What's more fun than a game with a good storyline? A storyline that you can actually change! These awesome adventure games let you actually change the plot as you go, instead of just moving along fixed levels. Have fun, be smart, and hope for good luck with your choices in our favorite choice-based adventure games.
Highest scored apps in the category
Get ready for tons of choices and intrigue in this deluxe paranormal narrative.
Get ready to experience a story driven adventure unlike any other on iOS. The story can rival a TV show as you transition from teenage angst to paranormal activity with a continuous emphasis on character development. Choose the dialogue, decide which friends to save, and try to figure out the mystery at hand.
Reigns returns in an all new time period with all new swipe based choices.
The follow up to Reigns introduces a queen as the protagonist in the era of Enlightenment. Swipe left and right to handle the various attacks at your throne.
Decide how to proceed in a totalitarian state as an apartment manager.
A choice based adventure game that pits you as an apartment manager within a totalitarian state. Your goal is to oversee your tenants as covertly as possible to see if they're doing anything against the state. The game lets you bug apartments, search belongings, profile tenants, and more.
An episodic decision based adventure game with the ability to rewind time.
An episodic decision based adventure game with the ability to rewind time.
Apps with average score
Explore the Psyche of Bruce Wayne in Batman - The Telltale Series
Batman - The Telltale Series is the mobile port of the new episodic Batman game from Telltale. Explore Bruce Wayne's psyche and engage in fun battles as Batman.
You’re the King of Your Own Kingdom in Reigns by Devolver Digital
Reigns is the new game from Devolver Digital. Think of "Tinder for Monarchs."
Decide what articles to publish under strict censorship by the government.
The Westport Independent lets you play as a newspaper editor trying to survive in a totalitarian state with strict censorship. You need you pick and choose the right articles, and the best headlines to continue to operate by making appealing articles to sell papers, but make sure those articles don’t...
The Fables graphic novel series is getting the TellTale treatment.
A thrilling graphic adventure game from the studio behind Walking Dead - The Game. If you enjoy dark and moody comic books, you’re in for a treat. Telltale has done a fantastic job bringing Bill Willingham’s popular comic book series to life. Interact with the real world versions of well...
Analyze every potential immigrant in a communist state.
You get to play as a border inspector in the communist state of Arstotzka, and your goal is to check travelers documents for any discrepancies. Papers, Please is the question you ask to each new visitor as you weed through proper immigrants, and visitors looking to find smugglers, spies, and...
Watch the interrogation footage, and try to figure out what happened.
An interactive crime drama with an aesthetic designed around a mid-90s computer that shows archived cassette tape style footage. In Her Story, your job is to comb through all of the archived footage by typing out specific words to find matching clips. Every video clip delivers live action content that...
Telltale has what is essentially a season two of their Batman cinematic adventure game.
Telltale returns to Gotham City with five brand new episodes in their take on Batman. Things begin with The Riddler coming to town, but there will also be appearances by Joker, Harley Quinn, and Bane, among others. Telltale's cinematic adventure style with lasting decisions continues.
TellTale reinvents itself with a cinematic adventure based on the world of The Walking Dead.
Prepare to make tough decisions, and experience the consequences in this episodic adventure. Play as Lee Everett, and try to survive the zombie apocalypse in which those still living are more frightening than the undead.
Live Out Your Wizarding Dreams
Head to Hogwarts in this role-playing game that takes place before the time of Harry Potter.
Explore the untold story of Michonne.
The Walking Dead: Michonne is an installment in the episodic adventure game series developed by Telltale Games, based on the acclaimed “The Walking Dead” comic book series created by Robert Kirkman. It centers on the “untold journey” of Michonne, an iconic character from the comic book series who’s “haunted by...
Take control of a movie in real time with vital decisions.
An interactive movie with fully acted scenes and plot. You get to choose the direction of the narrative based on your dialogue choices. There are multiple roads to take, and your path is still unveiled as a fluid movie with each possibility acted out. It's like a Telltale game, but...
Your choices matter.
Recover what’s rightfully yours in Tales from the Borderlands.
The zombie apocalypse saga continues in season 3 of Telltale's acclaimed series
So you’ve played through Walking Dead: The Game and Walking Dead: The Game - Season 2, and maybe even checked out the spinoff miniseries The Walking Dead: Michonne. Now what? Well, the next natural step is to start playing season 3 of Telltale’s acclaimed video game adaptation of the “Walking...
This episodic adventure game is the sequel to 2012’s App Store Game of the Year.
If you enjoy The Walking Dead, you’re going to love this episodic adventure game. It has the same gritty look and feel of the show, except you get to experience it for yourself. The sequel continues to story of Clementine under all new circumstances.
Peek into someone's life through their phone.
A Normal Lost Phone puts you in the shoes of the investigator. A cell phone is found and through reading messages, browsing pictures and applications you discover details about the owner. Ultimately discover there's mystery involved.
A change of pace game that is about discovering the storyline through road trip choices.
Take a trip across Italy in the 1970's in this spunky and charming visual novel adventure.
A sequel/follow up to A Normal Lost Phone with a brand new story.
A Normal Lost Phone delivers a narrative investigation as you piece together the life of the lost phone's owner. Now, there's a brand new phone and owner with a new story to unravel. Dive into apps to piece together the mystery of Laura's Story.
Sit in front of a control panel, and try to uncover every secret.
Your co-worker has gone on a bathroom break, and asked you to cover with one simple guideline, "please, don't touch anything". That's not going to stop you as you try to uncover 25 different puzzle enigmas on this control panel.
Create a Snarky AI Named CARROT in Artificial Superintelligence
This is a simulation game where you're in charge of a Silicon Valley startup that is responsible for creating a super smart and sentient AI named CARROT.
Nonlinear interactive visual novel set against the atmospheric backdrop of the 19th century England. Become the hero of a mystical story! The fate of a young man possessed by a demon rests with you.
ABOUT THE GAME
The main characteristic of a visual novel game is achieving immersion by giving the player...
** Winner of Impact Award at IndieCade 2016, Honorable Mention for Excellence in Design from Independent Games Festival(IGF) 2017, Grand Prix Award at Taipei Game Show 2017, Excellence in Narrative Award at BIC Festival 2016, Best of Narrative Award & Best of Game Design Award at Indie Stream Fes 2016...
Could be good for special cases
HERO Unit is a retro app-like text game that puts the player in the shoes of 911 dispatchers.
Features:
-No Ads & IAP
-21 Different callers and scenarios.
-No time restrictions.
-Multiple endings for each call.
-News articles that reflects your actions.
"Rescue The World. One Person at a Time."
On sale for 1 week only!
Please, Don’t Touch Anything 3D is a cryptic, brain-racking button-pushing simulation.
Covering for a colleague who is taking a bathroom break, you find yourself in front of a mysterious console consisting of a green screen monitor with a live image of an unknown city. Also present is an ominous red button with the simple instruction to not touch anything!
Push it and expect to be held liable for any unintended aftermath. And there will be many.
Scavenge the room for clues, tools, and buttons to solve riddles and trigger explosive events. You cannot begin to imagine how many mind blowing surprises such a deceptively simple console has for you.
This new 3D version of the classic game features all new high-quality visuals, new mechanics, updated classic endings with new solutions, and a slew of new endings. Defiant button pressers are now presented with over 30 engaging puzzles that spring from hidden compartments inside the mysterious console.
Go ahead, press the button. You know you want to.
You found a phone belonging to a missing person. What would you do?
Sara has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and your only lead is her mobile phone.
Search for clues by investigating Sara's personal messages, notes, emails, pictures and videos while trying to piece together her final days. Unlock password protected files, uncover hidden messages and decrypt lost data and figure out where she went, what she did, and how someone can disappear without a trace so suddenly.
Features:
- Multiple choices will lead to multiple outcomes and endings.
- Chat with different people at the same time.
- Receive phone calls from NPCs and other mysterious callers.
- Hidden sub plots and extra information to unlock.
- Receive videos and photos from other NPCs.
- Simulated mobile phone helper, providing hints.
- Utilizing a similar typing mechanic as popular messaging apps.
More info at:
www.saraismissing.com
Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face narrative puzzles and moral dilemmas that will affect both the lives of your team and the people you’re are sworn to protect. Set against the backdrop of an interstellar struggle, Gods Will Be Watching follows Sgt. Burden and his crew in six tense chapters from hostage situations and wilderness survival to biological weapon prevention and agonizing torture scenarios.
Each decision is crucial and players will need to choose between the lives of their team and the saving the world from genocide. There's no good or evil, just decisions, with only you and the gods as a judge to your actions.
• An innovative departure from the traditional point and click adventure taking place in six intimate, tension-filled scenarios linked together through an epic narrative of interstellar espionage.
• Set morals aside as you navigate Sgt. Burden and his team through harrowing predicaments and make decisions that will either save your team or sacrifice their lives for the sake of the mission.
• Solve a wide variety of narrative puzzles and moral dilemmas using your own wits and burden the consequences of your choices. Do you intimidate or comfort your hostages to maintain your tenuous control of the situation? Should you kill the weakest member of your party to save on food for the strong? What is one life worth in the face of annihilation?
• Receive your judgment from the gods upon failure and compare your choices to all other players in the universe over time.
• Over 1,500 beautifully designed sprites tell your story against 15 stunning backgrounds and an emotionally stirring orchestral soundtrack.
*Each chapter of Gods Will Be Watching is available via in-app purchases for $.99 USD.
In this Story YOU are the HERO...
YOU control the storyline.
You will run through difficult challenges.
Read and think hard to solve riddles, puzzlers, problems, brain teasers...
"CAN YOU GET IT TO THE END?"
The END will depend on your final choice ...
