Best FMV Games on Steam

Games built around full-motion video footage, filmed performances, or interactive cinema.

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1Inscryption - Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
In this game, you can…
  • have the game reach outside itself to use your actual files and even turn your Steam friends into cards.
  • watch the whole game abruptly switch from a 3D tabletop in a cabin to a Game Boy-style pixel world mid-story.
  • pull a dagger at the table, then fight the moon as a final boss when the rules say that should be impossible.
  • get trapped in a remote cabin, play cards for your life, then stand up and solve the room's secrets between rounds.
  • sacrifice squirrels and other creatures to summon bigger beasts, making each turn about timing, placement, and painful choices.
  • finish the story and still keep discovering secret rooms, hidden dialogue paths, and new interactions by poking around.
  • unlock a replayable roguelite mode with endless runs, new challenges, and modifiers that change how every run plays.
  • accidentally build a combo deck that suddenly becomes absurdly overpowered and snowballs into a runaway win condition.
2Love Is All Around - The player becomes Gu Yi, uses the first-person perspective to immerse himself in meeting six beauties, and embarks on a joyful and sweet love journey with them. Six girls that are charming, innocent, intelligent, wild, sexy, glamorous, who will go to the end with you is up to you to decide.
In this game, you can…
  • choose wrong in a romance scene and get killed by the woman you're pursuing.
  • explore rooms, click objects, and find hidden clips and clues that can change what endings you can reach later.
  • pretend to be someone's husband, then watch that lie branch into totally different relationships.
  • get run down by a car and have it kick off a romance route.
  • answer a tiny "what's different about me?" question right, gain affection, and still get locked out of her ending.
  • hit route finales where you have to do the exact right actions and answers to unlock a woman's true ending.
  • get buried alive by Zheng Ziyan if you play a route badly enough.
  • bounce through over 100 branches and 12 endings, backtracking to see how one choice reshapes multiple relationships.
3Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection - Command & Conquer and Red Alert are both remastered in 4K by the former Westwood Studios team members. Includes all 3 expansions, rebuilt multiplayer, a modernized UI, Map Editor, bonus footage gallery, and over 7 hours of remastered music.
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Jun 5, 2020
91% 👍
of 34k
In this game, you can…
  • toggle the visuals between the original 1995 look and a 4K remaster mid-battle.
  • roll into multiplayer and face tank swarms so huge someone can show up with 1000 tanks.
  • play console-only missions on PC alongside the full original campaigns and expansions.
  • unlock a gallery of archived footage, photos, and unreleased music as you finish missions.
  • build custom music playlists and loop re-recorded tracks, demos, and alternate versions for an entire match.
  • watch preserved, upscaled live-action briefings where officials talk directly to you and the story escalates mission by mission.
  • pull off a comeback by surviving a Mammoth tank rush with minelayers, then turning the game around with a capture play.
  • win an objective like capturing an Orca, then choose to end it there or wipe the rest of the base for extra control.
4Not For Broadcast - A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?
In this game, you can…
  • juggle camera cuts, audio, ads, and censorship while the control room overheats, shorts out, gets hit by lightning, and keeps trying to shut down.
  • change someone's fate by what you play on-air, like tanking a career with repeated boo sounds or saving a life by timing an ad break.
  • air a harmless-looking toy ad, then face a later news segment where the presenters react to the fallout from advertising it.
  • switch live camera feeds and bleep words in real time, with no rewind, while the broadcast keeps rolling.
  • keep a finger on the censor button as guests blurt swear words and political slip-ups you have to bleep on cue.
  • keep the show on air while new problems stack up, from signal interference to stuffed-toy chaos to fending off a murderer mid-broadcast.
  • broadcast a scandal live when a public official's hidden sex-dungeon story explodes on camera during an interview.
  • rewatch the entire broadcast afterward and see everything that was happening off-camera while you were switching feeds.
  • shape the country's politics by what you choose to show, making the ruling party's rise and the slide into authoritarianism play out on-air.
5Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars™ - The year is 2047. A massive nuclear fireball explodes high in the night sky, marking the dramatic beginning of the Third Tiberium War and the long-awaited return of the most groundbreaking Real-Time Strategy franchise of all time
In this game, you can…
  • drop fully built buildings instantly from a mobile construction yard.
  • trigger an alien invasion campaign with flying battleships, ion storms, and combined super-units.
  • build an army with no unit cap, including swarms like 100+ infantry flooding a construction yard.
  • position tanks to exploit directional armor and survive fights you'd otherwise lose.
  • capture key enemy structures mid-mission with engineers to flip the whole objective.
  • watch veteran units rank up into aces that regenerate health at max rank.
  • survive a mission where attacks hit from all four sides while your base runs on a power shortage.
  • use beam cannons to crack hardened defenses instead of just throwing more units at them.
6Knowledge, or know Lady - You, the "sole male student" at a women's university, are about to embark on a sweet and laughter-filled campus love journey from a first-person perspective! How will you resist the temptations of the beauties and create your own legend in this girls' school?
In this game, you can…
  • unlock Nico's best ending by first clearing Wen Zai/Serena's path, then choosing not to peek during strip mahjong.
  • unlock duo endings, including a final "everyone happy" style ending as a special reward.
  • carry an item from chapter 1 all the way to the final chapter, where it unlocks later dialogue options and endings.
  • unlock a hidden setting by fighting Xiao, blocking every punch, then choosing the nurse afterward.
  • hunt for unmarked background clicks and hidden items that only appear after you've played a different character's route.
  • play a one-sentence storytelling game where five women keep escalating the same sentence into rival fox-spirit fantasy chaos.
  • jump back to any story junction, fast-forward footage you've seen, and change decisions without replaying the whole game.
7The Operator - Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
In this game, you can…
  • walk someone through bomb disposal in real time while a countdown keeps you making calls under pressure
  • sit at an agency console and use real tools to link evidence, scan chemicals, search databases, and build a case from metadata
  • trigger a twist where your identity and memories may have been altered, and earlier medical tests suddenly make sense
  • get sent live video and files from field agents, then cross-check tattoos, vehicles, and next of kin to identify suspects
  • piece together a missing-persons-and-murder conspiracy that keeps widening as cyber attacks and new evidence hit your desk
  • dig into locked files and optional details you can miss, then spot extra clues that change how you read later scenes
  • connect scattered documents, calls, and hidden details until everything snaps into place and the case recontextualizes itself
8Five Hearts Under One Roof - Yuman’s, the player, once solitary home and routine are now invaded by five beautiful women! Each has her unique charm – the 'childhood friend of 20 years,' the 'first love and former idol,' the 'demanding boss,' the 'bold younger girl,' and the 'shy recluse.' Who will you choose?
In this game, you can…
  • get fed "sexy sausages" by a fan-favorite Sausage Man, then kiss his bearded face in a full-on romance moment.
  • decide how to handle a guy bothering your date by punching him, staying silent, hiding behind her, or even kissing him.
  • find out a girl has been living in your attic all along, then get pulled into a sudden phantom-thief-style twist.
  • turn your empty home into a boarding house with five women moving in at once.
  • pick an absurd dialogue option like "drop your pants" just to see what chaos it unlocks.
  • unlock hidden cutscenes, bonus videos, and secret endings that only appear after unexpected choices.
  • take a tarot-style fortune scene that nudges the romance down a more symbolic branch.
  • watch the romance escalate so fast that women can jump you after a single conversation.
9Mandate Of Heaven - You will take on the role of the Second Prince of Xuan, heir of the Southern Regime. With foreign invaders entrenched in the north and a complacent court content to linger in the south, you face a defining choice:The choice… is yours!
In this game, you can…
  • save a random official's son in the prologue and get made emperor in Chapter 1.
  • make a tiny choice in Chapter 1 reshape events hours later.
  • branch into dozens of endings across hundreds of story forks, with entire routes hidden behind specific choices.
  • pick a single dialogue option that can kill you or end the story early.
  • grow from a brother-pleasing young man into a ruthless, calculating emperor over the full route.
  • choose who to trust and who to backstab in court, with each alliance shifting your power and the empire's fate.
  • steer a war campaign and a northern reclamation push while the court rises and falls around you.
  • trigger a late-game scene where your sickly ruler speaks with his dead wife, tied to a web of in-law politics.
10Command & Conquer™ 3: Kane’s Wrath - In the name of Kane! The Command & Conquer™ series continues to thrive with Command & Conquer™ 3: Kane’s Wrath.
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Nov 13, 2009
94% 👍
of 5.8k
In this game, you can…
  • steal an enemy base early with an engineer, grab their tech, and suddenly roll out two different epic units at once.
  • kite enemy anti-air, pick off their escort, then fly in and drop your infantry out of the helicopter to delete the anti-air from above.
  • fight a war on two layers by expanding across a planetary map first, then dropping into the ground battle to decide it.
  • level up units through combat, then start treating veterans as prized assets because keeping them alive makes them stronger.
  • load elite infantry into a helicopter, turning it into a flying gun platform that hits like an entirely different unit.
  • field a one-per-player epic unit and customize it mid-battle by loading different infantry inside for things like anti-air or self-healing.
  • pick a sub-faction that rewires your whole army style, trading away options like stealth to specialize hard into firepower.