Chapters: Interactive Stories Reviews

by Sfroth

I first want to commend the programmers of this game. The graphics are good, the characters are well conceived and gameplay is fairly straightforward. The way Chapters is run, however, is why I am leaving a 1 star review. The stories I’ve read have been really entertaining, but I really don’t think 1 and a half stories should have cost me $90. And I didn’t even use all of the premium options. The “free” version of the stories is threadbare and make the characters seem pathetic and uninteresting. The only way to inject humor and spice into the stories is to use diamonds. I’m talking lots and lots of diamonds; hundreds of diamonds. And the other ways to earn diamonds, other than buying them, are ridiculous. Most choices require 17-40 diamonds. Chapters lets you earn diamonds 1 at a time, and there are very low limits on how many you can earn in a day. I felt like I was paying a ransom to free the actual story. It strikes me as being incredibly greedy.

My other problem is in the lack of oversight. There is a story in the “taptales” section that is a straight cut and paste of an older story on a different website. Comments have been left for the past 4 months about the issue, but there is no sign it has been looked into. Basic oversight and accountability should not rest solely on the players’ shoulders.

This game is a complete rip-off. Don’t waste your money on this “free” app.

by Lanalilokona

Do not play Chapters (game?) unless you want to waste money and be frustrated. The only “decisions” you get to make for your character for free are things like “do you say ‘hi,’ ‘hello,’ or ‘what’s up?’” Most decent decisions cost 17 diamonds. You can earn 5/day from watching 5 ads, and you earn one at the end of a chapter. But there are SEVERAL decisions to make per chapter. So to make the decision they know the reader wants, it will take you 3+ days of watching ads. It would take you weeks to finish one chapter that way, so I was a sucker and bought diamonds. I’m so annoyed at myself, but I’m a Jennifer Armentrout fan and was excited Obsidian was on here. Some examples of choices are—your friend looks upset. Ignore her or tell her to get over it, or for 17diamonds ask her what’s wrong. I went through most of the story having my character act like a complete witch with no redeeming qualities because those were the only free choices. And where’s the fun in that.
The idea is neat, but the execution is horrible. If anything buy stock in Chapters because these people have to be making a ton of money. It would seem less of a rip-off if you could choose to watch more ads to earn diamonds or something.
What I would recommend is scroll through the stories to see if any grab your attention, then just read the actual book it’s based on.
YOU’VE BEEN WARNED!👆🏻

by CassideePope'sBiggestFan

One thing that’s annoying is that the diamond choices don’t have much of an effect on the story. It’s frustrating that so many choices the better option costs diamonds. Wearing the nicer outfit literally doesn’t effect the story at all. Often, it seems like the story progresses the same no matter what choices are made. The only time when the choices actually matter are for the ending. While you only get 1 diamond every chapter you read, there is the possibility to spend about 100 diamonds in one chapter. This causes the reader to be frustrated and makes it not as fun. While there are some great stories on here, it isn’t worth it to spend your own money on this game. Also, the customization for characters is severely lacking. It’s annoying how every story offers different options for what you want your character to look like. It would be better if there was a more custom option that could be used for all the stories. There are on average 4 different options for what to look like for each story, and some offer zero customization at all. Also, this took up 10 gigabytes... that’s right gigabytes of storage since the stories are downloaded or something. If you want an app to take up a lot of your storage and annoy you by the lack of choices then this is Chapters for you.

by Maryble

This is a good game and I like the stories and everything but if you wanna really play this game you have to spend a fortune on it! I mean, if you wanna read a decent (not the best version, just decent) story, you need to spend around 50 gems on each chapter, and let’s say around 1000 gems on each book. And how many of these gems can you get for free? Well at the end of each chapter you only get 2 gems, whoch will cover only 40 out of 1000, and the daily reward which is a total of 12 tickets and 20 gems is only available for the first week (2 free passes for 6 days and 20 gems on the 7th day) (and so are the free pass stories) there are tasks you can do and get gems but there’s only 4 of them and they give you like 3 gems! Oh and there are a limited number of ads you can watch daily and get 1 gem per ad. And why do they think we can invite 30 friends to play this? Who the hell has that many friends? Now you do the calculation. If you use the options costing 17 gems or at least 12 gems you’ll read a nice story, but even one free choice can mess it all up. And what’s worse than all is that you have to pay 30 gems to read the bonus chapter, and if you don’t you’ll literally have no ending! My advice for you is not to waste your time and just read normal books who won’t charge you at every paragraph or when you wanna reread them.

by Digger106

First of all I do understand that you need to make some money from a free app, but Chapters heavily advertises that you choose you make your own decisions, but a large majority of these decisions involve diamonds. And it’s always some insane amount of diamonds like 17 when you only get one per completed chapter. The thing that irritates me the most is that every time it’s an option involving diamonds, I ALWAYS want to pick that option. It’s so frustrating. Just like other reviewers have said, I honestly don’t mind the ticket to play system, and you could definitely make a killing off of just that, or do what other apps do, throw in ads every once in a while. This diamond thing makes my blood boil and makes me want to rage delete Chapters because I can’t pick the options I want to. ***UPDATE***
I used my registration reward to choose the option I really wanted to choose, spent 17 diamonds, and got gypped. After I chose the option something within the story prevented my option from happening. Seriously, what was the point in me even spending those diamonds if what I chose I wanted do wasn’t really even an option? I chose an option to reveal something to a character, and right after the story prevented it by some bs alarm going off making it impossible to tell her. I removed one more star from my previous review.

by Dez3597

Okay, let me just say, I love the stories in Chapters. Great detail as well. But the Diamonds? Come on now. Each choice is 17+ diamonds and when you buy diamonds, they don’t even last. You would think if you bought a lot of diamonds it would last you a while, but no, about 400 diamonds only lasts you a chapter and a half! I don’t like spending a crap ton of money on diamonds so I always find free ways to grasp them, but it’s like all that saving isn’t even worth it to be able to only get threw a single chapter. Diamonds run out QUICK. And it’s very hard to earn them without having money. I work hard for my money and shouldn’t have to spend it all on diamonds that won’t even last me an entire story! There are other ways you can make money with Chapters you know. Put more ads or something, I don’t care, but the diamond thing makes me not want to play. Yes, you can have diamonds, but at least make them 5 diamonds or less per choice. Because 17+ diamonds a choice isn’t fair, especially with the people that play who cant spend money like that. And most of the choices, you need diamonds for. So all the stories are ran by diamonds. You can’t get threw a single chapter without them. It’s ridiculous!!! Moral of this comment, Don’t waste your money on diamonds because they won’t last!!!

by Nana 🖤

I have mixed feelings about Chapters . I just re-downloaded Chapters about a week ago, and within that week I’ve come to a few different conclusions. I’ve only read two stories so far. One story I finished, the other I’m on the last few this app. I can honestly say that I do like the actual stories so far. Both stories that I’ve read have been LGBTQ+ stories, which are the only two LGBT stories I can find. It bothers me that there is barely any diversity on Chapters. You can’t even really customize the characters to how you’d like them to look. Another thing that bothers me is the diamonds system. Now, I’ve seen this complaint a lot in the reviews. That should say something to Chapters developers. It’s highly inconvenient that I have to either pay hard earned money for diamonds, or just choose the option without diamonds. How am I supposed to make a choice that costs me 12-20 diamonds when I only have 7, and only get one per finished chapter? Someone in the conference room needs to reevaluate their math skills... Also, the problem with that is, the story will not go the way that I wanted it to. Which makes me disinterested with the book and wanting to just stop reading it and deleting Chapters altogether. Now, one thing I do like about Chapters is the taptales. They’re very interesting and don’t require you to make choices, meaning you don’t have to pay for some choices. I really think some drastic changes need to be made immediately.

by Photo_mama_ca

I love reading and I’m a writer as well so I thought I’d give this a try after seeing it in ads. Well the reviews are misleading. After about a week or so of playing this game I realized some things about Chapters. One is that for the good stories you have to have a lot of gems saved up to be able to make even some decent choices. You can watch adds to earn gems but you don’t get very many and the ads are about 45 seconds. A lot of the stories are similar. There’s a rich person, someone who falls in love with them, and a crazy person. The most diverse are the paranormal ones. Hardly anything that’s relatable. A lot of the time you either have to choose a choice you don’t want or spend money for gems for the other choice. And some of those choices are even more than the rest of the story. I was somewhat content with having some stories end the way they did but others just made me angry because I felt like I really didn’t get a choice. There are also grammatical errors in every story I have read. Hire a proof reader or something. Some of the story ideas are good ones but the best this going for Chapters is the graphics. Overall Chapters is leaving me quite disappointed and I’m not sure how long I want to play on Chapters anymore.

by Wagnertroy

Enjoyed many stories however there’s no more left at all I read thriller ,mysteries ,suspense , comedy drama .. was a little dissatisfied in some of ones such in your categories good but could be more suspense or longer if it’s better your mystery and paranormal were decent but could use a spin off revamp fallen angel, also your surveys are awesome it’s awesome that you provide that but quite often get denied right away and given 1 diamond it gets aggravating especially when you’re enjoying the stories and need diamonds but the wheel is crap I’d rather trade the maple coins but 85 only got me 2 diamond cool but wow really?! How do you Create stories? It would be nice if there’s was directions.. I’ll be back for vip if there’s ever intense mystery thriller or a little more suspense or combine them , ever heard of adding comedy ?however I refuse to read just romance itself but you need to wipeout the low rated stories redo them completely why are some of them I was interested but only 5 this app? I won’t bother reading short and I actually wanted to read them they caught our eye I want my moneys worth and I get offended seeing bdsm or lgbtq under one of my preferred categories I believe when you put suspense the stories under should be of ONLY that genre I dislike falsities..

by Mara0331

I consider Chapters to be one of the best interactive games for 2 reasons. The first, it really does have some of the best stories compared to other apps that are similar. The second, it is one of the best money grabs I’ve ever witnessed!!! All of the important choices require you to use diamonds and it seems like every 3rd or 4th choice is an important choice. The choices cost at least 12 or 17 diamonds, some others as much as 20 or 30. There’s usually 3 choices, only one of them won’t require diamonds. Diamonds are hard to come by unless you are willing to buy them, the 30 diamonds for $1.99, get you 2 choices lol. Most stories are anywhere from 14 to 20 this app and each chapter easily has about 8-10 choices that require diamonds. You can sacrifice outfit choices that require diamonds to save some, it just means you may end up on a date to a benefit gala dressed in a button-up shirt and ankle length pleated skirt!! The choice options are so skillfully crafted too, the free choice is almost always something with a negative outcome. Not all the stories require diamonds for outfits, I’ve come across one with all free outfit choices. Basically if you don’t have a problem with spending so much of your hard earned money on an app like this, you’ll absolutely love it. The game is definitely more focused on making money than providing enjoyment, which is obvious with the selection of choices given to you!!!!

by Caitlyn1996

If you aren’t paying you aren’t really playing, it seems. I have never written a review in my life, but I actually have been enjoying the reading thing and the “idea” of getting to play a part in decisions and the outcome of the story. But that’s literally not the case when it gives you three options, one is of no cost and the other two are required diamonds with is required to pay. Even if you eventually add up all the diamonds you can get watching videos (which is a measly two at a time per video that are scarcely even an option to watch, not a watch and collect at your own leisure) the options are between 12-17 diamonds. I can’t pick and outfit or different decision if I don’t pay for this out of pocket which I currently do not have the option to even do right now as that’s going to get extremely costly. Maybe if it was 5$ for like 1000 diamonds , not 60 of them for that price. After one chapter you’ve just spent 5 dollars on a game that’s supposed to be free. It’s fun but not really as fun as it could be if you actually got to make choices. By the end of a book you’d be paying like 20-50 bucks if you picked your own choice which costs every time it pops up. Sucky. If it wasn’t for all that bs you have to deal with I’d give it a 5star rating all day! ):

by NHL Dhdhxb

The reason I’m going giving it three stars is because when you play you have to play for certain choices and outfits. I have no problem paying but the fact that they choices cost so much is annoying. If you don’t pick the paid choice then you lost content and you suffer. In the recent update they decided it was a good idea to to give you even less diamonds then that did before which is very dumb. I think it’s dumb because if there going to give you less then they should lower the prices for the choices. I get it Chapters is probably becoming more popular which is why there making it harder to get diamonds. Now the only way to get more diamonds is to become a VIP and I’m not paying to become a VIP when this is only a game. I think they should change it back to getting to diamond after a chapter then an extra too if you watch the ads. Also the conversion for the the diamond exchange is honestly outlandish 40 for ONE diamond. It should be like 5 for 1 since you don’t have that many opportunities to get them anyway! They raised the price of the choices to the same thing as if they were giving us more diamonds but there not! Now I have to choose the choice that cost nothing because I don’t have enough diamonds. Very annoyed and I’m probably going to delete Chapters!

by Cutieb1211

I have enjoyed most of the stories I have read so far, but there are many bugs (double faces, clothes randomly switching on characters) and spelling and grammar issues (along with names being wrong in some spots!). The story named “HiS” seems like it was written by a 15 year old from a foreign country who couldn’t quite figure out how to translate what they were saying into English. I was liking Bad Boy Blues, except for the fact that it kept skipping over intimate parts, but then saying later that they happened. It was weird and made the story very disjointed. A lot of the choices are ridiculous. I can either answer a simple question with a simple answer paying diamonds, or I can go over the top and lash out for no reason whatsoever for free and be highly over dramatic. I like that tickets come every 30 minutes, instead of 2 hours. I don’t like that each “premium choice” costs 12-24 diamonds when you only get 1 diamond for finishing a chapter. Also, in the past few days, I have only been getting 1 diamond for about every FIVE this app, which is really annoying. Most of the stories definitely get raunchier than my other favorite story app, Choices. My husband definitely doesn’t mind being woken up in the middle of the night... 😂😉

by Nekomimiko2014

Honestly, I feel like this app has the potential to be a really good app, due to the amount of diverse stories there are. However, it’s still lacking in a few things.

1. Stories are mediocre at best, but occasionally you’ll find a gem here and there. These stories pander to mostly lonely middle-aged women and fit a very stereotypical scenario most of the time. this app has multiple stories that cover a lot of the same tropes over and over...The hot daddy millionaire, boy next door, or your typical vampire love story, the one where the guy is a big tsundere in denial of his love for you and has an extremely toxic personality...this app has a little bit of everything for everyone. But the tropes are heavily recycled over and over. Chapters has so many stories, but lacks diversity when it comes to tropes.

2. Diamonds. I know recently this app has tried to make it fair for users who don’t pay, but come on...Paying 17 diamonds for choices that basically don’t matter with barely any outcome? That’s a little ridiculous. Especially, when we get very few diamonds after the stories themselves. I wouldn’t have an issue with waiting to collect diamonds, watching ads for them, etc...but choosing diamond choices with little or no outcome is a bit silly. Why not put the diamond choices on the choices that will have a real impact on the story? The “Choices” app does this very well by balancing this out, even if we’re spending 17 diamonds on a choice.

by Gx35

So I LOVE the stories! They are by far the best stories compared to others. I get lost in them every time, not to mention the graphics that follow with the story are stimulating and rendered well. I am embarrassed to admit how much money I have spent on Chapters. I am trying to take advantage of free advertisements for diamonds but usually they are for 1 or 2. Without premium choices you are not going to get the story you “really” want. Each book could easily come out to paying $20-$60 per book, which is insane. That is the price of paying for a full 50 hour game haha (one book should not cost the same price as Zelda BOTW). I would actually rather pay full price per book if it meant I could choose whatever choice I wanted! Honestly, as much as I hate to admit it, I will not be able to keep this game forever because I simply can’t justify the price. It is a very clever scheme.

I would love for the creators to consider a “buy the book” altogether option. I would easily pay $10-$20 per book if it meant that I owned the story. After purchase I could make whatever choice I wanted as well as re read the story whenever! They could also keep an option to pay as you go for others.

by Briiiibriiii!!

I want to give this full 5 stars but I have one issue with this game, how you have to buy diamonds to make choices. And when you download you are given a few diamonds but it’s not even enough. It will be 20 diamonds for 1 choice but then you pay 4.99 for 40 more diamonds which will be used up in 2 choices. This for me is the biggest downfall of this game. Aside from that I’m so in love with this game. I like how the stores go, I like the build up of either which way you wanna play and then it’s basically always can be 2 stories in 1 if you switch up choices later on. I also really like how we can customize our characters so specifically all the way up to the color of their eyebrows. It’s so cool( it’s definitely a good time pass. All I really have to say negative about this game is the whole diamond thing! No matter how much you buy you run out and then some choices are 30 diamonds 20 diamonds. That’s insane I understand 5 diamonds for an outfit change etc. Also I wish the characters in the game can do little things to earn diamonds for free, besides that it’s a fun game and should be downloaded!

by Ndjsosb837

I love Chapters and I love the stories they get me hooked and I love it. I get into the emotions of the ppl in the book. The only reasons I’m not giving a 5 star is because the choices are too expensive and the outfits cost too many diamonds too I’ve spent money playing because of how much I love the stories. I just wish the cost of the choices didn’t take so many diamonds and the clothes didn’t take so many diamonds. When I finish a book would be great to get diamonds for them. Most choices when playing are from 12 to 17 diamonds some are higher based off the good answers and the clothes are costly too and if ur in a book the outfits you already spent diamonds on shouldn’t cost you they should be free choices all in all it’s great I love reading books like these when the characters heart is racing so is mine, when they cry so do I, I can channel all the characters and it’s great they are great and Chapters is amazingly great too better then others I’ve tried. Would be great to get the price down lower and the adds to watch to get diamonds u have to watch 5 adds to get 1 diamond each add but after like 25 adds they are gone till the next day.

by Eye41Eye

Seriously, quit with all the 4-5 part advertisements. I tried to watch a video after I finished a chapter, to get the 2 gems, and I watched it and still didn’t get them. Instead it made me watch it again to get the gems. I like the stories, but a lot of them are a little to much like been there done that. There’s nothing like reading the first 2 this app and immediately knowing how the book ends. And you can clearly tell that some of them are sort of knock offs from movies. For example, we didn’t start having stories with Doms and subs until fifty shades of grey was released. Now there are all kinds of them popping up. Graphics are much better than they were 4 years ago. I don’t have any problems with glitches so that’s awesome. I will continue to use Chapters because of its consistency. It regularly puts out new stories. Which is amazing because on a different app, I’ve been trying to read a story that’s lasted for more than 2 years because they only release a couple this app every few months. You will never know my gratitude for the fact that Chapters doesn’t do that.

by Lil' Debbie G

I might love Chapters to much. I get to pick what the main character looks like, so I get her as close to me as I can. I get to pick her name so all of them are me lol... the best way to read a book is to put yourself into the main roll, so I do. It is so much fun, then you get to choose what happens, well for the most part. There are tickets for reading the this app you usually get 2 and it takes an hour for one to be replenished,
(you can buy more if you want/need) but to start a new book is free. outfits and some choices cost diamonds (which I wish were less so I could choose more options) they usually cost 12 for a nice out fit/ tempting choice or 17 diamonds for the best outfit/spicy choice so it adds up quickly, however there are choices/outfits that don’t cost, however they usually are not something I would normally choose. But I will sacrifice an outfit for a choice later. I also love the stories. Besides that the other thing I would change is a chance for a back button, I don’t know how many times I have lost control of my phone and as I’m trying to grab it again I have hit the screen and changed the story, or I put it down for a moment and my cat stepped on it and changed it.
Also I get often that the system will not let me in please try again later, which is super annoying but it usually corrects itself in a few hours. I would recommend this to everyone that likes to read and make their own choices, however it is super addictive. 😁

by Ruishigao

I have played a lot of story apps: Choices, Episodes, Lovestruck, What’s Your Story?, etc. This is honestly one of the best if bot the best one.

Like the rest of these story apps, you need tickets to read a chapter. However, this app is the most generous one. In other apps, it takes 2-4 hours to get a single ticket, and most give you a max of two tickets at a time. this app also has the standard of two tickets, but regeneration time is only 30 minutes, which is awesome! The timer starts as soon as you use a ticket to start reading, which is nice since some of the other apps don’t start the timer until after you’ve finished reading.

The best thing about Chapters is that it doesn’t make me feel like an ATM like the other story apps, which are full of ads and have a many choices that needs to be unlocked with many diamonds/gems. Chapters also requires diamonds, but it’s not outrageous like other apps which have choices that cost 30-50 diamonds. Most locked choices in this app that I’ve seen cost 17 diamonds or less, which I think is very reasonable. I also have never seen an ad. Honestly, this all makes me very willing to spend money on Chapters, which I have done.

by GJFIENDIEKIXKE

I love this game. The stories are great and much like stories I also write. I do wish there were more paranormal stories. Specifically witches. The diamond thing isn’t so bad. 10 dollars a month for a membership seems reasonable. But even without that you can make many choices in many stories. It’s all very thrilling. The one thing I would take note of...definitely give more options for character. I feel like most people want to make a character as similar to them as possible. Unfortunately, in some of the stories, the girls are hideous lol. Women of color should also have more choices as well. What...they get one girl? And Asians get one girl? And usually there is at least 2 different white women to choose from. Or everyone has brown eyes. And I’m a very pale Jewish girl with green eyes and black hair. So usually no one looks like me haha. I do like that we have multiple hair options though. It would be super cool if we could create a character but I understand that is difficult so just having more options would be nice. :) overall really great game though. Out of interactive stores this rates 2nd for me with arcana being 1st. Idk why choices gets more attention because I really feel that the stories in this app are way more interesting.