Best Anime Games on Steam

Games with anime-inspired art, storytelling, character design, or genre conventions.

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1Palworld - Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
In this game, you can…
  • hand a sheep a rocket launcher and let it wipe out a bandit camp for you.
  • lasso a fire-breathing duck and hook it up to your base generator for electricity.
  • put cute creatures on an assembly line to mine ore and mass-produce ammo around the clock.
  • craft guns after starting out with nothing on a beach.
  • catch creatures, then assign them to fight, mount, and work at your base before everyone eats and sleeps together.
  • use your creatures to run your whole base: smelt, harvest, haul, build structures, and keep production going as long as they're fed.
  • ride creatures across land, sea, and sky to reach places you can't access on foot.
  • enter a boss portal that tells you what's inside, kill or capture the boss, and bring it home in a loot explosion.
2Doki Doki Literature Club! - The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
In this game, you can…
  • have a character break the fourth wall and address you like she knows you're at the computer.
  • check the game's files for secrets as part of what the story is asking you to do.
  • watch the story pretend to restart, then keep changing as it reveals it wasn't actually over.
  • write poems by picking single words, each choice steering the poem toward a specific girl.
  • pursue a childhood-friend romance, confess your love, and have the route end with her suicide.
  • see dialogue and visuals degrade into corrupted-looking text as the game starts to fall apart.
  • replay to shift who you spend time with and which poem words you pick, and uncover different storylines.
3Persona 5 Royal - Lead the Phantom Thieves of Hearts in this award winning, stylish turn-based RPG filled with dungeon crawling, party customization, strategic combat, and Persona fusion. Explore Tokyo, build relationships, battle Shadows, and infiltrate the minds of the corrupt to make them change their ways!
In this game, you can…
  • get framed for assault, moved to Tokyo, then dragged into a parallel world by a talking cat to commit heists.
  • send a calling card, break into someone's mind, and steal their "heart" to change how they act in real life.
  • talk enemies into joining you mid-fight, then fuse them into new monsters to build custom battle strategies.
  • spend a full in-game year budgeting every day between school, jobs, friends, workouts, and night-time dungeon raids.
  • hide behind cover, grapple to hidden routes, and ambush guards in themed dungeons that play like stealth heists.
  • trigger a critical hit, chain teammate follow-ups, and end the turn with a screen-filling group finisher.
  • build friendships that unlock concrete combat perks and special moves, not just extra dialogue.
4GRIS - Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
In this game, you can…
  • turn into a literal square.
  • paint platforms into existence with light to make your own path.
  • survive being chased by nightmarish figures in scenes that feel dangerous, even though the game has no normal death state.
  • restore color to a dead black-and-white world, and watch new routes and spaces appear as it comes back.
  • get shoved around by hostile wind, then become heavy as a cube to force your way forward.
  • flip gravity and platform while the whole world reorients around you.
  • gain new movement powers as your dress changes, from double-jumping to swimming, dolphin-like dashes, and gliding.
  • reach an ending where you sing as darkness closes in, and a second voice finally sings back with you.
5NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM 4 - The latest opus in the acclaimed STORM series is taking you on a colourful and breathtaking ride. Take advantage of the totally revamped battle system and prepare to dive into the most epic fights you’ve ever seen !
In this game, you can…
  • pair two characters to unleash a unique team ultimate, like Pain trapping foes in a giant sphere while Konan carpet-bombs it with paper bombs.
  • trigger character-specific ultimate attacks that play out as full cinematic set pieces, like Madara's Perfect Susanoo splitting mountains in two.
  • switch fighters mid-combo to keep a hit going, then chain into a different character's attacks to extend the string.
  • activate an in-fight transformation that pauses the action, then drops you back in with a new form like a mini episode climax.
  • play story battles as staged boss fights with quick-time sequences, where set pieces escalate into anime-scale finales.
  • choose between two story paths that follow Naruto and Sasuke separately, then converge for the war's turning point.
  • free-roam around a hub, pick fights on the fly, then get pulled into mob-clearing brawls or sudden boss encounters.
  • land a hit on someone and keep them airborne so long they barely touch the ground for minutes in a row.
6OMORI - Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
In this game, you can…
  • swap everyone's mood mid-fight, where happy, angry, and sad counter each other and add extra effects when you get hit.
  • trigger special follow-up attacks based on how close your friends are, with different effects depending on the relationship.
  • make choices that open different areas, bosses, and endings, turning what looks like a short RPG into a much longer run.
  • wake up in an empty white room with only a lightbulb, a laptop, blankets, tissues, and a sketchbook.
  • fight bosses that change and escalate as the battle goes on, so the fight itself plays out like a story scene.
  • roam a bright hand-drawn dream world, then step back into a quieter real town, with the game using that contrast throughout the story.
  • replay for a whole second layer of content, with perfect-run conditions, a boss rush, and a superboss that expects real mastery.
  • notice small details early, then come back later and realize they were foreshadowing, with scenes and objects clicking into place hours afterward.
7Persona 4 Golden - A coming of age story that sets the protagonist and his friends on a journey kickstarted by a chain of serial murders.
In this game, you can…
  • step into your TV on a rainy night.
  • build friendships — even with a shrine fox — that directly power up your combat fusions.
  • fight someone's "other self" so their Persona can awaken and join your team afterward.
  • live a full school year where every day is two choices.
  • capture Personas, then fuse them into custom builds with the exact skills and resistances you want.
  • dive into a foggy TV-world dungeon of random floors, hunt the staircase, and push deeper for treasure and rare fights.
  • investigate a string of disappearances by chasing clues across town, watching the Midnight Channel, then entering the next victim's TV world before the deadline hits.
  • bounce from goofy school trips and club hangouts to life-or-death boss fights as your classmates become a full detective squad.
8A Dance of Fire and Ice - A Dance of Fire and Ice is a strict rhythm game. Keep your focus as you guide two orbiting planets along a winding path without breaking their perfect equilibrium.
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In this game, you can…
  • guide two orbiting planets down a winding track by tapping exactly on the beat to keep them perfectly in sync.
  • sight-read an entire level because the track shows every upcoming rhythm pattern in advance.
  • build and share your own levels in an editor where songs become detailed, playable geometric patterns.
  • start with simple taps, then get pushed into tighter timing and stranger structures that make you follow the song's shape.
  • learn new patterns in short lesson sections, then immediately face a final track that makes you combine everything at once.
  • replay any song as a speed challenge, gradually ramping up until you're hitting the same patterns at a faster tempo.
  • pull in community and workshop worlds—bonus packs, curated picks, and extra levels—so the game keeps expanding past the campaign.
  • calibrate timing automatically or manually on the fly so your taps line up with your exact audio/display lag.
9Everlasting Summer - Visual novel loved by many – Everlasting Summer – now on Steam!
In this game, you can…
  • fall asleep on a snowy night bus and wake up in a Soviet summer camp as a younger teenager.
  • clear all six main character good endings to trigger a new character appearing at the mine and pushing the central mystery further.
  • piece together clues from multiple routes until the overarching story turns into reality-bending psychological sci-fi revelations.
  • live through a summer camp that treats your sudden de-aging like it's completely normal, even rooming you with the camp director.
  • follow a prank into a disused mine and bunker, uncovering an underground mystery thread that keeps resurfacing across routes.
  • finish a good ending and unlock an extra route that swings the whole story into horror-comedy territory.
  • replay the same days and get completely different late-game events depending on which route you're on, like uncovering secret versions of the summer.
  • play a poker-inspired card game as a side activity with real strategy instead of just dialogue choices.
10Yakuza 0 - SEGA’s legendary Japanese series finally comes to PC. Fight like hell through Tokyo and Osaka as junior yakuza Kiryu and Majima. Take a front row seat to 1980s life in Japan in an experience unlike anything else in video gaming, with uncapped framerates and 4K resolutions. A legend is born.
In this game, you can…
  • build a real-estate empire and appoint a chicken as your property manager.
  • switch between three fighting styles mid-fight, including breakdancing as a real combat style.
  • protect a moonwalking Michael Jackson lookalike from zombies using a motorcycle.
  • grab almost anything nearby and beat people with it.
  • get jumped by a huge crowd, swap styles on the fly, and end the brawl by slamming someone with a street object finisher.
  • run a full cabaret club management mode, hiring hostesses and setting them up to dominate the night.
  • spend piles of cash to unlock skills and get stronger, turning money into character growth.
  • load up the game and immediately go sing karaoke with full music-video scenes.
  • play Pocket Circuit toy-car racing and tune your build to crush kids at the track.