Chapters: Interactive Stories for Pc

I’ve been playing this app for a while now...and am more addicted than I’d like to admit. It’s fun, the stories are great, well written and funny. The free choices give good enough outcomes and moves the story along. I like the multiple price options for some choices...good way to filter story content. What I don’t like is how I’ve spent so many diamonds navigating my choices and in the end, I still have to spend 30 diamonds for my happy ending....which means my choices up to that point means absolutely nothing. With that said, I am less likely to spend my diamonds during the story and just save them for the endings. The app almost always crashed while I’m watching ads for extra diamonds, doesn’t matter if it’s at the end of a chapter or just to get one diamond...and it always crashes after I’ve watched the whole ad...so I’ve been ripped off....a lot. I like the day passes. It’s worth it...and I like the free weekend passes. Maybe they can offer better deals to purchase diamonds, or cut the prices in half....I would feel more justified to spend $$$$ for diamonds if I feel like I’m getting better entertainment by paying for it...as I stand now, I feel it doesn’t matter so I won’t spend.

I have mixed feelings about the app. I just re-downloaded the app 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 this app. 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 the app 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 the app altogether. Now, one thing I do like about the app 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.

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! ):

First of all I do understand that you need to make some money from a free app, but this app 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 this app 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.