LudoNarraCon is an annual digital festival celebrating narratives games — happening entirely on Steam! Hosted by indie games label Fellow Traveller, this year’s event includes an official selection of 50+ narrative games, 17 panels and fireside chats, 40 playable demos, and a massive story-rich games sale.
If you’re a fan of narrative games like me, we recommend diving headfirst into the exclusive game demos that will be free to play from now until May 17th, 1AM (GMT+8). You can find all of them on the LudoNarraCon Steam page, and who knows? You might find a few titles to add to your wishlist!
1. DOLOS: Your Best Future (Playing Paradigms)
In this narrative management game, you will have to decide about the future of everyone according to the anticipations of an AI. Help create the efficient society of tomorrow or preserve the dreams and hopes of everybody. Your choices will affect the future of Gauetia.
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2. Tom the postgirl (Oopsie Daisies)
Take a ride with Tom through her village and discover a great deal—perhaps too much—about the locals. Her approach, although controversial, is highly effective: intense and obsessive stalking.
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3. Hexxen: Hunters (Ulisses Spiele Digital)
Lead a party of 18th century Hunters against the forces of Hell in this turn-based tactical RPG. Manage your base of operations, train your team of Witch Hunters, and fight to save the world from certain doom.
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4. My Lovely Empress (GameChanger Studio)
My Lovely Empress is an empire management sim inspired by Asian mythology. As the Emperor of the Crimson Empire, you will build relations with neighboring rulers, balance internal factions, and ensure the prosperity of your people, all before you reap their souls to resurrect your beloved empress.
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5. Cryptmaster (Akupara Games)
SAY ANYTHING in this bizarre dungeon adventure where words control everything. Fill in the blanks with text or voice to uncover lost abilities, embark on strange quests, and solve mindbending riddles. Can you conquer the crypt and uncover the mystery at the heart of CRYPTMASTER?
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6. Caves of Qud (Freehold Games)
Caves of Qud is a science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retrofuturism, deep simulation, and swathes of sentient plants. Come inhabit an exotic world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations.
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7. Follow the meaning (HiKing Mind Studio)
Follow the meaning is a point-and-click puzzle adventure set in a peculiar town filled with folk who feel increasingly threatened by the rising authority of the Hospital and its Doctors. What is happening on the other side of the wall? Join detective Paul Trilby and help solve this crisis!
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8. Minds Beneath Us (BearBoneStudio)
Embark on a thrilling Sci-Fi journey in a futuristic Asian city in MINDS BENEATH US. In a society fully automated by advanced AI, you’re ensnared within a foreign body, accompanied by its original owner’s subconscious. Together, face impending challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
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9. Wandering Sword (The Swordman Studio)
Wandering Sword is a Chinese martial-arts RPG where you play a young swordsman caught up in a feud and nearly dies. Escaping the event puts you on the path of pursuing the highest form of martial arts and exploring the pugilistic world to become the great hero you are always destined to be.
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10. Nova Hearts (Lightbulb Crew)
A mysterious force of power transforms you and other highly attractive people in your area into superheroes and villains! TEXT, DATE and FIGHT your friends and enemies alike.
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11. Afterlove EP (Pikselnesia)
From the creator of Coffee Talk and What Comes After, comes a slice-of-life adventure set in modern Jakarta about love, loss and finding your own way forward. Step into the shoes of Rama, a young musician struggling to move on with life after the death of his girlfriend, Cinta.
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12. Great God Grove (LimboLane)
A GIANT RIFT IN THE SKY! The gods in disarray! And one mail carrier who might just save the day! Suck up dialogue and launch it back in a wacky world of puzzles, puppets, and a pantheon of weird gods… or face CERTAIN EXTINCTION!
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13. Ten Thousand Coins: The Golden Merchant (Thousand Tonic)
Trade goods, earn coins, and unravel a riveting tale spanning two timelines as a forsaken fox merchant searches for a way home.
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14. Tavern Talk (Gentle Troll Entertainment)
A cozy visual novel about running a tavern in a D&D-inspired fantasy! Gather rumors, serve magical drinks, and meet adventurers on a life-changing quest.
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15. Baladins (Seed by Seed)
Embark on a whimsical journey and bring joy to a bright fantasy world in this roleplaying adventure for 1-4 players. Craft your own story and solve quests how you like, but beware, for every time you fail the Dragon will send you back in time!
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16. Death Trick: Double Blind (Misty Mountain Studio)
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives… and their own secrets.
Try the demo now on Steam, or read our review!
17. Moses & Plato – Last Train to Clawville (The Wild Gentlemen)
A murder mystery where you are the main suspect! An ambassador on a peace mission has been killed on board the Clawville Express. Time progresses as you sniff out clues, eavesdrop on conversations, and interrogate passengers. Can you solve the case before the train reaches the last station? Or else.
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18. In Stars And Time (insertdisc5)
Live with the ever-present burden of being trapped in a time loop only you can know about in this turn-based RPG. Create a better future for you and your friends. Find hope where there is none left. Pray to the stars and free yourself from time.
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19. Hauntii (Moonloop Games LLC)
A beguiling adventure in which you uncover the secrets of an expansive and mysterious world – haunting both the environment and its denizens to craft ingenious solutions to the many challenges that await.
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20. Death of a Wish (melessthanthree)
THE NEO-SANCTUM SHALL FALL. Claim retribution against the theocratic Faiths as you master vicious hack-and-slash combat in this action-RPG where style is salvation.
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21. Yes, Your Grace: Snowfall (Brave At Night)
Rule your crumbling kingdom as you try to satisfy the petty needs of your people in this cinematic kingdom management RPG. Balance your resources, collect taxes, hire agents and make difficult decisions to see your kingdom prosper or fail.
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22. MAKOTO WAKAIDO’s Case Files TRILOGY DELUXE (Hakababunko)
A game based on a simple concept: a mystery puzzle you can complete in an hour. Can you solve the cases narrated in this beautiful pixel-art adventure?
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23. Angeline Era (Melos Han-Tani, Marina Kittaka)
Demo available! Fast-paced, nonlinear, 3D Action-Adventure with intense boss fights! Venture into an ancient land of Angels and Fae, as you slash and shoot through a lush world filled with outrageous hazards, charming creatures, and unholy abominations.
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24. Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo (Galla)
Use your wits, kindness, and maybe a good whack to gather clues, items, and evidence that will help the residents of Limbo move on. Untangling an afterlife is no easy feat, especially when you don’t have feet!
25. 1000xRESIST (sunset visitor 斜陽過客)
1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. The year is unknown, and a disease spread by an alien invasion keeps you underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in serving the ALLMOTHER, until the day you discover a shocking secret that changes everything.
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26. The Mermaid Mask (SFB Games)
Magnus Mortuga has been killed. The captain of the world’s strangest submarine, he was found in a locked room with an ancient stone cauldron – unsealed and opened for the first time. How did he die? Was it a curse? Perhaps one of his eccentric crew? Or does the bizarre truth run even deeper…
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27. Slay the Princess (Black Tabby Games)
You’re on a path in the woods, and at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a Princess. You’re here to slay her. If you don’t, it will be the end of the world.
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28. The Drifter (Powerhoof, Dave Lloyd)
A Pulp Adventure Thriller – A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point ‘n click thrill-ride.
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29. Duck Detective: The Secret Salami (Happy Broccoli Games)
Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open, in a narrative mystery adventure where nothing is quite as it seems.
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30. Back to the Dawn (Metal Head Games)
You were framed and incarcerated. Learn to survive in prison. Explore every inch and exploit any weakness. Manipulate and scheme. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.
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31. The Posthumous Investigation (Mother Gaia Studio)
Find yourself caught in a time loop in noir-inspired Brazil while investigating the mystery behind the murder of wealthy aristocrat Brás Cubas. Utilize the loop’s supernatural peculiarities to uncover secrets and motives in this detective adventure inspired by Machado de Assis’s rich literary works.
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32. The Horror at Highrook (Nullpointer Games)
The Horror at Highrook is an occult card crafting RPG. Explore a haunted mansion with your team of investigators, summon dark entities, craft powerful protections, uncover the fate of the missing family, and choose your own path through the darkness.
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33. Fishbowl (imissmyfriends.studio)
Fishbowl is a slice of life, coming of age story told over a month. Video call loved ones, work from home, sort through puzzles to rediscover childhood memories, do care tasks and get to know yourself better, one day at a time.
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34. Mexico, 1921. A Deep Slumber. (Mácula Interactive)
Immerse yourself in an emotional and intriguing narrative adventure video game about the awakening of a country.
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35. Wander Stars (Paper Castle Games)
Unleash custom attacks by combining words in this Super! Anime! Turn-Based! RPG! Collect all 200 words, earn Pep Ups from honourable victories and become a Kiai master. Befriend your rivals, uncover dark mysteries, and seek out the pieces of the Wanderstar map in a wild race across the universe.
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36. Final Profit: A Shop RPG (Brent Arnold)
FINAL PROFIT is a story driven shop-sim RPG. Gather products and find customers. Spend your hard-earned profits on upgrades and investments. Make far-reaching choices as you expand your business. And explore a world full of secrets on your quest to defeat capitalism by becoming the best at it!
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37. Times & Galaxy (Copychaser Games)
Embark on an interplanetary adventure as the first robo reporter for the Times & Galaxy, the solar system’s most trusted holopaper. You’re just an intern, but if you can get the scoop, write great stories, and impress your colleagues, maybe you’ll get to keep your job!
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38. Last Time I Saw You (Maboroshi Artworks)
First loves. Family issues. Yokai. ‘Last Time I Saw You’ is a coming-of-age adventure set in 1980s Japan. Explore a haunted forest hiding a terrible secret, and interact with a vast cast of friendly and deceitful characters in this beautifully hand-drawn story with some light action elements.
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39. Sorry We’re Closed (à la mode games)
Sorry We’re Closed is a nostalgic, single-player survival horror game with rich lore, deep characters and multiple endings. Explore unsettling locations with fixed camera angles. Fight in first person with demonic weapons. Open your Third Eye to see between worlds, uncover secrets and solve puzzles.
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40. Nirvana Noir (Feral Cat Den)
A noir adventure beyond time and space. The city of cosmic beings is under threat in two parallel realities – one where the Big Bang was never fired, the other exploding in color and sin. It’s up to you to solve the mysteries of the Bigger Bang in this follow up to the award-winning Genesis Noir.
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41. Pine: A Story of Loss (Made Up Games)
Alone in the forest glade he shared with his wife, a woodworker struggles to accept her passing. Help him hold on to cherished memories of their life together as he struggles to care for himself and his now empty home. Pine is a single-serving game focused on telling a beautiful, emotional tale.
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