Best Abstract games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our abstract game recommendations are based on a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews. We believe that player feedback is the most reliable indicator of a game's true quality and enjoyment. Our algorithm evaluates user reviews to identify abstract games that consistently deliver exceptional experiences. This means you can be confident that our lists feature only the best abstract games on Steam, validated by the community itself.

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NO THING

The year is 1994 and it is the future. NO THING is a minimalistic surreal action game set in totalitarian regime of future. Tells the story of an office clerk who is sent with important message to the Queen of Ice.

Price -32% 2.72€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Apr 2016

Californium

Taking the form of a first-person experience of a bad trip, Californium pays homage to sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick by transporting you into the life of a writer searching for his own identity. Explore, solve the riddles and conduct your investigation. Will you find what’s behind the simulacra ?

Price -83% 1.00€
Rating 6.7
Release 17 Feb 2016

Waves 2: Notorious

Waves 2: Notorious is an arcade twin-stick shooter set in Cyberspace. Build Combos, earn Adrenaline and unleash powerful Burst attacks as you Dive into the Net and do battle against an AI that adapts to your weaknesses!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 16 Dec 2015

Colortone

Your way to freedom only involves your intelligence and the puzzles!

Price -79% 0.69€
Rating 6.7
Release 29 Oct 2015

Star Sky

Star Sky is a game about a man taking a midnight stroll. You take the same road as many times as you want, each time hopefully unlocking new encounters. Can you unlock the mysteries of the night?

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 23 Oct 2015

Hylics

Hylics is a recreational program with light JRPG elements.

Price 2.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 02 Oct 2015

The Beginner's Guide

The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 Oct 2015

Expand

Expand is a meditative video game in which you explore a circular labyrinth that constantly twists, stretches and expands around you.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 30 Sep 2015

Absolute Drift

Absolute Drift is a racing game about becoming a master at the art of drifting.

Price -85% 1.83€
Rating 8.5
Release 29 Jul 2015

Hook

HOOK is a short minimal, puzzle game.

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 06 Jul 2015

Quell

An enchanting game of logic and relaxation.

Price 3.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 14 May 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 -68% 1.61€
Rating 8.7
Release 12 Mar 2015

A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build

An adorable puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 25 Feb 2015

David.

You play David, an awfully small abstracted chosen hero tossed into a blissfully simple world overrun by giant culminations of evil physics-beasts. As David, you are given a slingshot-esque gift that you will have to use to conquer your colossus foes. Be there AND be square.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 16 Feb 2015

HyperRogue

A truly non-Euclidean tactical puzzle/roguelike!

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.9
Release 16 Jan 2015

FOTONICA

Ever wondered what running at 140mph feels like? FOTONICA is a first-person game about the thrill of speed and traveling flawlessly through complex environments.FOTONICA is simple, but is not easy: it follows a tradition of arcade games that are easy to pick up and almost impossible to master.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 06 Nov 2014

Lovely Planet

A First Person Shooter Gun Ballet set in a cutesy abstract world. Jump and shoot your way through five worlds full of treacherous enemies with your trusty semi-automatic!

Price -83% 1.00€
Rating 8.7
Release 31 Jul 2014

Sokobond

Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and beautiful - crafted with love and science.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.8
Release 21 Jul 2014

Munin

Imagine you could move mountains - literally! With realistic physics, Norse runes, rotating platforms and a lot of gray cells you'll help Munin, Odin's messenger in her very own 2D-adventure, to reclaim her power on a journey through Yggdrasil.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 10 Jun 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 14.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Apr 2014

LYNE

Deceptively simple. Infinitely complex. LYNE is a minimalist puzzle game that will knot your brain as it calms your soul. Connect the shapes. Fill the board. Lose yourself in the interflowing paths of LYNE.

Price -60% 1.19€
Rating 9.3
Release 17 Mar 2014

Hexcells

Hexcells is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

Price 2.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 19 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

140

140 is a challenging minimalistic platformer with abstract colorful graphics. Rhythmic awareness is required to overcome obstacles controlled by an energetic, yet melancholic electronic soundtrack.

Price -30% 3.51€
Rating 8.9
Release 16 Oct 2013

Soundodger+

Dodge the music and dance through a mesmerizing ballet of choreographed bullets, each synced to music from over a dozen international artists. Push your creativity and skills with the fully-featured Level Editor and never run out of things to dodge.

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 11 Oct 2013

Receiver

Receiver was created for the 7-day FPS challenge to explore gun handling mechanics, randomized levels, and unordered storytelling. Armed only with a handgun and an audio cassette player, you must uncover the secrets of the Mindkill in a building complex infested with automated turrets and hovering shock drones.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 29 Apr 2013

Kairo

Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 24 Apr 2013

Papo & Yo

Quico’s best friend, Monster, is a huge beast with razor-sharp teeth, but that doesn’t scare Quico away from playing with him. That said, Monster does have a very dangerous problem: an addiction to poisonous frogs.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 18 Apr 2013

The Bridge

The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.

Price -80% 1.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 22 Feb 2013

Antichamber

Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.

Price 18.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 31 Jan 2013

English Country Tune

English Country Tune is a luxuriant abstract 3D puzzle game containing more than a hundred levels situated throughout 17 worlds.

Price -80% 1.00€
Rating 7.6
Release 09 Aug 2012

Splice

Splice is an experimental and artistic puzzler. Immerse yourself in its microbial world and start splicing! Every level ("strand") consists of a number of cells that you will need to rearrange into a target structure in several moves ("splices").

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Jun 2012

Waves

Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 16 Nov 2011

EDGE

EDGE, the award winning retro-styled platform game has been extended! Now with over 40 brand new levels, additional music and all-new races against the notorious Dark Cube!

Price -89% 0.75€
Rating 8.8
Release 11 Aug 2011

Trauma

An elaborate puzzle challenge combined with an unconventional story.

Price 2.39€
Rating 6.6
Release 08 Aug 2011

Solar 2

Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.

Price -66% 3.06€
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Jun 2011

RUSH

From the twisted puzzle minds behind the award winning Toki Tori comes a new game, simply called RUSH. Fortunately for fans of high quality puzzle games, RUSH is anything but simple. In the game's fully three dimensional levels, players need to guide cubes to color coded exit points using Conveyor belts, Warps, Stops Signs, Splits and...

Price -86% 0.69€
Rating 8.5
Release 03 Dec 2010

Darwinia

Darwinia blends real-time strategy, action, and puzzles with a unique gesture-based control system. Save the Darwinians, battle viruses, and restore order in a retro-inspired digital world. Winner of multiple prestigious  awards, including the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at IGF 2006.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.6
Release 14 Jul 2005