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1136 Narrative games reviewed and scored, best first.
1136 reviews
An isekai visual novel that drops a factory worker into a stranger, gentler version of his own workplace — 18 months into Early Access with the same three days of story it launched with, and its own developer now flagged by Steam as gone quiet.
5 / 10
Nerds & Ammo is a $1.99 first-person physics puzzle-platformer from developer Dennis Harper and publisher Studio Denny, and this review's tiny, evenly split 2-review sample lines up on one specific point despite disagreeing on everything else, that the game's physics and controls feel genuinely "wonky."
4.9 / 10
A cozy crafting visual novel about running a fantasy curio shop, praised for its art, voice acting and rhythm-based crafting, but weighed down at launch by a too-short story, bugs, and a barebones endless mode that reviewers say don't yet justify the asking price.
4.8 / 10
The pixel-art horror series returns with gorgeous atmosphere and almost nothing to actually do in it.
4.8 / 10
A Post-Soviet Childhood, Rebuilt Block by Block in Unreal Engine 5 DETSTVO — Russian for "childhood" — is a short, budget-priced nostalgia walking sim from VD Games and P
4.7 / 10
A short, visually striking horror walking sim about a haunted lighthouse, whose stunning cinematography is overshadowed for many players by its heavy, inconsistently-disclosed use of AI-generated assets.
4.7 / 10
A post-apocalyptic FMV dating sim from Storytaco that leans hard on its cast's chemistry, because the mystery holding it together never quite comes together.
4.6 / 10
A prettily illustrated but extremely short visual novel mystery, undercut by an obvious, spoon-fed whodunnit, repetitive dialogue-loop gameplay, and text riddled with editing errors that a decade of silence has never fixed.
4.5 / 10
A solo developer's debut point-and-click, built in open homage to the LucasArts era — charming in its music and its sincerity, undone by a flat voice cast, a clumsy inventory and a runtime some players clock at well under an hour.
4.5 / 10
A visually stunning but heavily stripped-down sequel to the beloved Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions, widely criticised by longtime fans for removing custom team creation, Dream Team mode, tournament customisation, player stats and mid-match substitutions, compounded by a Steam Deck and Proton-blocking anti-cheat system, thin single-player content skewed toward online play, and outdated technical presentation for a full-priced 2026 release.
4.5 / 10
Creepy Shift: Uncle Joe's Motel is a $6.99 first-person cozy-cleaning-sim-meets-psychological-horror game, and while this review's Very Positive sample (101 of 111 reviews) generally praises its room-service loop and scares, a vocal minority raises real concerns about unresolved bugs, a possible drop in quality from earlier entries in the same series, and content warnings some reviewers felt didn't go far enough.
4.5 / 10
A souls-like set in a genuinely distinctive WWI-trenches-meets-gothic-afterlife setting with memorable bosses and story, undermined by broken core combat systems, severe optimisation problems causing crashes during zone transitions, no controller support, and a review sample where at least one player explicitly raised concerns about bot-written positive reviews.
4.5 / 10
A short, tongue-in-cheek visual-novel cult-management game with a genuinely fun multiple-ending structure for a ten-minute playthrough, whose small early review sample includes several near-identically worded reviews alongside one detailed, more critical account describing static presentation and unexplained systems that are fully understood within a single playthrough.
4.5 / 10
A self-described "artificial intelligence landfill" of 400-plus tiny games exploring countries, emotions and technologies, made with ChatGPT and Codex credited directly as co-developers — an unusually blunt experiment in AI-made content whose sole detailed review found the concept more interesting to think about than to actually play.
4.5 / 10
A small, old-school 2D RPG about the last of an elite knightly order, judged here almost entirely by two dueling player accounts — one calling it nicely balanced, the other calling its combat boring and unrewarding — because that is the entire public record nearly three years on.
4.5 / 10
A live-action mystery with a very small English footprint Misty Judgment is a real-people, full-motion-video interactive suspense game: players take on the role of protagonist Qi Y
4.5 / 10
A party-based steampunk-versus-magic RPG that launched into Early Access with real Arcanum and Baldur's Gate 3 comparisons in its favor — and then, by this review's full read of its negative sample and its own public patch history, went almost a year without a real content update, turning early "great potential" reviews into a wave of "the game is dead."
4.5 / 10
A PS2-era-styled turn-based JRPG from IKINAGAMES about mech pilots surviving a desert planet, Mixed across 25 English reviews for its nostalgic combat and mech customization but held back by a widely repeated complaint about serious bugs and a separate widely repeated complaint that its price is too high for an unpolished, dated release.
4.5 / 10
A two-player co-op puzzle-horror adventure with a genuinely tense atmosphere and well-balanced teamwork puzzles when it works, undercut at launch by severe, widely reported bugs, from broken lobbies and disabled voice chat to a reportedly unfinishable final chapter.
4.5 / 10
A series built on genuine emotional impact, tested by its latest entry The Test: Reality Check is the newest installment in an ongoing anthology of atmospheric, psychological-simul
4.5 / 10
A big-budget FMV interactive drama set in the Three Kingdoms era with genuinely praised production values and a large cast of branching romance and strategy paths, undermined by a machine-translated English localisation reviewers describe as frequently nonsensical, AI-generated dubbing in multiple languages, and an always-online requirement that has locked some buyers out of the game entirely.
4.5 / 10
Frontwing's kinetic visual novel exists to promote Good Smile Company's Valkyrie Tune plastic model line, and it shows: a familiar amnesiac-hero-plus-heroine-squad setup is assembled with real polish but almost no follow-through, leaving a game that looks the part without ever finding a reason to exist beyond the merchandise it's built around.
4.5 / 10
A short, sharply written psychological horror game about losing your job and selling off your life to a door-to-door demon — brilliant in concept and writing, but so thin on actual gameplay that it barely clears the one-hour mark.
4.4 / 10
Visiting Grandma is a $3.89 short first-person psychological horror walking simulator continuing an established series, and this review's Positive sample (12 of 14 reviews) describes a modest, unscary but well-liked hour-long story let down by a handful of specific, unpolished bugs.
4.4 / 10
