Choice Chamber (PC) review "An ingenious concept, but unfortunately shallow in application."

Studio Bean’s 2015 Choice Chamber offers a concise action platformer with an interesting quirk for content creators, as stream viewers help dictate the action. Blending relatively simple platforming with light metroidvania-style combat, Choice Chamber offers a unique—if not always deep—experience.

Choice Chamber’s core gameplay loop sees players traverse rooms of various sizes, each filled with various enemies, hazards, and collectibles. After a series of successful room completions, the player is presented with a ‘choice chamber’ that endows them with an upgrade/power, or inflicts some kind of wacky modifier. These alterations and modifications add neat variation to Choice Chamber, meaning each run can play relatively differently at first.

Where Choice Chamber really offers a unique experience is in the game’s ability to link with Twitch’s API, enabling a streamer’s chat to vote on the outcome of powerups and status effects, as well as interact in various ways. This enables an additional level of interactivity for viewers, while also introducing additional scope for random and emergent experiences on behalf of the player.

Despite the ingenuity of this aspect, the focus on this streamer-viewer interaction means that—as a regular single player game—the experience is significantly more shallow. While there is a system in place that replaces audience interaction with randomly selected options, this system risks delaying play, as players must still wait for the countdown to reduce, and risks glitching if the timer is set too low. Consequently, while Choice Chamber presents an interesting concept, this same concept significantly hinders the flow of solo play.

Stylistically, Choice Chamber embodies a bright palette and storybook-inspired visuals. While this style may not appeal to all, and can risk seemingly simplistic, this style is clean, and enables each level to be highly readable. Simultaneously, the simplicity of the style works to create a cohesive visual direction regardless of the combination of enemies, room layouts, and powerups that populate the level.

Choice Chamber ultimately presents a largely cohesive, but somewhat narrow in scope experience. While it would be an interesting game to engage with as a viewer, and a useful game for building interaction as a content creator, the game doesn’t offer a great deal of depth as a solo videogame. While not without merit, Choice Chamber emerges as a perfectly fine, if slightly lack-lustre experience that is interesting in concept, but unlikely to hold your engagement for too long.

Community review by cjdh (December 27, 2025) A bio for this contributor is currently unavailable, but check back soon to see if that changes. If you are the author of this review, you can update your bio from the Settings page.