Top Steam Games to Look Out for in August 2025 brings a thrilling lineup of new releases on Steam, ranging from immersive story-driven adventures to fast-paced action hits. This month promises something for every gamer, whether you love indie creativity or blockbuster excitement. Get ready to dive into fresh worlds, tackle epic challenges, and find your next gaming obsession.
Death Relives Artbook
The Death Relives Artbook digital edition takes you deep into a mysterious and shadow-filled world, where every illustration and sketch hides a story within the darkness. This artbook features breathtaking, intricately crafted illustrations, unique concept sketches, and captivating environment studies that bring to life the game’s Aztec-inspired ancient ruins, bizarre deities, and soul-stirring landscapes. On every page, you can feel how the artist infused the underworld’s spirit through each brushstroke and design.
Whether you’re a die-hard fan of dark fantasy or simply curious to witness the magic of the game’s art process, this collection offers an exclusive and personal insight into the creation process. Developer Nyctophile Studios has captured every aspect of their creative journey in this artbook—from the broken stones of Aztec ruins to the terrifying faces of eerie gods.
Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker
In Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker, you step into the role of the owner of a charming seaside tavern called The Drowsy Dragon. The story takes place 36 years before the events of the main game, in the peaceful port town of Borkam. Your job is to welcome guests—whether they are sharp-tongued mercenaries, clever sailors, or daring heroes.
You possess a unique magical gift: the ability to mix enchanted drinks that can change a person’s fate. Each drink can be made in multiple ways, so choosing wisely is key. Alongside this, you’ll gather rumors while listening to your patrons’ tales, turning them into quests. But not every story is true—some are nothing more than old sea yarns spun by seasoned sailors.
This isn’t a management sim—it’s a D&D-inspired visual novel that offers a relaxed, 30-minute gameplay experience. You’ll enjoy casual drink mixing combined with creative quest building, with each choice you make subtly shaping the story’s outcome. The tavern is a warm, welcoming place where everyone is accepted, no matter who they are. At first, everything seems cheerful and thriving, but slowly, a shadow begins to creep in—something that threatens to turn your brightest dreams into your darkest nightmares.
PC Building Empire
In PC Building Empire, you start your very own computer shop and grow it into a massive empire. Here, you’ll hire employees, assemble custom PCs, manage sales, and work towards making your business a success. As your company grows, your operations expand, and you establish dominance in the world of PC gamers.
Building better sales rooms, improving customer service, and offering warranty support will help keep your customers loyal. At the same time, creating content in the form of videos will attract more buyers, while employee training boosts skills like charisma, luck, agility, and intelligence to increase overall team efficiency.
In this game, you get to experience the thrill of becoming a true tech tycoon. Through automation, you can keep earning money even while offline, and by adding new rooms to your store, you can optimize production. For the more adventurous players, there’s the option to step into the crypto world, set up your own Bitcoin farm, and boost profits even further. At every step, your ultimate goal is to build an empire that leads both in technology and business, becoming the ultimate destination for PC enthusiasts.
IAI
IAI is a VR-exclusive multiplayer puzzle game designed only for two players. The goal isn’t just to solve puzzles, but to communicate, coordinate, and uncover a mystery hidden within a fractured sci-fi world. You and your partner take on the roles of androids learning how to think, feel, and communicate like humans. Each puzzle challenges you to share information, exchange ideas, and work together as a team. Every element of the game—voice cues, gestures, and visual hints—is tailor-made for VR, creating a fully immersive experience.
The game is built on asymmetrical puzzle design, where both players receive different information and tools. One player might have controls while the other has diagrams or audio cues; one sees a symbol while the other interprets its meaning. In every challenge, you rely not just on your own perception, but on your partner’s observations.
The core essence of the game is communication and teamwork—you cannot progress without proper interaction. IAI supports cross-play between PC VR and Meta Quest headsets, allowing you to connect with your partner seamlessly no matter where you are. There’s no single-player option—only real human cooperation from start to finish, pushing you to think and succeed together.
Bunny Bunker
Bunny Bunker is an exciting game where, during the daytime, you plan and strengthen your bunny colony, gather resources like wood, stone, and carrots, and prepare essential infrastructure. At night, the game shifts into tower defense mode, where you use the walls, traps, and towers you’ve built to protect your colony from monsters.
Your warrior bunnies fight through the night while you manage their positions and defensive strategies. The difficulty increases with each passing day, and your ultimate goal is to make the colony strong enough to build a rocket and escape into space before the monsters of the darkness destroy everything.
The game’s survival loop is very engaging—daytime is for planning and resource gathering, while nighttime is for intense battles. You’ll need to sustain your population through farming for food, quarrying for stone, and harvesting wood from forests. By upgrading every part of the colony, strengthening towers and traps, you can face the increasingly dangerous night waves.
Behind it all lies a tragic backstory—once, the bunny bunkers were filled with laughter and community, but the overgrowth of monsters changed everything. Now your mission is to protect your colony, give them hope, and guide them to the stars so they can be free forever.
Gundroid
Gundroid is an explosive Run N’ Gun action game where you take control of G.U.N.N.R. and defend Earth from an alien invasion. The game combines the charm of old-school pixel-style graphics with a modern twist, where in each stage you must think fast, move quickly, shoot, and dodge enemy attacks. Every enemy has its own attack pattern, and you need to study their moves and counter them to always stay one step ahead.
In this game, you get specially designed weapons for every situation, allowing you to choose the ones that match your style. Fighting through the beautiful hand-drawn pixel art landscapes of New Port City, you defend every corner from enemy forces.
Meanwhile, the heavy metal soundtrack—packed with thrashing guitars and powerful drums—intensifies the battle’s adrenaline. Gundroid isn’t just a retro throwback; it’s a modern revival of the classic style that takes old-school action to a whole new level.
Radio Ghosts
Radio Ghosts is a quirky and fascinating narrative game that takes you on a journey filled with geometry tests, vampire baristas, and the unusual experience of camping with your mom. Originally made for the Nintendo Game Boy, it’s now available on modern gaming devices through spooky radio frequencies.
The game features classic 160 x 144 resolution pixel graphics, simple D-pad movement, and a fun, old-school single-button interaction system. With its original Game Boy soundtrack, you’ll get that pure retro charm — complete with four shades of green and all the sarcastic wit of a mischievous 15-year-old girl.
In the gameplay, you meet strange characters, annoy them, and sometimes do unexpected things like petty theft or even marine biology. You interact with your mom, a radio ghost, a vampire barista, a sassy wizardess, a touchy goblin, a cunning cat, and Paul. Through top-down maps, you explore a non-Euclidean adventure sprinkled with moments of crushing reality.
This 60–90 minute journey is short but memorable — and yes, don’t ask about a save option, because it’s not there. Priced about the same as a cup of coffee, the only difference is that this one won’t stain your teeth.
Dead Beyond
Dead Beyond is an intense survival horror game where you are trapped inside a massive haunted mansion, with zombies lurking in every corner and cunning traps waiting for you. The story begins when you wake up and realize that a deranged, revenge-driven man has imprisoned you. This mansion is not just a place—it’s a living, breathing death trap designed to shake you to your core. Every path hides a secret, every room is a test, and every mistake could be your last.
Each level of the game shakes you in a new way—sometimes a storm of zombies will come crashing down on you, sometimes pitch-black walls will leave you relying only on your courage and senses to find your way.
At times, you’ll have to solve tricky puzzles, while other moments will challenge you with platforming sections that could cost you your life. With dynamic level design, psychological tension, and heart-pounding jump scares, Dead Beyond is not just another zombie shooter—it’s a mind-twisting survival experience.
The Trials – Chapter One
The Trials – Chapter One is an intense horror visual novel that gives you a unique “choose your own adventure” experience. You must escape the terrifying shadows hunting you, make your own decisions, and carve your own path. Every choice you make will change the direction of the story.
The game features a Text Adventure Mode, realistic sound effects, and a haunting ambient soundtrack that completely immerses you in the experience. In this chapter, you’ll have the chance to unlock multiple endings and uncover hidden secrets.
Each chapter is a complete story in itself but together they form a larger universe. In Chapter One, your only goal is simple — survive and escape your trial. Thirty different endings await you, and if you’re lucky, you might even discover the secret “Hidden Ending.” But beware — every wrong step can lead to death. Don’t lose heart when you fail, because somewhere, there just might be a safe path waiting to be found.
Tone
Tone is a small yet engaging puzzle game based on colors and sounds. In this game, you pick up colors and use them with careful thinking to match blocks with their background color and make them disappear. Each level requires you to rely on your visual and auditory skills, where colors and tones work together to create your path.
Currently, Tone features more than ten unique maps (excluding tutorial maps), each offering a new challenge and experience. Your goal is not only to clear the blocks but also to find the door and recover what was lost.
Escape from Spikes
Escape From Spikes is a small but exciting platformer game where you must collect gems, grab a key, and open the exit door in every level. But the biggest obstacle is the sharp and dangerous spikes that can take your life with even the slightest mistake. The game may look simple at first, but once you start playing, you realize it’s not as easy as it seems. Every move must be made carefully, or you’ll have to start all over again.
The rules of the game are straightforward: avoid spikes, and you get 3 + 1 lives in each level. You need to collect all the gold, pick up the key, and reach the door to escape. Every step tests your patience, because one wrong jump forces you to redo everything. If you enjoy a good challenge, Escape From Spikes is the perfect game for you.
PlanckMan
PlanckMan is a grid-based puzzle game that tests both your strategy and patience. You start as a block that is 10 units long, and with every move, your tail becomes shorter. Eating red pellets restores your tail back to 10 units, while yellow pellets increase your multiplier and make your tail longer. But remember — colliding with your own tail or letting it fully disappear means game over. The goal is simple: eat as many pellets as possible to get a higher score, but take each step carefully.
In the Steam version, you get complete control over customization. You can set the controls to any buttons you like, toggle fullscreen, glow effects, deep blacks, and sound on or off. You can change the colors of the game, food, and multiplier pellets to your liking — even turn on RGB mode for a fresh, colorful experience.
The window size can be adjusted and saved so it always loads in your preferred resolution. The game has been designed with accessibility in mind, allowing menus to be navigated using the tab button or custom key bindings.
Sketchy Driver
Sketchy Driver is a crazy arcade-style roguelike endless racing game where you dodge traffic, jump off ramps, perform tricks in the air, and earn points to upgrade your level. No story, no brakes – just pure speed and fun! In this demo version, you can only play Endless Mode, but the fun is still full-on. With just 2 stages, one main car, and a few skills, you can put your driving to the test. Every jump and every stunt takes you closer to that high score.
The rules in this game are simple – just keep moving forward and go as fast as you can. Speed through traffic, soar off ramps, and flip your car like a stunt master. If you think you’re a bad driver, this is your chance to turn “bad driving” into an art form. The full game will have more locations, skills, rides, and modes, but for now, just grab the steering wheel and unleash your inner daredevil. Enjoy the speed, practice hard, and try to break the record!
Xanadu Land
Xanadu Land is a fast-paced massively multiplayer bullet hell game that delivers the thrill of arcade-style gameplay. In this game, nonstop BOSS battles keep the action alive, where every defeat isn’t the end, but the beginning of a new journey. Gather experience, acquire new equipment, and join forces with other players to bring down every boss. The arcade-style gameplay is simple yet challenging, giving you the excitement of action whether you want to play for a quick session or face an intense long battle.
Alongside dozens of players, you’ll face countless elite monsters and bosses, each with their own unique attack patterns. Win to claim legendary loot or lose and come back even stronger. In Xanadu Land, heroes grow with you — every death makes you more powerful. The game offers hundreds of pieces of equipment, skills, talents, and companions that can be mixed to create unique builds. PC and mobile players fight together to achieve legendary victories.
Defiled West
In Defiled West, you face a cursed and devastated Wild West where your mission is to cleanse towns and rescue them from the grip of death. You wield unique weapons, gadgets, and abilities that give you both human and supernatural advantages. This isn’t just a shooting game — it’s also a test of keeping your soul in balance.
You are the last surviving Rift Guardian, and you have two choices: sit back and watch the darkness consume the land you once swore to protect… or pick up your gun and bring the frontier back to life. In the demo, you can explore the entire region of Stickstead, unlock revolvers, shotguns, and spectral weapons, and even claim all four bounties. However, full ability upgrades aren’t available at this stage.
Your journey begins at Riftwood Ranch, where you face the first location filled with dangerous enemies — from slow-moving undead to cunning poltergeists. Clearing a town isn’t just about securing the streets; you must also drive the dead out of buildings, seal rifts, and unlock new weapons and abilities. Your soul is bound to an ethereal scale that grants powerful benefits, but only if you maintain a careful balance between taking and dealing damage. Too much of either can lead to your downfall.
GreenGrass
GreenGrass is a short yet deep VR journey that takes you back to the nostalgia of sixth-generation consoles. Over three distinct days, you explore a beautiful, stylized forest—the first day begins in darkness, the second day the woods feel bright and dreamlike, and by the third evening you return to your tent to sit in peaceful solitude. There’s no HUD, no objective pressure—just you, the quiet of the forest, and a guiding voice leading your way.
This experience lasts only 10 to 30 minutes, but its impact lingers long after. Built in Unreal Engine, GreenGrass can be played in both VR and 2D modes—on Meta PC VR, SteamVR headsets, or in flat-screen mode using a gamepad or mouse.
The graphics are designed to blend the charm of old-school gaming aesthetics with the immersive presence only VR can provide—colorful, textured visuals that touch the heart. It’s a calming journey with no combat, where you simply explore the forest at your own pace.
Bandits vs Lords: Epic Clash
Bandits vs Lords: Epic Clash is an intense strategy game where every decision can change your destiny. Build your base, gather resources, and train troops with unique skills to defeat your enemies in tactical battles.
Raid enemy villages for loot, form alliances with other players, and expand your territory to become the ultimate ruler. This free-to-play MMO game gives you the chance to create a powerful kingdom, lead a mighty army, and crush your rivals in intense PVP battles.
In this game, you can upgrade your base while building strong traps, train your troops to unlock special abilities, and enjoy the thrill of real-time strategic combat. You can choose to play the Bandits campaign mode to earn resources or climb the PVP ranks to become the top Lord.
Here, action is always ready — no long waiting times. Form alliances to share resources, expand your kingdom to strategic locations, and prove your strength in a world made only for the powerful. Bandits vs Lords is a place where every moment brings a new challenge waiting for you.
Duck Side of the Moon
In Duck Side of the Moon, you play as a duck waddling and flying through space, traveling to every corner of the galaxy. Along the way, you’ll encounter strange creatures and rare materials, which you can use to craft new gadgets, upgrade your spaceship, and make your journey more comfortable.
In the demo, you’ll explore the first island, complete two main story quests, and take on a side quest while starting repairs on your spaceship. Doug, an exhausted duck astronaut, is searching for a new world but crashes on a strange planet inhabited by talking rocks. Maybe this twist is the fresh start he needs! Whether you’re exploring or simply gazing at the stars, this galaxy lets you enjoy the adventure at your own pace.
In this space adventure, there’s something new around every corner—rare minerals in glowing caves, outfits won at the funfair, and the challenge of avoiding getting your feathers singed near the volcano! The locals here warmly welcome you, and together you can solve mysteries, win ice cream, and become part of a community where small acts of kindness go a long way. You can turn your spaceship into a cozy home—add a comfy couch, a snug storage room, or even a basketball hoop.
