5 Great Choose Your Own Adventure Games

If you love to shape a story these choose your own adventure games will keep you satisfied for hours as you make vital decisions that direct the story in one of many paths.

Choose your own adventures have always been popular, gamers love to be in control of their destiny as they pick and choose their fate from a number of options. Choosing which path to take, their next action and how to respond to the external environment can lead to countless endings that change who is alive, who is in a relationship with who and much more.

Telltale Games

Telltale Games Franchise

Available on all sorts of platforms (PC, mobile and consoles) the story based adventures from Telltale offer a mix of their own stories and popular media (Game of Thrones and Back to the Future). Featuring great story telling techniques, impressive graphics and tens of thousands of words the choose your own adventure style of Telltale has proven popular again and again.

Gameplay wise each of the titles is fairly similar with players adventuring through a linear storyline and making key decisions at various points. These choices may leave a certain character dead, leaving your party, alter the story further along and much more. With many of the games having their story being told within other popular games or television shows Telltale Games are extremely popular.

Popular games currently produced by Telltale in this adventure genre includes:

The Walking Dead
The Wolf Among Us
Tales from the Borderlands
Game of Thrones
Minecraft: Story Mode
Batman
Guardians of the Galaxy
Back to The Future

Telltale Games - Official Website

Episode: Choose Your Story

Quite possibly one of the most popular modern day choose your own adventures for mobile devices Episode: Choose Your Story has seen a large amount of success due to its tens of thousands of stories across various genres. From high school settings, holiday and your love life there are countless stories to explore some of which are even contributed by other players.

Episode - Choose Your Story

If you're looking to fall in love with the person of your dreams, solve a mystery that is as old as time itself or make the rise to fame in Hollywood on your mobile device Episode: Choose Your Story is a high quality option with over 50,000 stories just lying in wait to be played. While many similar games to Episode have released since its success on the mobile platform has been unmatched.

Episode - Choose Your Story - Android

Episode - Choose Your Story - iOS

Choice of Robots

Even robots have feelings in Choice of Robots, an epic adventure that plays out like a science fiction novel, with 300,000 words for players to read and make decisions on. Told through entirely a text based interface Choice of Robots is a unique adventure that focuses more on gripping writing than impressive graphics.

Choice of Robots

This also comes with the benefit of having a near countless number of bending paths in the story for players to experience and ensure you'll have multiple ways to approach the game each time you play it. For actual story you'll be playing as one of the most brilliant robot makers to date as you play out thirty years of his life that takes you from the graduation all the way up to a near future with the robots that inhabitable the world shaped by your decisions.

The first two game chapters are available to play for free but the full experience requires a purchase.

Choice of Robots - Official Website

Alter Ego

Originally a game from 1986 and since recreated Alter Ego takes you through the story of life on your mobile device with a free to play mini version available for play within your browser.

Just like real life players start out as an infant and gain life experiences from that point onwards, some of which can be extremely positive while others negative and can even lead to a game over through death.

Alter Ego

Each experience comes with its own choices for players to select which can help you steer clear of the bad results and capitalise on each experience. All of this is tracked so that the stats can be repeated at the end of the game to see how each playthrough compares. While the original game is no longer available a recreation of the game captures a similar play style.

Alter Ego Website

A Dark Room

For those that prefer a darker and more mysterious adventure that lets you choose your own path through the maze of choice A Dark Room offers this through a text based adventure. While starting its life as a simple browser experience the game was expanded upon for a complete iOS and Android experience with more depth and dialogue.

While there is dialogue present much of the story within A Dark Room is told through various other cues such as environmental descriptions and tasks being completed within the game world itself. While you'll start the game from within a dark room you'll slowly venture out as you light a fire, start your own village and ultimately explore the world to see what it hides.

A Dark Room - Home Page