Best Walking Simulator Games on Steam
Narrative exploration games focused on place, atmosphere, story, and movement.
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1The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition - Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.
Oct 27, 2016
In this game, you can…
- turn into a werewolf or vampire lord, feed on enemies, blot out the sun, then summon a skeleton horse and a zombie dragon.
- join a crime syndicate, sell your soul to an evil god, kill the boss, then enlist in a hitman cult.
- join one side of a civil war, change your mind midstream, switch sides, and help wipe out your old allies.
- start on an execution block, then escape when a dragon attacks.
- marry someone, adopt kids, build a house, then head out to fight dragons again.
- go to a magic college, find a dangerous artifact, stop a power grab, and end up running the place.
- shout with dragon power to blast enemies apart and even ride dragons.
2Life is Strange - Episode 1 - Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Jan 29, 2015
In this game, you can…
- rewind a classroom shooting to stop it and save the target.
- rewind time to preview a choice, watch the reaction, then redo it before you commit.
- end the story by choosing to save one person or sacrifice an entire town.
- set up the room, trigger a mess, then rewind so the objects stay positioned for what you need next.
- engineer paint to spill on a bully blocking your way, then rewind to choose whether to expose her or befriend her.
- reunite with a childhood friend you just saved, then follow a storm vision to a lighthouse and start chasing a tornado mystery.
- sit on a bed, swing, or bench and just watch the world in silence while music plays.
3Outlast - Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
Sep 4, 2013
In this game, you can…
- use a camcorder's night vision to see in total darkness, but every second burns battery so you have to keep scavenging while you're hunted.
- get through most of the game with no weapons at all.
- get grabbed, thrown through windows, and dragged through doors when enemies catch you instead of just taking damage.
- turn on a generator to restore power, then immediately survive your first full chase and find the nearest place to hide.
- sneak in through scaffolding and vents, open a door, and find a skinned corpse hanging upside down in the library.
- crawl through wrecked offices and cells, push into blacked-out rooms, and keep moving while you never know what's waiting behind the next doorway.
- pick up documents and notes to uncover what happened at Mount Massive, including a corporation's experiments and what they turned people into.
4Firewatch - Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
Feb 9, 2016
In this game, you can…
- walk into a remote research outpost and find transcripts of your private radio conversations already written down.
- follow a strange lake signal to a hidden site, get knocked out, and wake up to a mystery that suddenly feels personal.
- start by making life-defining choices in a text-only prologue before you ever step into the woods.
- live alone in a lookout tower and build your only relationship through a handheld radio.
- navigate a massive wilderness with just a map and compass, using landmarks like you're actually hiking.
- inspect random objects you find and radio them in to spark custom conversations that change the tone between you two.
- arrive at that research site and then watch it burn, leaving you wondering if you're being set up for the fires.
- spend hours expecting a huge conspiracy payoff, then end on a short, awkward goodbye and a straight evacuation.
5GRIS - 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.
6To the Moon - A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
Sep 7, 2012
In this game, you can…
- rewrite a man's memories so his final wish feels fulfilled in his last conscious moments.
- start at a patient's deathbed and work backward through his past, memory by memory, until the real story clicks.
- dive into a dying man's memories and rebuild them into a new life.
- hunt down a key memento in each scene, then solve a small tile-flip puzzle to unlock the next memory jump.
- piece together a romance in reverse, watching a relationship's end before you learn how it began.
- notice tiny throwaway details in dialogue and objects that later snap into major reveals.
- walk through memory-anchored places like a carnival, a library, and a childhood home, each tied to a different turning point.
- watch two doctors argue, joke, and make hard calls while they race against their patient's failing time.
7DEATH STRANDING - From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes an all-new, genre-defying experience. Sam Bridges must brave a world utterly transformed by the Death Stranding. Carrying the disconnected remnants of our future in his hands, he embarks on a journey to reconnect the shattered world one step at a time.
Jul 14, 2020
In this game, you can…
- build highways and zipline networks, then watch other players use them and feed resources back into your infrastructure.
- leave ladders, ropes, bridges, and chargers in the world for other players to use later.
- carry a living baby in a pod on your chest and soothe it when it gets stressed during rough travel.
- haul towering stacks of cargo across open wilderness.
- wear powered exoskeletons and armor plates that change your balance, speed, and how much weight you can haul over rough terrain.
- stumble into Half-Life crossover deliveries and equipment inside the same delivery-focused world.
8Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice - From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness. Set in the Viking age, a broken Celtic warrior embarks on a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of her dead lover.
Aug 7, 2017
In this game, you can…
- hear voices that warn you about attacks from behind instead of a HUD.
- look through a circle to make an obstacle disappear and the path become real.
- follow the sound of water and controller rumble to navigate a trial without relying on sight.
- align rune shapes in the world to open sealed doors.
- fight eight enemies at once on a narrow bridge while the voices call out incoming hits.
- use a time-slowing focus mode mid-fight to keep attacking while everything else crawls.
- collect lorestones that unlock narrated Norse myth stories as you travel.
9A Plague Tale: Innocence - Follow the grim tale of young Amicia and her little brother Hugo, in a heartrending journey through the darkest hours of history.
May 14, 2019
In this game, you can…
- watch swarms of rats pour in and devour people whole.
- drop a light source, redirect the rats, and make them surge onto soldiers chasing you.
- mix alchemy ammo for your sling, like acid that strips helmets so a follow-up shot can kill.
- lead a little brother by the hand through danger.
- hold up torches and lanterns to carve safe paths through shadows the rats won't cross.
- use a sling to land precise headshots and quietly remove guards one by one.
- run from place to place as soldiers and plague keep you hunted across villages and countryside.
10DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT - From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT. As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?
Mar 30, 2022
In this game, you can…
- throw grenades made from your own pee and poop at ghost-like enemies to keep them from dragging you away.
- build roads, bridges, shelters, generators, ladders, and ziplines that show up in other players' worlds, and use theirs in yours.
- borrow a stranger's bike from a shared locker, ride it for ages, then get a notification when it's recovered from a river.
- carry a baby in a jar that warns you about invisible threats, then soothe it when it gets stressed.
- plan routes like a real expedition: stack cargo, balance your load, and use ropes, ladders, anchors, exoskeletons, and vehicles to cross cliffs and rivers.
- get grabbed by invisible monsters, then have another player's supplies appear mid-crisis when you're out of ammo.
- build a zipline network across mountains and turn impossible terrain into a fast, repeatable delivery route.
- take on deliveries with weird constraints, like cargo that hates heat or fragile loads that force you to rethink the safest path.
