📖 The Best Story-Rich Games

Sometimes you do not want a challenge, you want a story — characters worth arguing about, an ending that sits with you for a week. These are the highest-rated story-driven games, from quiet character studies to twenty-hour epics.

1. 1

   Hades2020

   91 / 100Role-playing (RPG)Hack and slash/Beat 'em upAdventure
2. 2

   Undertale2015

   91 / 100PuzzleRole-playing (RPG)Adventure
3. 3

   Hades II2025

   91 / 100Role-playing (RPG)Hack and slash/Beat 'em upAdventure
4. 4

   Disco Elysium2019

   91 / 100Role-playing (RPG)AdventureIndie
5. 5

   Alan Wake II2023

   90 / 100ShooterAdventure
6. 6

   Clair Obscur: Expedition 332025

   89 / 100Role-playing (RPG)Turn-based strategy (TBS)Adventure
7. 7

   Celeste2018

   89 / 100PlatformAdventureIndie
8. 8

   Blue Prince2025

   89 / 100PuzzleStrategyAdventure
9. 9

   Xenogears1998

   89 / 100Role-playing (RPG)
10. 10

    The Talos Principle II2023

    89 / 100PuzzleAdventureIndie
11. 11

    Horizon Forbidden West2022

    89 / 100Role-playing (RPG)Adventure
12. 12

    Indiana Jones and the Great Circle2024

    89 / 100PuzzleRole-playing (RPG)Adventure
13. 13

    Dead Space 22011

    88 / 100ShooterAdventure
14. 14

    The Case of the Golden Idol2022

    88 / 100Point-and-clickPuzzleAdventure
15. 15

    Xenoblade Chronicles 32022

    88 / 100Role-playing (RPG)Adventure