Best Beautiful Games on Steam
Games known for striking art direction, scenery, animation, or visual polish.
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1Red Dead Redemption 2 - Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
Dec 5, 2019
In this game, you can…
- get remembered as a thief months later, with people recalling what you stole and treating you differently.
- tie someone up, feed them to an alligator, then come back later to see scavengers pick over what's left.
- kill someone in the wilderness, then return days later to find the same body still there, rotting as birds gather.
- lose at poker, then pull a revolver, shoot the table, and loot your money back.
- watch eagles grab rabbits, fish jump for bugs, and predators hunt while the world keeps going without you.
- ride into a town, chat with strangers, and have individual people remember how you acted toward them.
- rob a train, get into a high-stakes shootout, and watch the world snap from quiet travel to explosive violence in seconds.
2Halo: The Master Chief Collection - The Master Chief’s iconic journey includes six games, built for PC and collected in a single integrated experience. Whether you’re a long-time fan or meeting Spartan 117 for the first time, The Master Chief Collection is the definitive Halo gaming experience.
Dec 3, 2019
In this game, you can…
- swap between the 2001 and anniversary visuals instantly, mid-mission, while everything else keeps playing normally
- get blindsided when a straight sci-fi shooter mission suddenly turns into claustrophobic survival horror
- build custom maps and modes, then jump into weird community-made games people invented in the browser
- storm a beach, then spill into a huge open battlefield where you choose the route, vehicles, and targets for the assault
- dual-wield guns and turn a normal firefight into a two-weapon rushdown
- play the entire campaign in 4-player co-op as your own spartans, start to finish, with everyone in the same missions
- remix the whole campaign with skulls that change how combat works, turning familiar levels into totally different challenge runs
- fight 16-player multiplayer battles with tanks, aircraft, and alien weapons all on the same map
3Detroit: Become Human - Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
Jun 18, 2020
In this game, you can…
- get a main character killed early, and the story just keeps going without them.
- open the game and have the main-menu hostess talk to you about your choices and react if you got someone killed.
- lead a robot uprising by turning workers into rebels, painting messages on walls, and choosing whether your movement stays peaceful or turns violent.
- reconstruct a crime scene from scattered clues and then interrogate a suspect with whatever story you built.
- talk your way through a hostage negotiation while every timed reply can push someone toward living or dying.
- be a housekeeper doing chores, then get yanked straight into a life-or-death escape in the same chapter.
- choose to disobey your orders to protect a child, and watch that one act reshape what your character even is.
- finish a chapter, see a branching flowchart of everything you didn't do, and replay to unlock a totally different chain of scenes.
4Stray - Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.
Jul 19, 2022
In this game, you can…
- hide inside a cardboard box to slip through restricted areas and sneak past patrols.
- team up with a little flying drone that translates robot speech, unlocks doors, carries your items, and helps you recover lost memories.
- meow on command, purr, scratch things up, and shove bottles off shelves just because you can.
- fall through a broken pipe into an underground robot city, get separated from your cat family, and climb your way back toward the surface.
- squeeze through gaps, crawl along pipes, and hop rooftops to reach places built for humans but perfect for a cat.
- distract a shopkeeper with a blaring mixtape, sneak in disguised as a box, and piece together a path forward by poking at anything that looks interesting.
- dash through a swarming chase where creatures drop from above and you have to zigzag through alleys without getting caught.
- walk across keyboards to type nonsense, mess with board games, and nuzzle robot legs until they react.
5Ori and the Will of the Wisps - Play the critically acclaimed masterpiece. Embark on a new journey in a vast, exotic world where you’ll encounter towering enemies and challenging puzzles on your quest to unravel Ori’s destiny.
Mar 10, 2020
In this game, you can…
- swap passive bonuses on the fly, even mid-fight, to change how you move and hit.
- turn a quiet hub into a busy safe zone by recruiting allies through side quests and materials.
- launch an enemy into the air, shoot it with arrows, then slam it back down with a hammer.
- chain jumps, dashes, grapples, and bashes to rocket across the map.
- fight multi-phase bosses and restart from the current phase when you die.
- race time-trial courses built around pure movement speed and clean routes.
- get a new area-specific power, then return to old zones and open totally new routes and secrets with it.
- use a real weapon loadout with melee and ranged options, then switch your style by re-slotting your kit.
6Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered - In Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, the worlds of Peter Parker and Spider-Man collide in an original action-packed story. Play as an experienced Peter Parker, fighting big crime and iconic villains in Marvel’s New York. Web-swing through vibrant neighborhoods and defeat villains with epic takedowns.
Aug 12, 2022
In this game, you can…
- chain roof launches, wall-runs, free-dives, point zips, and last-second swing catches before hitting the street.
- web an enemy to a wall or a car, then grab a manhole cover and slam someone with it mid-brawl.
- unlock tons of suits and use suit powers that change how fights play out, including showing up in an underwear suit for serious missions.
- throw yourself off a rooftop and start web-swinging across Manhattan.
- swing straight into a fight and stay moving while you dodge bullets, leap over enemies, and keep attacking without stopping.
- clear enemy hideouts silently with stealth takedowns across rooftops and interiors around the city.
- drop to street level mid-patrol and hear civilians react to you cheering, criticizing, or freaking out as you pass.
- snap photos of famous landmarks like a tourist, including selfies from the tops of skyscrapers.
- get a running J. Jonah Jameson radio show that reacts to what you're doing around the city.
7Outer Wilds - Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Jun 18, 2020
In this game, you can…
- die in a 22-minute loop when the sun explodes, then restart and sprint somewhere new with only what you learned.
- explore a planet as it collapses under you and drops whole sections into a black hole mid-investigation.
- learn a few rules about quantum objects, then use only that understanding to reach a moon you could have visited immediately if you'd known how.
- wake up, get a ship and suit, and just fly to any planet with no quest markers or locked areas.
- advance the entire story with knowledge alone, then use a clue from one planet to crack a mystery on another.
- set autopilot to a planet, smash into something you didn't notice, spacewalk to patch the hull, and watch your ship fly away without you.
- race through an underground city before it fills with sand, because the landscape shifts in real time as the loop ticks.
- finish the entire game in under 20 minutes if you already know what to do.
8Half-Life: Alyx - Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.
Mar 23, 2020
In this game, you can…
- flick your hand to pull distant items straight into your grasp.
- hold your hand over your mouth to hide from Jeff, then creep past him without making a sound while he hunts by hearing.
- grab a health injector during a firefight and immediately stab it into your opposite wrist to stay alive.
- catch a fresh ammo clip mid-air, slam it in, chamber a round, and keep firing while enemies swarm your cover.
- physically rummage through drawers, fridges, shelves, and filing cabinets for bullets and supplies instead of clicking a loot button.
- throw bottles through windows to lure enemies, then watch the glass shatter and leave debris and a puddle behind.
- carry Gnome Chompski through the entire game to earn an achievement.
9GRIS - 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.
Dec 13, 2018
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.
10Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition - “Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning Action-Platformer crafted by Moon Studios.
Apr 27, 2016
In this game, you can…
- drop a checkpoint almost anywhere, but only by spending the same energy you need for powers and survival.
- freeze the action, latch onto an enemy or projectile, aim, and launch yourself like a slingshot across the room.
- dash off an enemy, projectile, or lantern to fling yourself forward while kicking that object away in the opposite direction.
- outrun a collapsing disaster in escape chases where every jump and wall-climb has to land or you restart.
- redirect enemy shots into switches, walls, or other hazards to solve obstacles and win fights with their own attacks.
- chain wall jumps, double jumps, stomps, dashes, glides, and bashes into one flowing traversal combo across the map.
- throw a glowing orb to open routes, extend movement, and turn projectile play into both travel and combat options.
- teleport between warp points so you can revisit far-off zones and clean up secrets without trekking the whole world again.
