<aside> 💡 These days if someone tells you you’re looking like a snack, you know you’re doing something right (work those selfie angles!) But in the vampire-zombie apocalypse of our interactive thriller Apex Predators, that particular phrase carries a different kind of weight.

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Writer, Editor and Interactive Game Designer, Lena Nguyen

A former lecturer of English and creative writing from Cornell University, Lena Nguyen is passionate about (read: obsessed with) interactive fiction and choice-based story-telling.

Having written for Episode and Tapas, Nguyen has also crafted interactive narratives (while building a large following and fanbase) within Twine and Choice of Games’ ChoiceScript.

Therefore, it comes as no surprise that Apex Predators comes out swinging with monumental choices that give the players all the power.

Between who to smooch, who to eat, and who to protect, in a blood-soaked world where everyone looks like your next meal, the only choice you won’t agonize over is whether to read about zombies or vampires - because this title has both.

As a young hot vampire about town (the town of Phoenix, Arizona, to be exact), your status as top-of-the-food-chain has never been rocked …until now.

When a grizzly serial killer known only as the Phoenix Demon is linked to a highly infectious zombification disease, you’ve got some direct competition for the first time over your primary food source: humans.

What type of carnivore will you be? With sprawling storylines, author Lena Nguyen has crafted an urban thriller that has one foot in the apocalypse and the other squarely on the throat of all your expectations.

This story puts you in control as you make decisions that could mean life or death for everyone involved. As you meet a variety of characters — both alive and undead — you’ll have to decide where your alliances lie and, more importantly, how (or who) you’re all going to eat.

From beat cops to boy band members to hard-boiled journalists just trying to stay alive between breaking news segments, readers will encounter a diverse cast of complex creatures, each with their own motives. The bad news? You won’t know who to trust until you try. The good news? You can absolutely date every single one of them, proving that love is always on the menu.

As you make choices, your reputation grows and the world around you will shift in response to your budding legacy. Apex Predators delivers on the motto that every piece of interactive fiction is desperately trying to adopt: Every. Choice. Matters.

Assemble your rag-tag group of survivors, traverse the bloodied landscape of a world without order as you search for food and safety, unravel the secrets of the Phoenix Demon, and who knows? You might just find the family you never knew you needed.

…or you might eat them all before you get the chance. The choice, as always, dear reader, is yours.