Best Steam / PC Apps & Games

UNBEATABLE takes the most restrictive input scheme in the rhythm genre and builds one of its most expressive games on top of it. The story mode is bri...

Skate Story is the rare game that takes a genre defined by physics and repetition and turns it into something devotional. It's not the deepest skater ...

Michael Brough packed more strategic depth into a 6x6 grid than most studios manage in forty hours. Thirteen years after release, **868-HACK** remains...

Toki Tori 2+ strips the puzzle-platformer down to two verbs — whistle and stomp — and builds one of the genre's most quietly radical designs on top of...

A solo-developed puzzle-platformer that mines one genuinely original idea — toggling between a 2D platformer and a top-down puzzler in the same level ...

Wizard of Legend strips the roguelike down to pure kinetic combat — dash, cast, chain, repeat — and the result is one of the genre's most satisfying a...

Kingsway takes the most tedious part of computing — window management — and turns it into a genuinely tense roguelike mechanic. It's a one-trick game,...

A gorgeous, genuinely affecting point-and-click adventure that proves premium mobile design still has a pulse. Short, occasionally obtuse, but the kin...

A gorgeous, wordless meditation on play and parenthood that treats LEGO bricks with more reverence than any licensed blockbuster ever has — just don't...

Obduction is the truest heir to Myst anyone has made — Cyan included — a gorgeous, cerebral puzzle box that respects your intelligence to a degree tha...

A gentle, gorgeously illustrated meditation on death and memory that trades challenge for warmth — and mostly gets away with it. Come for the inventiv...

Image & Form's card-battling RPG is the rare genre hybrid where both halves pull their weight — a genuinely deep combat system wrapped in a gorgeous, ...

Escape Academy is the rare video game adaptation of a physical hobby that understands *why* people love the original. Its rooms are genuinely clever, ...

A wrenching, formally brilliant text-message drama about the Syrian refugee crisis that weaponizes your phone's most familiar interface against your c...

Amanita Design weaponizes its own cuteness in a two-hour nightmare that's more art installation than puzzle box. It's short, it's simple, and it will ...

Lara Croft GO strips a bombastic action franchise down to a chessboard and somehow loses none of its soul. It's short and rarely brutal, but it remain...

Grow Home is a three-hour experiment that out-charms games ten times its budget. The independent-hand climbing is genuinely novel, the falling is half...

Cyan's 2021 Unreal Engine remake is the definitive way to play the most influential adventure game ever made — gorgeous, faithful, and smartly moderni...

RiME is a gorgeous, gentle puzzle adventure whose final hour recontextualizes everything before it — a trick few games attempt and fewer land. The puz...

Snake Pass is the rare 3D platformer with a genuinely original locomotion idea, executed with charm and conviction. Its physics-first controls will de...

Battle Chef Brigade fuses brawler combat and match-three puzzling into a cooking-tournament loop that has no business working this well. A short campa...

Umineko is less a visual novel than a 50-hour intellectual duel — a fair-play murder mystery that weaponizes the genre's own conventions against you. ...

Pilgrims compresses Amanita Design's twenty years of hand-drawn whimsy into a two-hour, card-driven adventure that respects experimentation over corre...

Messhof trades Nidhogg's fencing-duel violence for handlebars and sunshine, and the swap works. **Wheel World** is a short, easy, gorgeous cycling adv...