons, monsters and others in a world thirsty for his blood.
• Rogue's Choice, happening in the same world as Wizard's choice.
• Demon's Choice, a sequel to Wizard's Choice and Rogue's Choice in the same setting.
• Zombie High, the story of a highschool girl living underground after a certain crisis thanks to the VM virus. The earliest volumes follow her becoming 'Kid A' in her school, with the narrative turning soon into a game of survival.
• Bionic Bikini, a tech noir setting with the protagonist being a detective with a holographic sidekick computer, tackling some corporate espionage with a missing employee, flying cars, killer maidroids, and pizza.
• Detective's Choice, playing as Jack Jericho in the 1930’s who fights the occult because of his wife’s unnatural disappearance.
• Witch Saga, a story involving a fedora wearing sixteen-year-old, whose summer is ruined by strange visions, weird symbols, the good becoming violent. She then manifests magical powers that she must utilize to get to the bottom of everything and save herself and her loved ones and her sanity.
• Superhero's Choice, a superhero action story starring the Revenger, involving corrupt businesses, leagues of heroes and the theme of weaker heroes rising to the challenge.
• Deep Space Huntress, follows a thief turned bounty hunter who owes money to a space mob and will travel across the stars to pay off her debts.
• Pirates Never Die, takes the role of Captain Betsy ‘Black Heart’ Dukes, a lady with an attitude who will plunder any merchant ship sailing the high seas, until she gets caught in the hands of the law and must fight her way back to her old life.

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Delight Games provides examples of the following tropes:

Tropes Present in Multiple Games

• Content Warnings: At the beginning of every story.
• Dialogue Tree
• Gamebooks
• Hit Points: Called 'Life' points.
• Mana Meter: Present in Wizard's Choice and Witch Saga.
• Second-Person Narration
• What the Hell, Player?: You are often given the option to be exceptionally rude or cruel, which on occasion will result in being called out by the author's notes.

Wizard's Choice, Rogue's Choice and Demon's Choice

• Action Hero: Inuxius seems like your normal protagonist in any other game, but it is Wizard's Choice.
• Animate Dead: The worshippers of Nerul practice this. Nerul herself is the god of the undead.
• Anti-Hero: Rooster. On one hand, he kills Thog's godling, on the other hand, he is a thief.
• Armor and Magic Don't Mix: The protagonist in Wizard's Choice usually wears cloaks rather than the protective armour their allies tend to wear.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Letting the goblins in the room with the ogre, to be shortly pulverised.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: In Wizard's Choice volume 1: Cibah, The protagonist, and Reginold respectively.
• Bed Trick: Azizella does this to Rooster, and later mentions it to Maiden Avice to humiliate her.
• Being Evil Sucks: The Abyss is a terrible place, and any demon who is not a duke of the Abyss is a slave to a master, who tortures them for punishment and just for fun. That's why all demons want to be summoned to the Material Plane.
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: One way in which demons are created is by torturing humans until all they want to do is torture others.
• Bilingual Bonus: The mermaid's name Reka means "river" in Russian.
• Black Magic: In droves.
• Black Speech: Not one but two!
  • The Infernal Tongue. ^note  The Protagonist: A language of devils, demons, and other beasts that inhabit the nightmare universes.
  • Abyssal, spoken by demons. In the rare cases when a demon wants to thank another demon, they switch to the Common Tongue because Abyssal has no word for "thank you".
  • Inverted with the Angelic Tongue, however, it appears quite rarely.
• Blood Magic: Used for various purposes, usually dark.
• Body of Bodies:
  • Nerul's monster, composed of zombies.
  • The Fool, a demon composed of worms.
• Bookcase Passage: Deep in the Castle Inverness library. ^note  The Protagonist: All castle libraries have secret doors.
• Bow and Sword in Accord: Reginold.
• Break the Cutie: Azizella tries to do this to Avice.
• Common Tongue, common even to multiple worlds.
• Crapsack World: The setting is a crapsack multiverse:
  • There are multiple evil gods.
  • The Material Plane, home to humans, also has evil races such as goblins and dark elves. In Ring City, there is poverty, street gangs and House Vru'dahir. In villages, virgins are offered to dragons every year. Many people, including the aristocracy, participate in various evil cults and summon demons and devils.
  • The Abyssal worlds are even worse. Demons are a hierarchy of masters and slaves. Masters torture their slaves for punishment and for fun. Slaves hate their masters and will betray, torture and kill them if they ever get the chance. Any agreement between two peers will end up with one betraying the other. If a demon dies, they are reincarnated in a lesser demon. Demons also corrupt humans and turn them into new demons.
  • The worlds of Hell, inhabited by devils, are not depicted, but presumably they are as bad.
  • Counterpoint: Alathia is a kind goddess, and her acolytes selflessly battle evil. Angels are mentioned, and they probably live in their own, kind worlds. However, all of these play a much smaller role in the gamebooks. For example, angels never even appear, unless Rooster chooses to transform into one.
• Damsel in Distress: Cibah seems this for a while, but is really far more than that.
• Dark Action Girl: Azizella is this occasionally, although she achieves a lot by cunning and treachery, too.
• Decoy Damsel: Lady Egraine does this as a last resort. Inuxius can either fall for it or kill her.
• Deity of Human Origin: Nerul and Azizella.
• Demonic Possession: The possessor doesn't have to be demonic. They can be a wizard, too.
• Description in the Mirror: When Inuxius picks up a mirror, before claiming it as loot.
• Delaying the Rescue: Can be Played for Laughs if you choose to chain Cibah back up.
• Divine Intervention: Alathia does this to help her faithful combat evil.
• Eternally Pearly-White Teeth: The protagonist in Wizard's Choice. ^note Text: Every morning you wipe your teeth with a cloth dipped into a cleaning concuction consisting of vinegar, salt, a little sand, and a small measure of your own urine.
• Even Evil Can Be Loved: Jackal loves Azizella, even though she is the one who corrupted him and turned him into a demon. ^note The narrator says at one point that if the tables were somehow turned, Jackal would torture Azizella for all she had done to him but wouldn't kill her because he still loved her.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Azizella takes care of Phoebe, a girl, whom she accidentally saves from being sacrificed. She does consider using Phoebe later, but apparently not too seriously.
• Evil Smells Bad: The goblins.
• Fantastic Slurs:
  • Don't call an elf "cave pixie" unless you are stronger than him.
  • "Knatch" is a generic word to insult women.
  • "Yali" is a slur for succubi.
  • "Forker" for devils.
  • And "hooflicker" for devil worshippers.
• Geometric Magic: Geometric shapes are used for summoning demons.
• Giant Spider: Is encountered in the underground of Castle Inverness.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: The goblins.
• God Is Dead: This is how Wizard's Choice ends.
• Haunted Castle: Castle Inverness.
• I Know Your True Name: True names can be used to give orders to demons, for example. However, each true name can be used exactly once. After that, the demon's true name changes.
• In a Single Bound: A spell can be used to jump up to the wall of Castle Inverness.
• Innate Night Vision: The goblins and succubi.
• Insistent Terminology:
  • Succubi hate to be called demons. They technically are demons, but while most demons are brutish thugs, succubi prefer to rely on cunning and charm.
  • Dwarves never say "goblins" but use various pejoratives instead.
• Language Drift: This is why ancient Abyssal is a thing.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: "I wonder what would have happened to you if you had made other choices, little Anabel."
• Leeroy Jenkins: A tactic Reginold seems to favour to get up close to the enemy, and rely on Inuxius for support.
• Loser Deity: Demora, the goddess of mercy, was killed mercilessly. Her statues in the Abyss depict her being urinated on.
• Lovable Rogue: The protagonist in Rogue's Choice.
• Love Makes You Evil: The evil goddess Nerul.
• Magical Incantation: Combined with a hand flourish, can have some marvellous effects. The languages used are Infernal, Abyssal and Draconic.
• Mooks:
  • This is how Azizella sees knights.
  • Some kinds of demons are these. All they want is to maim, torture and kill, and they don't have any self-preservation instinct.
• Narnia Time: Between the universes.
• Old-School Chivalry: The protagonist in Wizard's Choice can really pile this on when they want to, especially when interacting with the Ghost of the Duchess.
• Only in It for the Money: Inuxius does what he does 'for glory and the loot'.
• Our Gods Are Different: Some demon princes sit at the gods' table. Sometimes gods die, and then someone else ascends to become a god and fill their place.
• Our Souls Are Different: It's possible to crush a soul to gain health or something similar. For the soul, it's a Fate Worse than Death. Some creatures have more than one soul inside them.
• Pardon My Klingon: The humans' preferred curses refer to different body parts of Nevel, such as "Nevel's scrotum". Demons prefer to mention various body parts of Demora, such as "Demora's hole". Demora was the goddess of mercy, who was tortured and killed mercilessly.
• Portal Door: Many of these in the Infinite Staircase.
• Portal Crossroad World: The Infinite Staircase. On the positive side, violence is strictly prohibited by all gods. On the negative, it's hard to figure out which door leads where.
• Primordial Tongue: Mentioned at one point.
• Protective Charm: Wards are widely used.
• Punctuation Shaker: House Vru'dahir, Zez'loth, and several others, usually demons' names and phrases in Abyssal. The meaning of the apostrophe is unclear.
• Religion of Evil: There are several cults of demons, devils and evil gods, including Thog and Nerul, goddess of the undead.
• Runic Magic: Black Magic often employs writing runes in blood.
• Sadist: The Fool. His favorite pastime is Cold-Blooded Torture of succubi, and he Loves the Sound of Screaming.
• Scheherezade Gambit: Can be done when the Ghost of the Duchess appears in Castle Inverness.
• Schmuck Bait: The goblin fire that you can 'inspect' seems like this in hindsight. ^note Text: So, it turns out the fire does belong to goblins. What did you expect? You're in goblin country, after all.
• Shout-Out:
  • The name of the demon principal of the prison dimension school is Voland.
  • Azizella encounters a human named Diggory, on the Staircase of all places.
• Sliding Scale of Unavoidable vs. Unforgivable: While Inuxius is a vampire, he must feed on blood. He tries to feed only on animals and evil creatures (bad people, goblins etc.), but sometimes has to kill someone innocent. At least he does that in the name of becoming human again.
• Spell Book: Useful for wizards and even for demons.
• Stock Gods:
  • Lady Luck: Tychess.
  • Trickster God: Oohr, also has a godling.
  • God of Good: Alathia is officially the goddess of healing and protection, but given how her acolytes battle evil, she is arguably this trope.
  • Wealth God
  • God Of War: Virtus
• Sudden Downer Ending: Wizards's Choice volume 1 ends with Reginold's death out of nowhere, right after a merry medieval party.
• Summon Magic: Mortals sometimes summon demons and devils, at their own peril.
• Sympathetic Magic: Used for scrying.
• Temple of Doom: Castle Inverness seems like this when the main characters garrison inside it.
• The Sociopath: Azizella and probably all demons.
• The Multiverse: Contains many worlds aka dimensions aka universes. Moving between them involves magic, e.g., gate spells and summoning. The worlds are also connected by the Infinite Staircase.
• The Walls Have Eyes: When glancing at a door in Castle Inverness, there is a hole where an inhuman eye looks back at you. It turns out to be an ogre.
• Toilet Humour: On the first page of all places, Reginold 'squeezes the bellows'.
• Undead Child: The Duchess Inverness.
• Villain Protagonist: In Demon's Choice, of course.
• Virgin Power: Priestesses of Alathia are virgins.
• Xanatos Gambit: Releasing Cibah to forge her own path. Either you lead the goblins away from her, or she leads the horde away from you.