Story Games
Reads like a book, plays like a game
Original Stories From Amazing Storytellers
We think it’s inspiring what happens when we give talented writers from TellTale, BioWare, Episode, Choices, Netflix, and Marvel access to our our vast art library, storytelling tools, and publishing contracts. Each of the story games on our platform was created and owned by an individual author, not a giant corporation. Who knows, maybe you’ll be inspired to make your own story game! Join our Discord Community to get early access to new stories!
Lights in the Mist
On the eve of her wedding, tragedy forces Allene into a mystical land of magic and romance. Torn between two worlds, she must pick between her duty and following her heart’s desires.
Poster Girl
A privileged young colonist learns life is not as it seems on her new planet as conspiracies unfold around her. People disappear, and whispers of government deceit grow ever stronger. In her gut, she knows there's something wrong, and she's going to do everything in her power to find out what.
The Cage
In the shadow of the Reagan administration, funding for psychiatric hospitals is slashed and it’s Dr. Kate Tabor’s job to assess whether individual patients can be released back into public life. However while visiting St. Sebastian’s Hospital for the Criminally Insane she discovers one patient who is there for a very, very good reason. The Devil is in the details...
Ashen Skies
After negotiating with the Taliban and wiping out Isis, it seems the Middle East is in for a period of stability--that is, until terrorists unleash nuclear weapons in the United States. When the United States responds in kind, their actions spark an even larger war, turning hippy mom Rachel's world gray and revealing one harsh truth: To survive in this world, you must be willing to bathe in blood.
Shadows Over Newport
Seventeen year-old Jack is looking for a place where the darkness in his past will no longer make him feel like like an outsider. He thinks he’s found it in the small coastal town of Newport, but when he discovers the town’s eldritch secrets, he learns the horrifying price of fitting in.
The Ghouler
In the neo-gothic city of Laeuxam, in a country known only as the Hinterlands, a plague of monsters is ravaging the populace, dragging the helpless kicking and screaming into the night. And so, it falls to The Ghoulers - a secret police of elite warriors, under the guidance of the arcane Church of Visitation to hunt down and kill the mysterious darkness destroying their city.
The Walk
In a post contagion America, you have been chosen to go outside the walls of your community to solve a ten year old mystery. Outside the walls, you'll encounter virus-worshipping cults, relics of the old world, proof that your community has been built on lies, and learn that the most dangerous part of "The Walk" could very well be the uninfected.
The Freedom Trigger
A device that can free humanity from being mind-controlled puppets has been invented. Now, Raguel must risk it all by taking the device where it needs to go — in the heart of the adversary's base.
Mirror Mirror
While out on a camping trip with your friends, you fall into an ancient faery ring. You're transported to another world, where you discover you're identical to the recently murdered Princess Maeve! To save yourself and the kingdom, you have to discover what happened to the princess.
Wings of Ashes X
An outcast valkyrie must battle tradition, her sisters, and the Gods themselves to uncover a sinister truth that threatens to bring the end of days to Valhalla.
House of No Tomorrow
Natalie wakes up in a dark, foreboding old house with no idea how she got there. Is she truly alone?
Serious Weirdness
Something strange is in the air at Hazy Vale High School when the students of every ilk start acting weirder than normal. Drama club leader Lyla Bryant suspects it has something to do with the school’s new book club. But when no one will believe her, she’ll have to investigate for herself.
TruChange
A shy college student struggles to disconnect from a popular new app when it suddenly turns deadly. The only way to survive the game will be to overcome her biggest fears.
Legend Of The Lake
A young writer retreats to her family cabin to write. It isn't long before strange things start happening. She thinks her brother is playing a sick joke on her, but then she discovers a body, and it isn't long before she's running for her life…
Carlton Honeycutt: Nerd Detective
Twelve year old Carlton Honeycutt is a modern-day Sherlock Holmes with a nerd twist. Mint condition comic book collection gone missing? Call Carlton. Autographed dungeon master’s manual stolen? Call Carlton. Whenever crime spins its web around the nerds of Cod Lake, Carlton Honeycutt is there to untangle it.
The Mascara Murders
There's a serial killer that murders students, leaving a bloody wound that looks like mascara around the eyes. Seems like a dumb rumor to Vivian… at least, until her best friend is killed.
Fire & Spirit
Thanda’s spirit is doomed to haunt the realm of the living. Unless her teenage son, Rhondell, can lead her across the country and avoid peril, injury, starvation, and a murderous King.
Midnight Spirits
You are the only human bartender at Midnight, a supernatural bar in the middle of Chicago. The pay is great, and your clientele are often as powerful as they are seductive. When a brush with a stranger awakens the necromancy sleeping in your blood, you suddenly have a lot more to deal with than serving a perfect cocktail. Whether it’s the vampire queen whispering in your ear or the phoenix making bedroom eyes at you across the counter, the witching hour might become the best night of your life...or the last.
Inside: Backwater
An affluent New York City psychiatrist leaves her life behind to join a rural Christian cult undercover after her estranged sister's membership in the group puts both her life and the lives of others at risk. The FBI is concerned that the Church of Last Hope, which dominates the all-but-abandoned mining town of Backwater, Pennsylvania, has been stockpiling dynamite. No one is mining in Backwater these days. So what are they doing with those explosives?
The Golden Thread
In the era of Julius Caesar, a young woman returns to ancient Rome after years of exile to clear her dead father's name and regain her place as a powerful aristocrat. Along the way, she'll change the fate of Rome itself, forging a powerful empire that history never experienced. Choose your friends, advisors, and alliances wisely! A story of love, rebirth, and familial bonds awaits.
Expedition Moon
Josephine Flores is a young tinkerer who loved hearing about her father's incredible adventures to the moon and back. Whenever he returned, he would show her pictures of the moon surface and tell her about the strange customs of its inhabitants. That is until he left one day and never returned. She's now determined to build a rocket to rescue her father from the moon. But what will she learn when she gets there? Perhaps he wasn't completely truthful about those trips after all.
Don't Be Afraid
Don't Be Afraid is a post-apocalyptic tragedy of a man in search of his wife and daughter. You play Mark as he treks this mysterious world, meeting up with dangerous foes and colorful personalities. This is a tragic love story set in a controversial backdrop of a flawed America.
In Memory of David
In this story, the player will take part in answering the age-old question: “What would life be like had this person never met me?” as well as explore concepts like “How is a lover different in my mind vs who they are in their own mind?”
Hereafter
When Celeste Crowe’s plans were cut short by her untimely death, she thought things couldn’t get any worse. But when her daughter Fiona’s spirit appeared in the afterlife, it left her with only one choice -- descend into the Labyrinth to get her out. The souls of the Labyrinth and ancient beings of the Library will hammer her resolve, but no one has seen a spirit as determined as Celeste’s. Can you redeem your karmic debt by helping tortured souls find inner peace so they can move onto paradise? You’ll find some truly difficult decisions along the way!
Vampire Fiction
As a newly created vampire, you are born into a life of mystery. Just after rising for the first time, your Sire dies. How will you learn to survive? What are these dark powers you now possess? The city is yours to explore and when you discover others of your kind, will you embrace them as siblings or challenge their way of afterlife?
The Newest Hero
Things were going well for your empire until your treacherous minions overthrew you and kicked you out. Fortunately, you were rescued—by a group of heroes on their way to fight you, and since they've never seen you, they welcome you to their group
The C.U.R.E.
An elite merc team is tasked with hunting down and deciding the fate of rogue scientists infected with a deadly prehistoric microorganism.
Blood Sigil
The fate of the country of Thulias rests in the hands of a simple cleaning girl, turned mage. Will her newfound powers be enough to stop Blood Mages from stealing a powerful artifact from the Institute of Arcane Sciences?
My Secret Agent
My Secret Agent is a romantic messaging story about Brooke, a simple girl unaware of a secret agent assigned to watch her every move through her devices. After her love life ends with a tragedy, Brooke finds love in her secret agent and ends her relationship with a friend who turns out to be a virtual assistant.
Perfectly Norman
A disgruntled Custodian discovers a mysterious elevator that allows him to travel between dimensions. After encountering a more successful version of himself, he decides to kidnap him and take his place. What could possibly go wrong?
Deal With the Devil
Ella is a struggling actress who tries to summon a demon for fame. After the devil himself shows up in her room, she finds herself addicted to the forbidden relationship.
Small Town Demons
The good news: the ritual worked. The bad news: a demon’s living with you, and you have seven months before it takes you over.
Shifter
Your friend drags you to the hottest party of the year. But when your life is threatened, something dangerous awakens inside of you.
Shadows of Glastonbury Manor
Your Maid of Honor, Allie, has a big surprise planned for your Bachelorette Party this weekend... it's guaranteed to be a rollicking good haunt.
Project Nightingale
Eighteen-year-old singing sensation, Shaela, is following up her record-breaking first album with a world-wide tour, and in every city, contestants vie for the chance to join Shaela onstage for a final show that will “unite the voices of the world.”
Fragmented
Awoken by her new employer in the damp, cold streets of 1862 London, a young woman knows not how she got there, her history, nor even her name.
Representation Matters
When you play stories on the Tales platform, you’ll notice how diverse the characters and plotlines are, especially when compared to titles from other studios. Stories fill a critical role, especially in a world that can certainly use more empathy and inspiration. We think It’s important that our stories show complex characters from all walks of life. When you create a platform for all writers and all genres, you naturally get inclusive, diverse stories. We’re proud that across our platform, our stories feature lead characters with the following ratios:
We do this by allowing authors to create and publish their stories directly, bypassing traditional gatekeepers and market research departments. You decide with your ratings and views which stories and authors should be successful. You decide what types of stories the world needs more of and who gets to tell those stories.
If you want to learn about a culture, listen to the stories. If you want to change a culture, change the stories.
