Watch Dogs Mobile: Ubisoft Series Now Playable

                Watch Dogs, Ubisoft's hacker-centric series of third-person shooters, is coming to mobile!
                Well, sort of, a new interactive audio adventure has just debuted on Audible
                You'll decide how the story progresses by making decisions to guide Dedsec's next move
            

Love it or loathe it, Watch Dogs, Ubisoft's series of hacker-centric third-person shooters is a franchise that's still a cornerstone of their catalogue. And the French gaming giant doesn't seem set to shrink that focus anytime soon, especially not as the series makes its first foray onto mobile!

Wait, what? You can play Watch Dogs on mobile?! Well, not precisely as you might expect, dear reader. Watch Dogs: Truth is not a full-fledged mobile original release in the vein of the mainline entries, but is actually a much older kind of interactive experience, an audio adventure! Available now on Audible, it lets you guide the story by making choices as it progresses.

Yes, it's a format as old as, well, when was the first choose-your-own-adventure book published? (The answer is sometime in the 30s apparently) The story sees hacktivist group Dedsec once more on the out with the authorities and having to combat a new, insidious threat in near-future London, guided by the self-aware AI Bagley who'll help you make decisions after each episode.

Here's something to make you feel, if not elderly then somewhat astonished, Clash of Clans is roughly the same age as the Watch Dogs franchise (I know!). And yet it's still unusual to see the series only now venturing onto mobile with this peculiar new release. At the same time, I'm no doubter of the concept of audio adventures (my support for Steve Jackson's F.I.S.T. notwithstanding); so I'm thrilled to see the idea given a bit more effort with a major franchise like this.

At the same time, it certainly does speak to the oddities of Watch Dogs in its somewhat haphazard approach, and the limited marketing this seems to have received. At the same time, I think we'll all be cautiously monitoring Watch Dogs: Truth to see just how well it connects with those of you who try it!