The best storytelling games - making up stories 2021
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 2021.
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 2021
Dixit: Odyssey
Nominated for 5 awards and won 3.
More details for Dixit: Odyssey
3 - 12 Players
30 Minutes
8+ years old
Complexity: very easy
🔥 Great price!23€ at
.deDixit
- 3 - 6 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Legacy of Dragonholt
- 1 - 6 Players
- 60 - 999 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
👍 Good price!60€ at.deChronicles of Crime
Nominated for 12 awards and won 3.
More details for Chronicles of Crime- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: easy
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
- Complexity: very easy
Video reviews for When I Dream
Forgotten Waters
Nominated for 8 awards and won 1.
More details for Forgotten Waters- 3 - 7 Players
- 120 - 240 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: easy
🔥 Great price!45€ at.deWitness
- 4 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Video reviews for Witness
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures
- 1 - 8 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Video reviews for Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures
Mysterium Park
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Mysterium Park- 2 - 6 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
👍 Good price!19€ at.deThe 7th Continent
Nominated for 17 awards and won 2.
More details for The 7th Continent- 1 - 4 Players
- 5 - 1000 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: medium
Unlock!: Timeless Adventures
- 1 - 6 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
The King's Dilemma
- 3 - 5 Players
- 45 - 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: easy
👍 Good price!57€ at.deVideo reviews for The King's Dilemma
Gloomhaven
Nominated for 22 awards and won 10.
More details for Gloomhaven- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: hard
👍 Good price!132€ at.deVideo reviews for Gloomhaven
Unlock!: Heroic Adventures
- 1 - 6 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Trapwords
Nominated for 3 awards.
More details for Trapwords- 4 - 8 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Video reviews for Trapwords
Rory's Story Cubes: Mystery
- 1 - 12 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 6+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
👍 Good price!11€ at.deSherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Baker Street Irregulars
- 1 - 8 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Video reviews for Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Baker Street Irregulars
Funemployed
- 3 - 20 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game
Nominated for 14 awards and won 4.
Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2019
🔥 Deal: 22% cheaper than the best Geizhals deal, likely for a short time only!More details for Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game- 1 - 5 Players
- 120 - 180 Minutes
- 16+ years old
- Complexity: medium
🔥 Great price!23€ at.deVideo reviews for Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game
Cult Following
- 3 - 8 Players
- 15 - 30 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Unlock!: Mystery Adventures
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Unlock!: Mystery Adventures- 1 - 6 Players
- 45 - 75 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Unlock!: Secret Adventures
- 1 - 6 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Unlock!: Escape Adventures
Nominated for 5 awards and won 1.
More details for Unlock!: Escape Adventures- 2 - 6 Players
- 45 - 75 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
No Thank You, Evil!
🔥 Deal: 19% cheaper than the best Geizhals deal, likely for a short time only!More details for No Thank You, Evil!- 2 - 5 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 5+ years old
- Complexity: easy
🔥 Great price!18€ at.dePluckin' Pairs
Nominated for 2 awards and won 1.
More details for Pluckin' Pairs- 3 - 8 Players
- 50 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Rory's Story Cubes: Voyages
- 1 - 12 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Clusterfight!
- 3 - 12 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
The Crusoe Crew
- 1 - 4 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 7+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
🔥 Great price!22€ at.deVideo reviews for The Crusoe Crew
Rory's Story Cubes: Scooby-Doo
- 1 - 99 Players
- 10 Minutes
- 6+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
T.I.M.E Stories
Nominated for 16 awards and won 3.
Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2016
🔥 Deal: 12% cheaper than the best Geizhals deal, likely for a short time only!More details for T.I.M.E Stories- 2 - 4 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Complexity: medium
🔥 Great price!22€ at.deVideo reviews for T.I.M.E Stories
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