Most Popular Walking Simulator Games on Steam

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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 Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.

Price -84% 6.68€
Rating 9.1
Release 27 Oct 2016
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
theHunter: Call of the Wild™ Discover an atmospheric hunting game like no other in this realistic, stunning open world – regularly updated in collaboration with the community. Immerse yourself in the single player campaign, or share the ultimate hunting experience with friends.

Price -96% 0.89€
Rating 8.8
Release 16 Feb 2017
Outlast Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.

Price -87% 2.05€
Rating 9.5
Release 04 Sep 2013
The Long Dark THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Price -22% 13.37€
Rating 8.9
Release 01 Aug 2017
Firewatch Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.9
Release 09 Feb 2016
GRIS Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.

Price -93% 1.05€
Rating 9.5
Release 13 Dec 2018
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 -90% 3.19€
Rating 8.9
Release 07 Aug 2017
SOMA From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

Price -31% 20.21€
Rating 9.4
Release 21 Sep 2015
The Stanley Parable The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.

Price -35% 9.70€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Oct 2013
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 -45% 9.45€
Rating 9.2
Release 31 Aug 2017
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 -78% 4.48€
Rating 9.3
Release 08 Sep 2010
Layers of Fear (2016) A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.

Price -86% 2.94€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Feb 2016
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
MechWarrior Online™ Legends MechWarrior Online™ Legends is a tactical, 'Mech-based online shooter set in the vast BattleTech Universe. Assume the role of an elite MechWarrior, piloting powerful BattleMechs, fighting for supremacy over the Inner Sphere.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 10 Dec 2015
Kholat The most terrifying journey of your life set in the beautiful winter scenery of the Ural Mountains. Uncover the horrific mystery behind the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Narrated by the famous Sean Bean.

Price -98% 0.43€
Rating 6.6
Release 09 Jun 2015
Heaven Forest - VR MMO The pressing human questions about life depend directly on our attitudes toward the universe. You'll find the answers you're searching for through a series of reasonings and clues during your journey in this game as well as in your own life.

Price 0.90€
Rating 6.5
Release 14 Dec 2016
Heaven Forest NIGHTS The sequel to the Heaven Forest series. While the first game was about the meaning of life, this new one is about its opposite: what is the meaning of death? Since we are sentient beings who know that sooner or later we will die, do our efforts in the everyday life have a meaning at all?

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 14 Mar 2017
A Plague Tale: Innocence Follow the grim tale of young Amicia and her little brother Hugo, in a heartrending journey through the darkest hours of history.

Price -87% 5.46€
Rating 9.2
Release 14 May 2019
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons Guide two brothers on an epic fairy tale journey from visionary Swedish film director, Josef Fares and top-tier developer Starbreeze Studios. Control both brothers at once as you experience co-op play in single player mode, like never before.

Price -83% 2.66€
Rating 9.3
Release 03 Sep 2013
DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT. As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?

Price -76% 9.71€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 Mar 2022
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.

Price -50% 10.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 27 Apr 2022
Viscera Cleanup Detail In Viscera Cleanup Detail, you step into the boots of a space-station janitor tasked with cleaning up after various horrific sci-fi horror events. Instead of machineguns and plasma-rifles, your tools are a mop and bucket. That hero left a mess, and it's up to you to deal with the aftermath.

Price -63% 4.77€
Rating 9.1
Release 23 Oct 2015
The Witness You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

Price -89% 4.36€
Rating 8.3
Release 26 Jan 2016
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 -90% 2.11€
Rating 8.4
Release 05 Jun 2014
Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion Can you survive 1000 rooms of cute terror? Or will you break once the cuteness starts to fade off and you're running for your life from the unspeakable hideous beings that shake and writhe in bowels of this house? They wait for you, they wait and hunger for meeting you.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 28 Jul 2015
Scorn Scorn is an atmospheric first-person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry.

Price -98% 1.08€
Rating 7.5
Release 14 Oct 2022
Moonbase Alpha NASA has once again landed on the lunar surface with the goal of colonization, research, and further exploration. Shortly after the return to the Moon, NASA has established a small outpost on the south pole of the moon called Moonbase Alpha.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 06 Jul 2010
Call of Cthulhu® 1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.

Price -95% 1.06€
Rating 7.8
Release 29 Oct 2018
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 -82% 2.63€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 Jan 2014
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.

Price -70% 6.00€
Rating 6.8
Release 10 Sep 2013
The Way of Life Free Edition The Way of Life makes the player relive the same life's experiences from the point of view of three characters of different ages: an adult, an old man and a child.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 31 May 2016
Heaven Island - VR MMO More a Journey in your Inner Self than a game, "Heaven Island" is an experience in which you'll explore wonderful places. The inspiration for the environments comes from the Renzo Piano designs and from the book "Origins of Architectural Pleasure" in which the welfare is of primary importance.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.2
Release 23 Dec 2015
The Isle Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 01 Dec 2015
What Remains of Edith Finch What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.

Price -88% 2.33€
Rating 9.4
Release 24 Apr 2017

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Rating 9.1

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Rating 8.7

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