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993 Narrative games reviewed and scored, best first.
993 reviews
A Lovecraftian open-world detective game that spent nearly four years yanked off Steam entirely by a publisher lawsuit, then came back in 2024 as a self-published "Remastered" rebuild that swapped out the version some owners specifically wanted to keep -- Mostly Positive today, praised for atmosphere and mythos, criticized for repetitive investigation, weak combat, and a rocky relaunch.
6 / 10
A character-driven RPG set in 1905 Warsaw about a demon-commanding thaumaturge investigating his father's death against the backdrop of Rasputin's rise, whose striking setting, writing, and voice acting win real devotion, tempered by a remarkably consistent complaint, echoed even by many admirers, that its investigation and combat systems offer little genuine challenge or player agency.
6 / 10
A short, PS1-styled psychological horror game about a lone worker rationing breath at a remote mountain train station, whose oppressive atmosphere and sound design earn real admiration, tempered by a sharply split reception over its thin, abruptly-ending story and a specific, repeated set of softlock and save-system bugs that cost some players their entire playthrough.
6 / 10
A Kickstarter-backed spiritual successor to Planescape Torment that inherited its predecessor's greatest weakness (combat) more than its strength — checked directly against Planescape's own current numbers, the gap between "spiritual successor" and "successor" is stark.
6 / 10
Tower of Time sends a growing party of champions up a mysterious tower using a pausable, slow-motion combat system built around tactical positioning rather than twitch reflexes. Its story and setting earn real, specific praise, while a large, detailed share of the review sample describes repetitive combat, uneven pacing, and a punishing late-game structural choice that can strand players who didn't build out their full roster.
6 / 10
Phoenix Wright fan-fiction, worn proudly as a badge Trials of Innocence doesn't hide what it's building on. It's a courtroom detective visual novel structured almost ex
6 / 10
Seven years in the making, for a divided reception True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 3 closes out a psychological horror point-and-click trilogy that began as a hidden-object game and
6 / 10
An emotionally resonant underwater narrative adventure about grief and isolation, sold to many buyers expecting a Subnautica-style survival game and undercut for keyboard-and-mouse players by controls the game itself warns you to avoid.
6 / 10
A two-person team's espionage FPS split almost evenly between fans who compare it to Project IGI and critics who say its weapons don't hit as hard as its marketing promises — a complaint this review found the developer had already dated patches addressing within days.
6 / 10
Aquaplus's confirmed finale to the Utawarerumono saga, a story-driven turn-based JRPG following Oshtor and returning fan-favourite characters through a new adventure in Yamato, Very Positive across 286 reviews for its music and refined Action Ring battle system — with a real, specific complaint that its long, linear story feels padded and undercuts the ending fans of a 20-plus-year series were hoping for.
6 / 10
A cozy, hand-drawn adventure about guiding a frog named Froggo home through a world of sticky-note puzzles, Very Positive across 52 English reviews for its charming art style and novel puzzle mechanic, with a widely repeated complaint that its puzzles are too easy and its runtime too short relative to its price.
6 / 10
Wunderdoktor dresses a click-heavy dexterity game in gorgeous gothic paper-cutout art and a premise straight out of a dark fairy tale — a traveling quack curing arachnocough and ghostly maladies. The presentation earns near-universal praise; whether the clicking underneath it holds up depends heavily on what genre you expected walking in.
6 / 10
A technically polished remake of a beloved Yakuza entry, bundled with a well-regarded new prequel chapter, whose Mixed reception is driven by two distinct and separately documented problems — substantial cuts to the original's beloved side content, and a genuine, well-sourced controversy over the studio's decision to recast a character using an actor who has admitted to sexual misconduct, despite a sustained fan campaign asking them not to.
6 / 10
A post-apocalyptic survival-RPG from the Danganronpa team, with writing and mature thematic depth reviewers consistently rank among Spike Chunsoft's best — trapped inside a clunky, menu-heavy dungeon crawler that even the story's biggest fans call the game's clear weak point.
6 / 10
A genuinely striking noir art style and story wrapped around two half-realized game systems — a business sim too simple to satisfy and a detective clue-connecting mechanic several reviewers call arbitrary enough to feel like a coin flip.
5.9 / 10
The Reality Show You Actually Play Reality Rivals: The First Season casts the player as a contestant on a Big Brother-style reality competition, forming alliances, winning challeng
5.9 / 10
OLKON Games' psychological-thriller adventure earns real praise for its story, atmosphere, and soundtrack, but reviewers repeatedly flag the same problem: a game that builds toward something and then simply stops.
5.9 / 10
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A cozy sci-fi dating sim about running a diner on a space station, mixing charming alien romance writing and a simple cooking minigame with an Early Access release that, so far, only covers its opening chapter.
5.8 / 10
A NZ$2.49 comedy RPG about a duck-obsessed space captain fighting an evil wizard with dice instead of combat — a genuinely tiny, self-aware indie project with zero written Steam reviews in either direction, but real achievement data confirming people do finish it.
5.8 / 10
Waking Up With No Name in a Very Dark Asylum The Event is a first-person psychological horror game that drops the player into an abandoned asylum with no memory of who they are or
5.8 / 10
A gothic murder-mystery visual novel about thirteen magical girls imprisoned on an island, praised almost unanimously for its writing, characters, and gothic art once it finds its footing, though currently playable only in Japanese or Simplified Chinese ahead of an announced English release.
5.7 / 10
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A gorgeously scored, visually striking "playable movie" about a last night of teenage freedom that split its review base sharply — near-universal praise for its music and art running headlong into a loud, high-profile backlash calling it barely a game at all.
5.6 / 10
A PS2-Era Licensed Game, On Purpose PATLABOR the Case Files wears its influences on its sleeve, and its influence is unmistakably the licensed anime tie-in action game of the early
5.6 / 10
Developer Ludogram, published by ARTE France, delivers a satirical time-travel narrative game about altering historical events from inside a shadowy corporation's control room, earning specific praise for its premise and writing from a genuinely divided Mixed review base, tempered by a heavily repeated complaint about a superficial grasp of the history it rewrites, a lack of branching depth between missions, and reports of post-launch abandonment.
5.5 / 10
