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988 Narrative games reviewed and scored, best first.
988 reviews
A single Japanese developer's 15-year solo project -- a sprawling 2D action RPG that earned an Overwhelmingly Positive badge on scale and ambition alone, with a review corpus that argues hard over its writing, its grind, and whether its combat gets too busy to read.
8 / 10
A solo-developed, old-school text RPG with a genuinely rare feature — a fully screen-reader-accessible interface built for blind players from the ground up — that quietly launched on iOS in March 2024 before reaching Steam in September 2025 with a perfect, if tiny, 11-for-11 positive review record.
8 / 10
The foundational CRPG that gave Baldur's Gate 3 its name, still Very Positive and broadly beloved a quarter-century later — undercut by a genuinely disastrous April 2016 patch that broke the UI and multiplayer, and an unforgiving, famously brutal opening stretch this review verified with hard data rather than reviewer exaggeration.
8 / 10
A dice-driven, one-sitting narrative RPG from the creator of the surreal Off-Peak series, whose replayable, tabletop-flavoured storytelling wins over nearly everyone except a small, vocal group of longtime fans who specifically miss the studio's earlier first-person exploration format.
8 / 10
A voice-acted dark fantasy political life sim about raising an island heir from a controlled, secretive childhood into the compromised realities of rule, drawing early praise from its tiny review base for rich lore, meaningful long-term consequences and genuinely strong indie production values.
8 / 10
A genre-defying puzzle roguelike-lite set in a mysterious manor whose floor plan you draft anew each in-game day, celebrated with a 92 Metascore and widely called one of the most creative puzzle games in years — beloved specifically by players willing to take pages of physical notes, and marked by a real, still-unresolved design tension between its puzzle-solving brain and its randomised, roguelike-lite execution.
8 / 10
A 16-bit-style JRPG built almost entirely by one developer over seven years, whose real achievement isn't the pixel art but a heat-gauge combat system that replaces MP attrition with active turn-by-turn risk management.
8 / 10
Nicky Case's autobiographical dialogue game reduces every interaction to a single tap — read the next line, or pick what you're about to say — and uses dozens of quietly tracked choices to make that tap carry real weight through to a genuinely different final act.
8 / 10
The Tropico 6 team builds a pirate haven up the side of a cliff, and the vertical construction turns out to be the best idea in city builders this year. The ship combat it's wrapped around is a dice game with no animations, and that gap is the entire argument about this release.
8 / 10
Brothers Anton and Henri Pätsi, published by Silakka Entertainment, deliver a free, fifteen-to-thirty-minute comedy game about secretly playing a retro handheld console during a first date, earning overwhelming, specific praise for its voice acting, writing and surprisingly sharp commentary on modern distraction from a review base that is almost unanimously positive.
8 / 10
A two-person studio's isometric action-adventure about a soul-collecting crow, nominated for two BAFTAs and named Golden Joystick's Best Indie Game of 2021 -- Very Positive on Steam five years on, with one specific design choice, a total absence of any map, dividing even its fans.
8 / 10
Recurring Dream's found-PC mystery hands players a dead relative's old computer and a fictional puzzle game buried inside it, and turns a 90s desktop metaphor into one of the year's most quietly devastating narrative puzzle games — even as its back half loses some of the precision that made its opening hours so compelling.
8 / 10
Detention sets a ghost story inside a real, specific historical horror — Taiwan's White Terror era of martial law and political persecution — and lets that history do most of the emotional work. Its reception is close to unanimous that the atmosphere and story succeed at something rare; a smaller, more specific critical thread argues the puzzle-adventure mechanics underneath never quite earn their place alongside it.
8 / 10
A beautifully consistent solo-developer sequel that runs its story concurrently alongside the original Dreadrock's timeline — the same generous hint system, gorgeous pixel art, and standout music as its predecessor, with a specific softlock bug the developer patched within a month of a reviewer flagging it.
8 / 10
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A Zelda-shaped action-RPG about dungeon crawling as an extreme sport, set in a magical-realist Austrian ski resort where the real hook is who you meet between dungeons, not what you fight inside them.
8 / 10
A genuine, widely-acclaimed reinvention of KOEI TECMO's long-running hack-and-slash series — praised by veteran fans as the best entry in over a decade for its overhauled combat — built around a deliberate, controversial trade-off that a large share of the same fanbase argues cost the series something real: a single silent protagonist replacing the roster of dozens of playable historical officers, and a story that stops at the Battle of Chibi, leaving half the classic Three Kingdoms tale untold at launch.
8 / 10
Palitroque's dark-comedy dystopian life-sim about surviving on TV-watching wages under an authoritarian regime lands a perfect "Positive" score on the strength of sharp satire, addictive time-management mechanics, and a huge spread of wild, branching endings.
8 / 10
River End Games' isometric narrative stealth-adventure sends a young woman through a gorgeous Nordic city hunting her missing brother, earning an "Overwhelmingly Positive" reception for its cinematic presentation even as a sizeable minority balks at its rigid, one-solution puzzle design and steep price for a short campaign.
8 / 10
The second act of the Remake trilogy trades Midgar's corridors for open regions, a deep Synergy-and-Folio combat system and a genuinely excellent card game — then buries a chunk of it under checklist busywork and a PC port that still stutters a year on.
8 / 10
A spectacular retelling of the first five hours of a 1997 classic, stretched to forty — and a PC port whose launch grievances have quietly been fixed while the argument about the story hasn't gone anywhere.
8 / 10
A turn-based tactical RPG where you crew a living tank with a village of orphaned animal children, and where losing a boss fight can mean feeding one of them into a cannon — a war-is-hell premise this review's negative sample barely challenges, since only 5 of the game's 384 reviews are negative at all.
8 / 10
A Flute, A Dark Place, And No Hand-Holding Fugaz, released July 7, 2026 by solo developer and publisher Spheanix, is a $5.99 knowledge-gated puzzle-adventure about a wanderer trapp
8 / 10
Obsidian shrinks you to the size of an ant and lets that single premise reshape exploration, combat and crafting all at once. Nearly four years after 1.0, the backyard is still one of the smartest survival maps in the genre — even as Obsidian's attention has visibly moved on to the sequel.
8 / 10
Six Years of Donuts and Baggage High Times launched on Steam on July 23, 2026, from solo-turned-small developer Yangyang Mobile, following a 2024 Kickstarter and a long public demo
8 / 10
