# Choice of Alexandria

Summer DB entity ID: 835429cc\-86b6\-496d\-9a3f\-c9757ed10102

Steam App ID: 466430

Can your steam\-powered inventions save the ancient Library of Alexandria? Will you sacrifice the library to protect the city? Or will you protect the future king Ptolemy IV instead?  "Choice of Alexandria" is an interactive novella by Kevin Gold, author of "Choice of Robots\." Your choices control the story\. It's entirely text\-based\-\-90,000 words, without graphics or sound effects\-\-and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination\.  The year is 245 BCE; you’re a heroic polymath librarian, invited to Alexandria to tutor prince Ptolemy IV\. Coach the prince in the Olympics\-\-or help him ditch the Olympics to show his art and poetry there instead\.  Or disregard your tutelage to focus on inventions instead\! With the help of Archimedes and Euclid, you can discover the steam engine, the germ theory of disease, or even robotic automata, thousands of years ahead of schedule\.  Will you deplete the libraries of other cities to enrich your own? Achieve popularity for your scientific inventions, or protect the legacy of the empire? Will Ptolemy IV grow up hedonistic and selfish, or wise and just? Will you be ransomed by the pirate queen Nefertari, or can you win her over with your silver tongue?  Change the course of history in "Choice of Alexandria\!"     Play as a brilliant inventor, a gifted speaker, or a life\-saving doctor    Make great discoveries while protecting Prince Ptolemy IV from manipulators at court    Save famed mathematicians Archimedes and Euclid from untimely deaths    Based on the real life of Eratosthenes, ancient genius who calculated the size of the Earth    Save the Great Library and invent the steam engine two thousand years early\!

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Choice of Games

- Publisher: Choice of Games

- Release date: Jun 10, 2016

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Adventure, Indie, RPG

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Captions available, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/466430/ss\_de5917947169b198f9df201452e9a618bd411e7b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114574, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/466430/ss\_d10cec3517b9e5b83db161ecd95f723ce2c86512\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114574, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/466430/ss\_686caeec181a2ae3ba7ef1258b4328b509646ce3\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114574, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/466430/ss\_970ad4ecce7efdf6e8760746bdf13e414977258c\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114574, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/466430/ss\_a20cfe54ce1012bfc0fad2d45d4ad3a7526547c0\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114574

- Price: 399 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 79

- Steam positive reviews: 75

- Steam negative reviews: 4

- Steam positive percentage: 94.9367088607595%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

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Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-22T10:47:09\.979409\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T10:47:11\.303062\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T10:47:10\.998872\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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