Best Steam / PC Apps & Games — Page 31
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
LEGO 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...Mixed6.5PlateUp!
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...Good7.2Desta: The Memories Between
Action gameustwo's tactics-roguelite about grief is one of the most emotionally honest games in the genre, wrapped around a physics-based dodgeball system that's...Mixed6.7I Am Dead
Adventure gameA gentle, gorgeously illustrated meditation on death and memory whose inventive slicing mechanic is undercut by shallow puzzles and fiddly collectible...Mixed6.8SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
Adventure gameImage & Form's card-battling RPG is a genre hybrid where both halves pull their weight — a genuinely deep combat system wrapped in a handsome, funny s...Good7.4Ring 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 ...Good7.6Escape Academy
Adventure gameEscape Academy is a video game adaptation of a physical hobby that understands why people love the original. Its rooms are clever and its co-op is a...Good7.2
Bury 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...Good7.0Lara Croft GO
Adventure gameLara Croft GO strips a bombastic action franchise down to a chessboard and keeps most of its soul. It's short and rarely brutal, and while the difficu...Good7.8Beat 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...Great8.2Rakuen
Laura ShigiharaRakuen is a quietly remarkable narrative adventure disguised as a humble RPG Maker game — a hospital story that trades combat for compassion and lands...Great8.3Myst
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...Good7.4Terraforming Mars
Board gameTerraforming Mars is one of the deepest engine-builders you can put on a screen, and this adaptation gets the rules right while stumbling on presentat...Mixed6.5Kingdoms 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...Good7.3RiME
Adventure gameRiME is a gorgeous, gentle puzzle adventure whose final hour recontextualizes everything before it — a trick few games attempt and fewer land. The puz...Good7.1Snake 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...Mixed6.7Outlanders
Simulation gamePomelo Games has built one of the more approachable strategy games around — a mission-based town builder where letting go of control is the whole poin...Good7.2Battle 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...Good7.5Umineko When They Cry
Adventure gameUmineko is less a visual novel than a sprawling intellectual duel — a fair-play murder mystery that weaponizes the genre's own conventions against you...Great8.6Dungeons & 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...Mixed6.9
