The Best Well-written Games

Update : Harold Halibut added at rank #1.
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Harold Halibut (2024)

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

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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Gore Doctor (2024)

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Linux PC Windows

Gore Doctor is an immersive horror game set to unleash spine-chilling thrills on PC. You find yourself in the institute of a tormented doctor who, driven by desperation after losing his wife, descends into madness and becomes convinced that death is the only respite.

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  • scare
  • jump
  • well-written
  • blood
  • escape
  • room
  • horror
  • noir
  • gore
  • survival-horror
  • psychological
  • violent
  • survival
  • dark

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Aery - Stone Age (2024)

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j Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Xbox One PC Windows

In Aery – Stone Age you play as a little flying spirit that watches humanity in its early states evolve. You will discover a long-forgotten land with beautiful environments, and you will be able to enjoy the feeling of flying while exploring a whole world filled with beauty and little secrets.

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  • well-written
  • flight
  • simulation
  • relaxing
  • casual
  • family-friendly
  • walking-simulator

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TASOKARE HOTEL Re: newal (2024)

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Mac OS PC Windows Android

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  • well-written
  • choices
  • japanese
  • multiple-endings
  • point-and-click
  • visual-novel
  • text
  • drama
  • emotional
  • remake
  • retro
  • jrpg
  • mystery
  • rpg
  • cute

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Seasons of the Sorcerer (2022)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Seasons of the Sorcerer is a top-down action game set to Antonio Vivaldi's "Four Seasons.” Use a diverse set of spells to incinerate, bash, transform, and control your foes on a year long journey across early Renaissance Italy.

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  • top-down
  • soundtrack
  • well-written
  • lore
  • hack-and-slash
  • magic
  • linear
  • historical
  • alternate
  • action-adventure
  • medieval
  • nature
  • fantasy
  • story
  • shooter

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The Last Secret (2022)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Award winning visual novel adventure. An epic, upbeat tale with challenging and fun puzzles, humorous storyline and quirky characters. Solve the "last secret", save your friends and maybe find true love on the way, too...

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  • science
  • well-written
  • fiction
  • point-and-click
  • visual-novel
  • interactive
  • romance
  • conspiracy
  • anime
  • colourful
  • dating-sim
  • comedy
  • sci-fi
  • funny
  • family-friendly

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Rocco's Island: Ring to End the Pain (2022)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Join Evelyn on her quest to save a mysterious island in a puzzle-based atmospheric adventure with a story that spans across 30,000 years of time. Interact with fantastic characters to learn past secrets and transform the Four Elements’ kingdoms, leading up to an epic finale with shocking reveals.

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  • well-written
  • match-three
  • conversation
  • point-and-click
  • fiction
  • hand-drawn
  • abstract
  • stylized
  • story
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • atmospheric
  • colourful
  • interactive
  • hidden-object

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Letters - a written adventure (2022)

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PC Windows Mac OS Nintendo Switch

Letters is a fun word puzzle game about friendship, growing up and finding your place in life. Follow Sarah, a shy girl from Switzerland, by moving through her pen pal letters and chat messages. Use the power of words to solve riddles, interact with her friends and decide who she will grow up to be.


  • well-written
  • dynamic
  • hand-drawn
  • word
  • choices
  • multiple-endings
  • narration
  • family-friendly
  • pixel
  • funny
  • story
  • colourful
  • cute
  • puzzle
  • atmospheric

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A Juggler's Tale (2021)

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Xbox One PC Windows

Lead Abby the string puppet through a bruised, but beautiful fairy tale world in this cinematic adventure. Solve riddles, evade traps and shake off pursuers on the way to find freedom. Can Abby take control of her fate with all the strings attached?


  • platform
  • puzzle
  • well-written
  • narration
  • wholesome
  • medieval
  • 2.5d
  • short
  • cinematic
  • scroller
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • fantasy
  • theater
  • physics

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MASAGORO (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

There is an abandoned Ryokan called "Masagoro" that was closed in the early Showa period. He was locked up in Masagoro where he has got interested to explore. The past of Masagoro has been revealed everytime he found some clues in the residuals.


  • horror
  • well-written
  • psychological
  • 3d
  • gore
  • first-person
  • walking-simulator

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