About This Game

Be! Heroic! B-E heroic! When villainy rules the streets of New York, it’s up to you to grab your pompoms, lead the cheer squad, and climb to the top of the pyramid to save the city!

Cheerleader's Choice: New York Spirit is an interactive novel by former cheerleader Charli Battersby. Your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based, 295,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects, fueled by the vast unstoppable power of your imagination. You’ll cheer and you’ll lead, in a game that you read!

As a member of one of New York’s fiercest cheer squads, you and your friends keep up the city’s spirits. New York desperately needs good cheer these days: masked vigilantes rule its chaotic dystopian streets, frightening locals and tourists alike. Can you turn this city’s frown upside down? Or maybe just turn yourself upside down, in high-flying stunts that wow the crowds! 

Cheer your way from Central Park to Coney Island. (Can you win the hotdog eating contest [i]and[/i] lead your squad to victory?) Will you B-E aggressive and fight off the villains? You can use your squad’s teamwork and cheerleading skills to solve mysteries, win dance-offs, and live a life of altruism, turning New York back into a utopia! Or will you become a pompom vigilante yourself? Either way, you might just be the cheerleader that your city needs.

• Play as male, female, or nonbinary; cis or trans; gay, straight, or bi; young or old

• Choose your position within the stunt pod: base, backspot, or flyer.

• Romance enthusiastic Wendi, glitter-loving Robbie, athletic long-time friend Pepper, altruistic flyer Bryttany, himbo Bryan, glamorous Rikki, sweet anxious Carrie, shy leader Johnny, or outgoing Larry.

• Choose your team’s name and signature colors, and design their uniform! Be classic, sexy, sporty, or bizarre.

• Climb the pyramid to become captain of your team, or storm off to form a rival squad!

• Discover the secret identity of the masked crime-fighter known as "The Spirit Stick."

• Shatter every cheerleader stereotype! Or, like, embrace them? Like, sincerely or subversively?

We’ve got spirit! How about you?