Top rated tense games
Danger keeps closing in across these top rated tense games, where you have to keep moving while something hunts you down. In Resident Evil 2 you stretch limited supplies through locked corridors, in Subnautica you dive deeper with oxygen running low, and in Lethal Company you race the dark to get scrap back to the ship. Expect chases, tight resources and stories that keep twisting until release.
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Vampire Survivors
You do not aim, you survive. Walk through waves of night creatures while your weapons fire on their own, grab gems, build a ridiculous stack of garlic and lightning, and try to last until dawn. Simple, cheap, and hard to quit.
98% of 252,814 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,564$4.99Half-Life: Alyx
Valve's return to Half-Life, built for VR from the ground up. Play Alyx Vance in occupied City 17, fighting the Combine with your own two hands: reload by hand, yank ammo across the room with gravity gloves, and search every drawer because you can.
98% of 93,697 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 224$59.99OneShot
A child named Niko carries a lightbulb through a dying world, and you are the god who guides them. A surreal puzzle adventure where the game talks to you, uses your actual computer for its puzzles, and asks choices of you that sting. Short, strange, and hard to forget.
98% of 60,002 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 95$5.99Left 4 Dead 2
Fight through the zombie apocalypse in Left 4 Dead 2. You and three survivors cross swamps, cities and cemeteries on the road from Savannah to New Orleans, and no two runs play the same. Playing with friends is the main draw, with melee weapons, firearms and new infected keeping each campaign fast and tense.
97% of 825,140 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37,758$9.99The WereCleaner
Kyle is a janitor. Kyle is also a werewolf, on the night shift, with a mop and a deadline. Clean the office, dodge the coworkers, and try very hard not to eat anyone before your shift ends. A short, funny stealth game where every mistake makes more mess for you to clean.
99% of 13,425 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7FreeSubnautica
You crash-land in a life pod on an alien ocean planet, with hunger, thirst, and oxygen to watch. Gather fish and minerals, craft diving gear and small subs, build a seafloor base, and push from bright coral shallows toward trenches, lava fields, and caves to find a way off the planet.
97% of 343,949 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3,928$29.99Deep Rock Galactic
Grab a pickaxe and clock in as a dwarven space miner. You drop into shifting caves with up to three friends, dig for minerals, and hold off swarms of alien bugs together. Loud, funny, and built to replay.
97% of 304,382 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6,505$29.99Schedule I
Start broke in Hyland Point with no product and no contacts, then grow, mix, package and push your way to kingpin. Buy properties, hire dealers and automate the whole chain while cops and the cartel close in. Best played loud with friends.
97% of 294,095 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10,307$19.99Hades
Defy the god of the dead as Zagreus, the immortal Prince of the Underworld, hacking and slashing room by room toward the surface. Fast, sharp and built to be replayed.
97% of 287,782 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,488$24.99Crime Scene Cleaner
You play a single father hired by the mob to scrub crime scenes and pay for his sick daughter's care. Mop blood, bag bodies, pocket loose cash, and piece together what happened. Grim work, strange and funny, and hard to put down once the floor starts coming clean.
98% of 33,055 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 674$29.99Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Paper Lily is a pixel horror adventure about Lacie, a shut-in who follows a strange golden letter into a hidden world. Every puzzle has more than one solution, your choices shape which ending you get, and something is always watching. About four hours long, strange, sad and quietly terrifying.
99% of 9,057 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21FreeULTRAKILL
A retro FPS where you play a blood-fueled machine racing down through Hell, because the surface ran dry. Chain kills fast and with style, soak in the gore to heal, and rack up points for wilder weapons. Speed, style scoring and a soundtrack that never lets up.
97% of 217,553 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3,141$29.99
