Best Steam / PC Apps & Games — Page 13
Expert-reviewed Steam games for PC, scored out of 10.
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- 01IkarugaIkaruga builds enormous complexity out of one binary mechanic and demands absolute cognitive presence, proving that mec…9.7Outstanding
- 02Chrono TriggerChrono Trigger is a relic of the 16-bit era that still works: its narrative economy and mechanical elegance remain the…9.7Outstanding
- 03Deus ExDecades on, Deus Ex remains the definitive argument for player agency, proving that systems-driven design beats cinemat…9.7Outstanding
Eternal Threads
Adventure gameEternal Threads' ripple-effect timeline — a hundred small decisions deciding who lives — is one of the more original narrative systems in years, but i...Mixed6.4No Umbrellas Allowed
Simulation gameA second-hand shop sim with the soul of a noir novel — its appraise-haggle-resell loop is one of the tensest economies in the genre, and it's kneecapp...Good7.1Guilty Gear -Strive-
Action gameArc System Works stripped a famously impenetrable fighter down to its load-bearing walls and rebuilt it around online play that reshaped what the genr...Great8.2BEGLITCHED
Adventure gameBeglitched invents a genuinely new verb for a tired format — you don't clear the board, you interrogate it — and dresses that idea in one of the fun...Good7.3Lumino City
Adventure gameState of Play spent three years building a ten-foot city out of paper, card and miniature motors, then filmed it — and the result is a game whose art ...Good7.4Tharsis
RPG gameTharsis has a genuinely original central idea — your crew are the dice — wrapped around a difficulty curve so pitiless it will drive off most of its...Mixed6.0Ravenfield
Action gameOne Swedish developer built a large-scale bot-war sandbox that is light on hardware by design, then handed the keys to the Steam Workshop and walked o...Good7.5Moonglow Bay
Adventure gameMoonglow Bay has one of the most emotionally honest premises in the cozy genre — a voxel story about grief, debt, and small-town decline, scored by Le...Mixed5.9
A Case of Distrust
Adventure gameA Case of Distrust is a handsome, well-written noir that ends before it earns its own ending — a Saul Bass mood piece with a Phoenix Wright deduction ...Mixed6.5Aliens: Dark Descent
Action gameTindalos Interactive built an Alien game that understands the franchise isn't about killing xenomorphs — it's about running out of everything while ...Good7.1Blue Revolver
Action gameBlue Revolver is a danmaku shooter built by people who understand that punishing and unreadable are not synonyms — five stages of ferociously well-dra...Great8.0Lone Survivor
Action gameA flashlight, a cassette hiss, and a bag of rotten meat do more work here than most big-budget horror manages with a photogrammetry rig. It's an unset...Good7.6System Shock 2
Action gameTwenty-five years on, the Von Braun remains one of the most intelligently designed haunted houses in games, and Nightdive's KEX rebuild finally makes ...Good7.9Dungeonmans
Adventure gameA decade-old, Windows-only, deliberately ugly traditional roguelike that solved meta-progression years before the genre's breakout hits made it fashio...Good7.4Gunhead
Action gameHard to recommend for most shooter fans: Gunhead's subsystem-priority heist design is genuinely clever, but flat art, a thin fiction, and a procedural...Mixed6.0Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Action gameRespawn built a mechanically rich action game and then shipped it on PC in a state that damaged its reputation for two years. The design now justifies...Good7.1Beyond Good & Evil – 20th Anniversary Edition
Action gameFor $19.99, Ubisoft has given a long-overlooked action-adventure a careful visual and audio polish plus quality-of-life fixes that matter more than th...Good7.1Black Book
Adventure gameBlack Book is a deck-building RPG whose cards are incantations drawn from 19th-century Ural folk charms, wrapped in a grief story with teeth. The co...Good7.3Rogue Tower
Strategy gameRogue Tower does something almost no tower defense game has dared: it lets the player draw the map the enemies walk. That single design inversion carr...Good7.1Brok the InvestiGator
Action gameA sharply drawn noir adventure that lets you solve every problem with your brain or your fists, built around a story about grief and fatherhood that e...Good7.8Forgive Me Father
Action gameA gorgeous, mean-spirited boomer shooter that weaponizes its own art style — and then runs out of ideas about two hours before the credits. Hard to re...Mixed6.6Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
Action gameQuestline's Arthurian RPG writes and fights above its budget, then trips over its own quest scripting on the way to the finish line. A solid buy for p...Good7.3Ashen
Action gameAshen's passive drop-in co-op is the best structural idea the souls-like genre has produced in a decade, but mushy combat, a hostile camera, and a tec...Mixed6.0Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes
Action gameHard to recommend for most people: a Suikoden successor with a genuinely brilliant recruitment loop, undermined by unskippable battle animations, heav...Mixed6.3
