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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Sayonara Wild Hearts

Sayonara Wild Hearts is a dreamy arcade game about riding motorcycles, skateboarding, dance battling, shooting lasers, wielding swords, and breaking hearts at 200 mph.

Price 11.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 12 Dec 2019

Zup! F

Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 11 Dec 2019

Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard

You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery. Also there's a wizard.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 09 Dec 2019

Mosaic

Enter a world that’s utterly surreal and eerily familiar. Escape the mundanity of your existence in an experience that will stay with you. Mosaic is a narrative-driven modern adventure game with a story that lasts about 2-3 hours.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 05 Dec 2019

LOST EMBER

Explore the remains of a fallen world from fascinating perspectives! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights, dig underground as a mole or even climb steep cliffs with a mountain goat, there are lots of ways of getting around.

Price 29.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Nov 2019

Drift86

Get in your favorite car and set records alone or with friends in this unique arcade game!

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 19 Nov 2019

[Chilla's Art] Inunaki Tunnel | 犬鳴トンネル

Inunaki tunnel (or Inunaki village) is a famous Japanese horror spot where people have been killed or burnt to death.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 19 Nov 2019

Fractured Minds

Fractured Minds is an immersive artistic short game, exploring anxiety and mental health issues. Embark on a journey through the human psyche to experience the everyday challenges associated with these conditions.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 14 Nov 2019

NABOKI

Relaxing disassemble puzzle.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 12 Nov 2019

Wurroom

Experience a 10 minute dive into the unknown depths of the multiverse!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 08 Nov 2019

The Room Syndrome

Explore the mysterious room by traversing time, while you watch a man succumb to the room syndrome.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 01 Nov 2019

Grimm's Hollow

A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.6
Release 30 Oct 2019

[Chilla's Art] Stigmatized Property | 事故物件

Stigmatized Property, 事故物件 (Jiko bukken) is a horror game inspired by haunted apartment rooms in Japan. These properties are known to have cheap rents and you play to find out the exact reason why.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 25 Oct 2019

The Terrible Old Man

Experience a bite-sized slice of Lovecraftian horror in this updated version of our cult freeware point and click adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's classic short story.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 10 Oct 2019

Deliver Us The Moon

Deliver Us The Moon is a Sci-Fi thriller set in an apocalyptic near future, where Earth's natural resources are depleted. A lone astronaut is sent to the moon on a critical mission to save humanity from extinction.

Price 24.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 10 Oct 2019

Perspective

Perspective is an experimental platformer. The player avatar moves in a 2D space that transforms when the player changes perspective in 3D space. The player needs to use this mechanic navigate the 2D avatar to a goal in order to progress from level to level.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 09 Oct 2019

Pilgrims

Pilgrims is a playful adventure game, created by the team behind Machinarium and Samorost. Roam the land as you please and make new friends, share a laugh with your fellow travelers and help them complete their little stories, your way. How many different solutions can you find?

Price 6.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 07 Oct 2019

Nauticrawl

A stolen, enigmatic machine is your only way out. It's likely to kill you, but so will the hostile planet you're escaping. Pull levers, hack devices, and puzzle out how to pilot the Nauticrawl to freedom in this unusual atmospheric adventure... or die trying.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 16 Sep 2019

macdows 95

you have an update for your operating system...

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 05 Sep 2019

Gravitas

Gravitas is a short first-person puzzle platforming game that transports you to the Gallery of Refined Gravity. Manipulate gravity and the gallery itself to prove yourself a pupil worthy of the Curator’s masterwork.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.5
Release 23 Aug 2019

ARIDA: Backland's Awakening

ARIDA: Backland's Awakening. A story of survival and adventure in the brazilian backlands. Face the drought to explore the more arid regions, gather resources and discover clues about the fate of the young Cícera.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.2
Release 15 Aug 2019

The Great Perhaps

The Great Perhaps is a time travel puzzle game about an astronaut returning to Earth destroyed by natural cataclysms. There, among the ruins he finds an unusual artifact — an old lantern, in the light of which you can see glimpses of another time and travel to the past.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 14 Aug 2019

Roombo: First Blood

Roombo: First Blood is a comedic, top-down, stealth-action game about being a robot vacuum cleaner and fending off burglars from your home. A short, experimental game and the first in the JUSTICE SUCKS series.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 07 Aug 2019

Under What?

“Under what?” is a short but very capacious story-tale about an old fisherman who suddenly faced the surface of the water. In this story there will be no dragons, the battle of good and evil, and other boring nonsense. But there will be some bad jokes and extraordinary characters.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 05 Aug 2019

A Short Hike

Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

Price 6.59€
Rating 9.7
Release 30 Jul 2019

She Sees Red - Interactive Movie

She Sees Red is a mature, hard-boiled interactive thriller. When someone is killed inside a nightclub, an experienced detective vows to put the murderer behind bars. Make choices that affect the narrative and experience several different endings in this blood-red interactive movie.

Price 6.79€
Rating 7.5
Release 11 Jul 2019

We Become What We Behold [Fan-Made Port]

a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 09 Jul 2019

Zup! 9

Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 24 Jun 2019

198X

Part 1 of arcade epic 198X. A coming-of-age story told through multiple games and genres. Experience the thrill of shooting, driving, jumping, fighting and role-playing in 5 full-blown arcade stages – combined with cinematic pixel-art storytelling.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 20 Jun 2019

Conscious Existence - A Journey Within

You are gifted every moment with life's most precious achievement: A conscious mind, enabling you to sense and hold within, the universe's boundless beauty - a source of infinite inspiration that fuels your inner space. - C.E. is a linear, stereoscopic 360/VR-video short film experience.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 15 Jun 2019

Shattered Lights

Shattered Lights is a VR psychological horror room-scale experience, which focuses on drawing the player into the game with unparalleled immersion.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 11 Jun 2019

Mushroom Cats

Mushroom Cats is a kind and sweet game in the point-and-click genre about Mushroom Cats that live on the magical Toadstool.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 10 Jun 2019

Answer Knot

A short narrative and exploration game about Zach, June, and a strange phenomenon. You're Zach and, stuck in your home, you will do everything to keep hearing June's voice messages. What is happening out there?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 31 May 2019

Gato Roboto

Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.

Price 7.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 May 2019

Draugen

Draugen is a single-player, first-person Fjord Noir mystery set in 1920s Norway. Explore a forgotten coastal village in your search for your missing sister, accompanied by your independent and enigmatic young ward. Norwegian Game of the Year 2019.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 29 May 2019

KIDS

A game of crowds.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 28 May 2019

Koral

Koral, a love letter to the ocean. Dive into the beautiful underwater world as a sea current. Solve puzzles to bring back to life coral reefs and spread the beauty of the oceans in different sea ecosystems.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 16 May 2019

Neon Beats

Beat your best scores in Neon Beats, a 2D platformer game with rhythm based levels!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 03 May 2019

Burning Daylight

Waking up naked in a slaughterhouse, you must escape and travel through a dystopian world to uncover the truth of your origins. Burning Daylight is a sci-fi adventure game, set in a dystopian future with light puzzle elements and environmental storytelling.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 19 Apr 2019

Zup! XS

Experimental minimal physical puzzle with explosions.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 17 Apr 2019

Coloring Game

Coloring Game is a fantastic anti-stress game. Animate the pixel picture by coloring it in full!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 12 Apr 2019

JermaSlots

Ever wanted to step in the compact shoes of everyone's favorite TWITCH streamer, Jerma985 and spend your hard earned BIG BITS on a slot machine? Well now is your chance!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 06 Apr 2019

Unheard - Voices of Crime

What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?

Price 5.69€
Rating 9.4
Release 28 Mar 2019

Newfound Courage

You're a young man named Alex who arrives in the cliffside town of Silverpine. Explore the town's many mysteries and meet its colourful townsfolk, while you grow closer to a kind-hearted local named Jake. Can the two of you save the town from the impending doom brewing inside the mysterious Vault?

Price 8.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 22 Mar 2019

I hate this game

I hate this game is a logic game, where gameplay changes every level. Solve crazy puzzles and use forgotten functions of your PC! Be attentive, interact with everything that you see on the screen.

Price 1.60€
Rating 8.9
Release 07 Mar 2019

1 Screen Platformer

This is a SHORT, 2D PLATFORMER with TIGHT CONTROLS about exploring a single level to get past a bunch of TRAPS. There is an EASY mode and a HARD mode depending on your skill level.

Price 2.39€
Rating 8.1
Release 06 Mar 2019

Cat Burglar: A Tail of Purrsuit

Cat Burglar is a short, light-hearted, stealth, puzzle platformer with a pet charity awareness campaign. Help Kat find her way into the Dogo Corps base to discover Major Bulls' master plan.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Mar 2019

Flower

Experience award-winning Flower, now available on PC. Flower lets you take control of the wind as you explore and navigate beautiful, lush environments.

Price 6.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Feb 2019