Prior to Choice of Games, I actually didn’t have much experience in text-based interactive novels. My very first one is A Midsummer Night’s Choice. It was a coincidence really. We were going through Shakespeare and other classics in my English lit class and I was just Googling stuff. Saw this game and decided to check it out. I really liked the idea of it since I love reading, and that’s how I fell into this rabbit hole 
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My first choice based game was kai chronicles.I completed it upto book 6 and left it in the middle.After that I found a similar choice based game called Life of a Mercenary.From there I found the world of Cogs and Hosted Games…
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Honestly I can’t remember how I found cog but most the stories actually give me something to look for to every day lol
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Stumbled upon life of a mobster on a hungovered Saturday spent in my couch, at first because of the hungover, duh, and then because I absolutely wanted the Hoover ending.
Then the Sunday was pretty much the same because I had found out that the author also made life of a wizard. The week was pretty much the same (I was a student back then) as I discovered there was actually more than one author, and thus more than just those two books… Good times 
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Pretty sure it was through finding Wayhaven Chronicles on Steam a couple of years back. I didn’t really know ‘choice of’ games were even a thing until then. I stumbled onto Choice of Robots after that on the playstore and have been regularly playing them since.
Thanks to @Seraphinite - I read about her new at the time project The Wayhaven Chronicles on Lemma Soft forum. Knowing her previous work I just had to try the demo. Thank you, Sera!
I stumbled upon them in Steam, after switching from a gaming laptop to a laptop with crap graphics. Just checked my purchase history to see which game I bought first and now I remember it well.
On a chance, I bought a title, which shall remain nameless at this time because I utterly hated it. I kept dying halfway through the game because I couldn’t figure out wtf the author’s choices meant, kept ruining my stats because I couldn’t figure out wtf the author wanted, and, had I known then that I could get a refund for a shit game, would’ve demanded it. I expected a game that was more plot oriented (I mean, “choice of” means interactive novel, right??) and got a stat-oriented bunch of drivel with a shallow plot, shallow NPCs, and shallow relationships. I was completely unimpressed and found the game annoying as hell.
At that point, I was convinced CoG games sucked. Then, Steam recommended The Wayhaven Chronicles. It was exactly what I had expected from this type of game–a MC that I could understand, stats that were more comprehensible, and NPCs that were interesting. Not to say I didn’t have complaints about the game, but it convinced me that there were games under the CoG/HG label that were worth trying and could provide what I wanted.
A long list of titles later (I’ve tried a lot of these games) and I’m glad that I did. Yeah, I’ve gotten some duds–I’ve found several that fell under the same "not the droid I was looking for " category as the first game I tried–but I’ve also come across some true gems that I find myself replaying over and over again because they are just that enjoyable. And honestly, those games have made me stop missing my gaming laptop. After all, if I want something that requires a good graphics card, I can always use my desktop.
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One of my colleagues from Lovestruck posted about how they were excited to be writing for Choice of Games. I checked CoGs out, fell in love with Choice of Broadsides, and wha-llah! I am here.
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I was bored one day and decided to just look around on the app store when I came across Psy High, it was interesting to me so I got it. I’ve fallen in love with CoG ever since.
well, for a while i was really interested in text games so i searched for some online games by chance i stumbled upon “Welcome to Moreytown” and the rest is history haha
I was bored on my phone and wanted to find some games where my choices mattered. So naturally, I looked up “choice games” on the app store, and was promptly disappointed by the quality of the games under that search. So I looked up effectively every variation of the phrase “choice games” and eventually stumbled upon Choice of the Dragon by Choice of Games. I couldn’t get enough so I played every free game they had out at the time. And now I’m here, having played over 50 CoGs/HGs at this point, all because I was desperate enough to look up the Choice of Games on a whim.
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I also found it through Alter Ego when I was in middle school. My friend introduced me to “pick a path” books and I was looking for more.
I had recently started playing Choices and I wanted to read more (preferably without paying a lot of money to finish) so I looked up choice games on the playstore and found choice of the vampire, then choice of the robot and since then I’ve read nearly every book from COG and Hosted Games.
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I played Choice of the Dragon in 2010.
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I played Choice of the Dragon on my dads old first generation iPhone. Basically ancient history by now.
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I’ve been here since the early days when Choice of Dragons, Broadsides, and Vampire where the only major games on the site.
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2 years ago I had such a crap phone it would lag and overheat on any game I played, so I looked for games it could run with no problems, and I just happened to stumble upon Choice of the Dragon. After that I just ended up hooked.
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In a spur of nostalgia I decided if choose your own adventures novels were still around and found choice of games and got hooked.
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I got into CoG when I was pretty young, I was really into vampires and horror when I found Choice of the Vampire on the Apple App Store and nicked my mum’s iPad to play it. I had already been playing the online version of Alter Ego for years, so I was immediately hooked by the interactive fiction element.
After finishing that and then Choice of Romance, I found the website and started following it pretty regularly. I think I also first found the forums around then, about in 2011, since I had already active on a ton of other forums since 2007 or so.
I’m pretty sure the first release after I got into CoG was Eerie Estate Agent, which made me feel really old the other day when I was looking through the website’s catalogue. I’ve bought almost all the CoG releases since then, and probably a majority of the Hosted Games as well.
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I was just Googling some random acronyms(I’m a nerd,this was expected)
I came across some random things which have no relation whatsoever to this topic.After like an hour of doing that,I found this acronym CoG on Google Suggest
So I went in,guess what
I got addicted to it
Btw,my first game was Choice of Dragon too,cause it is almost always the very first game to appear on Play Store after searching CoG
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