Best Steam games 2020: from racers to martians, the games to play now

Your laptop, eyes and fingertips deserve to blow off some steam. Some playtime is long overdue.

Steam, the PC gaming platform, allows the easy download of classic video games, new gems and bestsellers, numbing the mind for hours.

A sale fortnight begins on June 25, but why wait? Here are five to relieve the boredom now.

You take the helm of your little spacecraft as it bounces from quadrant to quadrant, buying fuel, finding crewmates and zapping pirates. Easy to pick up — the view is two-dimensional and top-down — but satisfyingly hard to complete.

£6.99

Sim City meets The Martian. You manage a colony on the Red Planet, trying to stop your little colonists from running out of oxygen.

£26.99

Put your (virtual) pedal to the metal of an 18-wheel truck, ferrying goods from A to B. That’s it. It’s simple yet satisfying and was a bestseller in 2019.

£14.99

The original shoot-’em-up blockbuster has had a modern makeover, placing you in the capable hands of the gun-toting Doom Slayer.

£49.99

Solve this whodunnit as an amnesiac investigator in the fantasy setting of Revachol city.

£26.24