An independent review of interactive fiction, gamebooks and text-based digital literature: how branching stories work, what hidden state does, and how to read a scrollback when an ending arrives without warning.https://excitingpress.com/enhttps://excitingpress.com/blog/reading-a-branching-narrative/https://excitingpress.com/blog/reading-a-branching-narrative/How to read an interactive story as a structure rather than a plot — passages, links, hidden state and endings — and what to check before you decide a branch is broken.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:24:26 GMT