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1136 Narrative games reviewed and scored, best first.
1136 reviews
A gorgeous, warmly-written 2.5D skateboarding platformer that earned its Very Positive score on the strength of the game itself -- and has spent the years since fighting a genuinely documented publisher controversy that has nothing to do with skating.
7 / 10
Capcom's first new mainline Onimusha in two decades delivers genuinely excellent combat feel and presentation that draws strong praise from both longtime fans and newcomers, undercut by a specific, well-diagnosed launch crash tied to uncapped frame rates, extremely widely corroborated over-tutorialization, a difficulty many players on both sides call too easy, and a live, unresolved identity dispute over whether the game preserves the franchise's classic DNA or wears it as skin over generic modern souls-like design.
7 / 10
A famously nine-years-in-development pixel-art platformer following a mute flying owl who carries companions into battle, Very Positive across 2,400 reviews for genuinely exceptional art and music — undercut by an extraordinarily consistent complaint that its clumsy carry-and-throw combat and disproportionately punishing boss fights fail to match the presentation, alongside a reported softlock bug and an unaddressed screen-shake/flashing-light discomfort issue.
7 / 10
A supernatural coming-of-age narrative adventure built around naturalistic, radio-tuned dialogue between a group of teenage friends, Very Positive across nearly 6,800 reviews for its atmosphere and voice acting — dominated for roughly a decade by a severe, unaddressed audio-mixing problem that drowned out dialogue with unadjustable music, only fixed around the game's tenth anniversary in early 2026, months before Netflix shut down developer Night School Studio entirely.
7 / 10
A point-and-click puzzle-narrative adventure that casts players as an anthro-robotic submarine obsessed with marine biology, Very Positive across 82 English reviews for its striking Y2K aquapunk aesthetic and distinctive worldbuilding, with a widely repeated complaint that its puzzles can be brute-forced and its backtracking to a central library grows tedious.
7 / 10
The third entry in Eleven Puzzles' two-player Cryptic Killer detective series delivers its most ambitious puzzle variety yet, but a well-corroborated slice of longtime fans felt the shift toward heavy storytelling and minigames came at the expense of what made the earlier games work.
7 / 10
A Square Enix horror-mystery visual novel about ordinary people who gain deadly curses in 1980s Tokyo, built by veteran Trials of Mana and World Ends With You talent — praised almost unanimously for its premise, polish and Steam Deck support, but hit by a specific, widely repeated complaint that its most compelling ideas are largely abandoned after a strong opening.
7 / 10
Owlcat's debut CRPG launched in 2018 famously unfinished, and years of patches earned it a real redemption arc in its own reviews — only for a 2024 change of ownership to hand it a fresh publisher-trust problem that shows up plainly in this year's numbers.
7 / 10
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A bold, deliberately alienating reinvention of Ice-Pick Lodge's cult plague-town saga — swapping the survival-sim hunger and infection management longtime fans loved for a time-looping detective mystery — that landed Very Positive on Steam even as a genuine, detailed split opened up among the series' own most devoted players.
7 / 10
Obsidian's pirate-flavoured CRPG sequel draws real praise for its writing and open-sea setting, but "combat" is the single most-discussed word in its negative reviews — and one detailed review sums up a whole pattern in the corpus: 100+ hours logged, and still never finished.
7 / 10
A time-management cafe sim that pairs genuinely well-regarded, emotionally resonant coming-of-age storytelling with fast, arcade-style service gameplay — undercut by mouse controls several reviewers say the game wasn't really designed for, and a late-game slide into repetitive stations and extreme difficulty swings.
7 / 10
A short, deliberately-finishable incremental about an endlessly-driving car that most of its own audience calls one of the smartest things to happen to the genre in years — and a detailed minority report that argues it fails as an idler, an incremental and an RPG all at once, over a story some reviewers found genuinely uncomfortable rather than just weak.
7 / 10
A Grieving Mother, a Cold War Experiment, and a Window Into the Astral Plane Project Looking Glass, the solo debut of developer MORPH, launched on Steam on August 11, 2026 at $4.99
7 / 10
Building a Killing Machine, One Chapter at a Time Project RAZE: Fall of Terra pitches itself plainly: a fast-paced sci-fi FPS about building the ultimate killing machine, wrapped a
7 / 10
A long-awaited psychic-adventure platformer sequel from Double Fine Productions, Overwhelmingly Positive across more than 8,400 reviews for its outstanding writing, art, and humour — undercut by a consistent, well-corroborated complaint that its level design and combat feel formulaic compared to the original, a story that loses coherence in its second half, and persistent bugs that this review confirmed have gone unpatched for years.
7 / 10
A lovingly remembered cult-classic choose-your-own-adventure JRPG, first released on the WonderSwan Color in 2002, brought to Steam by its original developer with genuine long-term fan devotion intact, undercut by AI-upscaled art several returning fans say makes the remaster look worse than the games they grew up with.
7 / 10
A gorgeous Scandinavian-folklore adventure about grief and redemption from a debut studio of PlayStation veterans — critically Strong and Very Positive on Steam, with a very consistent minority complaint that its puzzle pacing, backtracking and slow, unskippable animations undercut the story it's telling.
7 / 10
A genuinely inventive turn-based combat system and a lovingly painted Bilgewater carry this League of Legends spin-off RPG past safe, archetype-driven writing and a string of bugs that its now-defunct publisher never got the chance to patch.
7 / 10
A stylish "brain punk" action RPG from Bandai Namco with two playable protagonists and genuinely striking presentation -- Very Positive on Steam, though a large share of even its own positive reviews describe a game that runs out of ideas well before the credits, and a cloud-save bug that reviewers say has gone unfixed for years.
7 / 10
A hand-drawn wizard's-eye adventure that wears its years-long Kickstarter journey on its sleeve, drawing near-unanimous praise for its charm, writing and lived-in world, while entering Early Access with only its first of three planned acts and a combat system a detailed minority found undercooked.
7 / 10
A solo developer's chapter-based mashup of visual novel dialogue and chaotic zombie-wave shooting, built around remembering conversation details while fending off the undead, whose witty writing and generous demo win reviewers over even as chapter-to-chapter progress resets and a few underbaked late chapters draw real criticism.
7 / 10
The closing chapter of the rebooted Survivor trilogy swapped Crystal Dynamics for Eidos-Montreal and gunfights for stealth and puzzles -- a deliberate pivot that split reviewers in 2018 and, eight years and a Definitive Edition later, is still what most players argue about, alongside a specific progress-blocking puzzle bug that outlived several rounds of patches.
7 / 10
A quiet, deeply loved narrative deckbuilder about keeping a family shop and a caravan route alive while conversations themselves become the game's core mechanic — and, for a vocal minority, its central frustration once card types compound faster than most players can keep up with.
7 / 10
A glass demon skates through nine layers of a low-poly, PS2-inspired Underworld to a Blood Cultures soundtrack that reviewers call legendary — a striking, deeply personal art project whose Overwhelmingly Positive reception hides a genuine, detailed split over whether the actual trick-chaining mechanics underneath all that style hold up, with some reviewers directly and unfavourably comparing them to 25-year-old Tony Hawk games.
7 / 10
