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989 Narrative games reviewed and scored, best first.
989 reviews
A solo-developed, Scotland-set turn-based JRPG that wears its EarthBound and Mother 3 influences openly, whose Positive review sample repeatedly calls it a genuine, heartfelt labor of love with standout music and sprite art, tempered by a real and widely reported early-game balance problem built around healing-item scarcity.
4 / 10
A 2D old-school RPG about a chosen "Maiden" fighting off invaders, openly modeled on a pair of older budget RPGs and stripped of the achievements and trading cards those originals had — read here through two one-line player reviews that flatly disagree about whether the game is even playable.
4 / 10
A short, charming incremental about smashing your way out of an icy prison, with a surprisingly good story and a satisfying power curve undercut by real stutter and pacing issues.
4 / 10
A two-years-in-development EarthBound, Undertale, and Omori-inspired horror-tinged RPG about a boy searching a dark dreamworld for his missing sister, whose overwhelmingly Very Positive review sample praises its atmosphere, art, and mystery-driven story, tempered by real complaints -- echoed even in glowing reviews -- about unfair, under-telegraphed combat and a padded, guidance-light middle stretch.
4 / 10
ZuitLabs' incremental game about tending a strange, obsessive Machine wraps its click-and-lever progression in a genuinely affecting story about compulsion and isolation, and a Very Positive review sample largely rewards that ambition, though a smaller, specific set of reviewers describes the same design choices as frustrating, repetitive, and at times simply broken.
4 / 10
A tiny typing game hiding a bigger secret NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD: Typing of The Net is a spin-off from the beloved life-sim visual novel Needy Streamer Overload, built around a mu
4 / 10
A raw, unusually specific life-simulation about climbing out of poverty and debt that hooked a large early audience with real narrative ambition, before its developer went quiet in early 2023 and left the game listed on Steam but currently impossible to purchase, with the reason unresolved.
4 / 10
Tiny Bull Studios and DON'T NOD's cozy top-down action RPG about a fox spirit gathering a found family of champions, whose Very Positive review sample repeatedly singles out its emotionally resonant, thoughtfully written characters -- including specific, personal praise from disabled and neurodivergent reviewers -- as its strongest achievement, ahead of a combat system several reviewers call simple and a navigation system several call genuinely frustrating.
4 / 10
A beloved 2019 remake of one of the Yakuza series' most celebrated entries, Very Positive across more than 13,000 reviews for Kazuma Kiryu's war with rival dragon Ryuji Goda — pulled from sale in December 2025 and replaced with a fresh paid listing, in a controversy several reviewers say involves buying only a right to use the game rather than owning it outright.
4 / 10
A Video Store by Day, a John Wick Cosplay by Night BLACKWOOD's pitch is genuinely great: you play Anton, a DVD rental store owner in a lovingly rendered 2012 who moonlights as
3.9 / 10
A solo developer's big swing at a character-action game — combo routes, a fury-meter super mode and 10-15 hours of heavy-metal cinematics — sold alongside 34 separate paid DLC listings, including a premium currency duplicated across five near-identical SKUs per tier.
3.7 / 10
A turn-based Digimon monster-collecting RPG from Media.Vision and Bandai Namco, whose massive Very Positive review sample -- over a million copies sold -- repeatedly and specifically praises it as the best Digimon game yet and a superior alternative to recent Pokemon releases, while an equally large and specific backlash targets aggressive day-one DLC, a season pass excluded from the Ultimate Edition, and an always-online requirement.
3.5 / 10
A short, story-driven incremental RPG about a Live2D-animated foxgirl fighting her way out of the dungeon she was born in, healed between runs by literal headpats -- with a strong sample of 60 reviews, a healthy achievement completion funnel, and an ongoing post-launch patch history, undercut mainly by a near-universal complaint that its two-to-four-hour length leaves the story feeling unfinished.
3.5 / 10
A Chinese folk-horror suspense puzzle game from Liminal Factory about a young Taoist priest investigating deaths in a mist-shrouded town, earning a Mostly Negative launch reception after a long wishlist build-up, with reviewers praising its character art and setting but describing a short, buggy, confusingly-guided experience.
3.5 / 10
A fully-voiced branching narrative RPG about Roman slavery and gladiatorial survival that opens with genuinely praised, philosophically serious writing, before an overwhelming, unusually cross-language reviewer consensus reports it collapsing into incoherent, disordered storytelling from around its third chapter onward — a pattern nearly every reviewer in this sample independently attributes to AI-generated content, though this review has not verified that claim.
3.5 / 10
A short, chill management game about smuggling gacha-collected 'cute-ware' past an anti-aesthetics regime from behind a ramen stall front, praised by its small early audience for its striking premise, calming loop, and refreshing lack of real-money monetisation.
3.5 / 10
A genuinely inventive body-swapping murder-mystery premise, permanently stuck as a single under-an-hour chapter after launching in Early Access with promised future content that never arrived.
3.5 / 10
A solo-developed psychological horror farming simulator about tending crops and serving customers by day while trying to ignore something wrong beneath the surface, whose small but unanimously positive review sample praises its claustrophobic atmosphere and multi-ending structure, tempered by a shared concern that the core loop wears thin before the story concludes.
3.5 / 10
A pixel-art, RPG Maker-built turn-based JRPG about two reluctant heroes fighting a corrupting darkness, built around a visible-enemy, shield-breaking combat system openly modelled on Octopath Traveler, whose large and consistently positive review sample praises that combat while repeatedly flagging punishing early-game boss balance since smoothed by an active post-launch patch history.
3.5 / 10
A party-based RPG steeped in Celtic mythology and Kickstarter-backed by former Dragon Age and Baldur's Gate talent, Mixed across 230 reviews for a promising first act undermined by quest-blocking bugs, a second act many reviewers say is unfinishable, and no development activity since April 2022.
3.5 / 10
An action-adventure set across ancient Mesopotamian bazaars and palaces, mixing stealth, archery, and melee combat with light RPG progression, whose Mostly Positive review sample praises its atmosphere, story, and music while repeatedly flagging janky combat, dated animation, and performance problems well below what its trailers promised.
3 / 10
DINOGOD's debut mech-western, a farming sim bolted onto Armored Core-flavoured combat, earns a genuinely Mixed reception -- reviewers love its heartfelt story, voice acting, and setting, but a large share describe combat, controls, and pacing that never shake off a rough, unfinished feel.
3 / 10
A Nancy Drew-inspired first-person mystery adventure set in the Australian outback, whose Positive review sample praises its authentic rural-Australian setting, full voice acting, and internet-sleuthing puzzle design, weighed against a short 3-to-4-hour runtime, an underdeveloped ending, and real launch-week performance complaints.
3 / 10
A Front Mission spinoff so poorly optimised and so quickly abandoned that even Square Enix's own official news feed ended up syndicating press coverage calling it 'best left alone' — a rare case where the harsh consensus is simply accurate.
3 / 10
