Hot Shot is an ice hockey-themed book and one of the many stories under the Choices: Stories You Play collection. It was released on January 26, 2024 on VIP early access, with it being released to all players on March 6, 2024.
Hot Shot includes examples of:
- Abhorrent Admirer: Downplayed, but Brent acts like this to Blake. He drunkenly hits on them early in the book, resulting in them getting into a public brawl with Casey. He still hits on Blake in later chapters, not getting the hint that they're not interested in him.
- Character Customization: In the December 2023 Choices Insiders, Pixelberry confirmed that the main character's gender is customizable.
- Food Slap: In Chapter 11, Blake and Casey can expose that Brent was stringing three different people along. They proceed to throw drinks and food on him.
- Gender-Blender Name: In the December 2023 Choices Insiders, the love interest's name was revealed to be Casey.
- History Repeats: This isn't the first time a book with mature, sexual content (complete with a Content Warning) lacked a 17+ rating initially. It first happened with the initial release of Roommates with Benefits, Book 1, and PB added the Mature tag later on, but only after the general release. The same thing happened with this book, albeit only the week after the early-access release.
- It's All About Me: Brent gets a big ego when he's promoted to Casey's former position. During an interview, Blake can bring up how some fans don't like that he isn't a team player.
- Pun-Based Title" "Hot Shot" can refer to either an important person (i.e. the team captain) or the fact that it's a book about ice hockey where the players take hot shots. Additionally, the team captain is stated by PB to be hotheaded.
- Sports Stories: Pixelberry have confirmed that it's a book about ice hockey.
- Worth It: Casey's reaction after getting benched due to fighting a jerkass hockey player from the other team.
