choose your own adventure

English

Etymology

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

Noun

choose your own adventure (plural choose your own adventures)

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.

   Synonym: (initialism) CYOA

Alternative forms

• choose-your-own-adventure