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Vacation Cafe Simulator - Cozy Italian Vacation Cafe 🏖️ No timers, No stress 😌 cook traditional dishes 🍝 upgrade and customize 🏠 just drink Prosecco 🥂 relax and grow your dream cafe ✨
Aug 20, 2026
The Lantern of the Laughless Saint - A solo or co-op RPG inspired by Morrowind. Drawn by a shared dream, you awaken on an isolated island crowned by a silent Tower. Unravel the mystery of the Laughless Saint, confront the weight of human desire, and decide what deserves to be saved when the light beneath the world finally stirs.
Aug 17, 2026
Sandustry - Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Aug 13, 2026
Astrobuilder - An AI-driven space management RPG in a living galaxy. Explore 150+ planets and interact with 600+ NPCs whose lives and relationships evolve over time. Trade, run shops, build a Commerce Guild, join Military Factions, govern planets, and command fleets in war. Your every choice reshape the galaxy.
Aug 13, 2026
Luminary - "Very Positive" Demo, Luminary is a solo or co-op OpenZone Action RPG that creates a balanced experience for everyone. Using a unique world and character progression system, explore vast hand-crafted lands together, uncover hidden treasures, level up your town, and push back the darkness with light.
Aug 11, 2026
Ostranauts - Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
Aug 3, 2026
Osta - A militaria collecting simulator where you hunt for items through metal detecting, auctions, and markets to build your collection and customize your home. Travel to various locations to uncover the relics of different conflicts throughout history.
Jul 29, 2026
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Demolish & Build 2017 - Become a boss of Demolition & Build company. Destroy small wooden huts and huge concrete buildings. Manage your workers. Invest earned cash in your own land properties and rent them for profit in open sandbox world. Use various hand tools, buy new machines and customize their parts.
Oct 18, 2016
Ultimate Fishing Simulator® - Bored of waiting for a bite? Would you like to catch some fish? You're lucky - in Ultimate Fishing Simulator, fish bite like crazy! Spinning, float fishing, ground fishing, and more! Comprehensive fishing simulator that allows using various techniques, in different places around the world!
Aug 30, 2018
Giant Machines 2017 - Take control over seven of the biggest industrial machines in the world. During the 14 mission campaign you will punch through the snows of Greenland, plow the steppes of Wyoming and travel all the way to sunny Florida. Your hard work will be completed by launching a space shuttle into space.
Sep 29, 2016
American Theft 80s - From the THIEF SIMULATOR developers. It's the 80s. Steal VCRs, tapes, classic cars, and if you get caught, outrun the police!
Jun 15, 2022
Thief Simulator - Become the best thief. Gather intel, steal things and sell them to buy hi-tech equipment. Do everything that a real thief does.
Nov 9, 2018
Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 - Build and expand your repair service empire in this incredibly detailed and highly realistic simulation game, where attention to car detail is astonishing. Find classic, unique cars in the new Barn Find module and Junkyard module. You can even add your self-made car in the Car Editor.
Jul 28, 2017
Demolish & Build 2018 - Your company is going global. Use big machines to demolish huge buildings or go close and personal and use your hammer. Buy land properties, upgrade your machines and hire workers in different parts of the world.
Mar 8, 2018
Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 - New cars, new tools, new options, more parts and much more fun in the next version of Car Mechanic Simulator! Take your wrench! Create and expand your auto repairs service empire. Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 will take you behind the scenes of daily routine in car workshop.
Apr 23, 2015
The Chant - A single-player, third person horror action-adventure game set on a remote spiritual island retreat. To survive you must craft, fight, and escape the psychedelic horrors set loose when a spiritual ritual goes wrong and awakens a dimension of cosmic terror.
Nov 3, 2022
Into The Flames - Into The Flames is a Solo/Co-op firefighting game that focuses on the intensity of being a real life firefighter. Drive emergency vehicles, bust down doors, fight raging fires, and do whatever it takes to bring the chaotic scene under control!
Jan 10, 2023
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One - In this story-driven detective thriller, a young Sherlock Holmes struggles to prove himself as he navigates an exotic, dangerous island in the Mediterranean to investigate the mystery of his mother’s death.
Nov 15, 2021
Gedonia - Gedonia is a classic open world rpg, featuring a complete freedom of building your character, exploring a huge world and completing quests.
Oct 14, 2022
Top Rated
Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.
A Short Hike - Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Jul 30, 2019
Smushi Come Home - Play as a tiny lil' mushroom who's lost in the forest and can't find its way home. Explore unique areas freely at your own pace, chat with friendly inhabitants, and take on different adventures to get back home!
Jun 10, 2023
Schedule I - From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Mar 24, 2025
Factorio - Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Aug 14, 2020
Mount & Blade: Warband - In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!
Mar 31, 2010
Slime Rancher - Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
Aug 1, 2017
Goat Simulator 3 - Pilgor's baaack! Gather your herd and venture forth into Goat Simulator 3; an all-new (at least on Steam), totally realistic, sandbox farmyard experience. Invite up to three friends in local or online co-op, create carnage as a team, or compete in mini-games and then not be friends anymore.
Feb 15, 2024
WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition - Live the life of a wild wolf in a realistic ecological simulation set in Yellowstone National Park.
Jul 22, 2025
West of Loathing - West of Loathing — a slapstick comedy stick-figure wild west adventure role-playing game.
Aug 10, 2017
BABBDI - Find your way out of BABBDI. A short, first person exploration experience.
Dec 22, 2022
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure - Even the smallest person can make a big difference. Join Alba, as she sets out to save her beautiful island and its wildlife. And possibly start a revolution.
Dec 11, 2020
Loddlenaut - Play as an interstellar custodian sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. Pick up trash, explore the vibrant waters, and take care of axolotl-like alien creatures!
Nov 16, 2023
