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344 Narrative games reviewed and scored, best first.
344 reviews
A stick-figure comedy RPG from the Kingdom of Loathing team that landed among 2017's most acclaimed indies -- Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam nine years later -- while carrying a serious, publicly documented allegation against its director that a real share of its own reviews now raise unprompted.
7.5 / 10
A remade PC version of KIWIWALKS' beloved mobile witch-training RPG series, drawing genuine "game of the year" praise from longtime fans — alongside a smaller but specific, multiply corroborated concern about how the game frames its magically-aged young protagonist.
7.5 / 10
A Soviet-wasteland spiritual successor to Fallout 1 and 2 that a large, engaged Steam community calls the real deal — turn-based combat, GURPS-inspired character building, and branching quests, undercut by punishing early-game difficulty spikes and combat AI several reviewers call the game's weakest system.
7.4 / 10
A management-lite slice-of-life game about a thirtysomething punk band that will probably never make it, told through diner shifts, rhythm-game gigs and three meters that never stop draining.
7.3 / 10
A gorgeous, confident Bond origin story from the Hitman studio — that abandoned the sandbox design the Hitman studio is famous for, and asks NZ$99.99 for about fifteen hours you won't replay.
7 / 10
Asobo Studio's medieval sibling-survival story, built around custom tech that renders thousands of rats on screen at once -- still Very Positive on Steam seven years later for its atmosphere and setting, but with a striking, current complaint: game-breaking bugs at specific, repeatedly-named chapters that reviewers say have never been fixed.
7 / 10
A "Soviet BioShock" action RPG whose art direction and alternate-history setting draw close to universal praise, wrapped around combat and pacing reviewers describe as repetitive, a divisive talking-glove companion, and a real, documented controversy over its Russian developer's funding ties that this review reports rather than adjudicates.
7 / 10
A story-driven action RPG from DON'T NOD where an emotionally rich central relationship and genuinely difficult moral choices are widely praised, while the open world built to hold them draws a remarkably consistent complaint from its own most invested players — it's simply too big for the game inside it.
7 / 10
A gorgeous, Kickstarted turn-based RPG built from Joe Madureira's 1990s comic, praised almost universally for its art and combat variety and just as consistently accused of burying both under grinding and pacing that never speeds up -- nine years on, the achievement data backs up exactly where players quit.
7 / 10
A Persona-inspired turn-based JRPG set in a 1960s American town, whose stunning pixel art and ambitious mashup of social sim and monster-taming combat draw real love, held back by combat accuracy problems and a save system its own developers admitted needed fixing at launch.
7 / 10
A dice-poker deckbuilder set in a shamanic purgatory, reviewed one day after launch on a single professional review, a demo-era user corpus, and Steam's own early data — because the full game itself has exactly one Steam review to its name so far.
7 / 10
An atmospheric, deliberately opaque occult-librarian sim from the Cultist Simulator team — genuinely singular writing and world-building, wrapped around a learning curve so steep and under-explained that a large share of its own reviewers describe needing external spreadsheets just to keep up.
7 / 10
A Kickstarter-funded "date your weapons" dungeon crawler from the Moon Hunters team -- Very Positive on Steam for its style, music and genuinely distinctive premise, and shadowed since launch week by a specific, heavily-upvoted complaint that its story talks about consent far more than its mechanics actually practice it.
7 / 10
A gorgeously written and animated tale of 18th-century card-cheating whose own fans repeatedly describe the actual moment-to-moment gameplay as a punishing quick-time-event exercise rather than the strategic con-artistry the premise promises.
7 / 10
A solo-developed first-person cave exploration game about a caver sent to find two missing colleagues, built around unmarked passages, memory over map markers, and a mystery that turns out not to be about the missing cavers at all.
7 / 10
A gorgeous, narrator-driven roguelite about a family of seven heroes defending their mountain from a spreading Corruption -- still Very Positive on Steam seven years on, with a remarkably consistent complaint pattern: reviewers love the pixel art and story, and just as consistently find the combat repetitive and the co-op unreliable.
7 / 10
A widely acclaimed sci-fi dice-and-narrative RPG about an escaped synthetic worker eking out survival on a lawless space station, whose exceptional writing and worldbuilding are matched by an unusually consistent, detailed complaint across its own huge review sample — that the choices at its core don't actually matter once the dice mechanic is "solved."
7 / 10
A 40-minute narrative clicker from Strange Scaffold about a masked man who wants to watch you thumb a tally counter — critically adored as a piece of writing about labour and discomfort, and just as consistently criticised by its own reviewers for stretching a five-minute idea across a full session of repetitive clicking.
7 / 10
Weather Factory's card-driven cosmic horror sim deliberately refuses to explain itself -- a design choice its own creators later softened for its 2023 successor after eight years of Steam reviews split almost exactly along the line between players who find that opacity thrilling and those who find it simply punishing.
7 / 10
Motive Studio's remake of the 2008 survival-horror classic remains Very Positive across nearly 70,000 Steam reviews, widely credited as one of the finest remakes ever made — a reputation undercut by a real, severe, persistent Denuvo-caused stuttering problem and a mandatory always-online requirement for an entirely single-player game, both of which this review can confirm went unfixed after EA redirected developer Motive Studio to other projects roughly two months after launch, with the studio's own pitches for a sequel subsequently rejected.
7 / 10
A free high-school rom-com visual novel that lets you play the romance or play the matchmaker, fully voiced in three languages, with nothing behind a paywall — the third clean release in a row from a studio that has quietly earned the right to be trusted on that point.
7 / 10
Eidos-Montreal's cyberpunk immersive sim remains Mostly Positive across more than 42,000 Steam reviews for its genuinely excellent stealth gameplay and world-building — undercut by a real, remarkably consistent complaint that its story ends abruptly mid-arc, a flaw this review can confirm the game's own writer has since publicly acknowledged, tied to a since-cancelled sequel that would have resolved it, and to real, dateable studio layoffs still affecting Eidos-Montreal as recently as March 2026.
7 / 10
A one-million-word ChoiceScript interactive novel about a shipwrecked clan finding a new home, nine years in public development before its Steam launch, with one of its two writers carrying a genuinely Very Positive track record on the same imprint and zero independent reviews yet to confirm anything else.
7 / 10
id Software's medieval-set prequel trades DOOM Eternal's frantic weapon-juggling for a slower, shield-and-parry combat framework — widely respected as a deliberate, distinct evolution even by reviewers who call it the "weakest" of the modern trilogy — shadowed by a real, well- documented Xbox layoff that cut the studio by more than half the day before its major DLC launched, and by a long-simmering, genuinely disputed soundtrack controversy resurfacing now that composer Mick Gordon hasn't returned.
7 / 10
