Best Steam / PC Apps & Games — Page 9
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
Knights 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...Mixed6.2Crimzon Clover: World Ignition
Action gameYotsubane's danmaku standout is the rare shoot-'em-up that makes recklessness the correct strategy — a five-stage, 25-minute pressure cooker with more...Great8.5Blade Chimera
Action gameA demon-sword that rebuilds what time destroyed gives this Metroidvania one of the genre's sharper ideas, wrapped in pixel art worth the asking price....Good7.4Lunistice
Action gameFor five dollars, A Grumpy Fox delivers a 3D platformer with a momentum system most bigger-budget games in the genre don't bother with. The first run ...Good7.7Mika and the Witch's Mountain
Action gameMika and the Witch's Mountain has one of the most genuinely joyful flight systems in the cozy-game space, wrapped in a few hours of fetch quests that ...Mixed6.1Monster Hunter Rise
Action gameRise is the most fluid, least hostile Monster Hunter yet — a real mechanical reinvention wrapped around a base game that runs out of teeth early. Buy ...Great8.0The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter
Action gameFalcom took the most intimidating on-ramp in modern JRPGs and rebuilt it into a genuinely welcoming entry point — a two-decade-old script preserved al...Great8.5Kandria
Action gameKandria is a movement game wearing an RPG's coat, and the movement is strong enough to carry the disguise. A short, sharp, hand-built underground worl...Good7.4
Cronos: The New Dawn
Action gameBloober Team's first original game in years is a claustrophobic, brutalist survival horror built around a genuinely fresh combat idea. It's solid rath...Good7.3Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
Action gameThe Game Kitchen has done something most retro revivals only pretend to do — it rebuilt an NES classic's feel instead of its frustrations. Ragebound...Great8.2Peaks of Yore
Action gameA physics-driven climbing sim that turns two independently-controlled hands into one of the most demanding input schemes in years — punishing at first...Great8.2Where Winds Meet
Action gameA generous, mechanically rich wuxia open world whose cosmetic-only model and strong campaign are undercut by a thin endgame and a punishing install si...Good7.5Jagged 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 ...Good7.7Iron Meat
Action gameIron Meat is a well-built run-and-gun that understands the difference between honoring a genre and photocopying it, and its difficulty system is a gen...Good7.8Rift 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...Good7.8Atomfall
Action gameRebellion has built the most atmospherically specific open-world game in years — a folk-horror fever dream of red phone boxes, druids and Cold War par...Mixed6.2Olija
Action gameSkeleton Crew Studio's grimy, striking action-platformer builds one of the best traversal mechanics in recent memory and has the discipline to quit be...Good7.2BioShock Remastered
Action gameNineteen years on, Rapture remains one of the most memorable settings a video game has offered, and this remaster is a solid way to visit it — provide...Good7.8Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana
Action gameYs VIII takes a 30-year-old series about a red-haired adventurer washing up on beaches and finally builds a whole game around the premise — and castaw...Great8.3Distance
Action gameDistance takes the arcade racer, straps wings and a laser-grid death course to it, and produces something no big studio would greenlight — a survival-...Good7.5Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap
Action gameLizardcube's hand-drawn resurrection of a 1989 cult classic is a model of how to remake a game — gorgeous, reverent, and honest enough to leave the or...Good7.6Ctrl Alt Ego
Action gameCtrl Alt Ego is one of the purest expressions of immersive-sim design philosophy since Prey (2017), built by essentially one person and wearing its sh...Great8.4Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Action gameSaber Interactive built a game around one idea — put a wall of five hundred screaming aliens in front of you and let you cut through it — and executed...Good7.7Moonscars
Action gameMoonscars has some of the best-looking swordplay in the 2D souls-like field and a death system that actually means something — but a hard-to-parse map...Mixed6.4
