Past Mistakes is an interactive science fiction gamebook for iOS that uses branching narratives to offer multiple story endings.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Games
Sentiment
4.2
68 reviews
Nemesis
Fragmented field
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
The app serves readers who want to influence the outcome of a dystopian story, replacing the static experience of traditional novels with active choice-based mechanics.
For Fans of science fiction, dystopian literature, and interactive gamebooks who prefer agency in narrative outcomes.
What does it look like?
Key features
Reader decisions trigger specific plot paths and multiple unique endings, encouraging multiple playthroughs.
Text-based story content accompanied by integrated images and music.
Initial story content available for free with a full version unlock option.
How much does it cost?
The freemium model uses a trial-to-unlock gate, allowing users to sample the interactive narrative before committing to the full version.
Velocity
Dormant developmentopaqueShow more...
The app has been inactive for 3306 days, showing no signs of development or maintenance. There have been no updates or feature additions in the provided history, confirming a total lack of development momentum. The project appears to be abandoned.
Who built it?
Living a Book
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What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans mixed. Users appreciate the core science fiction narrative and world building capture the imagination of players effectively and high quality graphics and sound design provide a polished atmosphere for the interactive story.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- The core science fiction narrative and world building capture the imagination of players effectively
- High quality graphics and sound design provide a polished atmosphere for the interactive story
- The story length is insufficient and ends too abruptly to satisfy the player base
22 of 22 recent reviews analyzed · moderate confidence · Mixed overall
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Competitive landscape for Past Mistakes - Science Fiction dystopian Book app
How's the Games market?
Past Mistakes maintains a 4.2-star rating from 68 total ratings. The lack of updates since 2017 positions the app as a legacy title in the Games category, with no active chart presence.
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Key takeaways for Past Mistakes - Science Fiction dystopian Book app
Where is it heading?
The interactive book market has shifted toward subscription-based libraries, leaving static titles like Past Mistakes at a disadvantage. Without technical maintenance to resolve launch crashes, the app will continue to lose its remaining user base to more stable, updated alternatives.
- The nine-year development silence prevents the app from functioning on modern hardware, which accelerates user churn and erodes the rating baseline.
The SWOT
- Branching narrative structure encourages multiple playthroughs
- Multimedia integration creates an immersive reading atmosphere
- Expanding the library with additional dystopian titles
Next best moves
Audit launch crashes because users report immediate failures upon opening → improve retention
The counter-intuitive read
The lack of updates since 2017 is a competitive risk…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The outlook trend has declined from stable to declining, as the nine-year development silence is now explicitly framed as a barrier to hardware compatibility and long-term retention.
Bottom line
Technical instability and short content duration limit the appeal of Past Mistakes, so addressing the launch crashes would stabilize the existing user base before attempting to expand the narrative length.
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Sources
- [1] App Store, source
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