O porão by Vítor Soares and Giovanni Arceno

Published September 1, 2025

Cover design for O poråo (“The basement”), using Mudstone Sans and Salted, both by PintassilgoPrints. About the book (translated from the Brazilian Portuguese):

A rescue inside the most dangerous building in Latin America. This is Samantha's objective in The Basement, a gamebook set during the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship. Citing real characters and situations experienced during the armed struggle during the resistance to the military regime, the narrative fluidly and emotionally interweaves fact and fiction.

The story takes place shortly after the signing of AI-5, the most brutal period of the era, when torture and violence against government opponents were institutionalized. Cecília was captured in an ambush by DOPS agents and taken to a police station where detainees are held in degrading conditions. Samantha immediately decides to storm the DOPS building. It's up to the player-reader to determine how impossible this rescue mission is, and to do so, they'll need to make choices and roll dice, relying on both their wits and luck—and perhaps rewrite the course of history.

Illustration by Carlos Sekko.

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