Most Popular Short Games on Steam

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Portal Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.7
Release 10 Oct 2007
Little Nightmares Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.

Price -86% 2.86€
Rating 9.3
Release 27 Apr 2017
A Story About My Uncle A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement is a crucial part of the games core gameplay – focusing on swinging through the world with a grappling hook that gives the player a wonderful sense of speed and...

Price -94% 0.90€
Rating 9.0
Release 28 May 2014
Helltaker Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.6
Release 11 May 2020
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
To the Moon A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.

Price -54% 4.55€
Rating 9.5
Release 07 Sep 2012
LIMBO Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO

Price -82% 2.07€
Rating 9.1
Release 02 Aug 2011
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition From gliders and helicopters to wide-body jets, fly highly detailed and accurate aircraft in the Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition. The world is at your fingertips.

Price -25% 52.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 17 Aug 2020
Five Nights at Freddy's Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds!

Price 3.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 19 Aug 2014
The Stanley Parable The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.

Price -30% 10.37€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Oct 2013
Ryse: Son of Rome “Ryse: Son of Rome” tells the story of Marius Titus, a young Roman soldier who witnesses the murder of his family at the hands of barbarian bandits, then travels with the Roman army to Britannia to seek revenge.

Price -89% 1.12€
Rating 8.5
Release 10 Oct 2014
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 -90% 1.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Feb 2016
The Darkness II An intense first person shooter that delivers a twisted and gripping narrative of tragedy, modern crime drama, and supernatural horror.

Price -97% 1.14€
Rating 9.0
Release 09 Feb 2012
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit Have you ever dreamt of being a superhero? Meet Chris, a creative and imaginative 9 year old boy who escapes reality with fantastical adventures as his alter ego, the Awesome Captain Spirit! Captain Spirit is a free demo set in the Life is Strange universe. Contains links to Life is Strange 2

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 25 Jun 2018
DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.

Price -85% 0.78€
Rating 9.1
Release 21 Oct 2015
Homefront The Rock Map Pack is Now Available! Join the Resistance, stand united and fight for freedom against an overwhelming military force.

Price -95% 1.07€
Rating 6.0
Release 14 Mar 2011
Back to Bed Guide Bob the sleepwalker to the safety of his bed by taking control of his subconscious guardian, Subob. Explore a surreal and hand-painted dream world, avoid dangers and get Bob safely back to bed.

Price -93% 0.39€
Rating 7.8
Release 06 Aug 2014
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons Guide two brothers on an epic fairy tale journey from visionary Swedish film director, Josef Fares and top-tier developer Starbreeze Studios. Control both brothers at once as you experience co-op play in single player mode, like never before.

Price -85% 2.31€
Rating 9.3
Release 03 Sep 2013
Bright Memory: Infinite Bright Memory: Infinite is an all-new lightning-fast fusion of the FPS and action genres, created by FYQD-Studio. Combine a wide variety of skills and abilities to unleash dazzling combo attacks.

Price -95% 0.93€
Rating 9.0
Release 11 Nov 2021
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% 0.83€
Rating 9.0
Release 25 Feb 2016
Unheard - Voices of Crime What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?

Price -60% 2.29€
Rating 9.4
Release 28 Mar 2019
Bright Memory Bright Memory is a lightning-fast fusion of the FPS and action genres, created by one-man development studio FYQD using Unreal Engine. Combine a wide variety of skills and abilities to unleash dazzling combo attacks.

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.9
Release 25 Mar 2020
Transistor Discover the world of Transistor, a sci-fi-themed action RPG from the creators of Bastion.

Price 19.50€
Rating 9.2
Release 20 May 2014
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
Townscaper Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.

Price -86% 0.87€
Rating 9.3
Release 26 Aug 2021
Half-Life: Blue Shift Made by Gearbox Software and originally released in 2001 as an add-on to Half-Life, Blue Shift is a return to the Black Mesa Research Facility in which you play as Barney Calhoun, the security guard sidekick who helped Gordon out of so many sticky situations.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 01 Jun 2001
Mark of the Ninja In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.

Price -95% 5.83€
Rating 9.4
Release
METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES World-renowned Kojima Productions brings the Metal Gear Solid franchise to Steam with METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES. Play as the legendary hero Snake and infiltrate a Cuban military base to rescue the hostages. Can you make it out alive?

Price -55% 9.10€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 Dec 2014
Murdered: Soul Suspect MURDERED: SOUL SUSPECT™ takes players into a whole new realm of mystery where the case is personal and the clues just out of reach, challenging gamers to solve the hardest case of all… their own murder.

Price -96% 0.87€
Rating 8.4
Release 05 Jun 2014
Octodad: Dadliest Catch Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about his life. Octodad's existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan...

Price -79% 2.98€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 Jan 2014
Braid This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.

Price -80% 3.12€
Rating 9.1
Release 10 Apr 2009
F.E.A.R. 3 F.E.A.R. 3 delivers all the hallmarks that define the F.E.A.R. brand: terrifying paranormal experience, frenetic combat and a dramatic storyline.

Price -95% 1.02€
Rating 7.0
Release 21 Jun 2011
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.

Price -95% 1.13€
Rating 6.8
Release 10 Sep 2013
Alan Wake's American Nightmare A thrilling new storyline, hordes of creepy enemies, serious firepower and beautiful Arizona locations, combined with a fun and challenging new game mode!

Price -93% 0.69€
Rating 7.1
Release 22 May 2012
The Way of Life Free Edition The Way of Life makes the player relive the same life's experiences from the point of view of three characters of different ages: an adult, an old man and a child.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 31 May 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 -78% 0.91€
Rating 6.6
Release 02 Mar 2016

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