The Best Narration Games

Update : Between Horizons added at rank #50.
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Gerda: A Flame in Winter - Liva's Story (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?

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  • emotional
  • world-war-2
  • narration
  • casual
  • multiple-endings
  • adventure
  • rpg
  • historical
  • conversation
  • hand-drawn
  • stylized
  • fiction
  • choices
  • top-down
  • interactive

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OPUS: Rocket of Whispers (2017)

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Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch Android IOS iPhone

Rocket of Whispers is an award-winning post-apocalyptic adventure that follows two survivors on a journey to launch a space burial for the lost souls of their desolate world. Help them search the snowy wasteland for supplies and the courage to say goodbye.


  • post-apocalyptic
  • narration
  • emotional
  • story
  • visual-novel
  • interactive
  • fiction
  • atmospheric
  • space
  • colourful
  • exploration
  • anime
  • relaxing
  • rich
  • 2d

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Kyle is Famous (2019)

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Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone Android Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Kyle tries to prepare for his most important interview yet. Choose his path through over 100 endings and accept the consequences in this comedic adventure.


  • narration
  • choices
  • dark
  • comedy
  • humor
  • dynamic
  • conversation
  • text
  • fiction
  • multiple-endings
  • visual-novel
  • memes
  • psychological
  • interactive
  • funny

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A Bavarian Tale - Totgeschwiegen (2023)

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PC Windows

In a third-person RPG detective story, set in Bavaria in 1866, the medical student Valentin Schmidt travels to Wolpertshofen, when a sudden death causes turmoil in the village. Use your skills, find clues and question the villagers to stop the murders.

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  • dynamic
  • conversation
  • investigation
  • humor
  • narration
  • choices
  • multiple-endings
  • detective
  • hand-drawn
  • dark
  • action-adventure
  • third-person
  • historical
  • rpg
  • 3d

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Athanasy (2022)

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Linux Mac OS Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile Nintendo Switch Android PC Windows

Deep beneath the surface of the dead Earth, the City, the last refuge of humanity, hides. Engineering genius and efforts of all mankind; a giant structure of steel, concrete, and biopolymers. It keeps the remnants of civilization one step away from total extinction.


  • narration
  • horror
  • visual-novel
  • dynamic
  • sci-fi
  • lore
  • text
  • lovecraftian
  • cyberpunk
  • conversation
  • post-apocalyptic
  • psychological
  • surreal
  • choices
  • multiple-endings

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The Stanley Parable (2013)

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Mac OS Linux PC Windows

The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.


  • narration
  • narrative
  • interactive
  • first-person
  • fiction
  • story
  • comedy
  • walking-simulator
  • funny
  • satire
  • thought-provoking
  • exploration
  • surreal
  • dynamic

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GLASS (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox One

Glass is a 3D, first-person psychological thriller that will lead you through an increasingly dark and volatile world in search of an enigmatic author and his mysterious, tragic past. What you uncover will change you forever.


  • narration
  • walking-simulator
  • dynamic
  • psychological
  • surreal
  • thriller
  • linear
  • atmospheric
  • hidden-object
  • 3d
  • first-person
  • dark
  • investigation
  • puzzle
  • mystery

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Machinika Museum (2021)

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Android PC Windows IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch

Come discover beautiful mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins and use your logic and sense of observation to fix them; and uncover a galaxy-spanning story. Machinika Museum is a puzzle game for people who like to have their brain teased and love a nice story to go along.


  • science
  • investigation
  • puzzle
  • hidden-object
  • mystery
  • logic
  • point-and-click
  • short
  • sci-fi
  • narration
  • atmospheric
  • futuristic
  • aliens
  • pattern-matching
  • first-person

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Cleo - a pirate's tale (2021)

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PC Windows Mac OS

Cleo is a solo-developed, top-down, pixel-art, retro, pirate adventure with a lot of nostalgic flair, humor and a linear story, inspired by the old Zelda games and the classic LucasArts adventure games.


  • investigation
  • pirates
  • 1990s
  • logic
  • linear
  • narration
  • top-down
  • comedy
  • point-and-click
  • action-adventure
  • pixel
  • funny
  • 2d
  • old-school
  • retro

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Title Pending (2022)

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Linux PC Windows

Congratulations! You've been hired by an up and coming Game Development Studio to play-test their New Game (which as of now does not have a title). Not only that, you'll get to talk with the Lead Developer of the project, Matthew Stanton, who will give insight on his team's creative process.

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  • narration
  • dynamic
  • walking-simulator
  • comedy
  • experimental
  • humor
  • multiple-endings
  • stylized
  • choices
  • lore
  • 3d
  • development

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