Interactive Novel Mobile App Recommendations! (not ranked)
1) Storyscape
the best we had, but unfortunately closed down on February 3 2020. rest in peace
2) Choices: Stories You Play
The pic of the girl called Nia is the main art style for Playchoices.
AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE
Female love interests available (not always given same amount of screentime as male LI). Certain books offer gender customisation for love interests
New chapters every week
Customisation options (some books offer male MCs, but not many)
Quality of writing/plot is inconsistent, but most books are pretty good
Some books have special illustrations!
Genres: Romance, Fantasy, Historical, Sci Fi (not much), Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Comedy, Drama, Adventure, Circuits and Sorcery (romance is either the main genre or a sub-genre in all books)
Steamy scenes are only accessible if you pay diamonds (diamonds can be obtained for free through watching ads)
pretty good variety of stories, though some say there’s too many romance books on there
Choices in some books effect the ending (eg. The Heist: Monaco). Choices in some books effect your relationship levels with other characters (eg. Endless Summer, America’s Most Eligible).
Full walkthroughs for all the books are available on the Choices Wiki.
3) Lovestruck Choose Your Romance
AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE
Female love interests available (A bunch of them!) (and like two non-binary LIs)
New chapters every week
Each love interest has a story/book of their own, so the love interest of your choosing will be sure to get the most screen time!
No customisation options, female MCs only.
Special illustrations for every love interest (typically four per season)
Quality writing and plots
Genres: mainly romance with a mix of fantasy/sci-fi/adventure
Free steamy scenes (more can be bought with hearts, which are basically diamonds. Hearts can be obtained for free through doing quests) ((the steamy scenes are non optional and will happen!
chapters can be fastforwarded/rewinded/autoplay
definitely a win for wlw, but not recommended if you have an intense hatred for romance
4) Originals: Interactive Stories
NOT RELEASED WORLDWIDE YET, a beta version has been released in Canada and Australia (I think, but wouldn’t hurt to check your App/Play Store for it) (please tell me if it’s been released in other countries)
Female love interests available (some books offer gender customisation for LI)
New chapters every week
Many MANY customisation options for MC (male, non binary and female MC available for all books, but all books use the same MC you customised)
Your MC gets to be in some book covers! Gender of LI also changes in some book covers depending on which gender you choose. (As shown above)
Quality writing and plots
Genres: Romance, Erotic, Mystery, Horror, Thriller, Comedy, Drama
Check out “playoriginals” tag on my blog to see some examples of how the story art looks like (I only have art of steamy scenes so uhhh)
Steamy scenes are only accessible if you pay diamonds (diamonds can be obtained for free through watching ads)
pretty banger books covers
male MC/LI pic credit: @misslini
5) Fictif
AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE
Female love interests available (works like Lovestruck; every LI has their own story/book, so they’ll get the most screentime in their respective routes)
Relatively new, so very few chapters published atm
New chapters every few weeks
MC is not seen in stories, but names and pronouns (she, he, they) can be chosen
Special illustrations sometimes
Quality writing and plots
Genres: romance mixed with fantasy/mystery/drama
Not sure whether steamy scenes are available as the app is still pretty new and hasn’t had enough chapters to get up till that point (please notify me if I’m wrong)
i am in love with all the girls in this app
A few others that I cannot bother to give a full review for:
6) Love Island: The Game
a few customisation options, only female MCs, barely any female LIs, based on the reality TV dating show Love Island so it works just like the show, characters are in swimwear most of the time, everyone has a godlike body, all romance and drama.
7) Episodes
play if ur very desperate?? inconsistent quality. lots of customisation options and barely any female LIs. basically Wattpad.
8) there’s this girl
wlw, very cute and short. the book is the app itself. no diamond options, no tickets, everything is free
9) The Arcana: A Mystic Romance
ive never played it but ive heard a lot of good things about it. same creators as Fictif. really nice art. i think there’s a female LI as well. (Edit, I’ve been told there’s TWO female LIs and a non binary LI!) I’m in love with Nadia and the book is the app itself
Send me an ask or something if you want a full long ass review/to correct my mistakes or just to say hi because i am in need of social interaction all the time now :’)
