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

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A Robot Named Fight! A Robot Named Fight is a Metroidvania roguelike focused on exploration and item collection. Explore a different, procedurally-generated labyrinth each time you play and discover randomized power-ups to traverse obstacles, find secrets and explode meat beasts.

Price -61% 5.10€
Rating 8.3
Release 07 Sep 2017
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?

Price -96% 0.85€
Rating 8.2
Release 24 Jul 2017
寇莎梅特:困世迷情 Consummate:Missing World This is a cure Department of small fresh plot to the chamber of Secrets escape game, rich in 18 kinds of endings, a lot of funny content and hidden secrets.

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 21 Jul 2017
Strikey Sisters Say hello to a fantasy themed action arcade brick breaker! Featuring cute characters, silly humor, powerful magic, crazy bosses, and even local 2 player co-op mode!

Price -93% 0.71€
Rating 8.4
Release 01 Jun 2017
Majotori How many lives will your ignorance ruin?

Price 5.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 28 Mar 2017
Revhead Revhead is a car racing simulation game, where you have to build your own race car. You start your journey somewhere in a small village in Australia. You have to think as a real Revhead! You can buy or sell cars and components, fix and tweak your car to make it the fastest around.

Price -50% 9.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 09 Mar 2017
Poi Poi is a 3D platformer featuring two kids on a grand adventure to unravel the mysteries of the Milky Way Globe. Explore uncharted lands, compete in challenge levels, meet quirky characters and defeat comical creatures on a journey to become a Master Explorer.

Price -92% 0.84€
Rating 8.5
Release 01 Feb 2017
Exoplanet: First Contact Build your path in this alien world. Do a dirty job for food or become the one who makes calls. Sometimes the right word makes a bigger impact than a big gun. Explore local culture and mysteries, and discover the harsh yet beautiful nature in this handcrafted singleplayer action RPG.

Price -35% 12.68€
Rating 7.1
Release 09 Dec 2016
Masked Forces Masked Forces is an action-packed game where your main purpose is to eliminate your enemies using any means necessary. You have a great singleplayer campaign and multiple online game modes that you can use to show your might.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 23 Nov 2016
Burly Men at Sea A branching folktale misadventure about a trio of large, bearded fishermen. Shape a custom tale that begins again where it ends, through waters where lurk creatures from Scandinavian folklore.

Price -90% 1.04€
Rating 6.1
Release 29 Sep 2016
Obduction A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.

Price -85% 4.45€
Rating 7.7
Release 24 Aug 2016
The Cat! Porfirio's Adventure The best sim game about adventures of an urban cat in the village.

Price -78% 0.67€
Rating 7.7
Release 04 Aug 2016
Mad Combat Marines Are you ready to eliminate hordes of enemies and have fun as you compete against people from all over the world? Mad Combat Marines is here for you and it delivers all of that in an incredibly action-packed challenge!

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 13 Jul 2016
Allods Online Allods Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, set in the fantasy space opera universe of Sarnaut. It is the fourth opus of the Rage of Mages series which started in the mid-90s, conquering the minds of millions of gamers around the world.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 03 Jun 2016
Duskers Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.

Price -90% 2.13€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 May 2016
The Witness You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

Price -92% 3.01€
Rating 8.3
Release 26 Jan 2016
The Age of Decadence The Age of Decadence is a turn-based, hardcore role-playing game set in a low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple skill-based ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and extensive dialogue trees.

Price -95% 0.80€
Rating 7.9
Release 14 Oct 2015
Her Story A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.

Price -60% 3.98€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 Jun 2015
Super Star Path Classic color match puzzle meets space shoot'em up action! Hop into your spaceship, open a path through huge waves of aliens and other hazards, and face intense boss battles!

Price -87% 0.68€
Rating 7.7
Release 22 Jun 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 -96% 0.42€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Apr 2015
Super Win the Game Throw on your nostalgia goggles and travel back in time with Super Win the Game, a retro-core explosion of exploration and platforming action!!

Price -65% 2.82€
Rating 8.3
Release 01 Oct 2014
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure Tex Murphy is the last of the hard-boiled gumshoe detectives living in dystopian post-World War III San Francisco in the 2050s. Tex is an honest and good-natured private investigator with a penchant for bourbon, cigarettes and getting himself into trouble.

Price -87% 2.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 08 May 2014
Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok A retro styled adventure/RPG hybrid with atmosphere like the classics. Play as warrior, sorceress, or rogue as you travel through the rich world of Norse mythology to keep it from eternal winter. Each class has different puzzle solutions, making for good replay value. Fully free, no hidden costs.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 20 Mar 2014
Teslagrad A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.

Price -94% 0.67€
Rating 8.1
Release 13 Dec 2013