Best Steam / PC Apps & Games — Page 5
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
Songs 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...Mixed6.3Aces & Adventures
Adventure gameTriple.B.Titles took the most over-studied 52 objects in gaming history and wired them into an RPG damage engine — and the core idea is sharp. The l...Good7.3Spirit Island
Board gameHandelabra's adaptation of one of tabletop's most demanding cooperative games is faithful to a fault — strong rules automation and real depth, held ba...Good7.7Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles
RPG gameSquare Enix has given one of the most literate, mechanically dense tactical RPGs ever made a remaster it deserved — voiced, redrawn, and respectful of...Great8.4Tropico 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...Good7.1Clanfolk
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 ...Good7.3Hard West 2
Action gameHard West 2 builds one of the most gleefully broken combat systems in modern turn-based tactics — a kill-chain engine that turns every encounter into ...Mixed6.8
Rise 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...Good7.5ADOM (Ancient Domains of Mystery)
Adventure gameThirty years of accumulated design obsession, wrapped in an interface that will fight you the entire way. ADOM is one of the deepest classical RPGs in...Good7.5Farlanders
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...Mixed5.8Space 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...Good7.5Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Strategy gameTwenty-seven years on, Alpha Centauri remains one of the most intellectually ambitious strategy games ever built — and the Steam Planetary Pack is...Great8.6Knights in Tight Spaces
Action gameKnights in Tight Spaces has unmatched environmental-destruction tactics and a genuinely thrilling presentation, but a shared three-character hand th...Mixed6.2Jagged Alliance 3
Action gameHaemimont Games has done what three studios before it couldn't — made a Jagged Alliance that earns the name. Sharp turn-based combat and a superbly ...Good7.7Rift Riff
Action gameRift Riff strips almost every source of frustration out of tower defense without stripping out the strategy — and then, bafflingly, forgets to explain...Good7.8Persona 3 Reload
Adventure gameAtlus has rebuilt its most melancholy, most thematically daring RPG with the production values it always deserved — and only a repetitive back half of...Great8.4Offworld 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...Good7.0Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
RPG gameMutant Year Zero fuses real-time stealth with turn-based tactics in a way no other game quite manages — but a short campaign, a thin endgame, and rigi...Mixed6.6Cross Blitz
Adventure gameTako Boy Studios built a sharp tactical card engine and shipped it inside a campaign that stops mid-sentence. Cross Blitz is a solid buy at $22.99...Good7.0Othercide
Strategy gameOthercide fuses a genuinely inventive initiative system with monochrome art direction so confident it borders on arrogant — then buries both under a r...Good7.1Your 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...Great8.4Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
Action gameBulwark Studios built a turn-based tactics game that punishes caution instead of rewarding it, and dressed it in some of the most atmospheric licensed...Good7.3
