The Necronomicon Gamebook: Dagon

The Necronomicon Gamebook: Dagon by Valentino Sergi
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A very fun gamebook!

Most gamebooks I’ve read did the things where they send you to run a bunch of errands in order to get to the final boss and if you forget one thing it’s over. This gamebook here does none of that!

The gamebook is more like a non linear story, where you could get to the final boss after like 10 pages, but you will probably die - it’s a gamebook where if you do all the good decisions, you will be able to finish it in one or two tries.

In my opinion that’s awesome and that’s how gamebooks should be!

In addition to that the concepts were cool (obtaining the necklace is very cool), and after a while I understood the story - even though it’s written pretty ambiguously. That goes for most of these Lovcraftian books though and it’s a part of the aesthetic.

Overall 5/5. It’s a quick gamebook and it was a lot of fun!

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