I read so many CYOAs. I particularly remember one set among the Aztecs(maybe??) where you're running a race and there's a very early death state in which you win the race and therefore get sacrificed. But also I remember one where you have an unfortunate incident with a time machine resulting in your perceptions are running ahead of your body by so many seconds or minutes, which seems survivable and even potentially advantageous until you have to cross a road.

I also attempted to write multiple CYOAs, stymied by the fact that I'm bad enough at finishing stories even once: finishing a story in multiple different ways was well beyond my stick-to-it-iveness. The first couple I wrote as a tween I think, but as a teenI also attempted one in Hypercard that included random number generators and tracked variables based on your decisions and was about you being a spaceship captain in a space war and at some point you'd discover you were actually a surgically modified/amnesia-fied person of the opposing force, it'd be all very angsty. I don't think I'd written very much at all in fact but it still gives me all the feels. As does Hypercard, requiescat in pace.