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Episode - Choose Your Story
A library of 150,000-plus interactive stories where your choices steer the romance and drama.
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- Developer
- Episode Interactive, LLC
- Score
- 4.7
- Downloads
- 1M+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 12+
- Genre
- Simulation
- Price
- Free
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About this game
More a library than a single game, Episode hosts over 150,000 branching interactive stories, heavy on romance and drama. You customise an avatar and outfit, pick dialogue, and watch the plot and relationships bend around your decisions. Most stories have several endings, so rereading with different choices is part of the point. Anyone can also write and publish their own story on the platform using Episode's tools, and new stories land every week. Book Clubs add reading challenges and rewards for members. Featured titles at the time of writing include Don't Hate the Player, The Soulmate Game and The Prince's Bride, which gives a fair sense of the tone. The app is free, but it sells in-game items for real money, and a VIP subscription is offered.
Episode - Choose Your Story: the full guide
What the game is
Episode is a platform rather than a single story. More than 150,000 branching interactive tales live inside it, most of them romance and drama, and you move through them by dressing an avatar, choosing dialogue, and watching relationships bend to your decisions. Several endings per story make replaying with different choices part of the design.
The supply is fed by the audience: anyone can write and publish using Episode's tools, and new stories appear weekly. Book Clubs layer reading challenges and rewards on top. The app is free, with in-game items for sale and a VIP subscription on offer.
How a session plays
Pick a story, build a character, and read. Choices pop up at dialogue and action points, some cosmetic and some consequential, and the app sells in-game items, which is where the monetisation lives. An episode runs a few minutes, and a story is a season of them.
Regulars keep several going at once, check in for the weekly additions, and follow a Book Club for the challenge rewards. Writers spend their time on the other side of the tools. Current featured titles like The Prince's Bride and The Soulmate Game set the tone, which is soapy and romantic by design.
Why people look for it
Interactive fiction with a visual layer and a soap-opera sensibility has a huge audience, mostly young and mostly looking for romance with agency. The sheer size of the library means there is always something new, and the ability to write your own story draws aspiring authors who want readers. Over a million ratings says how large the audience is.
Look and feel
Stylised 2D character art with customisable avatars and outfits, dialogue bubbles, and scene backgrounds in the manner of a visual novel, which the five screenshots will show across several stories. Expect glamour: hair, clothes and faces are a big part of the appeal and the customisation screens are built to be lingered over. Story thumbnails look like romance covers, because that's largely what they are.
