Best Steam / PC Apps & Games — Page 2
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
Dystopika
Simulation gameAlmost nothing to do beyond placing objects and watching the lights, though the neon diorama is handsome. At $6.99 it is easy to admire and hard to re...Mixed6.4Paragnosia: Museum
Adventure gameA larger, harsher anomaly hunt whose rail-mounted camera turns helplessness into the whole point, but stutter, murky rooms and unfair anomaly placemen...Mixed6.4Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't
Strategy gameRule-breaking is the design, and it mostly works: chess pieces, numbers and poker hands turn a letter grid into a combo engine with long-term pull. Th...Good7.8Coin Tavern
Simulation gameA cheap, low-pressure combo engine whose best ideas are undercut by luck at the top end, a grind before the challenge, and reported save loss. Hard to...Mixed5.9Catio Simulator
Simulation gameA thin idle loop and a short core make Catio Simulator hard to recommend beyond devoted cat collectors; the decoration economy and pixel art are the p...Mixed6.0Lost in Tandem
Adventure gameA warm, hand-painted co-op road trip whose best ideas arrive early and whose back half quietly abandons the partnership it sells. At $14.99 it is hard...Mixed6.0Pinbleton Park
Adventure gameThe village-as-pinball-table hook is clever, but the announced design leaves the core connection between flippers and footpaths unresolved, and the st...Mixed5.9Strange Jigsaws
Adventure gameFLEB takes the most rule-bound pastime on the coffee table and breaks it about fifty different ways, each one cleverer than the last. At $4.99 for two...Great8.5
TOEM 2
Adventure gameTOEM 2 is a sharper, roomier version of a beloved cozy game, and it rarely takes a risk to get there. A beautiful, clever, pressure-free photo adventu...Good7.0Woodo
Casual gameWoodo is a gentle, well-crafted diorama puzzle game whose tactile placement loop and voiced narration carry it further than its low difficulty does. S...Good7.6Blobun
Casual gameBlobun takes one rule — touch every tile — and squeezes hundreds of genuinely clever puzzles out of it. At $5.49, it's an easy recommendation for puzz...Great8.4and Roger
Adventure gameand Roger is one of the most quietly ambitious small games of the year — a one-hour interactive fiction that weaponizes bad UX on purpose, and in do...Great8.7Future? No Thanks!
Action gameMolleindustria finally built the utopia, then handed the controller to the one man who hates it. The result is a short, sharp, funny political adventu...Good7.4Rolling Line
Simulation gameRolling Line trades simulation rigidity for the tactile appeal of a model railway you can shrink into and touch. It's occasionally rough, deliberately...Good7.3Virginia
Adventure gameVirginia borrows film editing more confidently than almost any game before it, but hands the player almost nothing to do and trusts its cuts more than...Mixed6.1Kami 2
Board gameKAMI 2 turns a worn-out color-flood premise into a quiet argument with yourself, and mostly wins it. The core design is solid and the mobile version i...Good7.5Cookie Clicker
Simulation gameFew games can claim to have founded a genre and still hold their place in it, but Cookie Clicker comes close. It's a lean, funny, surprisingly deep ec...Great8.3Cell to Singularity
Education gameA free idle game that turns the history of life and technology into a progression worth following, though the late game settles into the same reset gr...Good7.3Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
Adventure gameShort, warm and very funny, Frog Detective 1 cares more about timing than puzzles. It lasts about an hour, has no real challenge and doesn't pretend...Good7.0Shape of the World
Casual gameHard to recommend for most people: Shape of the World is a gorgeous, pressure-free walk through a world that grows around you, but there is very littl...Mixed5.9Desert Golfing
Sports gameDesert Golfing strips away nearly everything a modern mobile game piles on and leaves one shot, one hole and one stroke counter that can never be rese...Great8.1Islands: Non-Places
Casual gameISLANDS: Non-Places turns parking lots, lobbies and terminals into small, eerie rituals, and its art and sound are genuinely distinctive. But it is ...Mixed6.6Peggle Deluxe
Casual gameNearly twenty years after its March 2007 release, Peggle Deluxe remains one of the best-designed casual games on PC. It turns a few seconds of physics...Great8.4Strange Antiquities
Adventure gameBad Viking's occult shopkeeping sequel turns the act of looking closely into the entire game, and it is richer and more demanding than Strange Horticu...Good7.4
