A modern CYOA builder that honours the genre’s roots
The best adventure books let readers shape the story. Pathways gives you the tools to build that experience visually, with resources, playtesting, and one-click publishing.
Visual canvas editor
Lay out your interactive story as a flowchart of scenes and choices. Drag, connect, and rearrange until the branching structure feels right.
Meaningful choices
Give readers decisions that matter. Branch into entirely different storylines, loop back, or converge paths based on what they pick.
Resources and inventories
Go beyond simple branching. Add health bars, inventories, currencies, or custom stats that change based on reader choices and unlock new paths.
Instant playtesting
Walk through your text adventure from any starting point to catch dead ends, broken links, and pacing issues before anyone else sees them.
Publish and share
When your story game is ready, publish it for others to play. Readers step through your interactive fiction one choice at a time.
Explore community stories
Browse and play interactive adventures created by other writers. Choose your story from a growing library of community-made CYOA games.
From first scene to playable story game
Sketch the map
Drop scenes onto the canvas and draw connections between them. Your story structure takes shape visually from the start.
Write the branches
Fill each scene with text and choices that lead to the next beat. Add resource checks and inventory gates to deepen the gameplay.
Publish and play
Test every route, then share your finished adventure. Readers experience the story through the choices they make.
See your entire adventure at a glance
Classic CYOA builders and choose your own adventure novels inspired generations of storytellers. Pathways builds on that legacy with a visual canvas that lays every branch, shortcut, and dead end in front of you, so you can spot gaps, loops, and pacing problems at a glance.
Resources that make every choice count
Pathways goes further than classic choose-your-story games and text adventures. Track inventories, health bars, currency, or any custom stat you can imagine. Choices can grant or consume resources, and entire branches can unlock based on what the reader has collected, adding real mechanical depth to your interactive fiction.
A growing library of interactive stories
Pathways is not just a story game builder for creators. It is also a place where readers can discover and play through adventures written by the community, from short puzzles to sprawling interactive fiction with dozens of endings.
Build the choose-your-adventure story you always wanted to play.
Use Pathways to create branching interactive fiction with resources and meaningful choices, then publish your story game for the world to explore.
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