Episode - Choose Your Story vs Yandere Simulator
Episode - Choose Your Story
Episode - Choose Your Story is a rather interesting game that may bring to mind the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of old (at least for the kids from the 90s) though the game features a whole lot mote cheesy romance stories rather than epic dragon-slaying adventures. Catering to female teens and tweens, the stories are episodic and, unlike gamebooks, has animated characters. There isn't as many choices in this game as you might expect, with a lot of them mainly involving the changing of clothes - apparently, clothes makes a man... ahem, I mean lady. There are some obviously positive choices, which are highlighted in gold, from time to time, but in order to choose these choices, you have to spend premium gems. Naturally, you'll only have a limited amount of them until you have to start paying real money to buy more.Each episode of a story, with the exception of the first episode, will require passes to play too, but at least you'll get a nice number of passes for free daily. That said, it's nice to see how the app allows creative writers to monetize their stories in a more interesting way while earning a following in the process.
If you enjoy interactive stories with choices such as the Choices: Stories You Play, you'll love Episode - Choose Your Story. Do give it a try!
Yandere Simulator
Yandere Simulator is a very unique stealth-based simulation game that involves a Yandere girl or boy whom you'll be playing as and a senpai that you are creepily stalking. Despite its apparently romantic theme, the game gets dark really quickly when you realize that you will need to get rid of competitors who are gunning for your senpai by any means necessary... and yes, that sometimes means you might have to kill or at least socially destroy your rival. However, there are many factors in play, for example, you can't do anything remotely evil while your senpai is near enough to notice, or that your reputation will decrease whenever you are spotted doing anything incriminating by anybody at the high school you attend. You'll also gain access to a special skill, Yandere Vision, which allows you to have a bit of an unfair advantage since you'll get to see through walls and important figures and objects will be automatically highlighted.Due to the nature of the game, it is safe to say that this is not a game for children or maybe even impressionable teens. However, the concept that the game is based on is quite interesting to say the least and although the game is still in its alpha, the game seemed to have garnered a rather large amount of interest from the gaming community. The game's sandbox build is currently free-to-play but the full game is expected to be a buy-to-play.