Best Games on Steam

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Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game Fallout® 2 is the sequel to the critically acclaimed game that took RPG'ing out of the dungeons and into a dynamic, apocalyptic retro-future. It's been 80 long years since your ancestors trod across the wastelands.

Price -83% 1.77€
Rating 9.2
Release 19 Aug 2009
Osmos Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax - good things come to those who wait.

Price -72% 2.33€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 Aug 2009
Death to Spies: Moment of Truth The Most Mysterious Secret Service Agency of WWII This is a third-person stealth-action game describing the activities of the SMERSH, the most mysterious secret service agency of World War II. Moment of Truth is a sequel to the popular stealth action title Death to Spies.

Price -83% 1.22€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Aug 2009
Hearts of Iron III Hearts of Iron III lets you play the most engaging conflict in world history, World War 2, on all fronts as any country and through multiple different scenarios. Guide your nation to glory between 1936 and 1948 and wage war, conduct diplomacy and build your industry in the most detailed World War 2 game ever made.

Price -92% 0.89€
Rating 7.4
Release 07 Aug 2009
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008) The Sherlock Holmes series returns with this updated version of The Awakened, which brings a whole new dimension to the original title developed by Frogwares. The game puts the player into an investigation of the Cthulhu Mythos - as imagined by Father of modern horror, H.P. Lovecraft.

Price -91% 0.92€
Rating 7.1
Release 06 Aug 2009
Red Faction JOIN THE REVOLUTION! Lured to Mars by the Ultor Corporation's promise of a better life, thousands have come to seek their fortune and work for the massive mining company. But all is not as it seems. A deadly plague is sweeping through the barracks, and miners suffer daily abuse at the hands of the Ultor guards.

Price -89% 1.12€
Rating 8.3
Release 05 Aug 2009
Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood is a cartoon-style third-person shooter. You take the role of a last-standing hard-boiled Legionnaire taking on an entire rebel army. A small campaign with various objectives, such as defending civilians, escorting a tourist bus and a mass-chicken-murder map.

Price -85% 0.51€
Rating 6.0
Release 04 Aug 2009
Watchmen: The End is Nigh Part 2 Watchmen: The End Is Nigh Part 2 delves further into the partnership of Rorschach and Nite Owl before the hero-banning Keene Act. It’s now June 1977, and any day now the passage of the Keene Act will outlaw all masked vigilantes not sanctioned by the government.

Price -95% 0.27€
Rating 6.7
Release 29 Jul 2009
Bionic Commando The first true sequel to the classic 1988 Nintendo Entertainment System original, Bionic Commando sees the return of the bionically-enhanced Nathan "R.A.D." Spencer. Time has not been kind to Spencer: Five years after his heroic defeat of the Imperials, he has been betrayed by the government he swore to serve, imprisoned for...

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 7.0
Release 28 Jul 2009
Tropico Reloaded TROPICO RELOADED is the ultimate game compilation for hobby-dictators and those dreaming of their own Caribbean island. Tropico combines real-time strategy and simulation elements with a healthy dose of political intrigue and Caribbean flair to create a unique and critically acclaimed game experience.

Price -92% 0.60€
Rating 8.3
Release 24 Jul 2009
TimeShift™ Master time to become the ultimate weapon! Dr. Aiden Krone has made a Time Jump across the space-time continuum - a reckless act with frightening consequences. Now, a disturbing alternate reality has evolved within the bleak and rain-soaked Alpha District.

Price -7% 14.05€
Rating 7.6
Release 23 Jul 2009
Space Quest™ Collection Experience a blast from the past with the complete, completely twisted Space Quest Collection.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 23 Jul 2009
King's Quest™ Collection Seven classic games in one collection. Celebrate the golden age of adventure games all over again with the return of King's Quest.The bravest knight in all of Daventry, Sir Graham, is appointed by the dying king to embark on a Quest for the Crown.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 23 Jul 2009
Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge Bad Rats is a physics puzzle game where rats finally get their bloody revenge on their new prisoners: The cats. Come up with creative solutions for each puzzle using physics, functional objects, and your specially trained Rats. Try different ways of solving each puzzle to finish faster or earn higher scores.

Price -80% 0.41€
Rating 7.7
Release 20 Jul 2009
Sniper Elite As World War II draws to a close, the first covert battles of the Cold War begin. Caught in the life and death struggle between Soviets and Germans in war-torn Berlin, you control the fate of a lone American OSS Sniper.

Price -95% 0.41€
Rating 7.4
Release 16 Jul 2009
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike.

Price -90% 1.00€
Rating 9.2
Release 15 Jul 2009
LOOM™ Long after the passing of the Second Shadow, when dragons ruled the twilight sky and the stars were bright and numerous, came the Age of the Great Guilds. Blacksmiths. Shepherds. Clerics. Each dedicated to the absolute control of secret knowledge. Another such Guild was the Weavers.

Price -89% 0.65€
Rating 8.4
Release 08 Jul 2009
LEGO® Indiana Jones™: The Original Adventures Build, Battle and Brawl your way out of trouble! Play through all three classic Indiana Jones™ movies and relive your favorite Indy adventures in the tongue-in-cheek worlds of LEGO®. Explore and Discover - Battle enemies, solve puzzles, and seek out the world's greatest treasures.

Price -90% 2.01€
Rating 8.5
Release 08 Jul 2009
Indiana Jones® and the Last Crusade™ Europe, 1938: The lost Ark was just a warm-up! Now Adolf Hitler is after the most powerful talisman of all - the Holy Grail. A few brave men stand in his way. Fortunately, one of them is Indiana Jones, and this time he has his dad with him.

Price -91% 0.55€
Rating 7.4
Release 08 Jul 2009
Thrillville®: Off the Rails™ Thrillville™: Off the Rails lives up to its name with 20 death-defying rides! Players can build incredible coasters to leap from one track to another, launch through the air like cannonballs, blast through a burning rings of fire and more!

Price -92% 0.87€
Rating 8.7
Release 08 Jul 2009
STAR WARS™ Battlefront II (Classic, 2005) Join the rise of Darth Vader’s elite 501st Legion of Stormtroopers as you fight through an all new story-based saga where every action you take impacts the battlefront and, ultimately, the fate of the Star Wars galaxy.

Price -65% 3.41€
Rating 9.3
Release 08 Jul 2009
The Dig® An asteroid the size of a small moon is on a crash course toward Earth. Once the wayward asteroid is nuked into a safe orbit, a trio conducts a routine examination of the rocky surface. What they uncover is anything but routine.

Price -91% 0.58€
Rating 8.7
Release 08 Jul 2009
Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™ The Man With The Hat Is Back In His Greatest Adventure Yet! 1939 - The eve of World War II. Nazi agents are about to get their hands on a weapon more dangerous than the atom bomb. Only Indy can stop them before they unleash the deadly secret that sank Atlantis.

Price -90% 0.64€
Rating 8.9
Release 08 Jul 2009
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™ You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.3
Release 08 Jul 2009
Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season While explosively stripping the evil pirate LeChuck of his demonic mojo, Guybrush Threepwood inadvertently infects the entire Caribbean with the arch-fiend's expelled voodoo, which threatens to transform buccaneers into unruly pirate monsters.

Price -92% 1.00€
Rating 8.4
Release 07 Jul 2009
Hunting Unlimited 2010 Get the Shot. Get the Game. Experience fast-paced hunting action in pursuit of the biggest trophy bucks throughout North America, Canada and Now the Bavarian Forest! Wilderness Madness! Free Hunt Mode drops you right in the action with game a plenty, or for exacting hunting adventures try Challenge Mode. Calling All Predators.

Price -72% 2.83€
Rating 7.8
Release 07 Jul 2009
Trine Enchanted Edition Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world of great castles and strange machinery, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.

Price -94% 0.98€
Rating 9.3
Release 02 Jul 2009
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood THE OLD WEST, 1864. In order to save their family, the McCall brothers will kill anyone who stands between them and the legendary Gold of Juarez.

Price -96% 0.45€
Rating 8.4
Release 02 Jul 2009
SPORE™ Galactic Adventures Take Your Creature From Zero To Galactic HeroGet out of your starship and turn your Spore creatures into legendary Space Captains. For the first time, beam down with your allies to take on action-packed, planetside adventures. Complete quests, collect rewards, and even create your own missions.

Price -75% 4.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 23 Jun 2009
Overlord II Overlord II, sequel to the critically acclaimed cult hit, sees the return of the chaotic Minions and their new Dark Master. Bigger, badder and more beautifully destructive, Overlord 2 has a Glorious Empire to smash, a massive Netherworld to revive, Minion mounts to mobilize, a trio of mistresses to woo, War Machines to crush opposition...

Price -78% 2.05€
Rating 8.6
Release 23 Jun 2009
Evil Genius Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...

Price -92% 0.87€
Rating 9.0
Release 22 Jun 2009
Delta Force — Black Hawk Down: Team Sabre Delta Force — Black Hawk Down: Team Sabre is the official expansion pack to the #1 best selling PC game in North America. Team Sabre was developed using the Delta Force — Black Hawk Down engine and it requires the mother product to run.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Jun 2009
Delta Force Land Warrior Engage the enemy across vast outdoor environments and expansive indoor environments as you take control of the US Army's elite anti-terrorist unit. Delta Force Land Warrior™ introduces new weapons and characters for both single player and intense online multiplayer via NovaWorld.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 18 Jun 2009
Delta Force 2 You're a member of the U.S. Army's best kept secret: the elite SPECIAL OPERATIONS unit known as Delta Force, formed to BATTLE TERRORISM throughout the world. When the best of the rest can't handle the op, YOU are called into action. Can you handle THE JOB? Features FREE NovaWorld™: online gaming supporting up to 50 players.

Price -61% 1.96€
Rating 8.1
Release 18 Jun 2009
Delta Force 1 As a member of Delta Force — The Army's Elite, top secret special forces unit — the word 'impossible' is not in your vocabulary. In Delta Force, you will conduct missions swiftly and silently, in every possible terrain, under every imaginable condition and through unconventional means.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 18 Jun 2009
America's Army 3 Download AA3 Today and Become a Member of the elite America's Army Team! America's Army fans and new players alike can now experience America's Army 3, the official U.S. Army game.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 17 Jun 2009

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Steam is home to a vast library of games, from indie titles to AAA blockbusters. With so many options to choose from, it can be difficult to know where to start. That's where wasdland.com comes in.

We curate the most popular and highest-rated games on Steam considering factors such as player count, review score, and genre to give you a comprehensive overview of the best games that Steam has to offer.

Whether you're looking for a new game to play with friends, a single-player experience that will keep you entertained for hours, or something in between, we're sure you will find something you'll love.