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1136 Narrative games reviewed and scored, best first.
1136 reviews
Klei Entertainment's deck-building roguelite wraps card combat and card-based negotiation around real narrative choice — praised widely for its writing and world, while a consistent, thoughtful minority argue the cards underneath don't hold up to the genre's best.
7 / 10
A noir-western action-platformer whose fluid movement and art draw strong, consistent praise — reviewers compare its platforming favourably to Celeste — undercut by a title weapon gimmick that a large share of players say never gets used in genuinely interesting ways, and a story that leans heavily on narrative weight it hasn't earned.
7 / 10
A hacking game that uses the real tool names — nmap, hydra, nslookup — attached to a linear, guided mission structure. If you've never opened a terminal it's an excellent doorway. If you work in security, it's a puzzle game wearing your job as a costume.
7 / 10
A card-and-dice tabletop RPG that most reviewers call a genuine improvement on its predecessor in almost every way except the one that matters most in the moment -- the real-time combat every encounter drops you into -- from a small Australian studio that closed for good less than two years after release.
7 / 10
A visually striking, thematically ambitious action-adventure whose bold "no map, no quest markers" promise turns out, according to a large share of its own players, to mean hunting for symbol-matched locks and keys rather than genuine intuitive exploration — and whose combat, marketed heavily in trailers, is repeatedly described by its own fans as not actually the point.
7 / 10
A heartfelt, RPG Maker-built throwback to SNES-era JRPGs that reviewers repeatedly call a hidden gem for its writing, characters and old-school combat — clouded by specific reviewer allegations of AI-generated art in some collectible portraits, and real balance complaints about random encounters and an underperforming lead character.
7 / 10
Heroes of Tomorrow: Hidden Potential is Choice of Games' latest text-based interactive novel, a 600,000-word superhero story that drops the player into Evos Academy as a newly-
7 / 10
A Night Shift Gone Wrong, Ohio 1999 [HERROR] Gas Station Case launched August 11, 2026 as the debut episode of a planned horror anthology from the small studio simply called [HERRO
7 / 10
A groundbreaking live-action detective game told entirely through searchable police interview clips, Very Positive across more than 5,000 reviews for its genuinely novel structure — undercut by a specific, severely destructive interface flaw where the button meant to clear saved clips instead resets the entire game, and by a Mac version several reviewers say doesn't play video at all.
7 / 10
A tactical tower defense from solo developer Tearevo built around one flying fortress under siege from every direction — a hex-grid network of turrets, resource collectors and support modules, split between grounded sieges and scrolling air battles, with a roguelite boost draw and a between-mission tech tree layered on top.
7 / 10
A small, sharply written analog-horror phone-operator sim that nails its deadpan-corporate-meets-cosmic-dread tone, undercut for a real share of its audience by a short main campaign whose price tag outran its length until a later free update gave the concept somewhere to go after the credits.
7 / 10
A sprawling, text-only interactive fantasy novel from Choice of Games about a secret academy of sorcery, praised for genuinely branching writing but flagged by one vocal reviewer for its handling of politics and identity.
7 / 10
I Fell for Her is a short, PS1-styled psychological horror game from solo horror developer arydk, casting players as a barber falling for the girl next door while a serial killer stalks the town, and its Very Positive review sample loves the atmosphere and multi-ending mystery while repeatedly wishing for a better balance between haircuts and horror.
7 / 10
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One of gaming's most notorious commercial flops of 2023 — an independently verified $125 million budget, half the studio laid off within months, EA later handing 100% of net revenue to the developer — sits at a genuinely solid 72% positive on Steam, with reviewers criticising clichéd dialogue and poor optimisation while frequently defending the combat and expressing real sympathy for a game whose commercial failure outpaced its actual reception.
7 / 10
A minimalist incremental where every life is a countdown to a death that actually matters — the queue you plan, the story chapter you're on, and the instincts you've earned all carry forward, right up until the game itself stopped moving forward three years ago.
7 / 10
A Kickstarter-backed, Game Boy Color-era Zelda-like from solo developer desertcucco, earning a Very Positive launch reception for its puzzle-dense dungeons and pixel-perfect homage to Link's Awakening and the Oracle games, tempered by honest reviewer complaints about a constrictive, maze-like overworld and a handful of controller and audio bugs.
7 / 10
A Papers Please-lineage courtroom sim set in a satirical, corrupt "Banana Republic" — genuinely strong writing and a well-supported first project undercut by a dice-roll survival mechanic that a large share of its own audience calls broken.
7 / 10
A gorgeous, Pixar-adjacent debut from first-time studio Ember Lab that launched on PlayStation and Epic in September 2021 to near-universal praise for its visuals -- and a just as consistent complaint, across years of reviews, that the combat and story underneath don't quite match them.
7 / 10
A cosy, genuinely inventive horror-comedy about running a 1980s late-night radio show while a killer stalks your callers, undercut by minimal gameplay some reviewers call closer to a visual novel — and by a VR version that was marked for Steam before launch and never arrived.
7 / 10
Roach Games, a debut studio formed by two real-life janitors who self-funded development for years before a successful 2019 Kickstarter, delivers a lovingly crafted SNES-style JRPG about a world built from garbage, earning some of the year's most enthusiastic comparisons to Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG, undercut for a large and specific share of players by a back half that arrives genuinely unfinished.
7 / 10
A short literary horror adventure from solo developer brutal_vap built in RPG Maker MV, Very Positive across a rich English review sample for its rain-soaked atmosphere and honest handling of depression and suicide, with fair complaints about an overused narrative trope, corny dialogue, and technical rough edges.
7 / 10
A fantasy interactive visual novel about a girl who can see the magic threads and shadows nobody else can, offering sixteen distinct endings and reviewers who repeatedly say its branching choices carry real weight — set against a small dissenting minority who found the same choices hollow and the pacing dull.
7 / 10
A Cozy Puzzle Game Built Entirely Out of Codes Locktale is a small, quietly ambitious puzzle game from solo developer Mina Pêcheux, built around a single, well-executed idea: every
7 / 10
Looking Up is BlueRoof Games' debut title, a wordless, sticker-illustrated puzzle game about a girl named Emilia who wants to learn how to fly, and this review's large, near-unanimous sample agrees on almost everything about it — genuinely lovely art and a quietly moving father-daughter story, wrapped around a runtime nearly every reviewer measures in single-digit minutes.
7 / 10
![Key art for [HERROR] Gas Station Case showing a lit-up gas station at night beside a scarred, grinning monstrous face](/assets/reviews/herror-gas-station-case/hero.jpg)
