History VideoGame / ChoiceOfGames

* TheCaptain: You eventually. How old you are when you achieve it depends on the success of your choices.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous

* InWithTheCrowd: Rex transforms from random nobody the the de facto {{Big Man On Campus}} in his freshman year, after he found success on the school wrestling team, befriended its star player and started dating the most popular girl in school.

* AlwaysFemale: Your sister Romana, and your niece (the only character whose name is customizable but whose gender is not).
* AlwaysMale: Fish Grundy, Lloyd Croghan, Rep. Jonathan Creed, and Prince Faisal Raqim.

* FunWithAcronyms: The Smarts, Humor, Artisty, Daring and Enchantment scale, or S.H.A.D.E Scale.

* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: The majority of Arbor Isle are absolutely convinced that you were involved in Rex's death, even though the police could never find anything that would justify an arrest. You leaving town in the aftermath didn't help your case, with most seeing this as an admission of guilt.

* BadassInCharge: You, eventually.

* BadassInCharge: You will become this, eventually.

* InWithTheCrowd: Rex transforms from random nobody the the de facto {{BigManOnCampus}} in his freshman year, after he found success on the school wrestling team, befriended its star player and started dating the most popular girl in school.

* KidsAreCruel: Rex is rather nasty to you and your friends before he dies, at least part of the nastiness was him retaliating after certain members of the group spread malicious gossip about him - you can potentially be doing so on the very eve of his death. The students at Ashbrook High launch a campaign against you in the aftermath of Rex's death (which can be the main reason why you fled Arbor Isle), and Ennis and Caleb start it up again when you return to town.

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Rex dumps his old friends like garbage once he gets a taste of the popular life, and becomes outright antagonistic to them as time progresses. If you chose to be nice to him despite all of this on the night of his death, you can see that he's feeling pretty guilty over the whole thing, [[spoiler: and hi ghost confesses that he deeply regrets his choices.]]

* JerkJock: Rex becomes this once he starts running with the popular kids, with you and your friends bearing the brunt of his malice. Caleb has shades of this as well, considering he is the heavy lifter in most of Ennis' schemes against you.

[[folder: Thieves' Gambit: The Curse of the Black Cat]]
Written by Dana Duffield.

* OneMillionBC: Eleven million years in the past, the Stone Age River People contend with [[LizardFolk the ophidians]] and their horrifying monster, [[TRexpy the Tyrant]].

* CorruptHick: Thorgrim Thorgrimmson (but just call him Snorri). He's an owner of a big farm who claims your land as his, and he's got a lot of muscle going for that claim.

* WeAllLiveInAmerica: It's supposed to be England but there are several jarring Americanisms in the text. There's also the fact that Rory somehow has a class ring, from Eton if Rory is male and Roedean if Rory is female, when neither of those schools (nor any other school in the UK) has ever provided rings.

* FiveManBand
** TheLeader: The protagonist.
** TheLancer: Michael/Michelle/Brian/Bonnie, they're first adult character to join you, regardless of the route (not counting Kayden who is a kid). Also, they are very often giving some advice during survival, despite how Jerkass they are.
** TheSmartGuy: Lev/Lisa/Chris/Carrie, obviously.
** TheChick: Justin/Jennifer
** TagalongKid: Kayden, both version, the only child in your group. Interestingly, s/he is more useful than Justin/Jennifer who is an adult.

* ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler:Morgan's head will be transformed into that of a rat, fox, weasel, or deer, depending on how the player answered a question in an earlier chapter. Morgan doesn't even notice until he/she has it pointed out to him/her, and it eventually goes away on its own.]]

* ''VideoGame/ChoiceOfTheDragon''

[[folder:Cliffhanger: Challenger of Tomorrow]]
Written by William Brown. A pulp-style adventure in which the reader controls Challenger, the world's greatest adventurer (or most vicious scoundrel) on the greatest adventure of their life.

* EvilTwin: [[spoiler: Nemesis, the game's BigBad, is the player's counterpart from a MirrorUniverse.]]
* EvilVsEvil: You certainly have the option of battling the villain while being a villain yourself.
* GeniusBruiser: You can play a scientific genius who's also a two-fisted butt kicker too if you like, just as the pulps had their share of.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/AlCapone will end up as a member of your group's inner circle. You have the option to say he's been your sidekick for a while before then.
* LostWorld: One of the places you visit is a world inside the Earth's crust, full of primitive people and prehistoric creatures living among the remains of a once-advanced civilization. Which you have the opportunity to start fixing up, if you're playing a character with the know-how.
* ParodyCommercial: There's a fake ad for some product intersperesed between each chapter.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler: The Zeta-Ray Projector, the machine that makes all of the setting's amazing advances possible, does so by leeching energy from parallel universes, gradually killing them.]]
* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler: The amazing generator invented by the player's mentor, which makes scientific progress speed ahead at breakneck pace, is only able to do so by using the life energies of other realities as a power source, and Nemesis declares it needs to be destroyed. Although he's become a nihilist who plans to use it to destroy world after world by the time the player finds out ''why'' Nemesis says this, to keep from asking why the reader can't side with him.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Creatures Such as We]]
Written by Lynnea Glasser.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: You can choose to play as a villain who wants to change the world.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Dr. Arachnus is defeated and the world is saved, but most (if not all) of your friends have died, and depending on your actions, Earth is in a far worse condition than it's ever been before.]]

* EvilVersusEvil: Stralchus and his slave empire at the Ziggurat oppose the False Icon and its ophidian servants. Neither of them have any concern for the lives they ruin for their ambitions.

* CourtroomEpisode: The Althing has several trials going on to deal with the chaotic legal squabbling of the Icelanders. Of course, the law tends to go to the strong rather than the righteous.
* CrossoverCosmology: There's a ''lot'' of gods. The Christian {{God}} and the [[Myth/NorseMythology Aesir and Vanir]] both put in appearances, as do the spirits of the land [[spoiler: and of Hel]].

[[folder:Choice of Zombies]]
Written by Heather Albano and Richard Jackson.

* ShesGotLegs: Tyra Faith's defining feature is her long legs, and she shows them proudly as [[spoiler:she gets eliminated in the first episode]].

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: Cerdic is just trying to win some land for his people, a nation of InvadingRefugees, and would like to do so with a minimum of bloodshed. His son Cynric, however, has aligned himself with dark powers.]]