Best Steam / PC Apps & Games — Page 21
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
The Battle for Wesnoth
Strategy gameTwo decades of continuous development have made The Battle for Wesnoth one of the deepest free strategy games on Steam — a hex-based tactics engine wi...Good7.8Toki Tori 2+
Adventure gameToki Tori 2+ strips the puzzle-platformer down to two verbs — whistle and stomp — and builds one of the genre's most quietly radical designs on top of...Good7.3Toodee and Topdee
Action gameA solo-developed puzzle-platformer built on one genuinely original idea — toggling between a 2D platformer and a top-down puzzler in the same level — ...Good7.6Heroes of Hammerwatch
Action gameHeroes of Hammerwatch takes the arcade bones of Gauntlet and grafts on a rogue-lite meta-progression system designed to respect your time, producing a...Good7.4Wizard of Legend
Action gameWizard of Legend strips the roguelike down to pure kinetic combat — dash, cast, chain, repeat — and the result is a genuinely well-built action loop, ...Good7.3Love You to Bits
Adventure gameA handsome, wordless point-and-click adventure with a real emotional idea behind it, held back by its brevity and a few puzzles that lean on guesswork...Good7.4The Jackbox Party Pack
Family gameThe original Jackbox Party Pack solved a problem the industry had ignored for decades — getting non-gamers to play — with one brilliant stroke: a brow...Mixed6.9LEGO Builder's Journey
Adventure gameA gorgeous, wordless meditation on play and parenthood that treats LEGO bricks with more reverence than any licensed blockbuster — but at $19.99 for r...Mixed6.5
PlateUp!
Action gamePlateUp! takes the Overcooked formula, bolts on a roguelite spine and a genuinely deep automation sandbox, and ends up as one of the smartest co-op co...Great8.3Obduction
Adventure gameObduction is the truest heir to Myst anyone has made — Cyan included — a gorgeous, cerebral puzzle box that respects your intelligence to a degree tha...Good7.2I Am Dead
Adventure gameA gentle, gorgeously illustrated meditation on death and memory whose inventive slicing mechanic is undercut by shallow puzzles and fiddly collectible...Mixed6.8Ring of Pain
Strategy gameRing of Pain takes one structural idea — the dungeon as a rotating ring of cards — and builds a tense, mechanically rigorous roguelike around it. RNG ...Good7.6Bury Me, My Love
Adventure gameA wrenching, formally ambitious text-message drama about the Syrian refugee crisis that turns the phone's most familiar interface against complacency....Good7.4Happy Game
Adventure gameAmanita Design weaponizes its own cuteness in a brief nightmare that's more art installation than puzzle box. It's short, it's simple, and it's the ki...Good7.0Beat Saber
Indie gameYears on, Beat Saber remains the single best argument for owning a VR headset. Its slice-the-blocks loop is still unmatched, though the base soundtrac...Outstanding9.3Grow Home
Adventure gameGrow Home is a short, charming experiment built around one genuinely novel idea: independent-hand climbing. It's thin in places and ends just as its m...Good7.2Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass
RPG gameA solo-developed, Earthbound-descended RPG that hides one of the genre's most devastating emotional payloads behind goofy jokes and an inventive trans...Great8.2Myst
Adventure gameCyan's Unreal Engine remake of Myst is a solid, careful modernization of a foundational adventure game, with smart puzzle randomization as its one gen...Good7.4Kingdoms and Castles
Simulation gameKingdoms and Castles is a charming, well-designed city-builder whose freeform castle construction and genuine external threats set it apart from its c...Good7.3Snake Pass
Adventure gameSnake Pass is a 3D platformer with a genuinely original locomotion idea, but a flawed camera, a brief campaign, and controls that filter out a large s...Mixed6.7Battle Chef Brigade
Action gameBattle Chef Brigade fuses brawler combat and match-three puzzling into a cooking-tournament loop that, against the odds, holds together. A short campa...Good7.5Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers
RPG gameA genuinely inventive blackjack roguelike that mutates a 400-year-old card game into a combo engine with real teeth — but its variance, uneven card po...Mixed6.9inbento
Puzzle gameinbento is a charming, gently clever puzzle game with a genuinely affecting wordless story — but it ends too soon, and its mobile version is now locke...Good7.4Pilgrims
Adventure gamePilgrims compresses Amanita Design's years of hand-drawn whimsy into a brief, card-driven adventure that respects experimentation over correctness. It...Good7.9
