r/interactivecinema

298 archived posts · Feb 2014 – Mar 2026

Interactive Cinema: Games for the story

r/interactivecinema

r/interactivecinema a subreddit for games of the genre of Interactive Cinema. These are games which focus on character development as well as the storyline and an ending which can be impacted based upon your decisions. These games are characterised by such features as; Quick time events, simple-moderate gameplay mechanics, choice making, minimal or no real-time combat, and other such features.

Created Feb 7, 2014

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#Related Subreddits

Telltale:

Game of Thrones

Tales from the Borderlands

The Wolf Among Us

The Walking Dead

Minecraft Story Mode

Quantic Dream:

Beyond Two Souls

Heavy Rain

Detroit: Become Human

DONTNOD:

Life is Strange

Supermassive Games:

Until Dawn

Red Thread Games:

Dreamfall Chapters

#Related off-site communities

Discord:

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Welcome to r/interactivecinema. This is a subreddit for games of the genre of Interactive Cinema. These are games which focus on character development as well as the storyline and an ending which can be impacted based upon your decisions. These games are characterized by such features as; Quick time events, simple-moderate gameplay mechanics, choice making and other such features. Interactive Cinema only really focuses on the story and is not focused on having intricate gameplay mechanics. What makes this genre of gaming different from other games is the fact that you impact the ending and that your choices matter. Your decisions impact the characters and their physical and mental well-being and you follow a storyline but ultimately decide it's fate.

#List of interactive cinema games (may be outdated)

Episodic, currently running games:

Deck Nine's "Life is Strange 2". 5 Episodes. PC, PS4, Xbox One

Episodic, completed games:

Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead. Season 1. 5 Episodes. PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3, IOS, Android

Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead. Season 2. 5 Episodes. PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS4, PS3, IOS, Android

Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead: Michonne. 3 Episodes. PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS4, PS3, IOS, Android

Telltale Games' The Walking Dead: A New Frontier (TWD Season 3). 5 Episodes. PC, Xbox One, PS4, IOS, Android

Telltale Games' The Walking Dead: The Final Season (TWD Season 4). 4 Episodes. PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Telltale Games' Minecraft: Story Mode Season 1. 5 episodes + 3 DLC episodes. PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3, PS4 Android IOS

Telltale Games’ The Wolf Among Us. Season 1. 5 Episodes. PC, Xbox 360, PS4, PS3, IOS, Android

Telltale Games' "Batman: The Enemy Within" (Season 2). 5 Episodes. PC, PS4, Xbox One, Android, iOS

Telltale Games’ "Tales From the Borderlands". 5 Episodes. PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3, IOS, Android

Red Thread Games’ "Dreamfall Chapters". 5 Chapters. PC, PS4, Xbox One

dontnod's "Life is Strange". 5 Episodes. PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS4, PS3

Telltale Games’ "Game of Thrones". 6 Episodes. PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS4, PS3, IOS, Android

Telltale Games' "Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy". 5 Episodes. PC, PS4, Xbox One, Android, IOS

Telltale Games' Minecraft: Story Mode - Season 2. 5 Episodes. PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS4, Android, IOS

Deck Nine's "Life is Strange: Before the Storm" (Prequel). 3 Episodes. PC, PS4, Xbox One

Non-episodic games:

Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain. PS3, PS4

Quantic Dream's Beyond Two Souls PS3

Quantic Dream's Detroit: Become Human PS4

Supermassive Games' Until Dawn PS4

Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead: 400 Days. PC, Xbox 360

Deck Nine's "The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit" (Life is Strange tie-in). PC, PS4, Xbox One

This subreddit is for you to discuss theories about any characters in any of these kind of games as well as discussions of story lines. You can discuss the episodes (if the game features them) as well and discuss the chapters.

This subreddit is also for posting anything in relation to it, such as; news or fan art. All fan art is welcome and encouraged as well, get creative if you want! This subreddit will also be posting information on upcoming releases of any of these type of games or even demos of games that may be being developed. You are also welcome to post any technological advances in these games (e.g, improved motion caption for a more interesting and amazing experience) as well.

When discussing any game's episodes in the discussion threads, you can implement the use of spoiler tags if you want to, for example if an ending you got isn't the only ending and you do not want to discourage another player.

You can use it with the tag:

[spoiler] (#s "SPOILER HERE)

(Make sure to add speech marks before and after the spoiler within the brackets, the result will look like this: spoiler****)

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