Best Short 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 short games.

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Mythic Wonders: The Philosopher's Stone Find the Philosopher's Stone!

Price -90% 1.50€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Apr 2016
The Average Everyday Adventures of Samantha Browne An interactive story about a painfully introverted college student who must find a way to make some oatmeal in the communal kitchen of her dorm. One simple task, can you help her complete it?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 18 Apr 2016
Deer Man Deer Man is a short Interactive Storytelling experience. You play as Jacob's memory, where you will have an incredible encounter with Deer Man & the dark side of his love for the wildlife. If you love animals, this is for you!

Price 0.79€
Rating 6.8
Release 15 Apr 2016
Zenge Relaxing puzzle game, telling the story of Eon through gorgeous art and music.

Price -50% 0.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 12 Apr 2016
Dear RED - Extended Dear Red is a game based on two choices: Truth or Lie. Each of your choices will lead to a different result.

Price -87% 0.40€
Rating 6.3
Release 12 Apr 2016
Antenna A machine ponders its loneliness. It scans the radio spectrum for an answer to its question.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 07 Apr 2016
1979 Revolution: Black Friday 1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.3
Release 04 Apr 2016
Christmas Adventure: Candy Storm Chtistmas Adventure: Candy Storm – is a funny Christmas Hidden Object game with puzzles and mini-games of varying difficulty.

Price -65% 0.69€
Rating 8.4
Release 01 Apr 2016
The Deer "The Deer" is an educational inter­ac­tive expe­ri­ence for children. You'll be an ancient Deer during the Pleistocene (Ice Age) epoch and you'll discover everything about this marvelous era. Unfortunately there were no T-Rex during this age since they were already extinct millions of years before.

Price -46% 0.49€
Rating 6.1
Release 28 Mar 2016
LostWinds Wield the awesome powers of Enril the wind spirit to guide and protect young Toku through this unique platform adventure.

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 7.7
Release 24 Mar 2016
Paws - A Shelter 2 Game Traverse a vast world as a young lynx cub. Paws – A Shelter 2 Game is a standalone, single player, adventure game with loss and friendship as its central themes. Venture out in the world and make your way home.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Mar 2016
Helen's Mysterious Castle A young girl with a hidden past sets off on an epic and mysterious journey in hope of learning more about her own origins in this beautifully rendered, classic-style RPG adventure.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Mar 2016
Out There Somewhere You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.

Price -89% 1.16€
Rating 9.0
Release 14 Mar 2016
The Guest 'The Guest' is a gloomy adventure full of enigmas where the exploration of your surroundings comes to prominence; puzzles, secrets and riddles will help you discover who has locked you in this somber hotel room and most importantly, why.

Price -91% 0.97€
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Mar 2016
Woodle Tree Adventures Woodle Tree Adventures is an old school platform game with a catchy and unique art style! Explore a total of 6 worlds and save the lands with the magical water drops you'll find through your journey, bringing back peace and balance and finally becoming the new hero!

Price -83% 0.67€
Rating 6.6
Release 02 Mar 2016
SUPERHOT SUPERHOT is the smash-hit FPS where time moves only when you move. No regenerating health bars. No conveniently placed ammo drops. It's you, alone, outnumbered and outgunned. Snatch weapons from fallen enemies to shoot, slice and dodge through a truly cinematic hurricane of slow-motion bullets.

Price -97% 0.76€
Rating 9.0
Release 25 Feb 2016
Prospekt Prospekt begins in the Nova Prospekt prison in the Half-Life universe. Gordon Freeman is slowly being overrun by soldiers in the prison, however unknown to him, his Vortigaunt allies manage to find some help from a forgotten hero.

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.1
Release 18 Feb 2016
Layers of Fear (2016) A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.

Price -86% 2.94€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Feb 2016
Firewatch Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.9
Release 09 Feb 2016
It's Spring Again "It's Spring Again" - an educational game for children ages two and up. It uses game mechanics to teach children about the seasons.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 02 Feb 2016
Rusty Lake Hotel Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.

Price -68% 0.64€
Rating 9.3
Release 29 Jan 2016
Defunct Defunct is an indie adventure game with a focus on flow, speed and an engaging world. You are a broken robot that accidentally falls out of a giant cargo ship onto a post-human Earth, now inhabited by robots. You have to get back to your ship before it’s too late!

Price -94% 0.42€
Rating 7.6
Release 29 Jan 2016
Oxenfree Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.

Price -56% 4.30€
Rating 8.9
Release 14 Jan 2016
Frosty Kiss It's been a year since Semyon returned from "Sovyonok" and met the girls from the camp in the real world. But it's New Year at hand! And it needs to be celebrated!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 08 Jan 2016
The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns A short lesbian / yuri visual novel set in England. Our heroine, Toma Andrews, meets a ghost girl wearing an old-fashioned nightgown in a graveyard who calls herself Emmeline. Just who is she, and how did she die?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Jan 2016
Pony Island Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.

Price -61% 1.98€
Rating 9.3
Release 04 Jan 2016
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 01 Jan 2016
Space Pilgrim Episode I: Alpha Centauri Captain Gail Pilgrim has been flying starships since she was a kid, ferrying passengers between planets and space stations across the galaxy. She has no reason to expect that this latest trip to Alpha Centauri will be anything special, even if her passengers are a little more diverse than usual....

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Dec 2015
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist A 15 minute heist game by Crows Crows Crows & Directed by William Pugh (The Stanley Parable). Slip into the soft-soled shoes of the mastermind responsible for the greatest heist- oh god I can’t do this any more, i’m joining the strike. good luck writing the steam description. -tina

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 04 Dec 2015
The Last Dream: Developer's Edition “Reality and dreams are about to become entwined…..” The Last Dream: Developer's Edition" is a casual adventure game which, despite having some classic casual elements, will also offer a greater challenge for more experienced gamers.

Price 7.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 03 Dec 2015
Carpe Diem Seize the day

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 30 Nov 2015
BAD END It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.

Price -84% 0.96€
Rating 7.8
Release 25 Nov 2015
Emily is Away Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 20 Nov 2015
Tick Tock Isle Strike is inadvertently transported into the past while attempting to repair a mysterious, abandoned clock tower.  Endeavoring to return to the future, Strike must fix both the time machine and the island’s dysfunctional family who are responsible for much of the clock’s disrepair.

Price -39% 0.61€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Nov 2015
hocus perspective illusion puzzle based on M.C. Escher drawings and impossible shapes

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 18 Nov 2015
Pink Heaven A certain office lady is back!!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 03 Nov 2015

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