Hidden Story Rich Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated story rich games.

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Rainy Season This is a story about an ordinary family spending time at home during the rain.

Price 3.29€
Rating 8.9
Release 19 Aug 2020
Helheim Hassle Helheim Hassle is a narrative adventure game with puzzle platforming elements. Play as Bjørn, a pacifist Viking that can detach and combine limbs at will to solve challenging puzzles and get out of uncomfortable situations involving desperate Norse Gods, Goblins, Dragons, and angry skeletons.

Price -98% 0.49€
Rating 8.4
Release 18 Aug 2020
One Way: The Elevator One Way: The Elevator is a creative point-and-click game developed by CottonGame. You need to find a blue sphere in each scene to power an elevator to travel upward.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 13 Aug 2020
Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star A visual novel about an abusive relationship, idealization, and intimacy. Live a summer of dysfunctional love through branching storylines, twists, sudden changes, and an innovative mechanic where you choose which senses to use with your boyfriend.

Price -95% 0.80€
Rating 7.4
Release 13 Aug 2020
For the People For the People is a mix of a political management sim and a visual novel, putting players in the shoes of an idealistic young state official tasked with shaping the future of a communist factory town. Will the party provide for the people, or are the people just cogs in its machine?..

Price -96% 0.65€
Rating 7.1
Release 13 Aug 2020
Metamorphosis Play as Gregor, turned into a tiny bug, and set out on an extraordinary journey to unravel the mystery of your transformation. Metamorphosis is a first person adventure set in a surrealist world where your newfound abilities are your last and only hope for redemption.

Price -97% 0.78€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Aug 2020
Popup Dungeon A tactical roguelike RPG inspired by our favorite tabletop games that lets you create any ability, item, villain, hero, and game imaginable.

Price -99% 0.19€
Rating 7.3
Release 12 Aug 2020
Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town A letter from 10 years ago, an intricate web of lies to unravel and a mystery to solve. Explore an unconventional town of pirates, dive into the past, collect items and look for clues to help Willy find out what happened to his father...

Price -23% 12.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 11 Aug 2020
Flowers -Le volume sur automne- As the summer heat fades, Suoh Shirahane is just one step away from unraveling the mystery of why her beloved Amitie partner left in the spring.

Price 16.79€
Rating 9.2
Release 30 Jul 2020
Wind Peaks In a place called Wind Peaks, mysteries happen, help the scouts find all the missing objects in this fun and relaxing adventure of treasure hunt

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.3
Release 28 Jul 2020
Venge Get ready to explore a movie studio that vanished into thin air, only to find yourself trapped in a twisted, alternate dimension where creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to ensure you never see the light of day again...

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 Jul 2020
Synergia Synergia is a yuri thriller visual novel that takes place in a cyberpunk future, wrapped up in a beautifully unique, vibrant neon aesthetic. At the end of the world, sometimes love is the ultimate crime.

Price -86% 1.43€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Jul 2020
Faefever Faefever tells the story of a troubled journalist trying to uncover the mystery of a missing brother and sister in the small town of Glenroch, where not all things are as they seem.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 24 Jul 2020
Booth: A Dystopian Adventure The year is 2036. In this famine-riddled world, food-centric sovereignty has been established. Living alone inside a food-inspection booth, you are striving to find truth and peace beyond the borderline.

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 22 Jul 2020
Death Come True Everything rides on your choices in this new wave interactive movie game. Experience a thrilling science fiction mystery in full-length live-action format—from genius creator of the "Danganronpa" series, Kazutaka Kodaka!

Price 13.29€
Rating 7.4
Release 17 Jul 2020
Trap Legend In the beginning, Crossdressers were the sun... And Goddesses too! A story of turmoil filled romance between man and crossdresser in modern times, brought back to the forefront by the Goddesses of legend! A hymn of love for the new generation of crossdressers!

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.9
Release 17 Jul 2020
The Call of Karen The Call of Karen is a PC simulation comedy game about a 1950s suburban housewife whose home is being invaded by Cthulhu. Keep up appearances in the face of an unhappy marriage, ungrateful child, and eldritch madness!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 16 Jul 2020
Chair F*cking Simulator Use our innovative patented funky fresh ChairF*cker simulation tech to meet the chair of your wildest dreams.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 07 Jul 2020
The Night Fisherman A short, twisted tale about a smuggler and a late night encounter in the English Channel. Control the camera and make tough choices, will you escape with your life?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 29 Jun 2020
Clam Man 2: Open Mic OPEN MIC is the free prologue to the upcoming Clam Man 2: Headliner - a narrative adventure RPG where you escape your boring desk job to become a comedian!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 19 Jun 2020
The Swine Say goodbye to southern hospitality in the backwoods of rural America. The Swine is a short horror experience that explores isolation, witchcraft, and unforeseen consequences in your rural homestead.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 18 Jun 2020
Adabana Odd Tales "This is a tale of 'flowers' that never bloom." Shirohime, a girl who has lost her memory, and Kurofude, a mysterious boy, traverse through classic Japanese fairy tales within the land of Adabana, a realm of illustrated books. What awaits them after they mend the distorted tales?

Price 14.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 18 Jun 2020
Saint Kotar: The Yellow Mask Follow the fear of Benedek Dohnany and Nikolay Kalyakin and play the onset of a dark and chilling narrative adventure. Make decisions and affect the events that precede a macabre series of murders, allegedly related to devil worship and witchcraft.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 17 Jun 2020
[Chilla's Art] Missing Children | 行方不明 Missing Children | 行方不明 is a Japanese horror-themed adventure game about a bully detective searching for reported missing children.

Price -10% 2.69€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Jun 2020
Methods: The Detective Competition One hundred detectives compete against each other in a crime-solving competition.

Price -74% 5.11€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 Jun 2020
ANIME WAR — Modern Campaign ANIME WAR — Modern Campaign transports you along with the H.E.N.T.A.I. army to one of the hottest hotspots around the globe to take down our №1 threatening enemy.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 28 May 2020
Dread X Collection 10 Tales of Terror from 10 Twisted Minds. Made in only 7 Sleepless Nights. The Dread X Collection is a series of small games created by some of the most talented indie devs around, all with the same mission: create the P.T. for the horror project of their dreams.

Price -68% 1.87€
Rating 7.6
Release 26 May 2020
Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg is a turn-based strategy set in the period of WW2. It brings a modern look and new features to a good old wargame genre. You are to lead the German Armed forces overcoming unthinkable odds and claiming the ultimate bittersweet victory in Europe. Blitzkrieg is the way!

Price -82% 6.27€
Rating 7.9
Release 22 May 2020
Family Man You owe us money, Joe, and we plan to collect. We don't care where it comes from, but you'd better not skip town on us. Otherwise your family will be searching the river for your body.

Price -95% 0.87€
Rating 6.9
Release 22 May 2020
Angels of Death Episode.Eddie "The boy made up his mind to face a cruel world." The new special edition of the psychological horror-adventure game "Angels of Death", which has also been made into an anime. The past of B4 floor master Eddie is revealed...

Price 5.69€
Rating 8.3
Release 21 May 2020
Neversong Help little Peet hack-and-slash his way through a beautifully haunting coma. A hand-drawn action-adventure through a dreamy world filled with fleshy monsters, insane grown-ups, and sad children looking for their mommies.

Price -94% 0.94€
Rating 8.2
Release 20 May 2020
Dark Nights with Poe and Munro Guide local radio hosts Poe and Munro through six TV-like episodes of supernatural strangeness and sizzling on-screen chemistry. From the creators of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective.

Price -94% 0.70€
Rating 7.2
Release 19 May 2020
Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 On the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street, all is not what it seems. What role will you play in a city's fate?

Price -50% 4.93€
Rating 9.2
Release 15 May 2020
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 May 2020
VirtuaVerse VirtuaVerse is a challenging old school cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AVR graffiti writers, hacker groups, tribes of cryptoshamans, digital archeology, epic cyberwars and virtual reality debauchery.

Price -79% 3.20€
Rating 7.9
Release 12 May 2020
Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure Delores is back home and working as a photographer for the Nickel News. Thimbleweed Park hasn’t changed at all in the year she’s been away… or has it? Sample Ron Gilbert’s new adventure game engine in this free prototype that uses “found art” from the award-winning Thimbleweed Park.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 09 May 2020

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