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These are the best Story Rich games on Steam, as voted by our community.

Nobody wrote a review to land on this list. Players duelled Story Rich games out of their own libraries against each other, and a game's percentage is the share of a typical library it beats — so the top of this ranking is what Story Rich fans genuinely keep coming back to.

percentile across every personal ranking, weighed by the crowd behind it

Red Dead Redemption 2 beats 87%

Resident Evil 4 beats 89%

Hollow Knight: Silksong beats 85%

METAL GEAR SOLID 3: Snake Eater - Master Collection Version beats 92%

SILENT HILL 2 beats 100%

Cyberpunk 2077 beats 81%

Baldur's Gate 3 beats 81%

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II beats 84%

Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ beats 84%

Half-Life: Alyx beats 88%

Mafia II: Definitive Edition beats 84%

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 beats 81%

Fable Anniversary beats 96%

DARK SOULS™ III beats 79%

Life is Strange - Episode 1 beats 80%

Half-Life 2 beats 77%

Hades beats 78%

Hades II beats 80%

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt beats 77%

Red Dead Redemption beats 86%

The LEGO® NINJAGO® Movie Video Game beats 85%

Hollow Knight beats 77%

Layers of Fear (2016) beats 82%

ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN beats 83%

BioShock Infinite beats 78%

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut beats 77%

The Stanley Parable beats 81%

Tales of Berseria™ beats 99%

Pathologic 2 beats 90%

Detroit: Become Human beats 76%

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter beats 97%

DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT beats 78%

Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition beats 76%

Gothic II: Gold Edition beats 77%

Resident Evil 2 beats 76%

Black Mesa beats 76%

DEATH STRANDING beats 84%

Dishonored beats 77%

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger beats 76%

Nine Sols beats 80%

Limbus Company beats 88%

Inscryption beats 76%

Portal 2 beats 73%

Doki Doki Literature Club! beats 74%

High On Life beats 94%

Portal beats 73%

Dispatch beats 79%

The Wolf Among Us beats 79%

Alice: Madness Returns beats 79%

VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action beats 86%

Risen beats 78%

Celeste beats 73%

Metro 2033 Redux beats 73%

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair beats 82%

Rhythm Doctor beats 79%

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition beats 77%

Yakuza 0 beats 75%

Ori and the Will of the Wisps beats 77%

The Last of Us™ Part I beats 91%

Everhood beats 77%

CONTROL Ultimate Edition beats 77%

Kingdom Come: Deliverance beats 72%

Outer Wilds beats 77%

Songs of Conquest beats 76%

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided beats 76%

Assassin's Creed 2 beats 77%

Firewatch beats 79%

Tales from the Borderlands beats 80%

METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE beats 73%

The Beginner's Guide beats 90%

Nobody Wants to Die beats 90%

Metro Exodus beats 74%

Yakuza Kiwami 2 (Legacy) beats 77%

CRYSTAR beats 89%

PRAGMATA beats 89%

Transistor beats 79%

1000xRESIST beats 77%

Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition beats 77%

Tactical Breach Wizards beats 88%

Alan Wake beats 73%

Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition beats 88%

There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension beats 87%

Sonic Adventure 2 beats 78%

Day of the Tentacle Remastered beats 87%

Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition beats 74%

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition beats 86%

What Remains of Edith Finch beats 80%

A Plague Tale: Innocence beats 80%

Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ beats 80%

Overlord™ beats 80%

The Quarry beats 80%

Papers, Please beats 70%

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition beats 77%

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky beats 86%

Persona 4 Golden beats 74%

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice beats 74%

Life is Strange: Before the Storm beats 85%

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl beats 79%

Mafia beats 71%

Spec Ops: The Line beats 70%

Assassin's Creed® Odyssey beats 72%

Hogwarts Legacy beats 69%

Metro 2033 beats 73%

Sally Face - Episode One beats 84%

Amanda the Adventurer beats 78%

Mafia III: Definitive Edition beats 78%

Mafia II (Classic) beats 69%

METAL GEAR SOLID - Master Collection Version beats 83%

The Elder Scrolls® Online beats 69%

Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition beats 69%

This War of Mine beats 70%

Assassin’s Creed® Brotherhood beats 74%

Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition beats 77%

The Forgotten City beats 77%

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan beats 82%

FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster beats 82%

Fallout: New Vegas beats 68%

Halo: The Master Chief Collection beats 68%

Metro: Last Light Redux beats 69%

007 First Light beats 81%

FINAL FANTASY IX beats 74%

Mafia: Definitive Edition beats 69%

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas beats 68%

HuniePop beats 81%

MiSide beats 80%

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon beats 73%

Far Cry® 2 beats 71%

DEATHLOOP beats 70%

Smile For Me beats 79%

Ni no Kuni™ II: Revenant Kingdom beats 74%

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 beats 79%

Call of Duty®: Black Ops III beats 68%

FINAL FANTASY® XIII beats 74%

Max Payne beats 71%

Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game beats 71%

Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation beats 73%

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR beats 73%

METAL GEAR SOLID 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version beats 78%

Devil May Cry 5 beats 67%

Assassin’s Creed® Rogue beats 73%

No, I'm not a Human beats 69%

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic beats 72%

Cassette Beasts beats 72%

Bendy and the Dark Revival beats 76%

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim beats 64%

Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition beats 65%

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe beats 68%

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters beats 76%

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy beats 67%

RuneScape ® beats 75%

Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition beats 64%

BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT beats 70%

Truberbrook / Trüberbrook beats 75%

missed messages. beats 74%

Heavy Rain beats 68%

The Drifter beats 74%

Undertale beats 63%

ENA: Dream BBQ beats 64%

Disney•Pixar Cars beats 73%

Split Fiction beats 66%

Shenmue I & II beats 69%

Homefront beats 66%

Road 96 🛣️ beats 69%

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning™ beats 66%

Assassin's Creed® Revelations beats 69%

Before Your Eyes beats 69%

L.A. Noire beats 72%

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales beats 65%

Blue Prince beats 66%

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition beats 62%

Resident Evil beats 62%

Gothic 1 beats 63%

Prototype 2 beats 67%

Call of Juarez beats 71%

Gems of War - Puzzle RPG beats 71%

Back to the Future: The Game beats 70%

Max Payne 3 beats 63%

Horizon Forbidden West™ Complete Edition beats 67%

Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™ beats 61%

LISA: The Painful beats 65%

The Séance of Blake Manor beats 70%

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® beats 65%

Mafia: The Old Country beats 64%

Emily is Away <3 beats 69%

Bendy and the Ink Machine beats 66%

The Coffin of Andy and Leyley beats 69%

Injustice™ 2 beats 68%

Not For Broadcast beats 68%

Superliminal beats 63%

Ash of Gods: Redemption beats 65%

Yakuza Kiwami (Legacy) beats 62%

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition beats 60%

Lords of the Fallen beats 63%

Outlast 2 beats 63%

The Room Three beats 67%

Darkwood beats 63%

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut beats 60%

Bastion beats 61%

System Shock beats 62%

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream beats 66%

Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition beats 60%

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist beats 66%

System Shock® 2 (1999) beats 63%

NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM 4 beats 65%

Crysis beats 63%

Two Worlds II HD beats 63%

Emily is Away beats 59%

OneShot beats 61%

NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD beats 61%

BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend beats 64%

Little Nightmares Enhanced Edition beats 63%

BioShock™ beats 59%

Resident Evil 3 beats 57%

Stuck In Time beats 63%

Sleeping Dogs beats 60%

Lies of P beats 57%

Wuthering Waves beats 58%

RoboCop: Rogue City beats 62%

The NOexistenceN of you AND me beats 60%

Catherine Classic beats 60%

Just Ignore Them beats 62%

UNBEATABLE [white label] beats 61%

STAR WARS™ - The Force Unleashed™ Ultimate Sith Edition beats 58%

Mass Effect (2007) beats 58%

Return of the Obra Dinn beats 59%

GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- beats 58%

Wandering Sword beats 61%

Gotham Knights beats 60%

Resident Evil 0 beats 59%

Citizen Sleeper beats 60%

Chaos on Deponia beats 58%

Watch_Dogs® 2 beats 56%

METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN beats 56%

DAVE THE DIVER beats 56%

Honkai Impact 3rd beats 60%

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III beats 60%

Dishonored 2 beats 56%

TEST TEST TEST beats 60%

Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT beats 57%

Persona 3 Reload beats 59%

Skyborn beats 59%

Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition beats 59%

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs beats 59%

Tomb Raider Game of the Year beats 55%

Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft beats 59%

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games beats 58%

Resident Evil Village beats 55%

Pony Island beats 58%

Life is Strange: True Colors beats 58%

God of War Ragnarök beats 58%

Metaphor: ReFantazio beats 58%

Do Not Feed the Monkeys beats 58%

Easy Delivery Co. beats 57%

Assassin's Creed® Unity beats 55%

Children of Morta beats 55%

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk beats 55%

Bully: Scholarship Edition beats 57%

Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You beats 55%

Kathy Rain: Director's Cut beats 57%

Return to Monkey Island beats 57%

The Case of the Golden Idol beats 57%

The Complex: Found Footage beats 55%

The Walking Dead beats 54%

F.E.A.R. beats 54%

The Last Remnant™ beats 55%

Rusty Lake: Roots beats 56%

Godot Engine beats 54%

Deponia beats 54%

SANABI beats 55%

DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition beats 55%

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy beats 54%

Portal with RTX beats 53%

Steam Engine Simulator beats 54%

Half-Life beats 53%

Battlefield 4™ beats 53%

Dying Light: The Beast beats 54%

American Fugitive beats 55%

Batman™: Arkham Origins beats 53%

Far Cry 3 beats 53%

OCTOPATH TRAVELER™ beats 54%

The Past Within beats 54%

Suzerain beats 53%

FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION beats 54%

The Talos Principle beats 54%

Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition beats 52%

OMORI beats 52%

Disney•Pixar Cars 2: The Video Game beats 54%

Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist beats 53%

Tomb Raider: Legend beats 54%

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew beats 53%

Life is Strange Remastered beats 54%

Deponia Doomsday beats 54%

Five Nights at Freddy's 4 beats 54%

STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ beats 52%

Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition beats 52%

Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered beats 53%

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition beats 52%

Red Dead Online beats 53%

Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach beats 53%

South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ beats 52%

Pillars of Eternity beats 52%

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II beats 52%

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne beats 51%

The Walking Dead: A New Frontier beats 52%

THE LONGING beats 52%

Alan Wake's American Nightmare beats 51%

Nothing beats 51%

Cloud Climber beats 51%

Risen 2: Dark Waters beats 51%

RimWorld beats 51%

GRANDIA II HD Remaster beats 51%

Serena beats 50%

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition beats 50%

CHRONO TRIGGER® beats 50%

Eternal Senia beats 50%

Quantum Break beats 50%

The Procession to Calvary beats 50%

Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don't Dry beats 50%

Yakuza: Like a Dragon beats 49%

Life is Strange 2 beats 50%

Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition beats 49%

Samorost 3 beats 49%

Swords of Legends Online beats 49%

STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ beats 49%

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Anniversary Edition beats 49%

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered beats 48%

The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit beats 48%

The Entropy Centre beats 47%

Half-Life: Source beats 48%

Deponia: The Complete Journey beats 47%

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony beats 47%

11-11 Memories Retold beats 47%

Iron Danger beats 47%

A Story About My Uncle beats 48%

Tales of Symphonia beats 47%

Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ beats 47%

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood beats 46%

METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES beats 47%

NieR:Automata™ beats 47%

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood beats 47%

FINAL FANTASY XVI beats 46%

FAITH: The Unholy Trinity beats 47%

STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™ beats 47%

GreedFall beats 46%

BioShock™ 2 Remastered beats 45%

GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2 beats 45%

Red Trigger beats 45%

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition beats 45%

A Date with Death beats 45%

Touhou Mystia's Izakaya beats 45%

Half-Life: Opposing Force beats 47%

Umamusume: Pretty Derby beats 46%

To the Moon beats 44%

Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth beats 44%

NORCO beats 44%

Dragon Age: Origins beats 44%

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered beats 46%

Genital Jousting beats 44%

SAMOLIOTIK beats 44%

Fallout 4 beats 46%

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED beats 43%

Steelrising beats 45%

Mortal Kombat 1 beats 45%

Tales of Zestiria beats 45%

Wanderstop beats 42%

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate beats 42%

SILENT HILL f beats 44%

Secret World Legends beats 42%

Resident Evil 7 Biohazard beats 45%

Tyranny beats 42%

God of War beats 45%

Beyond: Two Souls beats 44%

Indie Game: The Movie beats 42%

BioShock™ Remastered beats 45%

Katana ZERO beats 44%

The Walking Dead: The Final Season beats 42%

DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT beats 41%

Gamedec - Definitive Edition beats 41%

The Tiny Bang Story beats 41%

Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition beats 41%

NARUTO: Ultimate Ninja STORM beats 41%

Valkyria Chronicles™ beats 41%

Rusty Lake Paradise beats 41%

FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE beats 40%

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut beats 45%

Deadlight: Director's Cut beats 40%

METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: SNAKE EATER beats 39%

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus beats 43%

Loop Hero beats 43%

Hacknet beats 42%

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc beats 41%

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden beats 38%

Mad Max beats 42%

Broken Age beats 41%

Night in the Woods beats 38%

Mouthwashing beats 37%

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall beats 40%

Risen 3 - Titan Lords beats 37%

Halo Infinite beats 42%

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) beats 37%

Starfield beats 41%

Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition beats 40%

Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator beats 42%

Hobo: Tough Life beats 39%

Sam & Max Save the World beats 36%

Shadowrun Returns beats 40%

Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition beats 40%

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk beats 39%

Persona® 5 Strikers beats 35%

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009) beats 41%

Far Cry® 4 beats 39%

Wildermyth beats 37%

Old School RuneScape beats 38%

Disney G-Force beats 34%

Contraband Police beats 38%

The Bureau: XCOM Declassified beats 40%

The House of Da Vinci beats 37%

Hello Neighbor Alpha 1 beats 36%

Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons beats 38%

Fable - The Lost Chapters beats 37%

Hitman: Absolution™ beats 40%

Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition beats 40%

Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales beats 38%

It Takes Two beats 40%

The Banner Saga beats 38%

BioShock® 2 beats 35%

STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™ beats 38%

Chants of Sennaar beats 37%

Beholder beats 39%

Ruined King: A League of Legends Story™ beats 32%

LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga beats 32%

Kindergarten beats 31%

Oxenfree beats 31%

Project Wingman beats 36%

In Sound Mind beats 31%

IMMORTALITY beats 31%

STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ beats 39%

Cube Escape Collection beats 31%

BLACKHOLE beats 30%

Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut beats 37%

Cube Escape: Paradox beats 30%

We Were Here Together beats 35%

Everlasting Summer beats 36%

Pentiment beats 30%

The Walking Dead: Season Two beats 36%

NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139... beats 33%

The Desolate Hope beats 29%

Dust: An Elysian Tail beats 34%

Call of Duty®: WWII beats 32%

UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late[cl-r] beats 29%

Assassin's Creed® Origins beats 37%

Darksiders Warmastered Edition beats 36%

Assassin's Creed® Syndicate beats 32%

Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep: A Wonderlands One-shot Adventure beats 28%

Little Inferno beats 35%

Batman™: Arkham Knight beats 37%

Changed beats 27%

Where Winds Meet beats 37%

Gothic® 3 beats 35%

Hello Neighbor beats 35%

Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition beats 34%

Call of Cthulhu® beats 32%

The Silver Case beats 26%

Rustler (Grand Theft Horse) beats 26%

Wolfenstein: The New Order beats 35%

Half-Life: Blue Shift beats 35%

We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip beats 34%

The Outer Worlds beats 31%

NGU IDLE beats 29%

Mortal Kombat 11 beats 33%

The Descendant beats 25%

FINAL FANTASY XIV Online beats 34%

Tell Me Why beats 24%

A Way Out beats 34%

Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition beats 24%

Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location beats 24%

The Final Station beats 23%

Mirror beats 23%

Far Cry® 5 beats 33%

Syberia II beats 23%

HITMAN™ beats 32%

South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™ beats 23%

When the Darkness comes beats 23%

Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition beats 22%

The Lord of the Rings Online™ beats 31%

Call of Duty® 4: Modern Warfare® (2007) beats 21%

Grim Fandango Remastered beats 25%

Punch Club beats 30%

Dragon Age™ Inquisition beats 29%

Persona 5 Royal beats 31%

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition beats 24%

Call of Duty® beats 32%

Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad beats 24%

Crimson Desert beats 28%

Kingdom Eighties beats 18%

Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut beats 18%

Ghostwire: Tokyo beats 23%

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments beats 17%

Dead Space (2008) beats 22%

Little Misfortune beats 22%

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion beats 22%

NEKOPARA Vol. 0 beats 26%

Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition beats 24%

Pacific Drive beats 21%

The Banner Saga 2 beats 15%

Machinika: Museum beats 15%

ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies beats 21%

Lost in Play beats 14%

Styx: Shards of Darkness beats 13%

Black Myth: Wukong beats 25%

Darkest Dungeon® II beats 25%

Styx: Master of Shadows beats 24%

Beacon Pines beats 12%

Machinarium beats 24%

The Banner Saga 3 beats 18%

Lords Of The Fallen™ 2014 beats 26%

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ beats 16%

Resident Evil Requiem beats 23%

Demonicon beats 16%

The Darkness II beats 24%

Little Nightmares beats 25%

The Way of Life Free Edition beats 15%

INSIDE beats 8%

Murdered: Soul Suspect beats 18%

The Planet Crafter: Prologue beats 6%

Rise of the Tomb Raider™ beats 23%

Psychonauts beats 23%

Walking Zombie 2 beats 16%

Crysis 2 - Maximum Edition beats 9%

Aperture Desk Job beats 22%

Digger Online beats 10%

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