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by DONTNOD Entertainment
Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.
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FreeLife is Strange 2
Sep 26 · DONTNOD Entertainment, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)
Both: Choices Matter · Episodic · Choose Your Own Adventure
After a tragic incident, brothers Sean and Daniel Diaz run away from home. Fearing the police, and dealing with Daniel's new telekinetic power, the boys head to Mexico. Each stop on their journey brings new friends and new challenges.
Choices MatterStory RichAdventureSingleplayerGreat SoundtrackAtmosphericEpisodicSexual ContentChoose Your Own AdventureLGBTQ+👍 22,785
$59.99Life is Strange: True Colors
Sep 9 · Deck Nine
Both: Choices Matter · LGBTQ+ · Choose Your Own Adventure
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Choices MatterStory RichLGBTQ+Female ProtagonistMultiple EndingsChoose Your Own AdventureRomanceEmotionalThird PersonAtmospheric👍 12,365
FreeLife is Strange - Episode 1
Jan 29 · DONTNOD Entertainment, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)
Both: Choices Matter · Episodic
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Story RichChoices MatterGreat SoundtrackFemale ProtagonistTime TravelAtmosphericEpisodicSingleplayerAdventureTime Manipulation👍 125,182
$49.99Life is Strange: Double Exposure
Oct 29 · Deck Nine Games
Both: Choices Matter · LGBTQ+ · Choose Your Own Adventure
When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?
Choices MatterLGBTQ+Female ProtagonistStory RichChoose Your Own AdventureRomanceThird PersonMysteryEmotionalAction👍 7,844
$16.99Life is Strange: Before the Storm
Aug 31 · Deck Nine, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)
Both: Choices Matter · Episodic · Choose Your Own Adventure
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.
Story RichChoices MatterGreat SoundtrackFemale ProtagonistAtmosphericSingleplayerEpisodicAdventureChoose Your Own AdventureMultiple Endings👍 33,508
$24.99I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Aug 25 · Northway Games
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure · LGBTQ+
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
Choices MatterLife SimDating SimDeckbuildingVisual NovelRPGStory RichChoose Your Own AdventureLGBTQ+Interactive Fiction👍 4,446
$39.99Life is Strange Remastered
Feb 1 · Deck Nine
Both: Choices Matter · LGBTQ+ · Emotional
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
Choices MatterStory RichFemale ProtagonistMultiple EndingsLGBTQ+EmotionalRomanceThird PersonMysteryAdventure👍 9,192
$19.99Beyond: Two Souls
Jun 18 · Quantic Dream
Both: Choices Matter · Cinematic · Emotional
A unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances by Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, Beyond: Two Souls takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes.
Choices MatterStory RichAdventureFemale ProtagonistCinematicSingleplayerCo-opEmotionalHorrorQuick-Time Events👍 37,194
$9.99Always Sometimes Monsters
May 21 · Vagabond Dog
Both: Choices Matter · LGBTQ+ · Walking Simulator
Set out on a cross-country journey to win back the love of your life and endure the hardship of making story-defining choices that affect your life and the lives of those around you.
IndieRPGStory RichPixel GraphicsChoices MatterLGBTQ+CasualSingleplayerWalking SimulatorGreat Soundtrack👍 1,387
$29.99Goodbye Volcano High
Aug 29 · KO_OP
Both: LGBTQ+ · Cinematic · Choices Matter
Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about love, change, and the end of the world. Guide Fang through their final year of high school as they try to make things right before time is up.
LGBTQ+Story RichVisual NovelSingleplayerCinematicHand-drawnInteractive FictionMusicChoices MatterChoose Your Own Adventure👍 1,677
$39.99Detroit: Become Human
Jun 18 · Quantic Dream
Both: Choices Matter · Cinematic · Emotional
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
Choices MatterStory RichMultiple EndingsCinematicSingleplayerEmotionalRobotsFuturisticSci-fiAdventure👍 226,546
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$29.99As Dusk Falls
Jul 19 · INTERIOR/NIGHT
Both: Choices Matter · Cinematic · Choose Your Own Adventure
Explore the entangled lives of two families across thirty years in an original interactive drama from INTERIOR/NIGHT. Starting in 1998 with a robbery-gone-wrong, the character's lives depend on the choices you make.
Choices MatterStory RichCinematicChoose Your Own AdventureCo-opAdventureMultiple EndingsMultiplayerCrimeMystery👍 3,707
$14.99Growing Up
Oct 13 · Vile Monarch
Both: Choices Matter · Emotional · Choose Your Own Adventure
This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?
Life SimChoices MatterStory RichSimulationEmotionalRPGAdventureMultiple EndingsSingleplayerChoose Your Own Adventure👍 3,468
$39.99Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered
Feb 1 · Deck Nine
Both: Choices Matter · LGBTQ+ · Emotional
Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments.
Choices MatterFemale ProtagonistLGBTQ+Story RichMultiple EndingsRomanceActionThird PersonEmotionalAdventure👍 4,111
$19.99Minds Beneath Us
Jul 31 · BearBoneStudio
Both: Cinematic · Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
CinematicAtmosphericStory RichCyberpunkChoices MatterVisual NovelChoose Your Own AdventureDystopian RPG2D👍 5,754
$19.99Tales from the Borderlands
Feb 16 · Telltale Games
Both: Choices Matter · Episodic · Choose Your Own Adventure
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
ComedyAdventureStory RichChoices MatterSingleplayerEpisodicPoint & ClickFunnyChoose Your Own AdventureAction👍 15,145
Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two
Jul 11 · Telltale Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter · Episodic
Together with old pals and new comrades alike, Jesse embarks on a brand new journey filled with tough choices, good times, and at least one temperamental llama.
AdventureStory RichChoose Your Own AdventureChoices MatterSingleplayerEpisodicPsychological HorrorMemesFamily FriendlyAction-Adventure👍 1,358
-67%$9.89The Casting of Frank Stone™
Sep 3 · Supermassive Games
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure · Cinematic
The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.
Choices MatterMultiple EndingsHorrorSingleplayerStory RichAdventureAtmosphericPsychological HorrorChoose Your Own AdventureCinematic👍 5,581
$10.99Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time
Oct 30 · KARMAGAME HK LIMITED
Both: Cinematic · Choose Your Own Adventure
Immerse yourself in the first-person perspective, cross time and space, solve bizarre cases, save innocent victims, and catch a mysterious killer! You will solve murders, uphold justice, and also gain love. Are you ready? Play the "Game of Fate" that crosses time and space, life and death!
FMVDating SimImmersive SimMysteryCinematicMultiple EndingsLore-RichChoose Your Own AdventureStory RichInteractive Fiction👍 987
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Oct 13 · Telltale Games
Both: Episodic · Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
MemesAdventureSingleplayerStory RichPixel GraphicsEpisodicChoices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureCraftingSurvival👍 6,648
FreeOur Life: Beginnings & Always
Nov 16 · GB Patch Games
Both: LGBTQ+ · Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Visual NovelRomanceLGBTQ+Character CustomizationDating SimChoices MatterFree to PlayChoose Your Own AdventureCuteMultiple Endings👍 453
$17.99Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel
Jun 20 · Gentle Troll Entertainment
Both: LGBTQ+ · Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
A cozy visual novel about running a tavern in a D&D-inspired fantasy! Gather rumors, serve magical drinks, and meet adventurers on a life-changing quest.
SingleplayerLGBTQ+Visual NovelFantasyCozyStory RichInteractive FictionChoices MatterMultiple EndingsChoose Your Own Adventure👍 1,456
$39.99Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
Feb 18 · DON'T NOD
Both: Choices Matter · LGBTQ+
Embark on a new narrative journey by the creators of Life is Strange. Film your summer of 1995 and create memories of a lifetime with your new friends. 27 years later, confront the dark secrets that made you all promise to never speak again after that fateful summer.
Choices MatterLGBTQ+Female ProtagonistStory RichRomance1990'sMultiple EndingsNatureMysteryAtmospheric👍 5,879
$39.99New Tales from the Borderlands
Oct 20 · Gearbox Software
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure · Cinematic
Decide the fates of altruistic scientist Anu, her ambitious, "streetwise" brother Octavio, and the fierce, frogurt-slinging Fran. Claw and con your way through five thrilling chapters!
Choices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureQuick-Time EventsMultiple EndingsSingleplayerInteractive FictionActionAction-AdventureGoreCinematic👍 1,736
$11.99Erica
May 25 · Flavourworks
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter
Erica is a live-action, FMV thriller that puts you directly at the heart of the mystery. Your choices, your consequences.
FMVChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionFemale ProtagonistChoices MatterPoint & ClickPuzzleStory RichPsychological HorrorAction-Adventure👍 1,629
$2.99The Advisor - Episode 1: Royal Pain
May 31 · Randumb Studios
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter
The Advisor Series is a player-driven narrative where your choices & decisions, both in the game, and out of the game, determine how future episodes unfold. Play the role of villain protagonist Magnus the Magician, as he wreaks havoc across the land, one well-placed fireball at a time!
Choose Your Own AdventureRPGChoices MatterVillain ProtagonistVisual NovelMultiple EndingsDark HumorStory RichMysteryInvestigation👍 597
$9.991979 Revolution: Black Friday
Apr 4 · iNK Stories, N-Fusion Interactive
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.
AdventureIndieChoices MatterActionHistoricalStory RichChoose Your Own AdventureSingleplayerMultiple EndingsAtmospheric👍 1,021
$59.99Until Dawn™
Oct 4 · Ballistic Moon
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
Choices MatterHorrorMultiple EndingsAdventureChoose Your Own AdventureSingleplayerInteractive FictionExplorationStory RichAtmospheric👍 3,566
-90%$6.99The Quarry
Jun 9 · Supermassive Games
Both: Choices Matter · Cinematic
When the sun goes down on the last night of summer camp, nine teenage counselors are plunged into an unpredictable night of horror. The only thing worse than the blood-drenched locals and creatures hunting them are the unimaginable choices you must make to help them survive.
Choices MatterMultiple EndingsHorrorMultiplayerCinematicStory RichQuick-Time EventsGoreSexual ContentSingleplayer👍 16,144
$29.99Twin Mirror
Dec 1 · DON'T NOD
Both: Choices Matter · Cinematic
The small town of Basswood will be changed forever by ex-investigative journalist Sam Higgs in this thrilling narrative experience from award-winning studio DON'T NOD. Will you find the truth – no matter the cost?
Choices MatterStory RichInteractive FictionPsychologicalDetectiveCinematicAdventureThird Person3DMystery👍 996
$19.99Loren The Amazon Princess
Jan 15 · Winter Wolves
Both: Choices Matter · LGBTQ+ · Choose Your Own Adventure
You're not the chosen hero: you're her servant. Build your character and fight beside Princess Loren in a choice-driven fantasy RPG with tactical turn-based battles, party customization, branching relationships, and multiple romance options.
Party-Based RPGTurn-Based CombatStory RichRomanceChoices MatterDating SimVisual NovelFantasyLGBTQ+Choose Your Own Adventure👍 436
$7.99She Sees Red - Interactive Movie
Jul 11 · Rhinotales
Both: Choices Matter · Cinematic
She Sees Red is a mature, hard-boiled interactive thriller. When someone is killed inside a nightclub, an experienced detective vows to put the murderer behind bars. Make choices that affect the narrative and experience several different endings in this blood-red interactive movie.
Choices MatterFMVAdventureMultiple EndingsIndieCinematicViolentStory RichFemale ProtagonistDetective👍 2,738
$9.99Oxenfree
Jan 14 · Night School Studio
Both: Choices Matter
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
Story RichChoices MatterAtmosphericSupernaturalFemale ProtagonistIndieMysteryAdventureHorrorGreat Soundtrack👍 9,499
-65%$6.99Lake
Sep 1 · Gamious
Both: Walking Simulator · Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter
It's 1986 - Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks, with its iconic lake and quirky community? And what will she do next? It's up to you.
RelaxingStory RichWalking SimulatorCozyFemale ProtagonistOpen WorldChoose Your Own AdventureMultiple EndingsChoices Matter1980s👍 4,485
$19.99OXENFREE II: Lost Signals
Jul 12 · Night School Studio
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure
Five years after the events of OXENFREE, Riley returns to her hometown of Camena to investigate mysterious radio signals. What she finds is more than she bargained for.
ThrillerSupernaturalAdventureMysteryStory RichFemale ProtagonistExplorationChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionSide Scroller👍 1,976
