Interactive film & game directory

Look beyond genre.
See how the player takes part.

A reference library for interactive storytellers. Find an interaction structure, then consider your own player role, the cost of choices and production scope.

What we includeGames where live acting, location photography or a live-action video database carries the main narrative interaction. Years refer to the current official store release.

How to use itThis is a reference list, not a ranking. Visit each official page and compare player input, system feedback and the cost of branching.

Reference library

Find references through interaction structures.

Showing 12 of 12 games

  1. 01

    The Invisible Guardian

    An espionage story built around a concealed identity, with successive choices, shifting relationships and multiple endings shaping a long-form live-action narrative.

    Format
    Chapter branching
    Year
    2019
    Creator
    New One Studio
    EspionageIdentityMultiple endings
  2. 02

    Love Is All Around

    A first-person urban relationship story where affection, immediate choices and replaying different paths drive the search for endings.

    Format
    First-person branching
    Year
    2023
    Creator
    intiny
    RomanceFirst personRelationships
  3. 03

    Death Come True

    Amnesia and a cycle of death frame a science-fiction mystery, with key choices changing the investigation within a cinematic flow.

    Format
    Cinematic choices
    Year
    2020
    Creator
    IzanagiGames / Too Kyo Games
    MysteryTime loopScience fiction
  4. 04

    The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story

    Live-action cases unfold through incident, reasoning and solution phases, linking a century of events through clues and tested hypotheses.

    Format
    Observation & deduction
    Year
    2022
    Creator
    Square Enix
    DeductionAcross erasClues
  5. 05

    428: Shibuya Scramble

    Location photography and live-action material connect five parallel stories, where one character’s choices change the circumstances of others.

    Format
    Parallel storylines
    Year
    2018
    Creator
    Spike Chunsoft / Abstraction Games
    Ensemble castMultiple viewpointsTimelines
  6. 06

    Her Story

    Players search a police interview database with keywords, assembling information, evaluating testimony and forming their own account of events.

    Format
    Search-based narrative
    Year
    2015
    Creator
    Sam Barlow
    InvestigationDatabaseNonlinear
  7. 07

    IMMORTALITY

    Three unreleased films become a nonlinear archive as players match people and objects in the image to move between clips.

    Format
    Visual matching
    Year
    2022
    Creator
    Sam Barlow / Half Mermaid
    Film archaeologyMatch cutsMystery
  8. 08

    Not For Broadcast

    Camera selection, censorship and keeping a broadcast running become real-time tasks, combining narrative stance with operational pressure.

    Format
    Broadcast control
    Year
    2022
    Creator
    NotGames
    Dark comedySimulationPolitics
  9. 09

    The Complex

    A crisis in a sealed laboratory tracks relationships and personality, with time-limited decisions leading to different character states and endings.

    Format
    Relationship-driven branching
    Year
    2020
    Creator
    Wales Interactive / Good Gate Media
    Science fictionConfined settingRelationships
  10. 10

    Five Dates

    Video dates provide the setting for a light relationship story shaped by conversation choices, compatibility and character feedback.

    Format
    Dialogue choices
    Year
    2020
    Creator
    Wales Interactive / Good Gate Media
    Romantic comedyDialogueRelationships
  11. 11

    Ten Dates

    In-person speed dating expands the premise through two protagonists, multiple partners and repeated encounters that create replayable relationship paths.

    Format
    Dual-protagonist branching
    Year
    2023
    Creator
    Wales Interactive / Good Gate Media
    Romantic comedyDual protagonistsMultiple endings
  12. 12

    Bloodshore

    Reality television meets a battle royale, with survival decisions, relationship tracking and multiple paths driving an interactive action film.

    Format
    Action branching
    Year
    2021
    Creator
    Wales Interactive / Good Gate Media
    SurvivalReality TVAction

Our method

Keep facts and planning interpretations separate.

  1. 01

    Verify the work first

    Names, developers, release years and core gameplay are checked against official store pages.

  2. 02

    Then examine the structure

    Formats and descriptions are planning interpretations, not necessarily the developers’ own categories.

  3. 03

    Avoid changing rankings

    We omit prices and review scores so that changing data does not become a lasting judgment.

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