Looking for interactive porn stories where you get to choose how the story unfolds?
Ever watched a porn flick and thought, ‘Same old-same old’?
If you answered ‘yes’, then you should definitely consider Choose You Own Adventure Porn, where the hottest adult movies are catered to your desires. You get to decide what happens next in each scene.
Choose Your Own Adventure Porn (CYOA) comes in several forms, from controlling which scene to view in a high-end porn production, to text-based erotica where you can customise characters and their story paths. It’s like the early days of computer role-playing games where progress was determined by your yes/no answers, except with CYOA, we’re talking full-on hardcore porn adventures. This is your chance to play the director.
The most popular sources of choose your own adventure porn are LifeSelector and SaBoom. Both sites offer a way to live out your own interactive sex story with videos that unfold according to your choices and preferences. LifeSelector is undoubtedly the most polished platform, with a number of collaborations with some of the world’s most famous pornstars – like Riley Reid and Mia Malkova.
In our guide below, we take a look at the best ‘choose your path’ porn sites. We explore the similarities between CYOA porn and interactive porn, as well as POV porn and visual novels.
Ready for your next filthy adventure?
Let’s take a closer look!
What Are The Best Choose Your Own Adventure Porn Sites of 2023?
The top-rated CYOA porn sites in 2023 listed below are:
- Life Selector
- SaBoom
- Guy Selector
- ChatMeHard
- DezyRed
- Sex Selector
- HyperDreams
- CHYOA.com
- CHYOO.com
We have chosen these sites based on several key factors, including the amount of attention and recognition gained from the adult industry, how easy they are to use, the calibre of their adult content, and how satisfying they are to use form a CYOA perspective.
Before we review each site, let’s start by understanding what CYOA Porn actually is.
CYOA porn is a fast-growing style of interactive porn that appeals to the viewer who demands more than the same old predictable storyline progression in hardcore flicks.
Simply put: A movie starts, often in POV style, and you are faced with a set of choices that determine the next action. The scene continues according to your decisions.
The best examples of this winning formula come from Life Selector and SaBoom. Each site gives you XXX movies with interactive decision-led progression between scenes. You decide how the action unfolds, how you fuck, where you fuck, and what happens with that all-important money shot.
Let’s take a closer look at the major players in this growing market:
1. Life Selector
Life Selector is probably the most well-known and most-used of all CYOA Porn sites.
It offers unique point-of-view porn featuring a range of models from 18+ teens to Milfs. Each show (as they call their videos) takes you through a story, pausing at the end of a clip for you to decide where to go and what to do next. The library is varied and vast, including:
- One-on-one scenes with ‘you’ and a superstar porn model
- Threesomes and group scenes
- Hardcore scenes including Anal
- POV adventures
- Creampies and cumshots
Launched in 2012, Life Selector now has more than 2,870 shows to choose from, and updates are frequent. In the last nine months, the site has added over 200 new scenes, so there’s plenty of fresh erotic adventures to keep you coming back for more. Most importantly, it offers interesting and believable scenarios.
Life Selector is definitely one of the sleeker CYOA porn sites in town. The content can be seen in upload order but is also arranged under category headings that are designed to perk your interest, including Office Affairs, Anal Maniacs, Step-Sister Secrets and Step-mom Fantasies.
All movies are streaming-only, exclusive and available in HD. The site is compatible with mobile devices, the top streaming resolution is 1,920 x 1,080 HD, and the average scene length is 45 minutes.
On Life Selector, the primary interaction comes from your decision making. In the tradition of Choose Your Own Adventure Porn, you decide which direction the action takes, so you can make your foreplay last as long as you want, or you can head straight to the hard stuff.
Scenes start in much the same way as any other porn clips until the action pauses and you are given a menu of options to choose from. This can be something simple like whether to watch a model undress or what kind of sex act you want her to perform. There are no wrong choices but as soon as you make your choice, the scene will continue in the style you prefer.
Interactive movies are the main thrust of Life Selector, but there are also over 650 image sets to view and collect and hundreds of models to enjoy. The cast list includes Valentina Nappi, Riley Reid, Gianna Dior, Abella Danger, Lana Rhoades, Alexis Crystal and Ava Addams, among hundreds more.
Life Selector uses a credit system, meaning you have to pay for each story individually. There are plenty of ways to pay for your credits, and credits can be bought as recurring subscriptions or in non-recurring packs.
The number of credits you use on each movie depends on the number of choices you make. You could view a scene for around 100 credits (roughly $10.00), but it can get pretty pricy if you want to unlock all of the available story paths. The best value is in the recurring monthly packages.
Life Selector recurring packages include:
- All Access Pass including a POV network – $59.95 per month
- 2,000 recurring credits – $49.95 per month
- 525 recurring credits – $29.95 per month
Non-recurring packages:
- 5,000 credits – $99.95
- 2,000 credits – $59.95
- 1,000 credits – $39.95
- 200 credits – $14.95
- 100 credits – $9.95
2. SaBoom
SaBoom is an interactive choose your porn site that was launched in 2011, when CYOA Porn was still fairly new. Since then, it has grown to become the primary competitor to LifeSelector and one of the leading sources of choose your own story porn. SaBoom gives you the best of European models, and hosts over 4,800 exclusive scenes.
You get to direct the action on SaBoom, choosing options to take the scene forward according to what you want to see next. There are two major ways to interact with each sex scene:
- The POV function, where you can switch the camera angle
- The Interactive button, where you decide the action for the next sequence
These are common functions on CYOA sites, but SaBoom goes one step further with its Porn Producer facility. This nifty feature lets you make up playlists of your favourite sections, giving you a personalised playlist of the best moments that can be played over and over again.
SaBoom covers many niches of straight porn, and includes in its category list:
- Anal
- BDSM
- Fetish
- Office sex
- Rough sex
- Threesomes
- Lesbians
- Interracial
Some of these categories break down into sub-niches, and there are some more sensuous and softer scenes if you’re looking for more of an authentic CYOA ‘girlfriend’ experience.
There’s also a unique educational side to the site. The Story Shows give you the chance to direct traditional scripted scenes, and there are a few tutorials. Here, you can opt to see how the scene was put together, and learn how the porn is made.
Being a European site, SaBoom mainly features stars from the EU, and among them are plenty of fledgling stars to get to know, plus some top names you may recognise.
The most popular female models on SaBoom include:
- Franceska Jaimes
- Lol Taylor
- Gina Gerson
- Carmen Croft
- Carla Cox
The most popular male models on SaBoom include:
- Antonio Ross
- David Perry
- Kai Taylor
- Mike Chapman
- Mike Angelo
Currently, SaBoom offers 4,873 full interactive and exclusive movies, with many being at 720p or 1080p HD and all being available to stream (no waiting for downloads).
Each movie has short sections which you can move forward by choosing commands such as: Foreplay, Fuck, Cumshot.
Movies have trailers of up to seven minutes, and you can view some free samples on the tour. The quality is good, production values are high, and while the site isn’t as sleek as LifeSelector, it’s still pretty decent. Unfortunately, we couldn’t see how often SaBoom is updated as it’s not made clear on the site.
SaBoom has a two-day trial at €1.90, which converts to €29.90 monthly until cancelled. Note, the price is in Euros, as are the credit packages inside:
- 3,000 credits – €30.00
- 4,000 credits – €40.00
- 5,000 credits – €50.00
Payment is via DigitalPayment.net where a credit card option is available. Once registered, you will need to confirm your email address by sending a blank email. Kinda weird. Needless to say, signing up for SaBoom could be made a great deal easier, but it remains a popular choice for fully interactive CYOA porn.
3. Guy Selector
Guy Selector lets you create your own gay hardcore porn. This CYOA membership site offers you a range of horny guys in POV action where you select what happens next. It brings together all the usual elements of a gay porn flick in each of its interactive movies.
Popular movie themes on Guy Selector include:
- BJs
- Fingering
- Rimming
- Anal (bareback)
- Handjobs
- Cumshots
Guy Selector was founded in 2022 and is a relatively new addition to the world of CYOA gay porn. It is one of very few gay POV sites offering interactive porn with live models, and it’s still a small collection. Guy Selector currently updates with two new videos every month.
A quick browse of the Guy Selector content library shows you a range of male models. They are fit and gym-toned, a mix of smooth college jocks and hairy, tattooed studs, with many guys sporting scruff and defined, hairy chests. You’ll find a mix of ethnicities, with black, white, Latin and Middle Eastern men, and among them, a few names you might have seen on other gay porn sites, such as Damian Knight and Scott DeMarco.
Cock size is a thing at Guy Selector; all these studs are hung.
Each guy has a brief description and lots of linked tag words, so you can easily filter the content. Most appear in only one video, but some, like Aaron Trainer, appear in more; six, in his case.
The Guy Sector content offers you variety within its 23 movies, and the titles give you a good idea of what to expect. ‘Fucking the Neighbor,’ ‘Daddy’s Blessing,’ ‘Perks of Fucking the Pool Boy,’ and ‘The Fuckable Body Builder,’ not only tell you the kinds of guys, but also the kind of action: full-on hardcore, if you choose to go down that route.
Throughout each of the 30- to 45-minute-long movies you have the option to decide what happens next. The stories start with a ‘get to know you’ intro, usually in POV style, and then move on to the decision making. It’s more than a ‘what happens next’ choice, though. The buttons on the screen ask if you’re going to answer a guy’s questions truthfully, or lie.
Will you take both cocks up your ass, or just one? Have you had enough of him, or will you stay and see what happens next?
Unlike some CYOA sites, Gay Selector doesn’t operate on a tokens scheme. You sign up for fixed periods on recurring memberships.
- One-day trial – $1.00 (Renews at $29.95 per month)
- One month – $24.95
- 90-days – $49.95
- One year – $94.95
These are standard prices for a standalone exclusive gay porn site, and payments recur automatically until you cancel. Payments are by Credit card, or PayPal/Epoch.
Note: Watch out for a pre-selected additional sign-up to a 3rd party site. This is a pre-checked box on the card details page. Uncheck it if you don’t want this additional recurring membership.
4. ChatMeHard
ChatMeHard is a CYOA sexting simulator where you can enjoy a sex chat exchange with a model of your choice. The roleplays escalate in to X-rated videos from the various pornstars, meaning you can immerse yourself in the fantasy of real-life sexting with some seriously sexy babes.
ChatMeHard has a unique free tour. Once you land on the home page, you’ll see four ‘scenarios’ for how to proceed: Naughty Stepsis, Cheating Wife, Lovely Girlfriend, Flirty Stepmom. These four characters sum up the kind of models and encounters you can expect to have inside.
Click one of these four scenarios and you immediately begin the kind of dirty-flirty messaging you’re going to enjoy in the members’ area, as each of the models takes you through what to expect. It runs like this:
- Her: “Hi, lil bro, so you want to know what Chatmehard is? What a naughty boy…“
Now you get to decide between…
- And what if I’m naughty?
- Nah, I don’t really care.
- So you wanna tell me you’re not naughty?
And off you go with her replying to your selections, sending a naughty pic along the way, and after the next flirt, a naughty video. These trailers end with, ‘Wanna see more?’ which then leads you to the sign-up page. It’s a neat way of introducing the CYOA sexting concept.
Note: Obviously, the models aren’t ‘live’; these are pre-determined conversations that evolve based on your actions. It’s a strictly virtual sexting simulator.
ChatMeHard includes the following:
- 100 interactive text-based sex stories with photos and videos sent from the model during the sexting
- An additional 20 free stories
- A varied range of niches and fetishes, including Milf, taboo and GF porn
- 10 new releases per month (for reference, one story was a 12-minute read and included 16 pics and gifs)
- Bisexual story options
- 10 categories including: Bully, Anal, Big Tits, Cuckold, Milf, Maledom, Sex Toys, Teens
ChatMeHard offers two membership options: a monthly subscription or a lifetime pass. Payments are by credit card via CCBill.
- Lifetime access: $399.00, currently on offer at only $99.00
- Monthly recurring: $29.95, cancel at any time
5. DezyRed
Launched in 2020, DezyRed invites you to put on your VR headset and ‘Fuck them as you like them.’ Created by VR Bangers, DezyRed is a novel way to experience what it’s like to bang a porn star in 8K HD VR.
DezyRed serves up CYOA porn that, unlike many sites, is shot for Virtual Reality (VR).
It has nine games where you can control sexy sorority girls, spend time analizing Bella Rolland, have a threesome with Alexis Tae and Hime Marie, be a secret agent with Maddy May, or indulge in group sex with six babes in one game alone.
As with all CYOA porn, there are breaks along the way so you can decide which way your story is to go, but DezyRed is VR, which means you are immersed in the world of the game in 3D, making it more real. This is what sets it apart.
To play this game, you will need to be connected to the internet, and have the correct headset and platform. Games are formatted for Oculus Rift S, Oculus Quest and Quest 2, Microsoft MR, HTC Vive Pro. The site comes with an app that must be installed before you can start a scene.
Being a VR title, the graphics are exceptional. Scenes have 360 degrees view ports and are available in a selection of 4K, 5K, 6K or 8K. Each game has full story-mapping, adding up to a total gaming time of over 38 hours (if you explore all available plot paths and choices). That’s a lop of fapping.
To get off with the DezyRed games, you’ll need to use credits, and the more you play, the more credits you will need. You start by setting up a free account using a valid email. Once verified, you can buy credits at the following rates:
- Basic: 3,000 credits –$10.00
- Premium: 10,100 credits – $30.00
- VIP Access: 22,400 credits – $60.00
6. Sex Selector
Sex Selector hosts 60 exclusive interactive porn movies where you make the decisions and create your own porn adventure. Using traditional models and live filming, you can choose from a range of stars and multiple different ways to fuck. There’s a new scene every week.
With its first fully interactive POV movie released in 2023, Sex Selector is one of the newer CYOA porn sites on our list, but it’s growing fast.
Sex Selector sticks to the tried-and-tested reality scenarios. For example, you’re home alone with a sexy babe, and as the sex starts, you get to decide what happens next. How are you going to screw? Where? Where are you going to cum? In one way, it’s standard POV porn, but throw in some interaction and it’s a much more immersive experience.
The content is well made, professionally filmed and acted, and the quality standards are high. The presentation is slick and glossy, with music under the dialogue, and big, bold choice buttons at all the right moments.
Example: How do you want to fuck her? Riding, Missionary, or Doggy?
Well, let’s just say, the decisions are certainly not going to challenge you on an intellectual level, but it’s nice to moonlight as a porn director every once in a while!
The variety continues with interactive stories including: 18+ teens, Milfs, Latinas and ebony beauties. Scenes involve facials, BJs, full-on fucking, and anal.
Sex Selector comes with a ‘Babe Selector’, letting you choose from 40 hot models in the model index, with lots of newbies contributing one video apiece.
The site comes in at the standard-to-low end of the porn site cost spectrum, with the best value coming from the $94.95 annual sub. Sex Selector offers a trial sign-up but be aware that this may only provide limited access. There is also a pre-selected cross-sale on the join page to uncheck if you don’t want the additional site sign-up.
As with many porn site memberships, the longer you sign up for, the bigger your discount.
- One-day trial access – $1.00
- One-month full access – $24.95 recurring
- 90 days – $49.95 recurring
- One year – $94.95
7. Hyper Dreams
Hyper Dreams gives you erotic CYOA sex stories with a twist. This is interactive written erotica where you supply the names and characteristics of your dream partner, and the site brings them to life in second person POV in fully interactive stories.
The originality of Hyper Dreams comes from the options available to customise each story. Before you embark on your next sex adventure, you choose the characters’ names and ages, your gender, their gender, and several other details that make the story more personal. Once the form is complete, sit back, read and whack away to the fantasy of your dreams.
Rushed for time? You can call in for a quickie and get off with a shorter story. Hyper Dreams also has collaborative sex stories where you join in with other members and add your own page to an ongoing porn adventure.
The site design is basic, but it all works, and there is a clear menu to guide anybody who has yet to experience this popular brand of interactive erotica.
Hyper Dreams currently features:
- 200+ customizable sex stories
- 70+ quickies (short stories)
- 56+ lesbian stories
- 40+ gay stories
- Four collaborative stories
- 48 audio jerk-off instructions with photos
- 10 interactive erotic audio stories
You can get lifetime access to Hyper Dreams for a one-time fee of $24.95 (non-recurring).
8. CHYOA.com
CHYOA.com is another popular source of interactive erotic fiction. Launched in 2014, the site hosts over 18,300 erotic stories made up of 784,700+ chapters. That’s an awful lot of sexy reading, and a whole lot of interactive storytelling for anybody looking for fresh CYOA sex stories.
CHYOA.com is one of the world’s largest CYOA erotica sites, and certainly one of the most popular — currently attracting over 3.5 million readers per month. It has an active and vocal readership, offering multi-genre adventures where collaborative storytelling is encouraged, with members contributing to ongoing sex escapades.
CHYOA features a ‘discover’ page which gives you all the latest hot adventures. These include amateur, BDSM, bisexual stories, fetish, gay, lesbian, mature, science fiction, swingers and trans stories. If your dirty mind can think it, you can probably find it on CHYOA.com.
On that note: we noticed the site contains some non-consensual and incest-type stories that some people might not approve of.
Overall, CHYOA is easy to use and has a member-friendly interface where the top stories are listed front and centre. There are decent search and sort options, plus an easy registration process so you can bookmark your favorite titles and interact with other users.
Admittedly, some of the stories lack quality, and you may occasionally bump in to troll readers on the site. This is all part and parcel of a CYOA site that is 100% free to use.
While the site is free, if you want to remove the adverts (thankfully there aren’t that many of them) you can contribute to the site’s upkeep via SubscribeStar. It’s a simple deal: you pledge a monthly amount you are comfortable with, and in return, you receive free stories, other goodies, and thanks.
9. CHYOO.com
CHYOO is an erotic ‘choose your own path’ site with over 5,700 adult stories. It has been around since 2002, and is owned by the same company that runs Literotica (the OG of erotic sex stories).
CHYOO has a very basic design and is home to:
- 104,033 “free-thinking” users
- 5,723 stories
- 160,319 pages
- Many happy endings
From the basic homepage, you can choose stories by their newness, freshness, rating, or at random. There is also a keyword search option, and a category list outlining 18 genres for your next interactive sex adventure.
These categories include:
- BDSM (312)
- Erotic Couplings (903)
- Fan Fiction (693)
- Gay Male (111)
- Incest (498)
- Lesbian (116)
- Mind Control (272)
- Non-Erotic (36)
- SciFi/Fantasy (978)
- Cheating Wives (131)
- Exhibitionist & Voyeur (179)
- Fetish (247)
- Humor & Satire (57)
- Interracial (111)
- Mature (62)
- Non-English (847)
- Romance (58)
- Swingers (112)
Number of stories in brackets.
The CHYOO site suggests a tongue-in-cheek approach and a sense of fun, yet it is clearly deadly serious about providing quality interactive erotica.
Registration at CHYOO is free, however we encountered problems verifying our email address (no email was received). A user account is necessary to view the full range of interactive stories, so hopefully this bug is fixed soon!
10. Neocities CYOA
https://neocities.org/browse?tag=cyoa
Neocities is a web hosting service established in 2013, offering up to 1GB of free storage space to replace the now-extinct GeoCities. Currently, it hosts over 460,000 sites. More importantly for us, it has become something of a cult destination for hosting CYOA porn sites.
You can browse the CYOA-tagged sites on Neocities to uncover hundreds of different interactive adult adventures. But the best place to find the hot ones is this Reddit post highlighting top-rated NSFW sex stories.
Although the sites are individually created, they follow the same format and have the same aim: to bring you fun, sexy and interactive stories where you create characters and/or follow a sex story according to your decisions.
Ranging from straightforward text stories to illustrated adventures, and from pre-formatted tales to those where you can direct what happens next, there’s a range of kinky worlds to explore.
There are plenty of stories listed on Neocities ‘CYOA’ tagged pages, each one shown with a thumbnail sample which, when clicked, takes you to the start of the adventure. Not all of them have covers or images, but all have titles. There is also an interactive index which takes you to the individual stories.
At the start of a story adventure, you may find AI-generated images to illustrate your choices and advance the story. These are imaginative and very different from anything we’ve seen so far, and it might take you a while to get your head around the variations. Different creators contribute in different ways. Some ask for registration, sign up and/or payment, and others just plunge you straight in to the story.
Note: Some stories take a while to load during which time you see a blank screen. Be patient.
Neocities CYOA stories differ from other CYOA text porn sites in a few ways.
- Many are story prompts, promoting you to create the whole story
- It is a place that encourages creators to code and create their own story worlds
- Some have multiple choice options while others have few, it all depends on the author
- There is a huge variation of styles both in storytelling and illustration (YMMV!)
The quality of each story varies dramatically, but you can find a few CYOA gems just by browsing through the archives. Or sign up to create your own!
What Are The Different Types of Choose Your Path Porn?
As you can see from our list, there are various types of Choose Your Own Path Porn, and Choose Your Own Adventure sites offering live action porn and written erotica. The various types include:
- Traditional pre-recorded porn videos with multiple directional options
- Pre-recorded videos but filmed and presented in Virtual Reality to add more realism
- Written text stories where users invent character names and select adventure options
- Written text stories that are created on demand
- Erotica where anyone can write and contribute their own porn stories
The CYOA concept has proven successful for all types of porn because it:
- Offers interaction above the standard porn video viewing experience
- Is user-controlled, allowing more creativity
- Gives a wider range of possibilities to your porn viewing
- Encompasses totally interactive input from users
- Covers mixed media, video, audio, VR and text porn adventures
Most of all, it’s fun!
Let’s take a closer look at the most popular categories:
CYOA Interactive Porn
Examples of popular CYOA interactive porn sites include: Life Selector, Guy Selector or DezyRed.
These are basically standard porn sites, but their clever use of CYOA controls makes them interactive. The footage has been recorded, and the models have spent hours, maybe days, working through every conceivable combination of her/him, him/her/her, and her/her or him/him, putting themselves in all manner of sexual positions and hammering away until the cumshot. Then, they do it again and he cums on some other part of her body.
In a busted nutshell, the videos are pre-recorded with multiple options (and orgasms), and the user then selects which one he wants to see as the story unfolds.
As the porn happens, you get to make your choices, and a typical run-through might look like this:
- You meet a hottie and there’s a little chat.
- Pause: Do you want to chat more, strip her, cut straight to the cum shot?
- Select and view, enjoy the action until you have another choice to make.
- What position will you fuck her in? Cowgirl, missionary, doggy, reverse cowgirl?
- Select, continue, and enjoy.
- Pause: Will she suck you, wank you, cut to the cum shot?
- And so it goes on, allowing you to decide what you see next.
Interactive porn is a growing market, and even the massive tube sites like PornHub are dedicating resources to this hot new trend. We recommend Life Selector as the most polished dedicated CYOA interactive porn site.
CYOA Sex Stories
Another highly popular form of CYOA Porn comes from sites like Hyper Dreams and CHYOA. Here, the porn is text-based (sometimes known as Choose Your Story Porn). These are written stories that you read as you would any erotic novel, except, you get to choose how the story unfolds.
This kind of CYOA Porn appeals to millions of readers because it leaves more to the imagination. A picture paints a thousand words, but it also takes away the mystery. When you read a well-written erotic story, your mind fills in the gaps, and you tailor-make the details to suit your own fantasies. That’s why text-based CYOA erotica is so popular.
The appeal for the reader is, ‘Anything goes,’ particularly when you are the one who continues the action.
It’s also easy to produce. For the creators, there is no need to hire models, sign forms and set up studios. You simply sit down, write and let your imagination go wild. Also, there are fewer restrictions in written porn. As Oscar Wilde said, ‘There is no such thing as immorality in thought,’ and maybe that’s why written CYOA adventure sites carry more taboo porn and more incest stories.
Text-based CYOA erotica:
- Leaves more to the imagination
- Has fewer restrictions on production
- Allows for wilder fantasies
- Is easier and quicker to produce
- Anyone can produce it on sites such as NeoCities
Create Your Own CYOA Sex Stories
These days, there are tools to help indie developers create their own CYOA porn, and with a little time and application, anyone can learn to use them. One such development tool is the ‘Interactive CYOA Creator’ from Mean Delay.
For $2.50, you can download the programme and get started making your own CYOA content.
CYOA Adult Games
In a survey carried out by F95 Zone, 56.7% of those surveyed said they see adult games strictly as games, as opposed to porn. However, there are sites that blur the boundaries between CYOA porn and adult games.
For CYOA porn to be considered a ‘game’, the player must have more control over the events than simply viewing a pre-recorded porn flick with options. That’s the difference between games and films; with games, you are more involved and have more control.
Sites like Temptation Towers go as far as they can to make the experience real. In this case, they set up an entire block of flats and kitted them out as background to an interactive CYOA porn site, but that still doesn’t give the player total control of the game. Other sites have also done this.
There was a gay site called ‘Twink Boarding School’ where every model came with a school report as proof of age, and invented school records. The models wore uniforms, the pages had their own style that fitted with the idea of the school being a real place, and there were even brochure-style images. But it still wasn’t a totally immersive, player vs story game.
However, sites like DezyRed and Temptation Towers although not ‘games’ as such, remain highly popular, and attract thousands of members. Part of this is because we, as viewers, accept that what we are doing is suspending our disbelief. We want what we are seeing to be real, we want to think we have control over the models and stories, but underneath, we know it’s pre-determined.
We ignore that, though, and lose ourselves in the porn that we’re directing, because that’s the point of the experience: to ‘gamify’ the fun of watching porn.
What Is The Difference Between CYOA Porn and Adult Visual Novels?
There are some key similarities between porn CYOA sites and adult visual novels, but to understand the difference, we first need to be clear about what an adult visual novel is.
There are various types of adult visual novel:
- Traditional, all text
- Illustrated, text and occasional illustrations
- Graphic Novels and comics
- Light novels, with text and some pictures depicting action scenes
- Visual novels, with story twists and turns are decided by the reader
Adult Visual Novels (AVNs) are popular games. Put simply, they are narrative storytelling mixed with explicit images, pornographic animations, text-based dialogue, and choices you make as the player.
That sounds pretty much like CYOA porn, but it’s not. You have more control over these stories than you do over the ‘select an option’ interactive VR and porn flicks. AVNs tend to be mainly produced by enthusiasts, smaller companies, amateurs with time on their hands and indie developers.
CYOA porn is similar to AVNs in that both employ visuals, but AVNs also allow for advanced text-based storylines, and particularly text dialogue. Let’s face it, porn stars are not always known for their acting ability, and sometimes when you hear them deliver classic lines, such as ‘You like that big dick,’ and ‘Take it, ooh yeah, fuck,’ it’s… well, it’s a bit cliché.
When we read printed dialogue, we naturally invent our own voice and hear how we think that character speaks. Therefore, reading an AVN gives us a more natural experience than the forced-interactions of CYOA porn sites, where the actions are limited to what the director has managed to shoot.
Another difference between the two is the quality of production. Most porn studios putting out CYOA porn have money behind them, whereas many AVN games are funded by users, Patreon and donations. That doesn’t mean the quality of artwork or story will be bad, but perhaps the presentation may not be as glossy as a MindGeek funded porn production.
What Is The Difference Between CYOA Porn and Interactive Porn?
The terms CYOA Porn and Interactive Porn are used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing.
With CYOA Porn, the user controls the path of the story through a series of set choices, but there is no physical interaction. No matter how much you imagine yourself as a model in the porn movie, and even if you imitate the actions, you’re still only watching a video. So, how do you make CYOA Porn more physically interactive?
In recent years, porn producers have worked out how to sync their videos to interactive sex toys in real-time, and we’re all very happy about that.
Toys such as Fleshlight can simulate a blowjob exactly as it happens in a POV movie. There are several interactive porn sites that specialise in providing these synced up experience where you can “feel the action“, as opposed to simply controlling the story.
Teledildonics, also known as cyberdildonics, allow us to get closer than ever to experiencing the porn scene through our physical senses. When connected to a compatible video, these toys mimic the physical sensations as they happen in real-time, making for an immersive experience.
In short: CYOA porn and interactive porn are both designed to increase the immersion of the experience, but in very different ways.
What Is The Difference Between CYOA Porn and POV Porn?
There are obvious similarities between CYOA porn sites and POV porn (Point of View).
This is the style of porn where a model (usually the guy) wears a headcam, and you get to enjoy his view of the action. You can bask in the thrill of that direct eye contact, and sure, you might almost convince yourself that you’re the one doing the fucking.
This style of filming has been in use for decades, but it works particularly well in Virtual Reality porn where the viewer can also look around the room and use zoom.
Most CYOA porn sites use POV-style filming to bring an extra edge of reality and put you, literally, in the picture. But there are differences between CYOA and standard POV movies. The most obvious being that a typical POV porn movie has no story choices, no back-and-forth interactions and only one ending.
If you enjoy the style of CYOA porn sites like Life Selector and SaBoom, you may still enjoy the premium POV porn that is so popular on tube sites. But it’s strictly a one-and-done deal.
It takes a lot of time and money to shoot porn scenes with multiple endings and story branches, so you’ll want to use a specialist CYOA porn site if interactivity is the clincher for you
That wraps up our coverage of the top-rated CYOA porn sites in 2023. Are there any sites or apps that we’ve missed where you get to pick what happens next?
Let us know your recommendations. And happy adventuring. 😉
