Best Steam / PC Apps & Games — Page 5
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 White Door
Adventure gameThe White Door proves Rusty Lake's surrealism can work in a slower, more structured form, but it's short, gentle, and repeats itself more than it shou...Mixed6.6Sagebrush
Adventure gameA short, carefully researched walk through the ruins of a doomsday cult that earns its discomfort honestly. Expect about two hours of reading and list...Good7.0Stacking
Adventure gameFor all its charm, Stacking is a solid but slight puzzle-adventure: one genuinely original nesting-doll mechanic, executed with wit, and held back by ...Good7.3Strange Telephone
Adventure gameStrange Telephone takes one excellent idea, a six-digit number that always produces the same world, and builds a short, unsettling pixel-art mystery a...Mixed6.4Monument Valley 3
Adventure gameustwo games finally lets Monument Valley leave the room it was built in. Sailing and reshaping architecture make this the most ambitious game in the t...Good7.5Starseed Pilgrim
Adventure gameStarseed Pilgrim is a bold design experiment from the 2013 indie boom: a seed-planting puzzle-platformer whose hidden rules and generative music add u...Good7.1Oxenfree II: Lost Signals
Adventure gameOxenfree II: Lost Signals has sharp writing, a strong adult lead and a soundtrack that gets under your skin, but it sticks too closely to the origin...Good7.1Heavy Rain
Action gameHeavy Rain is clumsy, melodramatic, and full of plot holes, and it still generates real tension because nobody in it is safe. The Steam port is servic...Good7.0
What the Car?
Action gameFunny, inventive and built on constant surprise, What the Car? runs out of steam before it runs out of goodwill. It's short and uneven, and best sui...Good7.5Pinstripe
Adventure gameFor all its flaws, Pinstripe earns its keep as a short, lovely and upsetting story about a father's guilt. Most of its value sits in the art, the musi...Good7.1Rusty Lake Paradise
Adventure gameSolid but flawed, Rusty Lake Paradise delivers ten tightly designed chapters, disturbing and beautiful art, and puzzles that reward patience. Its logi...Good7.7Beastieball
Adventure gameBeastieball turns volleyball into a creature-collecting RPG's combat system, and the idea holds up. It's a confident, well-designed Pokémon-like with ...Great8.4Pine Hearts
Adventure gameA short, gentle, carefully judged hike through grief. The puzzles won't challenge anyone and the structure is familiar, but the warmth and restraint i...Good7.4Hindsight
Adventure gameHindsight is a well-written small game with real limits. It is a painterly, two-to-three-hour meditation on a mother and a daughter, and its writing c...Good7.1Loretta
Adventure gameA short, controlled noir thriller that uses its branching choices to implicate the player in a marriage's collapse. The puzzles can be obtuse and a si...Good7.0Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE
Action gameRAIN CODE's murder mysteries are sharply written and enjoyably outrageous, wrapped in a game that often gets in its own way. On Switch, the frame rate...Good7.2Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Action gameHellblade takes psychosis seriously and builds its sound, puzzles and story around it. The audio design and lead performance are the reasons to play; ...Good7.7Paperbark
Adventure gamePaperbark is a hand-painted, hour-long portrait of the Australian bush that gets its mood almost exactly right — and offers almost nothing to actually...Mixed6.1Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
Action gameMonaco is a co-op crime caper built on one sharp idea — you can only see what your thief sees — and with a full crew that idea carries it a long way. ...Good7.5Dujanah
Action gameDujanah is lumpy, slow and awkward in ways that will lose most players, and its strengths — a handmade look and real empathy — don't fully offset the ...Mixed6.7Mosaic
Adventure gameMosaic looks like one of the sharpest satires of office life and smartphone compulsion in games, and its mood is its best asset. But it is thin as a g...Mixed5.9Rusty Lake Hotel
Adventure gameRusty Lake Hotel is a short, macabre point-and-click puzzler whose mood carries it through a few stretches of bad logic. At its price it's a solid way...Good7.5to a T
Adventure gameto a T is a warm, funny, humane fable about living in a body the world wasn't built for — and a game too thin and too rough to recommend to most peopl...Mixed6.1Helltaker
Adventure gameHelltaker is a tight, hand-built Sokoban puzzler wrapped in a filthy-minded visual novel joke, and both halves are sharper than they need to be. It's ...Good7.7
