I discovered Night Road through the Vampire: the Masquerade steam page which lists every VTM game. After playing through Night Road a couple times, I went on to play some of the other Choice games.
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Iāve always liked ARPGs so I was used to searching the play store looking for some. one day one of these searches took me to Magium (not a cog) and I found the concept very interesting, but since Iām not good at English and had no practical way to translate it I kept looking for alternatives. Thatās when I found Fallen Hero and The Shadow Society.
On the forum specifically, it was years later when I decided to google Fallen Hero and somehow ended up on the authorās profile. At first I just came in once in a while to see if there were any updates but then I got used to the place and now I spend more time reading random discussions than playing the games themselves
Hero or Villain: Genesis and War for the West was my first choice/hosted game, it holds a special place in my heart. What about you?
what was your first game that go you interested in choice of games to the point you come to the forum?. My was keeper of sun and moon that got me to the point of look up the forum for the first time.
Mine was both the lord of infinity series the first two books cause at the time the third was far from being out and also the choice of rebellion book cause I wanted to know all the bits and secrets
Choice of the Dragon. That was over nine years ago, and there werenāt too many games out yet at that point.
There was no one game that brought me to the forum. I was a fan for nearly a decade without knowing there was a forum. I found the forum two years ago when I was looking for information about upcoming releases. For a few months I just lurked, since I didnāt figure I had anything to contribute as a newcomer to what seemed a well-established community.
It was Heartās Choice that I have to thank for giving me reason to make an account. I found myself wanting to learn more about the games I played, their development as well as their reception, and a lot of the discussions for Heartās Choice were in the Adult Content section of the forum, which requires an account to access. So I signed up, intending to post very seldom if at all.
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Weirdly, I have Mandela-Effected myself into a memory of playing Choice of Broadsides in secondary school, and always have to remind myself that I found CoG after that. (I think I have interference from reading a lot of Hornblower fanfiction at that ageā¦)
I lurked on the forum on and off for quite a while, not paying a huge amount of attention, but made an account in 2016, just before first applying to write for CoG, after having enjoyed Choice of the Deathless and Cityās Thirst, Thievesā Gambit, Creatures Such As We, Hollywood Visionary, Study in Steampunk and Pendragon Rising. I remember baking biscuits at Christmas 2015 while playing Study in Steampunk and Pendragon Rising for the first time!
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As it turned out, this was one of the first few. The very first one was Creme de la Creme (Hannahās one). And here I am.
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Technically, the first games from here I played were Choice of the Deathless and Deathless: The Cityās Thirst, but just played those two and never tried another game for years.
What really got me into more of the games here were the combination of the first VtM tie-in game, Night Road and the Texas Snowpocalypse of 2021. Power and internet were sporadic because of the snow and Iād played Night Road because it was a VtM game and liked it, so when I had internet access I bought one of the bundles on the app store just to have something to do while waiting for the power to come back on, and it had Choice of Robots and SLAMMED, and I was hooked.
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NSG
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I started playing these games about 4 years ago, found TGT and then played all the other free ones set in that world, found marine raider and enjoyed that and once i started to get money i started buying a bunch of the games and playing them and ive been playing these games since then
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I have a horrible sense of time and a terrible memory, so I will likely get the order of several things wrong, but Iāll try my best.
I discovered Choice of the Dragon on Google Play store and loved that. Then I believeā¦ oh godā¦ I think it was Slammed that I played next, followed by Choice of Broadsides. Then I think I played The Great Tournament and had some questions about how to complete it more successfully, so I looked up the company and found the forum. Browsing the forum led me to discover the Heroes Rise series, and that was it. I was hooked. Made an account in 2018 and sealed my fate lol.
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Iām a pretty recent fan, and actually got here from Alter Ego - found a cool little web game completely unaware, and somehow made it to the COG website from it. I played the demo for Affairs of the Court, then promptly forgot about this whole site for a few years. I donāt remember exactly how I stumbled upon it and the forums again, but the first story that really sucked me in wasnāt actually published at the time - it was the WIP of The Passenger. Then, The Golden Rose, and then Fallen Hero, and the rest is history.
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I found cog very early on on the AppStore. I think there were 3-4 games at the time. I believe I played the one marketed as a romance game (but I remember being rather frustrated at the lack of romance 
). I kept my eye on the label for a while. I played a few more games, but I think I always felt sort ofā¦ well, unsatisfied with the books. I liked the format and the mechanics (except the most punishing ones). But none of the games were the type of books I would read were they non-interactive. I also remember wondering while reading the descriptions of the early games if I could play as a woman or have romances because sometimes it felt unclear (today, I feel like itās often more clear and common).
And then I forgot about the label for years until I heard somewhere about wayhaven. And it took me a little bit of self-debate to even download the hosted games app. I believe I had looked at some of the apps early on, and they had looked decidedly more amateur than cog + the separation of the labels made me feel like HG surely must be the unwanted child of the groupā¦ but anyway. For some reason, I downloaded it and started playing.
And I loved it.
Something clicked in me when I played it (having not played IFs for a while ofc so maybe other games could have done the same for me by then), but I suddenly realised, āthis is what these games could beā. It had less telling and more showing than the games I had read before, it took its time, there was plenty of MC RP and customisation, and there was romance which I really like in my media. And it made me finally love the genre. Then I played even more newer games and kept falling in love more and more.
I know people here like to complain about wayhaven, but to me and many Iāve talked to, it was the thing that hooked them on the IF format when nothing else felt right. And Iām very grateful for it doing so.
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I think it was like 2010 2012 when I joined the fourm maybe earlier this is a new account. But I rember getting my first smart phone and looking for choose your own adventure game when I came across choice of vampire and choice of romance. Iāve been hooked ever since. My first cog I bought was either zombieās exodus or way walkers.
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My first was Choice of the Dragon! I think during that time it was literally just it and Choice of the Vampire lol. I feel old, but itās amazing to see what has become of this community
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