The choose-your-own-adventure book, reimagined for your phone

It is a story told to you, about you. Written in the second person, it pauses at key moments and asks what you will do. Each answer sends you down a different path, and only some of those paths end well.

You don't just follow the plot, you steer it. And when an ending surprises you, you can always go back and try the road you didn't take.

Branching stories have a long history, but the format became a phenomenon with the Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks that Bantam Books began publishing in 1979, built on ideas by Edward Packard and R. A. Montgomery.

Generations of readers grew up flipping between their pages, and in Turkey many first met the format through translated series such as Macera Tüneli. Since then, branching narratives have spread to video games, interactive films and apps like uStory.