Best Multiplayer Games 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 multiplayer games.

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Homefront The Rock Map Pack is Now Available! Join the Resistance, stand united and fight for freedom against an overwhelming military force.

Price -95% 1.02€
Rating 6.0
Release 14 Mar 2011
Atom Zombie Smasher The zombie apocalypse is upon us and it's up to you to evacuate everyone before they fall prey to the undead. Conduct massive rescue operations with a helping hand from snipers, artillery crews, orbital bombardments, and more.

Price -50% 4.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 14 Mar 2011
Total War: SHOGUN 2 Total War: SHOGUN 2 is the perfect mix of real-time and turn-based strategy gaming for newcomers and veterans alike.

Price -92% 2.63€
Rating 8.9
Release 14 Mar 2011
RIFT Dive into a world of epic adventure! Create your perfect hero thanks to a uniquely customizable class system. Collect, craft, and customize your gear. Go it alone or group up to challenge dungeons, raids, dynamic open-world content, and your fellow players.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 01 Mar 2011
Men of War: Assault Squad Men of War: Assault Squad delivers a deeply tactical WWII experience, blending large-scale strategy with intense, hands-on combat. Fight across multiple fronts – from European countryside to Pacific jungles and command every unit and every bullet on the battlefield.

Price -96% 0.42€
Rating 8.5
Release 24 Feb 2011
Two Worlds II HD Check out the new Velvet Edition bundle including both Two Worlds II and Pirates of the Flying Fortress DLC.

Price -99% 0.27€
Rating 6.2
Release 03 Feb 2011
The Sims™ 3 The Sims 3: Create the perfect world with full customization at your fingertips. Refine personalities and help fulfill destinies.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 27 Jan 2011
Dead Space™ 2 Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Explore this world and its zero-g environments to discover the truth about the Unitology and its role in the Necromorph epidemic.

Price -80% 3.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 27 Jan 2011
Magicka Magicka is a satirical action-adventure game set in a rich fantasy world based on Norse mythology. The player assumes the role of a wizard from a sacred order tasked with stopping an evil sorcerer who has thrown the world into turmoil, his foul creations besieging the forces of good.

Price -91% 0.94€
Rating 8.5
Release 25 Jan 2011
Monday Night Combat Monday Night Combat is a class-based, third-person shooter… and the most popular lethal sport of the future!

Price -84% 0.76€
Rating 7.6
Release 24 Jan 2011
EVE Online Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 15 Dec 2010
Greed Corp Turn-based strategy at its finest.

Price -84% 1.64€
Rating 8.1
Release 10 Dec 2010
Swords and Soldiers HD Rewrite history as you take control of the brutal Vikings, the devious Aztecs or the crafty Chinese in their global quest to win the favour of the Gods! Swords & Soldiers is a side-scrolling strategy game that lets you control an entire army and lets you wield devastating magical abilities.

Price -73% 1.36€
Rating 7.5
Release 02 Dec 2010
nail'd Constant sense of ultimate speed is your only companion, and fast reflexes and tactical skills are what stands between victory and defeat. Buy before Dec. 7 10AM PST and get 10% off.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Nov 2010
MX vs. ATV Reflex Think fast and hang on to your ride as you take independent control of the rider and take the ultimate test of mettle. Dual controls let you tear it up with death-defying tricks and high-flying freestyle action. Fight for traction and dig up the track to leave your mark.

Price -98% 0.48€
Rating 8.5
Release 26 Nov 2010
Patrician III Become a fellow of the famous medieval Hanse trading association in the 13th century. Manage the politics, prestige and economic success in your city and the known parts of Europe!

Price -89% 0.55€
Rating 7.8
Release 18 Nov 2010
Alien Breed 3: Descent Experience the final explosive chapter in the Alien Breed series and uncover the horrifying truth surrounding the existence of the Breed. Launch discount good thru Nov. 24 10am PST.

Price -96% 0.88€
Rating 7.1
Release 17 Nov 2010
Call of Duty®: Black Ops The biggest first-person action series of all time and the follow-up to critically acclaimed Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 2 returns with Call of Duty®: Black Ops.

Price 39.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 08 Nov 2010
Farming Simulator 2011 The sequel to the best-selling worldwide hit "Farming Simulator" has loads of new features! Assume the role of a farmer experiencing the challenge of 18 hour days running a new farm in the middle of beautiful rolling countryside.

Price -50% 4.16€
Rating 8.7
Release 29 Oct 2010
Bloody Good Time Congratulations, you’ve just been cast in your first slasher movie by the notorious Director X!

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 29 Oct 2010
Blood Bowl - Legendary Edition Inspired by the Warhammer Fantasy world, Blood Bowl is an ultra-violent combination of strategy and sports games. The Legendary Edition features 20 playable races, including 11 that are totally new, each offering its own game style! Make a competitive team, train it and buy the best equipment.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 28 Oct 2010
Shank Shank is the cult-classic revival of the sidescrolling beat-em-up. Play as Shank in an over-the-top grindhouse game, packed to the rim with enemies, bosses, combos, and more by the award-winning team at Klei Entertainment.

Price -34% 6.68€
Rating 8.7
Release 25 Oct 2010
Lost Planet® 2 Lost Planet 2, the sequel to Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition, the landmark third-person shooter that sold over 2.3 million units worldwide, is now available on Steam!

Price 267.56€
Rating 6.5
Release 15 Oct 2010
Age of Wonders Shadow Magic Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic is the third entry in the award winning fantasy strategy series. This fan-favorite enhances the series' praised fusion of empire building, role-playing and tactical combat with the eerie Shadow World and battle with races never before seen, across new and diverse landscapes.

Price -91% 0.84€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 Oct 2010
Age of Wonders Welcome to Age of Wonders, the authentic turn based fantasy strategy classic that started the hit series. Age of Wonders’ intimate atmosphere with painterly graphics still shines today. The game’s fully patched up, start building your fantasy empire today!

Price -70% 1.82€
Rating 7.5
Release 12 Oct 2010
Medal of Honor™ Fight Today's War: Elite Special Forces in a gritty combat campaign using the surgical tactics of Tier 1 Operators combined with the sledgehammer force of Army Rangers.

Price -58% 8.40€
Rating 7.4
Release 12 Oct 2010
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Take control of Lara and her new partner Totec, a Mayan tribesman, and uncover the ancient artifact known as the "Mirror of Smoke" in this all new action adventure game.

Price -93% 0.72€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Sep 2010
Dead Rising® 2 The sequel to the million-plus selling Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2 takes the zombie survival horror to Fortune City, America’s latest and greatest entertainment playground.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 27 Sep 2010
Sid Meier's Civilization® V Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

Price -93% 2.34€
Rating 9.5
Release 23 Sep 2010
Star Ruler Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves)...

Price -93% 0.50€
Rating 7.7
Release 20 Sep 2010
Cossacks: Back to War Cossacks: Back to War contains all of the gameplay features of Cossacks: European Wars and Cossacks: The Art of War, this is a complete care package for all current and future Cossacks fans. This add-on contains two new nations: Switzerland and Hungary.

Price -89% 0.59€
Rating 8.5
Release 02 Sep 2010
Victoria II Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion and colonization, to finally become a truly great power by the dawn of the 20th century. Victoria II is a grand strategy game played during the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding...

Price -90% 2.06€
Rating 9.0
Release 30 Aug 2010
Making History II: The War of the World What if Germany won the Battle of Britain? What if Moscow fell in 1942?You’re in charge. Anything can happen and history will never repeat itself in this classic WWII grand strategy game MAKING HISTORY II: The War of the World. Are you ready to battle for global dominance?

Price -76% 3.67€
Rating 7.5
Release 27 Aug 2010
Worms Reloaded Ten years on from Worms™ Armageddon and the turn-based comic mayhem continues in Worms™ Reloaded, an all-new edition available for PC through Steam.

Price -98% 0.73€
Rating 8.4
Release 26 Aug 2010
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Pure adrenaline of non-stop action in Single Player, Online Co-op and Multiplayer. Double the pleasure and mayhem with new multiplayer DLCs! (click for details)

Price -85% 1.49€
Rating 6.5
Release 17 Aug 2010
The Guild II Renaissance For centuries Europe has been dominated by the church and nobility. On the shoulders of ordinary people the servants of god and the noble families justified their power and wealth. This was the incontrovertible, divine world order. A truly dark era… In the 14th Century the world order is beginning to transform itself.

Price -80% 1.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 28 Jul 2010

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