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Choose Wisely Festival Showcase 2025

Recording
Aired
Dec 8, 2025
Games we track
26 of 50 shown

A showcase of 50 choices matter games, accompanying the week-long digital event dedicated to celebrating branching narrative in games.

Demand rose after the show

Not measured: none of the 26 games had a reading from before the show.

Line-up 26

  1. Militsioner 2027 · PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series 42
  2. RockBeasts January 2027 · Switch, PC, PS5 +2 38
  3. Glasshouse TBA · PC 32
  4. The Posthumous Investigation March 31, 2026 · Switch, PC 24
  5. Deep Pixel Melancholy 2026 · PC 23
  6. Merry Crisis December 2026 · Linux, Mac, PC 23
  7. Shadow of the Road March 10, 2027 · PC 23
  8. Killa 2026 · PC 23
  9. Band of Crusaders TBA · PC 20
  10. Mandrake TBA · Linux, Mac, PC 19
  11. Dating and Dragons: A Love Quest TBA · PC 19
  12. Opus: Prism Peak April 16, 2026 · Mac, Switch, PC +2 17
Show all 26
  1. Celestial Return July 14, 2026 · PC —
  2. Coffee Talk: Tokyo May 21, 2026 · Mac, Switch, PC +5 —
  3. Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon April 29, 2026 · Linux, Mac, PC —
  4. Dispatch October 22, 2025 · Switch, PC, PS5 +3 —
  5. Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination April 16, 2025 · Android, Mac, Switch +4 —
  6. K-Pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut July 16, 2026 · Switch, PC, PS5 +1 —
  7. Letter Lost June 10, 2026 · Linux, PC —
  8. Midnight Special May 21, 2026 · PC —
  9. Moses & Plato: Last Train to Clawville April 14, 2026 · PC —
  10. Peppered: An Existential Platformer April 7, 2025 · Mac, Switch, PC +4 —
  11. Sister Ray June 1, 2026 · PC —
  12. Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker June 9, 2026 · Mac, Switch, PC —
  13. Teller's Duty June 12, 2026 · PC —
  14. The Wide Open Sky Is Running Out of Catfish March 27, 2026 · Linux, PC —

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