Also don't forget to check the newest releasesEscapeworld Dilemma [Release date: 2021-01-29] ranked #118, Cloud Climber [Release date: 2021-01-14] ranked #174 and Lost Brothers [Release date: 2021-01-12] ranked #13.
While it is tempting to play with the newest and the best, there might be some other gems in the results, like Dear Esther: Landmark Edition [SteamPeek Rating: 5.5] ranked #52, The Norwood Suite [SteamPeek Rating: 5.5] ranked #58 and Outer Wilds [SteamPeek Rating: 9.1] ranked #61.
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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.
Windows | Steam Achievements | Full controller support | Steam Trading Cards
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.
Windows | Mac | Linux | Steam Achievements | Full controller support | Steam Trading Cards
Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
Windows | Steam Achievements | Full controller support | Steam Trading Cards
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.
Windows | Steam Achievements | Full controller support
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
Windows | Mac | Linux | Steam Achievements | Full controller support | Steam Trading Cards
A beautiful, 3rd-person exploration game centered around two parallel stories: a fox trying to find her missing family, and a son reconnecting with his estranged father in Alaska. Uncover artifacts from the son's life as he becomes intertwined in the fox’s journey towards The First Tree.
Windows | Mac | Linux | Steam Achievements | Full controller support | Steam Trading Cards
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.
Story RichWalking SimulatorIndieNarrationAtmosphericFirst-PersonShortSingleplayerAdventureAbstractSurrealGreat SoundtrackExperimentalPsychologicalDarkEmotionalPhilosophicalExperiencePsychological HorrorPuzzle
Your husband is dead and you want to visit his grave. There is an abondoned house in a village, and in that house you will find a red rose. You don't want to go to your husband's grave empty handed.
Windows | Steam Achievements | Steam Trading Cards
Get lost beneath the fog in The Wild Eternal, a reflective first-person exploration game. Embark on a meditative journey to heal the scars of your past. Can you escape the cycle of reincarnation?
Windows | Steam Achievements | Full controller support
NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
Windows | Mac | Linux | Steam Achievements | Full controller support | Steam Trading Cards
Lost Brothers is a single-player first-person adventure, taking place in an abandoned mine. All you have is a walkie-talkie and a map. Explore a mysterious forest and a labyrinth of underground passages to rescue a mysterious lady.
Windows | Steam Achievements | Full controller support
Hayley finds her apartment empty. The love of her life packed and gone. What starts as a search for an answer soon turns into a personal journey. Was her life as perfect as she remembers it ? With each new clue she finds, the truth becomes more and more unbelievable.
Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.
Windows | Mac | Linux | Steam Achievements | Full controller support | Steam Trading Cards
You are on a bleak, cold, windy island. And you seem to be alone... but fires and candles still burn. As you explore, a story of guilt, loneliness, and faith begins to take shape. And it becomes increasingly obvious that something is hunting you...
The Gap is a sci-fi first person narrative exploration thriller. You play as Joshua Hayes, a neuroscientist trying to figure out what happened to him and his family, barely remembering anything about his past.
Story RichAtmosphericWalking SimulatorAdventureFirst-PersonExplorationMysterySingleplayerIndieThrillerShortStylizedDramaDarkPhilosophicalFuturisticPsychologicalCasualPuzzleVisual Novel
A teenaged girl and the vindictive ghost that's possessing her deal with cosmic mysteries and interpersonal struggles in this character-driven narrative-focused horror adventure.
An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.
Nephise Begins tells the player what happened at the time before Nephise was an orb collector. The main setting is forest again, but this time without snow, instead a more sunny and foggy weather.
Windows | Steam Achievements | Steam Trading Cards
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.
Windows | Steam Achievements | Full controller support
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
Windows | Mac | Linux | Steam Achievements | Full controller support | Steam Trading Cards
