Best Philosophical Steam Games on Sale

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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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
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
Before Your Eyes Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.

Price -91% 0.94€
Rating 9.5
Release 08 Apr 2021
The Shore THE SHORE is a first person story driven game with an atmospheric environment and narrations, You will encounter mysterious creatures and unravel the secrets behind them. Strong elements of horror, struggle to survive an unknown world that will make you question your own sanity.

Price -31% 6.92€
Rating 7.0
Release 19 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
Manifold Garden Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.

Price -97% 0.72€
Rating 9.2
Release 20 Oct 2020
When The Past Was Around When the Past was Around is an adventure point-and-click puzzle game about love, moving on, letting go, and the joy and pain of everything in between.

Price -64% 2.83€
Rating 9.2
Release 22 Sep 2020
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

Price -50% 0.74€
Rating 9.5
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
PLAYNE : The Meditation Game Grow a beautiful island as you build a daily habit of mindfulness and meditation. Experience relaxation and learn ways to care for your mental wellbeing.

Price -92% 1.29€
Rating 8.9
Release 01 May 2020
The Procession to Calvary Pilfer from pirates, conspire with cardinals and perform miracles with an incompetent magician. The Procession to Calvary is a Pythonesque adventure game made from Renaissance paintings, and a spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed Four Last Things.

Price -93% 0.67€
Rating 9.2
Release 09 Apr 2020
Arrest of a stone Buddha Hitman is searching for an answer in France 70-s.

Price -51% 6.17€
Rating 6.7
Release 27 Feb 2020
Coffee Talk Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.

Price -51% 6.27€
Rating 9.2
Release 29 Jan 2020
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones Delve into a role-playing game of horror, loss and madness set in the strange worlds of HP Lovecraft. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones offers a mix of rich role-playing and turn-based tactical combat, represented in an illustrative visual style. Can you find salvation in a dead world?

Price -98% 0.44€
Rating 6.5
Release 26 Sep 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
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
Suicide Guy: Sleepin' Deeply In this new chapter of "Suicide Guy" you'll be challenged with even more insane puzzles, generated by the surreal dreams of the Guy. You'll encounter the weirdest of the living beings as you go deeper and deeper into his subconscious. This time to wake him up you'll need all your skills.

Price -88% 0.70€
Rating 7.5
Release 07 Jun 2018
Keep in Mind: Remastered Keep in Mind follows Jonas, a man haunted by alcoholism, depression, and grief. One night, he awakens to a shadowy mirror world where beasts lurk and stars don't shine. Lost and scared, Jonas must face the twisted beasts if he ever wishes to return home and learn the truth about his darkness.

Price -66% 0.68€
Rating 7.2
Release 08 Mar 2018
My Lovely Daughter My Lovely Daughter is an alchemist simulator that explores the depth of a father’s grief and how far he will go to resurrect his daughter. Contains dark and disturbing subject matters, might not be suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

Price -94% 0.86€
Rating 6.8
Release 08 Mar 2018
The Red Strings Club The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.

Price -96% 0.64€
Rating 9.1
Release 22 Jan 2018
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy A game I made for a certain kind of person. To hurt them.

Price -30% 4.93€
Rating 8.1
Release 06 Dec 2017
The Talos Principle VR The Talos Principle VR is a virtual reality version of Croteam's critically acclaimed first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction.

Price -98% 0.74€
Rating 7.9
Release 17 Oct 2017
Subsurface Circular When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.

Price -66% 2.05€
Rating 9.0
Release 17 Aug 2017
Everything Be the Universe in this epic, award-winning reality simulation game - featuring thousands of playable characters, endless exploration, an extraordinary soundtrack and narration from Alan Watts.

Price -87% 1.79€
Rating 8.0
Release 21 Apr 2017
The Search Embark on a journey of discovery and inspiration in The Search - a story-driven puzzle-adventure set in a mysterious world where art comes to life!

Price -70% 1.19€
Rating 7.1
Release 13 Apr 2017
Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition Uncover secrets of past lives in this story-rich, tactical roleplaying game set in Sigil, a dark fantasy city at the heart of the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse. Explore the planes, survive combat alongside a party of bizarre companions, and solve puzzles unlike any ever seen in the genre.

Price -93% 1.39€
Rating 9.1
Release 11 Apr 2017
Four Last Things Four Last Things is a very silly pythonesque adventure made from Renaissance-era paintings and public domain recordings of classical music. It is about sin, and the Four Last Things – Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell – and strives to be intelligent and ridiculous in equal measures.

Price -74% 2.55€
Rating 9.1
Release 23 Feb 2017
Don't Disturb Single-player puzzle adventure with a beautiful, distinctive art style and a genuinely emotional story. As a lonely dog wandering the afterlife searching for his dead master, 'Don't Disturb' explores traditional Asian views on death and the underworld.

Price -92% 0.37€
Rating 7.9
Release 01 Sep 2016
The Turing Test The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.

Price -91% 2.31€
Rating 8.5
Release 30 Aug 2016
Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan When Humanity was created,the Goddess of Life challenged us to define our own purpose. This sparked 5,000 years of war that you, as a Kori-Odan, must end. Master your legacy through visceral Anime-style combat and deep narrative stakes.

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 6.4
Release 14 Apr 2016
The Witness You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

Price -98% 0.74€
Rating 8.3
Release 26 Jan 2016
The Beginner's Guide The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.

Price -32% 6.67€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 Oct 2015
SOMA From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

Price -68% 9.50€
Rating 9.4
Release 21 Sep 2015
In Between In Between is set inside the mind of a man hit by a cruel twist of fate. Together you are on a journey through the protagonist's head, a world that doesn’t obey the laws of physics.

Price -96% 0.59€
Rating 7.9
Release 21 Aug 2015

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