Codex Engine press kit

Description

Codex Engine is a gamebook adventure you can play and write. It ships with two full campaigns: The Emberline, a science-fiction crossing in which a colony convoy captain rations fuel and morale down an ancient jump-corridor, and The Tomb of the Jade Serpent, a six-level dungeon crawl beneath a jungle ziggurat. Each runs to several hundred sections, with dice-driven combat, skill checks, inventory and character sheets handled by the game.

Every campaign in the game was built with the editor players get. Writers lay out an adventure as a map of connected sections, set its rules, playtest it in place and publish it to the Steam Workshop, where other players can subscribe and play.

Features

• Two full campaigns in different genres, each several hundred sections long
• Dice, combat, skill checks, inventory and equipment
• A visual campaign editor with live playtesting
• Steam Workshop publishing and subscriptions
• Optional read-aloud narration that runs locally
• Scene-aware music, ambience and sound effects
• Gamepad support, a Steam Deck large-text layout and a high-contrast mode
• Steam Cloud saves