This page collects up-to-date versions of all the image-based CYOAs I've worked on along with all of the supplementary pieces I've written for them.
CYOAs, meaning Choose Your Own Adventure games, are played by reading the pages from top-to-bottom and following the rules.
The simplest CYOAs involve making a single choice between a handful of desirable options, while more complicated multi-page
CYOAs might place you within a narrative with complex worldbuilding and multiple different statistics to keep track of.
Players write down their chosen options, their 'builds', and think about what they would do with them and what their impact on the world would be.
All of my single page CYOAs and my two big HTML ones are hosted locally here while multi-page image CYOAs will take you to Image Chest or Imgur.
I'm always happy for people to share and repost my CYOAs wherever they want, create stories or art based on my CYOAs, or adjust the rules to better fit their playstyles.
Frontier CYOAs
These stories take place in Frontierworld, a parallel dimension largely reminiscent of the American wild west.
Homestead CYOA [Imgchest]
You move to the frontier and are granted a plot of land to build a life on.
Make choices about what you're going to farm, how you're going to live, and who you're going to make friends with along the way.
Included is 'Trials and Tribulations', a 'one-year-on' expansion that puts you in the role of the mediator in a number of local disputes.
Move to an isolated town in the north and live out a cosy adventure. It's a bit less dangerous by default than Homestead CYOA,
more urban, and with a strong maritime theme throughout.
Build your base, gather supplies, rescue survivors, and lay seige
against the forces of darkness. You'll be fighting zombies, and some even worse monsters, in the same setting as the Homestead CYOA.
It can be played entirely standalone, or as an expansion.
These CYOAs follow major events across multiple eras in the fictional continent of 'Eitador'.
My Lady, My Liege (v1.0.1)
Become the lord or lady of a small medieval town circa 1150. Decide its fate and your fortune by constructing buildings and passing laws.
This CYOA was a huge multimedia project featuring voice acting for the Companion section, a lot of background lore, and some pieces of original pixel art!
Set in the 1970s, join the Brightfire Ministry of Intelligence as an elite assassin in a mission based CYOA that will take you all over the continent to eliminate targets and solve unique problems.
Featuring 14 missions and over 18,000 words, this offers a narrative experience that can be played across multiple sessions.
In 2080, an intense war rages in Daybreak. You're chosen as a mech pilot, and sent out to try and change the direction of the fight.
This CYOA lends itself to a variety of different builds, as you could choose different ways to upgrade your mech,
augument yourself into a supersoldier, or even gain personal command of a small army.
ReArm is a total rewrite and overhaul of the original version of DAYBREAK featuring wider pages, a lot of new options, and the rules for DAYBREAK ✶ Armor Grid.
You wake up in the hyper-capitalist cyberpunk future of 2130. Make money, upgrade yourself
through transhuman body augumentation, choose your allies, and decide what your role will be.
It's long, rich with lore, and has character stats, so you'll need to keep track of a few different numbers as you play.
see also... DAYBREAK ✶ Dispatches - This is a short fiction anthology set in the world of DAYBREAK.
It maps the conflict with stories that showcase different attitudes and struggles to rationalise the brutality of the war and the corporate power structures that keep it going,
covering perspectives from lowly scavengers and civilians to ace mech pilots and guerilla insurgents.
Entries are standalone and vary in length. The longest is The Bug Eaters, a novelette, while the shortest are poems. Zeroed Metrics is the best short introduction.
THE BUG EATERS
(I, II, III, IV,
V, VI, VII, VIII,
IX, X) -
Faina, a scavenger working for an exit from Daybreak’s war-torn desert, struggles to make the right choices as her fragile community builds its future on technology that will drastically change their lives forever.
THE FACTORY STORY -
Mech pilot Adexe Gallian strives to be the hero he is portrayed as by the People’s Liberation Militia, but it’s not heroes who win wars.
This story follows him from the frontline mech-v-mech action to a secret buried in the PLM's factory industrial complex.
A BURST OF LIGHT -
Idaira, a fighter from Eastern Sun, weaves her way through an ancient cave system known for being one of Daybreak’s most intense battlegrounds.
Why does she fight? And what will keep her going?
MATERIAL ADJUSTMENTS -
Sister Darija of the Ascendency keeps the faith, and builds a bomb.
This is a wish fulfilment fantasy with nature and cottagecore aesthetics.
It's more personal than my others as the options are mostly based on things that I would want. You're granted powers and adventure by pixie magic and get to decide how it manifests!
After you die, you have a single chance to be reborn and tie up loose ends.
You will have to choose a spirit realm to visit and complete the challenges of. If you succeed, you may come back to earth a better and more powerful person.
Spend points to gain a number of powers or improvements to your life.
The aesthetic of this CYOA is based on 'The Smiths', and the options are all inspired by lyrics from their songs.
Build the home of your dreams! It's one of my first CYOAs and is quick to play.
Choose the location of your home, how it's designed, and what rooms you want it to include. There are very minor magic/ fantasy elements for some of the rooms.
Design a monster and pick from horror movie tropes to come up with a story that you think is fun and imaginative! It's strongly inspired by movies of the 1980s,
especially puppet horror movies and exploitation films. There are numbers on each option so that you can play it as RYOA if you prefer.
An NSFW CYOA parodying the 'waifu-builder' genre.
It's mostly inspired by Frankenhooker and is supposed to be silly, taking place in a kind of weird amoral delirium. This is a CYOA for adults only and is hosted on imgchest.
Sun & Sea (18+) [Imgchest]
An NSFW CYOA about planning a nice trip to a beach-themed Demiplane!
Actually choosing any of the lewd options is entirely optional but the images are often explicit. This is a CYOA for adults only and is hosted on imgchest.
These CYOAs are small, single images, with one or two choices each.
They're each playable in just a few minutes, making them good if you're low on time, or just want a quick introduction to the format.
The first one, 'cosy cyoa', has been the most upvoted post of all time on the r/makeyourchoice subreddit for 4 years now.
There's also one 'RYOA', or 'Roll Your Own Adventure'. You can use this page to simulate rolling dice.
