Scorpion Swamp is a single-player adventuring gamebook written by Steve Jackson (the American game designer, as opposed to the series co-creator), illustrated by Duncan Smith, and originally published in 1984 by Puffin Books.

It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series.

It was the first Fighting Fantasy book not written by the series' co-creators.

[1] Having acquired a magical brass ring (which detects evil and always indicates which direction is north) from a mysterious old woman, the player enters the notorious Scorpion Swamp.

Gameplay differed from previous titles in several ways: