Best PvE games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our pve 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 pve games that consistently deliver exceptional experiences. This means you can be confident that our lists feature only the best pve games on Steam, validated by the community itself.

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PAYDAY 2

PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew - Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains - as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.

Price -78% 2.17€
Rating 8.9
Release 13 Aug 2013

Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes

Fallen Enchantress is 4X strategy game from the makers of Sins of a Solar Empire and Galactic Civilizations. Build a civilization in the magical world of Elemental. Recruit heroes, train armies, build cities, forge alliances and save the world in this rich world where it's never the same game twice.

Price 24.50€
Rating 7.2
Release 22 May 2013

Super Sanctum TD

Super Sanctum TD is a retro-styled Tower Defense game that focuses on strategy, customization and replayability. Build advanced mazes and construct powerful towers to prevent alien hordes from reaching the Core!

Price -47% 2.66€
Rating 8.3
Release 09 May 2013

Warframe

Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 25 Mar 2013

Star Conflict

Star Conflict is an action-packed, massively multiplayer space simulation game that puts players in the role of elite pilots engaging in a widespread interplanetary skirmish. The whole world for PVP and PVE!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 27 Feb 2013

Age of Conan: Unchained

Age of Conan: Unchained is an award-winning and critically acclaimed massively multiplayer online game set in the sexy, savage and brutal world of Conan the Barbarian. Tread in the footsteps of the greatest fantasy hero of all time, and explore the vast reaches of Hyboria.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 22 Feb 2013

MapleStory

Join over 260 million players worldwide in MapleStory, the world’s biggest 2D MMORPG adventure! Play now for free.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.2
Release 09 Aug 2012

Dynamite Jack

A brave space marine, armed with only bombs and a flashlight, must escape the Anathema Mines!

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 10 May 2012

Star Trek Online

In Star Trek Online, the Star Trek universe appears for the first time on a truly massive scale. Players take the captain's chair as they command their own starship and crew. Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 31 Jan 2012

Demigod

Set in a magical world where gods walk among mortals, Demigod blends action, strategy and role-playing elements into a thrilling new experience.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.2
Release 14 Dec 2011

Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®

In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.4
Release 16 Nov 2011

Dungeon Defenders

Create a hero from one of four classes to save Etheria in this 4-player coop Tower Defense Action-RPG. Includes Steam exclusive Portal gun & TF2 familiars!

Price -50% 7.39€
Rating 9.1
Release 18 Oct 2011

Champions Online

Grab your cape and defend Millennium City in this comic book-style action MMORPG! Design your hero and costume from thousands of costume pieces, face super-villains like Dr. Destroyer, and create your own unique nemesis.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 14 Jun 2011

EVE Online

EVE Online is a free-to-play community driven space MMO where players can choose their own path from countless different options. Experience space exploration, immense PvP and PvE battles, mining, industry and a thriving player economy in an ever-expanding sandbox.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 15 Dec 2010

Alien Swarm

Co-operative multiplayer game and complete code base available for free.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 19 Jul 2010

Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded

This is the unique alloy of arcade action and RPG elements which combines well-established world of classical games and unmatched dynamics of the first part.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 27 May 2009

Shadowgrounds

Shadowgrounds breathes fresh air into the action genre with explosive combat sequences, an innovative weapon upgrade system, and an intriguing storyline. The adrenaline-pumping, top-down gameplay and audiovisual fireworks set the scene for this new action experience which also includes single computer (split keyboard or joystick) co-op...

Price -80% 1.00€
Rating 7.8
Release 08 May 2006

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