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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The Adventures of Mr. Bobley The Adventures of Mr. Bobley is a 3d platformer adventure game featuring physics based puzzles and challenges that also require you to drive vehicles and operate heavy machinery. Set at a skyscraper construction site. The game is all about physics and interaction with the environment.

Price -79% 0.43€
Rating 6.1
Release 01 Jul 2015
The Silent Age Experience a post-apocalyptic world like never before in The Silent Age, a thrilling point-and-click adventure game. Use time travel to unravel the mystery behind humanity's disappearance and save the world from extinction. Start your journey now!

Price -79% 2.14€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 May 2015
Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes Collector's Edition The gates to another world will open soon! You can stop the impending disaster, but to do so at all costs to return the stolen stamps! Vanessa is the only heiress of Abraham Van Helsinga, a member of the secret order of light guarding the peace of our world.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 26 May 2015
Regency Solitaire Experience romantic Regency England in this sumptuous solitaire game. Play your cards right as you tour historic London, Brighton and Bath, and help Bella create a dazzling ballroom. Unlock gameplay features with your makeover project and improve Bella’s chances of finding true love!

Price -89% 1.35€
Rating 8.9
Release 18 May 2015
Love at First Sight After falling in love at first sight with the shy Sachi Usui, an injury-ridden, single-eyed high school girl, the protagonist tries to win over her lonely and isolated heart. A pure, heart-warming romance game where the apple of your eye only has one eye!

Price -75% 2.43€
Rating 9.1
Release 18 May 2015
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 15 May 2015
FINAL FANTASY IV: THE AFTER YEARS Take part in the epic sequel that unfolds nearly two decades after the events of FINAL FANTASY IV. Now enhanced for Windows PC.

Price -68% 4.69€
Rating 6.1
Release 11 May 2015
JumpJet Rex Test your dinosaur jump-jet skills with a game that redefines the platformer genre, aptly renaming it "platflyer." Simply put, you're a t-rex with rocket boots trying to save earth from an incoming asteroid. Do you have what it takes to stop it?

Price -86% 1.43€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Apr 2015
Voices from the Sea Follow the story of a young boy, Cantus as he meets Maris, the mysterious girl by the sea - an experience that will change his life forever.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Mar 2015
Assassin’s Creed® Rogue Introducing Assassin’s Creed® Rogue, the darkest chapter in the Assassin’s Creed franchise yet. As Shay, you will experience the slow transformation from Assassin to Assassin Hunter. Follow your own creed and set off on an extraordinary journey through New York City, the wild river valley, and far away to the icy cold waters of the North...

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 09 Mar 2015
The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 Every world needs its heroes. However unlikely they may seem. Join Wilbur, Ivo, Nate and Critter in another classic point-and-click adventure in the wicked world of Aventásia. Help them fulfill their destiny. A destiny as yet unwritten.

Price -89% 3.37€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 Feb 2015
eden* A tale of the planet's final love story told using the full force of minori's critically acclaimed illustrative style, engaging musical compositions, and the highly talented staff that has led fans coming back for more every single time!

Price -71% 5.98€
Rating 9.4
Release 30 Jan 2015
NEKOPARA Vol. 1 What's NEKOPARA? Why, it's a cat paradise! Kashou Minaduki, the son of a long line of Japanese confection makers moved out to open his own shop "La Soleil" as a patisserie.

Price -1% 9.69€
Rating 9.3
Release 29 Dec 2014
Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare - Gold Edition Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare envisions a powerful future, where both technology and tactics have evolved to usher in a new era of combat for the franchise.Power Changes Everything.

Price 59.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 03 Nov 2014
Ryse: Son of Rome “Ryse: Son of Rome” tells the story of Marius Titus, a young Roman soldier who witnesses the murder of his family at the hands of barbarian bandits, then travels with the Roman army to Britannia to seek revenge.

Price -56% 4.42€
Rating 8.5
Release 10 Oct 2014
FINAL FANTASY® XIII Final Fantasy XIII is a fantasy RPG in which a band of brave humans struggle against fate in the utopian sky city of Cocoon and the primeval world of Pulse. Follow stylish heroine Lightning's fast paced battles and high adventure in a mysterious new world.

Price 12.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 09 Oct 2014
WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.01 From the author of Spice and Wolf, Isuna Hasekura, comes WORLD END ECONOMiCA. This is the first episode out of three part sci-fi/economic thriller visual novel set on the moon.

Price -87% 1.75€
Rating 8.0
Release 17 Jun 2014
Knightmare Tower Break through ceilings, rescue princesses and escape boiling lava as you slash your way to the top of the Knightmare Tower!

Price -13% 3.49€
Rating 8.8
Release 16 Jun 2014
Call of Duty®: Ghosts Outnumbered and outgunned, but not outmatched.Call of Duty®: Ghosts is an extraordinary step forward for one of the largest entertainment franchises of all-time. This new chapter in the Call of Duty® franchise features a new dynamic where players are on the side of a crippled nation fighting not for freedom, or liberty, but simply to...

Price 59.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 25 Mar 2014
ENSLAVED™: Odyssey to the West™ Premium Edition Follow a gripping, surprise-filled journey as two dissimilar characters form an uneasy partnership in order to survive through a perilous, post-apocalyptic America. 150 years in the future, war and destruction have left the world in ruins with few humans remaining and nature having reclaimed the world.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 24 Oct 2013
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.

Price -74% 5.17€
Rating 6.8
Release 10 Sep 2013
Remember Me Remember Me™ is a 3rd person action adventure where players take on the role of Nilin, a former elite memory hunter with the ability to break into people’s minds and steal or even alter their memories.

Price -86% 4.34€
Rating 8.1
Release 06 Jun 2013
BioShock Infinite Indebted to the wrong people, with his life on the line, veteran of the U.S. Cavalry and now hired gun, Booker DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean. He must rescue Elizabeth, a mysterious girl imprisoned since childhood and locked up in the flying city of Columbia.

Price -90% 3.19€
Rating 9.3
Release 25 Mar 2013
BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien Step into rhythmic bliss with Runner2! Best Indie Game winner, Guinness World Record holder, and narrated by Charles Martinet. Unleash vibrant moves and beats in 120 levels!

Price -96% 0.60€
Rating 8.8
Release 26 Feb 2013