Best Steam / PC Apps & Games

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 ...

Dream Quest looks like it was drawn during a boring meeting, and it plays like the smartest card game on either storefront. This is the roguelike deck...

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

Twenty-two years of continuous development have produced the deepest free strategy game on Steam — a hex-based tactics engine with real teeth, hundred...

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 ...

Heroes of Hammerwatch takes the ancient arcade bones of Gauntlet, grafts on a rogue-lite meta-progression system that actually respects your time, and...

Dominions 6 is the most mechanically dense strategy game on the market, wrapped in an interface that actively dares you to quit. If you push through, ...

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...

The original Jackbox Party Pack solved a problem the industry had ignored for decades — getting non-gamers to play — with one brilliant stroke: a brow...

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

PlateUp! takes the Overcooked formula, bolts on a roguelite spine and a genuinely deep automation sandbox, and ends up as the smartest co-op cooking g...

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...

ustwo's tactics-roguelite about grief is one of the most emotionally honest games in the genre, wrapped around a physics-based dodgeball system that's...

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, ...

Ring of Pain takes one structural idea — the dungeon as a rotating ring of cards — and builds a genuinely tense, mechanically airtight roguelike aroun...

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...

Eight years on, Beat Saber remains the single best argument for owning a VR headset. Its slice-the-blocks loop is still unmatched, though the base sou...