Best Short games on Steam

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

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Isolomus

Bite-sized surreal horror with multiple choices. Make your own way through the claymation madness!

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 04 Dec 2020

Perfect Vermin

Your task is simple, exterminate all vermin. The sledge hammer you have been provided is capable of destroying almost all office appliances and furniture that may be uncooperative. Your time is running out.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 06 Nov 2020

Penko Park

Snap pictures of spooky creatures & explore an abandoned wildlife park.

Price 13.79€
Rating 9.2
Release 23 Oct 2020

CBT With Yuuka Kazami

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, also known as CBT, is the use of evidence based strategies to help manage symptoms of poor mental health problems such as stress, anxiety and depression. Yuuka Kazami from the Touhou Project invites you to some mostly peaceful lessons where you grasp the basics of CBT!

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 19 Oct 2020

Loot Grind Simulator

Loot Grind Simulator is a fantasy-themed game about completing quests and earning better loot to equip. The game is meant as satire of the current MMO and Looter Shooter trends and features idle gameplay elements with decisions about what quests to undertake and items to craft.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 14 Oct 2020

Cube Escape Collection

In this classic point-and-click adventure anthology you follow the path of Dale and Laura and other famous Rusty lake characters such as Mr. Crow and Mr. Owl. The series will be updated, preserved and bundled to survive the end of the Flash Games era.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 14 Oct 2020

A Gay Love Story About Gay Love

A short story-based SRPG about two men who will eventually come to love each other. Now updated with added dialogue, new characters, different choices to make and multiple endings!

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 14 Sep 2020

MOTHER

MOTHER is a first-person psychological horror game about protecting your children while descending deeper & deeper into madness. Defend them at all costs. Be careful, because their death is permanent!

Price 2.39€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Aug 2020

Eternal Hope

Eternal Hope is a puzzle platformer game that follows the story of Ti’bi – a boy who must embark on a journey of love and hope to find his beloved’s soul.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 20 Aug 2020

Rainy Season

This is a story about an ordinary family spending time at home during the rain.

Price 3.29€
Rating 8.9
Release 19 Aug 2020

Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition

From gliders and helicopters to wide-body jets, fly highly detailed and accurate aircraft in the Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition. The world is at your fingertips.

Price 69.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 17 Aug 2020

Metamorphosis

Play as Gregor, turned into a tiny bug, and set out on an extraordinary journey to unravel the mystery of your transformation. Metamorphosis is a first person adventure set in a surrealist world where your newfound abilities are your last and only hope for redemption.

Price -54% 11.23€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Aug 2020

Flicker of Hope

Flicker of Hope is a suspense thriller where you play as a small candle in the ruins of a dark cathedral. Though the halls are littered with victims of a mysterious plague, you are not the only soul left. Use the properties of a candle, and a trusty douter to prevent yourself from being discovered.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 02 Aug 2020

Kinoko

The crisp winter air fills your lungs, but you can feel the earth underneath calling for you. The warmth from the sun melts the snow away and flowers bloom. Spring is here.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 24 Jul 2020

Devolverland Expo

Devolverland Expo is a first-person 'marketing simulator' set within an abandoned convention center after the annual Devolver Digital game expo was mysteriously canceled.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 11 Jul 2020

Friendly Fire

Can you save the world from an unknown destiny?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 05 Jul 2020

[Chilla's Art] Missing Children | 行方不明

Missing Children | 行方不明 is a Japanese horror-themed adventure game about a bully detective searching for reported missing children.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Jun 2020

Summer Paws

Summer days, warm rain, magical nights! Sleeping kittens are hidden well. Can you find them?

Price -50% 1.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 26 May 2020

Angels of Death Episode.Eddie

"The boy made up his mind to face a cruel world." The new special edition of the psychological horror-adventure game "Angels of Death", which has also been made into an anime. The past of B4 floor master Eddie is revealed...

Price 5.69€
Rating 8.3
Release 21 May 2020

Observation

Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.

Price -95% 1.34€
Rating 7.6
Release 21 May 2020

Left on Read

It’s March of 2020; you were just sent home from college because of the coronavirus, you have a few small regrets, mainly not telling someone how you really feel.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 19 May 2020

a new life.

When your loved one hurts you, what do you do? A classic love story about letting go.

Price 2.39€
Rating 9.2
Release 15 May 2020

Helltaker

Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.6
Release 11 May 2020

Samsara Room

You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.4
Release 29 Apr 2020

Mushroom Cats 2

Mushroom Cats 2 - is a cute point-and-click game about Mushroom Cats that live on magical islands. Any girl will melt from tenderness, and the kids will be delighted with the funny Mushroom Cats! This fairy tale will fill any heart with good!

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 24 Apr 2020

No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut

A slow burn retro horror game, in which you arrive at the old lighthouse on a small island near the coast of the United States. After the previous keeper has gone missing, you need to take over his duties and watch after the light.

Price 5.69€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Apr 2020

The Procession to Calvary

Pilfer from pirates, conspire with cardinals and perform miracles with an incompetent magician. The Procession to Calvary is a Pythonesque adventure game made from Renaissance paintings, and a spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed Four Last Things.

Price 9.49€
Rating 9.2
Release 09 Apr 2020

We Went Back

We Went Back is a time-looping horror game in which you wake up in an abandoned space station utterly alone. The exit door is locked and you must find a way to escape what lurks within. Find clues, experience dynamically changing environments and confront terror in order to find a way out.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 03 Apr 2020

Assemble with Care

Repair old-school objects in this cozy puzzle game. Join antique-restorer Maria, as she arrives in the sun-soaked town of Bellariva and set out on a journey of helping the townsfolk reconnect.

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.8
Release 26 Mar 2020

Bright Memory

Bright Memory is a lightning-fast fusion of the FPS and action genres, created by one-man development studio FYQD using Unreal Engine. Combine a wide variety of skills and abilities to unleash dazzling combo attacks.

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.9
Release 25 Mar 2020

There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.4
Release 18 Mar 2020

Super Bernie World

Join Bernie's movement and transform the United States in this free retro 2D platformer.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 09 Mar 2020

Sono

Sono is a 2D exploration game where players effortlessly glide through an abstract microcosm collecting lost fragments of sound.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Mar 2020

Alien Cat

Save the Universe with the Alien-Cat in this brand new puzzle-platformer game! Jump on your enemies heads, push the boxes and walk on the ceiling.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 8.3
Release 25 Feb 2020

Maiden and Spell

Maiden & Spell is a magical girl battle game, set in a cutesy fantasy world. Select from one of eight young ladies to battle 1 on 1 with a friend, or fight your way through a series of bosses and learn the secrets of The Kingdom of Stars.

Price -37% 6.75€
Rating 9.1
Release 24 Feb 2020

Rhome

Rhome is a first-person dark atmospheric exploration game made by students at SMU Guildhall. Players navigate an increasingly chaotic and psychologically unnerving environment to reveal the fate of Hailey Rhome. Proceeds from your purchase on Steam go to support student development.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Feb 2020

The Suicide of Rachel Foster

Coming back to the family hotel after years, a young woman finds herself trapped with the ghosts from her past and an old cellular telephone as the only way to unveil a terrible truth.

Price 16.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 19 Feb 2020

[Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件

The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 is a J-horror game about a college girl on a night shift.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Feb 2020

Drift Of The Hill

In DOTH you will have to master the art of drifting in the mountain passes!

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 14 Feb 2020

Florence

Florence Yeoh feels a little... stuck. Her life is an endless routine of work, sleep, and spending too much time on social media. Then one day, she meets a cello player named Krish who changes everything about how she sees the world and herself.

Price 5.59€
Rating 9.1
Release 13 Feb 2020

Sakuya Izayoi Gives You Advice And Dabs

Feel relaxed into this mental vacation as Sakuya Izayoi from the Touhou Project guides you through your troubles by offering helpful advice and strategies to help you feel at ease.

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 10 Feb 2020

The Supper

The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.5
Release 28 Jan 2020

looK INside - Chapter 1

In a book found in the attic, Manon discovers the past of her family members through their memories, their gestures, their quirks and their little secrets.

Price -5% 6.65€
Rating 8.4
Release 22 Jan 2020

The White Door

Enter The White Door and discover Rusty Lake’s universe in a new game with a unique style! Explore Robert Hill’s dreams and help him to find his lost memories. Can you survive the strict daily routine and bring back color to Robert's life?

Price 3.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 09 Jan 2020

Drinks With Abbey

Drinks with Abbey is a short, slice-of-life visual novel about a first date.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 25 Dec 2019

Gachi Heroes 2: Flexboll

Everyone knows who the real king of Flex and today he is ready to teach you. Plunge into an incredible adventure, meet different characters from the universe "gachimuchi" and find out how deep you are ready to go. However, there is one problem...

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 7.7
Release 19 Dec 2019

The Good Time Garden

Explore a throbbing pink world full of strange naked creatures to gather food for your friend in this short, surreal experience.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 19 Dec 2019

The Sapling

The Sapling is a short simulation game where you design your own plants and animals, and put them in a world together. Or you turn on random mutations, and see what evolution does to your ecosystem!

Price 15.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 12 Dec 2019