Best Story Rich 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 story rich games.

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Gemini Rue Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.

Price -92% 0.68€
Rating 8.4
Release 26 Oct 2011
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Anniversary Edition In Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine you are Captain Titus, a Space Marine of the Ultramarines chapter and a seasoned veteran of countless battles.

Price -87% 4.83€
Rating 9.0
Release 05 Sep 2011
Avadon: The Black Fortress Avadon: The Black Fortress is an epic, Indie fantasy role-playing saga. You will serve the keep of Avadon, working as a spy and warrior to fight the enemies of your homeland. As a servant of the Black Fortress, your word is law. Use your power to crush a growing rebellion! (Or join it.)

Price -87% 1.38€
Rating 7.7
Release 17 Aug 2011
Bastion Discover the secrets of the Calamity, a surreal catastrophe that shattered the world to pieces.

Price -85% 2.31€
Rating 9.4
Release 16 Aug 2011
Trauma An elaborate puzzle challenge combined with an unconventional story.

Price -83% 0.42€
Rating 6.6
Release 08 Aug 2011
Puzzle Agent 2 Agent Nelson Tethers just solved his biggest case yet. So why isn't he satisfied? Venture back to eerie Scoggins, Minnesota to solve the mystery of "the Hidden People" once and for all!

Price -82% 0.85€
Rating 8.2
Release 30 Jun 2011
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% 1.03€
Rating 7.0
Release 21 Jun 2011
Still Life Still Life 2 also now available!

Price -89% 0.90€
Rating 7.8
Release 01 Jun 2011
Syberia II Having searched Eastern and Western Europe for a missing heir, Kate Walker finally completed her long and arduous journey, obtaining the signature of Hans Voralberg and closing the automaton factory buyout.

Price -91% 1.21€
Rating 8.3
Release 19 May 2011
Syberia Join Kate Walker as she travels to remote locations and time periods in this timeless voyage to discover her true destiny.

Price -97% 0.50€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 May 2011
The Tiny Bang Story Life on Tiny Planet was calm and carefree until a great disaster occurred - Tiny Planet was hit by a meteor! The world fell apart and now its future depends only on you! Use your imagination and creativity: in order to restore Tiny Planet and help its inhabitants you will have to fix a variety of machines and mechanisms as well as solve...

Price -80% 0.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Apr 2011
Runaway: A Twist of Fate Runaway: A Twist of Fate is the adventure game of the year! Featuring a production worthy of a big 2D animated movie, Runaway follows a story full of twists and turns, and packed with comical highlights. All in all, you will be confronted with more than 200 mysteries and puzzles to keep your brain running through a big adventure that you...

Price -83% 0.87€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Apr 2011
Crysis 2 - Maximum Edition Aliens are decimating New York City, only you have the technology to survive. Be The Weapon.

Price -78% 6.77€
Rating 8.3
Release 22 Mar 2011
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
Two Worlds II HD Check out the new Velvet Edition bundle including both Two Worlds II and Pirates of the Flying Fortress DLC.

Price -99% 0.27€
Rating 6.2
Release 03 Feb 2011
Myst: Masterpiece Edition The classic Myst experience with point and click controls, released as a remaster to the original in 2000. Enter a world where nothing is as it seems... and adventure knows no bounds!

Price -80% 1.18€
Rating 8.1
Release 02 Feb 2011
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD You're the Stranger, a mysterious bounty hunter on a mission to bag the ultimate prize. And you need that money like no one else because there is something very wrong with your health and the only way to fix it is a very costly operation.

Price -94% 0.69€
Rating 8.3
Release 20 Dec 2010
Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition Explore a stunning world, make complex moral choices, and engage in bone-crushing combat against massive and terrifying creatures. The Ultimate Edition includes Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening and all nine content packs.

Price -14% 25.86€
Rating 8.5
Release 26 Oct 2010
Fallout: New Vegas Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

Price -80% 2.04€
Rating 9.5
Release 21 Oct 2010
Medal of Honor™ Fight Today's War: Elite Special Forces in a gritty combat campaign using the surgical tactics of Tier 1 Operators combined with the sledgehammer force of Army Rangers.

Price -58% 8.40€
Rating 7.4
Release 12 Oct 2010
Lost Horizon 1936: Soldiers of the Third Reich roam the world seeking occult weapons for their insane plans of conquest. When Fenton Paddock, a former British soldier and hapless smuggler, is asked to look for his friend Richard, who went missing in Tibet, he has no idea that this search will lead him across three continents to a secret that could...

Price -81% 1.96€
Rating 8.5
Release 24 Sep 2010
Amnesia: The Dark Descent Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.

Price -95% 1.12€
Rating 9.3
Release 08 Sep 2010
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Pure adrenaline of non-stop action in Single Player, Online Co-op and Multiplayer. Double the pleasure and mayhem with new multiplayer DLCs! (click for details)

Price -2% 9.82€
Rating 6.5
Release 17 Aug 2010
Puzzle Agent Created with indie comic artist Graham Annable's unique narrative and visual sensibilities, delivered with the distinctive Telltale storytelling style, Puzzle Agent is sure to challenge, thrill and engage in more ways than you can shake a cryptogram at!

Price -81% 0.88€
Rating 8.5
Release 07 Jul 2010
F.E.A.R. Experience the original F.E.A.R. along with F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.

Price -4% 8.71€
Rating 9.1
Release 21 May 2010
BioShock® 2 Set approximately 10 years after the events of the original BioShock, the halls of Rapture once again echo with sins of the past. Along the Atlantic coastline, a monster has been snatching little girls and bringing them back to the undersea city of Rapture.

Price -85% 2.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 09 Feb 2010
Gothic II: Gold Edition Gothic II: Gold Edition brings together the excitement of Gothic II and the add-on Night of the Raven to your fingertips!

Price -83% 3.50€
Rating 9.1
Release 13 Jan 2010
Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper Recognized as one of the best licenses in gaming and lauded by the press, Sherlock Holmes is back with an investigation that is sure to be the most horrifying of the series. The famous detective stands against the most dangerous serial killer England has ever known - Jack the Ripper.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 7.7
Release 23 Dec 2009
The Void Only brought to life by scarce sparks of Color, the bleak, grey Void is a peculiar place. The player gets to explore it, get to know the Sisters, Brothers, and other weird creatures inhabiting it, and learn the ways of Color, harvesting it and drawing sigils that change the world around them.

Price -95% 0.50€
Rating 7.7
Release 15 Dec 2009
Samorost 2 Samorost 2 tells a surreal story of a space gnome whose dog just got kidnapped by mischievous aliens. Set out on a short expedition to rescue the pup, deal with curious strangers and relax to the soothing music by Tomáš "Floex" Dvořák.

Price -97% 0.16€
Rating 8.3
Release 10 Dec 2009
Gothic® 3 A nameless hero becomes a legend! Myrtana, a world in upheaval: overrun by orcs from the dark lands in the north, King Rhobar is defending Vengard, the former stronghold of the humans, with his last troop of followers.

Price -96% 0.95€
Rating 8.0
Release 02 Dec 2009
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) The most-anticipated game of the year and the sequel to the best-selling first-person action game of all time, Modern Warfare 2 continues the gripping and heart-racing action as players face off against a new threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse.

Price -14% 17.22€
Rating 9.2
Release 11 Nov 2009
SpellForce - Platinum Edition Included in the Platinum Edition are three titles:SpellForce: The Order of DawnIn a world beyond imagination...In their immeasurable greed and constant thirst for power, the thirteen most powerful Mages of all time doomed the land, hurling it into an endless spiral of chaos and despair.

Price -86% 1.42€
Rating 8.4
Release 03 Nov 2009
Machinarium Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!

Price -90% 2.17€
Rating 9.3
Release 16 Oct 2009
Risen Delve into a gritty, raw and atmospheric fantasy world in which every action has a consequence. In the epic world of Risen, filled with mysterious earthquakes, fearsome monsters and unimaginable treasures, forge your path with the sword, learn the art of staff fighting or become a powerful mage.

Price -90% 1.61€
Rating 8.6
Release 02 Oct 2009
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel Tactical Squad-Based Combat comes to the Fallout® Universe! You are the wretched refuse. You may be born from dirt, but we will forge you into steel. You will learn to bend; if not you, will you break. In these dark times, the Brotherhood - your Brotherhood - is all that stands between the rekindled flame of civilization and the howling,...

Price -91% 0.96€
Rating 7.6
Release 19 Aug 2009

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