Best Steam / PC Apps & Games — Page 8
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
Nirvana Noir
Adventure gameFeral Cat Den has taken the one fair criticism leveled at Genesis Noir — that it was gorgeous and unreadable — and built a structural answer to it. ...Good7.4The Gunk
Action gameThe Gunk has one genuinely great idea — restoration as traversal — and then refuses to develop it for five hours. It's a gorgeous, warmly written shor...Mixed5.9Path of Exile 2
Action gamePath of Exile 2 is the most mechanically ambitious action RPG on the market, wrapped in a difficulty and death-penalty structure that will eject a lar...Good7.5Souldiers
Action gameSouldiers is a gorgeous, overstuffed metroidvania undermined by difficulty spikes, repetitive dungeons, and a runtime that sprawls past its ideas. Agg...Mixed6.0Mio: Memories in Orbit
Action gameDouze Dixièmes has built a metroidvania map worth memorizing, then paired it with a sword that takes far too long to feel like a weapon. The explorati...Good7.2Whisker Squadron: Survivor
Action gameWhisker Squadron: Survivor nails the hardest thing — Star Fox-style flight feel — and then runs out of game to put it in. The flying is superb; th...Mixed6.4Rue Valley
Adventure gameRue Valley has the bones of a great psychological RPG — a razor-sharp 47-minute time loop, a genuinely clever character-building system, and art worth...Mixed5.9Aground
Adventure gameFor a crafting RPG that keeps quietly changing genres — survival scavenging to dragon husbandry to orbital logistics — Aground earns its payoffs throu...Good7.1
MirrorMoon EP
Adventure gameMirrorMoon EP is one of the purest arguments ever made for teaching through silence — attached to a thousand-system galaxy and a shared naming layer t...Mixed5.8Hogwarts Legacy
Action gameAvalanche Software built the most convincing videogame recreation of a fictional place in years, then padded it out with busywork and hung a forgettab...Good7.2The Witch's House MV
Adventure gameFummy's 2012 cult classic returns with sharper pixels, better sound, and — crucially — a retry button that repairs the legendarily sadistic horror gam...Good7.0Ratopia
Adventure gameRatopia is the rare colony sim where the economy isn't flavor text — it's the actual boss fight, and it will beat you. A genuinely novel simulation he...Good7.4Dragon Quest Builders 2
Action gameSquare Enix took the one thing Minecraft never had — a reason to build — and wrapped a lengthy, genuinely good RPG around it. The opening hours will t...Good7.6Iron Danger
Action gameIron Danger's rewind-driven "heartbeat" combat is one of the more original tactical ideas in years — a real-time strategy game rebuilt as a puzzle box...Mixed6.0Sumire
Adventure gameSumire's watercolor art and writing on grief land hard, but imprecise quest timing, invisible walls, and loose 3D movement undercut a game whose whole...Mixed6.6Underhero
Adventure gameUnderhero has one genuinely clever structural idea — turn-based combat with the turns ripped out — and some of the sharpest comic writing in the indie...Mixed6.9Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
Adventure gameAtlus took a mechanically sharp, narratively hollow JRPG and gave it the story it always deserved, plus a proper PC port. Newcomers should buy it with...Great8.2Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Adventure gamePlaytonic's second outing trades the collectathon baggage of the original for sharp 2D platforming and a genuinely clever overworld. The checkpoint-fr...Good7.5Mo:Astray
Action gameArchpray's blob-slinging puzzle-platformer has one of the freshest traversal ideas the genre has seen in years, wrapped in striking pixel art. It is a...Good7.2LEGO Bricktales
Adventure gameAfter two decades of LEGO games where "building" meant holding a button while bricks assembled themselves, ClockStone made one where every brick gets ...Mixed6.9Nobody Wants to Die
Adventure gameCritical Hit Games has built one of the most beautiful noir cities ever rendered in Unreal Engine 5, then filled it with a detective game that refuses...Mixed6.1Kaze and the Wild Masks
Action gamePixelHive has built the most convincing Donkey Kong Country tribute since Rare stopped making them — beautiful, brutally precise, and almost entirely ...Good7.1Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
Action gameDouble Damage built the most convincing space-western dive bar ever put in a video game, then wrapped it in a mission generator that runs dry early. T...Mixed6.0Ace Attorney Investigations Collection
Adventure gameCapcom finally localized the sequel that fans spent a decade translating themselves, and wrapped both Edgeworth games in a careful HD remaster. The in...Good7.4
