$ best narrative & tactics games
← all gamesThe top-rated Narrative & Tactics games on PC and PlayStation, 2015→today, ranked by a blend of Metacritic critics and real player sentiment. Showing the top 25. Open in the interactive ranker →
| # | Game | Year | Platform | Tier | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pizza Tower◆Tour De Pizza | 2023 | PC | S | 98.3 |
| 2 | Lost in Play◆Happy Juice Games | 2022 | PCPS | S | 98.1 |
| 3 | Bomb Rush Cyberfunk◆Team Reptile | 2023 | PCPS | S | 97.9 |
| 4 | Tinykin◆Splashteam | 2022 | PCPS | S | 97.8 |
| 5 | Lethal Company◆Zeekerss | 2023 | PC | S | 97 |
| 6 | Animal Well◆Shared Memory | 2024 | PCPS | S | 95.8 |
| 7 | Ball x Pit◆Kenny Sun | 2025 | PC | S | 95.3 |
| 8 | Mouthwashing◆Wrong Organ | 2024 | PC | S | 95.3 |
| 9 | Bramble: The Mountain King◆Dimfrost | 2023 | PCPS | S | 94.7 |
| 10 | A Short Hike◆adamgryu | 2019 | PCPS | S | 94.6 |
| 11 | Viewfinder◆Sad Owl Studios | 2023 | PCPS | S | 94.5 |
| 12 | Megabonk◆vedinad | 2025 | PC | S | 94.4 |
| 13 | Return Of The Obra Dinn◆Lucas Pope | 2018 | PCPS | S | 94.1 |
| 14 | OneShot◆Little Cat Feet | 2016 | PC | S | 94 |
| 15 | Beat Saber◆Hyperbolic Magnetism | 2019 | PCPS | A | 93.9 |
| 16 | What Remains of Edith Finch◆Annapurna Interactive | 2017 | PCPS | A | 93.6 |
| 17 | Amnesia: The Bunker◆Frictional Games | 2023 | PCPS | A | 93.4 |
| 18 | Deep Rock Galactic◆Ghost Ship Games | 2020 | PCPS | A | 93.2 |
| 19 | The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe◆Crows Crows Crows | 2022 | PCPS | A | 92.9 |
| 20 | Subnautica◆Unknown Worlds Entertainment | 2018 | PCPS | A | 92.9 |
| 21 | The Last Campfire◆Hello Games | 2020 | PCPS | A | 92.9 |
| 22 | Jusant◆DONTNOD Entertainment | 2023 | PCPS | A | 92.9 |
| 23 | Trepang2◆Trepang Studios | 2023 | PC | A | 92.9 |
| 24 | Stephen's Sausage Roll◆increpare games | 2016 | PC | A | 92.8 |
| 25 | Tadpole Treble◆BitFinity | 2016 | PC | A | 92.6 |