29 Best Storytelling Games on Steam

Seduce Me the Otome is an Anime-based, Visual Novel, Romance and Single-player Dating Simulation developed and published by Michaela Laws. The game takes place in the stunning world based on High School and puts you in the role of the senior with your two fellows named as Suzu Cappini and Naomi Patterson. You are the Harold Anderson’s granddaughter, who is the founder and CEO of Anderson Toys, a company, offering amazing products for children. Suddenly one day, you are called to attend the funeral of your grandfather. After the funeral, you come to know that you have inherited his massive estate. Your father advise you to move into your estate immediately. On next day, when you arrives into your estate, you discovers five injured, a very handsome man on the floor. A mysterious group of misfits attacked on them and run to locate shelter. Progress through the story, unearth the secrets, and solve mysteries. Seduce Me the Otome offers prominent features such as Changeable Characters, Original Soundtracks, Twenty-two Possible Endings, and more. Try it out, if you love playing Visual Novel Simulations.

Lucky Rabbit Reflex is an Otome styled Visual Novel Dating, Love and Social Networking Simulation by Studio Super 63. The game allows you to be a character in the game (Boy or a Girl) try finding out a boyfriend or a girlfriend for you while building and developing a life and enjoy a wonderful Life Simulation experience. As the 17 year old girl student of Northmain Collage, Lucky Rabbit Reflex lets you focus on your studies, make new friends, hang out with them, find your specific one, go partying, find a god job and enjoy being part of a wonderful world. With a marvelously engaging choice-based game-play, 20 different game endings, a lot of beautiful characters to select, brilliant visuals and a great story-line to follow, Lucky Rabbit Reflex is a great game to play and enjoy.

Syberia is a 2002’s Hit Single-player Point-and-Click Action and Adventure, Third-person video game by Microids. The game follows the story of Kate Walker, game Protagonist and a skilled Lawyer who tries to wrap up a deal for her client in Europe and Russia, but soon after reaching her destination, she is forced to run for her life. With amazing and realistic visual novel style, wonderful environments, brilliant characters and immersive game-play, Syberia allows you to experience the true hardships a Lawyer can go through and in her case, as the story-line suggests, you get a really good lesson out of that. Running for her life, Kate goes through a number of hardest phases of her life including the time when she receives calls on her Cell Phone from unknown numbers and a worsening relationship with her fiancé. According to the story of the game, Kate reaches to French Village named as Valadilene, where she attends the funeral of Toy Factory owner, an old lady named Anna Voralberg. After a visit to the local notary, Kate gets to know about the Old lady’s brother Hans, living in the North-East of Europe but his whereabouts are unknown. In order to transfer the ownership, Kate must find him and when she starts off her journey to find Hans, the story takes a massive turn that actually writes the fate of Kate. A drama begins that topples her life upside down. Now in order to go with the story and enjoy the game, you must get into the character of Kate and start exploring. Syberia offers a fantastic thrill filled Drama and an equally exciting game-play that makes this game one of the most amazing additions to this specific genre. If you are a fan of Action-Adventure gaming, you must play this game and raise the curtains off of the mysterious theme of the game. With all the amazing things combined, Syberia offers a unique story, a totally challenging and quite exciting game-play and beautiful 3D visuals for you to enjoy.

Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme is a Visual Novel, Single-player and Dating Simulation created and published by Transcendent Games. The game takes place in the fantasy-based world and revolves around a group of characters that have flipped their genders due to unforeseen circumstances. The player can select his character from a group of cast and follow his story as he explore the world to find romance and experience a transformation. Each character has its unique story, and personality and the game offers a set of levels and it has dozens of ending depends of on actions taken by the player. It includes over thirty location to explore and visit. Thirty Characters, Dozens of Endings, Multiple Interests, over 40 Hours, different Locations, etc. the key features of the game. With addictive gameplay, brilliant mechanics, and superb visuals, Gender Bender DNA Twister Extremes is the best game to play and enjoy.

Emily Is Away mixes the Visual Novel and Romance elements developed by Kyle Seeley for Windows and supports Single-player mode only. It offers the linear gameplay, where the player is unable to change the plot’s course through the game. It takes place in the mid-2000s, and follows the story of the protagonist’s relationship with a beautiful girl named as Emily from the high school to the senior year of college. During the gameplay, the player has an option to change his avatar at any time with whatever was famous. In the senior year, the player can use a chat client to communicate with Emily. Both discuss about their high school days and a fellow named as Brad, who keeps sending the messages of Emily. The player change the text color, emoji, and more. The game comprises up to five chapters and each chapter explore the unique part of the protagonist’s life. It introduces a dialogue system that the player uses during the conversation with his love. Emily Is Away offers prominent features such as Buddy Icons, Decision-based Narratives, Five Chapters, Computer Sounds, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love the game.

Sakura Beach is a Visual-Novel, and Single-player Dating Simulation created by Winged Cloud and published by Sekai Project. The game takes place in the fantasy-based world and revolves around the protagonist named Seiji who is a daydreamer and spends his lots of time thinking about the massive space. The protagonist got a chance to visit the beach with his childhood fellows and take some to relax. The protagonist thinks about this chance and take out his telescope and look at the space. After some time, he releases that his fellows want his attention instead of the constellation. There are different levels and NPCs to select and play. The game features multiple endings depends on actions taken by the player during the gameplay. The player can perform various actions such as progress through the story, meet new characters, and go to date. With superb mechanics, fantasy environment, and brilliant gameplay, Sakura Beach is the best game to play and enjoy.

Crush Crush is an Adventure, Idle-Clicker, and Single-player Dating Simulation incorporating with Visual Novel, Psychological Horror and Romance elements developed and published by Sad Panda Studios. The game takes place in the stunning environment and offers the flirty gameplay for those who love playing Romance and Dating Simulation with Idle Clicker twist. In the game, you take on the role of the protagonist with a task to win the hearts of the ladies of your town while completing various quests, and upgrading your character. To progress through the game, you have to build your stats, earn lots of money to unlock new jobs, and find your love to date and romance in the amazing place. To earn points, you have to click as fast as possible and select your job to advance your career. There are different jobs available such as Fast Food, Lifeguard, Programmer, Janitor, Gambler, and more. Try it out, and you’ll really enjoy the game.

The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing is an excellent new Action-RPG video game developed by NewcoreGames. The game is based on Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula and features the character of Young Van Helsing, son of the most famous and legendary vampire Hunter named Abraham Van Helsing, The game takes place in Gothic-Noir era of the 19th century in East Europe. It allows you to go against the Vampires, Werewolves and Monsters in order to eliminate them using your special abilities, magic and that time’s modern Monster hunting weapons and save the defenseless people from their cruel reign. Set in a totally Fictitious Universe, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing takes you to the dark realms of Borgova, situated in the midst of 19th Century Europe and tasks you to eliminate all the Evil creatures roaming in the premises of the City and lift up the fear that’s drowning Borgova day by day. As the son of a famous Vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing, you must show courage, eliminate all the evils and keep the family legacy going on. With a brilliant story driven gameplay, beautiful visuals and amazing environment and scenarios, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing is one amazing Action-RPG video game to play and enjoy.

ACE Academy is a Visual Novel, Role-playing, Anime-based, and Single-player Dating Simulation with an emphasis on Adventure elements developed and published by PixelFade Inc. The game takes place in the futuristic year 2049, where mechanized robots called GEAR were created for military and used them in the sports industry and commonplace. The massive use and the popularity of the robots have built a new academy called Cenorobotics. According to the story, the protagonist finds himself transferring to ACE Academy, a school for robot studies in fictional Japan. The primary objective of the player is to locate a team who accept him, and his old generation gear to use in the tournament. In front of advanced technologies, the research of the protagonist is hopeless. The game mixes the romance, sci-fi, and visual novel elements to offers a brilliant gameplay with hundreds of choices. Explore the storyline, interact with non-player characters, make the decision and select the choice to progress through the story. The game introduces multiple ending systems, depending on the action or decisions taken by the player. With superb gameplay and brilliant graphics, ACE Academy is the brilliant video game to play.

Long Live the Queen is a Female Protagonist, Visual Novel, Anime-based, and Single-player Role-playing Simulation developed and published by Hanako Games. The story of the game centers on the beautiful princess who is training to become the ultimate queen after her mother’s death. According to the story, the Queen Nova has died and her daughter, who is fourteen years old princess named as Elodie, leaving her school life to become the queen. Lots of people in the Kingdom are trying to take advantage of the queen’s death and struggle to kill the young girl before she becomes queen. The main task of the game is to keep the Princess Elodie alive for next forty weeks until she turned fifteen and became a queen. The player must explore the story and schedule the weekly lessons for the protagonist including foreign affairs, self-defense, expression, logistics, economy, doublespeak, and more. The game features multiple ending systems based on the decision taken by the player. With the superb story, addictive gameplay, and wonderful visuals, Long Live the Queen is the best game to play and enjoy.

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is an Adventure, Visual Novel and Single-player video game developed and published by Spike Chunsoft. It is the 2nd marvelous title in the series of Danganronpa and the sequel to Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. The story of the game centers on a team of high school students who stuck on a remote Island by their headmaster named Monokuma, who is a crazy scientist. The player has to kill one of his companions and not be captured in the investigation to escape the Island. It offers the similar gameplay to its previous entry and lets the player select his character to dive into the fun-filled game where he has to fulfill a variety of quests to get freedom otherwise he has to face death. The player has to explore the environment, find clues, interact with NPCs and solve the mystery of the Island to make an escape. To unlock achievements, the player has to survive as long as possible and earn lots of points to unlock further content. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair offers prominent features such as Deadly Island, Lots of Levels, Challenging Gameplay, Survival Elements and more. It is the best game as compared to other Visual Novel games.

Roommates is a Visual-Novel, Adventure-based, Romance and Single-player Dating Simulation created and published by Winter Wolves. The story of the game follows Anne and Max their 1st year of college in which they share the so-called Latin house with other roommates and experiences different scenes in his daily life such as Halloween party, spring break and other special occasions, etc. At the beginning of the game, the player can select his playing character between Anne and Max. After choosing his character, the game allows the player to get into the game world. Roommates offer a brilliant combination of classic novel gameplay with dialogues communications and another choice to make. It allows the player to plan his activities for the week and raise States in order to get the good ending. It is one of the best novel-based video game that immerses himself deep into the brilliant game world. Roommates offer Ultra-HD visual details, fantastic game mechanics, quite impressive gameplay and dynamic background music.

Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius is a Turn-based Strategy, Free-to-play, Anime-based and Single-player Simulation with Visual Novel element developed by Love in Space. The gameplay is a mix of Romance and Role-playing elements, and it puts you in the role of the captain. The game takes place on a fictional planet destroyed by an alien faction. The protagonist named Captain Shields and his minted vessel known as the Sunrider, are the last hope of their people. You have to navigate the environment to find your allies around the starts and recover your hometown and restore the peace. It has a variety of levels, and each level offers challenging gameplay. Find and gather a team of pilot, create a relation with them and take part in battles to defeat the evil factions and win amazing rewards. Command your allies in tactical missions and manage resources to survive longer on the battlefield. Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius offers core features such as Travel through the Galaxy, Hi-Tech Graphics, Command your Team, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Sunrider Liberation Day: Captain’s Edition is an Action, Visual Novel, Role-playing, and Single-player Strategy video game developed by Love in Space. The game takes place in the stunning world and puts you in the role of the protagonist named as Captain Kayto Shield. Your ultimate goal is to lead your allies to victory and fend off enemies in turn-based combat. It combines the elements of Anime-based and Strategy and offers ruthless gameplay where every victory like a triumph and every mistake like a punishment. Explore the environment to interact with NPCs, fulfill your objectives, fight against enemies and take down them to progress through the game. The game offers two different NPCs to assist you during the gameplay and features multiple endings, depending on the decisions taken by you. With superb gameplay, exciting story, and wonderful mechanics, Sunrider: Liberation Day – Captain’s Edition is the best game to play and enjoy.

Analogue: A Hate Story combines the elements of Visual Novel, Romance, and Dating Simulation by Love Conquers All Games. The game takes place in the Sci-fi world and supports Single-player mode only. It has a superb story, in which the humans launched a spaceship into the deep galaxy with a task to establish a first colony on an unknown planet. The ship lost his destination and disappeared. After thousands of year, the ship has been found. The story revolves around an unnamed investigator, and his task to find the reason behind the disappearance of an interstellar ship. The plot focuses on NPCs, relationship, and challenging issues and primary follows the elements of traditional marriage, transhumanism and more. Select the character and dive into the game world where you can interact with NPCs, go to date, and make relation with a handsome guy. It has multiple endings and depends on the actions that is taken by you during the gameplay. With addictive gameplay, and superb mechanics, Analogue: A Hate Story is the best game to play and enjoy.

Wild Season is a Japanese Role-playing, Visual Novel, Romance and Single-player Simulation developed and published by Quickfire Games. The game combines the Farming, Adventure, and Role-playing elements and offers a brilliant gameplay, in which you receive a call from a real estate agent selling a farm in the south and you have enough money to purchase the farm outright. You as the protagonist makes a decision to leave the city in hopes of starting your farming career. Soon, you stuck in a storm, your car has been sold, and you found yourself in a foreign town with some strange people you have ever seen. You must explore the world from an isometric perspective, interact with non-player characters, grow different crops to earn money, and effort to unearth the secrets of the foreign town. There are a variety of quests and each quest contain a variety of tasks that you must complete at any cost to move on to the next level. The game rewards you with experience points and you can use these points to unlock additional content. Try it out, and you’ll love the compelling gameplay.

Sunrider Academy is a mix of Visual Novel, Romance, Anime-style, and Dating Simulation elements developed by Love in Space and published by Sekai Project for multiple platforms. The game lets you step into the shoes of the protagonist named as Kayto Shields, serving as the ordinary man who throws into an extraordinary adventure. According to plot, it was the first day of the protagonist as the vice president of the Sunrider Academy student council when the president of the class selected him to be the manager of school. The game supports Single-player mode only and revolves around Management Simulation gameplay, where the player must manage the clubs on the student council. It comes with new character casts, dozens of line of dialogue and more. The player can interact with NPCs, find his love and can romance to engage in the management simulation. Sunrider Academy offers an epic story, beautiful environment anime-based characters, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.

Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven is an Adventure, Role-playing, and Single-player Text-based video game developed and published by Hosted Games for multiple platforms. The game takes place in the zombie-apocalypse and puts the player in the role of the protagonist, who is a survivor and must struggle to survive the first few days of the zombie outbreak. It offers exciting gameplay with the twist of Horror-Survival and Visual Novel elements, where the choices of the player control the storyline. It mainly focuses on Text-based gameplay without sound effects and animations. In the game, the player customizes his character using a variety of backgrounds, professions, skills to survive and special challenges in the chaotic and brutal city as the dangerous virus spreads. At the start of the game, the player can select his character from male or female and can pick one of nineteen professions, including Teenager, Bank Robber, Soldier, and more. Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven includes prominent features such as Play as Male or Female, Select the Skill Level, Select the Optional Tasks, Interact with NPCs, and more.

Emily Is Away Too is a Visual Novel, Romance, and Single-player Adventure video game created and published by Kyle Seeley for multiple platforms. The game serves as the spiritual successor to Emily is Away, released in 2015. It takes place in an instant messaging chat client, set during the last year of high school of the protagonist. During the gameplay, the player interacts with other non-player characters by choosing the response, and specific choices affect the output of the story in the game. The game extends the story past the chat window with Facebook profiles, YouTube links, and file transfers. Now, the player can change the colour of the text to lime green, so everyone comes to know that the player is the coolest kid in school. Emily Is Away Too offers prominent features such as Buddy Icons, Dialogue Decisions, Customizable Profile, Multiple Paths, Multiple Endings, and more. Try it out, if you love playing Visual Novel games.

To Be or Not To Be is an Adventure, Female Protagonist, Visual Novel and Single-player video game created and published by Tin Man Games for multiple platforms. The game puts the player in the role of the female protagonist named as Hamlet, who must manipulate the story, and revenge her father’s death. During the gameplay, the player can also assume the role of Ophelia and effort to make scientific discoveries. He/she assumes the role of the King Hamlet Sr. and can die in the first chapter. The player will discover sweet art as the player play from more attractive artists, including Anthony Clark, Kate Beaton, Mike Krahulik, and more. The game rewards the player with experience points which he can use to unlock additional content. There are three characters such as Hamlet, Hamlet Sr., and Ophelia each with unique adventures and abilities. The player has to select one of three characters to start his/her adventure. He/she can travel through time, fight against pirates, and kill bad guys to advance through the story. To Be or Not To Be offers core features such as Bring the Evil King to Justice, Multiple Stories, Learn new things, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.

Sakura Nova is an Adventure, Anime-based, Visual Novel and Single-player video game developed and published by Winged Cloud for multiple platforms. The game brings an exciting and decision-making gameplay with a beautiful cast of characters. According to the plot, Kaguya, Mikage, and Arisa train together, come and fight together at the academy for the aspiring knights. The player must struggle to join the rank of the warrior elite and must overcome the clashing and powerful personalities while learning to work together with other non-player characters. The game sets out the player on an epic adventure where the player encounters powerful knights and engage in action gameplay experience. During the gameplay, the player interacts with NPCs by selecting the dialogues and effort to complete his task to progress the story. Most of the time, the player spend on reading the narratives and making the decisions to shape his/her story. Sakura Nova includes prominent features such as Adventure Gameplay, Twice the Action, Japanese Characters, Gorgeous Girls, and more.

Da Capo 3 R is an Anime, Adventure, Visual Novel, and Single-player video game developed by Circus and published by MangaGamer. The game puts the player in the role of the protagonist named as Kiyotaka, the eldest son of the Katsuragi family. According to the storyline, the player traverses the ocean to London with his beloved sister named as Himeno, to study abroad at Royal London Magic Academy. Mostly gameplay focuses on narratives rather than action, and the player must make decisions while interacting with Non-player characters. The game takes place on the floating islands, and the player is spent his lots of time on reading the dialogue and narrative of the story. The storyline revolves around the branching plot line with several endings, depending on the decisions that the player makes while playing the game. The game comes with five plot lines and enables the player to experience. After completing first four stories, an additional storyline known as Zero becomes available, which focuses on Aoi Hinomoto. During the gameplay, the player will receive multiple options to choose from, and text progression at certain points until the choice is made. Da Capo 3 R is an addictive game to play and enjoy.

Beach Bounce is an Anime-based, Visual Novel, Adventure, and Single-player video game developed and published by Dharker Studio for multiple platforms. The game consists of several episodes and brings an exciting gameplay with a beautiful cast of anime characters. The storyline focuses on the protagonist by the name Tomoyo, who discovers himself at the beach resort of his grandmother named as Umi, searching for the summer full of exciting, where he can put the past to rest and lead his life forward in the better way. The game introduces several pathways and multiple endings to make the gameplay more exciting. There are several possible ways to romance and the game offers a huge variety of locations and characters. It offers narrative-based gameplay where the player spend his lots of time in reading the dialogues and making the choices. Beach Bounce includes core features such as Directional Story and Multi-Choice, Multiple Endings, Several Possible Romance, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.

Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition is an Adventure, Visual Novel, and Single-player video game developed by Bracket Games and published by Digerati Distribution for multiple platforms. The game comes with a visual short storyline, in which the player takes on the role of the female character named as Kelly, during her drive through a massive storm. In the twenty miles between the crumbling burn of her grandparents and the home of her parents, the protagonist receives a call from her beloved mother. While driving the car through representation of rural Nebraska, the player must explore the conservation between the protagonist and her parents including her younger brother. Like other Visual Novel, the game focuses on dialogue choices and it introduces over eight-hundred dialogue choices shade the storyline differently, depending on the player how he play the game. During the gameplay, the player must keep driving the vehicle to keep the conversation going. Radio, Photos, Stories, etc. are prominent features in the game.

Highschool Romance is an Anime-styled, Visual Novel, and Single-player video game developed and published by Dharker Studio. The game offers a brilliant gameplay and takes place in the high school where the player must struggle to find the love as the only the boy in a girls school. It has an exciting story, in which the plot starts of the player’s final year of high school, where because of crazy mix-up by the player’s parents, he is due to attend the classes of school of girls. In the game, the player must struggle to survive in unusual situation, make new friends, or find his love by interacting with several female characters. It offers narrative-based gameplay, where the player can communicate with non-player characters using a set of dialogues while completing a variety of objectives to shape his story. It comes with multiple endings, depending on the actions taken by the player during the story. With engaging storyline, addictive gameplay, and smooth graphics, Highschool Romance is the best game for those who love playing Visual Novel games.

Magical Diary is an astounding Fantasy-based Dating and Life-Simulation by Hanako Games. The game lets you spawn yourself in the game world by selecting and customizing a 3D avatar. You act in the game as a freshman girl to a magic school in which you can make new friends, learn magical spells, attempt magical exams, attend classes and find a date for the famous school event May Day Ball. You get to choose a community of girls from different cliques of halls. E.g. Horse Hall, Butterfly Hall, Snake Hall etc. And you can also choose your date from any of the boy’s halls E.g. Wolf Hall, Falcon Hall and Toad Hall. Because of the Visual Novel nature of the game, you can always get to know the story properly and if you want to end the story a bit differently, you can alter the events and the ending will be different. The game also lets you interact with other online players, solve puzzles, play different magical games etc. Magical Diary is a good Life and Dating Simulation to enjoy.

Spirited Heart, a tremendously addictive and quite immersive Dating and Life-Simulation marvel from Winter Wolves. As usual, the game lets you create and customize your avatar and get into the game world to enjoy it fully. As an otome visual novel, Spirited Heart provides you with a female character who roams in the game world, talks to other online players, interacts with objects and NPC’s, engages in different fun filled activities like dances, puzzles and daily life events, Dating with the cute boys and Romancing etc. The main and quite important event in the game is Races in which you take part and try to defeat you opponents and boost up your XP Level. As the life fantasy nature of the game, you act as your normal daily life routine and you can get a job that boosts up your skills and your hard work results in a job promotion. Another interesting aspect of the game is that you can alter the ending of any story or episode in the game by simply acting naturally and a little bit different than the story-line. Try it out and you’ll definitely like it.

Magical Diary Horse Hall mixes the Anime-based, Visual Novel, Adventure and Dating Simulation elements created and published by Hanako Games. The story follows a young girl, a magician at a magical school. The game takes place in the fantasy-based world with Romance elements. According to the gameplay, the player’s character has been invited to join a magical school where she makes new friends, face exams in the dungeon, learn magic spells, interact NPCs and find a date to romance. There are several students available and are split into Magical Halls including the Butterfly Hall, the Horse Hall and the Snake Hall. Boys are split into Wolf Hall, the Toad Hall, and the Falcon Hall. The game introduces multiple ending systems, depends on the decision taken by the player. In the beginning, the player can create his or her avatar of a female character to explore the environment full of puzzles. Magical Diary Horse Hall offers prominent features such as Customization, Design your Character, Romance with Female or Male characters, Seventy Spells, different Outcomes, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Date Warp combines the elements of Otome-based, Visual Novel, Adventure and Dating Simulation. It supports single-player mode developed and published by Hanako Games. The story of the game revolves around an Indian American college young girl who goes on a date and never returned. The game offers exciting gameplay, in which you assume the role of the female protagonist who is trapped in a strange mansion with five unknown guys. The game begins with Bradley and Janet, who reaches at a mysterious mansion after their car accident. They locate a shelter and encounter a group of handsome guys staying at the strange mansion. After one night, the story takes many surprising turns that the player will enjoy. The game includes different characters and each character has its unique story and multiple ends depend on the decision and action which is taken by the player. The ultimate task is to progress through the story and complete objectives, and take decisions carefully. Date Warp offers the similar gameplay like My Candy Love and includes core features, exciting gameplay, and brilliant mechanics. Try it out and you’ll enjoy it.