Best Steam / PC Apps & Games — Page 4
Expert-reviewed Steam games for PC, scored out of 10.
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Top rated on Steam
- 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
Nebuchadnezzar
Simulation gameNebuchadnezzar is a dense, handsome, unapologetically fiddly Mesopotamian city-builder whose brick-by-brick monument editor is a real original ide...Mixed6.4Game Dev Story
Simulation gameGame Dev Story remains a tightly built business sim with a genuinely funny premise, and the core loop still holds up. But it has barely changed since ...Good7.4Distant Worlds 2
Simulation gameDistant Worlds 2 simulates a galaxy at a level of detail no competitor has attempted, then buries it under a hostile interface and late-game performan...Mixed6.8Sultan's Game
Adventure gameA ruthless card-draw RPG that turns moral compromise into a resource you spend weekly, Sultan's Game is an audacious narrative design held back by a...Good7.8Unity of Command II
Simulation game2x2 Games built a wargame that respects your intelligence without punishing your patience. Its supply-line combat remains one of the genre's sharpest ...Good7.7The Riftbreaker
Action gameEXOR Studios welded a twin-stick shooter to a logistics sim and a tower defense game, and against all odds the seams mostly hold. The Riftbreaker's ca...Good7.6The Last Clockwinder
Adventure gameThe Last Clockwinder does something no flat-screen game can — it turns your own body into the source code — and it does so with grace, wit, and real e...Great8.0Songs of Silence
Adventure gameChimera Entertainment's Songs of Silence pairs genuinely arresting Art Nouveau art and a Hitoshi Sakimoto score with one legitimately fresh combat i...Mixed6.3
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
Action gameAce Combat 7: Skies Unknown is a solid, often inspired arcade flight combat game built around clouds that actually matter. A muddled story and thin mu...Good7.3Tropico 6
Simulation gameTropico 6 is a mechanically generous city builder — an archipelago-spanning dictator sim with real political teeth and a wicked sense of humor. It's h...Good7.1Gourdlets
Simulation gameGourdlets strips the city-builder down to its purest pleasure — arranging a tiny world and watching it live — and its desktop-toy mode is a genuinely ...Good7.1Endless Sky
Action gameEndless Sky is a standout Escape Velocity successor, a decade-long volunteer project whose systems design rivals most commercial space sims — and it c...Great8.0Hitman: World of Assassination
Action gameNearly a decade of the finest sandbox stealth ever made, bundled into one package and playable on everything from a gaming rig to an iPhone. The alway...Outstanding9.4Clanfolk
RPG gameClanfolk takes the colony-sim formula, strips out the sci-fi power fantasy, and replaces it with peat smoke, porridge, and mortality. Years into Early...Good7.5Freshly Frosted
Puzzle gameFreshly Frosted takes the automation genre's spreadsheet-brain appeal, strips out every ounce of stress, and frosts what's left in pastel. It's short ...Good7.3Thief II: The Metal Age
Action gameTwenty-six years on, Looking Glass's final game remains the most intelligent stealth design ever shipped — a systems-driven heist sandbox that modern ...Outstanding9.3Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Simulation gameStormworks simulates what it claims to — every wire, pump, and pressure differential is real, and that honesty is both its strength and its cruelty. P...Good7.5Rise to Ruins
Simulation gameA deep god-game/colony-sim/tower-defense hybrid that teaches almost nothing and then punishes you for not knowing it, backed by years of unusually hon...Good7.5The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
Adventure gameA monstrously large, genuinely strange visual novel with a competent tactics game bolted to its side — and a rare case where "100 endings" is a struct...Good7.8Kill It With Fire
Action gameCasey Donnellan's spider-hunting sandbox is a one-joke game that tells its one joke well — a tight, physics-drunk few hours whose design is genuinely ...Good7.1Nuclear Option
Action gameNuclear Option threads a needle almost nobody has managed — the accessibility of Ace Combat welded to physics and sensor play with real teeth — at a m...Great8.0Farlanders
Simulation gameFarlanders is a colony sim that quietly reveals itself as a spatial puzzle game, and it's far better at the second job than the first — brilliant when...Mixed6.8Techtonica
Simulation gameTechtonica is the only factory-builder that bothered to write a real story, but a 1.0 release gutted the structure early backers fell in love with, an...Mixed5.8Please, Fix The Road
Simulation gameA solo-developed puzzler with a genuinely distinct idea — rebuilding the world itself rather than just placing tiles — undermined by an uneven difficu...Mixed6.2
