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These are the best Atmospheric games on Steam, as voted by our community.

Nobody wrote a review to land on this list. Players duelled Atmospheric games out of their own libraries against each other, and a game's percentage is the share of a typical library it beats — so the top of this ranking is what Atmospheric fans genuinely keep coming back to.

Red Dead Redemption 2

percentile across every personal ranking, weighed by the crowd behind it

ELDEN RING beats 85%

Hollow Knight: Silksong beats 85%

SILENT HILL 2 beats 100%

Cyberpunk 2077 beats 81%

DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH beats 99%

Half-Life: Alyx beats 88%

Mafia II: Definitive Edition beats 84%

Subnautica 2 beats 83%

Fable Anniversary beats 96%

DARK SOULS™ III beats 79%

DOOM Eternal beats 79%

Life is Strange - Episode 1 beats 80%

Half-Life 2 beats 77%

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt beats 77%

DARK SOULS™ II beats 88%

Red Dead Redemption beats 86%

No Man's Sky beats 78%

Hollow Knight beats 77%

Layers of Fear (2016) beats 82%

BioShock Infinite beats 78%

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut beats 77%

Grand Theft Auto V Legacy beats 76%

Pathologic 2 beats 90%

Darkest Dungeon® beats 76%

Haiku, the Robot beats 86%

Detroit: Become Human beats 76%

DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED beats 76%

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter beats 97%

DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT beats 78%

Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition beats 76%

Gothic II: Gold Edition beats 77%

911 Operator beats 79%

Resident Evil 2 beats 76%

Black Mesa beats 76%

DEATH STRANDING beats 84%

Dishonored beats 77%

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger beats 76%

Nine Sols beats 80%

Guild Wars 2® beats 77%

Devil May Cry HD Collection beats 83%

The Wolf Among Us beats 79%

DREDGE beats 79%

Risen beats 78%

Forza Horizon 6 beats 77%

Metro 2033 Redux beats 73%

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair beats 82%

Subnautica beats 73%

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number beats 74%

GRIME beats 85%

Ori and the Will of the Wisps beats 77%

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition beats 74%

CONTROL Ultimate Edition beats 77%

Kingdom Come: Deliverance beats 72%

Outer Wilds beats 77%

Songs of Conquest beats 76%

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided beats 76%

Assassin's Creed 2 beats 77%

Firewatch beats 79%

Hunt: Showdown 1896 beats 73%

Tales from the Borderlands beats 80%

The Beginner's Guide beats 90%

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City beats 78%

DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition beats 74%

Metro Exodus beats 74%

Jotun: Valhalla Edition beats 82%

Happy Game beats 89%

Transistor beats 79%

1000xRESIST beats 77%

Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition beats 77%

Watch_Dogs™ beats 77%

Alan Wake beats 73%

Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide beats 75%

Salt and Sanctuary beats 78%

Mirror's Edge™ beats 71%

Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition beats 74%

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition beats 86%

Sons Of The Forest beats 71%

What Remains of Edith Finch beats 80%

A Plague Tale: Innocence beats 80%

Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ beats 80%

Metal: Hellsinger beats 80%

Papers, Please beats 70%

Gothic 1 Remake beats 75%

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice beats 74%

Life is Strange: Before the Storm beats 85%

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl beats 79%

Mafia beats 71%

Spec Ops: The Line beats 70%

Hogwarts Legacy beats 69%

F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin beats 78%

Metro 2033 beats 73%

Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! beats 73%

Scorn beats 75%

Sally Face - Episode One beats 84%

Universe Sandbox beats 78%

Mafia III: Definitive Edition beats 78%

Amanda the Adventurer beats 78%

Mafia II (Classic) beats 69%

Kingdom: New Lands beats 73%

Planet Coaster 2 beats 77%

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky beats 75%

This War of Mine beats 70%

Assassin’s Creed® Brotherhood beats 74%

The Forgotten City beats 77%

Legend of Grimrock beats 77%

POSTAL: Brain Damaged beats 77%

Ryse: Son of Rome beats 77%

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan beats 82%

HITMAN™ 2 beats 70%

FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster beats 82%

Minds Eyes beats 82%

Fallout: New Vegas beats 68%

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide beats 72%

Viewfinder beats 82%

Metro: Last Light Redux beats 69%

Dead Space beats 71%

Tetris® Effect: Connected beats 76%

007 First Light beats 81%

FINAL FANTASY IX beats 74%

Mafia: Definitive Edition beats 69%

Thumper beats 81%

MiSide beats 80%

Gamble With Your Friends beats 68%

Far Cry® 2 beats 71%

Resident Evil 4 (2005) beats 72%

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 beats 79%

Planet Coaster beats 66%

FINAL FANTASY® XIII beats 74%

Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Soulstorm beats 79%

Max Payne beats 71%

Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game beats 71%

Assassin’s Creed® Rogue beats 73%

Labyrinthine beats 77%

No, I'm not a Human beats 69%

Deep Rock Galactic beats 64%

Thief Simulator 2 beats 77%

Cry of Fear beats 65%

Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition beats 65%

The Witness beats 68%

DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin beats 64%

Dead by Daylight beats 64%

The Evil Within beats 75%

Ancestors Legacy beats 71%

Frostpunk 2 beats 75%

Mortal Kombat X beats 65%

Scanner Sombre beats 70%

Truberbrook / Trüberbrook beats 75%

ENA: Dream BBQ beats 64%

Dead Cells beats 63%

Disney•Pixar Cars beats 73%

Shenmue I & II beats 69%

Homefront beats 66%

Road 96 🛣️ beats 69%

Assassin's Creed® Revelations beats 69%

L.A. Noire beats 72%

Blue Prince beats 66%

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition beats 62%

Dark Hours: Prologue beats 71%

Resident Evil beats 62%

Gothic 1 beats 63%

Stay Out beats 67%

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell® beats 71%

Call of Juarez beats 71%

Assetto Corsa EVO beats 70%

Max Payne 3 beats 63%

Horizon Forbidden West™ Complete Edition beats 67%

Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™ beats 61%

The Séance of Blake Manor beats 70%

King's Bounty: The Legend beats 69%

Prominence Poker beats 69%

Mafia: The Old Country beats 64%

Tanki Online beats 66%

Bendy and the Ink Machine beats 66%

Not For Broadcast beats 68%

Ash of Gods: Redemption beats 65%

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition beats 60%

Cast n Chill beats 68%

Outlast 2 beats 63%

Out of Ore beats 67%

The Room Three beats 67%

Darkwood beats 63%

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut beats 60%

Bastion beats 61%

System Shock beats 62%

The Cave beats 66%

Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition beats 60%

Desperados III beats 61%

Neighbours from Hell Compilation beats 66%

System Shock® 2 (1999) beats 63%

ANIMAL WELL beats 62%

Jurassic World Evolution beats 61%

Crysis beats 63%

The Room beats 65%

Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game beats 59%

OneShot beats 61%

GONE Fishing beats 64%

Cairn beats 64%

Little Nightmares Enhanced Edition beats 63%

BioShock™ beats 59%

Survarium beats 61%

Resident Evil 3 beats 57%

The Rogue Prince of Persia beats 62%

Lies of P beats 57%

RoboCop: Rogue City beats 62%

Townscaper beats 58%

Backrooms: Escape Together beats 62%

Manifold Garden beats 60%

Just Ignore Them beats 62%

DARQ: Complete Edition beats 61%

Frostpunk beats 57%

Paratopic beats 61%

Return of the Obra Dinn beats 59%

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl beats 57%

Black Skylands beats 60%

Resident Evil 0 beats 59%

Thief Gold (1999) beats 58%

Watch_Dogs® 2 beats 56%

METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN beats 56%

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III beats 60%

Dishonored 2 beats 56%

Total War: WARHAMMER III beats 56%

Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT beats 57%

Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus® beats 59%

Hamster Hunter beats 56%

Death's Gambit: Afterlife beats 56%

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs beats 59%

Tomb Raider Game of the Year beats 55%

Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft beats 59%

Generation Zero® beats 56%

Mortal Shell beats 58%

Amnesia: The Dark Descent beats 55%

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games beats 58%

Resident Evil Village beats 55%

Life is Strange: True Colors beats 58%

Don't Starve Together beats 54%

God of War Ragnarök beats 58%

Intravenous beats 55%

Easy Delivery Co. beats 57%

Assassin's Creed® Unity beats 55%

Bully: Scholarship Edition beats 57%

Kathy Rain: Director's Cut beats 57%

DiRT Rally beats 54%

Fear & Hunger 2: Termina beats 57%

LEGO® Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game beats 57%

The Case of the Golden Idol beats 57%

The Complex: Found Footage beats 55%

The Walking Dead beats 54%

F.E.A.R. beats 54%

Rusty Lake: Roots beats 56%

Darksburg beats 56%

The Forest beats 53%

Unravel Two beats 56%

DEVOUR beats 54%

The Plan beats 55%

Sky: Children of the Light beats 55%

Mushroom 11 beats 55%

The Gunk beats 55%

Portal with RTX beats 53%

Half-Life beats 53%

Kingdom Two Crowns beats 53%

Batman™: Arkham Origins beats 53%

Insurgency: Sandstorm beats 53%

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden beats 53%

Jalopy beats 54%

Hyper Light Drifter beats 53%

The Past Within beats 54%

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun beats 54%

FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION beats 54%

The Talos Principle beats 54%

Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition beats 52%

OMORI beats 52%

Disney•Pixar Cars 2: The Video Game beats 54%

Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist beats 53%

BIT.TRIP RUNNER beats 53%

Five Nights at Freddy's 4 beats 54%

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® beats 53%

Manhunt beats 53%

Hired Ops beats 53%

Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition beats 52%

ARC Raiders beats 52%

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition beats 52%

Titan Souls beats 53%

Pillars of Eternity beats 52%

A Game About Digging A Hole™ beats 52%

Tropico 3 beats 52%

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II beats 52%

Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing beats 52%

NightSky beats 52%

Blood™ Fresh Supply beats 52%

Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut beats 52%

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne beats 51%

The Walking Dead: A New Frontier beats 52%

THE LONGING beats 52%

Terra Nil beats 51%

Alan Wake's American Nightmare beats 51%

Red Faction Guerrilla Steam Edition beats 51%

Cloud Climber beats 51%

Risen 2: Dark Waters beats 51%

Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince beats 51%

Serena beats 50%

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition beats 50%

Quantum Break beats 50%

12 is Better Than 6 beats 50%

Euro Truck Simulator 2 beats 50%

We Were Here Too beats 50%

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate beats 50%

SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE beats 50%

Life is Strange 2 beats 50%

Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition beats 49%

Samorost 3 beats 49%

SUPERHOT VR beats 49%

Yume Nikki beats 49%

STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ beats 49%

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Anniversary Edition beats 49%

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered beats 48%

Fallout 3 beats 48%

The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit beats 48%

ENDLESS Space™ 2 beats 47%

The Entropy Centre beats 47%

Half-Life: Source beats 48%

11-11 Memories Retold beats 47%

A Story About My Uncle beats 48%

Poppy Playtime beats 48%

Legend of Grimrock 2 beats 47%

Devolverland Expo beats 47%

OLDTV beats 46%

Unplagued beats 46%

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood beats 46%

METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES beats 47%

Project CARS 2 beats 47%

NieR:Automata™ beats 47%

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood beats 47%

FINAL FANTASY XVI beats 46%

Sir, You Are Being Hunted beats 45%

FAITH: The Unholy Trinity beats 47%

Hitman: Codename 47 beats 46%

BioShock™ 2 Remastered beats 45%

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition beats 45%

Mark of the Ninja beats 46%

CarX Street beats 45%

Half-Life: Opposing Force beats 47%

RV There Yet? beats 47%

Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth beats 44%

NORCO beats 44%

Dragon Age: Origins beats 44%

Wild Warfare beats 44%

SAMOLIOTIK beats 44%

Fallout 4 beats 46%

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED beats 43%

Jurassic World Evolution 2 beats 44%

Steelrising beats 45%

Mortal Kombat 1 beats 45%

MMORPG Tycoon 2 beats 44%

Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 beats 45%

SILENT HILL f beats 44%

Resident Evil 7 Biohazard beats 45%

Antichamber beats 42%

Tyranny beats 42%

God of War beats 45%

Beyond: Two Souls beats 44%

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander beats 43%

BioShock™ Remastered beats 45%

The Walking Dead: The Final Season beats 42%

Gamedec - Definitive Edition beats 41%

Virtual Cottage beats 41%

The Tiny Bang Story beats 41%

Rusty Lake Paradise beats 41%

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut beats 45%

Sol Cesto beats 40%

Half-Life Deathmatch: Source beats 42%

Deadlight: Director's Cut beats 40%

Outpath: First Journey beats 41%

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus beats 43%

In Sink: A Co-Op Escape Prologue beats 39%

Hacknet beats 42%

Stray beats 43%

Total War: ATTILA beats 42%

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen beats 43%

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat beats 41%

SUCCUBUS beats 38%

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden beats 38%

Mad Max beats 42%

SLUDGE LIFE beats 41%

Night in the Woods beats 38%

Rain World beats 43%

Canvas of Kings beats 37%

Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi beats 40%

Mouthwashing beats 37%

Risen 3 - Titan Lords beats 37%

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) beats 37%

Starfield beats 41%

Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition beats 40%

LIMBO beats 42%

Shadowrun Returns beats 40%

Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition beats 40%

Jump King beats 39%

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009) beats 41%

Far Cry® 4 beats 39%

Volcanoids beats 35%

Outlast beats 41%

Hide and Shriek beats 37%

Disney G-Force beats 34%

The Bureau: XCOM Declassified beats 40%

Look Outside beats 37%

Pinball FX beats 34%

Left 4 Dead beats 39%

SnowRunner beats 34%

The House of Da Vinci beats 37%

Will To Live Online beats 39%

Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons beats 38%

Fable - The Lost Chapters beats 37%

Resident Evil Revelations beats 39%

Hitman: Absolution™ beats 40%

Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales beats 38%

The Banner Saga beats 38%

DiRT 4 beats 32%

Stronghold Crusader 2 beats 35%

BioShock® 2 beats 35%

STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™ beats 38%

Chants of Sennaar beats 37%

Beholder beats 39%

LIZARDS MUST DIE beats 32%

Five Nights at Freddy's beats 37%

Far Cry® Primal beats 37%

Need for Speed™ Heat beats 39%

Oxenfree beats 31%

In Sound Mind beats 31%

Polda 3 beats 31%

Cube Escape Collection beats 31%

Cube Escape: Paradox beats 30%

Just Cause™ 3 beats 39%

The Walking Dead: Season Two beats 36%

Particul beats 29%

NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139... beats 33%

Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty beats 29%

The Desolate Hope beats 29%

Another Crab's Treasure beats 32%

Assassin's Creed® Syndicate beats 32%

Train Simulator Classic beats 28%

Little Inferno beats 35%

We Were Here beats 37%

Batman™: Arkham Knight beats 37%

Stacking beats 28%

Where Winds Meet beats 37%

Gothic® 3 beats 35%

Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition beats 34%

Call of Cthulhu® beats 32%

The Long Dark beats 35%

Wolfenstein: The New Order beats 35%

Half-Life: Blue Shift beats 35%

We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip beats 34%

Grand Theft Auto III beats 29%

Mortal Kombat 11 beats 33%

LEGO® The Hobbit™ beats 31%

The Descendant beats 25%

Lethal Company beats 36%

Tell Me Why beats 24%

A Way Out beats 34%

Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location beats 24%

Escape Room - Der kranke Kollege beats 32%

Lucius beats 24%

Nuclear Nightmare beats 28%

The Final Station beats 23%

Syberia II beats 23%

World of Goo beats 28%

HITMAN™ beats 32%

Saints Row: Gat out of Hell beats 23%

Kholat beats 30%

Morbid: The Seven Acolytes beats 23%

When the Darkness comes beats 23%

Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition beats 22%

Battlefield™ 1 beats 34%

White Knuckle beats 22%

DmC: Devil May Cry beats 29%

Starseed Pilgrim beats 22%

Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition beats 22%

Magicka 2 beats 32%

The Looker beats 32%

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch beats 33%

A Dance of Fire and Ice beats 30%

Mosaique Neko Waifus beats 21%

Alien: Isolation beats 29%

Spaceflight Simulator beats 25%

Grim Fandango Remastered beats 25%

Ultimate Custom Night beats 34%

DETOUR beats 19%

Forgive Me Father beats 27%

PANICORE beats 24%

Call of Duty® beats 32%

Armello beats 24%

The Room Two beats 24%

ATLYSS beats 28%

Perimeter beats 18%

ISLANDERS beats 26%

RUINER beats 18%

Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut beats 18%

Lunacid beats 23%

Ghostwire: Tokyo beats 23%

Gunsmith Simulator: Prologue beats 23%

Fears to Fathom - Home Alone beats 23%

Farming Simulator 25 beats 17%

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments beats 17%

Dead Space (2008) beats 22%

Little Misfortune beats 22%

Project CARS beats 17%

Only If beats 17%

Age of Wonders III beats 27%

Aragami beats 22%

Dome Keeper beats 29%

Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition beats 27%

SCP: Secret Laboratory beats 31%

Thief beats 28%

Mini Thief beats 15%

Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst beats 21%

Pacific Drive beats 21%

System Shock: Enhanced Edition beats 21%

The Banner Saga 2 beats 15%

Machinika: Museum beats 15%

Thief Simulator 2: Prologue beats 14%

Lost in Play beats 14%

Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion beats 23%

Styx: Shards of Darkness beats 13%

Black Myth: Wukong beats 25%

The Flame in the Flood beats 26%

Styx: Master of Shadows beats 24%

Medieval Dynasty beats 21%

Beacon Pines beats 12%

Machinarium beats 24%

Euro Truck Simulator beats 23%

Soundpad beats 23%

SIGNALIS beats 23%

Universe Sandbox Legacy beats 10%

Fear & Hunger beats 20%

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ beats 16%

The Darkness II beats 24%

Little Nightmares beats 25%

Enclave beats 9%

Evolve Stage 2 beats 23%

Death Fungeon beats 8%

The Way of Life Free Edition beats 15%

American Truck Simulator beats 21%

INSIDE beats 8%

Loading Screen Simulator beats 24%

Murdered: Soul Suspect beats 18%

Transmissions: Element 120 beats 17%

Rise of the Tomb Raider™ beats 23%

Heroes® of Might & Magic® III - HD Edition beats 22%

Content Warning beats 24%

Forza Horizon 4 beats 14%

Crysis 2 - Maximum Edition beats 9%

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader beats 18%

Russian Fishing 4 beats 11%

Gremlins, Inc. beats 10%

Digger Online beats 10%

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