Hercules at the Crossroads is a Choose Your Own Adventure text game inspired by the Greek parable by the same name. It expands on the moral aspects found in Bildungsromans and shifts the focus from mythological ethics to human error.
Contains profanity, sex, and violence.

In its themes and language style, it draws from Joyce's Finnegans Wake, employing puns, portmanteaus, and phrases in English, Italian, French, Spanish, and some Swedish and German. 

Other sources include:

  • Anon. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. "The Works of the Gawain Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience" (2014), Penguin Classics.
  • Campbell, J. (1949). The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Pantheon Books
  • Carson, A. (1998). Autobiography of Red. Alfred A. Knopf
  • Dean, T. (2001). The Green Ray
  • Fermor, P. L. (1977). A Time of Gifts. John Murray
  • Headley, M. D. (2020). Beowulf: a new translation. Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Murray, P. (2023). The Bee Sting. Macmillan
  • Peake, M. (1959). Titus Alone. Eyre & Spottiswoode
  • Sowerby, G. (1912). Rutherford and Son. Sidgwick & Jackson
  • Wagner, R. (2011). Götterdämmerung. Nabu Press

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