Escape from a Video Game

Perfect for kids who love video games, space mysteries, and social-deduction games like Among Us, the fast-paced choose-your-own-path Escape from a Video Game adventure series for middle grade readers turns reading into a thrilling screen-free gaming experience.

What if you were trapped on a spaceship with a hidden traitor—and every choice you made could get you eliminated?

In Escape from a Video Game: Mystery on the Starship Crusader, YOU control the action in an interactive sci-fi adventure packed with puzzles, secret clues, dangerous decisions, and multiple endings.

You and seven other players have been invited inside a mysterious video game competition aboard the Starship Crusader. Survive to the end, and you win a million dollars. Sounds simple—until crew members start disappearing.

Someone on the ship is lying. Someone is sabotaging the mission. And if you can’t uncover the traitor in time, you may never escape the game.

As you explore hidden rooms, solve puzzles, make alliances, and uncover clues, every decision changes the story.

Packed with branching storylines, suspenseful twists, hidden secrets, and replayable adventures, Mystery on the Starship Crusader combines the excitement of a video game with the imagination and creativity of reading.

Why kids and parents love this interactive adventure

• Choose-your-own-adventure format with multiple endings
• Perfect for gamers, puzzle lovers, and reluctant readers
• Among Us–style hidden-traitor mystery in a sci-fi setting
• Encourages critical thinking, deduction, and decision-making
• Fast-paced action, suspense, humor, and survival challenges
• Screen-free entertainment that feels like playing a video game
• Great for middle-grade readers ages 8–10
• High replay value encourages rereading and exploration

Perfect for readers who enjoy

• Video game books for kids
• Interactive fiction and branching adventures
• Space mysteries and survival stories
• Puzzle-solving and hidden clues
• Among Us–style teamwork and betrayal
• Fast-paced books with nonstop suspense

Whether your child already loves reading or prefers gaming over books, the immersive interactive adventure of Mystery on the Starship Crusader keeps readers guessing until the very end.

Start the mission and see if you can uncover the traitor before it’s too late.