Best Story-Driven Indie Games (October 2024)

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Narrative-Driven Games To Finish Your October

All Sorts Of Stories To Explore

Take a quick breather from the action-packed titles of late and simmer down with a cup of warm coffee or tea as you play through these titles that focus on the game’s story rather than the gameplay. As we say goodbye to the spooky season, here are several narrative-driven indie titles with varying genres that you could try out!

Scarlet Hollow

From the creators of the hit indie game Slay the Princess, you’ll be sure to be treated with the same compelling storytelling with Scarlet Hollow. This horror-mystery visual novel is actually developer Black Tabby Games’ first release on Steam, and it follows your return to a sleepy and crumbling coal town, where your aunt’s funeral will be held. However, the peace quickly turns into a nightmare as horrors plague the town, day after day. Can you get to the bottom of all this before these same horrors take away your life?

Scarlet Hollow is available to purchase on PC via Steam for $18.74 USD at 25% off.

If On A Winter’s Night, Four Travelers

If On A Winter’s Night, Four Travelers is a point-and-click adventure game with horror elements where players will explore the stories of—you guessed it, four travelers—who are attendees of a mysterious masked ball taking place in a rather peculiar location; aboard a moving train. Follow secretive Carlo hoping to meet with his lover in the cover of night, noble widow Lady Winterbourne who lost her husband in a tragic accident, occult scientist Dr. Jordan Samuels who is about to face the Guardian of the Threshold, and young Laylah looking for some spice in her daily life, as their stories of dark and troubling things unfold on this one eventful day in the late 1920s.

Amazingly, If On A Winter’s Night, Four Travelers is free-to-play on Steam! If you’re looking for a quick game to play for an afternoon without spending a dime, this game is for you.

In Stars and Time

Follow protagonist Siffrin and their adventurer friends in this time-looping RPG adventure, In Stars And Time. Siffrin and their party are bound together by fate, tasked to end the evil tyrant that rules over the land. However, just as the sweet taste of victory is at arm’s length away, a tragedy occurs—time reels backwards, and they have to do it all over again. However, strangely enough, Siffrin is the only one who retains memories of the previous loops. But with how many times they’ve looped…our protagonist is slowly becoming a hollow husk of his former self. Use the knowledge from your past selves to look at each new loop with a new perspective, making better choices and solving puzzles. Who knows, one day, you’ll be able to break free.

In Stars And Time is available to play on PC through Steam, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation consoles for $19.99 USD.

Repella Fella

Story-driven doesn’t instantly mean sadness and despair—even the funniest games out there have a story to share. Comedy-drama point and click choose-your-own-adventure game Repella Fella brings you to an alternate future in post-apocalyptic Australia, where you will follow the story of three main characters working towards a better life. However, how they achieve that life is entirely up to you—with over 120 choices to choose from branching out to different endings, you will be sure to replay the game for quite some time to see all that could happen. Hop onto one quirky and lighthearted but also brutal journey through an alternate Australia!

Repella Fella is discounted at 20% on Steam, now available for $14.39 USD.

1000XRESIST

Thrilling sci-fi adventure 1000xRESIST invites players to its alternate universe in a year unknown, where humanity has been wiped from existence due to a disease carried by a giant alien species known as The Occupants. All traces of humanity are gone…well, except for one lone society built underground. A society full of clones from the last pure human being, called the ALLMOTHER, who was immune from the disease, thrives within. You are one of these clones or sisters, named the Watcher, with a special task of reliving and interpreting the memories of the ALLMOTHER through a process called Communion. However, you soon discover that the ALLMOTHER is not what she claims to be. And your world as you know it, is shattered. Discover the truth by diving into the great being’s memories, to find out what really happened years ago, and the truth of your whole existence.

1000xRESIST is available for a Daily Deal price of $15.99 USD, a 20% off discount on Steam. This sale is only available until November 7th, so be sure to grab it before it disappears! It is also available to play on Nintendo Switch for its usual price of $19.99 USD.