Best Singleplayer 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 singleplayer games.

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Half Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy The world is at an end, and you have 30 seconds to save it!

Price -82% 1.80€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Sep 2012
ETHER VAPOR Remaster Ether Vapor Remaster is a cinematic 3D arcade shooter and visual treat from developer Edelweiss.

Price -60% 3.19€
Rating 7.2
Release 27 Sep 2012
Castle Crashers Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!

Price -90% 1.19€
Rating 9.5
Release 26 Sep 2012
McPixel McPixel is a save-the-day guy that you guide through 100 short challenges to prevent stuff from blowing up. You have only 20 seconds to save the day! Think quick!

Price -78% 0.87€
Rating 8.1
Release 25 Sep 2012
Dogfight 1942 Piloting a wide range of aircraft, players engage in aerial dogfights and dangerous fighter missions across the major theaters of war during WWII.

Price -92% 0.82€
Rating 7.5
Release 21 Sep 2012
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes Become the greatest detective of all time in The Testament of Sherlock Holmes, a twisting, turning investigation game set in a faithfully-reproduced London of 1898. As Sherlock Holmes, you must find clues, interrogate suspects and unveil a mystery in a story full of twists!

Price -98% 0.47€
Rating 7.7
Release 20 Sep 2012
Torchlight II The adventure continues in Torchlight II! An Action RPG filled with epic battles, bountiful treasure, and a fully randomized world. Bring your friends along for the journey with online and LAN multiplayer.

Price -97% 0.74€
Rating 9.1
Release 20 Sep 2012
Borderlands 2 The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.

Price -98% 0.80€
Rating 9.2
Release 20 Sep 2012
FTL: Faster Than Light This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

Price -89% 1.14€
Rating 9.4
Release 14 Sep 2012
Intrusion 2 "This is some of the most fun I've had with a game so far this year, and it will go down as one of the best side-scrolling shooters of all time." - 9/10, Destructoid

Price -70% 2.39€
Rating 8.5
Release 11 Sep 2012
Critter Crunch Using Critter Crunch's 'Food Chain' mechanic, players will eat their way through a smorgasbord of levels and gorge on a feast of modes, including Co-op and Versus multiplayer.

Price -60% 1.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 11 Sep 2012
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 -80% 1.95€
Rating 9.5
Release 07 Sep 2012
Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition Get Batman: Arkham City and all DLC for one low price with the release of the GOTY Edition!

Price -80% 3.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 07 Sep 2012
Closure In the dark and mysterious world of Closure, only what you see exists. Manipulate lights to phase objects in and out of reality in this multiple-award-winning puzzle game. Play as a strange spider-like demon who explores the stories of three human characters through beautiful, eerie environments such as a decrepit factory, a murky...

Price -94% 0.62€
Rating 8.1
Release 07 Sep 2012
Home Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.

Price -85% 0.74€
Rating 6.5
Release 31 Aug 2012
The Basement Collection A collection of 9 award winning indie games from the creator of "Binding of isaac" and "Super Meat Boy"!

Price -82% 0.72€
Rating 8.2
Release 31 Aug 2012
Super Crate Box Vlambeer's SUPER CRATE BOX is coming to bring back the glory of the golden arcade age, when all that really mattered was getting on that high score list. Grab your baseball cap and loosen your pants, it's time to fight endless hordes of enemies and collect every weapon crate you can.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 29 Aug 2012
They Bleed Pixels They Bleed Pixels is a fiendishly difficult action platformer inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and classic horror.

Price -93% 0.74€
Rating 8.0
Release 29 Aug 2012
STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords 5 years after the events of the award winning original, the Sith are on the verge of crushing the Old Republic. As a lone Jedi, will you follow the light side or succumb to the dark?

Price -74% 2.55€
Rating 9.2
Release 23 Aug 2012
Galaxy on Fire 2 Full HD A hyperdrive malfunction sends Keith T. Maxwell tumbling through space and time to fight for his life against a mysterious alien armada that is wreaking havoc.

Price -75% 1.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 21 Aug 2012
Thirty Flights of Loving This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.

Price -78% 1.13€
Rating 6.2
Release 20 Aug 2012
Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack A sci-fi puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions! Evolve from a tiny captive into a world-eating giant. Use your mutant blob powers to devour the pathetic humans and all of civilization!

Price -85% 1.59€
Rating 8.6
Release 15 Aug 2012
Tower Wars Tower Wars combines elements of tower defense, RTS, and all-out multi-player mayhem to bring you a completely unique experience, delivered with a fun and funny not-so-old world style!

Price -50% 4.07€
Rating 7.0
Release 14 Aug 2012
Iron Brigade Join The Mobile Trench Brigade and protect humanity from the evil Monovision menace!

Price -83% 2.57€
Rating 8.1
Release 13 Aug 2012
English Country Tune English Country Tune is a luxuriant abstract 3D puzzle game containing more than a hundred levels situated throughout 17 worlds.

Price -92% 0.43€
Rating 7.5
Release 09 Aug 2012
Deponia In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.

Price -94% 0.65€
Rating 8.5
Release 06 Aug 2012
Symphony A mysterious entity is absorbing and corrupting your music before your very eyes. You must battle through your own song collection and fight to reclaim your music!

Price -77% 1.16€
Rating 8.0
Release 06 Aug 2012
Death Rally Load your guns, start your engines...THE CLASSIC IS BACK! Brought to you from Remedy, renowned developers of Max Payne and Alan Wake, Remedy's Death Rally classic top down racer is back, stronger and more vicious than ever.

Price -95% 0.54€
Rating 6.8
Release 03 Aug 2012
The Book of Unwritten Tales In a world torn by war, the aged gremlin archaeologist Mortimer MacGuffin harbors the dark secret of a powerful artifact.

Price -96% 0.90€
Rating 8.7
Release 31 Jul 2012
Orcs Must Die! 2 You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.

Price -96% 0.55€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 Jul 2012
Prototype 2 Become the ultimate shape-shifting weapon!

Price -70% 8.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 26 Jul 2012
Resonance When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.

Price -95% 0.76€
Rating 8.4
Release 25 Jul 2012
Kung Fu Strike - The Warrior's Rise Taking its inspiration from ancient Chinese tales of revenge and retribution and then adding a dash of over-the-top martial arts and old school arcade fun, Kung Fu Strike features 28 stages of fast-paced combo-based fighting.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 24 Jul 2012
Hard Reset Extended Edition Over-the-top destruction, loads of enemies & a beautifully realized cyberpunk setting. Hard Reset is here to shake up the shooter scene. Try the demo now.

Price -92% 1.20€
Rating 7.9
Release 12 Jul 2012
Source Filmmaker The Source Filmmaker (SFM) is the movie-making tool built and used by us here at Valve to make movies inside the Source game engine. Because the SFM uses the same assets as the game, anything that exists in the game can be used in the movie, and vice versa.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 10 Jul 2012
Divine Divinity Divine Divinity is an epic role-playing game with hack-and-slash action, offering a huge world to explore and thousands of items to investigate, trade and use.

Price -85% 0.74€
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Jul 2012

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