The best storytelling games - making up stories 2023
Looking for a really good game where you have to invent stories? Then we have just the thing for you: the list of the best storytelling games 2023.
What are storytelling games?
In narrative games, players are given conceptual, written, or pictorial prompts that must be incorporated into a creation story by the players. Once upon a time uses an assortment of words, while the Rory's Story Cubes series include ambiguous symbols. Some games, such as Snake Oil and The Big Idea, ask players to design a product, which often takes the form of a short story or vignette.
Other narrative games include titles such as Tales of the Arabian Nights and Above and Below, game concepts in which players do not create their own stories but experience a story from within as one of the participants. Games in this sense might present players with a specific narrative situation, after which the player makes a choice that affects which end of the narrative is told - with the results of that narrative affecting the player's position in the game.
List of the best storytelling games 2023
Dixit: Odyssey
Nominated for 5 awards and won 3.
More details for Dixit: Odyssey- 3 - 12 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
👍 Good price!25€ at.de
MicroMacro: Crime City – Full House
Nominated for 4 awards.
More details for MicroMacro: Crime City – Full House- 1 - 4 Players
- 15 - 45 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Immediately playable
👍 Good price!21€ at.de
Dixit
- 3 - 8 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
- 4 - 12 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
👍 Good price!37€ at.de
Detective Club
Nominated for 6 awards and won 3.
More details for Detective Club- 4 - 8 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
👍 Good price!30€ at.de
Video reviews for Detective Club
Destinies
Nominated for 8 awards and won 3.
More details for Destinies- 1 - 3 Players
- 90 - 150 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Legacy of Dragonholt
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More details for Legacy of Dragonholt- 1 - 6 Players
- 60 - 999 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Immediately playable
🔥 Great price!35€ at.de
Forgotten Waters
Nominated for 8 awards and won 1.
More details for Forgotten Waters- 3 - 7 Players
- 120 - 240 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
👍 Good price!48€ at.de
Chronicles of Crime
Nominated for 15 awards and won 5.
More details for Chronicles of Crime- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
Video reviews for Chronicles of Crime
When I Dream
Nominated for 6 awards and won 2.
More details for When I Dream- 4 - 10 Players
- 20 - 40 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Video reviews for When I Dream
Chronicles of Crime: 1900
- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
👍 Good price!30€ at.de
Mutabo
- 3 - 6 Players
- 25 - 45 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Immediately playable
👍 Good price!19€ at.de
Kids Chronicles: Quest for the Moon Stones
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Kids Chronicles: Quest for the Moon Stones- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 7+ years old
- Immediately playable
👍 Good price!20€ at.de
The King's Dilemma
Nominated for 7 awards.
⭐️ Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2020
More details for The King's Dilemma- 3 - 5 Players
- 45 - 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Video reviews for The King's Dilemma
Witness
- 4 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Immediately playable
Video reviews for Witness
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Nominated for 8 awards.
⭐️ Nominated for Spiel des Jahres 2021
More details for The Adventures of Robin Hood- 2 - 4 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
👍 Good price!34€ at.de
Spaceship Unity
- 2 - 4 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Immediately playable
Mysterium
Nominated for 14 awards and won 6.
More details for Mysterium- 2 - 7 Players
- 42 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Chronicles of Crime: 1400
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Chronicles of Crime: 1400- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
👍 Good price!30€ at.de
Mysterium Park
Nominated for 3 awards and won 1.
More details for Mysterium Park- 2 - 6 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Immediately playable
Unlock!: Timeless Adventures
- 1 - 6 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures
- 1 - 8 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Video reviews for Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures
Crime Zoom: A Deadly Writer
- 1 - 6 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Immediately playable
Mini-Mutabo
- 3 - 6 Players
- 25 - 45 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Immediately playable
Trapwords
Nominated for 4 awards.
More details for Trapwords- 4 - 8 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
👍 Good price!20€ at.de
Video reviews for Trapwords
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Baker Street Irregulars
- 1 - 8 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Video reviews for Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Baker Street Irregulars
Snake Oil
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for Snake Oil- 3 - 10 Players
- 20 - 30 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Immediately playable
Gloomhaven
Nominated for 22 awards and won 10.
More details for Gloomhaven- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Hard to learn
👍 Good price!143€ at.de
Video reviews for Gloomhaven
The 7th Continent
Nominated for 17 awards and won 2.
More details for The 7th Continent- 1 - 4 Players
- 5 - 1000 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Unlock! Kids: Detective Stories
- 1 - 4 Players
- 20 - 60 Minutes
- 6+ years old
- Easy to learn
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