Best Well-Written 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 well-written games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Well-Written games on Steam.

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Urban Myth Dissolution Center Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!

Price 17.49€
Rating 8.5
Release 12 Feb 2025
The Legend of Heroes: Kai no Kiseki -Farewell, O Zemuria- The latest installment in the popular story-driven Kiseki RPG series is here! The 20th-anniversary title, The Legend of Heroes: Kai no Kiseki -Farewell, O Zemuria-, where the epic story of the continent of Zemuria takes a dramatic turn, is now available on Steam®!

Price -59% 23.80€
Rating 7.5
Release 22 Jan 2025
Revue Starlight El Dorado The first console game of the stage-themed multi-media franchise "Revue Starlight" is on its way!

Price 28.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 07 Aug 2024
REVEIL REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.

Price -66% 6.90€
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Mar 2024
PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo How far would you go to bring someone back from the dead? Discover the depths that some will go to in this horror-adventure game.

Price -46% 10.85€
Rating 9.2
Release 08 Mar 2023
memories memories is a sapphic visual novel dress-up game where clothes are linked to painful memories of a failed relationship.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 02 Feb 2023
The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki Ⅱ -CRIMSON SiN- Witness the sins spun by jet-black and crimson-- The Kiseki saga is finally here! Kuro no Kiseki II is loaded with unique content, including a variety of new challenges throughout the Republic of Calvard.

Price 59.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 25 Jan 2023
The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki is finally coming to Steam®! The sprawling Republic of Calvard is experiencing an unprecedented economic boom brought on by post-war reparations. Here is the beginning of a new "Trails (story)".

Price 49.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 27 Jul 2022
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees Master the gibbon’s art of movement with a unique moveset that lets you swing, slide and somersault through a lush jungle canopy, and experience a free-flowing story of family and survival as you search for a home that may be lost forever.

Price -97% 0.49€
Rating 8.4
Release 18 May 2022
A Juggler's Tale 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?

Price -96% 0.66€
Rating 8.8
Release 29 Sep 2021
Arietta of Spirits Arietta of Spirits is a story-driven action-adventure game, with easy to approach game mechanics. Follow Arietta on her journey to unveil the mysteries of the Spirit Realm and immerse yourself in a story filled with emotion and surprising turns.

Price -97% 0.47€
Rating 8.1
Release 20 Aug 2021
Scarlet Hollow Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than a 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.

Price -14% 19.09€
Rating 9.4
Release 11 Jun 2021
ANOTHER EDEN [Single player JRPG] Take your cat on a time-traveling adventure!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 30 Mar 2021
MetaWare High School (Demo) How do you see the world when nothing is real? An experimental metafictional visual novel.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 02 Apr 2020
El Tango de la Muerte Do the tango to win the heart of your loved one! Each song in this casual RHYTHM game will unveil the story of Luciano and Martita. Influenced by games like OSU and Crypt of the Necrodancer, with a pinch of melodramatic humor, inspired by the best Latin American soap operas!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Apr 2018
The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns A short lesbian / yuri visual novel set in England. Our heroine, Toma Andrews, meets a ghost girl wearing an old-fashioned nightgown in a graveyard who calls herself Emmeline. Just who is she, and how did she die?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Jan 2016
The Wolf Among Us From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.

Price -85% 2.31€
Rating 9.6
Release 11 Oct 2013
Waking Mars In 2097, life is discovered on Mars. When your mission of first contact becomes trapped by a cave-in, you must master the alien ecosystem to survive. Soon you stumble upon more than anyone expected, and with time running out, you will make a decision that determines the fate of a lost planet.

Price -95% 0.42€
Rating 8.4
Release 13 Dec 2012
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition A time of untold chaos has come. Mighty forces clash behind the scenes in a struggle for power and influence. The Northern Kingdoms mobilize for war. But armies on the march are not enough to stop a bloody conspiracy...

Price -64% 7.38€
Rating 8.8
Release 16 Apr 2012
Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition Explore a stunning world, make complex moral choices, and engage in bone-crushing combat against massive and terrifying creatures. The Ultimate Edition includes Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening and all nine content packs.

Price 29.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 26 Oct 2010