The Best Story Games - Page 3

Update : A Porter Story added at rank #1.
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Vollema (2025)

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PC Windows

Vollema is a hand-drawn, color-changing RPG featuring a unique pattern memorization-based combat system where you and your classmates uncover a sinister plot involving your school, local politics, and a cult-like paramilitary organization.

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  • emotional
  • hand-drawn
  • bullet-hell
  • dark
  • top-down
  • stylized
  • fiction
  • atmospheric
  • 2.5d
  • story
  • memorization
  • linear
  • funny
  • interactive
  • rpg

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The Roottrees are Dead (2025)

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Linux PC Windows Mac OS

A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • investigation
  • puzzle
  • 1990s
  • story
  • point-and-click
  • logic
  • atmospheric
  • mystery-solving
  • fiction
  • deduction
  • visual
  • well-made
  • interactive

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The Haunting of Joni Evers (2025)

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PC Windows Mac OS

The Haunting of Joni Evers is an emotional tale of a broken family from small-town Oklahoma, driven apart by a malevolent haunting. Uncover the mysteries of Joni’s family and the Cunningham House, digging through memories, facing the family’s past to break the curse.

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  • walking-simulator
  • supernatural
  • short
  • emotional
  • narration
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • horror
  • psychological
  • mystery
  • drama
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • interactive
  • exploration

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2024: Aliens Are Coming (2025)

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early access PC Windows

An Indie Sci-Fi Adventure game that thrusts you into the heart of the secrecy surrounding UFOs and Aliens. Visit exotic places, meet Aliens, make alliances and enemies alike as you make critical decisions and fight for what you think is right. Time is short, because it's 2024, and Aliens Are Coming!

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  • short
  • fiction
  • aliens
  • interactive
  • sci-fi
  • 2d
  • story
  • dynamic
  • adventure
  • pixel
  • space
  • episodic
  • platform
  • narration

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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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Pine: A Story Of Loss (2024)

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Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone Mac OS PC Windows

Alone in the forest glade he shared with his wife, a woodworker struggles to accept her passing. Help him hold on to cherished memories of their life together as he struggles to care for himself and his now empty home. Pine is a single-serving game focused on telling a beautiful, emotional tale.


  • hand-drawn
  • emotional
  • short
  • story
  • interactive
  • romance
  • fiction
  • point-and-click
  • visual-novel
  • linear
  • cartoony
  • single-serving
  • ecology
  • stylized
  • programming

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Silent Mourning (2024)

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PC Windows

Your sister has been missing for a few days. You head out to the cabin she was staying at, but it seems you're not the only one there

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  • thriller
  • cinematic
  • dark
  • mystery
  • story
  • action-adventure
  • nature
  • stylized
  • supernatural
  • 3d
  • action
  • atmospheric
  • first-person
  • rpg
  • adventure

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Valley of Shadow (2024)

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j PC Windows

Valley of Shadow is a narrative puzzle game that tells a poignant true story of loss and grief through the discovery of real-life home videos and photographs. Harness mysterious abilities to solve puzzles and heal a broken family.

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  • walking-simulator
  • 1990s
  • narration
  • linear
  • emotional
  • magic
  • atmospheric
  • mystery
  • story
  • cinematic
  • first-person
  • exploration
  • fantasy
  • narrative
  • 3d

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Hannah (2024)

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Xbox One IOS iPhone Android PC Windows

Hannah is a 3D puzzle-platformer game. You play as Hannah, whose doll goes missing and now must rescue it and try to understand her nightmares by making an internal journey to her childhood and find out what went wrong.


  • stealth
  • surreal
  • retro
  • psychological
  • survival
  • 1980s
  • single-player
  • adventure
  • puzzle
  • horror
  • -----------------------
  • story
  • dark
  • 3d
  • surrealist

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Party on Hallow Grove (2024)

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PC Windows

Talk to kooky guests, trade party items, and explore Death’s mansion as you throw him the spookiest birthday party EVER!

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  • humor
  • walking-simulator
  • fiction
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • cartoony
  • dark
  • cats
  • story
  • lgbtq
  • retro
  • cute
  • emotional
  • relaxing
  • colourful

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