Alone Against the Flames

It's a fun adventure, somewhat frustrating because there are a few places where you really get railroaded, but it also makes sense because otherwise you'd just skip the whole point of the adventure. Definitely plan to replay soon!

I was thrilled when I bought this adventure and received the pdf and epub immediately and was able to begin play. The adventure does a great job of helping you to build an investigator and walking you through the steps slowly as you make your way through. A great way to get a handle on the basics all without needing a Keeper. A few days later I received the hard copy in double boxed packaging - all rpg companies should do this. It arrived mint. Worth getting to just check out the game or if you want to spend a little more you can get the starter boxed set which also includes this adventure.

This was my first Call of Cthulhu game I played and it taught me a lot about the mechanics of the RPG and I absolutely loved the story!

As noted in another review, the story line of Alone Against the Flames is a Lovecraftian take on the classic horror movie, The Wicker Man. The choose your own adventure format allows for multiple playthroughs all while learning the basic rules for Call of Cthulhu.

I'm not a critic so I'll try to keep this short. I enjoyed it and it was a great introduction into creating a character and the Call of Cthulhu system. While, of course, you lose some of the flexibility of a normal table top roleplaying game with these solo adventures, I still had a lot of fun making choices that I thought my character as envisioned would make, and not metagame choices that this longtime roleplayer and Lovecraft enthusiast might think of as the "correct" answer. I've already purchased "Alone Against the Dark" and "Alone Against the Frost" and can't wait to give them a try!

A wonderful introduction to a great game! I played this after having read the Keeper Rulebook and a few other scenarios. When I was finally ready to play the game for myself, I started here and was very, very pleased with the writing and the formatting. Excellent!

As per Alone agsainst the Dark this is a great solo experience to play with the new 7th edition rules, you only need the basic instructions which are free to download and the create a character set up is integrated nicely into the story. Hard copy and PDF purchased as its important to support the solo gaming community and new writers and products for this classic RPG system.

I played the PDF, and it's a delightful, very clever game. As a choose-your-own-path book it's necessarily limited in scope but it didn't feel at all limited while playing it. The rules are introduced as you go, unobtrusively but helpfully, so it's not necessary to study them before playing this. And ... don't get your hopes up with regard to surviving the adventure! (bwahahahahah) Oh -- and one tip: Take notes. There's a lot of jumping around between the numbered sections and backtracking or replaying parts of it after you get to the end is going to be difficult unless you write down your path among the sections as you go (or you have a perfect memory).