Best Story Games?

[Hoblit]

half life, wolfenstein, baldurs gate 3, witcher 3

 

[Steve Phromkraft]

old school runescape

 

[Erwin]

Get yourself an emulator. Obviously the game looks like shit but it has probably one of the best stories i've ever played, and you get to be a cool BRITISH firearms officer.

 

[Steward]

Half-Life 1/2 *Alyx too if you have a VR Headset (You can play Black Mesa instead of HL1, it's a very well made remake)
Red Dead Redemption 1/2 - Rockstar Games made them, amazing stories.
Mafia I Definitive Edition and Mafia II (Leave Mafia III alone, it is not that good)
Detroit: Become Human - Absolute Cinema
Grand Theft Auto V - Masterpiece
Far Cry 3/4/5 - Amazing villains
Uncharted 4
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Hey you, you're finally awake.

 

[exrobite]

To The Moon is an unsually good RPGM game, OneShot is very pretty and basically like undertale.

Pacific Drive is great, as is Firewatch. Both good story games.

I really enjoyed Shadows Over Loathing, but I'm not sure it'd be your kind of game.

Fallout: New Vegas is one of the goats for story games.

The Stanley Parable is a classic.

SIGNALIS is honestly one of the best survival horror games out there.

Inscryption is really cool and has a really awesome story.

Above all, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is fantastic

 

[sparkles]

Sleeping dogs is masterclass story wise, Absolute Kino from start to finish.

One of the best games ever made

 

[chopperr]

ac unity ahead of its time

 

[Tarone Idrin (mohammed)]

I really tried to like Valhalla, but the combat is so horrible compared to the previous Assassin's Creed games, which for me was always what I loved about them.

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My personal favorite game of all time still goes to Dishonored (all of them). The story is amazing and you pick your own style of gameplay with the powers that you choose.

Ghostrunner is also a nice game, where you'll keep trying to perfect the way you move through the story. It's also nice, because the story just kind of unravels mainly in the background as you play, not leaving you with all that many cutscenes.

Other honorable mentions: Batman (Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, Arkham Knight), Saints Row (best played with friends), Vampyr, Ghostwire.

Then there's the real story driven games: Sea of Solitude, Before Your Eyes (you need a camera for it), A Story About My Uncle

i have played dishonored so much times man they are such good games i finished 1 when i was like 7

 

[MaverickRat]

STALKER (whole series )
its like 1 rouble
farcry 2
fallout nv , 3 , 2, 2

 

[Panda]

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1&2

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

All great games I've played & want to play

 

[omega]

detroit become human if you like tell tale games, has really good replayability
ac unity is also really nice and has a co-op feature

 

[tylerye]

I cant believe no one has said about Baldur's Gate 3 here. Its probably one of the best story games to come out in recent years, has an immense amount of hours of good quality gameplay. The only caveat for it is that its turn based which I something that some people don't really like.

Also, as @rat has said in their own thread, the new Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 game is fire. I've linked their thread for it as they sum up why pretty well.

Thread 'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33'

May 14, 2025

Hello dear friends and people in my phone

I am making this thread to recommend a game to you all. Expedition 33.

This game is honestly a work of art. Stunning visuals and a great story with a really interesting turn based combat system that has loads of customisation options.

It was made by a studio of 30 people and is one of the best games I've played in years. The best part? It's not even "full price." It's like 50 euros. It's well worth every penny.

I haven't enjoyed a story this much since Undertale, and that honestly speaks volumes.

This is the type of game that deserves support...

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Other than those two, I've been having lots of fun on the Oblivion Remaster after its release a little while ago. You could also sink your teeth into some of the Skyrim Wabbajack modpacks, one I would recommend is Lorerim (linked below) because it adds a good ton of shit to the game, it is a bit of a lengthy download tho.

Home

A wiki for documentation, tips and guides on the Lorerim modlist

lorerim.com

 

[unscsnip3r]

Story wise:

Halo: Reach- one of the best stories of the franchise, despite the game and story of halo from the very beginning telling you the fate you face.

Space Marine 2: man this flew under my radar for half a year. Its rare I buy a game at full price outside a Nintendo game.

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the wild AND Skyward sword. 2 of the finest games Nintendo have ever made. Emulator works well here.

 

[Liambo]

Rdr2 story is just PEAK fiction which i play atleast 2 times a year
HL2 is a classic that I love to play every once in a while
GTA V was very funny and kinda goofy ngl

 

[phoondos]

Red Dead Redemption 2 is probably the game with the best writing in the past 10 years for people who haven't played DnD slop like Baldur's Gate 3

It has an extremely slow burn though, my first playthrough I didn't even finish because I got burnt out. It was well worth replaying though. One of the best games I've ever played in terms of writing