Choices: Stories You Play

Decline since Covid This game used to be so fun! The stories were exciting, thrilling, and choices you made actually after the projectory of the story. After checking back in since Covid. I noticed how lazy the stories have become. All of the artwork, that used to be made by humans, is AI. It seems the writing is clearly AI as well. Their inclusive, creative, and adventure packed stories set them apart from other games like Chapters or Episode. Now it seems like they have gone in that direction. Every other story is ‘steamy’. What happened to the adventure? The action? The HUMAN writing. Not to mention the fact that the stories drybeg for diamonds every other minute. I recently got VIP, and I noticed an uptick in diamond quests. There used to be diamond quests a few times in an episode, it is double now. Do better. It’s so disappointing that this app has gone downhill over the last few years. If you go back to their earlier works, you will see how good it was compared to now. I WILL NOT BE SUPPORTING THIS APP ANY LONGER IF IT CONTINUES TO STEAL PEOPLE’s MONEY BY USING AI.

Used to be great, now just AI trash This app had such great stories but has progressively gotten worse, writing quality has gone down, AI sprites in the uncanny valley, and now just repurposing the old stories into AI videos

GenAI slop takeover Not gonna be playing or supporting this disingenuous nonsense anymore. I’m not putting my time, love, or money into something that clearly doesn’t have time, love, or money put into it. It’s boring, cheap, bad for the environment, and shows how much the company cares about artists. And this from the app that has so many books about care for artistry and art, as well as a book that is about environmentalism. Disheartening and disappointing to say the absolute very least. Yeah, I don’t like the way the app is progressing, to use the wording I’ve seen in a lot of replies to reviews. 2026 Edit: And now directly stealing from fan-artists with their “It Lives Within.” I’ve been a day one, and I have not even opened this cannibalized husk of an app in a good long while. I hope you’re happy, Series Entertainment.

Gross AI and hardly any improvements since release day UPDATE 3/29/26: THEY FIRED MOST OF THE FEW WRITERS WHO WERE ACTUALLY LEFT! Do not give this app a single cent because the bigwigs clearly don’t care about real art made by humans, putting people out of a job, or customer satisfaction. They would get MORE money if everything was human-made like it used to be, but no. All they care about is maximum profit for minimum effort. Few pros but MANY cons: Pros: -Books before the AI era (2023) are well written with interesting stories and characters and beautiful art -Free to play friendly: They are very generous with free gems and you can rack up a ton in a week by watching their daily ads. -Anime Art Style: Let me be clear. The anime ART STYLE they are doing for the High School Story remake is good, but the REDESIGNS for the characters are bad, a lot don’t even resemble their original counterparts. Yes, the remake is from a Chinese app, but they fixed Caleb to be accurate but not other characters??? But regardless with the anime art style, our character smiling all the time is way more bearable than in that 3D-looking art style the other books have. Cons: -AI art in newer books (2023 and later): With all this AI art, the newer stories are soulless. As a reader you don’t care about the plot, the characters, none of it. -Same old stories: They’ve done a few stories with interesting ideas based of classics like Little Red Riding Hood (The Cursed Cloak) and Harry Potter (The Elementalists), but still no fairy, mermaid, or Wonderland inspired books? There have been many adaptations from other movie studios and authors, so I’d love to see how those stories would be in Choices format. Nowadays, they just retell the same story they’ve already done. For example, Wolf Bride was good, but after the second “werewolf” story, the genre gets old, and there are now at least 4 books with werewolves in them. Also, a lot of the newer books feel the same. You meet your love interest within a few seconds of starting the smut-filled story and they are completely smitten with you but don’t actually give you the choice to stay single if you want to. And trust me, with the newer books you WANT to because of reason number 3… -Less options for love interests: There used to be 4 different options for love interests, and in a lot of older books you could even stay single. Now, lots of the newer books have only 1 or 2 love interests only, and because none of them are attractive now you don’t want to be with them, but you are forced to because THEY REMOVED THE OPTION TO STAY SINGLE!!! -MC has zero personality: We’re always the same “happy go lucky” MC who is overly positive and smiles in nearly every single dialogue box. It’s ANNOYING. Even optimistic people aren’t THIS happy in real life. Just once, I’d like to play as a nonchalant character because I’m nonchalant in real life. Or better yet, why not revamp the character customization to include a good range of faces used previously instead of only getting 4 options, as well as adding personality types? The personalities don’t even need to have much of an effect on the story at this point, just something along the lines of a more timid MC will look more sad a lot of times, and a nonchalant MC will have the blank resting face more often rather than smiling when the situation doesn’t call for it. -Choices don’t actually matter in newer books: The newer books are suffering from what Pokemon is recently being criticized for, which is the same options just worded differently. With certain choices we can’t say no if we want to, it’s either yes, yes, or yes with agency. The game is called CHOICES but they’ve forgotten that since the AI era!!! -Pilot Books: They’ve announced that 3 of the Pilot books will remain unfinished for now because of low player engagement, but this is such an easy fix. First off, of course there’s low player engagement. We can only replay the same 2-3 chapters for only so long. That doesn’t mean we don’t want them to be discontinued! Second, STOP MAKING NEW BOOKS AND FINISH THE PILOTS! A lot of the newer books aren’t good anyways, and the pilots have some really interesting ideas (especially The Royal Wedding Planner), probably because they’re most likely written by an actual human, so why not slow down new releases to finish them? Also, some newer books get to skip the Pilot phase and just be released as is, which is NOT fair. Third, why would you risk disappointing fans like this??? A good way to have people like myself angry at you. -Missing QoL features: A option to disable the text, textbox, and character boxes from shaking would be nice. Lots of newer books do these far too much and it’s infuriating how dramatic characters are being when the situation isn’t that shocking or intense. Overall, they’ve done multiple player surveys over the years, and there have been very little changes. I’ve been playing since they’ve released and I am very disappointed in how they’re doing nothing major and new with the app :(

AI Trash This used to be a great app. I loved the It Lives Series. It Lives Within (the fake AI version aka Choices version) is a disgrace, and everyone involved should be embarrassed and ashamed of themselves.

PLAGARISM The app USED to put out interesting and engaging stories. But just a few days ago they posted an “AI video short” that literally stole intellectual property from the fans, copying so many things from the fan project, “It Lives Within.”

AI TV has ruined it I’ve been playing high school it was great a loved all the stories but as this whole AI tv has started to ruin it especially Turning it lives within into a ai tv thing very disappointing I cancelled my vip subscription

AI..? First they used AI to make the posters, now they’re using it to make the stories? There are people spending $15 a month for the membership just to read stories that were made by a computer. Really disheartening and unfortunate honestly. There’s no real passion behind any of the newer stories.

AI is degrading the stories PB is pushing waaay too many stories in a short span of time. It’s all quantity over quality now. The writing is facing a downfall & the visuals are mostly ai slop. VIP isn’t worth it if all the visuals are ai generated. It’s disrespectful towards artists. Some of the stories with AI have interesting writing, but an anti-AI audience won’t care about that. The older stories are the best part about this app. Please stop relying on AI & focus more on the quality of your projects.

Quality has taken a nosedive. It’s embarrassing how bad the stories and “art” have gotten. Everything is churned out by AI now. Long gone are the days of masterful stories like Endless Summer, It Lives, and Blades of Light and Shadow. Just to rub acid in the wounds, the AI overlords are reviving long dead series and turning them into low-quality AI “shows” with zero interactivity or quality control to speak of. AI has not only killed this app, but has poised itself to piss on its grave.