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by Telltale Games
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.
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$14.99The Walking Dead
Apr 24 · Telltale Games
Both: Point & Click · Episodic · Choices Matter
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
ZombiesStory RichAdventurePoint & ClickEpisodicChoices MatterSingleplayerHorrorEmotionalChoose Your Own Adventure👍 53,653
$29.99Dispatch
Oct 22 · AdHoc Studio
Both: Choices Matter · Comedy · Choose Your Own Adventure
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
Choices MatterStory RichSexual ContentNuditySuperheroSingleplayerRomanceComedyChoose Your Own AdventureEpisodic👍 174,714
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
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
$14.99The Wolf Among Us
Oct 11 · Telltale
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure · Episodic
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
AdventureStory RichDetectiveMultiple EndingsChoices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureVisual NovelEpisodicActionPoint & Click👍 32,507
$14.99Batman - The Telltale Series
Aug 2 · Telltale
Both: Choices Matter · Episodic · Point & Click
Enter the fractured psyche of Bruce Wayne and discover the powerful and far-reaching consequences of your choices as the Dark Knight.
Choices MatterStory RichAdventureSuperheroSingleplayerEpisodicQuick-Time EventsPoint & ClickActionAtmospheric👍 15,063
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
$19.99The Walking Dead: The Final Season
Aug 13 · Telltale Games
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
A secluded school might finally be Clementine’s chance for a home, but protecting it will mean sacrifice.
Story RichChoices MatterZombiesAdventureChoose Your Own AdventureSingleplayerFemale ProtagonistPost-apocalypticSurvivalAtmospheric👍 17,448
$39.99New Tales from the Borderlands
Oct 20 · Gearbox Software
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
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
$14.99The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
Dec 20 · Telltale Games
Both: Choices Matter · Episodic
After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier?
ZombiesStory RichChoices MatterAdventurePost-apocalypticAtmosphericEpisodicSingleplayerSurvivalGore👍 15,489
$14.99Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series
Aug 8 · Telltale
Both: Choices Matter · Point & Click · Episodic
In this latest chapter from the award-winning studio behind Batman - The Telltale Series, both Bruce Wayne and Batman will be forced into precarious new roles. The Riddler has returned to terrorize Gotham City, but his gruesome puzzles merely foreshadow an even greater crisis.
Story RichChoices MatterAdventurePoint & ClickSingleplayerSuperheroEpisodicComic BookDetectiveAction👍 8,881
$12.99Death and Taxes
Feb 20 · Placeholder Gameworks
Both: Choices Matter · Point & Click · Choose Your Own Adventure
In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!
Choices MatterStory RichSimulationPoint & ClickMultiple EndingsStrategyPuzzleChoose Your Own AdventureReplay ValueCasual👍 7,857
$11.99Erica
May 25 · Flavourworks
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter · Point & Click
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
$14.99Let Bions Be Bygones
Apr 30 · Bohemian Pulp
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Point & Click · Choices Matter
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Choose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionRPGPoint & ClickCyberpunkNoirDetectiveLore-RichChoices MatterMultiple Endings👍 120
$39.99Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Oct 15 · ZA/UM
Both: Choices Matter · Point & Click
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
RPGStory RichChoices MatterDetectiveIsometricAtmosphericSingleplayerPoint & ClickCRPGNoir👍 118,190
$24.99The Expanse: A Telltale Series
Nov 20 · Deck Nine
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter
Take on the role of Camina Drummer and explore the dangerous, uncharted edges of the Belt. From scavenging wrecked ships in a zero-g environment, to combating fearsome pirates, you make the difficult choices in this latest Telltale adventure. All five episodes playable at launch!
AdventureRPGChoose Your Own AdventureAction-AdventureChoices MatterExplorationSci-fiSpaceFemale ProtagonistThird Person👍 2,373
$59.99Life is Strange: True Colors
Sep 9 · Deck Nine
Both: Choices Matter · 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
$6.99The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything
Feb 9 · Joe Richardson
Both: Point & Click · Funny · Choose Your Own Adventure
The Majority of People navigate progress, politics and preposterous propulsive plans in this satirical point-and-click adventure. Featuring highly debatable democracy, problematic project managers and the belief that Anthony's underdeveloped prefrontal cortex will lead to your salvation!
ExperimentalPoint & ClickStory RichSatireDark HumorFunnyChoose Your Own AdventureSurrealChoices MatterIndie👍 153
$14.99Growing Up
Oct 13 · Vile Monarch
Both: Choices Matter · 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
$8.997Days Origins
May 2 · Buff Studio
Both: Point & Click · Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
7Days Origins is a single-player story game where the storyline changes based on the player's choices. For 7 days, you will meet various characters in the world of the dead. You may become allies and embark on adventures together or become enemies and fight.
Story RichHorrorVisual NovelPoint & ClickChoices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionPsychologicalPsychological HorrorDark Comedy👍 313
$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
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$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
$24.99I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Aug 25 · Northway Games
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
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
$19.99The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Mar 4 · Sever, Schisma Games
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Choices MatterStory RichRPGInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureVisual NovelText-BasedMedievalIndieSingleplayer👍 8,153
$4.99Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning
Jun 8 · Entertainment Forge
Both: Point & Click · Choices Matter · Comedy
Join Hank and Larry, two small defenseless animals, as they manipulate their way through the zombie apocalypse. Meet various characters and get them to scavenge for you while guiding them to "safety." Make life-or-death decisions, bargain, manage inventory, trade, and gamble.
Point & ClickChoices MatterStory RichInteractive FictionDark ComedyVisual NovelComedyZombiesPost-apocalypticInventory Management👍 322
$19.99Randal's Monday
Nov 12 · Nexus Game Studios
Both: Point & Click · Comedy · Funny
A kleptomaniac, a sociopath and a horrible friend. Randal is potentially one of the most scurrile protagonists since the invention of the hoverboard. Randal's Monday is a crazy space-time odyssey in classic adventure design, spiced up with countless geek culture references of the last 30 years.
Point & ClickAdventureComedyPuzzleFunnySingleplayer2DStory RichHand-drawnIndie👍 1,409
$19.99Minds Beneath Us
Jul 31 · BearBoneStudio
Both: 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
$9.99Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition
Nov 18 · John Szymanski
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Funny · Point & Click
Kyle tries to prepare for his most important interview yet. Choose his path through over 100 endings and accept the consequences in this comedic adventure.
AdventureChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionFunnyMultiple EndingsText-BasedReplay ValuePoint & ClickComedyDynamic Narration👍 198
$19.99Suzerain
Dec 4 · Torpor Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
Visual NovelChoose Your Own AdventurePolitical SimChoices MatterInteractive FictionStory RichText-BasedMultiple EndingsRPGStrategy RPG👍 10,581
$14.99HIVESWAP: ACT 2
Nov 25 · What Pumpkin Games, Inc.
Both: Point & Click · Comedy
Continue Joey and Xefros’s adventure through the dark and dangerous planet Alternia. Meet dozens of unique and memorable characters, some more helpful than others, as you navigate this volatile alien culture. Hurry up! There’s a train to catch.
AdventurePoint & ClickVisual NovelRPGStory RichComedyIndieSoundtrack2DHand-drawn👍 1,036
$4.99Blues and Bullets
Jul 22 · A Crowd of Monsters
Both: Episodic · Choices Matter
Blues and Bullets is a dark and violent crime thriller. Set in an alternative Eliot Ness & Al Capone story, Blues and Bullets blends a stunning script with detective work to deliver an amazing interactive experience.
AdventureDetectiveNoirEpisodicChoices MatterStory RichDarkSingleplayerAtmosphericQuick-Time Events👍 1,108
FreeThe Council
Mar 13 · Big Bad Wolf
Both: Choices Matter · Episodic
Experience a Narrative Adventure where your choices and character growth truly matter. As a member of a 1793 secret society, live a tale of intrigue and manipulation on the hunt for your missing mother.
Choices MatterAdventureRPGStory RichDetectiveMysteryPuzzleHistoricalSingleplayerEpisodic👍 4,308
$12.99Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
Feb 2 · inkle Ltd
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter
An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.
Choose Your Own AdventureRPGAdventureIndieInteractive FictionStory RichChoices MatterFantasyText-BasedMagic👍 585
$16.99NO LOVE
Nov 25 · Wallace Lovecraft
Both: Funny · Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter
A hard scifi, fantasy, hand-drawn RPG with a unique original story that’s mainly about the characters and delves into topics regarding the human condition from the perspective of one person, Wallace Lovecraft.
Story RichFunnyChoose Your Own AdventureHand-drawnChoices MatterRPGIndieDark HumorLGBTQ+Violent
$9.99Breakout 13
Jan 8 · ALT Lab
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter
Breakout 13 is a thrilling narrative game with interactive cinematic experience. Based on true stories. Embark on a revealing journey as you attempt to break free from a negligent correctional institute and carve out your own path to justice. Each decision you make shapes the story.
FMVInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureExplorationImmersive SimChoices MatterLore-RichStory RichPuzzleMultiple Endings👍 6,900
