Looking for games with good stories! (+ The Fall giveaway!)

Life Is Strange

I love a strong story in games too, so here goes:

The Witcher games have great story, but be advised that 1 and 2 have clunky gameplay in some respects (1 in particular is very difficult to get into as a modern gamer). Witcher 3, however, is just one of the best games I've played all-around. Feel free to start there.

Both Supergiant games are amazing (Bastion and Transistor).

I don't think I've seen Mass Effect in this thread yet either, which is insane to me. If you like games where your choices have consequences long-term as well as near-term, Mass Effect is basically the pinnacle. Stuff you did in the first game is still having an impact in the third game.

Fallout: New Vegas is great. Easily the best of the modern Fallout games. Of the DLC Old World Blues is the best.

Fallout 4 base story is so-so, but the Far Harbor DLC is really good.

Bioshock Infinite is a fun game with an amazing ending story-wise. AVOID SPOILERS. Can't emphasize that enough. Never made it all the way through original flavor Bioshock, but I hear the same about it.

If your idea of a good story is a bugfuck crazy story, Saints Row IV is the way to go. You become the President then fight aliens in the Matrix with superpowers.

I liked both story and gameplay in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Haven't played Mankind Divided yet but I have heard good things about it as well.

If you can get into old RPGS with old RPG levels of difficulty (read: high difficulty) Baldur's Gate II is amazing.

I quite enjoyed the story in Shadowrun: Dragonfall and Shadowrun: Hong Kong. The setting is great too.

...Okay, that's probably plenty. Hope you find something to enjoy in there!

On the point-and-click side, check out Broken Sword and Lost Horizon if you're into stories with a historical background.

I try not to be repeated, but will highlight some of the games (which are generally advised above)
Memoria
Whisperred world 1 (and I think 2)

But i Repeat - The Longest Journey series =)

Virtual novels:
Ever 17 (not Steam)
Steins Gate
Saya no Uta

Life is Strange
Anima Gate of Memories
SOMA
Gone Home
Valkyria Chronilces
Bioshock Infinite
American McGee’s Alice (not have in Steam) (and siquel there is good art, but the stoty is cut) - Hightly recommend if you like Fran Bow
Final Fantasy series - 7-10, 13
Last of Us (ps, ps4, youtube)
Silent Hill 2 (ans SH reies game) (not Steam, exclude 5)
Knight of the Old Republic 1,2 (if you love Star Wars)

If you like Fran Bow maybe you intrested
Cat Woman
Year Walk
Silence the Sleep
Tormentum - Dark Sorrow

If you like fantasy style open-world games you can't go wrong with Witcher 3. The story is amazing.

For the moody but a little emotional:

Life is Strange, To the Moon, Gone Home, Bird Story.

There are also Dreamfall Chapters, the Longest Journey, Syberia 1 & 2 (3rd installment coming soon)

Tactics Ogre

You could try different games from the same developer. ‘The Wolf Among Us’ is great.

The Monkey Island series!

If you want story games or games with good stories, then play everysingle Telltale games beginning with the Sam & Max series, they are a real adventure. Play Arcanum, Warcraft 3, Starcraft, Final Fantasy Crisis Core, Age of Empires 3, the Command and Conquer Tiberium universe series, Fallout Tactics and Fallout 3 because someone missed those, Deus Ex series, Sonny and Sonny 2, Breach, E.C.H.O.E.S: Operation Stranglehold, Metro 2033, Silent Hill Homecoming and Origins, Dead Space and Dead Rising series, GTA series, Saints Row series , Shadowrun Returns, Darkest Dungeon, XCOM series, Twisted Metal Black, Warhammer 40K Dawn of War games, Max Payne games, The Typing of the Dead Overkill, Fable Legends, these are games with stories I enjoyed and totally recommend them on stories alone but the gameplay are a plus's, there's ofcourse more to suggest but this is all I can remember and yes, before anyone says, my choice in story games can be jank.

What everyone said.
Especially:
Bioshock games (all)
Batman: Arkham... (all)
Telltale games (Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Tales from Borderlands, The Wolf Among us, Batman)
Witcher games (all)
Life is Strange
L.A. Noire
Mafia games (all)
GTA games (since GTA III)
Fallout games (all)
Elder Scrolls games
Assassin's Creed games
Alan Wake games
Call of Juarez (all, except the third game - Cartel)
Max Payne games
Tomb Raider reboot games
Dishonored games
etc.

Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer (this expansion had a great story. Oh and it's on GOG)
Knights of the Old Republic 2.
Witcher 3 is I guess too obvious.

Bumps!

Mass Effect
Bioshock Infinite

Telltale games are good. I would for sure say to play the first episode of The Wolf Among Us and then leave it at that as I felt the rest was a let down. (Skip to the next recommendations if you want to) [I feel maybe there was difficulty or something when it came to finishing the story of TWAU because after the first episode, everything isn't as good and I noticed the names and pics for the chapters that were to come (2 and 3 I believe) had changed.]

Life is Strange is really good.

VA-11 HALL-A is also a good game if you don't mind a game that is more of an interactive story sort of like the Phoenix Wright games.

Batman Arkham City is actually pretty darn good and you do not need to play the prior game.

The Beginners Guide(story) and The Stanley Parable(story/interactions) are good too.

If you don't mind shooters, there are the Borderlands games and The Darkness 2. Both have surprisingly good stories for the FPS genre.

Shadowrun games, but not sure about Boston Lockdown.
Blue Estate: short , but quite funny, like Snatch movie.
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger... - great narrator voice. And it's free game!
Long Live the Queen - graphic novel with RPG elements - multiple endings.
The Bard's Tale.
Fallout series, especially first isometric ones.
Portal 1 and 2 - for GlaDOS.
Vampire: the Masquereade: Bloodlines - great story if you like World of Darkness.
Wastelands 2 - because Fallout.
Witcher series - because reasons.

Life is Strange. One of the Best Story games for me :)

The beginning of "Fahrenheit"

Spec Ops: The Line

Batman Arkham Asylum

Different genres and different games, but I think they have some of what you are looking for

Most of Daedalic Entertainment games, like Deponia, The Whispered World, The Night of the Rabbit, Anna's Quest, etc. Also, games like Valiant Hearts, Broken Age, 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, and Bully: Scholarship Edition would be a good idea. They all have a really massive amount of storyline. Just look at my library and you'll find out a lot of good games with storyline. xD

Transistor
Alien Isolation?
Steins;Gate ( Visual Novel )
Bioshock series
The Darkness (Gore)
Life is Strange

Evil WIthin had a terrible story imo. It was so incoherent that it makes me wonder if they didn't assign an intern high on acid to be in charge of the plot.

I thought the metro series had a pretty decent story (metro 2033, metro last light), same with sleeping dogs and valkyria chronicles
I would recommend sickness, that vn had a superb story but I'm not sure if you like vns

Metro ,Trine , Bioshock, Witcher series, ENSLAVED: Odyssey to the West, Sleeping Dogs, L.A. Noire, Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons.

I'm playing To the moon now, and it's really great!!!

Lots of good suggestions here already. IF you like VN
Here are two more.
Eden*
http://store.steampowered.com/app/315810/
Gahkthun of the Golden Lightning
http://store.steampowered.com/app/315810/

browse through a bit of answers already given and pretty much every thing i could recommend you, so ill say those i didn't saw :

• the obvious The witchers trilogy (someone surely already told it i suppose)
• the obvious final fantasy saga, storywise, i prefer FFX FFVII FFVI FFIX FFXIII
• Muv Luv trilogy (the last i heard only the 2 first were on steam : muv luv extra, and muv luv unlimited. Muv luv alternative
  about this, the first muv luv is a basic VN (it made me laugh a lot though, especially the beginning) with a student where your choices wil in the end decide which romance or not youll live. But it is mostly a presentation of all character youll see in muv luv unlimited and alternative wich will reinforce the feeling and deepen your interest in the story. In my personnal opinion the 3rd : alternative really is the best with the most interesting story, would take too long to describe so you may want to read steams reviews :p or even better, make your opinion yourself by playing it :D