Best Steam / PC Apps & Games

Silver Lining Studio's painted vignette is one of the most emotionally efficient games of its generation — it earns its ending honestly, and the endin...

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...

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...

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

inbento is a near-perfect bite of a puzzle game — gorgeous, gentle, and quietly clever — that ends too soon and now hides its mobile version behind a ...

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

Rytmos turns maze-solving into music-making with a confidence few rhythm hybrids ever manage, and its world-music curriculum is genuinely enriching. A...

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...

Storyteller is one of the most genuinely original puzzle games of the decade — a drag-and-drop narrative machine that makes you feel like a mischievou...

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...

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

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...

A wordless, wistful puzzle-box about the moment two childhood friends realize they're growing apart. It's short, gentle, and gorgeous—and its most rad...

A gorgeous, big-hearted throwback that coasts on charm and comedy more than mechanics — short, funny, and genuinely touching, so long as you don't com...

*Prune* is a rare thing — a mobile game with the soul of an art installation and the discipline to never overstay its welcome. Ten years on, it remain...

A wordless, hand-painted meditation on regret and reconciliation that hits like a short story you'll remember longer than most 40-hour epics — just do...

A gleefully deranged marriage of physics toy and roguelike math-engine, *Nubby's Number Factory* turns bouncing a ball off pegs into one of the most c...

Type:Rider is one of the most beautiful history lessons you'll ever play—a gorgeous, atmospheric platformer whose floaty physics never quite live up t...

Silt is a gorgeous nightmare — a monochrome plunge into the deep that nails atmosphere and dread better than almost anything in its genre, but stumble...

A surreal survival-horror gem that weaponizes corporate dread into genuine terror, hobbled only by a save system that punishes curiosity. Weird, funny...

A rare puzzle game that turns translation itself into an emotional gut-punch — brilliant, brief, and occasionally its own worst enemy. If the Android ...

Loveshack Entertainment turned the humble comic panel into a control scheme, and the result is a gorgeous, brief, endlessly imitated puzzle game that ...

Train Valley 2 trades its predecessor's frantic crash-avoidance for the quiet, obsessive pleasure of building a logistics machine that hums. It's a pu...