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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Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders
Crash over and over until you master the mountain in the snowy followup to Lonely Mountains: Downhill. Now also including 2-8 person crossplatform multiplayer - work your way down the slopes together as a group, or risk it all in a breakneck race to the base!
MISTERY
A multiplayer game of survival and social deduction. You work with others to collect materials, survive the dangers, and complete tasks. Beware of monsters, but more of the alternates disguising as your teammates. They can change into supernatural monsters and attack you at any time.
Age of Water
Age of Water is an online adventure game set on a post-apocalyptic Earth completely covered in water. Sail through storms, fight and trade, capture other people's boats or build your own, extract resources from the bottom of the ocean and reveal the secrets of the Age of Water world.
Tales of Graces f Remastered
Tales of Graces f is back with a beautiful and easier-to-play version! The game also includes Lineage and Legacies, an after-story to the main scenario!
Arken Age
Arken Age is a VR action-adventure game set in the Bio-Chasm—a terraformed fantasy world created by the Grand Arborist. Engage in full physics combat using Arkenite infused swords & guns—and freely explore the densely filled environments under siege by Hyperion's neural corruption.
Tyrant's Realm
Tyrant's Realm is a roguelite action-adventure inspired by classic PS1 visuals. Explore procedurally generated dark fantasy worlds, battling through dangers that evolve with each run. Death is not the end, as the night is still young.
Age of Darkness: Final Stand
Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.
Endless Alice
Endless Alice is a third-person action-adventure game combining Roguelite elements, anime aesthetics, and endless possibilities. Choose characters with unique combat styles and embark on adventures! Play solo or with friends in cooperative challenges for up to 4 players!
FREEDOM WARS Remastered
Born into a one-million-year prison sentence, you must survive deadly missions to earn any hope of freedom. Die in prison or live on the battlefield. The choice is yours.
Warden's Will
Warden’s Will is a fast-paced movement-based roguelite shooter you can enjoy solo or up to 3 friends. Pick your Warden, try out different builds, and jump into chaotic arenas filled with unpredictable robots. The game challenges you to move smart and react quickly and try new builds with every run.
Sea Fantasy
Save the world by fishing! This is a brand new action RPG game where you stand on an adventure to fish the Sea'Az, the marine life of this world, in a vast pixel world. This is not a peaceful fishing game. The destruction of the world is imminent....
Make Good Choices
You’re just trying to get home. It’s only a quarter mile. One street. What could go wrong.
Royal Quest Online
Fantasy comes alive in this vast yet cozy free-to-play MMORPG! Choose between 4 classes and 8 subclasses, explore hundreds of locations, thousands of quests, dive into varied PvE and PvP modes, enter the unique vibrant world, and trade with other players. Play, explore, fight and be victorious!
Night Shift Nurses
A washed-up mad doctor is hired back by a devious former test subject and asked to twist her hospital into a corrupt donation mill. Will he seize this second chance to practice his own vision of "science," or will his many failings drag him down once again in this pseudo-medical visual novel?
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is a deeply social high fantasy MMORPG that challenges its players and rewards effort. Join the denizens of Terminus to uncover the mysteries of a world divided by Celestial loyalty… and betrayal.
Murky Divers
Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.
Deathless. The Hero Quest
In Deathless, elements of a collectible card game, roguelike, and turn-based strategy combine seamlessly. Build a unique deck of cards, discover unusual relics, and defeat legendary bosses. No two journeys will ever be the same with endless Path. Crush the Evil and save the world!
Clone Drone in the Hyperdome
Cut robots apart in VR. Feel your sword disintegrate their metal bodies. Now you live and die in the Crashloop, a roguelike tournament to the death. Lock swords! Shoot shurikens from your wrist! This is CLONE DRONE... in the HYPERDOME!!!
Wild Woods
Wild Woods is a couch co-op game full of action, teamwork and woodland critters. One to four players take on the role of brave little cats defending their wooden wagon on its way through a dangerous forest. Clever cooperation is key - their way is full of obstacles!
Zort
Zort is an action, adventure, and horror game that can be played with up to 4 people. Explore maps with your friends and have fun while escaping from various creatures. Experience a realistic horror experience with in-game voice chat with your friends!
The Thing: Remastered
The Thing: Remastered is a faithful restoration of the cult-classic 2002 third-person survival horror shooter game inspired by Universal Pictures’ genre-defining 1982 film, The Thing