The Choice Based Game Trend

Anyone remember when game studios all collectively decided that their games would have a lot of choices? How does that affect the gameplay of video games anyways? Games in order: 1. Heavy Rain 2. Minecraft Story Mode 3. Ib (pixelated horror game if you’re into that!) 4. I just want to be single!! (Aromantic dating sim) 5. Bad End Theater (INCREDIBLE visual novel HIGHLY recommend) 6. Until Dawn 7. Class of 09 8. Detroit Become Human 9. OxenFree (very cool horror game) 10. Mad Father (another pixel horror game) 11. Dream Daddy 12. Henry Stickmin 13. Date Everything! 14. Slay the Princess (again, great game) 15. Undertale 16. Deltarune 17. Life is Strange 18. Telltale’s Batman 19. Telltale’s Back to the Future 20. The Walking Dead 21. The Stanley Parable 22. Celeste (not choice based but an awesome platformer) 23. Sonic Boom (lol) 24. Elden Ring 25. Baulder’s Gate 3 26. Emily is Away (dating sim)