Keeping on with new gamebooks with season 2 of 100 Endings Book Club.
100 Endings Book Club Season Two
The 100 Endings Book Club is a monthly gamebook group that reads a new gamebook (or occasionally gamebooks) each month. 2025-2026 was the first season of the 100 Endings Book Club, and (as of writing), our poll is up for the first book of Season Two on our Discord.
Season Two is following the same format, but with more unsung heroes. With some of the more well known books out of the way (Heart of Ice, Nightshift, a few Fighting Fantasy classics, Fabled Lands), we're getting some more space to explore lesser-known and complex titles that exist in the space. Or not, depending on what gets voted in to play!
Some of our upcoming monthly themes include (but subject to change...)
- Second Chances
- Science Fiction
- New Gamebooks by New Authors
- Modern Era
- Open Worlders
- Tactical Combat
Playing New (or Old) Gamebooks and Experience of Others
For me the benefits of running a gamebook are many, but two stand out.
The first is to keep playing new gamebooks, or going back to play old ones with new eyes.
The second is hearing of how others play the same gamebook and experience it.
In season one there were a few gamebooks I'd never played and would probably never get around to by myself. Twilights Edge by August Hahn in the Lone Wolf world, the Darkness over Arkham by Jonathan Green and Nightshift by Victorian Hancox.
They weren't all my favourite gamebooks, but I'm glad I played them all. Darkness over Arkham showed how puzzles and mysteries are very subjective, what's easy to me might be frustrating to others and what's frustrating to me can be an absolute blast for others.
Twilight's Edge was an example of how a fairly traditional fantasy world (Magnamund) can be pushed into other genres and scale (space fantasy with inter-reality conflict)
Nightshift forced me to play a genre I'm not a fan of (Horror), and see how much you can do with a gamebook with a minimum of mechanics (a few keywords) and a tonne of atmosphere. It was also a very difficult gamebook, which some relished and others...didn't.
Without the gamebook group I'd have probably stopped early and never completed it.
I also go to replay old favourites (Scorpion Swamp, Fabled Lands) and see the ups and downs of others. And with Steam Highwayman got to see people loving a complex open-world series that is (for me) one of the highlights of playing gamebooks.
So I'm hoping for more of the same in Season 2.
Hope you join us, in the Discord, on the gamebooks subreddit, or simply playing along with us in the background, part of it without us even knowing!
Finishing Up
Hope you enjoy your next gamebook!
