If you enjoy traveling through intriguing, mysterious worlds that combine a gothic sensibility with a tinge of the supernatural, then you should definitely check out Failbetter’s Fallen London (Free), out now for mobile after residing in browsers for many years. Fallen London is a story-telling choose-your-own-adventure game that takes place in a dark – yet funny – version of Victorian London and spans over 1.5 million words. If you’ve played the browser version, you’ll find many similarities between that version and the iOS version, but the iOS one has a beautiful soundtrack to go along with it. And, to be honest, the way the game is paced plays better on a mobile device than a browser.

I’ve been playing the beta version for a couple of weeks now, and it’s as fun as I expected it to be. The stories are quirky and surprising and the writing excellent. If you enjoy the written word and gothic worlds, you’ll enjoy Fallen London. The game is F2P, and you can’t play the whole thing in one sitting, but I think that the system works for mobile since you’ll pop in, explore the world for a bit, and then pop out again. There will be an reddit AMA by the developers today at 12:30 EST, so tune in if you want to find out more about how the game came about.