The Best Narrative Games - Page 2

Update : Mixtape added at rank #1.
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Closer The Distance (2024)

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j PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One

Closer the Distance is a slice-of-life sim that tells a deeply emotional story about the connections between family and friends in the face of tragedy. Unearth long kept secrets, repair strained relationships, and help your loved ones move on.

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  • narrative
  • life
  • simulation
  • emotional
  • story
  • point-and-click
  • drama
  • choices
  • philosophical
  • isometric
  • emotionally-driven
  • slice-of-life
  • stylized
  • narration
  • casual

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Life is Strange Double Exposure (2024)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 5

When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?


  • supernatural
  • mystery
  • choices
  • narrative
  • romance
  • lgbtq
  • story
  • adventure
  • drama
  • puzzle
  • alternate
  • emotional
  • stylized
  • episodic
  • third-person

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Last Time I Saw You (2024)

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j Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One

First loves. Family issues. Yokai. 'Last Time I Saw You' is a coming-of-age adventure set in 1980s Japan. Explore a haunted forest hiding a terrible secret, and interact with a vast cast of friendly and deceitful characters in this beautifully hand-drawn story with some light action elements.

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  • hand-drawn
  • emotional
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • narrative
  • romance
  • conversation
  • anime
  • exploration
  • stylized
  • story
  • linear
  • supernatural
  • atmospheric
  • mystery

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Debtors' Club (2024)

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PC Windows

Be the tax collector of a shady city hall in this narrative-driven resource management game. Talk to debtors, manage a team, make difficult choices, and challenge the city's moral decay. It's their money, but it's your job.

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  • multiple-endings
  • job
  • cartoony
  • choices
  • replay-value
  • management
  • rogue-like
  • simulation
  • narrative
  • story
  • point-and-click
  • colourful
  • resource-management
  • 2d
  • funny

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Chrysolite (2024)

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Playstation 5 j Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Android

A strange knight sat in front of a fire, darkness surrounding him. His sword stuck in the ground, covered in dried blood. He warns you against going any further, but the intrigue of what lies beyond far surpasses the instinct of self preservation.


  • souls
  • narrative
  • rpg
  • challenging
  • 2d
  • platform
  • dungeon-crawler
  • pixel
  • boss
  • hand-drawn
  • scroller
  • action-adventure
  • lore
  • skill
  • medieval

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Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (2024)

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Playstation 5 PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One

The sequel to the award winning Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Senua returns in a brutal journey of survival through the myth and torment of Viking Iceland. Intent on saving those who have fallen victim to the horrors of tyranny, Senua faces a battle of overcoming the darkness within and without.


  • narrative
  • puzzle
  • combat
  • battle
  • fight
  • mythology
  • action-adventure
  • demons
  • story
  • horror
  • exploration
  • psychological
  • walking-simulator
  • realistic
  • narration

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Indika (2024)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X/s j Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One

Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia at the turn of the XIX century where religious visions clash with harsh reality. INDIKA tells the story of a young nun who sets off on a journey of self-discovery with the most unusual companion by her side, the devil himself.


  • surreal
  • third-person
  • puzzle
  • narrative
  • story
  • psychedelic
  • psychological
  • walking-simulator
  • adventure
  • cinematic
  • horror
  • self-discovery
  • mature
  • platform
  • narration

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Harold Halibut (2024)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Xbox One Playstation 4 Xbox Series X/s

Harold Halibut is a handmade narrative game about friendship and life on a city-sized spaceship submerged in an alien ocean. Join Harold as he explores a vibrant retro-future world in his quest to find the true meaning of ‘home’.


  • narrative
  • walking-simulator
  • cinematic
  • interactive
  • lore
  • fiction
  • adventure
  • sci-fi
  • story
  • well-written
  • platform
  • mystery
  • third-person
  • city-sized
  • retro-future

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Open Roads (2024)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One Android Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows j Xbox Series X/s

Tess Devine and her mother, Opal, embark on a road trip adventure to explore a series of long-abandoned family properties, unearthing the past. Featuring star performances by Keri Russell (The Americans, Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker) and Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart, Uncharted 4)


  • mystery
  • narrative
  • walking-simulator
  • interactive
  • story
  • adventure
  • first-person
  • hand-drawn
  • exploration
  • walking
  • discovery
  • investigation
  • fiction
  • cinematic
  • grand

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Solo Leveling: Arise (2024)

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Android PC Windows IOS iPhone

Webtoon with 14.3 billion views will make its first appearance as an action RPG! Game On A Whole New Level, Solo Leveling:ARISE


  • ghost
  • puzzle
  • romance
  • rpg
  • action
  • dungeon
  • narrative
  • block-puzzle
  • bee
  • pve
  • third-person
  • quick-time-event
  • controller-support
  • cute
  • multiple-choice

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