First-Person Hidden Gems on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated first-person games.

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Shattered Lights Shattered Lights is a VR psychological horror room-scale experience, which focuses on drawing the player into the game with unparalleled immersion.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 11 Jun 2019
Alchemist's Awakening Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.

Price -57% 4.11€
Rating 7.0
Release 03 Jun 2019
Answer Knot A short narrative and exploration game about Zach, June, and a strange phenomenon. You're Zach and, stuck in your home, you will do everything to keep hearing June's voice messages. What is happening out there?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 31 May 2019
FREEDIVER: Triton Down Plunge into VR on a capsizing research ship, the Triton, where survival means outmaneuvering the water's lethal surge. Freedive through a sinking ship, overcome underwater chaos, and unlock your path to the surface, all while protecting your most precious resource: the breath in your lungs.

Price 7.39€
Rating 7.8
Release 30 May 2019
Heroine of the Sniper A light-hearted FPS. Jam-packed with 15 missions, each with a different theme. Take out various targets, everything from trains, cars, to bombs and helicopters. Everything EXCEPT people!

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.8
Release 30 May 2019
Never Again Never Again - Horror/first-person Quest. The main essence of the game is research locations and puzzles, plunging in the dramatic story of a little girl suffering from asthma.

Price 13.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 09 May 2019
Adventure Climb VR Adventure Climb VR is a room-scale climbing experience suitable for anyone of any age - particularly great for newcomers to VR. Achieve triumph through a combination of physically demanding climbing techniques and puzzle challenges that are designed by actual rock climbers.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 16 Apr 2019
First Person Tennis - The Real Tennis Simulator First Person Tennis uses the most innovative physics engine to reproduce the real tennis shots in VR. Thanks to the support of a big community and professional tennis players, the game is in an endless development to reach an incredible level of realism.

Price 22.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 11 Apr 2019
Zanki Zero: Last Beginning Explore the ruins, dungeons, and islands in this post-apocalyptic world through the POV of eight protagonists as they fight for survival and search for meaning in their never-ending cycles of life and death.

Price 59.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 09 Apr 2019
Vacation Simulator The latest VR sensation from the creators of ‘Job Simulator’, now with free DLC! Welcome to Vacation Simulator: a rough approximation of VACATION inspired by real human NOT JOBBING. Reallocate your bandwidth and get ready to splash, s’more, snowball, and selfie your way to optimal relaxation.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.6
Release 09 Apr 2019
最后的47小时 - The Last 47 Hours "Let's break up in 47 hours!" The girl who has been in love with me for six years and  will become my sweet bride next month, now declares. Are we really going to say goodbye after forty-seven hours?

Price 1.59€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Feb 2019
The Cursed Forest Immerse yourself in the obscure and mysterious autumnal forest, where every wrong step could be your last. As you travel uncover the dark story behind this place, where beauty and danger have become as one.

Price -79% 2.52€
Rating 8.4
Release 26 Feb 2019
Evospace Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.

Price -60% 5.06€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Feb 2019
How To Date A Magical Girl! You're invited to the elite academy for magical girls! Will you take the opportunity to make new friends? Learn magic? Or... Will you try to date a cute magical girl?

Price -88% 0.92€
Rating 7.6
Release 31 Jan 2019
The spy who shot me™ The spy who shot me™ is a comedy retro FPS inspired by classic shooters of the 90s.

Price -90% 0.89€
Rating 7.6
Release 29 Jan 2019
Becalm Fancy a relaxing drift through magical waters? Enjoy this seafaring voyage in search of the sunset!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 17 Jan 2019
Pamali: Indonesian Folklore Horror A narrative horror game set in the daily lives of Indonesian society. Interact with various mystical objects as you explore haunted places, unravel their lingering mysteries, and experience how Indonesian myth, taboo and culture, combined with your choices, shape the course of your nights.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.9
Release 27 Dec 2018
Oakwood Welcome to Oakwood, a long abandoned campground nestled in the forests of British Columbia. Explore the woods, caves, and a dilapidated lodge in search of your friends, while surviving the prehistoric horrors that now haunt the grounds.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 04 Dec 2018
Protocol By signing below, you agree to follow the Protocol. Protocol is a program of strict rules created to make first contact with an alien life form that got shot down in the Arctic Circle.

Price 8.79€
Rating 6.9
Release 20 Nov 2018
Outlaws + A Handful of Missions (Classic, 1997) Get ready for the good, the bad, and the even worse. As Marshall James Anderson, you'll face a horde of ornery, gun-slinging outlaws. You'll shoot your way through a twisted plot of greed and revenge. You'll arm yourself with firearms, as well as your wits.

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.8
Release 16 Nov 2018
True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2 True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2 is the sequel to one of the best rated horror escape games, acclaimed for its story and the atmosphere of horror mystery.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 02 Nov 2018
The Wall [Servers Temporarily Shut Down!] Build. Gather. Breach. The Wall is a never-before seen mix of genres, where dynamic maps, slick combat, base building, and economy management all come together.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 02 Nov 2018
Umfend The glass sphere burst in the night of 1996. The world of distortion opened its gates and took away from you someone very important. However, in 2005, the past emerges again to hunt you once more. An atmospheric horror about love and time.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 30 Oct 2018
Infliction Wander through an interactive nightmare set within the confines of a once-happy household. Piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly stands in the way of finding absolution.

Price -57% 7.91€
Rating 7.8
Release 17 Oct 2018
God's Basement God's Basement is a first-person, narrative-driven, single player horror game. Uncover the secrets of an afterlife shrouded in mystery, as an entity known as "The Operator" leads you deeper into the fringes of a seemingly eternal purgatory.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.1
Release 16 Oct 2018
In Death Created exclusively for VR, In Death is a Roguelite Shooter set in the godless afterlife. Battle through procedurally generated levels and dungeons in intense ranged combat, coupled with a unique locomotion system perfectly attuned to your fighting style.

Price 24.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 02 Oct 2018
Myst III: Exile The story of Myst continues in this third entry of the series, originally released in 2001. Return to this strange and wondrous universe, where books become portals into worlds, and where the lessons of the past may yet hold meaning for today...

Price -98% 0.44€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 Sep 2018
The Slater Get ready to kill drug dealers, crime bosses and anyone who stands in your way as you seek revenge for your father’s murder. The Slater is a story-driven first-person stealth-action-puzzle game that puts you in the shoes of a former cop Mark Slater.

Price -80% 1.95€
Rating 7.1
Release 20 Sep 2018
Fishing Sim World®: Pro Tour Fishing Sim World: Pro Tour features an authentic career mode where you work your way up to an elite angler competing against over 100 of the best anglers in the world across Bass, Carp and Predator fishing whilst unlocking sponsorship opportunities, gaining career earnings and social media followers as you go.

Price -80% 3.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 18 Sep 2018
Verlet Swing Verlet Swing brings you energetic swinging in a world that would be best described as a fever dream. Swing fast, don't crash and reach the goal as fast as possible!

Price -97% 0.41€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Sep 2018
Virtual Virtual Reality A game about VR, AI, and our collective sci-fi fever dreams. In a future where AI has transformed society, can humans still find purpose? Find out with Activitude, a service that lets humans aid AI clients in increasingly curious ways.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.6
Release 07 Sep 2018
THE GREAT GEOMETRIC MULTIVERSE TOUR LIBERATE THE GEOMETRIC PEOPLE AND SAVE THE MULTIVERSE! Fight through the randomly chosen universes of the Geometric Multiverse, arming yourself to the teeth with insane weaponry and mutating your mind, body, and soul with the unrelenting power of genetically altering pills.

Price 0.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 27 Aug 2018
Gun Club VR Take to the range with an arsenal of the world’s most powerful weaponry in Gun Club VR. Addictive gameplay and unsurpassed realism combine to make Gun Club VR the ultimate virtual weapon simulator. The only thing missing is the smell of the gunpowder.

Price -80% 3.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 27 Aug 2018
Perfect Heist Perfect Heist is a round-based online game, where the robber team tries to execute a bank robbery without getting noticed, and the cop team tries to prevent it. Robbers hide in plain sight and try to slowly infiltrate the bank while the Cops try to figure out who is a normal customer, and who is a robber!

Price -75% 1.24€
Rating 6.8
Release 17 Aug 2018
Hotel Remorse Wander long creepy corridors in search for answers in this short and jumpscare filled game.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 27 Jul 2018
FROSTBITE: Deadly Climate Survive the arctic research base simply known as Base 75, or die from the freezing cold or by the horrors that lurk within the halls?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Jul 2018

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