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1136 Narrative games reviewed and scored, best first.
1136 reviews
Daemon is a $9.99 souls-like action RPG from solo-leaning developer Team iNtuition about a cursed wolf who shapeshifts into a werewolf to fight corrupted spirit guardians, and this review's single detailed review plus an unusually active seven-month patch history both point toward a small, attentive team still actively shaping the game around player feedback.
5.4 / 10
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Excrucia is a $3.99 solo-developed first-person psychological horror game from Mansur about a father returning home to find his family transformed into monsters, and this review's small, mostly Positive sample praises its surreal, varied set design and multiple-ending structure within a tight, bite-sized runtime.
5.4 / 10
How Many Secrets Under Ceiling is a $2.99 text-based detective deduction game from developer 稻歌游戏工作室, a crowdfunded adaptation of Edogawa Ranpo's classic locked-room mystery "The Walker on the Ceiling," and this review's 14-review, Mostly Positive sample praises its surprisingly large amount of writing and a genuine unreliable-narrator twist, while flagging real rough edges in its English localization and save system.
5.4 / 10
A short, atmospheric horror game about fishing off a tiny boat to repay a debt to a literal loan shark, built on genuine dread and clever wordplay but hampered by a threadbare fishing minigame and lingering technical issues.
5.4 / 10
Five Nights Watching a Village Unravel Overtime: Patrol puts the player in the shoes of Toro, a newly appointed member of a small Indonesian village's Ronda Malam, a volunteer
5.4 / 10
A charming, story-driven farming sim where you never touch a hoe yourself — instead you "code" magical golem constructs to garden, mine, and forage for you, with genuinely inventive ideas undercut by a menu system that fights you at every turn.
5.4 / 10
Unknown - Foggins is a $6.99 point-and-click mystery adventure from developer Operacube, a sequel following writer Vincent Marlowe into a nuclear plant hiding dangerous experiments, and this review's 11-review sample is Mostly Positive, praising unforgiving, satisfying puzzle design undercut by one specific nuclear-waste puzzle that reviewers across three different languages independently singled out as the game's low point.
5.4 / 10
A beloved, nostalgic third entry in a genuinely well-regarded hidden-object adventure series, undercut by a severe, independently corroborated bug that makes the mouse cursor disappear for a meaningful share of players — described by more than one reviewer as making the game nearly unplayable.
5.3 / 10
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Axel Quest is a $5.99 retro-style 2D action-adventure from developer PowerSlash Studios, and this review's full 9-review sample is unanimously positive, praising fluid, sword-based combat and a punishing but fair difficulty curve, while one detailed reviewer honestly notes it plays more like a linear platformer than a proper Metroidvania.
5.3 / 10
A short, self-aware horror comedy about a vengeful, dam-building beaver hunting down the litterbug who wrecked its home — genuinely funny in places, but hampered by its brevity and a disclosed use of AI voice acting that a significant chunk of reviewers can't get past.
5.3 / 10
Gaming Factory's indie love letter to Japanese touge culture nails its map and manga-inspired story, but a deeply divided review sample points to genuinely broken opponent AI and reputation-gated progression as the game's real problems.
5.3 / 10
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A Short, Sweet Ghost Story With Real Heart My Adorable Ghost Story casts players as a young woman helping a cowardly, recently-deceased ghost find peace by completing his final wis
5.3 / 10
A cheap, atmospheric psychological visual novel about a rescued fox-girl that's earned real praise for its premise and multiple endings, but is dogged by disclosed AI-generated art and serious plagiarism allegations from other players.
5.3 / 10
A first-person psychological horror game about a lone teenager's dream-logic night of cosmic dread, undercut by bugs that can force a full restart.
5.2 / 10
A beautifully written, D&D-inspired visual novel prequel about running a cozy seaside tavern, praised by longtime fans for its art, music, and emotional character writing, but divisive over a reworked drink-mixing system that many reviewers, including devoted fans of the original, found frustrating and overly math-heavy.
5.2 / 10
A slow-burn psychological horror set in 1980s Kerala, praised for its cultural authenticity, sound design, and standout 2D intro animation, but held back by sluggish movement, a punishing stamina limit, thin interactivity, and a short runtime for the asking price.
5.2 / 10
A Night-Shift Laundromat Job That Doesn't Stay a Comedy for Long Dirty Laundry puts players in the shoes of Emily, a young woman who "has struggled to keep a steady job&qu
5.1 / 10
A Promising Witch Hunt, Launched Too Early 1666: Amsterdam entered Early Access on August 25, 2026 from Panache Digital Games, the studio led by Patrice Désilets, the co-creator of
5 / 10
A short, Turkish-produced full-motion-video thriller about a serial killer's psychology that lands its central performance and premise, undercut by choices that mostly don't matter and an English localisation reviewers describe as rough for years after a launch bug that was meant to fix it.
5 / 10
A five-years-late Kickstarter revival of the Archimedean Dynasty/Aquanox submarine combat lineage that split its own backers down the middle, then confirmed their worst fear by going quiet on patches within months of launch.
5 / 10
A charming season-manipulation fantasy adventure with a genuinely smart central mechanic and a well-told story, sunk at launch by a level of bugs, screen-tearing and broken abilities that both critics and players describe as feeling closer to a beta than a finished game.
5 / 10
A rhythm-battle RPG with genuinely striking pixel art and animation that a nine-year solo-adjacent passion project delivers on, undercut at launch by severe stability issues, an abrupt one-chapter ending sold without an Early Access label, and rhythm combat several reviewers found punishingly difficult without adequate options.
5 / 10
A very short dark-fantasy visual novel about a nameless weapon-turned-servant bound to a wealthy young master, branching across ten distinct endings — a tiny two-review sample split evenly for and against, backed by unusually broad achievement data showing players genuinely spreading out across most of those endings.
5 / 10
Solo developer Reuben Games delivers a long-anticipated cosmic-horror road-trip survival game pitched as "Grand Theft Cthulhu," earning consistent, specific praise for its retro synthwave atmosphere, art direction and writing from a genuinely divided review base, set against a dominant, heavily repeated complaint that its launch build feels closer to an early access alpha than a finished, full-price release.
5 / 10
