The Fog Knows Your Name

The Fog Knows Your Name

Role Playing
4.5
33.7K+ Downloads
"Step into the fog to confront your terror: the evil that hides within."

About this app

Step into the fog to confront your terror: the evil that hides within.

The Fog Knows Your Name is a 300,000 word interactive teen horror novel by Yeonsoo Julian Kim, 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.

It's senior year of high school. Your classmate Rex Keller was found dead six months ago, and you were the last person to see him alive. Half the town thinks you murdered him, including his sister, Ennis. The other half believes it was the fog.

In your town, ever since anyone can remember, people die when the fog rolls in. No one knows exactly how or why. Some say the land didn't want the colonizers, so it sends the fog as an agent of vengeance. Some say the Devil himself lurks in the fog, collecting souls. Others believe the fog simply drives people mad, causing them to enact violence onto each other and onto themselves.

There is one element of the tale that remains the same in every telling: those who perish in the fog are guilty of wronging another without confessing to it. Those who admit to causing harm can walk in the fog untouched. The liars die.

Their ghosts haunt the town. They're haunting you, they're haunting Ennis Keller, and they're haunting your friends at school. If you and your friends can't unravel the fog's mysteries in time, those ghosts are going to kill you, one way or another.

• Play as female, male, or non-binary; gay, straight, bi, ace, aromantic, or poly.
• Stop the thing in the fog and exorcise the ghosts who haunt your town.
• Enter the fog and die.
• Solve murders. The clues are just waiting in the fog.
• Entangle yourself in romances with your friends and enemies.
• Protect the town that despises you or take vengeance against them.

When the dead speak, will you give them what they want or put an end to them? Clear the past, clear your name, clear the fog.

App Info

Version
1.0.18
Updated on
Jan 05, 2026
Size
Requires Android
5.0
Installs
33.7K+
Category
Role Playing

What's New

You can now choose a font in the Settings menu. Switch to Helvetica for crisp sans-serif text, or try the OpenDyslexic font, designed against some common symptoms of dyslexia. If you enjoy "The Fog Knows Your Name", please leave us a written review. It really helps!

App Permissions

  • Location
    • approximate location (network-based)
  • Photos/Media/Files
    • read the contents of your USB storage
    • modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
  • Storage
    • read the contents of your USB storage
    • modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
  • Wi-Fi connection information
    • view Wi-Fi connections
  • Other
    • view network connections
    • full network access
    • prevent device from sleeping
    • Google Play license check

Ratings and Reviews

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Shinji Ikari
Apr 07, 2025

one of my favorite choose your own adventure stories!!! as a fan of horror i loved this premise and how it played out, and the characters are all very charming :)

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Saiclique
Apr 26, 2024

It was good but i can't continue it due to.. you know.

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Calcifer Griswald
Jan 02, 2024

This is LITERALLY the best cyoa game/story there is. It's absolutely fantastic, I cannot stress this enough. I cried, okay. I'm being so for real right now. Please. PLEASE, TAKE PART IN THIS BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE!!!!! You. Will. Not. Regret. It. WHATSOEVERRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!

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tallnut
Oct 06, 2023

Allright book. super young adulty if that's your thing. It ended very abruptly for me, kind of soured the experience. The writing is ok, nothing special. The writer could actually use some purple prose in this case because I feel description/turns of phrase are lacking. Kind of dry. Not much characterization/depth to NPCs. The character I romanced just blew me off @ the end along w all my "friends". Someone said this book was scarier than The Passenger which I loved, this book isnt scary at all

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Kittykatelyn Romilly
Sep 12, 2023

Beautiful

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Arinna Byrd
Jul 30, 2023

Very YA novel level writing that was at times clunky and distracting. The plot is really intriguing but the romances were weak. I couldn't help but feel this game had a lot of potential it didn't live up to.