
The narrative element is too small to call ALTER EGO itself a novel, but not to say that the semantic load is not enough. For those who like depth – a quote after a certain number of pages. In addition, you need to read books to accumulate currency.

You will have to tap on the clouds with thoughts – obtained from the test results. Ego is a local currency that opens plot doors. Quite quickly, the main plot will make itself felt. Here you have to pass tests, talk to a huge stone bas-relief and help a cute girl. Interpretation changes the nature of the game worldĪfter researching the gameplay, it becomes clear that ALTER EGO is not only a clicker with buttons stylized as psychological works. The game appeared in Play Market at the end of 2018 and has more than two million times downloads.

( Alter Ego was originally published in 1986 for the Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Apple II, and Macintosh.

Will you grow up to be confident and happy? Will you fight with bullies, or befriend them? Will you find a date to the senior prom? Will you marry and have kids, or start your own business and become a millionaire? The choice is yours. Alter Ego starts at birth and ends at death, including two substantially different versions, depending on whether you choose to be male or female.

It's in the style of pick-a-path gamebooks, but with over a thousand multiple-choice questions, it's much longer and deeper than traditional gamebooks. In this text-based interactive fiction, you choose what happens next. What if you could live your life over again?
