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Detroit Become Human is the modern choose your own adventure.
Wikipedia just calls it an "adventure game". Feels like there must be a more specific name for the genre, but I don't know what it is.
Fighting Fantasy changed my life.
From two paths the story may take one will be less emotionally impactful than the other. Therefore, it will be suboptimal.
It also spoils the element of surprise. If you know exactly what is going to happen, it becomes less interesting. It also takes away from the character.
If you want user choice, create a video game.
A few author friends and I have been using a "collaborative branching fiction" site I wrote 25 years ago. Took it out of mothballs when Covid hit, spruced it up in some ways. Now it has a react component that graphs the DAG of the stories (threads can merge together, loops are not allowed), lets you filter by un-concluded threads with some nice animation. I wrote some software that will project how big the story will…
Is this publicly available at all? I totally understand if it's just something fun for you and your writer pals, but it sounds amazing and I'd love to see it if possible.
The books gave the illusion of being branching, open worlds, but were often actually linear. Good story to play through, and really evoked the setting.
I was always a fan of the Fighting Fantasy books - they were big in Canada and the UK, but less so in the USA. Interactive role-playing gaming in book form! And dice too!
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you can find them nowadays as video games, some with just text, some with higher production values. And I've also taken part in forum-based CYOAs, where one poster writes the adventure and the other posters vote on which option to choose, which can be quite fun and can be more reactive, as sometime the players will think of solutions the author didn't think of.
I'm pretty sure at least some were made into video games back in the day-I could've sworn I played the Escape series as a game on a Commodore 64 back in the 80s.