The Choose Wisely Festival is a choice-based narrative games celebration and showcase, focused on featuring the delightful craft of branching narratives! Buy games where your choices matter.

Made by indies and lovers of narrative, the Choose Wisely Festival is a digital event highlighting narrative games where choices matter. Running from December 8-15, the event will feature an exciting line up of announcements, new releases, discounts, and demos. This will be the very first edition of the festival.

We know how important a good story is in games and the Choose Wisely Festival is all highlighting games and developers with stories that stay with you long after the end screen.

🎮 390+ games from 250+ developers and publishers all around the world.

📺 Dedicated streams and broadcasts.

🎁 Exclusive demos, announcements, trailer reveals, and content updates!

✨ A showcase with a stellar line-up of 50 handpicked narrative games, that you can watch right here on Steam.

🗓️ December 8, 6PM GMT | 10AM PT until December 15, 6PM GMT | 10AM PT

Watch the corresponding Choose Wisely 2025 Showcase, premiering from December 8th, 6PM GMT.

Packed with new trailer cuts, familiar favourites, and brand new releases. We are here to show the very best of indie narrative gaming.

ABOUT THE CHOOSE WISELY FESTIVAL

The Choose Wisely Festival is organised and hosted by Studio Ephua. It was created with the intention of highlighting games with meaningful narrative choice and branching. 2025 marks its debut year.

ABOUT STUDIO EPHUA

Studio Ephua is a London-based, independent, micro-studio that creates narrative-focused games, including interactive adventures and visual novels. We believe stories are a universal truth, and humans are at the heart of them.