Best Steam / PC Apps & Games — Page 17
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
Legend of Grimrock 2
Adventure gameAlmost Human took a dead genre, gave it an island, and built one of the most confident grid-based dungeon crawlers of the modern era — provided you're...Great8.1Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
Action gameBoltgun's gunplay is the best-feeling of any Warhammer 40,000 shooter in a decade — a pixelated abattoir with real mechanical craft — but sprawling, s...Mixed6.5American Arcadia
Adventure gameOut of the Blue's two-hander is a narrative puzzle game where the structure is the argument — a 1970s dystopia told in TV cuts between the man being...Good7.4Hollowbody
Adventure gameOne person built a survival horror game with more atmosphere than most studio productions, then declined to take a single real risk with it. Hollowb...Good7.2Life Eater
RPG gameA queasy, original horror premise — scrubbing a video timeline through a stranger's week until you know them well enough to kill them — wrapped around...Mixed6.2TEVI
Action gameTEVI is one of the more mechanically ambitious metroidvanias in recent memory and one of the more exhausting — a sharp fusion of melee combo fighting ...Good7.7Frog Fractions
Action gameA free, roughly hour-long comedy game that weaponizes low expectations, Frog Fractions remains one of the sharpest pieces of structural comedy gam...Great8.4Ironclad Tactics
Strategy gameZachtronics took the tactics genre's most sacred cow — the turn — and shot it, replacing move-by-move deliberation with simultaneous resolution that p...Mixed6.2
Receiver 2
Action gameWolfire has built one of the most mechanically honest firearm simulations in games, then stapled it to procedural apartment blocks that don't deserve ...Good7.3Hob
Action gameHob's world-transformation mechanic — solving puzzles that physically rebuild the terrain underfoot — remains one of the most inventive ideas in level...Good7.3Squeakross: Home Squeak Home
Casual gameAlblune took the most mechanically pure puzzle genre in games and bolted a dollhouse to it — and the dollhouse is what makes the puzzles matter. It's ...Good7.8Everdeep Aurora
Adventure gameNautilus Games has built a descent platformer that strips out combat, quest logs, and objective markers, then dares players to enjoy the disorientatio...Good7.2Slay the Spire 2
Strategy gameMega Crit has built a bigger, sharper, more generous version of the game that invented the modern deckbuilding roguelike — and then handed the keys to...Great8.2Cairn
Action gameCairn is a rare thing in games — a genuinely new verb. It replaces the climb button with four independent limbs and a body that will absolutely betray...Great8.2Heaven Will Be Mine
Adventure gameA dense, politically serious visual novel that treats giant robots as a language for talking about desire and self-determination — and mostly gets awa...Good7.4Tempopo
Casual gameWitch Beam has built a programming puzzler that runs on rhythm instead of logic gates — tactile, generous, and well-crafted, but a system with a ceili...Good7.5Alina of the Arena
Strategy gameBy dragging Slay the Spire's card math onto a hex grid, PINIX built a deckbuilder where standing in the wrong tile kills you faster than a bad draw ...Good7.8Infernax
Action gameBerzerk Studio built a loving forgery of a 1988 NES cartridge, then quietly fixed everything that made those cartridges miserable. Infernax is mea...Good7.7Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Action gameWhite Rabbit's 2D Souls-like is a generous redemption arc — a free expansion that transformed a middling 2018 release into a sprawling, boss-heavy pac...Mixed6.9Lake
Adventure gameGamious built a genuinely adult narrative game about a woman deciding what her life is for, then wrapped it in a mail-delivery loop that runs far long...Mixed6.0Wandering Sword
Adventure gameThe Swordman Studio built a genuinely strong tactical RPG — deep, generous, and unapologetically Chinese — then shipped it with an English translation...Great8.2Gravity Ghost
Indie gameIvy Games built one of the most tactile, genuinely novel movement systems the indie space has produced — a game where gravity is the verb — and then d...Mixed6.4Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip
Adventure gamesnekflat has built a confidently designed small open world — a dense, funny, endlessly climbable seaside town that rewards stray impulses. It ends soo...Good7.3Bionic Bay
Action gameBionic Bay's swap mechanic is the rarest thing in platformers — a genuinely new verb — wrapped in dense, high-detail pixel art and undercut by a story...Good7.7
