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1136 Narrative games reviewed and scored, best first.
1136 reviews
A lovingly detailed hidden-object adventure widely praised for its charming art, Where's-Waldo-style exploration and heartfelt story, held back by a marketing gap that disappoints players expecting pure object-hunting rather than heavy visual-novel narration, a specific, repeatedly documented progression-blocking bug, and scattered content complaints from a minority of reviewers.
7 / 10
Sophie Roy Returns, This Time on the High Seas Lost & Found: A This Bed We Made Story launched on Steam on August 5, 2026 at $6.99, a standalone follow-up to developer Lowbirth Gam
7 / 10
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A Tim Burton-flavoured action-adventure where every citizen's fate is set by a dice roll at birth, built around a genuinely original hybrid of real-time dodging and card-hand-style dice combat that runs out of new ideas well before the story does.
7 / 10
A Free Platformer With Old-School Bones Lost Light, released free on Steam August 29, 2026 by Woofle Studios, casts players as a young soul tasked with carrying the primordial Flam
7 / 10
Filling a real gap in an underserved genre Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate casts its protagonist under a curse breakable only by finding true love, sending her toward a cast of roma
7 / 10
An eerie pixel-art otome visual novel from FallenCranberry Studio about investigating a husband's mysterious death while navigating multiple suitors and a hidden cult, drawing a large, largely enthusiastic 106-review English sample that credits its atmosphere and writing while flagging fair, corroborated complaints about game-breaking bugs and an unsatisfying, thinly resolved ending.
7 / 10
A handsome, deliberately linear twelve-hour crime story in 1900s Sicily that three in five buyers actually finish — released at NZ$119.95, which is the number most of its arguments are really about.
7 / 10
A genuinely excellent tactical card-battler from the XCOM team, buried at launch under a season pass and paid cosmetics stacked on top of a full-price single-player game, forced launcher software that broke performance, and — years later — a Terms of Service change reviewers describe in the harshest possible terms.
7 / 10
Meet Claude is a free, one-to-two-hour choice-driven narrative satire from Farniente Lab about an impossibly helpful AI roommate who quietly erodes the protagonist's independence, and this review's sample finds a genuinely thoughtful premise — sharpened by the developer's own disclosure that the entire game was made using generative AI — undercut by two specific minigame sequences several reviewers found frustrating rather than illuminating.
7 / 10
One of the greatest games ever made, rebuilt shot for shot and shipped at NZ$114.99 with performance problems Konami stopped patching in January — now 60% off, eleven months later, for reasons the review page makes obvious.
7 / 10
A cozy item-organising narrative game that finally scratches the Unpacking itch for a devoted audience of fans, built around the promise that your decorating choices shape a lifetime — a promise many reviewers say the game doesn't quite deliver on as meaningfully as its premise suggests.
7 / 10
A genuinely well-written, beautifully presented monster-taming JRPG that sits at Mostly Positive on Steam — noticeably lower than the other entries in Capcom's extraordinary 2025-2026 run — because of two real, well-documented problems even its fans agree on: severe launch-window crashing that Capcom itself has confirmed and investigated, and a genuine feature regression from its predecessor, stripping out multiplayer and meaningful endgame content.
7 / 10
A Mobile Otome, Transplanted to Steam Moonlight Dialogue is an otome visual novel built around a chat-and-phone-call interface, in which you play the "Finder" at a moonli
7 / 10
A genuinely unsettling psychological horror story about grief and identity, praised even by its critics for atmosphere and sound design, undercut by one specific, near-universally disliked mechanic gating its true ending — an apple-picking replay loop several fans single out by name as the game's one real flaw.
7 / 10
A point-and-click medieval adventure built for js13k 2023, judged 12th of the field for its graphics — genuinely beautiful flat-vector art wrapped around a short, occasionally obtuse puzzle-adventure that works properly by tap on a phone.
7 / 10
The Bearded Ladies' XCOM-inspired tactics game, from former Hitman and Payday designers, is Very Positive on Steam eight years on -- but its marketing promise of open tactical freedom runs into a review history that's remarkably consistent about a harder truth: there's really only one viable way to play it, and the game punishes almost every other approach severely.
7 / 10
My Last War is a free experimental World War I kinetic novel from solo studio Prussian Productions, casting players as Maria Strauss, a philosophically-minded 19-year-old German sergeant determined to end the war after a revealing dream, and this review's unanimous small sample praises its unusual anime-meets-early-20th-century-art identity and genuinely serious themes while being clear-eyed about how little traditional gameplay it offers.
7 / 10
The emotionally heavier conclusion to a joke-clicker trilogy about tapping a jar of mayonnaise, winning over most longtime fans with a surprisingly sincere finale while a real minority say the tonal shift clashes with the series' silly premise and drags in its middle.
7 / 10
Mythmatch is a narrative-driven merge and town-building game from Team Artichoke about a rejected goddess who finds purpose helping mortals rebuild their community, and this review's sample finds a genuinely original, anti-capitalist spin on the merge genre held back by real early-access-style navigation and soft-lock issues the developer has spent months patching, plus a grind that sets in as the story wraps up.
7 / 10
An acclaimed narrative adventure following college dropout Mae back to her declining hometown of Possum Springs, Very Positive across more than 13,400 reviews for its writing, art and music — undercut by a consistent complaint that its slow-paced, repetitive daily loop and late-arriving plot don't fully earn a runtime some reviewers describe as padded, and by a planned sequel that was quietly cancelled in 2023.
7 / 10
A gorgeous, art-deco retrofuturistic noir about a detective whose city has conquered death itself, undercut by a "detective gameplay" system that a remarkably consistent share of its own reviewers describe the same way — the game always tells you exactly which tool to use, leaving little room to actually deduce anything yourself.
7 / 10
An award-winning deduction game that turns a decade-old cold case into a literal jigsaw puzzle of fragmented witness testimony, whose genuinely inventive core mechanic earns real critical acclaim, tempered by a widely and specifically reported barrier: an unintuitive, minimally-taught interface that leaves many players fighting the UI as much as the mystery itself.
7 / 10
A solo-developed debut JRPG that trades combat depth for a short, striking monochrome Alice in Wonderland-inspired journey led by an omnipresent Cheshire Cat, winning over a small but unanimously enthusiastic pool of reviewers who praised its atmosphere and music while flagging that its party-synergy systems barely get room to breathe before the story ends.
7 / 10
A Search Bar, a Forum, and a Very Bad Cult No Results Found, a free desktop-investigation sim from Korean studio Zzangdol Games, drops you behind a fictional 1990s-style computer a
7 / 10
