Best 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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Emily is Away Too Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.

Price -82% 0.92€
Rating 9.0
Release 26 May 2017
RiME A land of discovery stretches out before you. Explore the beautiful, rugged world of RiME. Armed with your wits and a will to overcome—and the guidance of a helpful fox—you must explore the enigmatic island, reach the tower's peak, and unlock its closely guarded secrets.

Price -98% 0.78€
Rating 8.7
Release 26 May 2017
NEKOPARA Vol. 3 Patisserie "La Soleil", run by Kashou Minaduki, is flourishing thanks to the help of two catgirls: Maple, full of pride and a little on the haughty side, and Cinnamon, an impulsive daydreamer.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.4
Release 25 May 2017
The Fidelio Incident The Fidelio Incident is a single-player, first-person thriller set off the coast of Iceland. Inspired by Beethoven's only opera Fidelio. After a violent plane crash, Stanley must search a desolate frozen island in search of his wife Leonore while covering up any traces of their bloody Irish past.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 23 May 2017
Heart's Medicine - Hospital Heat The long awaited sequel to "Heart's Medicine - Time to Heal". An intense, but also funny, medical drama that deals with a lot of life-changing decisions. Become an aspiring doctor at Little Creek Hospital!

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.8
Release 23 May 2017
SAMURAI WARRIORS: Spirit of Sanada Struggle for survival. Death before surrender! Experience the dramatic story and epic, action-packed battles of the Sanada clan during Japan's Warring States period.

Price -21% 39.91€
Rating 8.0
Release 23 May 2017
The Elder Scrolls® Online Every legend starts somewhere and in The Elder Scrolls Online, it starts with you. Join millions of players in an online, fantasy RPG set in a vast living Elder Scrolls world.

Price -72% 5.61€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 May 2017
Running Through Russia Running Through Russia - funny runner with a bunch of memes about Russia and russian people.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 21 May 2017
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!

Price -80% 1.85€
Rating 7.8
Release 19 May 2017
Ghost Files: The Face of Guilt Lead the Police investigation in the afterlife!

Price -75% 3.69€
Rating 6.8
Release 18 May 2017
Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs Regalia: Of Men And Monarchs is a tactical RPG set in a cheerful fantasy world full of weirdness and wonder. Assemble your party, go adventuring, manage your kingdom, make new friends, and defeat your opponents in challenging turn-based combat.

Price -96% 0.86€
Rating 7.5
Release 18 May 2017
Old Man's Journey Old Man’s Journey, a soul-searching puzzle adventure, tells a story of life, loss, and hope. Interacting with the world around you, you'll shape the landscape to create the old man's path forward. Experience heartache and hope as you embark on a heartfelt journey through a sunkissed world.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 8.4
Release 17 May 2017
The Surge Welcome to CREO, the megacorporation saving the world! A catastrophic event has knocked you out during the first day on the job… you wake up equipped with a heavy-grade exoskeleton, in a destroyed section of the complex.

Price -96% 0.65€
Rating 7.4
Release 15 May 2017
Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea! Try and navigate your way through one of the world's most tightly controlled dictatorships, with two cute soldiers by your side. Avoid getting shot, executed, black-bagged, or tried for treason as you explore Pyongyang's most famous tourist attractions.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 11 May 2017
Rakuen A hospitalized Boy comes to terms with his own story by traveling with his Mom to a beautiful fantasy world; ultimately helping his fellow patients find closure by walking a mile in their shoes.

Price -72% 4.20€
Rating 9.3
Release 10 May 2017
planetarian HD planetarian HD is an engaging and emotional visual novel from legendary game studio, Key. A sub-brand of VISUAL ARTS, Key are also famed for creating Kanon, AIR, CLANNAD, Little Busters!, Rewrite, Angel Beats!, and Summer Pockets.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 08 May 2017
Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, Futurama, American Dad, King of the Hill, and Archer join forces in Animation Throwdown, your favorite new collectible card game. Collect your favorite characters, combine cards to make hilarious combos, and battle your way through an adventure of animated proportions.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 05 May 2017
World to the West World to the West is a standalone followup of Teslagrad, the indie hit that sold more than 1.6 million copies worldwide. A vast world of blue skies and dark caves awaits you in this 3D action adventure, as you try to unveil the mysteries of an ancient prophecy.

Price -93% 1.16€
Rating 7.3
Release 05 May 2017
Shio “Shio” is a challenging platformer game in which you deep and moving story by jumping from lantern to lantern. If you are big fan of Super Meat Boy, you will like Shio as well!

Price 11.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 04 May 2017
Prey In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.

Price -85% 4.60€
Rating 8.9
Release 04 May 2017
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd Half a year after Trails in the Sky SC, Father Kevin Graham takes on a routine mission on behalf of the Septian Church. He and his partner are then plunged into a realm that follows an unnaturally strict set of rules and is as intent to open old wounds as it is to keep them behind closed doors.

Price -55% 13.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 03 May 2017
One Dog Story One Dog Story is an engaging pixel adventure game with RPG elements, gameplay that’ll get you hooked for hours, and well-developed characters. You wake up in an underground laboratory, free again after a horrific accident. Prepare to explore this expansive game world and its many secrets and mysteries.

Price -54% 4.64€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Apr 2017
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch. 5 Meakashi 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 7.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 28 Apr 2017
Just Ignore Them One night can feel like a lifetime of pain, suffering and horror to a child...do you have what it takes to survive the night? Play as an 8 year old child who is tormented by monsters in his house. Your choices make his future which lives can be saved or ended.

Price -90% 0.43€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Apr 2017

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