I found the Hero Rise Trilogy through my recommendations in playstore and I checked it first and found that it was too boring at that time since its only words, then I remembered my whole library of CYOA books and checked it back again, and ever since then I got hooked and bought dozens, since I can never go back I decided to check the community as well, I got addicted to it eventually and even tried to write one but I got too lazy, but i learned how to mod them, though Iām too selfish to share my modsš
Played the game called Magium which is still ongoing and is completely free and then well I started looking around for games similar to it. Through reddit people recommended several series from cog and the rest is history.
I was browsing google playstore 5 years ago 
I remember so clearly googling ādragon gamesā as a 14 year old, playing choice of dragon, then getting hooked on choice of romance, and waiting what felt like an ETERNITY waiting for the 3rd instalment to be released
have been a longtime lurker of the forums for ages now and hardly ever post, but have been moved into breaking my silence by the nostalgia of typing ādragon gamesā into a search engine a decade ago
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That backstory definitely makes your username feel appropriate. Welcome back, Meetra Surik!
According to my purchase history, first were Vampire, Romance and the Hero Trilogy in autumn 2014. I think I was looking for a vampire game on the Appstore and fell in love with interactive fiction. Six and a half years and over a hundredš games later Iām so glad that I downloaded Choice of the Vampire on that dayš.
I saw some fanart from someone I follow on tumblr for The Wayhaven Chronicles for Adam and the detective, so I tried it out.
Marine Raider I think it was called- yeah thatās the one I found on the App Store. Thatās how I discovered it.
Was browsing App Store and came across the Community College Hero series and it just continued on from there
Choice of the Vampire is how I found it. I was probably looking for visual novel games, or choice based stuff, etc. and that was one that came up often for me, so I tried it. Strangely, I loved it way back when but now I find it so boringš
I found COG through Wayhaven! 
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I found it through choice of dragons and it just went on from there.
I was bored out of my mind looking for VNs on Google Play, (i played choices, romance club, and the likes) I stumbled upon Delight Games, text bases much like COG and I finally stumbled upon the Hosted Games Apps.
Saw TWC, didnāt think much of it since I only played the demo. Coincidentally, some blogs I follow on Tumblr started posting about TWC and I got back to it. Traced it back to the COg forum and voila here I am. Lol
I was looking for games on my phone and came across The Vampire House. I loved it, I started looking at the other games they had to offer.
Three years later, here I am. I am in love with CoG and have recently built up the courage to make an account after years of lurking.
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Played Choice of Dragons endlessly when it first came out and then other games started popping up.
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First found it on steam with Choice of the Deathless in 2014 then Champion of the Gods a year later but I only started to really get into it with Neighbourhood Necromancer on the play store. A few years later and I now have 47 Choice of Games and 27 Hosted Games. Make that 48 soon, I think Iāll buy Mecha Ace soon 
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I found it when i was trying to find a zombie game that has a decision making mechanic using google and then i saw zombie exodus and played it enjoyed it and bought it. So that how i found out about COG wayback 2012 or 2013 i think.
I stumbled across Metahuman inc. on steam one day, and Iāve never stumbled away.
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Great tournament the legend game i found cog
I canāt really remember anymore but I vaguely remember looking for games with LGBT+ inclusivity around 2015-2016, like I played Choice of the Dragon before that but I didnāt get that invested with CoG until a year or two years later.
After finding a list of CoG games with LGBT+ inclusivity, I found the forums then I tried out some demos like Guinevere, FAWR etc. and the rest is history.
Although I didnāt create account until less then a year ago lol Iāve been a longtime lurker :))
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