Best Linear 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 linear games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Linear games on Steam.

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Islets Take to the sky and reunite a fragmented world in this surprisingly wholesome metroidvania! Help Iko adventure across beautiful hand-painted islands, receive letters from a quirky cast of characters, and face powerful monstrous adversaries.

Price -96% 0.85€
Rating 9.1
Release 24 Aug 2022
Red Matter 2 Red Matter 2 is an immersive, puzzle-adventure game that will transport you to the far reaches of space. Step into the shoes of Sasha, an agent awakened in a lunar base by an undercover operative and tasked with uncovering the secrets of the mysterious Red Matter.

Price -45% 16.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Aug 2022
South of the Circle South of the Circle is a deep narrative experience of the emerging relationship between Peter and Clara, Cambridge academics involved in a political conflict. The story focuses on promises made in between career and true love, where our choices burdened by our past seem to be illusory.

Price -96% 0.56€
Rating 8.0
Release 03 Aug 2022
Gun Devil GUN DEVIL is an explosive platformer about rescuing your kidnapped hell wife from Satan's child, the Caramelized Dumbass and his Pimp Legion.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 02 Aug 2022
Momo Mother Bird: Final Story The doors are locked, no one answers and definitely won't help. Your task is to get out and not let yourself be caught! Solve puzzles, escape from the pursuit of Momo 2 and get out of this nightmare! This time Momo won't let you get bored!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 28 Jul 2022
ADACA A Sci-fi FPS set on the mysterious planet ADACA. - Use your GRAVITY-MANIPULATING arm to HURL objects at your foes or even RIP weapons directly from their hands! - EXPLORE and manipulate the environment in this EERIE and HOSTILE world!

Price 20.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 25 Jul 2022
Monument Valley 2 Discover illusionary pathways and delightful puzzles as you learn the secrets of The Sacred Geometry. Follow the heart warming story of Ro in her journey through motherhood. Rediscover independence through manipulating monuments and evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.

Price 6.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 12 Jul 2022
Monument Valley Embark on a journey of forgiveness through impossible environments and illusionary puzzles. Experience this meditative and calming puzzle game by manipulating monuments and creating evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.

Price 6.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 12 Jul 2022
Kayak VR: Mirage Kayak VR: Mirage is a jaw-dropping and exhilarating journey through beautiful locations, made for Virtual Reality. Maneuver our fully physically accurate kayak around checkpoints and crown yourself the fastest, or take it easy and use the free roam mode and enjoy the scenery.

Price 22.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 12 Jul 2022
Just A Humble Swordsmith Craft swords from a variety of styles and materials in order to best equip the adventurers who come into your sword smithing shop. Strategize and watch the adventurers fight their way through a dungeon full of monsters in this idle battler!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 09 Jul 2022
Hook 2 Get Hook’d on unhooking the hooks again.

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 29 Jun 2022
Havsala: Into the Soul Palace Havsala is an investigative puzzle game with rich storytelling full of historical references and mysticism. Search the room for the clues left behind by the previous reincarnations of a single soul, solve the puzzles and unravel the mystery.

Price -92% 0.84€
Rating 8.7
Release 21 Jun 2022
Alien Removal Division The invasion has started and the secret military research facility has fallen leaving only chaos. As the only survivor, you must fight your way through the military base against a horde of frantic aliens. A.R.D. is a FREE single-player first-person shooter made by students from Breda University.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 17 Jun 2022
Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist "Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist" is a co-operative atmospheric reverse escape-room puzzle game. You are a master thief who has been hired to rob a mysterious mansion, filled with various puzzles. Do you think you have what it takes to conquer the challenges that await you in the mansion.

Price -25% 5.55€
Rating 8.1
Release 16 Jun 2022
Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise is an open-world survival horror video game serving as both a sequel and prequel to the original Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut.

Price -95% 1.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 11 Jun 2022
Lights Off! Play through a common childhood fear about turning the lights off and going to bed.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 27 May 2022
Almost Home Now A 10 minute horror experience of a girl walking home alone at night.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 25 May 2022
The Lost Dachshund Your granddaughter is coming over on the ferry from the mainland. You have promised her a puppy for her birthday– a dachshund named “Peanut”. But Peanut has escaped her pen and is free on the island. You must traverse the island and rescue the mischievous puppy, before your granddaughter arrives.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 17 May 2022
Neptunia x SENRAN KAGURA: Ninja Wars Neptunia and SENRAN KAGURA join forces in this action-packed RPG!

Price -90% 4.41€
Rating 7.8
Release 11 May 2022
Is Simon There? A few months have passed since the death of my son, Simon. Ever since that tragic day, I find myself falling into the darkest emotions I could ever imagine. I am haunted everyday with what I have done; But sometimes, I am haunted by more than just my emotions...

Price -60% 2.00€
Rating 7.9
Release 06 May 2022
The Gunk The Gunk is an action-adventure game in which you play as Rani, part of our duo of gritty space haulers. As they’re struggling to bring in funds, they chance upon an untouched planet brimming with life. They came in search of valuable resources, and it looks like they’ve hit the jackpot…

Price -97% 0.88€
Rating 8.3
Release 29 Apr 2022
Tag: The Power of Paint The world is your canvas in this innovative first-person puzzle platformer. Tag walls and other surfaces with different colors of spray paint to reveal new ways to navigate each level, including bouncing off, sliding across, and sticking to the surfaces you paint.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 18 Apr 2022
lure To make some money from an old man, you are asked to fish at the forbidden Shinto shrine.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 08 Apr 2022
A=B A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 Mar 2022