Best Steam / PC Apps & Games

SUMMERHOUSE is a tiny, gorgeous building toy that asks nothing of you and gives back more than games fifty times its price. It runs out of pieces befo...

CHUCHEL is barely a game and entirely a delight — a two-hour Czech slapstick cartoon you poke with your finger. If you demand challenge, walk away. If...

Leap Year weaponizes fragility — a fall of more than a few pixels kills you — and turns that single rule into one of the smartest knowledge-based metr...

Kind Words barely qualifies as a game, and that's precisely the point. It's a moderated, anonymous empathy exchange wrapped in lo-fi haze — small in s...

Railbound is one of the most elegantly designed puzzle games of the past few years — a track-routing brainteaser that's cozy on the surface and quietl...

Landfall has built the best pure-movement game since *Neon White* — a downhill sprint through the apocalypse where flow state is the whole point. It's...

Varney Lake is a lean, beautifully composed slice of vampire pulp that proves interactive fiction can still feel cinematic. It's short, it's more nove...

A gorgeous, sharply written pulp-horror visual novel that turns 1980s computer graphics into pure atmosphere — brief, occasionally padded, but well wo...

Shiny Shoe took a near-perfect roguelike deckbuilder and made it deeper, denser, and more demanding without breaking what worked. **Monster Train 2** ...

A featherlight logic puzzler that hides a real emotional payload behind its minimalist charm. It's short, it's gentle, and it never once raises its vo...

Beethoven & Dinosaur's follow-up to *The Artful Escape* is a gorgeous, needle-drop-driven ode to the end of adolescence—but it asks you to feel more t...

Absolum takes the pixel-perfect brawling of *Streets of Rage 4* and welds it to *Dead Cells*-style roguelite structure — the result is the most mechan...

A roguelite that treats slapstick disaster as a design principle, *Mr. Sun's Hatbox* is one of the most inventive physics sandboxes on Steam and Switc...

A quietly radical little RPG that reads your character by watching what you *do*, not what you *say*—and the results land closer to home than any Buzz...

A physics-comedy sandbox that mines one absurd joke — a pistol-packing squirrel — for far more mileage than it has any right to. It's short, occasiona...

GalaxyTrail took a fan-game's DNA and forged one of the finest momentum-platformers in a decade — a generous, gorgeous, occasionally overlong love let...

A gorgeous, wordless meditation on growing up that turns card-stacking into genuine emotion—but its puzzles are so forgiving they occasionally forget ...

A ruthless, riotous co-op cooking sim that turns your living room into a shouting match — and that's the highest praise I can give it. Overcooked! 2 f...

A savage, hilarious, endlessly replayable roguelike that turns permadeath into a punchline and a punishment in equal measure. Rough edges and brutal R...

Double Fine's crowdfunded passion project is one of the most gorgeous point-and-click adventures ever animated, buoyed by a razor-sharp voice cast and...

Broforce is a gleeful, self-aware ode to '80s action cinema built on the best destructible sandbox this side of a Michael Bay set — a chaotic, co-op-f...

A gorgeous, brutally tactical RPG whose enemies actually remember you — Star Renegades pairs one of the smartest combat systems in the genre with a gr...

Kenny Sun took Breakout, Vampire Survivors, and a city-builder, threw them in a blender, and somehow poured out one of the most compulsively replayabl...

Okomotive trades the sci-fi melancholy of *FAR* for windswept mountaintops and a herd of fuzzy companions, delivering a wordless, achingly pretty pilg...