Broadway: 1849

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4.2
237 reviews
10K+
Downloads
Content rating
Rated for 12+
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About this game

Fight your way to box office glory, while fending off the gangs of New York! Manage a theatre in a game of high-stakes business, dangerous romance, and risky alliances set in the rough-and-tumble world of 19th century New York. You'll brave riots, fires, and political spies as you take on a city of jealous rivals, brilliant artists, and stalwart politicians.

"Broadway: 1849" is a 150,000-word interactive historical adventure novel by Robert Davis. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

Will you succeed by your smart business sense or enlist the city’s gangs to push your competition out of business? Can you manage the diva personalities of your actors? What about a ghost haunting your theatre's stage?

Are you a flashy producer playing to please the crowd with circus acts? Do you try to earn the respect of the city's leaders with fine art? Can you wrangle the press into writing the best reviews?

• Play as male, female, or non-binary; gay, straight, bi, or asexual.
• Compete with rivals to stage the biggest shows and gain the largest audience!
• Choose a cast from the city's brightest talent.
• Investigate the hidden secrets of your theatre.
• Rush to defuse a deadly bomb, or let it explode and plunge the city into chaos.
• Nurture young talent or feed your own ambition for the spotlight.
• Rub shoulders with the city's most notorious criminals, or bring their misdeeds to light.
• Help a deserving friend escape the clutches of an unscrupulous businessman.
• Join forces with a criminal gang or side with the mayor’s push for order.

When forced to choose you'll decide whether to fight for peace or let the city burn.

Now on sale until 1/28!
Updated on
Sep 10, 2023

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This app may share these data types with third parties
Location, App activity and 2 others
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 4 others
Data is encrypted in transit
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Ratings and reviews

4.2
237 reviews
A Google user
May 27, 2019
This was a really fun game, the writing was clever and I felt I had a lot of plot options. To take things to the next level I wish there was a challenge mode where you were trying to sign a famous actor, or another the fire, make a certain amount of money within the season, build a certain amount of character connections etc. this would give the end result more direction.
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A Google user
August 1, 2019
The game isn't horribly written, as a book it wouldn't be too bad, but this is CHOICE of games. And the choices in this game are illusions. Having very little effect on the story. The writer is too much of a control freak to want to stray from a certain sequence of events he/she wants to write, rather than letting the audience decide. A cardinal sin in choose your own adventure.
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Fiona O'Callaghan
August 9, 2022
I had no plans to buy the full game, but I got so into the story that I bought it straight away when I ran out of free chapters. I just finished my first playthrough and I still have a tonne of achievements to get so it definitely has a high potential for replaying. It's 100% text based but it works really well.
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