Favorite Games

Persona 5 Royal

ATLUS · SEGA

Lead the Phantom Thieves of Hearts in this award winning, stylish turn-based RPG filled with dungeon crawling, party customization, strategic combat, and Persona fusion. Explore Tokyo, build relationships, battle…

Prepare for the award-winning RPG experience in this definitive edition of Persona 5 Royal, featuring a treasure trove of downloadable content included! Forced to transfer to a high school in Tokyo, the protagonist has a strange dream. “You truly are a prisoner of fate. In the near future, ruin awaits you.” With the goal of “rehabilitation” looming…

Top of the list: character bonds, style, and social systems at their peak.

Baldur's Gate 3

Larian Studios

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.

Gather your party and return to the Forgotten Realms in a tale of fellowship and betrayal, sacrifice and survival, and the lure of absolute power. Mysterious abilities are awakening inside you, drawn from a mind flayer parasite planted in your brain. Resist, and turn darkness against itself. Or embrace corruption, and become ultimate evil. From the creators…

Reactive, choice-heavy RPG storytelling at the highest level.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Nintendo

The acclaimed open-world sequel to Breath of the Wild — explore the skies and depths of Hyrule with new building powers.

Sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The adventure expands across the skies above and the caverns below Hyrule. New abilities — Ultrahand, Fuse, Ascend and Recall — let players build vehicles and contraptions and solve the world their own way.

Nintendo Switch. Systems-and-exploration masterpiece.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Nintendo

The open-world reinvention of Zelda — climb anything, cook, and explore a vast, ruined Hyrule at your own pace.

A landmark open-world action-adventure. Link awakens after a hundred-year sleep to a Hyrule overrun by Calamity Ganon. Climb cliffs, glide, cook, and tackle Shrines and the four Divine Beasts in almost any order you choose.

Nintendo Switch. The open-world reference point.

Detroit: Become Human

Quantic Dream

Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the…

Detroit: Become Human , the award-winning video game production from Quantic Dream , is finally available on Steam! Featuring world-renowned actors including Jesse Williams (Grey’s Anatomy), Clancy Brown (Carnivale), Lance Henriksen (Aliens), Bryan Dechart (True Blood) and Valorie Curry (Twilight). WHAT MAKES US HUMAN? Detroit 2038. Technology has evolved…

Branching narrative with consequential, choices-matter design.

Life is Strange Remastered

Deck Nine · Square Enix

Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.

Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology. Play as Max Caulfield, a photography senior who discovers she can rewind time while saving her best friend Chloe Price from a violent altercation. The pair soon find themselves investigating the…

Character-driven, time-rewind narrative adventure.

What Remains of Edith Finch

Giant Sparrow · Annapurna Interactive

What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to…

Winner of Best Game at the 2018 BAFTA Game Awards, as well as Best Narrative awards at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards, 2018 SXSW Gaming Awards, and The Game Awards 2017, What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her…

Vignette storytelling; a high point for narrative games.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition

Bethesda Game Studios · Bethesda Softworks

Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons…

Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features like remastered art and effects, volumetric god rays, dynamic depth of field, screen-space reflections, and more. Skyrim…

Lifetime favorite open-world RPG.

Buddy Mission BOND

KOEI TECMO GAMES · Nintendo

A character-driven Switch adventure: four men with very different skills bond to take down a criminal syndicate.

A story-rich adventure developed by KOEI TECMO and published by Nintendo (Japan only). A thief, a special agent, a swindler and a bomb expert are forced to team up, and the plot turns on the bonds between them — visual-novel storytelling with light investigation.

Nintendo Switch. Character-driven adventure currently playing.

The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series

Skybound Games

The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.

The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes. With graphical enhancements, behind the scenes bonus features and faithful recreations of classic menus, this is the definitive way to experience Clementine’s journey and find…

Telltale's choices-matter storytelling benchmark.

It Takes Two

Hazelight Studios · Electronic Arts

Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE…

Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two, a genre-bending platform adventure created purely for co-op. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Play as the clashing couple Cody and May, two humans turned into dolls by a magic spell. Together,…

Co-op design and pacing at its best.

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony

Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.

A new cast of 16 characters find themselves kidnapped and imprisoned in a school. Inside, some will kill, some will die, and some will be punished. Reimagine what you thought high-stakes, fast-paced investigation was as…

Welcome to a new world of Danganronpa, and prepare yourself for the biggest, most exhilarating episode yet. Set in a “psycho-cool” environment, a new cast of 16 characters find themselves kidnapped and imprisoned in a school. Inside, some will kill, some will die, and some will be punished. Reimagine what you thought high-stakes, fast-paced investigation…

Mystery VN lane: trials, twists, strong cast.

Portal 2

Valve

The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

Portal 2 draws from the award-winning formula of innovative gameplay, story, and music that earned the original Portal over 70 industry accolades and created a cult following. The single-player portion of Portal 2 introduces a cast of dynamic new characters, a host of fresh puzzle elements, and a much larger set of devious test chambers. Players will…

Lifetime favorite puzzle game with sharp writing.

Cyberpunk 2077

CD PROJEKT RED

Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the dark future of Night City — a dangerous megalopolis obsessed with power, glamor, and ceaseless body modification.

Dense, character-driven open-world RPG.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Sandfall Interactive · Kepler Interactive

Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based…

Once a year, the Paintress wakes and paints upon her monolith. Paints her cursed number. And everyone past that age turns to smoke and fades away. Year by year, that number ticks down and more of us are erased. Tomorrow she’ll wake and paint “33.” And tomorrow we depart on our final mission - Destroy the Paintress, so she can never paint death again. We are…

My 2025 game of the year.

The Wolf Among Us

Telltale

From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to…

From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a gritty, violent and mature thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books (DC Comics/Vertigo). As Bigby Wolf - THE big bad wolf - you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous…

Noir detective narrative; choices-matter.

Heavy Rain

Quantic Dream

Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a…

Winner of several awards, including 2011 BAFTA Game Awards for Best Story, Best Original Music and Technical Innovation, as well as multiple Interactive Achievement Awards and NAVGTR Awards, discover Heavy Rain, a game developed by Quantic Dream which brought new standards to narrative-driven games. HOW FAR WILL YOU GO TO SAVE SOMEONE YOU LOVE? Experience a…

Branching thriller; Quantic Dream narrative design.

Hindsight

Team Hindsight · Annapurna Interactive

What if the physical objects of everyday life, the possessions we hold close, were actual windows to the past? Peer into distant memories and unseen futures in Hindsight.

What if the physical objects of everyday life, the possessions we hold close, were actual windows to the past? Peer into distant memories and unseen futures in Hindsight. From the creator of Prune, Hindsight is a narrative exploration game spanning the entirety of a woman's life, from birth to present day, as she tries to make sense of it all. Revisit her…

Intimate first-person narrative vignette.

Atomic Heart

Mundfish · Focus Entertainment

In a mad and sublime utopian world, take part in explosive encounters. Adapt your fighting style to each opponent, use your environment and upgrade your equipment to fulfill your mission. If you want to reach the truth,…

Welcome to a utopian world of wonders and perfection, in which humans live in harmony with their loyal and fervent robots. Well, that's how it used to be. With the launch of the latest robot-control system mere days away, only a tragic accident or a global conspiracy could disrupt it… The unstoppable course of technology along with secret experiments have…

Stylized action with strong art direction.

Metaphor: ReFantazio

ATLUS · SEGA

After his assassination, the will of the late king decrees the next monarch to be elected by the people. Forge bonds and win over a kingdom divided in this award-winning fantasy RPG with turn-based and action combat,…

From the creative minds behind Persona 3, 4, and 5 comes Metaphor: ReFantazio. Brace yourself for the next evolution of fantasy JRPG with Metaphor: ReFantazio, available now. Winner of 50+ awards, with a free demo that carries save-data to the full game. Enter the royal tournament to fight for the throne and for the future. Control your destiny, face your…

A 2024 top pick — Atlus at its best.

Minds Beneath Us

BearBoneStudio

MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet…

Story Embark on a thrilling sci-fi journey in a futuristic Asian city with MINDS BENEATH US. In a society fully automated by advanced AI, you find yourself trapped in a foreign body, alongside the subconscious of its original owner. As society evolves, a new industry emerges that replaces the hardware needed to operate AI-automated systems with human…

My 2024 game of the year.

Road 96 🛣️

Digixart · THQ Nordic

Hitchhike your way to freedom in this crazy procedurally generated road trip. No one's road is the same!

Summer 1996, Today is the day! You hit the road. Adventure. Freedom. Escape. Run. Flee the Regime. Try to survive. On this risky road trip to the border, you’ll meet incredible characters, and discover their intertwined stories and secrets in an ever-evolving adventure. But every mile opens up a choice to make. Your decisions will change your adventure,…

A 2021 favorite — a procedural road-trip narrative I loved.

Life is Strange: True Colors

Deck Nine · Square Enix

Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.

A bold new era of the award-winning Life is Strange begins, with an all-new playable lead character and a thrilling mystery to solve! Alex Chen has long suppressed her 'curse': the supernatural ability to experience, absorb and manipulate the strong emotions of others, which she sees as blazing, colored auras. When her brother dies in a so-called accident,…

2021 top three; emotional, choices-matter.

A Way Out

Hazelight Studios · Electronic Arts

A Way Out is an exclusively co-op adventure where you play the role of one of two prisoners making their daring escape from prison.

PLAY ON STEAM USING THE REMOTE PLAY TOGETHER FEATURE From the creators of Brothers – A Tale of Two Sons comes A Way Out, an exclusively co-op adventure where you play the role of one of two prisoners making their daring escape from prison. What begins as a thrilling breakout quickly turns into an unpredictable, emotional adventure unlike anything seen or…

2018 top three; a co-op story standout.

Slay the Spire

Mega Crit

We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire! Features Dynamic Deck Building : Choose your cards wisely! Discover hundreds of cards to add to your deck with each attempt at climbing the Spire. Select…

2017 top three; the deckbuilder benchmark.

V Rising

Stunlock Studios

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online…

UPDATE 1.1: INVADERS OF OAKVEIL IS AVAILABLE NOW! Experience a Vampire Survival Action RPG adventure like no other. Awaken as a weakened Vampire after centuries of slumber. Hunt for blood to regain your strength while hiding from the scorching sun to survive. Build a mighty castle worthy of your name and convert humans into loyal thralls to serve your…

A 2022 favorite; stylish survival-action.

Black Myth: Wukong

Game Science

Black Myth: Wukong is an action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology. You shall set out as the Destined One to venture into the challenges and marvels ahead, to uncover the obscured truth beneath the veil of a glorious…

Black Myth: Wukong is an action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology. The story is based on Journey to the West, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. You shall set out as the Destined One to venture into the challenges and marvels ahead, to uncover the obscured truth beneath the veil of a glorious legend from the past. • Explore a Land…

Action spectacle rooted in Journey to the West.