Best Choose Your Own Adventure Games on Steam
Branching games where player choices steer the story through distinct paths.
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1People Playground - Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Jul 23, 2019
In this game, you can…
- tear maps open with explosives until wall panels fall away, revealing detailed pipes and wiring hidden behind the surface.
- strap rocket boosters to ragdolls, then escalate into spike-and-flamethrower traps and a machine that launches someone into space.
- swap a person's blood for other liquids, like acid or atomic-bomb ingredients, and watch their body chemically change and even glow green.
- kidnap three people, make them fight to the death, then set the last one free.
- wire generators, logic gates, and machines together into contraptions that mix electricity, fire, acid, bullets, syringes, and healing fields.
- spawn people with jetpacks and swords, then make them fight robots or other AI while you stage the whole arena.
- mess with the environment—temperature, rain, snow, lightning, ocean, lava, abyss—and use it to run controlled catastrophe experiments.
2Dispatch - 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!
Oct 22, 2025
In this game, you can…
- watch heroes level up into wild abilities, like healing a teammate mid-mission or cloning themselves to fill empty roster slots.
- replay entire episodes and scenes from an episode menu to see how different choices ripple forward.
- run a superhero call center after your mech suit gets wrecked.
- rehabilitate a roster of ex-supervillains by juggling their quirks, grudges, loyalties, and office relationships.
- read vague emergency calls, infer what's really happening, and dispatch the right mix of heroes to handle it.
- send multiple heroes to the same incident and trigger hidden interactions, extra effects, or secret dialogue when the matchup is right.
- make tiny dialogue choices that change which heroes join or get dropped later, pushing you into radically different team lineups.
- play quick hacking mini-games between dispatch decisions without leaving the flow of the shift.
- disable QTEs, or keep them on for timed memory challenges and situational sequence puzzles.
3The Walking Dead - A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
Apr 24, 2012
In this game, you can…
- make a choice in an early episode, then watch it come back much later to change relationships and who lives
- pick dialogue answers in seconds while danger is happening, like choosing who to save as people get overrun
- decide between awful options like shooting a child before it turns, stealing supplies, or lying to survive
- start the story as a convicted murderer when your police ride crashes into a zombie
- find an 8-year-old girl alone, then spend the story making choices that shape how you protect her
- finish chapters with a screen showing how other players chose, so you can compare your big decisions
- build trust with survivors in a small group, then watch alliances flip fast when someone betrays you or dies
- walk around small areas, talk to everyone, and piece together who they are before the group falls apart
4FTL: Faster Than Light - This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Sep 14, 2012
In this game, you can…
- vent rooms into space to suffocate boarders or put out fires.
- reach the final boss, win the fight, then learn it has three phases and the battle keeps escalating.
- teleport your crew onto an enemy ship to sabotage systems and fight room-to-room, then lose them if the ship explodes first.
- hit a wrecked ship system again to open hull breaches that keep repair crews dying inside.
- pause mid-fight to queue repairs, reroute power, and fire weapons, then unpause for a second to let the plan land.
- get a run-ending chain reaction where fires, breaches, no oxygen, and boarders all happen at once.
- hack or mind-control enemy systems so their own doors trap their crew while your weapons tear the ship apart.
5The Henry Stickmin Collection - A choose-your-own-path where failing is more fun than succeeding.
Aug 7, 2020
In this game, you can…
- shrink your character in a graphics editor to fit through a tunnel on top of a speeding train.
- call in your buddy Charles for help and watch his "assistance" turn into a whole new kind of chaos.
- reach the finale and combine earlier endings into new routes that branch into multiple distinct storylines.
- choose between attacks like a knife or a yo-yo and get fully animated, wildly different outcomes either way.
- click a character who only appears for a split second to snag a hidden bio before the scene moves on.
- pick the "wrong" option on purpose just to see a spectacular fail scene play out like a mini-sketch.
- escalate from a simple bank job into airship infiltrations, complex prison breaks, and a much bigger conspiracy without slowing down.
- replay a 30-minute run and realize there are hours of alternate fails, secrets, and endings hidden behind different choices.
6Love Is All Around - The player becomes Gu Yi, uses the first-person perspective to immerse himself in meeting six beauties, and embarks on a joyful and sweet love journey with them. Six girls that are charming, innocent, intelligent, wild, sexy, glamorous, who will go to the end with you is up to you to decide.
Oct 17, 2023
In this game, you can…
- choose wrong in a romance scene and get killed by the woman you're pursuing.
- explore rooms, click objects, and find hidden clips and clues that can change what endings you can reach later.
- pretend to be someone's husband, then watch that lie branch into totally different relationships.
- get run down by a car and have it kick off a romance route.
- answer a tiny "what's different about me?" question right, gain affection, and still get locked out of her ending.
- hit route finales where you have to do the exact right actions and answers to unlock a woman's true ending.
- get buried alive by Zheng Ziyan if you play a route badly enough.
- bounce through over 100 branches and 12 endings, backtracking to see how one choice reshapes multiple relationships.
7Metaphor: ReFantazio - After his assassination, the will of the late king decrees the next monarch to be elected by the people. Forge bonds and win over a kingdom divided in this award-winning fantasy RPG with turn-based and action combat, party customization with powerful Archetypes, and hours of exploration.
Oct 10, 2024
In this game, you can…
- awaken job-like powers, swap classes, and inherit skills across them until your party roles stop resembling their original archetypes.
- start fights in real time on the field, instantly delete weaker enemies, or get clipped first and stumble into an ambush.
- ride a gauntlet runner across an entire continent and have travel time actually eat up days on your calendar.
- run a months-long royal election campaign where every alliance, betrayal, and big story beat feeds into a public tournament for the throne.
- dive into dungeons by day, then use the night to cook, bond with companions, and raise virtues before looming deadlines hit.
- buy intel from informants about a dungeon or boss ahead of time so you can plan around weaknesses and affinities before you go in.
- push deep into a dungeon until your resources break, retreat to safety, then come back the next day and keep the expedition going.
- clear a whole dungeon in a single in-game day, then spend the extra time you earned powering up bonds and stats instead of grinding.
8The Wolf Among Us - 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.
Oct 11, 2013
In this game, you can…
- choose which lead to follow first, and lose the other one forever when it means evidence gets destroyed or someone dies.
- track clues by scent, sniffing out evidence around crime scenes instead of relying on gadgets or lab tools.
- decide whether to act like a restrained sheriff or beat a suspect down, and have characters remember how far you went later.
- solve a brutal murder as the Big Bad Wolf, where the first body is just the start and everyone in the fable community becomes a suspect.
- replay a chapter, take the other location first, and watch the whole investigation chain change—who you catch, who escapes, and what you learn.
- interrogate fairy-tale suspects in loaded conversations where your tone can win trust, provoke fear, or trigger a confession.
- get slammed into cinematic brawls where you trade brutal hits and can lose control enough to start turning into a wolf.
9Life is Strange: Before the Storm - 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.
Aug 31, 2017
In this game, you can…
- win arguments by picking timed comebacks that bait, corner, or wear someone down until they cave.
- go onstage in a school production of The Tempest, then improvise when your scene partner goes off-script.
- play a bonus episode where you and your best friend turn the house into a pirate adventure and hunt for imaginary treasure.
- share one pair of earbuds on a moving train while listening to music together.
- tag hidden spots around town with graffiti instead of taking photos.
- dig through bedrooms, personal files, and private spaces to uncover secrets, even when it feels like crossing a line.
- choose whether Chloe and Rachel's fast-growing friendship turns romantic, then live with how that choice reshapes scenes.
10Sultan's Game - Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
Mar 30, 2025
In this game, you can…
- turn a broken double-dildo into a nunchuck called "double dragon."
- sacrifice all your followers turn after turn to raise an undead army, then escalate into fighting a god.
- replace your anatomy with the "Golden Wang of Doom," making the kingdom adore you until the Sultan gets jealous and beheads you.
- satisfy a new vice demand every seven days or get executed.
- rig a murder demand into an honorable arena death instead of stabbing a friend.
- convince the Sultan to let you sleep with his consort, then leave her untouched to stay loyal.
- kill off major characters outright and watch the story reroute around their absence.
- go from domestic drama to overthrowing the Sultan while juggling gods, coups, marriages, and court crises on the same run.
