Best Reboot Games on Steam
Games that restart, reinterpret, or modernize an existing series or concept.
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1Tomb Raider Game of the Year - Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.
Mar 4, 2013
In this game, you can…
- upgrade your bow into fire arrows and napalm arrows that change how fights play out.
- chain climbing-axe routes, rope arrows, and rope ascenders to open new vertical paths through cliffs, ruins, and hidden areas.
- craft and scavenge upgrades until your weapons evolve into heavier gear like an automatic rifle with a grenade launcher.
- survive a shipwrecking storm and scramble to reunite with your crew while the island's people, animals, and ancient forces hunt you down.
- silently pick off guards with a bow from treetops at night.
- find hidden tombs that each play like their own puzzle space, tucked off the main survival route.
- escape collapsing set pieces where planes crash, villages tumble, and you keep pushing forward through the destruction.
- hunt animals for food and tackle survival side objectives like blowing up old sea mines.
2XCOM: Enemy Unknown - The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
Oct 8, 2012
In this game, you can…
- capture aliens alive, interrogate them, autopsy them, and turn their bodies into new weapons and armor.
- infect civilians into zombies that burst into new aliens, spreading the outbreak across the map.
- blow holes through walls and erase enemy cover with rockets and grenades.
- name and customize soldiers, then watch them survive promotions, injuries, and impossible missions for dozens of battles.
- shoot down a UFO, then storm the crash site and clear out whatever survived.
- run a whole war from a base: scan for threats, launch satellites, choose research, and decide which countries get saved.
- deploy late-game soldiers in MEC suits, psionic powers, and flight armor that let them fight like sci-fi monsters.
- juggle multiple high-stakes operations so you can't always rely on one "A team," forcing you to spread veterans across missions.
3DmC: Devil May Cry - In this retelling of Dante's origin story which is set against a contemporary backdrop, DmC Devil May Cry™ retains the stylish action.
Jan 24, 2013
In this game, you can…
- fight through a world that rearranges itself in real time to block you, crush you, and force new routes forward.
- turn on Devil Trigger and loop a slam that spikes an enemy into the ground, bounces them back up, and lets you repeat the hit again.
- fight bosses that include a demon puppet disguised as a news reporter, plus other showpiece fights built around bizarre themes.
- switch your sword between angel and demon forms mid-combo, changing both how you hit enemies and how you move.
- juggle enemies high in the air, then yank them back with demon power or chase them upward with angel lift to keep the combo going.
- launch huge enemies into the air with a charged uppercut, then treat them like juggling practice instead of immovable tanks.
- use gunfire as a combo tool to hold enemies in place and extend juggles instead of treating shooting like a fallback.
- hunt down secrets that are so well hidden you can miss them even while actively trying to 100% levels.
4Shadow Warrior - Shadow Warrior is a bold reimagining of the classic 3D Realms’ shooter from independent developer Flying Wild Hog (Hard Reset) starring the legendary and quick-witted warrior Lo Wang.
Sep 26, 2013
In this game, you can…
- find a hidden rabbit scene, hit one, and trigger a flaming demon-rabbit while heavy metal suddenly starts blasting.
- upgrade weapons into ridiculous alternate fires, like a rocket launcher that launches all its ammo at once.
- use demon artifacts like a disembodied head that shoots eye lasers and a heart that can kill demons in a blast.
- spin your katana in a full circle and cut down everything around you.
- chop enemies apart so precisely you can tear off limbs and stop certain attacks mid-fight.
- dash constantly through arena ambushes, chaining movement and melee while waves of enemies pour in from every side.
- carry your entire arsenal at once and swap freely between katanas, shotguns, crossbows, flamethrowers, and rockets on the fly.
- rate your fights like a performance, getting scored after you wipe out a cluster of enemies based on how you did.
5Chip's Challenge 1 - Before Chip can join the Bit Busters computer club and hang out with the girl of his dreams, Melinda the Mental Marvel, he must solve all 144 challenging puzzles. Your bird's-eye view can help Chip rush through the puzzles and mazes before he's deleted by monsters, traps and the passage of time.
May 28, 2015
In this game, you can…
- lure a chomper into standing on an unlock switch so it holds the door open for you.
- pause the action to watch a moving block's direction, then unpause and commit to a tight crossing.
- switch between classic Windows-style graphics and a modern animated look, with the sounds and music to match.
- race a level timer while collecting chips, grabbing keys, and routing around water, fire, ice, teleporters, and monsters in the right order.
- scout a level first to uncover hazards and item locations, then come back and run a clean, confident solution.
- collect chips that unlock the exit portal.
- revisit the same puzzle idea later, but rebuilt with extra traps and new constraints that force a smarter solution the second time.
- cross a safe-looking area, realize the last chips would trap you, then detour into enemy territory and escape by turning a monster into a tool.
6ChipWits - Program a robot to solve logic puzzles in ChipWits, an open-ended programming game for beginners and experts alike! Inspired by the 1980s original, ChipWits combines the best of puzzle games, automation, and programming to introduce a new generation of players to a classic gaming experience.
Jul 11, 2025
In this game, you can…
- build tiny programs that loop, branch, and react to what's nearby to grab goodies, dodge baddies, and move objects.
- tackle semi-randomized floors where you can't memorize a path and have to invent a fresh program on the spot.
- build an external AI agent that plays the game and test it against monthly challenge solutions.
- program a robot by placing instruction chips on a grid, hit play, and watch it follow the exact route you laid out.
- rewire a finished solution to use fewer chips or fewer cycles, then replay the whole run to see the tighter program work.
- enter special challenge modes that add brand-new floors and limited-time events on top of the original 1980s puzzle set.
- compare your solution efficiency on leaderboards and histograms, then keep iterating until you climb the rankings.
7Subcube - Subcube, a thoughtful brain-teasing puzzle game that will keep you entertained for hours! Get ready to test your mind in a world of rotating blocks, where your only objective is to construct a cube. With challenging levels that will test your spatial reasoning skills, you'll be enlightened!
Oct 18, 2019
In this game, you can…
- assemble cubes from Tetris-like pieces instead of rolling a cube.
- play an infinite mode where new pieces arrive, and after 12 moves the next one must be locked in.
- rotate the entire playfield, roll individual pieces, and undo forever until the cube finally fits.
- chase gold medals by solving within a move limit, then keep solving anyway for silver or bronze.
- build near-cubes like 3x2x3 when the game decides "close enough" counts as a cube.
- swap between multiple active pieces mid-build to keep a cube-like shape forming as the stream continues.
- unlock new pages of puzzles every five solves, so you can advance without clearing an entire set.
8Humerous (REBOOT) - After an awful time at a Halloween party, the night welcomes you with a deep cold breeze. With your car busted and unusable thanks to your drunk tennant, a single pavement awaits for your determined fate....
Nov 23, 2025
In this game, you can…
- take a break in the forest and trigger consequences you didn't see coming.
- chase branching choices all the way to 11 different endings.
- uncover a cold case after one careless pause makes you miss something important.
- flip off a Halloween party host and sprint out the front door.
- get stranded when your busted car forces a walk home.
- decide how you actually make it home once the night turns wrong.
- solve puzzles along the way instead of only reading dialogue.
- hit big story beats with 20+ fully drawn illustrations
9Cube Blast Match - A casual color blast puzzler with a 3D twist - solve increasingly complex 3D match puzzles. There are also some aliens and explosions involved.
Feb 20, 2025
In this game, you can…
- solve 3D tower puzzles by pushing colorful blocks around stacked layers
- race a spreading blob that keeps growing if you don't destroy it in time
- restart a level for a different opening layout and a different solve
- switch up every stage with objectives like clearing exact colors, breaking special blocks, or dropping blocks to the bottom
- buy extra moves mid-level with coins when a run is getting tight
- chain bigger combos for more points and chase full-star clears across all levels
