Comparison

Imprisoned vs A Midsummer Night's Choice

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Imprisoned

Escape a high-security prison using your intellect, skills, or strength. Uncover dungeon secrets, interact with a fellow inmate, and discover who framed you. Embark on a challenging fantasy adventure.

Highlights
  • Choose your escape method
  • Explore prison secrets
  • Interact with a co-prisoner
  • Fantasy quest
  • Determine responsibility for arrest
Features
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Use your incredible wits, fantastic skills and/or magnificent strength to choose your way out of a heavily guarded prison! Reveal the secrets of the dungeon, meet the mysterious co-prisoner and determine who's responsible for your arrest. Grab your gear and prepare yourself for a hard fantasy quest. Remember, escaping from a prison is not a task for kids or grannies!

About

A Midsummer Night's Choice

Embark on a text-based interactive fantasy novel inspired by Shakespeare. Your choices shape the narrative as you navigate mistaken identities, enchanted forests, and the pursuit of forbidden love. Explore different roles and outcomes in this imaginative adventure.

Highlights
  • Interactive text-based adventure
  • Player choices control the story
  • Multiple character roles and identities
  • Explore enchanted forest setting
  • Romance and comedy elements
  • Optional Director's Commentary
Features
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In this Shakespearean comedy adventure, can forbidden love conquer adorable fairy outlaws? "A Midsummer Night's Choice" is a 190,000-word interactive fantasy novel by Kreg Segall, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind" When your father, the Duke, tries to force you to marry, you'll leave civilization behind as you flee in disguise, cross-dressed, into the enchanted forest. Mistaken identities, inexplicable bears, and tiny but fearsome fairies await! (Seriously, they wear little walnut shells for helmets, and ride armored baby bunnies into battle.) Will you fall into the mysterious Faerie Queene's clutches? Will you (or your identical doppelganger) find true love? Or will your father's spies find you first? Hold on to your heart! The course of true love never did run smooth. NEW! Do you want to know more about the origins of this game? Do you want to impress your friends with how much you know about Shakespeare? And more importantly, do you want to know why there's a bear? Now you can purchase the Director's Commentary! In the "Director's Commentary" mode, an extra option will appear on certain choices, "View new commentary," allowing you to read the author's notes about that moment in the story. The author, Kreg Segall, is Associate Professor of English at Regis College, in Massachusetts, where he teaches and writes about medieval and Renaissance literature. In addition to his scholarly work on Shakespeare and Spenser, he has been writing live role-playing games for over twenty years. • Play as male or female, gay, straight, or bi. • Inspire the world with your noble deeds, or play everything for laughs. • Star in a play within a play. (Er, within a game...that you are playing.) • Become a jester, a diplomat, a knight, a poet, a shepherd--or leave the world behind and join the fairy court. • Why is there a bear?!

Screenshots

Imprisoned4 screens
A Midsummer Night's Choice4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: A Midsummer Night's Choice at 4.4 against Imprisoned's 4.1. A Midsummer Night's Choice also leads on update cadence (every 6 months vs every 17 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Imprisoned sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and A Midsummer Night's Choice sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

A Midsummer Night's Choice holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 78 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Imprisoned's written reviews are positive against 72% of A Midsummer Night's Choice's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Imprisoned ships an update every 17 months, A Midsummer Night's Choice every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Imprisoned versus A Midsummer Night's Choice: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImprisonedA Midsummer Night's Choice
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (29 ratings)4.4 (78 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews71.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2978 — better
Update frequencyEvery 17 monthsEvery 6 months — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB29 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperHosted Games LLCChoice of Games LLC

Customer experience

Imprisoned

All ratings29 ratings
Positive79.3%
Neutral13.8%
Negative6.9%
Written reviews57 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral7.0%
Negative26.3%

A Midsummer Night's Choice

All ratings78 ratings
Positive84.6%
Neutral5.1%
Negative10.3%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive71.7%
Neutral5.7%
Negative22.6%

User reviews

Imprisoned

From 29 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Interesting storyline potential
  • 💡 Lots of interesting options
  • 😂 Humorous elements
  • 💯 Highly recommended
  • ✨ Well written

Room to improve

  • 🐌 Slow storyline progression
  • 😴 Boring gameplay
  • 📝 Poor writing and grammar
  • 🤔 Confusing continuity
  • 🗣️ Excessive profanity

A Midsummer Night's Choice

From 78 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✍️ Well-written story and dialogue
  • 😂 Humorous and witty content
  • 🎭 Shakespearean inspiration appreciated
  • 🔄 High replayability
  • 💖 Engaging characters

Room to improve

  • 💰 Overpriced full game
  • 💸 Expensive chapters/payment
  • 🤏 Short game length for price
  • 🤷‍♂️ Obvious plot points
  • 📉 Choices didn't matter much

Bugs and requests

Imprisoned

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Grammar and spelling errors
  • Game ends with a week left
  • Impossible to open portal in time
  • Count-down timer does not work properly
  • Progress discrepancies
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  • Crashes when going from stats page back to story

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add more genres to scene settings
  • Make the game longer
  • Add romance options
  • Create a sequel
  • Improve editing and polish
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  • Fix crashes when navigating stats page

A Midsummer Night's Choice

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Cannot restore purchases
  • Game won't open/crashes
  • Blank white screen at bear scene
  • Achievement error/stuck
  • Repeated sentences
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  • Game crashes too often
  • Error pop-up on play

Requested features

5 requests
  • Make all chapters free
  • Offer free chapters as ads
  • Sequels to expand story
  • Lower or abolish price
  • More Shakespeare-related CYOA content

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Imprisoned

One-time1
  • Remove Advertising$4.99
2 purchases

A Midsummer Night's Choice

One-time2
  • Commentary Track$0.99
  • Rest of the Game$5.99

Questions

Is Imprisoned free?
Imprisoned is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is A Midsummer Night's Choice free?
A Midsummer Night's Choice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Imprisoned or A Midsummer Night's Choice?
A Midsummer Night's Choice is rated higher. Imprisoned averages 4.1 out of 5 from 29 ratings, while A Midsummer Night's Choice averages 4.4 from 78 ratings.
Do Imprisoned or A Midsummer Night's Choice have ads?
Both Imprisoned and A Midsummer Night's Choice show ads.
Which is updated more often, Imprisoned or A Midsummer Night's Choice?
Imprisoned ships an update every 17 months, and A Midsummer Night's Choice every 6 months. Most recently, Imprisoned was updated on October 23, 2026 and A Midsummer Night's Choice on October 24, 2026.

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