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One of the most-played Choicescript games, April 18, 2026This game has an impressive 22,000 (!) ratings on the Hosted Games app, more than any Choice of Games official title and only surpassed by Wayhaven.
It's one of the older games, too.
It's similar to Life of a Mercenary, which is set in the same world and comes afterwards.
Despite the smaller wordcount of this game, it is quite large due to re-use of text and terseness of description.
You play as a young boy who is in awe of a famous knight name Sir Robert who is known for travelling the land, fighting in tournaments and earning 'boons' from mayors and governors who run them. You, along with your rascally best friend, sneak out to watch him.
Together with a ragtag band of friends, you enter a tournament open to kids. Eventually, you become Sir Robert's squire, and grow and train with him.
The game includes a war section, then a tense part involving Sir Robert. Finally, you become the main hero, able to wander around the map for 360 days, making money, buying items, and entering tournaments.
This builds up to the final Great Tournament, ran by the King Himself, who is willing to grant any boon to the winner.
There are a lot of romantic interests, including the royal princess and some scrappy fighter women.
Combat is generally taken care of for you, with occasional strategy choices. There are a lot of stats that you can boost. The time leading up to the actual great tournament has the most options.
Like the other game by this author, I found the characters interesting but the setting and locations rather dull. I can't picture any town; the castles could be made of crystal or mud and I wouldn't know. The only focus is the characters. And with that, it succeeds; this is a fun game and I would be happy to recommend it to others.
But, I feel like Choice of Games has some strong rivals for this kind of play. Vampire the Masquerade: Night Road comes to mind, which is just as strong as this in terms of stats and characters but more polished in terms of sensory writing.
Overall, I was glad I played!
