Best Episodic

The Walking Dead: Season One is a story-driven video game set in a post apocalyptic world overrun by zombies. It focuses on the evolving relationship between Lee Everett and Clementine as they navigate desperate circumstances. The game’s narrative emphasizes difficult choices and their lasting impac...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine follows the activities of the space station Deep Space Nine in the 24th century. The station’s location near a wormhole connects it to the unexplored Gamma Quadrant, presenting challenges for the United Federation of Planets. The series ran for seven seasons, spanning 176...

Endel Tulving was an Estonian-born Canadian experimental psychologist known for research on human memory. In 1972 he distinguished episodic memory, involving personally experienced events situated in time and place, from semantic memory, involving general knowledge not tied to a specific recollectio...

Wu Jingzi’s *The Scholars* offers a vivid portrayal of late 18th-century China. This picaresque novel follows a group of impoverished men navigating corruption and social injustice through episodic adventures. It's notable for its sharp satire targeting the rigid civil service examination system and...

The Wolf Among Us is an episodic adventure game adapted from Bill Willingham’s comic book series. Set in Fabletown, a hidden community within New York City populated by fairytale characters, the game follows Sheriff Bigby Wolf as he investigates multiple murders. Five episodes were released between...

Scarlet Hollow is a mystery horror visual novel developed by Black Tabby Games. The game unfolds through an episodic structure, exploring a dark narrative set in the Appalachian region. It’s notable for its atmospheric storytelling and focus on suspenseful investigation. Scarlet Hollow is designed f...

The Walking Dead: Season One is a 2012 graphic adventure game developed by Telltale Games. It follows Lee Everett as he protects Clementine during an outbreak in Georgia, featuring five main episodes and one DLC released between April and July of that year. Player choices significantly impact the na...

Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix is a compilation featuring Kingdom Hearts II, Birth by Sleep, and Re:coded. Released initially for the PlayStation 3 in 2014, it serves as a remastered collection of prior Square Enix titles within the Kingdom Hearts series. The release followed the earlier HD 1.5 Remix c...

Life is Strange, an episodic narrative adventure, centers around Max Caulfield, a photography student who discovers she can rewind time. This ability is initially used to navigate social awkwardness, but quickly becomes crucial to solving a larger mystery and preventing a tragedy. The games strength...

Due to the violence portrayed in the Cowboy Bebop world and violence in Japanese schools, the series was briefly cancelled and an extra session was created as a final episode to the first thirteen episodes aired. Called "Session XX: Mish-Mash Blues," a compilation of clips from previous episodes, it...

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour presented a series of standalone mystery and thriller stories each week from 1962 to 1965. Hosted by Alfred Hitchcock himself, the anthology explored themes of suspense, crime, and psychological drama. These self-contained episodes typically featured original narratives and...

The Walking Dead: Season Two is a 2013 episodic graphic adventure game developed by Telltale Games following the original title. The narrative structure features player choices impacting future story elements, building upon save files from previous episodes including "400 Days." Clementine returns a...

Star Trek: Picard is a CBS All Access television series set in the 24th century, twenty years following Jean-Luc Picard’s departure from active duty as a Starfleet Admiral. The show centers on the retired character and forms part of an expanded Star Trek Universe developed by Kurtzman and others. It...

This classic anthology series features Lieutenant Columbo solving crimes through meticulous observation and brilliant deductive reasoning. The format reveals the murder and perpetrator at the start, making the journey more important than the destination. Peter Falk's iconic portrayal created televis...

The Walking Dead (Telltale Game) is a narrative-driven video game series released in 2012. It adapts Robert Kirkman’s comic book story focusing on the relationship between Lee Everett and Clementine as they navigate a zombie-infested post-apocalyptic world. The game's interactive storytelling emphas...

Star Wars: Visions presents an animated anthology series exploring established and expanded Star Wars lore through distinct Japanese animation styles. Eight independent episodes, produced by multiple studios, offer unique interpretations of the galaxy’s themes and characters. The project highlights...

Sam & Max Save the World is a graphic adventure developed by Telltale Games through an episodic release format. Six episodes were initially distributed online between late 2006 and early 2007, with subsequent ports available on Wii, Xbox Live Arcade, Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. A remaster w...

Armchair Theatre was a long-running British television anthology series broadcast by ITV from 1956 to 1974. It featured a new, self-contained dramatic play each week, establishing itself as a significant force in live television drama. The series showcased established and emerging writers and actors...

World End Economica episode.03 delivers a conclusive narrative within the series’ ambitious sci-fi economic framework. This final installment wraps up Isuna Hasekura's complex journey through the lunar stock market, exploring themes of finance, relationships, and societal collapse. It is designed fo...

"Accused" is a British television anthology series created by screenwriter Jimmy McGovern, airing on BBC One from 2010 to 2012. Each standalone episode follows a different individual sitting in a courtroom dock awaiting a criminal verdict, using a non-linear narrative to reveal the events that led t...

Criminal: UK is a British police procedural anthology series created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith for Netflix. First released in 2019, it is staged almost entirely in an interrogation room and the adjacent observation area, with each episode centered on a different suspect and a self-contained...

fault - milestone two side:above is a 2015 kinetic visual novel by Alice in Dissonance, notable as the second fault entry and a direct sequel.

"Little America" is an anthology television series created by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon that premiered on the Apple TV+ streaming platform in 2020. The show is based on true stories originally published in Epic Magazine, with each standalone half-hour episode focusing on a different immigr...

2007–2008 episodic adventure series by Telltale Games, second season of Sam & Max: Freelance Police, continuing the episodic format of Season One.

Tales of Monkey Island is a 2009 graphic adventure developed by Telltale Games under license from LucasArts. Released in five episodic segments between July and December 2009, it’s the fifth installment in the Monkey Island series. The game features an ongoing narrative across its chapters, availabl...

Taisho x Alice Episode 3 is the third part of Primula's otome visual novel series, expanding the central mystery behind its fairy-tale worlds.

"fault - milestone one" is a kinetic visual novel developed by the Japanese dōjin group ALICE IN DISSONANCE. It is the first entry in the "fault" series and was originally released in 2013 before being localized and published by Sekai Project. The narrative follows a princess and her royal guardian...

2006–2007 episodic adventure series by Telltale Games based on Steve Purcell's Sam & Max, an early commercial validation of the episodic release model.

The Wonderful World of Disney began as 'Disneyland' on ABC in 1954, created by Walt Disney as his company's first regular television program. The anthology series has aired under various names across ABC, NBC, and CBS, making it one of the longest-running primetime series in American television hist...