Best Short 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 short games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Short games on Steam.

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Frightened Beetles Something terrible happened in the forest! Someone frightened all Bugs! What happened? You are the only one who can find it out!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 11 May 2018
Rogue Agent Rogue Agent is a turn-based strategy game, fast-paced, that pits the player against the computer on a secret service thriller around the world.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 29 Apr 2018
Doodle Date Romance, seduce, and even marry your own drawings! Forget about finding true love; In Doodle Date, you create it!

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 19 Apr 2018
Marie's Room Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 13 Apr 2018
Zen Chess: Mate in One Zen Chess: Mate in One is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-one problems in a beautifully designed chess board.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 10 Apr 2018
Minit Minit is a peculiar little adventure played sixty seconds at a time.

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 8.6
Release 03 Apr 2018
The Flood The Flood is a peaceful 5 minute narrative experience in which you pilot a little boat down a river. It's a gentle reminder that sometimes we should stop worrying about our destination and just enjoy the journey.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 30 Mar 2018
Hidden Paws It's winter and cats are still outside. Cold and alone. Find them and bring them home. Now includes free Christmas Isles. Enjoy!

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Mar 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 -80% 0.40€
Rating 7.2
Release 08 Mar 2018
Creature Romances: Kokonoe Kokoro A short love story with a twist: the love of your life is 50% human, and 50% grasshopper.

Price -17% 2.51€
Rating 7.2
Release 02 Mar 2018
Meteor 60 Seconds! Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game that simulates your life if there were a meteor heading towards Earth and you had 60 seconds to live. Do anything you want to do with your last 60 seconds, even if it's illegal! What about planting an apple tree?

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 26 Feb 2018
Zup! 8 Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 22 Feb 2018
OH MY GOD, LOOK AT THIS KNIGHT Grab your shiny helmet and trusty sword, gather all the valor and honor you have, and show everyone, what being the true knight actually means!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 20 Feb 2018
The Station The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Feb 2018
Speed Dating for Ghosts Branching dialogue! Hard choices! A cemetery's worth of phantoms, wraiths, and poltergeists lookin' for love in all the blight places.

Price 5.69€
Rating 8.9
Release 13 Feb 2018
Robin Robin is a short slice of life game that was made to give some visibility to an invisible illness - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 08 Feb 2018
Indecision. A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.

Price -87% 0.40€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Feb 2018
MEANDERS MEANDERS is a sparkling adventure through a series of funny and relaxing challenges in a colourful setting.

Price 2.39€
Rating 8.5
Release 07 Feb 2018
Play With Me: Escape Room See how a game created by the very Jigsaw would look like! Use the available objects, outwit tricky illusions and optical puzzles and above all, answer the question – will you dare to Play with Me?

Price 2.99€
Rating 6.1
Release 17 Jan 2018
A Raven Monologue A Raven Monologue is a short experimental silent story about a raven that does not know how to croak and his relationship with the people in the town.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 11 Jan 2018
Banyu Lintar Angin - Little Storm - Banyu Lintar Angin is a series of experimental illustrations about three siblings, living together independently in a rural Indonesian environment.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 11 Jan 2018
Sprout Embark on a casual, botanical-puzzle-adventure. Make friends, learn new skills, solve puzzles, and become the mighty oak that you were always meant to be.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 05 Jan 2018
Gorogoa Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Winner of Debut Game at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards, as well as Best Mobile Game and the Innovation Award at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards.

Price -72% 4.05€
Rating 9.5
Release 14 Dec 2017
Loot Box Quest The spiritual successor to DLC Quest! Earn that sense of pride and accomplishment in the way that only repetitive clicking can deliver. It's a clicker game, so chill out, have a few chuckles, and watch numbers get bigger while the industry burns around us all.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 13 Dec 2017