Best Physics 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 physics games.

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Lunar Flight A modern take on the classic arcade game, Lunar Lander, Lunar Flight extends the experience to a fully fictionalized and accessible lunar module simulator

Price -56% 6.71€
Rating 7.7
Release 10 Apr 2012
Vessel Living liquid machines have overrun a world of unstoppable progress and their inventor must stop the chaos in this game about a man with the power to bring ordinary matter to life!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 01 Mar 2012
Rock of Ages A rock-solid combination of rock-rolling action, deep strategy, and captivating art and music from different ages of history, this is a game of crush or be crushed!

Price -41% 5.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 07 Sep 2011
From Dust Immerse yourself in a world as exotically beautiful as it is dangerous in this modern God-Game where Nature is the Star!

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 17 Aug 2011
Demolition Company Gold Edition Demolition Company Gold Edition: the complete Demolition Company experience! Includes Demolition Company, the DLC Kit Pack PLUS brand new equipment, new missions and a HUGE new city district 4 times bigger than the old Demolition Company districts!

Price 46.44€
Rating 8.2
Release 04 Aug 2011
LIMBO Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO

Price -78% 2.61€
Rating 9.1
Release 02 Aug 2011
Solar 2 Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.

Price -88% 1.15€
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Jun 2011
Red Faction®: Armageddon™ Red Faction: Armageddon Path to War includes 4 new missions, 2 unlockable items and 10 new achievements!

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 06 Jun 2011
BEEP A combination of platforming with a gravity gun, BEEP is an amazing physics-platformer. Despite its friendly art style, this is a hardcore platformer in the truest sense.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 06 May 2011
Capsized Capsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and exploration. As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and escape with your lives!

Price -96% 0.48€
Rating 7.3
Release 29 Apr 2011
Cargo! The Quest for Gravity Create crazy, yet functional, custom vehicles to solve missions with your own unique style!

Price -96% 0.45€
Rating 7.6
Release 21 Apr 2011
Portal 2 The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.8
Release 18 Apr 2011
NightSky Nominated as a IGF Seamus McNally Finalist, NightSky is an ambient action-puzzle game that offers a gameplay experience unlike any other—cerebral challenges fill uniquely designed picturesque worlds. The player must maneuver a sphere by using realistic physics to advance; each of these worlds is broken into different areas.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 8.4
Release 01 Mar 2011
STAR WARS™: The Force Unleashed™ II The Star Wars® Saga continues with Star Wars®: The Force Unleashed™ II, the highly anticipated sequel to the fastest-selling Star Wars game ever created.

Price 19.50€
Rating 6.3
Release 01 Dec 2010
The Ball As a swashbuckling archaeologist, unlock the mystery of the ancient ruins that have been hidden for centuries and discover a mysterious artifact, a gold and metal shelled Ball.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 7.1
Release 26 Oct 2010
Amnesia: The Dark Descent Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.

Price -96% 0.88€
Rating 9.3
Release 08 Sep 2010
Just Cause 2 Dive into an adrenaline-fuelled free-roaming adventure with 400 square miles of rugged terrain and hundreds of weapons and vehicles.

Price -97% 0.56€
Rating 8.9
Release 23 Mar 2010
STAR WARS™ - The Force Unleashed™ Ultimate Sith Edition A game that will show gamers the deepest, darkest side of the Force in a story that puts them on a collision course with Luke Skywalker himself.

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.4
Release 15 Dec 2009
Gratuitous Space Battles The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.

Price 14.79€
Rating 6.9
Release 16 Nov 2009
Hammerfight Hammerfight is about 2D battles of flying machines equipped with various slashing, piercing and blunt weaponry.A unique combat system is based on realistic physics simulation, and it ties the movements of the rider to the movements of your mouse. As you wave the mouse, your rider swings his warhammer, smashing the foe into the wall!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 28 Oct 2009
Osmos Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax - good things come to those who wait.

Price -98% 0.20€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 Aug 2009
Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge Bad Rats is a physics puzzle game where rats finally get their bloody revenge on their new prisoners: The cats. Come up with creative solutions for each puzzle using physics, functional objects, and your specially trained Rats. Try different ways of solving each puzzle to finish faster or earn higher scores.

Price -80% 0.40€
Rating 7.7
Release 20 Jul 2009
Trine Enchanted Edition Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world of great castles and strange machinery, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.

Price -96% 0.74€
Rating 9.3
Release 02 Jul 2009
Crayon Physics Deluxe Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.

Price -89% 2.00€
Rating 8.2
Release 06 May 2009
And Yet It Moves And Yet It Moves is a puzzle-platformer, set in a unique world, made of ripped paper. Within the paper-collage you can jump, run and last but certainly not least: rotate the world. Learn how to apply the physical consequences of rotation to master the many tricky situations you may encounter.

Price -91% 0.95€
Rating 6.8
Release 02 Apr 2009
World of Goo World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys.

Price -80% 2.57€
Rating 9.1
Release 13 Oct 2008
FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition Ready for the aggressive, adrenaline-filled ride that leaves you breathless? FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition is all about destructive action. With carnage modes like the Deathmatch derby, Carnage Race and Head-on races are pure wreck-filled, adrenaline-pumping rides of maximum mayhem.

Price -80% 7.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 26 Aug 2008
RACE 07 UpdateSimBin Studios expands the hit racing game, RACE 07 with the Andy Priaulx Crowne Plaza Raceway free add-on. Free for owners of RACE 07, this add-on features a brand new island track and new cars from triple World Champion Andy Priaulx in his BMW 320si WTCC and Fabrizio Giovanardi in his Vauxhall Vectra VXR.Real Cars, Real Racing...

Price -58% 3.28€
Rating 8.2
Release 15 Oct 2007
Portal Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.7
Release 10 Oct 2007
Peggle Deluxe Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

Price -80% 0.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 06 Mar 2007
FlatOut Ram through pile-ups and smash through your windshield as you push racing to the edge! FlatOut™ delivers more heart-stopping thrills than any sane driver can handle!

Price -94% 0.42€
Rating 8.9
Release 02 Feb 2007
FlatOut 2 Experience the drive of your life as you throw yourself around on and off the track causing fences to shatter, tyre walls explode, water tanks and barrels fly across the track into other cars.

Price -99% 0.59€
Rating 9.4
Release 21 Dec 2006
Garry's Mod Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.6
Release 29 Nov 2006
Zuma Deluxe Deep in the jungle lie hidden temples bursting with traps and trickery, and it's up to you to uncover their treasures. Fire magical balls from your stone frog idol to make matches of three or more and clear the deadly chain before it reaches the golden skull.

Price -80% 0.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 30 Aug 2006
Xpand Rally Please note as of October 2024, the online features for this game will no longer be supported.Xpand Rally is a breathtaking game that gives you the true to life experience of driving powerful rally cars amidst photorealistic sceneries. Realistic weather effects, rolling hills, and animated scenery all add to game's visual perfection.

Price -92% 0.40€
Rating 7.9
Release 24 Aug 2006
Half-Life 2 Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.7
Release 16 Nov 2004

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