I've used Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Uncensored. Many others have recommended this in various community posts. It's a fast, capable all-rounder that does an excellent job and can be very creative with the right prompts.
I've also used
- Llama 3.1 8B Lexi Uncensored V2 : Close contender, but it's a lot slower, especially as history tokens increase. Also has a tendency to convert huge parts of game text into choice lists because of formatting
- DarkIdol Llama 3.1 8B Instruct 1.2 Uncensored : Performance was a lot slower, and it had a heavy bias towards suspense/horror genres even when instructed otherwise by the system prompt
- L3.2-rogue-creative-instruct-uncensored-7b : Performance was just bad, even standalone in LM Studio (64GB RAM, 16-core processor, 8GB VRAM, loaded on SSD, and this thing runs at typewriter speed). But, it was hands down the best at long-form story...so good, in fact, that it regularly ignored my attempts to be concise (text prompt was 2-5 paragraphs and it routinely shot for 30).
- llama-3.2-8x3b-moe-dark-champion-instruct-uncensored-abliterated-18.4b : This one ran like the DarkIdol llama model (decent performance), but even more biased to suspense/horror
And a handful of others whose performance was just not good or recommended draft models