Best Replay Value Games on Steam
Games worth revisiting through varied builds, routes, modes, outcomes, or mastery.
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1Terraria - Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
May 16, 2011
In this game, you can…
- kill one world-changing boss and watch new biomes appear, new ores rise up, and the whole map turn into a deadlier version of itself.
- hunt down specific triggers to summon absurd bosses, like catching a rare worm just to call up a sea monster that can wipe you.
- fight a boss rush that starts with a cult leader, escalates into world-invading pillars, and ends with a final boss dropping in immediately after the last pillar falls.
- build a tiny shelter before night, then hold out until dawn against monsters that suddenly flood the surface.
- dig so deep you stumble into giant underground landmarks like beehives, buried pyramids, and hidden mushroom biomes.
- build a custom arena with platforms and buffs, then use it to fight bosses on your own terms instead of wherever you happen to meet them.
- build a hotel-like tower of houses to attract dozens of NPC residents, then watch them move in and sell new gear and services.
2Left 4 Dead 2 - Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Nov 16, 2009
In this game, you can…
- play as the infected in multiplayer, coordinating ambushes and hunting your friends as special monsters.
- have a giant brute show up mid-fight and start throwing cars at you in the middle of your escape route.
- run the same campaign twice and get different enemy spawns, item placement, lighting, and even weather, changing every fight and route.
- rip through a crowd with a chainsaw, then swap to a frying pan and keep clearing zombies up close.
- get grabbed by a long tongue and dragged around a corner while your team has to sprint after you.
- startle a crying witch, and she instantly mauls the nearest survivor.
- get vomited on, and it immediately calls a horde straight onto your whole team.
- race to fill a generator with gas cans while the other team tries to stop you, turning the match into a frantic objective sprint.
3The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
Nov 4, 2014
In this game, you can…
- shoot tears that orbit you, float in place, explode, become knives, or turn into screen-filling lasers.
- sell your soul for devil powers like wings, then keep descending into your mother's womb and even hell.
- unlock a dead version of yourself, use it to kill yourself, and get dice powers as the reward
- turn one item pickup into a complete reroute of how you fight and survive.
- find secret rooms and hidden shops by probing walls, then turn a quiet floor into a jackpot of weird items.
- step into a dice room and reroll the whole run's fate in a single gamble.
- start as a naked baby, get a cat for making a deal, then climb deeper through basement floors via holes in the ground.
- stack item synergies until bosses die instantly and your attacks become an unstoppable flood.
4DARK SOULS™ III - Dark Souls continues to push the boundaries with the latest, ambitious chapter in the critically-acclaimed and genre-defining series. Prepare yourself and Embrace The Darkness!
Apr 11, 2016
In this game, you can…
- unlock a door or elevator and realize the level loops back over itself to where you started.
- hit a chest that turns out to be a monster and fights back.
- get invaded by a hostile player in your world and fight them off mid-journey.
- find secret rooms by striking walls that look solid.
- use special weapon skills that change your moves and spend a magic-like meter.
- summon strangers to co-op, then beat the same bosses in both of your worlds together.
- do a full boss fight that's a puzzle, like breaking a giant's bracelets instead of dueling normally.
- gesture at the Fire Keeper and get a unique gesture response back.
5Undertale - UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
Sep 15, 2015
In this game, you can…
- decide whether to spare or kill every single character, and watch the dialogue, music, endings, and even boss behavior change.
- murder everyone on purpose and have the game treat it like a moral catastrophe that it remembers even when you try to play nice later.
- pet a dog over and over until the game reacts, then get carried across a river by a duck that picks you up and flies you over.
- talk enemies down and end fights without killing anyone.
- dodge enemy attacks in real time while you pick dialogue options to change what the enemy does next.
- accidentally kill one monster and end up on a different route, then reset and unlock a completely new pacifist path by sparing everyone.
- go on a date with a skeleton and build friendships that unlock new scenes and outcomes instead of just giving you stats.
- finish what feels like the ending, get pushed to rethink your choices, then replay and see huge route-specific scenes you missed.
6Hades - Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Sep 17, 2020
In this game, you can…
- choose a power-up and trigger a new bit of gossip between gods mid-run.
- die, walk out of a blood pool at home, then talk to everyone for new dialogue and upgrades before trying again.
- give gifts to characters and get powerful keepsakes back, so your friendships directly change your combat build.
- swap between six weapons that play wildly differently, including aspects that can completely change how the weapon works.
- stack your own difficulty modifiers for better rewards, choosing exactly which new handicaps you want to deal with.
- finish a room, pick between two next paths, and watch your build evolve choice by choice until it collides with a boss fight.
- have the story react to exactly how your last run ended, with characters teasing or comforting you about specific deaths and wins.
7Cities: Skylines - Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Mar 10, 2015
In this game, you can…
- accidentally route sewage outflow into your own drinking-water pumps and watch the whole city get sick from polluted water.
- follow a single named citizen as they commute, work, shop, and chain a metro ride into a bus transfer.
- use mods to expand the playable map far beyond the base size and even fly a plane through your own city.
- lay roads from a lone highway connection and watch empty land turn into neighborhoods with homes, shops, and factories.
- rebuild highway exits and roundabouts until traffic patterns actually change and congestion drops dramatically across the city.
- draw and rename districts, then flip policies like free public transport or no high-rises to reshape how an area develops.
- build a dam that raises the river, then watch the new water level flood whatever neighborhoods you put too close.
- run buses, metros, trains, taxis, cargo ships, and airports, then tune routes so the entire transport network works together.
8Detroit: 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.
9RimWorld - A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Oct 17, 2018
In this game, you can…
- stockpile hundreds of mortar shells, have one cook off during a raid, and set off a chain reaction that blows half your mountain base apart.
- trap an insect infestation in a sealed room, steal the jelly, and keep repeating until the bugs are basically livestock.
- recruit a cannibal crime lord, feed him nutrient paste, surgically add retractable claws, and rename him C.A.N.N.I.B.A.L.
- start as a lone 74-year-old scientist, build cleaning robots, survive a siege, then install turrets and replace your colonists with bionics.
- watch a pet rat jump a raider, die in the fight, and still make the raider bleed out from the wounds.
- build layered turrets, combat cyborgs, and war animals, then have a horde of manhunting tortoises chew through the perimeter and overwhelm the whole plan.
- turn a prisoner into a walking happiness beacon by installing mood tech, then keep them around as a mobile morale boost.
- amputate an infected foot by hitting it with a jade club.
10Slay the Spire - We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Jan 23, 2019
In this game, you can…
- cut your deck down until you can loop actions forever and take turn after turn without running out.
- stack armor so high you can copy a card and turn that defense into a one-hit kill.
- upgrade a key card at a campfire, via an event, or even mid-fight, and have the new version change how every combat plays out.
- build a deck from scratch, choosing one of three new cards after every fight.
- pick a route each act, weighing shops, campfires, mystery events, and elite fights that can define your whole run.
- find a single relic that permanently changes what strategies are even possible for the rest of the run.
- walk into a question-mark event that can hand you a blessing, a curse, or a new rule you have to build around on the spot.
