What are the best choose your own adventure games on Xbox One?

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Best choose your own adventure games on Xbox One	Price	Genre	Release Date
-- Life is Strange	$19.05	Adventure	Jan 29 2015
-- The Walking Dead: Season 1	$24.99	Narrative, Adventure, Survival Horror	-
-- Life is Strange: Before the Storm	$16.99	Adventure, Narrative	-
-- Kingdom Come: Deliverance	$59.99	Role-Playing	-
-- Mass Effect Andromeda	$49.99	Action Role-Playing, Third-Person Shooter	-

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8 Games Considered

My Recommendation for Life is Strange

My Recommendation for Life is Strange

Great story

Some audio sync issues

A well-polished experience

Choices feel a little lacking

Choice based gameplay with a twist

My Recommendation for The Walking Dead: Season 1

My Recommendation for The Walking Dead: Season 1

A lot of replayability

Superficial player impact

Stellar voice acting brings the characters to life

Some annoying quicktime events

Standalone story makes it accessible for all

Difficult decisions

Engrossing storyline

My Recommendation for Life is Strange: Before the Storm

My Recommendation for Life is Strange: Before the Storm

Chloe is more likable this time

Limited exploration

Great soundtrack

Third episode falls flat in some areas

Improved writing over the first game

Choices have consequences

My Recommendation for Kingdom Come: Deliverance

My Recommendation for Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Rising up in society from a peasant is a unique experience

Optimization issues on consoles and lower-end PCs

NPCs react differently to you under certain circumstances

Brutal learning curve at the beginning of the game

Vastly different ways to play the game

The game feels unpolished overall with smaller bugs and story pacing issues

You learn and level up skills in organic, realistic ways

Game-breaking bugs can corrupt your save file

My Recommendation for Mass Effect Andromeda

My Recommendation for Mass Effect Andromeda

Fun multiplayer

Poor face textures and animations

Exploration is quite fun

No single-player DLC

Combat is very fast paced

Sub-par storytelling

You can change the way your character works on the fly

My Recommendation for Dragon Age: Inquisition

My Recommendation for Dragon Age: Inquisition

You get to feel like a commander in combat and in the story

Overwhelming amount to do at start of game

The areas you discover are huge

Slow combat animations

Building relationships with companions is enjoyable

Forgettable multiplayer riddled with awful microtransactions

Tons of content

Stiff and repetitive character animations during cutscenes

Lots of interesting characters and lore

Generic villain drags the story down

My Recommendation for The Walking Dead: Season 2

My Recommendation for The Walking Dead: Season 2

Standlone story makes it accessible for all

May distress some people

Stellar voice acting brings the characters to life

Some obnoxious quicktime events

A huge amount of replayability

Choice of protagonist increases emotional impact

Dynamic and impactful decisions

Gripping and emotional story

My Recommendation for Catherine

My Recommendation for Catherine

Unique soundtrack with rock songs and remixes of classical music

Repetitive sound effects can get annoying

Stylized, artful cutscenes, menus, and imagery

Might be too hard for players who don't normally play puzzle games

Your choices lead to multiple different endings

A lot of your choices boil down to binary decisions

Great cast of characters that deal with real-life struggles

Horrifying boss designs with symbolism relevant to the story

Challenging puzzles that constantly make you think on the spot

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