Fit check
Is Choice of the Dragon worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Interactive-fiction readers who want a text-only fantasy campaign
- Fantasy RPG players interested in ruling as a morally villainous dragon
- Players who prefer branching choices over graphics and sound
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking visual exploration, combat systems, or audiovisual presentation
- Players who prefer short, linear stories rather than a 30,000-word choice-driven narrative
- Players looking for a conventional heroic fantasy role
Our take on Choice of the Dragon
The defining format is a fully text-based, 30,000-word interactive novel in which players direct a dragon’s rise from local goblin domination to regional conquest through story choices.
What is Choice of the Dragon?
Play as a fire-breathing dragon pursuing gold and notoriety through a choice-driven interactive novel.
Begin by subduing goblins, then seize a kingdom and extend its rule into neighboring lands. The text-only game contains 30,000 words and has no graphics or sound effects. Choices shape the story as the dragon confronts heroes, wizards, rival dragons, peasants, and gods. The character can have a male, female, neither, or undetermined gender. Other activities include finding a dragon mate, kidnapping princesses or a prince, and raiding temples. The setting supports a tyrannical fantasy role focused on conquest, captivity, and blasphemy.
How Choice of the Dragon plays
- 01Choice-driven story
- Player decisions determine how the interactive novel unfolds.
- 02Gender selection
- The dragon can be male, female, neither, or of undetermined gender.
- 03Kingdom expansion
- The campaign moves from controlling goblins to annexing neighboring kingdoms.
- 04Dragon relationship
- The story includes the option to find and seduce another dragon as a mate.
Choice of the Dragon compared to similar games
Choice of the Dragon presents a 30,000-word, text-only interactive novel about a dragon’s conquest and personal choices. Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition centers on exploring a strange city with story, characters, and soundtrack, while Back to the Dawn focuses on surviving, investigating, and escaping a maximum-security prison. Choice of the Dragon also offers selectable gender and dragon relationships.
Choice of the Dragon: platforms & release
Is Choice of the Dragon worth it?
It is worth it if: interactive-fiction readers who want a text-only fantasy campaign. Skip it if: players seeking visual exploration, combat systems, or audiovisual presentation.
Where can I download Choice of the Dragon?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Choice of the Dragon's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Choice of the Dragon on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
