Best Story Rich Collectathon Games on PC

Cozy Grove

I love this game, and if you like games like Animal Crossing you will probably like it too.

It is a cute little game which allows you to help out ghosts by fulfilling the tasks they give you.

You also build a camp for yourself, take care of animals, harvest plants and flowers, decorate the island etc.

Everyday you get a few tasks and some things you can harvest, but after those are done you may have to wait till tomorrow to get new ones, so the game is more of a gradual story and a slow burn (which I like a lot because I do not have the time for major games at the moment).

– Real player with 97.9 hrs in game

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A lovely game with interesting new ideas, stymied by poor design decisions that make it a chore. If you like Stardew Valley type games, and don’t mind the restrictions usually found on mobile, it could be for you.

Good:

Interesting characters, a slow burn unravelling of their stories
A nice ‘illumination’ mechanic whereby helping spirits each day lights up the area and enables resource harvesting. Feels rewarding and like you’re making progress.
Lots of outfits and recipes to collect for collector / crafter types

– Real player with 75.3 hrs in game

Cozy Grove on Steam

A Rat’s life: the Cat Conspiracy

Fast First-person Rat Gameplay

Get on your four legs to sprint and travel through a unique world. Use pipes to reach hidden area and find cheese.

Featured in this adventure:

Story rich arcs set in a unique world
Different stealth challenges
Skilled-based drills
frantic cat pursuits
Trashball against AI (a popular sport among rats)
Rat races
Exploration and cheese chasing
Great cinematics and soundtrack

Story Rich Arcs

Rats live in societies inside walls. Big corporate control the access to the outside world where cheese, the main currency and food can be found by cheese hunters. In order to find out what happened to your missing siblings, you will have to be employed as a cheese hunter to sneak your way to the outside world, far from home. Through this adventure the narrative deals with social themes related to inequality and conspiracies.

Hide from horrifying cats

The outside world is filled with traps and scary looking cats. Use your speed and small size to sneak your way through this mysterious world without getting caught.

More details to come, make sure to wishlist and follow to stay tuned.

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A Rat's life: the Cat Conspiracy on Steam

Misc. A Tiny Tale

Misc. A Tiny Tale is a celebration of classic style 3D Platformers. Experience a heartfelt adventure with Buddy and Bagboy, two tiny robots made from miscellaneous items. Hop through each chapter meeting a quirky cast of characters - all while collecting cogs and items to help bots around you.

KEY FEATURES:

Classic style 3D Platforming fun.
Stunning colorful visuals built from the ground up.
Find and collect cogs to open up new chapters.
Discover and help a wide cast of unique characters across your journey.
Jump into underground platforming challenges to test your skills.
Explore the world in adorable costumes found in each chapter.
Spend your collected nuts at the “CanDo!” stores across each chapter.

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Misc. A Tiny Tale on Steam

Collection Quest

I love this style of pixel art, it make me feel nostalgic of the good old days, and i like to explore so this gets a thumbs up from me. But If your looking for a game where you can mow down enemies left, right and centre, this is not the game for you. this game is more like a story driven scavenger hunt.

– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game

The game feels so… lifeless. There’s basically no music or sound, which further makes it feels so empty and soulless.

For the first part of the game, you really have no idea what you’re doing, other than you’re supposed to collect playing cards. And you walk up to different icons and get “quest obtained” a lot. So my quest log is filled with dozens of “fishing spot 72-A” and “digging spot 42”, yet I have no idea how long it’ll take me before I find a fishing rod, and even if I do, how will I find that spot again? There’s no map or other quest guidance.

– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game

Collection Quest on Steam

One True Hero

One True Hero is a quirky 3D platforming adventure featuring a young hero who can barely save himself!

An Epic Adventure

An evil tyrant… A magic sword… A young farmer turned Hero…

It’s a tale we’ve heard thousands of times before, and in the kingdom of Genericia things like that happen every other week!

This makes it hard for our Hero to be taken seriously when he tries to save a town that’s mysteriously sinking into the ground, even if he is the only one capable of saving it!

Nerve-Racking Sword Fights

All sorts of terrible evil creatures will stand in your path. You’re going to have to deal with them if you want to save the kingdom!

Loads of Platforming

Who knew there was so much jumping involved in being a legendary hero?

A Tale to Remember

Meet a cast of memorable characters, explore dungeons, solve puzzles and unravel the mystery of the sinking town before it disappears off the face of the earth!

Will you be the One True Hero this kingdom needs?

One True Hero on Steam

Nox Terrorem: Lost Souls

A slender game in 2021? Really? Anyways, it’s hideous. A set of paths which all look the same and you have no idea where to go. Slender just kills you randomly at a distance. A buggy and boring mess.

Jake Manure.

– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game

for me, nothing worked, if I used left mouse it went to desktop. I couldn’t pick up any documents so never got past the house. running made me feel sick and the overall experience was horrible. no menu for controls so not only could you not adjust the mouse sensitivity (which was far too high for me) but there’s no way to know what keys do what. refunded it. and for CDN $ 9.19 it’s just not worth it

– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game

Nox Terrorem: Lost Souls on Steam

Steamulator 2019

Disclosure: I’m friends with one of the conceptualizers of the game.

Enjoyable game for the price. Simplistic in nature but a generally addictive nature will make players want to keep coming back to the game. The game has you running your own Steam storefront where you have to monitor your stats to assure they aren’t too high or too low, otherwise its game over.

The game suffers from some bugs such as no matter what the event is, every time you swipe right on a card, your game count will increase by 1, even if the choice doesn’t involve publishing a game to Steam and the confusing stat adjustments made in correspondence with your decisions (how does accepting games have the same positive influence on developers as when you deny them?)

– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game

Well I originally wrote a long rant about why I hate these devs after they’re first success that was half-decent, but then I realized I would probably get deleted for it, so here’s my attempt at a reasonable and constructive review for this game.

Don’t buy it, Reigns is better. Long story short, it just seems like a cash grab to me, as was their last game after the initial lootbox simulator success that was alright but probably not worth the cost. It’s a half baked concept they put a price on to cash in on. Or perhaps an attempt at a game inspired by games like reign that they gave up on either out of boredom or inability to manage to work out kinks and bugs. I would suggest Game Dev Tycoon or other similar rip offs if you’re looking for the steam-esque simulators. I have a degree in computer game development that I haven’t used in 3 years because I wasn’t a fan of it, so I have a basic understanding of how to make a game. If I bothered to do research I could probably make this myself for free. Anyway, not worth a look if you ask me, if you’re looking for anything from these guys, the only good thing is I can’t believe it’s not Gambling, the first one, not the second.

– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game

Steamulator 2019 on Steam

Choose for ME

Choose for ME belongs to the “Puzzle Drama” genre, in which the player will find himself at the center of an exciting story told as in a movie.

Help Mads to shed light on his memory and reconstruct the moments that marked his life… and the development of his video game
Live this emotional journey and discover the truth solving puzzles and riddles
Get carried away by the psychological flow and explore Mads' mind

Choose for ME on Steam

Monster Crown

The Good:

Deceptively huge variety of monsters to encounter and breed.
High level of customization allows you to personalize your team to your heart’s content.
Extremely receptive developer.
Plenty of hidden secrets to improve replayability and give extra things to do.
Charming retro GBC aesthetic that varies just enough from other titles on the market to be unique.
Relatively active community dedicated to exploring and finding secrets.

The Bad:

More bugs than could possibly be listed.

– Real player with 107.1 hrs in game

*Note that this review is for version 1.0.24

Playing status: 100% achievement

Grindy Achievement(s): No.

Optional Achievement(s): Yes (~7 achievements).

Difficult Achievement(s): No.

Intro

Monster Crown is a monster-taming RPG with breeding at its core. It offers an open-world area, allowing you to visit the towns in any order that you want to find as many monsters as possible for your breeding purposes.

Pros: