Best Steam / PC Apps & Games — Page 5
Expert-reviewed Steam games for PC, scored out of 10.
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- 424
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
Bad End Theater
Adventure gameNomnomNami turned the visual novel inside out and found a puzzle box underneath. Bad End Theater is a couple of hours of compressed, cruel, funny ...Great8.6Space Haven
RPG gameSpace Haven is a rigorous spaceship-builder with a genuinely deep simulation of oxygen, ambition and human frailty, wrapped in an interface that treat...Good7.5Everspace 2
Action gameROCKFISH Games built the space shooter arcade pilots have been waiting for since 2003 — a gorgeous, generous, tactile dogfighter wrapped around a loot...Good7.5Blue Wednesday
Adventure gameBuff Studio has written one of the most honest games about creative burnout around, wrapped it in a genuinely excellent original jazz score, and then ...Mixed6.8Offworld 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...Good7.0The 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...Great8.5Arcade Paradise
Adventure gameNosebleed Interactive built 35 real arcade games and then had the nerve to make you earn them one bin bag at a time — a genuinely clever idea that wor...Good7.3Tactics Ogre: Reborn
RPG gameSquare Enix has rebuilt a 1995 landmark into its most complete form — with a re-recorded orchestral score and a script that still has few peers in the...Good7.4
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
Action gameIvy Sly stripped every millisecond of execution out of the fighting game and discovered that what's left — pure, naked prediction — is the heart of it...Great8.4Life Eater
RPG gameA queasy, original horror premise — scrubbing a video timeline through a stranger's week until you know them well enough to kill them — wrapped around...Mixed6.2Frog Fractions
Action gameA free, roughly hour-long comedy game that weaponizes low expectations, Frog Fractions remains one of the sharpest pieces of structural comedy gam...Great8.4Receiver 2
Action gameWolfire has built one of the most mechanically honest firearm simulations in games, then stapled it to procedural apartment blocks that don't deserve ...Good7.3Cairn
Action gameCairn is a rare thing in games — a genuinely new verb. It replaces the climb button with four independent limbs and a body that will absolutely betray...Great8.2WorldBox - God Simulator
RPG gameWorldBox is a rare, uncompromising sandbox — a toy box of civilizations you can nurture for hours or vaporize in four seconds — held back by a late ga...Good7.5Hearts of Iron IV
Simulation gameParadox's WWII grand strategy monolith is one of the deepest historical simulations available — and it will charge you money, repeatedly, for the priv...Good7.8Peripeteia
Action gamePeripeteia is a genuinely brilliant immersive sim buried under a mountain of Early Access friction, and at $18.74 it's a hard recommendation for most ...Mixed6.8Phantom Brigade
Simulation gamePhantom Brigade's timeline-based combat is the most genuinely original idea the tactics genre has produced in a decade — a four-second window of predi...Good7.3Rogue Voltage
RPG gameRogue Voltage is one of the most structurally original roguelikes since Slay the Spire codified the genre — it replaces card draws with a hand-wired...Great8.5Shadow Empire
RPG gameShadow Empire is one of the most ambitious 4X designs on the market — a planetary simulator wrapped in a nation-state simulator wrapped in an operatio...Good7.7Nauticrawl
Puzzle gameNauticrawl hands you a stolen machine, no instructions, and a hostile planet, then trusts you to figure it out — and that trust produces one of the pu...Good7.5Sailwind
Adventure gameSailwind refuses to explain itself, and that refusal is both its identity and its biggest liability. If long, uneventful ocean crossings sound like a ...Good7.5Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
Board gameOzymandias strips the 4X genre down to its load-bearing walls and delivers a complete rise-and-fall arc in under an hour — a smart piece of design tha...Good7.4Sunshine Heavy Industries
Simulation gameA spaceship-construction puzzler with no single correct answer, and that one design decision carries the whole thing. It's a small, warm toybox that r...Good7.8Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Simulation gameFiraxis built the boldest structural rethink in the series' 35-year history, then shipped it wrapped in an interface that actively fights you and an e...Mixed6.0
