Choose Your Own Adventure Audio Stories
The best first AudioGame is the one that fits your mood and your time. Below you will find stories from the PlayNook catalog grouped by what you feel like playing, with length and age rating for each one. If you are new to the format, start with a short story: in fifteen minutes you will learn how choices, timers and dice work.
If you have fifteen minutes
- The Exploder (fantasy, 12+, about 16 min). Sentenced to death after a mysterious explosion in the arena, you escape with your friend Bana. The catch: if you die, the power inside you might blow again.
- The Bug (sci-fi, 12+, about 11 min). In 2070 everyone is connected to an AI called Theo. A small error erases Elia from the system, and with it every service he needs.
- Karma Man (adventure, 12+, about 4 min). The only superhero nobody wants to be saved by, because his luck is legendary. In the worst way.
If you want an epic journey
- Marco Polo Adventures (adventure, 12+, 6 chapters, about 2h 30min). Venice, 1271. Cross deserts and mountains to reach the court of Kublai Khan.
- Lapis in Fabula (fantasy, 12+, 6 chapters, about 2 hours). A workshop boy in the Alps of 1491 finds a strange stone, and alchemists and monsters start hunting him.
If you want to be scared
- Blood's Bane (horror, 16+, 4 chapters, about 43 min). You wake up in a pit in the woods after a Halloween party, the only survivor of a massacre.
- The Hidden Legacy (paranormal, 12+, about 22 min). Strange things happen in your old family home, and séances are the only way to find out why.
- Elder Mythos (cosmic horror, 16+, 2 chapters). This time you are the monster: an ancient entity creeping into human minds.
If you like sci-fi and the end of the world
- After the Light (sci-fi, 16+, 5 chapters, about 52 min). A global event turned people into creatures. You are a scientist close to a cure, until you have to fight for your life.
- Arden (fantasy and sci-fi, 12+, about 40 min). In a toxic desert, an Explorer searches for water and for the past behind her emerald eyes.
If you want romance or a laugh
- Beneath the Ashes (fantasy romance, 16+, 4 chapters, about 47 min). Kala, a half-devil turned cleric, has to face the past she escaped from Hell to forget.
- Help! The Student Council President Won't Leave Me Alone! (comedy, 12+, 3 chapters, about 34 min). You are a lazy genius, and the most ambitious student in school wants you as his deputy.
If you love history
- Dokuganryu (historical, 16+, 2 chapters). Sengoku Japan, 1584: from minor lord of the North to legendary samurai.
- My Bonny My Lassie (historical, 16+, 3 chapters, about 40 min). Anne Bonny, Mary Read and the man who hunted them, one chapter each.
- Dante: The Divine Comedy (12+, 3 chapters). You are Dante, lost in the dark forest in 1300, with Hell ahead of you.
If you are playing with kids
- The Christmas Raccoons (7+, 3 chapters, about 35 min). Trees are disappearing from the Evergreen Forest on Christmas Eve.
- Winx Club: the Awakening of Dark Musa (7+, 3 chapters, about 30 min). A shadow virus turns Musa into Dark Musa.
- The Legend of the Magic Plant (7+, 2 chapters, about 26 min). Two young friends chase a dragon who stole their tools.
How to choose on your own
Every page in the catalog shows genre, age rating, number of chapters, length, languages, complexity and interactivity. You can also filter by genre at the top of the catalog. A simple rule: low complexity and high interactivity for your first time, higher complexity when you want choices with long-term consequences.
New to the format? Start with what is an AudioGame.
