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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The Room Syndrome Explore the mysterious room by traversing time, while you watch a man succumb to the room syndrome.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 01 Nov 2019
Grimm's Hollow A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.6
Release 30 Oct 2019
[Chilla's Art] Stigmatized Property | 事故物件 Stigmatized Property, 事故物件 (Jiko bukken) is a horror game inspired by haunted apartment rooms in Japan. These properties are known to have cheap rents and you play to find out the exact reason why.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 25 Oct 2019
The Terrible Old Man Experience a bite-sized slice of Lovecraftian horror in this updated version of our cult freeware point and click adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's classic short story.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 10 Oct 2019
Deliver Us The Moon Deliver Us The Moon is a Sci-Fi thriller set in an apocalyptic near future, where Earth's natural resources are depleted. A lone astronaut is sent to the moon on a critical mission to save humanity from extinction.

Price -97% 0.83€
Rating 8.6
Release 10 Oct 2019
Perspective Perspective is an experimental platformer. The player avatar moves in a 2D space that transforms when the player changes perspective in 3D space. The player needs to use this mechanic navigate the 2D avatar to a goal in order to progress from level to level.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 09 Oct 2019
Pilgrims Pilgrims is a playful adventure game, created by the team behind Machinarium and Samorost. Roam the land as you please and make new friends, share a laugh with your fellow travelers and help them complete their little stories, your way. How many different solutions can you find?

Price -90% 0.74€
Rating 9.3
Release 07 Oct 2019
Nauticrawl A stolen, enigmatic machine is your only way out. It's likely to kill you, but so will the hostile planet you're escaping. Pull levers, hack devices, and puzzle out how to pilot the Nauticrawl to freedom in this unusual atmospheric adventure... or die trying.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 16 Sep 2019
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Price 3.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 05 Sep 2019
Gravitas Gravitas is a short first-person puzzle platforming game that transports you to the Gallery of Refined Gravity. Manipulate gravity and the gallery itself to prove yourself a pupil worthy of the Curator’s masterwork.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.5
Release 23 Aug 2019
ARIDA: Backland's Awakening ARIDA: Backland's Awakening. A story of survival and adventure in the brazilian backlands. Face the drought to explore the more arid regions, gather resources and discover clues about the fate of the young Cícera.

Price -74% 1.82€
Rating 8.2
Release 15 Aug 2019
The Great Perhaps The Great Perhaps is a time travel puzzle game about an astronaut returning to Earth destroyed by natural cataclysms. There, among the ruins he finds an unusual artifact — an old lantern, in the light of which you can see glimpses of another time and travel to the past.

Price -95% 0.57€
Rating 7.6
Release 14 Aug 2019
Roombo: First Blood Roombo: First Blood is a comedic, top-down, stealth-action game about being a robot vacuum cleaner and fending off burglars from your home. A short, experimental game and the first in the JUSTICE SUCKS series.

Price -69% 1.58€
Rating 8.2
Release 07 Aug 2019
Under What? “Under what?” is a short but very capacious story-tale about an old fisherman who suddenly faced the surface of the water. In this story there will be no dragons, the battle of good and evil, and other boring nonsense. But there will be some bad jokes and extraordinary characters.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 05 Aug 2019
A Short Hike Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

Price 6.59€
Rating 9.7
Release 30 Jul 2019
She Sees Red - Interactive Movie She Sees Red is a mature, hard-boiled interactive thriller. When someone is killed inside a nightclub, an experienced detective vows to put the murderer behind bars. Make choices that affect the narrative and experience several different endings in this blood-red interactive movie.

Price -81% 1.31€
Rating 7.5
Release 11 Jul 2019
We Become What We Behold [Fan-Made Port] a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 09 Jul 2019
Zup! 9 Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 24 Jun 2019
198X Part 1 of arcade epic 198X. A coming-of-age story told through multiple games and genres. Experience the thrill of shooting, driving, jumping, fighting and role-playing in 5 full-blown arcade stages – combined with cinematic pixel-art storytelling.

Price -93% 0.76€
Rating 7.3
Release 20 Jun 2019
Conscious Existence - A Journey Within You are gifted every moment with life's most precious achievement: A conscious mind, enabling you to sense and hold within, the universe's boundless beauty - a source of infinite inspiration that fuels your inner space. - C.E. is a linear, stereoscopic 360/VR-video short film experience.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 15 Jun 2019
Shattered Lights Shattered Lights is a VR psychological horror room-scale experience, which focuses on drawing the player into the game with unparalleled immersion.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 11 Jun 2019
Mushroom Cats Mushroom Cats is a kind and sweet game in the point-and-click genre about Mushroom Cats that live on the magical Toadstool.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 10 Jun 2019
Answer Knot A short narrative and exploration game about Zach, June, and a strange phenomenon. You're Zach and, stuck in your home, you will do everything to keep hearing June's voice messages. What is happening out there?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 31 May 2019
Gato Roboto Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.

Price -95% 0.44€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 May 2019