Last updated on December 7th, 2025 at 09:18 am
Hosted Games – Books Game Review
Hosted Games is a Books/Roleplaying/Adventure game from Hosted Games LLC, first launched in 27th March 2018.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 791+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Hosted Games Stand Out
The choice is yours! Joust for love and glory, solve an eldritch murder, find romance, or battle aliens with Magitek?
"Hosted Games" is a magnificent library of interactive novels, written by authors like you. Hosted Games are entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Try a few of these fan favorites:
• Zombie Exodus — Fight your way out of a zombie-filled city in this interactive horror story!
• Fallen Hero — Step into the shoes of a telepath turned villain and explore the dark side.
• Wayhaven Chronicles — Something stalks the shadows, and it's up to you to find out what!
• Sabres of Infinity — Step into the boots of a Royal Dragoon in this tale of war in a fantasy world.
• Golden Rose — Explore a medieval Europe where history took a different turn!
• Soul Stone War — Fight for the future—your own, and the world's! Your fate is yours.
• I, the Forgotten One — Can you defeat the rebellion in your kingdom before your past consumes you?
• An Unexpectedly Green Journey — From birth to death, craft your orc's legacy. Are you destined for glory?
• Fields of Asphodel — Join the ranks of the Underworld's misfit gods and make it your home!
• Tin Star — Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal and craft a legend.
Authors just like you have developed these games using ChoiceScript, a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice interactive novels. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience. Learn more at https://hostedgames.org
This Books game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Hosted Games is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
• Version 3 is a ground-up rewrite of the Hosted Games app, designed to look great with iOS 26 Liquid Glass.
• We've also added a new button on the Settings screen to "Download all games." When you use it, all games will be available offline. It’ll take a few minutes to run. The next time you tap it, it will skip downloading games that are up to date; it should refresh in under a minute.
• On iPad, you can now close the stats screen when holding the iPad in landscape mode.
New in 3.0.7:
• Now you can search and sort games that you've added to your Favorites, games that you've Purchased, and games that you've Downloaded.
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Download & Availability
Hosted Games is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Stories? Mixed in quality, but you can sus out the good ones from the previews. The new UI is glitchy, the assets dont fit on the screen, and theyre weird disparate shapes. It looks bad and is actively harder to use.
The 20min wait time is such a waste of time. You watch an ad but then it tells you to watch 20mins to continue unless you pay.
Im just glad we found a story game that isnt always about romance, and this thing is perfect for a nerdy bookworm like us :).
Definitely the best from the hosted games collection-Ive replayed it several times and it never gets old. Mason is our man if you get it you get it if you dont you dont and we feel sorry for you.
Loved this game so much! Unique take on the choose your own adventure novel. And Hades is such a heartthrob.
We need more stories like swamp castle . 5/5 love the amount of effort you put into your games.
Overall great variety of Story choice based games. Very well put together and will have you drawn in to every word and every tough decision you have to make from choices given.
We LOVED THIS GAME!!! We HONESTLY NEED ANOTHER BOOK OF THIS SAGA!!! THE ENDING HAD ME HOOKED FOR MORE.
We love this one story called the two cranes its a really good one we read it till the end and its good we were so hooked on to the storyline and the creators who put their work into was so good.
Both games of this series have been nothing short of incredible. The characters are written, so well theyre so intriguing and we just want to know even more about them.
We are lost for words with how detailed and amazing Hosted Games is. Big shout outs to the authors. Your work is tremendously respected.
The app is pretty straightforward, several of their games were solid, and its pretty neat to be able to demo the games to see if the story clicks with you! Knocking off a star for a recent issue: Theres an ad that occasionally auto-opens a scam-like website when we are running a demo. Update: Looks like they got rid of the ad, so back to 5 stars! Thank you for looking into it.
There are a bunch of stories you can choose from and enjoy stories along the way. We enjoy making our character in their stories. Totally recommend.
We strongly recommend the entire Dragoon Saga, and Lords is the best game to come out of it so far. Its gameplay has just the right amount of complexity to be fun and quite replayable, its storytelling is engaging and interesting, and its worldbuilding is enjoyable to look at no matter how deep you want to dive.
As being someone who is visually impaired, we found it very fascinating and very enjoyable, and we are still playing it to complete all of the achievements, but our favorite achievement was alpha and our voice over read the whole thing.
Please read this book. It is not only the best of these Hosted or Choice of games, but some of the best literature Ive ever read. Beautiful, heartbreaking, action filled, we cant say enough about it. John Louis is a GENIOUS.
Loved the game and had fun playing. We're excited for the sequel.
Ive personally been enjoying stories on all these sights and it is incredibly fun and interesting to enjoy a piece of literature that you can select the outcome. When we play these games we play on mobile. That being said we have a few issues with the UI that you use. When we put on dark mode in the app we want everything to be in dark mode including the menu and the top bar in the story. We love stories with replay abilities but there is no way to delete saves. Or depending on the story adding a save system you can use mid story so one accidental choice ruins your play through. We really enjoy these games but these things get on our nerves a bit. But out of all of those things we listed we really want to see the complete dark mode on Choice of games, Hosted games, and Hearts choice.
We have been playing hosted Games for a while and we really love we the forgotten one so please make a second part to it in fact, make it a whole series.
Very interesting character and we love the decision-making with the battles. Didnt quite get the ruleswish we could learn them somewhere but seemed common sense is adequate to have fun with it.
Is the best book we ever read in this app it makes you feel like your in the story, and the story line is amazing.
All the games in here are so good that spent over $400 on a bunch of them our number one favorite is zombie exodus Safehaven whoever makes these games is doing a really good job.
Im gonna put it like this. We need another hero or villain game, simple as that.
Ive been waiting on this for years, did not disappoint.
There have been countless times that we miss-click please in the middle of WAYHAVEN we had to restart the THIRD book because of a single miss-click of vital dialogue please.
Look, we really love interactive fiction and reading in general, and there are some incredibly talented writers, unique characters, & amazing story worlds in this app. However, we strongly feel that we are kept from enjoying the stories to the fullest because in almost ALL of them, there is no save feature, absolutely no way to save your game at all, and no checkpoints either. Some of these are very long and complex stories with numerous choices that have various consequences and impacts, and there is literally no way whatsoever to go back, fix an issue or mistake you made, or retry anything without starting the entire story over again? That is stressful and a little ridiculous- we mean really, how hard can it possibly be to have a save system in a text game with nothing else to worry about? We have anxiety and it honestly stops us from wanting to play or make any of the decisions that are supposed to be fun and enjoyable. The only one Ive played so far that had any save/checkpoint system at all was Fernweh, and that was awesome because at the end of each chapter was a checkpoint. You could either continue the story or retry the chapter, and those who werent interested in that could turn it off. That made it so much more enjoyable for us, THATS the way it should be for all of the games! If all stories had something like that, this would be a 5-star app.
Every time we login and try to restore purchases, it always says we havent bought anything! We have had to purchase the same games multiple times.
Hello! Before we begin, we are not slandering Choice Of Games or Hosted Games in any way! They are amazing and the games they help produce are fantastic! We have been using them and Hosted Games for years! Here is the only issue and it isnt a huge deal. But when you want to buy a book/game from Hosted Games or Choice of Games. We implore you to buy it from their website ChoiceOfGames.com. If you buy it off the app it wont show up on your Profile online. But if you buy it from the online store it will show up on both! If you keep a record of what you bought they will add it to your online account but it takes a while to get a response and for them to add it. Keep it up.
The best app out there in this genre you will not be disappointed.
Brilliant authors and a great system to support the reader. Games always have us spending hours on them. Would rate it higher if we could.
This series is honestly one of the best works of fiction we have read.
The fallen hero series is the bees knees. That is all.
Had a Great time reading was easily able to put ourselves in the character shoes cant wait for the sequel.
Ive waited 5 whole years for this game and it did mot disappoint. Ive gone through it about 6 times over the past 4 days. Thats how unbelievably amazing it is.
An amazing continuation from where the first story left off. Everything you could want is here! Heartbreak! Romance! Fights! Intrigue! Plans and wrenches being thrown in. Beautiful writing and an amazing world and story.
This game is so addicting because every character has been written with a complex inner world. So every interaction feels so loaded. Every decision has consequences, and the world building feels realistic, despite the whole super villain and hero setting. This is a story about identity, the rocky road to recovery, and learning to trust others in a world that feels as scarily hostile to our own. Im pretty burnt out of the whole superhero genre, but Ryden has shown that with a lot of complex characterization, slowly uncovering secrets (even about the character you play as), and some very grounded exploration of what its like when your body is up for control in a world that is constantly clawing to overcome others, then a fresh story can still be told in this genre. We dont want to make it seem the story is hopelessly depressing. In fact, it is also filled with characters that are kind, that are genuinely trying to break down the player characters walls, and are trying to do the right thing in a messed up world that makes this such a satisfying game to play. We sincerely hope Ryden is proud of this story, and we look forward to more.
Definitely one of the better games released on this platform. The sheer amount of variation between play throughs is staggering.
A god tier game, one of our all time favorites Very good replay ability with so many different paths and choices along with the randomization aspect.
This app has so many different stories and adventures. It's amazing.
This was a fun and different game! Really enjoyed it.
By Far the most interactive and best story telling of all the story games we have played.
The only way to go back to a choice or page is by restarting. It would be convenient if there were save slots similar to the website.
It keeps saying check our internet when we try to purchase this game fallen hero retribution.
Please write a part two story of the Tin star.
Authors use stories to push political agendas like Presidential Disaster, no thanks.
Never has an interactive fiction filled us with such emotion. The first time we finished it we cried profusely, overcome with feelings of sorrow and love. The second time, we were surprised that those emotions bubbled through us once again. The writing of the characters and plot is something akin to genius, and we await with bated breath for book 2. Heres hoping for a happy ending, one in which the protagonist can feel the warmth of the Sun.
Long time player, still feel like room for improvement. Love the story, management of base and group. We would like to see more choices for base construction. Such as for ex. Armory, living quarters, maybe a mounted 50 cal from one of those jeeps on the wall, looking forward to the distillery Seans going to build, other than that game is solid. Saw metal and metallic parts still not clear if theres a difference. Would love for there to be a way to save some the characters who die. Im looking forward to 4th installment.
This app brings us pure joy. Thank you to everyone involved in this app.
Ive been reading on this app for about a year now, and it was pretty good, aside from almost every story needing to be bought for 5-6 dollars. There were a few free ones that were really good, but now you have to watch an ad every 5-10 minutes to continue reading the story which is dumb. We get you need money to survive, but needing to pay 5 dollars to skip ads that pop up every 5 minutes on a free story make us not want to read that story. Ive even started reading from choice of games, who have the same stories, except you dont have to watch a ton of ads to ready stories like this. The stories are great, but too many ads. At least make the ads like the tiny ones on the bottom of the page like you guys used to only have.
We love both choice of games as well as hosted games while in our opinion the choice of games app has better books and stories some of our favorite book series are on hosted games such as the Swords of Infinity series and the Samurai of Hyuga series. If you are looking for some more grounded or realistic books we would go for hosted games while if you are looking for more fantasy titles or new worlds in a sense go for choice of games.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.0.7
- Size: 21.49 MB
- iOS: 17.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
- Developer: Hosted Games LLC
Last updated: 18th November 2025 | Genre: Books, Roleplaying | Developer: Hosted Games LLC