Philosophical 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 philosophical games.

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Locke(d) An algorithm decided to show you this. What now?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 23 Jan 2023
The Forest Quartet The Forest Quartet is a puzzle adventure about a gone, but not forgotten, lead singer. Play her spirit and travel through 3 acts unique to the members of her band for a final farewell concert. Face their emotions, solve puzzles and fight the corruption plaguing their souls.

Price -92% 0.83€
Rating 8.7
Release 08 Dec 2022
The Bible A digital recreation of The Bible in Kinetic Novel form! Read through and save passages in any order with an original soundtrack, or listen through the greatest story ever told in audiobook form. Featuring an extensive Trivia section to find out how well you really know the stories of Old and New.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 14 Nov 2022
Agarta Agarta has been designed to show you how valuable and important every decision you make in your individual life, every choice you make is. Because every choice you make is also a renunciation and you cannot undo any decision.

Price -15% 2.57€
Rating 6.8
Release 21 Oct 2022
Ctrl Alt Ego Innovative genre mashup (first-person immersive sim puzzler FPS RPG) with emphasis on problem-solving and creativity. Unique vibes and original mechanics that you won't have experienced before. One of the best games of 2022 according to various credible sources!

Price -94% 1.17€
Rating 8.7
Release 22 Jul 2022
Growing My Grandpa! Growing My Grandpa! is a Cronenberg-inspired point-and-click adventure game with virtual pet elements that puts a heavy emphasis on exploration and lore.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 12 Jul 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Havsala: Into the Soul Palace Havsala is an investigative puzzle game with rich storytelling full of historical references and mysticism.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 -94% 0.67€
Rating 8.7
Release 21 Jun 2022
SILT Dive into a surreal ocean abyss in an atmospheric puzzle-adventure. Explore dangerous waters, possess sea creatures and solve environmental puzzles to discover what lies deep below the surface…

Price -97% 0.53€
Rating 7.3
Release 01 Jun 2022
Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.9
Release 21 Feb 2022
VOCÊ É UM DEFUNTO MECÂNICO Baleado até a morte, você é um defunto mecânico se lembrando de como morreu, e das vidas torturadas que agora ficam para trás. Uma aventura em prosa para 20 minutos de pavor existencial no presente pós-singularidade.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 09 Jan 2022
Babble Royale Babble Royale is an intense multiplayer free-for-all that combines word-making skill with fast-paced tactical and strategic action. Earn money and collect loot to upgrade your abilities, outrun the deadly hot zone, and outwit or outlast all your opponents to have the Last Word!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 15 Dec 2021
Bear's Restaurant The award-winning indie adventure game finally arrives on Steam—now with more content than ever before! A story of love, loss, and fine dining that’s sure to warm even the most jaded of hearts.

Price -45% 5.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 06 Oct 2021
Atopes Your future is vaster than the cosmos.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 30 Jul 2021
Legend of Homebody The simple game of a shut-in learning from home and earn money. (The game is purely fictional, do not try this out in reality. This is a somewhat serious and heavy game, so don't be fooled by appearances.)

Price -70% 1.79€
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Jul 2021
Kaigrad Kaigrad - is a non-linear visual novel in the genre of dark fantasy. The action takes place in a world where Light comes only from people, animals and all living things. The darkness is near. You have to find out what happened here, who is to blame for this and try to fix it!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 26 May 2021
Strangeland You wake in a surreal carnival, where a woman cries out to you before leaping to her death. Can either of you be saved? The denizens and devices of Strangeland answer with riddles, puzzles, and warnings of a Dark Thing lurking at the park’s peak. A new adventure from the creators of Primordia.

Price -79% 2.71€
Rating 8.8
Release 25 May 2021
Cognition Method: Initiation Free demo for Cognition Method - a story-driven, first-person puzzle game inspired by Space Odyssey 2001 and Solaris. Discover an innovative mechanics of altering gravity and dive into the surreal setting. Find your way within a mysterious artifact and unveal a non-ordinary story.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 22 Apr 2021
Press Ctrl A mind-bending puzzler where your avatar controls another avatar via an in-game keyboard.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 16 Mar 2021
Three of Cards Three of Cards is a movie-like noir card action game. The magician has a horrible relationship with insurance company A. Help the magician to take revenge on the key characters who have plunged him into hell, and shed light on his path. Because the process will be very dark and terrible.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 04 Mar 2021
Psycholonials While in communication with supernatural forces, two influencers launch a daring new social media brand.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 03 Feb 2021
Sunlight Traverse a harmonious hand painted forest in this first person hike. ☀️The trees guide you with gentle whispers, as you explore a philosophical story.

Price -94% 0.26€
Rating 7.1
Release 14 Jan 2021
What Comes After What Comes After is a side-scrolling adventure and a short heartwarming story about learning how to love yourself. Help Vivi in her journey on the train to the afterlife and back.

Price -81% 0.76€
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Nov 2020
My Exercise Let's do sit-ups! Let a chubby boy do his exercise and sink into a dog's body. Maybe animals will come to cheer him up.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 26 Aug 2020
Metamorphosis Play as Gregor, turned into a tiny bug, and set out on an extraordinary journey to unravel the mystery of your transformation. Metamorphosis is a first person adventure set in a surrealist world where your newfound abilities are your last and only hope for redemption.

Price -98% 0.61€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Aug 2020

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 04 Jul 2020
The Night Fisherman A short, twisted tale about a smuggler and a late night encounter in the English Channel. Control the camera and make tough choices, will you escape with your life?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 29 Jun 2020
MetaWare High School (Demo) How do you see the world when nothing is real? An experimental metafictional visual novel.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 02 Apr 2020
Nocturne: Prelude The afterlife is now digital. Discover that eternal life comes with sacrifice in the first chapter of a genre-defying RPG with unique rhythm combat.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 03 Mar 2020
MAN STANDING The ALFINA GAMERS team together with ALFINA WORLD GAME PUBLISHING are pleased to present a unique game experience. Get ready to challenge nature, incredible dangers, serious enemies, and most importantly - yourself.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 11 Dec 2019
Demons Never Lie Demons Never Lie is a creepy graphic adventure made with voxel and low-poly where even your soul is at stake! An incredible and dark story with elements of the classic point&click and visual novels. An exciting interactive experience with a unique atmosphere.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 22 Oct 2019
Etherborn Delve into an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice awaits your arrival. Go forth and seek your purpose.

Price -98% 0.44€
Rating 6.9
Release 18 Jul 2019
Unroaded Unroaded is a short free visual novel about the living dead man who instead of inaction has chosen the road.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 06 Mar 2019
7th Sector Welcome to the 7th Sector, set in a mysterious cyberpunk world. Immerse yourself on this intricate path, solving different puzzles, facing its dangers and collecting scattered information to discover the story of this world.

Price 10.79€
Rating 7.1
Release 05 Mar 2019
She and the Light Bearer She and the Light Bearer is a point and click adventure game, a poem, a fairy tale. Take a journey inside a vibrantly colored forest, meet silly creatures, listen to serene folk music, and discover somber secrets.

Price -96% 0.48€
Rating 7.9
Release 17 Jan 2019
Rage in Peace Rage in Peace is a story-driven action adventure with elements of surprise and memorization. Unravel the last day of Timmy's life, as he races against time to get back home and fulfill his sole dream of dying peacefully in his pajamas, in the warmth of home, in peace, and with no drama.

Price -95% 0.76€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 Nov 2018
Animyst Explore a strange and dark afterlife as the Undead. Inhabit the body of a Skeleton or Fleshy Corpse and build a new life in The Droughts, a giant desert of ancient ruins and occult monsters. Craft powerful spells and befriend or battle other players in a single open online world...

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 02 Jul 2018

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