Best Steam / PC Apps & Games — Page 23
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
Nine Noir Lives
Adventure gameA two-person studio hand-painted a small city's worth of cat-noir and then had the nerve to add a fourth verb to the LucasArts playbook — and lick e...Mixed6.9Mediterranea Inferno
Adventure gameMediterranea Inferno is a stylistically confident visual novel from the Italian indie scene — a gorgeous, mean, three-hour bender about friendship cur...Great8.0Jagged Alliance 3
Action gameHaemimont Games has done what three studios before it couldn't — made a Jagged Alliance that earns the name. Sharp turn-based combat and a superbly ...Good7.7Iron Meat
Action gameIron Meat is a well-built run-and-gun that understands the difference between honoring a genre and photocopying it, and its difficulty system is a gen...Good7.8REKA
Adventure gameREKA has one genuinely great idea — a chicken-legged cottage that walks the world with you and slowly becomes a scrapbook of everywhere you've been — ...Mixed6.3Rift Riff
Action gameRift Riff strips almost every source of frustration out of tower defense without stripping out the strategy — and then, bafflingly, forgets to explain...Good7.8Atomfall
Action gameRebellion has built the most atmospherically specific open-world game in years — a folk-horror fever dream of red phone boxes, druids and Cold War par...Mixed6.2Avowed
RPG gameAvowed has some of the most satisfying first-person combat an RPG has shipped in years, wrapped around a world that's beautiful, dense, and noticeably...Mixed6.3
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
Adventure gameDON'T NOD has delivered its strongest writing in years — a patient, unnervingly authentic story about four teenage girls and the 27 years of silence t...Good7.5Mind Over Magnet
Adventure gameMark Brown spent a decade telling developers how to design games; Mind Over Magnet is his proof he was listening to himself. A short, well-taught ...Good7.0Olija
Action gameSkeleton Crew Studio's grimy, striking action-platformer builds one of the best traversal mechanics in recent memory and has the discipline to quit be...Good7.2BioShock Remastered
Action gameNineteen years on, Rapture remains one of the most memorable settings a video game has offered, and this remaster is a solid way to visit it — provide...Good7.8Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island
Adventure gameSerpentcoil Island is a faithful, uncompromising take on the classic roguelike loop — brutal, fair, and endlessly replayable, now portable across ever...Good7.7The Age of Decadence
RPG gameThe Age of Decadence is an unusually uncompromising choice-and-consequence RPG — a game where a silver tongue is a legitimate build and failure is par...Good7.3Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana
Action gameYs VIII takes a 30-year-old series about a red-haired adventurer washing up on beaches and finally builds a whole game around the premise — and castaw...Great8.3Persona 3 Reload
Adventure gameAtlus has rebuilt its most melancholy, most thematically daring RPG with the production values it always deserved — and only a repetitive back half of...Great8.4Distance
Action gameDistance takes the arcade racer, straps wings and a laser-grid death course to it, and produces something no big studio would greenlight — a survival-...Good7.5Offworld Trading Company
Simulation gameOffworld Trading Company is a strategy game with a genuinely new idea — an RTS where the market is the battlefield — and it executes that idea with pr...Good7.0Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
RPG gameMore than two decades on, few RPGs have matched Arcanum's roleplaying freedom — and few have shipped with combat this broken. Install the community pa...Good7.5Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
RPG gameMutant Year Zero fuses real-time stealth with turn-based tactics in a way no other game quite manages — but a short campaign, a thin endgame, and rigi...Mixed6.6Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap
Action gameLizardcube's hand-drawn resurrection of a 1989 cult classic is a model of how to remake a game — gorgeous, reverent, and honest enough to leave the or...Good7.6Ctrl Alt Ego
Action gameCtrl Alt Ego is one of the purest expressions of immersive-sim design philosophy since Prey (2017), built by essentially one person and wearing its sh...Great8.4Primordia
Adventure gamePrimordia is a melancholy, sharply written meditation on faith and memory wearing the clothes of a puzzle game — solid but unremarkable in its structu...Good7.8The Powder Toy
Simulation gameA free, open-source particle physics engine masquerading as a toy — quietly ambitious in a way few pieces of software manage. The interface is a relic...Great8.5
