Best Atmospheric Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated atmospheric games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Atmospheric games on Steam.

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Twilight Struggle Twilight Struggle is a two-player game where players play as either the US or USSR during the Cold War. Using actual events from history, players must plan out their strategies in order to obtain world dominance. Play Twilight Struggle and change the course of history.

Price -47% 4.35€
Rating 8.4
Release 13 Apr 2016
Zenge Relaxing puzzle game, telling the story of Eon through gorgeous art and music.

Price -37% 1.26€
Rating 9.1
Release 12 Apr 2016
DARK SOULS™ III Dark Souls continues to push the boundaries with the latest, ambitious chapter in the critically-acclaimed and genre-defining series. Prepare yourself and Embrace The Darkness!

Price 59.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 11 Apr 2016
Ace of Seafood In the seas of the distant future, humans have all but disappeared. In your current, newly-awakened state, you are no more than a piece of seafood. However, you have been blessed with the talent for leading your allies into battle. Do whatever it takes to become the Ace of Seafood.

Price -93% 0.90€
Rating 8.4
Release 08 Apr 2016
Mushroom Wars Mushroom Wars is a dynamic real-time strategy game, where smart strategy meets furious action in epic PvP and PvE battles.

Price -78% 2.20€
Rating 7.3
Release 07 Apr 2016
Antenna A machine ponders its loneliness. It scans the radio spectrum for an answer to its question.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 07 Apr 2016
Job Simulator In a world where robots have replaced all human jobs, step into the "Job Simulator" to learn what it was like 'to job'.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.8
Release 05 Apr 2016
Windlands A first person grappling hook exploration game.Soar through the ruins of a fallen world and discover the secrets of the ancients. Designed with full Virtual Reality support for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, also works great in Non VR.

Price -73% 5.59€
Rating 7.4
Release 05 Apr 2016
The Lab Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 05 Apr 2016
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Do you like hot dogs? How about horseshoes? Hand grenades? (everyone likes hand grenades) Anyway, we've got all that, and guns. SO MANY GUNS. So if you like ordnance, meat, and far too many groan-worthy puns, this is the VR sandbox game for you.

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 05 Apr 2016
The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed Embark on the sci-fi epic that started it all at the dawn of modern VR, setting standards for roomscale movement and interaction for years to come. Winner of over 30 awards including "VR Game of the Year", The Gallery is VR's premier adventure series.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.0
Release 05 Apr 2016
1979 Revolution: Black Friday 1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.3
Release 04 Apr 2016
IKEA VR Experience Explore and interact with an IKEA Kitchen in Virtual Reality! Walk around freely, open drawers and put your vegetable peelings in the waste sorting station. You can even enjoy the visual impact of different material finishes and experience things from a child’s point of view.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 04 Apr 2016
Adam's Venture: Origins Embark on a bold adventure in Adam’s Venture: Origins. Set in the roaring 20’s, in Adam’s Venture: Origins you will explore ancient ruins, and recover mysterious artifacts. Together with your trusted accomplice Evelyn, you will have to outsmart the evil Clairvaux company.

Price -92% 0.79€
Rating 6.3
Release 01 Apr 2016
Christmas Adventure: Candy Storm Chtistmas Adventure: Candy Storm – is a funny Christmas Hidden Object game with puzzles and mini-games of varying difficulty.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 01 Apr 2016
Hyper Light Drifter Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Price -22% 11.77€
Rating 9.1
Release 31 Mar 2016
Epistory - Typing Chronicles Epistory immerses you in an atmospheric action/adventure game where you play a girl riding a giant fox who fights an insectile corruption from an origami world. As you progress and explore this world, the story literally unfolds and the mysteries of the magic power of the words are revealed.

Price -93% 1.07€
Rating 9.2
Release 30 Mar 2016
A Chair in a Room : Greenwater Explore your surroundings as the protagonist of your own horror story as you immerse yourself in this tense VR thriller set in America’s Deep South. Navigate your way through your memories, piecing together the clues and puzzles, to solve the mystery of how you have awoken in the sinister Greenwater Institute, known only as Patient No.

Price 22.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 30 Mar 2016
The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition In Season 2 of The Last Door, the search for his missing client will bring psychiatrist John Wakefield deeper into a conspiracy of darkness and closer to the heart of madness than ever before.

Price -85% 1.59€
Rating 8.9
Release 29 Mar 2016
Dead Secret Dead Secret is a first-person horror mystery set in rural Kansas in 1965. A reclusive professor is dead and it’s up to you to crack the case before you become the next victim. Investigate the murder and explore the story Time Magazine called “captivating” and “deeply creepy” .

Price -81% 2.91€
Rating 7.7
Release 28 Mar 2016
SAMOLIOTIK SAMOLIOTIK is a stylish shoot-em-up with different enemies, bosses, colour palettes, power-ups, set in different eras. In this game you will fight Adolf Gutler,The Illuminati, and other creatures.

Price -96% 0.23€
Rating 8.2
Release 25 Mar 2016
Samorost 3 Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.

Price -97% 0.66€
Rating 9.0
Release 24 Mar 2016
The Descendant In THE DESCENDANT, the end of the world is only the start. With what remains of humanity protected in underground Ark facilities, your mission is to keep survivors alive, while discovering a far greater conspiracy buried within Ark-01.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Mar 2016
Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition A classic platform with a twist: A dynamic soundtrack and funny lyrics that sings the player's actions and responds to what is happening during the adventure.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.3
Release 24 Mar 2016