choose your own adventure

noun

An interactive book or visual novel written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome.

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CYOA
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Meanings

nounchoose your own adventure (plural choose your own adventures)

plural choose your own adventures · alternative choose-your-own-adventure

  1. An interactive book or visual novel written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome.

    Synonyms: CYOA

Synonyms & antonyms

nounAn interactive book or visual novel written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome.

Similar
CYOA
Also see
gamebook

Origin

From the Choose Your Own Adventure series of children's gamebooks which introduced this format.

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