Best Walking Simulator 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 walking simulator games.

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SEPTEMBER 1999 A free, VHS styled, first-person found footage horror game, which runs exactly for 5 minutes and 30 seconds.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 10 Oct 2018
CINERIS SOMNIA "I hope that someday, you'll dream of me." -- CINERIS SOMNIA is a 3D adventure through a beautifully strange and mesmerizing world - and a young girl's cruel and forlorn dreams.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.1
Release 09 Oct 2018
Life is Strange 2 After a tragic incident, brothers Sean and Daniel Diaz run away from home. Fearing the police, and dealing with Daniel's new telekinetic power, the boys head to Mexico. Each stop on their journey brings new friends and new challenges.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 26 Sep 2018
The Gardens Between The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.

Price -75% 4.30€
Rating 9.0
Release 19 Sep 2018
Transference™ Imagine an escape room set in a deranged mind. Experience a first-person exploration game in a chilling new dimension. Shift between three perspectives of a family and unravel the mystery hiding in this mind-bending psychological thriller.

Price 24.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 18 Sep 2018
Virtual Virtual Reality A game about VR, AI, and our collective sci-fi fever dreams. In a future where AI has transformed society, can humans still find purpose? Find out with Activitude, a service that lets humans aid AI clients in increasingly curious ways.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.6
Release 07 Sep 2018
Paratopic Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.

Price -87% 0.73€
Rating 7.2
Release 06 Sep 2018
Bean Battles A unique take on the popular genre of battle royales. Multiple fast pace rounds that rewards kills just as much as being the last alive. Team up, take revenge, and be the last bean standing.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 9.1
Release 22 Aug 2018
ShadowSide ShadowSide is a First Person Exploration game. A policeman Alex Carter has been watching over the tranquility in the town for many years. He protects the people from robbery and crime. Nothing but a routine.

Price -73% 2.72€
Rating 6.1
Release 17 Aug 2018
Depression The Game Depression The Game is an interactive game simulating major depression. You are joining a young man on one of his really bad days trying to handle his thoughts and survive that day... Will he?

Price 2.00€
Rating 6.6
Release 07 Jul 2018
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
Gray Dawn Embark on a terrifying adventure of a priest accused of murdering an altar boy. Gray Dawn is a psychological thriller infused with religious elements and combines story-driven quests with an artistic experience.

Price -72% 4.78€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Jun 2018
Shape of the World A serene first person exploration game in a surreal, organic world that reacts to your presence. Journey through a psychedelically colorful ecosystem of flourishing flora, rambling waterfalls, burgeoning mountains, glowing monoliths and graceful creatures. A 1-3 hour escape from work, anxiety and stress.

Price -97% 0.42€
Rating 7.4
Release 05 Jun 2018
Marie's Room Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 13 Apr 2018
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR A true, full-length open-world game for VR has arrived from Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim VR reimagines the complete epic fantasy masterpiece with an unparalleled sense of scale, depth, and immersion. Skyrim VR also includes all official add-ons.

Price -84% 9.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 02 Apr 2018
The Flood The Flood is a peaceful 5 minute narrative experience in which you pilot a little boat down a river. It's a gentle reminder that sometimes we should stop worrying about our destination and just enjoy the journey.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 30 Mar 2018
Keep in Mind: Remastered Keep in Mind follows Jonas, a man haunted by alcoholism, depression, and grief. One night, he awakens to a shadowy mirror world where beasts lurk and stars don't shine. Lost and scared, Jonas must face the twisted beasts if he ever wishes to return home and learn the truth about his darkness.

Price -80% 0.40€
Rating 7.2
Release 08 Mar 2018
Rise of Insanity In Rise of Insanity, as a doctor of psychology you will explore the darkest recesses of the human mind. Overcome your fear to find the truth behind the tragedy that has befallen your family.

Price -79% 2.10€
Rating 7.6
Release 01 Mar 2018
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.

Price -98% 0.48€
Rating 7.3
Release 28 Feb 2018
The Station The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Feb 2018
Salt Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.

Price -82% 2.75€
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Feb 2018
Yume Nikki This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 09 Jan 2018
AER Memories of Old Transform into a bird and fly to explore and experience a vibrant world of floating islands in the sky. Venture down into lost ancient ruins where each step leads you closer to the end of the world.

Price -90% 1.49€
Rating 8.3
Release 25 Oct 2017
A Mortician's Tale A Mortician's Tale is a short, story-driven game about a mortician tasked with running a funeral home.

Price -94% 0.50€
Rating 6.9
Release 18 Oct 2017
The Norwood Suite Explore the mysterious Hotel Norwood in this surreal first-person adventure. Curious characters, forgotten secrets, and head-nodding music await your arrival.

Price -94% 0.64€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Oct 2017
The Painscreek Killings Investigate an infamous cold case in the eerie, abandoned town of Painscreek. Search for evidence, connect the dots and uncover who killed Vivian Roberts. Can you expose the truth behind this town’s dark secrets?

Price -77% 4.79€
Rating 8.8
Release 27 Sep 2017
Home Sweet Home Home Sweet Home is a first-person horror adventure game based on Thai myths and beliefs. The core gameplay focuses on storytelling and stealth to avoid perilous spirits hunting you. Moreover, few puzzles are added into the game, making gameplay more various.

Price -31% 10.94€
Rating 8.4
Release 26 Sep 2017
Caligo Caligo is the darkness everyone descends into one way or another, and to each of us it's something different. For some it's a short but exciting adventure, some will see it as a place to relax. Yet others will be reminded of their worst nightmare, while for a few, it might come as a revelation.

Price 6.15€
Rating 7.2
Release 22 Sep 2017
ECHO After a century in stasis the girl En arrives at her destination: A Palace out of legend. Out here, using forgotten technologies, she hopes to bring back a life that shouldn’t have been lost. But nothing could prepare her for what she’ll face in the ancient halls below.

Price -96% 0.95€
Rating 7.4
Release 19 Sep 2017
The First Tree A beautiful, 3rd-person exploration game centered around two parallel stories: a fox trying to find her missing family, and a son reconnecting with his estranged father in Alaska. Uncover artifacts from the son's life as he becomes intertwined in the fox’s journey towards The First Tree.

Price -79% 2.09€
Rating 7.4
Release 14 Sep 2017
The Land of Pain Something strange appears in the woods. Lost in a dark and unknown place, survive an unrelenting enemy, solve puzzles, and uncover the ancient mystery that’s befallen this land in this Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror adventure.

Price -68% 3.89€
Rating 7.2
Release 13 Sep 2017
Don't Knock Twice Don't Knock Twice is a first-person horror game based on a psychologically terrifying urban legend. One knock to wake her from her bed, twice to raise her from the dead. Supports VR on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift for the ultimate horror experience!

Price -89% 2.30€
Rating 6.9
Release 05 Sep 2017
Last Day of June A deep, interactive adventure about love and loss, beautifully depicted and offering an intense cinematic experience. What would you do to save the one you love?

Price -98% 0.44€
Rating 8.4
Release 31 Aug 2017
Life is Strange: Before the Storm Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.

Price -33% 11.52€
Rating 9.2
Release 31 Aug 2017
The Trail: Frontier Challenge Are you ready to discover the undiscovered? Are you ready to climb the tallest mountains, wear the finest clothes, and earn a fortune beyond compare? Then welcome to the New World! Welcome to The Trail: Frontier Challenge!

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 15 Aug 2017
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness. Set in the Viking age, a broken Celtic warrior embarks on a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of her dead lover.

Price -86% 4.26€
Rating 8.9
Release 07 Aug 2017

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