Best PvE 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 pve games.

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Rising World Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 03 Dec 2014
Gems of War - Puzzle RPG Gems of War is a Match-3 RPG from the original creators of Puzzle Quest! Start your RPG journey and fight puzzle battles through hundreds of quests, or build your army of troops and go to war in strategic PVP match-3 combat!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 20 Nov 2014
Pox Nora Delve into classic turn-based strategy gaming with elements of table top miniatures, fantasy RPG and TCG style gameplay all wrapped into one.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 15 Oct 2014
Hazard Ops Ready for the next generation of 3rd person shooters? Hazard Ops has zombies, monsters, robots, dinosaurs, mechs - pretty much anything you can point a gun at. Sink your teeth into this action-packed online shooter!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 08 Oct 2014
Counter-Strike Nexon Counter-Strike Nexon is a Free to Play MMOFPS offering competitive PvP and PvE action including content from the original Counter-Strike and all new game modes, map creation function, weapons, and hordes of Zombies!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 07 Oct 2014
SPACECOM SPACECOM – a strategic-to-the-bone, starfleet command game in which deception, smart movement, and choices to battle decide victory or defeat.

Price -95% 0.59€
Rating 6.6
Release 17 Sep 2014
Super Time Force Ultra Super Time Force Ultra is an insane platformer filled with robots and dinosaurs and fun and time travel... sometimes all at the same time!

Price -95% 0.67€
Rating 8.4
Release 25 Aug 2014
Knightmare Tower Break through ceilings, rescue princesses and escape boiling lava as you slash your way to the top of the Knightmare Tower!

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 16 Jun 2014
Fistful of Frags Multiplayer based, first person enabled, action packed and skill demanding shooter set in the Wild West times. A unique combination of non stop action and slow but powerful weaponry.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 09 May 2014
Dead Man's Draw Dead Man’s Draw is a simple and strategic game of luck and skill that boils down strategy gameplay into a single, tense decision.

Price -92% 0.52€
Rating 7.9
Release 06 Feb 2014
MARVEL Puzzle Quest Collect Marvel characters and upgrade your unstoppable squad in this epic Super Hero Puzzle RPG! Fight on the tactical Match-3 board where every move is crucial, and master head-to-head PvP tournaments alongside high-stakes events all year round!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 05 Dec 2013
Neverwinter Neverwinter is a free, action MMORPG based on the acclaimed Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game. Epic stories, action combat and classic roleplaying await those heroes courageous enough to enter the fantastic world of Neverwinter!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 05 Dec 2013
Panzar PANZAR is a fantasy multiplayer third-person shooter. You get to choose from eight unique character classes, team-based PvP battles, exciting PvE adventures and regular tournaments with real prizes. Advanced RPG elements, the non-target combat system and the most modern graphics by CryEngine 3 will make your combat experience...

Price Free to play
Rating 6.5
Release 25 Nov 2013
Contagion Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.

Price -89% 0.92€
Rating 7.2
Release 25 Oct 2013
FORCED: Slightly Better Edition FORCED is a challenging 1-4-player game with co-op at its heart! A mix of tactical arcade action, RPG elements and puzzles will forge you and your friends together. As slaves in the toughest gladiator school of them all, you will face a plethora of unique trials - designed to be your death!

Price 13.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 24 Oct 2013
PAYDAY 2 PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew - Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains - as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.

Price -74% 2.66€
Rating 8.9
Release 13 Aug 2013
Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes Fallen Enchantress is 4X strategy game from the makers of Sins of a Solar Empire and Galactic Civilizations. Build a civilization in the magical world of Elemental. Recruit heroes, train armies, build cities, forge alliances and save the world in this rich world where it's never the same game twice.

Price -98% 0.55€
Rating 7.2
Release 22 May 2013
Super Sanctum TD Super Sanctum TD is a retro-styled Tower Defense game that focuses on strategy, customization and replayability. Build advanced mazes and construct powerful towers to prevent alien hordes from reaching the Core!

Price -90% 0.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 09 May 2013
Warframe Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 25 Mar 2013
Star Conflict Star Conflict is an action-packed, massively multiplayer space simulation game that puts players in the role of elite pilots engaging in a widespread interplanetary skirmish. The whole world for PVP and PVE!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 27 Feb 2013
Age of Conan: Unchained Age of Conan: Unchained is an award-winning and critically acclaimed massively multiplayer online game set in the sexy, savage and brutal world of Conan the Barbarian. Tread in the footsteps of the greatest fantasy hero of all time, and explore the vast reaches of Hyboria.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 22 Feb 2013
MapleStory Join over 260 million players worldwide in MapleStory, the world’s biggest 2D MMORPG adventure! Play now for free.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.2
Release 09 Aug 2012
Dynamite Jack A brave space marine, armed with only bombs and a flashlight, must escape the Anathema Mines!

Price -95% 0.50€
Rating 8.0
Release 10 May 2012
Star Trek Online In Star Trek Online, the Star Trek universe appears for the first time on a truly massive scale. Players take the captain's chair as they command their own starship and crew. Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 31 Jan 2012
Demigod Set in a magical world where gods walk among mortals, Demigod blends action, strategy and role-playing elements into a thrilling new experience.

Price -71% 2.77€
Rating 7.2
Release 14 Dec 2011
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity® In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.

Price -94% 0.61€
Rating 7.4
Release 16 Nov 2011
Dungeon Defenders Create a hero from one of four classes to save Etheria in this 4-player coop Tower Defense Action-RPG. Includes Steam exclusive Portal gun & TF2 familiars!

Price -80% 2.95€
Rating 9.1
Release 18 Oct 2011
Champions Online Grab your cape and defend Millennium City in this comic book-style action MMORPG! Design your hero and costume from thousands of costume pieces, face super-villains like Dr. Destroyer, and create your own unique nemesis.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 14 Jun 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
Alien Swarm Co-operative multiplayer game and complete code base available for free.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 19 Jul 2010
Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded This is the unique alloy of arcade action and RPG elements which combines well-established world of classical games and unmatched dynamics of the first part.

Price -85% 0.78€
Rating 8.8
Release 27 May 2009
Shadowgrounds Shadowgrounds breathes fresh air into the action genre with explosive combat sequences, an innovative weapon upgrade system, and an intriguing storyline. The adrenaline-pumping, top-down gameplay and audiovisual fireworks set the scene for this new action experience which also includes single computer (split keyboard or joystick) co-op...

Price -92% 0.44€
Rating 7.8
Release 08 May 2006
Darwinia Darwinia blends real-time strategy, action, and puzzles with a unique gesture-based control system. Save the Darwinians, battle viruses, and restore order in a retro-inspired digital world. Winner of multiple prestigious  awards, including the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at IGF 2006.

Price -88% 1.49€
Rating 7.6
Release 01 Dec 2005

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