The Invincible is a first-person sci-fi walking sim based on Stanisław Lem's 1964 novel, set on a planet that does not want to be understood. You play as an astrobiologist piecing together what happened to her crew, and the answers the game gives you are never the ones you expected to want. Lem's original story was always about the limits of human logic, and the game trusts that idea enough to let the ending feel genuinely unsettling rather than triumphant. | © Starward Industries
Assetto Corsa Competizione is a GT racing sim that does not care about being accessible. It wants you to learn the cars, study the tracks, and feel genuinely bad when you brake five meters too late into Eau Rouge. The handling model is the whole point. Get it right and nothing else on PC feels like this. | © 505 Games
Watch Dogs 2 fixed almost everything people hated about the first game. Marcus Holloway is a genuinely likable hacker working out of San Francisco, and the city feels alive in a way that rewards just wandering around it. The tone is loose and fun, with a crew that actually has personality instead of brooding nihilism. If you bounced off the original, this one plays as a completely different team made it. | © Ubisoft
Carrion flips the horror script by making you the monster, a writhing mass of flesh and tentacles eating your way through a research facility. The gameplay is about spreading, growing, and terrifying the humans trying to stop you, which feels genuinely different from almost anything else out there. Short, weird, and mean in the best way. | © Devolver Digital
Metro 2033 Redux drops you into a collapsed Moscow where survivors live underground and every bullet counts as currency. The tunnels are claustrophobic and the surface is a death sentence, so you feel the pressure of every decision without a single tutorial holding your hand. Ammo management and gas mask filters create a tension that most shooters completely ignore. | © Deep Silver
Far Cry 4 drops you into Kyrat, a fictional Himalayan country caught in a brutal civil war. Pagan Min is one of gaming's most entertaining villains, charming and completely unhinged in equal measure. The open world is packed with elephant rides, fortress takedowns, and random chaos that pulls you off the main story constantly. If you sit through the opening credits instead of running, the game lets you skip the entire thing in twenty minutes. | © Ubisoft
Ghostwire: Tokyo drops you into a version of Tokyo where 99% of the population has vanished, and spirits now roam the streets. You fight them using elemental hand gestures that feel genuinely strange and satisfying in a way most combat systems never bother to try. The city itself is the real pull. Every back alley, shrine, and convenience store is packed with folklore and weird details that keep exploration feeling worth it. | © Bethesda Softworks
Rain World drops you into a rotting industrial ecosystem as a slugcat. Nothing explains the food chain to you, and you are absolutely part of it. Predators have their own schedules and patrol routes, so survival is less about skill and more about reading a world that does not care you exist. | © Adult Swim Games
The Quarry is a horror game where nine camp counselors spend one very bad night being hunted through the woods. Every choice you make shapes who survives, and the game commits fully to that premise with a cast that includes David Arquette, Lance Henriksen, and Ted Raimi. Some runs end in a full group survival; others turn into a bloodbath by chapter three. The cheesy B-movie energy is completely intentional, and it works. | © 2K Games
Don't Starve Together drops you and a friend into a hand-drawn wilderness where everything wants to kill you, and the game never explains how. You figure out hunger, sanity, and seasonal threats by dying repeatedly until the patterns click. The art looks like a Tim Burton sketch brought to life, which makes starving to death feel weirdly charming. Few survival games punish curiosity this consistently and still keep people coming back. | © Klei Entertainment
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II brings back Task Force 141 for a campaign that actually has weight behind it. The gunplay is tight, the missions are varied, and a few levels do things the series has never tried before. Multiplayer launched rough, with progression locked behind a confusing unlock system that frustrated a lot of players out of the gate. At a sale price, though, you are getting one of the better-feeling shooters in years for cheap. | © Activision
Dead Space is a full rebuild of the 2008 original, not a remaster with better textures. The Ishimura feels genuinely claustrophobic now, with interconnected areas and no loading screens breaking the tension. Isaac actually talks this time, which changes the tone in small ways that matter. If you never played the original, this is the version to start with. | © EA
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth drops you into a basement as a crying child fighting off monsters with his own tears. Every run randomizes the items, enemies, and layout, so two hours in, you might be an unstoppable freak covered in fly friends, or dead in five minutes from bad luck. The game pulls from dark biblical imagery and bodily horror in ways that feel genuinely weird, not just edgy. Hundreds of hours can disappear into it before the full item catalog even makes sense. | © Nicalis
A Plague Tale: Innocence drops you into 14th-century France with two kids, a swarm of rats, and almost no way to fight back. Amicia and Hugo's story is brutal in the best way. The rat mechanics force you to think about light and shadow constantly, which keeps the tension from ever fully releasing. Most games give you power to fall back on. This one takes it away and never really gives it back. | © Focus Entertainment
The Witcher 3 drops you into a war-torn world where every side is morally compromised and nobody is waiting to be saved. The main quest is long, but the side quests are what people actually talk about years later. Some of them hit harder than entire games built around a single idea. CD Projekt Red made an open world where the writing does more work than the spectacle. | © CD Projekt Red
The Steam Summer Sale is here, which means it's time to watch your wishlist turn green and your wallet quietly weep. With thousands of titles discounted through July 9, the hard part is deciding what's actually worth grabbing. Here are 15 of the best games to buy during the Steam Summer Sale.
