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993 Narrative games reviewed and scored, best first.
993 reviews
An open-world detective prequel from Frogwares depicting a young Sherlock Holmes investigating his late mother's past, Mostly Positive across nearly 1,700 reviews for its atmosphere and setting — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint from longtime series fans that its open-world structure actively works against the deduction-focused depth that made earlier entries beloved, alongside widely derided combat and shallow puzzle stakes.
6 / 10
A visually striking solo-developer factory game that deliberately refuses to be a clean clicker, idler, or automation game, and ends up frustrating a large share of players who bought it expecting to fit neatly into one of those genres.
6 / 10
A visually stunning, psychedelic horror walking simulator from Blumhouse Games that earns real praise for its art direction and soundtrack, while a large, detailed share of its own review corpus argues thin gameplay, a confusing ending and a short runtime don't justify its asking price.
6 / 10
A cute pixel-art wave-defense shooter sequel following a soldier's little sister into the same doomed war, whose charming presentation and character-recruitment loop draw genuine devotion, tempered by a large, specific negative-review consensus that the core gameplay is too shallow, too easy, and too short to sustain its story-driven replay structure.
6 / 10
A striking Chinese detective mystery visual novel with widely praised art, atmosphere and an innovative case-analysis system, undone for a large share of its audience by a final chapter that reviewers describe as betraying its own protagonist and central theme.
6 / 10
A short, monochromatic Phoenix Wright-style visual novel spin-off set in the Staffer Case universe, following a man trapped in a cycle of death and resurrection while a supernatural conspiracy unfolds, whose atmosphere and premise earn genuine affection tempered by a near-universal agreement that it's a brief, modest addition best enjoyed by fans of the original rather than a substantial standalone experience.
6 / 10
Ubisoft's first open-world Star Wars game delivers genuinely praised atmosphere and world-building as scoundrel Kay Vess, undercut by a real, consistently repeated "Ubisoft formula fatigue" complaint about an empty, on-rails open world, a specific, reproducible manual cloud-save failure that has cost multiple reviewers dozens of hours of progress, and a patch cadence that this review can confirm effectively stopped in mid-2025 even as bug reports continued well into 2026.
6 / 10
A visually striking, technically rocky reboot of a beloved visual novel classic, built on a truncated script and priced well above what its trimmed content can justify.
6 / 10
Akabaka's third cosmic-horror dating sim swaps rituals for a Color Out of Space-inspired feeding puzzle, and while its cast and presentation are as charming as ever, longtime fans widely call it the weakest, shortest and most luck-dependent entry in the series.
6 / 10
A restaurant-management simulation crossed with a visual-novel RPG, following a new Chinese restaurant owner as they form bonds with a warmly written cast and chase one of several endings uncovering the mystery behind their establishment's past downfall — a heartfelt, evidently solo-crafted labour of love whose enthusiastic Very Positive reception sits alongside a substantial, detailed run of bug and balance complaints from its most engaged players.
6 / 10
DONTNOD's Alaska-set mystery about twins piecing together a shared, supernatural childhood memory is gorgeous and well-intentioned, but a large share of its own audience, including many who loved Life is Strange, say the writing and interactivity don't match the studio's earlier work — a critique this review treats as separate from the political backlash the game's trans protagonist also drew.
6 / 10
A Twentieth Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review The Architect of Nowhere released on Steam on 16 September 2026 and has zero user reviews at the time of writing, extending t
6 / 10
A psychedelic, guitar-shredding side-scrolling adventure about a young musician escaping his uncle's folk-legend shadow, Very Positive across nearly 900 reviews for its stunning visual spectacle — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that the actual gameplay is shallow and repetitive, a well-corroborated complaint about unchanging, repetitive music, and a specific progression-blocking bug this review found no evidence of being patched.
6 / 10
The trilogy's finale scores meaningfully lower than either predecessor — a severe, still-live crash and freeze problem compounded by the absence of a manual save option can cost players 30-40 minutes of progress at a time, and reviewers who loved the first two games widely call the conclusion rushed and unsatisfying.
6 / 10
A ground-up remake of Chilla's Art's cult job-sim horror game, widely praised by the studio's own dedicated fanbase as one of its strongest entries yet, undercut by genuinely severe optimisation problems that leave a game this small demanding surprisingly serious hardware to run smoothly.
6 / 10
Cute drinks, creeping dread The Boba Teashop opens as exactly what its title promises: a small, cozy management game where you prepare boba tea drinks for a cast of pixel-art custo
6 / 10
A genuinely unique premise — a disgraced writer who literally dives into books to steal fictional items — undercut by combat reviewers call unnecessary filler and dialogue choices that a striking number say don't meaningfully change anything.
6 / 10
A solo developer's beautiful, steampunk-tinged open-world war-bird combat game, weighed down at launch by floaty controls and a repetitive fly-fight-fly-back mission loop that a genuine, years-long remaster effort has since worked to address.
6 / 10
A solo-developed first-person survival-adventure whose launch was derailed by a viral TikTok describing a completely different game, followed by more than two years of the most aggressive, sustained performance-patching this review has seen from any single-developer release.
6 / 10
USERJOY rebuilds a beloved Taiwanese tactical RPG classic for modern players, bundling in the original 1998 release and genuinely expanded content, but a badly unbalanced level-scaling system threatens to undo the goodwill on harder difficulties.
6 / 10
A grim, pagan-folklore 2D adventure/visual-novel hybrid about a village of children performing dark rituals, whose striking art and world-building earn passionate devotion, tempered by a consistent negative-review theme describing tedious pacing, unresolved plot threads, and a good ending some reviewers found effectively impossible to reach without outside help.
6 / 10
A first-person psychological horror game about interrogating ten fully voice-acted subjects and deciding whether to shock or spare them based on deduced patriotism — a tiny but unanimously positive early review sample that credits a slow, disturbing reveal beneath what first looks like a simple spot-the-detail game.
6 / 10
A beloved puzzle series pivots toward action, and splits its own audience The Rewinder 2 follows a well-regarded puzzle-adventure rooted in Chinese folklore and mythology, and it i
6 / 10
The Sexy Brutale traps a masquerade mansion's guests in a repeating 12-hour loop of murder, tasking the player with learning each death down to the second and rerouting fate to save them. Its atmosphere, music, and worldbuilding earn genuine, specific praise, while an unusually large share of reviewers describe the puzzles underneath that atmosphere as too simple, too linear, and undercut by a widely disliked ending twist.
6 / 10
