Book lovers this one’s for you.
In this article we’ll be featuring 10 games perfect for book lovers!
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Book of Hours
If you’ve ever dreamed of one day being a librarian, well in this game you’ll get to live out that dream, rebuilding the once great fortress of knowledge: Hush House.
Book of Hours is a narrative crafting RPG where you’ll find and inspect occult books and curiosities. You’ll explore the rich lore of this fantasy world, uncovering secret histories, studying the wisdoms, and choosing which legacy will determine who you are.
Craft and use inks, memories, and other tools as you sort books, guide visitors, and write your own history, and further your library adventures in the newly released House of Light DLC.
This is a great choice for book lovers who like the quirky and unusual, with a heavy dose of mystery.
Love, Ghostie
If you find yourself shipping specific couples and getting lost in fluffy romances, then this game is for you.
Love, Ghostie sees you play as a matchmaking ghost, in charge of a manor full of quirky residents. It’ll be up to you to ensure your residents happiness, and what better way to do that than to manipulate them into falling in love with each other?
You’ll collect objects to give to residents as gifts, which you of course say are from another resident, comb through diaries for clues as to their preferences, and set residents up on dates to encourage their relationships.
Every couple can be matched in this game, with each having their own love story to uncover, and giving you endless options as to who you’re shipping together.
This is a great wholesome and cozy choice, perfect for the romance lover.
A Highland Song
If you love a book with a strong female main character, then you’ll probably enjoy the exploration game A Highland Song.
Set in the stunning Scottish Highlands, you play as 15 year old Moira, who decides to journey across the highlands, by herself, to the sea. You’ll navigate a treacherous world, climbing to the top of literal mountains, exploring maze like caves, and uncovering the lore of the land as you go.
The highlands are scattered with some interesting characters, and you’ll be able to uncover plenty of different intriguing stories. Characters aren’t the only thing you’ll discover as the highlands are full of lost treasures to find, and scraps of maps that you can use to piece together where to go.
This one is an immersive, fully voice acted story, with some incredible rhythm sections that feature prominent Scottish music, and is a game that captures the magic of exploring a forbidden land.
Until then
If you love a good thriller book, with plenty of twists and turns, then this game is for you.
Until Then is a visual novel game set in the Philippines following a major natural disaster. At first everything seems normal as you follow highschooler Mark about his day, but soon enough you’ll start to experience some glitches in your reality.
You’ll be drawn into an emotional story, full of twists and turns, as you learn more about your friends, and try to work out how to stop people from disappearing. With a stunning pixel art style and a moving soundtrack to match, this is a game that will absolutely hurt your soul to play, but is full of a really captivating story.
Without giving out spoilers, rolling credits on this game isn’t exactly where it ends, so be sure to look out for more, in what is a fantastic story driven game.
Creatures of Ava
If you love a book with an immersive world and a feel good story, then this is a game worth checking out.
Creatures of Ava is a creature collector game, but instead of collecting creatures you save them. You’ll journey to the planet Ava, which has been infected by a mysterious withering, where you’ll attempt rescue the people there and enough of the animals that you’ll be able to save their species.
Arriving on Ava will be anything but ordinary, and you’ll immediately be drawn into a world full of rich interesting lore. You’ll explore a stunning world, saving creatures, and helping the locals in an attempt to gain their trust so you can save them too, only maybe saving them doesn’t involve evacuating the planet.
This is a great exploration game set in a world full of both a larger fantasy story and smaller ones for individual characters, that is perfect for those who love an epic storyline.
REKA
Witchy book lovers this one’s for you!
REKA sees you step into the boots of an apprentice witch who comes under the tutelage of the one and only Baba Jaga. You’ll explore an stunning woodlands, venturing into villages to complete quests set for you by your master, and to help further your witch training.
Exploring the world is made a little bit easier with the help of your iconic chicken legged house, that allows you to build a home on top of a chicken leg base that you can then steer through the woods. You can get pretty creative with the building too, really designing the ultimate witchy cottage.
This is a game that has roots in more traditional witchcraft, focusing on the elements, cooking, and potion making, and is a great choice for those who want an authentic and immersive witch experience.
Tiny Glade
Are you more of a visual reader who loves a decent dose of world building, and gets excited for film adaptions so you can really visualize the fictional worlds, even if they do mess up the story?
Well this game might just scratch that world building itch for you.
Tiny Glade is a sandbox builder where you can create slices of fantasy life. Using freeform, gridless building, you’re able to turn vacant meadows into detailed castles brick by brick, seeing your world come to life.
This game has no goals, targets, or limitations of any kind, so you can create whatever world you desire in your own time, and the world will come to life with animals, gentle breezes, and day and night variations.
This is a game that will let you bring the worlds you read about to life, and is a great cozy choice for book lovers.
Storyteller
If you love a good fairy tale retelling, then this game might just be your happily ever after.
Storyteller is a fairy tale themed puzzle game, where you’ll need to fill in the blanks to fulfill a particular plot line. Don’t be fooled by the theme, this is not a child friendly game, but it does have a whole lot of fairy tale tropes, including love at first sight, betrayal, and of course backstabbing murder.
You’ll meet some quirky characters who each have their own stories to uncover, and there’s some plot twists in there to keep you on your toes. The game has a really great narration style that truly makes you feel like you’re playing in a storybook, and it’s full of puns, and dark humour.
This is a great pick for those who love a good plot twist, and maybe are rooting for the bad guy.
Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina)
If historical books are your fiction of choice then this game is for you.
Two Falls explores the Canadian wilderness in the 17th century, giving you two different perspectives of the historical events of that time. You’ll play as Jeanne, a French women who finds herself the sole survivor of a shipwreck on her journey, leaving her to navigate the wilderness on her way to Quebec. You’ll also play as Maikan, a young hunter gather from the Innu community who sets out to uncover why the land is being defiled and what he can do to save his people.
You’ll explore the land, experiencing the same events through different lens, investigating each scene to uncover truths that will challenge your beliefs. Your decisions matter in this game, determining how both characters evolve through their journey, with the story exploring the grey area of historical events.
This is a really immersive game, full of a rich narrative that pays tribute to indigenous stories, and is perfect for a historical book lover.
Tavern Talk
Fantasy book lovers, particularly those who also love D&D, this game is for you.
Tavern Talk is a cozy visual novel set in a fantasy land where you play as the owner of the Wayfarer’s Inn, a popular tavern for locals and travelers alike. Here you’ll serve up drinks that can change your customer’s destinies, brewing potions that match their needs.
You’ll meet a colourful cast of adventurers, who are eager to share their adventures with you, but your job is not only to serve them drinks but also lend a friendly ear, and you can even gather rumours to create quests for your guests.
This is a great choice for lover of your typical fantasy tropes, with some incredible characters, and a great story to uncover, and is perfect for book lovers.
That is a wrap on 10 games perfect for book lovers!
Until next time, stay caffeinated.
