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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World of Subways 4 – New York Line 7 The series "World of Subways" features some of the most interesting Subway Routes of the world for the PC. Once again World of Subways 4 comes back to New York, perhaps the most exciting city in the world. The whole gaming world takes place in the 70ies/80ies and is created in its typical look.

Price -78% 4.51€
Rating 6.6
Release 23 Mar 2015
Dreaming Sarah Dreaming Sarah is an adventure platformer where you play as Sarah, a girl who is in a coma. Explore the world around her and help her wake up!

Price -86% 0.70€
Rating 8.7
Release 12 Mar 2015
Shelter 2 As a powerful Lynx, you will make your way through vast open landscapes. In the harsh tundra, you will raise and strengthen your cubs by mastering your skills for hunting prey. Do everything you can to prepare your little ones for the vicious entities dwelling in the wilderness.

Price -96% 1.00€
Rating 8.2
Release 09 Mar 2015
Cubicle Quest Cubicle Quest is a game about how life can suck. Dead end jobs, repetitive obligations, irritating coworkers... Cubicle Quest takes all of those things and turns them into enemies you can fight in an old-school RPG.

Price -96% 0.22€
Rating 7.0
Release 25 Feb 2015
Life is Strange - Episode 1 Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.5
Release 29 Jan 2015
Tengami Tengami is an atmospheric adventure game set inside a Japanese pop-up book. Fold and slide the beautifully crafted paper world to solve puzzles and discover secrets.

Price -93% 0.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 15 Jan 2015
Verde Station What do you trust most — what you see, what you're told, or your instincts? On a year long solo mission aboard Verde Station, you will test your wits and question everything, but you may not find answers. Welcome to solitude.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Dec 2014
The Old City: Leviathan The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.

Price -87% 0.82€
Rating 6.9
Release 03 Dec 2014
Passing Pineview Forest Passing Pineview Forest is a free mini-prequel set in the universe of Pineview Drive. Behind the abandoned house on Pineview Drive lies ominous Pineview Forest...

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 21 Nov 2014
Airline Tycoon Deluxe Airline Tycoon Deluxe is a funny economy simulation proceeding in realtime and assigning you the complete responsibility for an airline.

Price -94% 0.62€
Rating 7.9
Release 14 Nov 2014
A Bird Story An experimental short from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise: A simple & surreal 1-hour interactive animation about a boy and an injured bird, told without dialogues.If you're looking for To the Moon-like experience, I'd suggest playing Finding Paradise first.

Price -88% 0.51€
Rating 8.3
Release 07 Nov 2014
The Moon Sliver You are on a bleak, cold, windy island. And you seem to be alone... but fires and candles still burn. As you explore, a story of guilt, loneliness, and faith begins to take shape. And it becomes obvious that something is hunting you...

Price -33% 1.34€
Rating 7.2
Release 28 Oct 2014
Qora A mysterious trip to gorgeous and surreal lands, players explore the unknown and harness mystical powers which have been hidden in the valley for centuries.

Price -94% 0.61€
Rating 6.5
Release 02 Oct 2014
Neverending Nightmares Experience true psychological horror as you explore nightmares inspired by the creator's struggles with depression and OCD. The defenseless protagonist must avoid monstrous manifestations of what haunts his subconscious in his quest to wake up into reality.

Price -74% 3.98€
Rating 7.4
Release 26 Sep 2014
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.

Price -95% 1.06€
Rating 8.6
Release 25 Sep 2014
MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale. Now also in Virtual Reality!

Price -75% 3.12€
Rating 6.4
Release 05 Aug 2014
Pineview Drive A one-of-a-kind horror shocker – a game aware of your fear!Check out the improvements introduced with Update 2.0!

Price -88% 1.20€
Rating 6.1
Release 31 Jul 2014
Only If Only If is a surreal first person adventure-puzzle game. It takes idiom into reality.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.1
Release 25 Jul 2014
Lifeless Planet Premier Edition PREMIER EDITION - While seeking life on a distant planet, an astronaut discovers an abandoned Russian town. He suspects his mission is a hoax until a mysterious young woman saves him from a strange and deadly phenomenon...

Price -93% 0.73€
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Jun 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% 0.94€
Rating 8.4
Release 05 Jun 2014
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.

Price 16.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 29 May 2014
White Noise Online A fully cooperative horror experience like never before! On White Noise Online, a team of up to 4 investigators has to explore an area looking for clues, while avoiding being devoured by a supernatural creature. Will you be able to uncover the truth behind the mysterious events?

Price -90% 0.50€
Rating 6.4
Release 22 May 2014
Always Sometimes Monsters Set out on a cross-country journey to win back the love of your life and endure the hardship of making story-defining choices that affect your life and the lives of those around you.

Price -95% 0.53€
Rating 7.2
Release 21 May 2014
FRACT OSC FRACT is a musical exploration game. You arrive in a forgotten place and explore the vast and unfamiliar landscape to discover the secrets of a world built on sound. You rebuild its machinery by solving puzzles and bring the world back to life by shaping sound and creating music in the game.

Price -56% 6.52€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Apr 2014
Ether One Ether One is a first person adventure that deals with the fragility of the human mind. There are two paths in the world you can choose from. At its core is a story exploration path free from puzzles where you can unfold the story at your own pace.

Price 19.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 25 Mar 2014
Year Walk Venture out into the dark woods where strange creatures roam, on a vision quest set in 19th century Sweden. Solve and decipher cryptic puzzles, listen for clues, and learn about mysterious folklore creatures in the built-in encyclopedia as you seek to foresee your future.

Price -63% 2.18€
Rating 8.7
Release 06 Mar 2014
Journal Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.3
Release 17 Feb 2014
The Plan A fly ascends to the skies, pondering the pointlessness of its brief existence.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 14 Feb 2014
NaissanceE NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Feb 2014
Jazzpunk: Director's Cut Jazzpunk is a comedy adventure set in an alternate reality Cold War World, plagued with corporate espionage, CyberCrime, and sentient martinis. Gameplay is inspired by spoof comedy films and cartoons of yesteryear, with a focus on weird gadgets, exotic locales, and open-world style exploration.

Price -96% 0.59€
Rating 9.1
Release 07 Feb 2014
realMyst: Masterpiece Edition Released in 2014, experience one of the first 3D adaptations of the renowned puzzle-adventure game Myst! Each discovery you make, every puzzle you solve, will bring you closer to reversing a wrong that has gone unchecked for ages.

Price -93% 1.29€
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Feb 2014
CastleMiner Z CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.

Price 5.89€
Rating 7.9
Release 03 Feb 2014
Serena How long has it been? A man sits in a distant getaway cabin waiting for his wife Serena. Where is she? Things in the cabin evoke memories, and the husband comes to a disturbing realization... This short point-and-click adventure is the result of a massive collaborative effort between dozens of fans and designers of adventure games.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 30 Jan 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 -73% 3.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 Jan 2014
The Novelist The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be.

Price -92% 0.43€
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Dec 2013
9.03m The media is quick to put figures to death tolls in such disasters, and 9.03m tries to remind people of the individuals behind those figures. 9.03m is set on Baker Beach in San Francisco, where debris from the tsunami has washed ashore in the years following the tsunami. To play, you must find the butterflies.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 20 Nov 2013

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