Best Singleplayer Steam Games on Sale

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated singleplayer games.

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Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts The next chapter in the #1 rated RTS franchise thrusts players into a hellish war torn landscape to command two battle-hardened armies in relentless campaigns for honor and country. Players lead the tenacious British 2nd Army during the heroic World War II liberation of Caen, France, and command the German Panzer Elite as they struggle...

Price -82% 3.35€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 Sep 2007
Return to Castle Wolfenstein World War II rages and nations fall. The Nazis are twisting science and the occult into an army capable of annihilating the Allies once and for all. As US Army Ranger William “B.J.” Blazkowicz, pierce the black heart of the Third Reich and stop them...or die trying.

Price -63% 1.86€
Rating 9.0
Release 03 Aug 2007
Quake II You are humanity’s last hope to stop the Strogg, a hostile alien race waging war against Earth. Play this military sci-fi FPS, now upgraded for modern platforms with improved visuals, new campaign content, online multiplayer/co-op, and more.

Price -95% 0.58€
Rating 9.3
Release 03 Aug 2007
Quake Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.

Price -75% 2.59€
Rating 9.4
Release 03 Aug 2007
Wolfenstein 3D World War II rages. The Nazis are planning to build an unstoppable, mutant army. On a mission to steal the secret plans, you were captured and imprisoned. Now, a lucky break gives you the chance to escape, but a maze of passages and trigger-happy Nazis stand in your way.

Price -88% 0.64€
Rating 9.0
Release 03 Aug 2007
Quake III Arena The greatest warriors of all time and space have been summoned to battle for the amusement of an ancient alien race. Wield a variety of guns and power-ups as you fight for glory against ruthless combatants in this fast-paced single-player and multiplayer FPS.

Price -63% 5.61€
Rating 9.2
Release 03 Aug 2007
Nexus - The Jupiter Incident Ambitious megacorporations monopolize the conquest of space and the colonization of the solar system. At the very edge of the solar system, the companies make a discovery that will shift the technological advantage and upset the balance. And so a new conflict is born: "The Jupiter Incident."

Price -91% 0.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 03 Jul 2007
Tomb Raider: Anniversary Tomb Raider: Anniversary retraces Lara Croft's original genre-defining adventure — globe-trotting 3rd person action-adventure in pursuit of the legendary Scion artifact. Using an enhanced 'Tomb Raider: Legend' game engine, the graphics, technology and physics bring Lara's adventure and pursuit of a mystical artifact known only as the...

Price -94% 0.59€
Rating 8.0
Release 05 Jun 2007
X-COM: Terror From the Deep The war continues... X-COM: UFO Defense brought you to a galactic battlefield. X-COM: Terror from the Deep brings the alien terror into a totally new dimension.Seeking to take advantage of a weakened Earth, X-COM's deep space foes unexpectedly change strategy and launch a powerful second front against planet Earth.

Price -91% 0.46€
Rating 8.6
Release 04 May 2007
Railroad Tycoon II Platinum Includes Railroad Tycoon II and the expansion The Second Century It can take you from New York to South Africa. It can take you from the year 1804 to the year 2000. It can take you from penniless manual laborer to powerful multi-millionaire.

Price -89% 0.57€
Rating 8.5
Release 04 May 2007
Railroad Tycoon 3 Railroad Tycoon 3 features 25 scenarios challenging players to recreate magnificent feats of railroading history from around the world. Players can lay track (including tunnels and overpasses), pick from over 40 locomotives from early steams to modern bullets, choose to haul over 35 types of cargo in a dynamic economy, and participate in...

Price -97% 0.39€
Rating 7.4
Release 04 May 2007
Sid Meier's Railroads! Sid Meier's Railroads! marks the return of the watershed title in simulation/strategy gaming that launched the popular "tycoon" genre, and inspired a new generation of games. Sid Meier's Railroads!

Price -93% 0.74€
Rating 6.9
Release 04 May 2007
The Longest Journey The Longest Journey is an amazing graphical adventure, where the player controls the protagonist, April Ryan, on her journey between parallel universes.

Price -79% 2.18€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 May 2007
CivCity: Rome CivCity: Rome, an innovative city builder inspired by the world of Sid Meiers Civilization, and created by a collaboration between Firefly Studios and Firaxis Games, invites players to shift focus from building a multi-city empire and zoom-in on the great cities of the Roman Empire, culminating in Rome itself!

Price -97% 0.31€
Rating 7.0
Release 06 Apr 2007
Arx Fatalis This critically acclaimed first-person RPG from Arkane Studios takes the player on an amazing journey into the fantasy world of Arx. Arx is wrought with turmoil, brought to the brink of destruction by a violent war.

Price -85% 0.76€
Rating 8.4
Release 03 Apr 2007
Rogue Trooper Nu Earth: a poisoned planet where endless war rages between the Norts and the Southers. A futile struggle on a hostile planet with no end in sight. But there are tales of a lone warrior. A man who knows no allegiance, the Rogue Trooper!

Price -78% 2.23€
Rating 8.8
Release 29 Mar 2007
Project: Snowblind Experience the dramatic intensity of the frontlines of a war through the eyes of the first of a new breed of super soldiers in this gritty and epic first-person action game. An augmented super-soldier must stop a renegade regime from eradicating the civilized world. Hong Kong, 2065. 2nd Lt.

Price -85% 0.89€
Rating 7.2
Release 29 Mar 2007
Tomb Raider: Legend Follow Lara Croft down a path of discovery as she travels the globe to remote, exotic locales in search of one of history's greatest artifacts, that unleashes unwelcome figures from Lara's mysterious past.

Price -91% 0.63€
Rating 8.5
Release 29 Mar 2007
Thief: Deadly Shadows You are Garrett, the master thief. Rarely seen and never caught, Garrett is the best that ever was. Able to sneak past any guard, pick any lock, and break into the most ingeniously secured residences. Garrett steals from the wealthy and gives to himself, making his living in the dark and foreboding City.

Price -78% 1.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 29 Mar 2007
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.

Price -36% 4.50€
Rating 9.2
Release 29 Mar 2007
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.

Price -50% 9.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 22 Mar 2007
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl tells a story about survival in the Zone – a very dangerous place, where you fear not only the radiation, anomalies and deadly creatures, but other S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who have their own goals and wishes.

Price -48% 10.46€
Rating 9.3
Release 20 Mar 2007
Hitman: Codename 47 As the enigmatic Hitman, you must use stealth and tactical problem solving to enter, execute and exit your assignment with minimum attention and maximum effectiveness. For a price, you have access to the most devious devices, but how you use them will determine if you retire as a millionaire or get permanently retired.

Price -89% 0.89€
Rating 7.0
Release 15 Mar 2007
Just Cause Your world...Your rules!

Price -93% 0.52€
Rating 6.5
Release 15 Mar 2007
Battlestations: Midway Battlestations: Midway is an immense action game that drops players into massive air, sea, and undersea battles from Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway.

Price -86% 0.97€
Rating 7.4
Release 15 Mar 2007
Hitman: Blood Money Money Talks. Silence Pays. Prepare to Make a Killing. When assassins from Agent 47's contract agency, The ICA, are eliminated in a series of hits, it seems a larger, more powerful agency has entered the fray. Sensing he may be a target, 47 travels to America, and prepares to make a killing.

Price -90% 1.07€
Rating 9.2
Release 15 Mar 2007
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin Enter the realm of a retired assassin, forced back into action by treason. You may be a hired killer but you still have a sense of loyalty and justice. Visit the dark recesses of a world corrupted by crime, greed, degradation and dishonor. And a past that catches up with you.

Price -96% 0.41€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Mar 2007
Commandos 2: Men of Courage Commandos 2: Men of Courage is a tactical action/strategy game set against the backdrop of World War II. Take control of an elite group of commandos who must venture deep into enemy territory and utilize their combined expertise to complete a series of mission-based objectives.

Price -84% 0.84€
Rating 8.3
Release 15 Mar 2007
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines is a real-time tactics game set in World War II that puts you in command of a small squad of elite troopers. Send them behind enemy lines on a series of hazardous missions, and bring them back alive.

Price -89% 0.55€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Mar 2007
Runaway, A Road Adventure New York, 2000......Without knowing how or why, Brian, a student on the verge of graduating from college, is attacked by Mafia gangsters. During his desperate getaway, in the company of a mysterious striptease dancer, he ends up meeting a wide range of unusual characters.

Price -70% 1.53€
Rating 7.3
Release 14 Mar 2007
Making History: The Calm & the Storm <p>Making History® delivers the open-ended gameplay of strategy-game classics, but with compelling new economic, military, and diplomatic systems and deep research that lets you play with real historical challenges.

Price -84% 0.67€
Rating 7.5
Release 13 Mar 2007
FlatOut Ram through pile-ups and smash through your windshield as you push racing to the edge! FlatOut™ delivers more heart-stopping thrills than any sane driver can handle!

Price -91% 0.66€
Rating 8.9
Release 02 Feb 2007
Painkiller: Black Edition Painkiller Black Edition includes the expansion pack Battle Out of Hell, featuring 10 additional single-player levels and many new villains.

Price -85% 1.53€
Rating 8.5
Release 24 Jan 2007
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, winner of multiple E3 awards as the best game in its genre, is the continuation of a saga that began in the award-winning The Longest Journey, considered to be one of the finest adventure games ever made.

Price -65% 7.05€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Jan 2007
Ghost Master® Grim spectres, howling banshees, and sly gremlins are yours to command as you unleash ghastly spirits on the town of Gravenville and scare the wits out of its citizens. In the world of the Ghost Master, spooks do your bidding, as you solve puzzles and unlock mysteries in a challenge that combines the best of strategy, adventure, and...

Price -88% 0.61€
Rating 8.6
Release 21 Dec 2006
FlatOut 2 Experience the drive of your life as you throw yourself around on and off the track causing fences to shatter, tyre walls explode, water tanks and barrels fly across the track into other cars.

Price -91% 0.93€
Rating 9.4
Release 21 Dec 2006

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