Hidden 2D Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated 2d games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play 2D games on Steam.

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StopGate StopGate visual novel is created by the community, without the involvement of professionals. This is not just a fanfiction about the authors of the StopGame game portal.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 01 Sep 2020
Hex of Steel Hex of Steel is a refreshing WWII wargame covering all fronts featuring a certain amount of original mechanics. Fight in solo against finally a decent AI throughout Europe, Africa or the Pacific, or against a friend in the cross-platform PBEM or real time multiplayer. Coop is also an option!

Price 24.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 31 Aug 2020
1980 Welcome to the 1980s! This is a city which just started to develop, and you're in charge of this small urban village. How will the city's future be tied to this place? Manage your land, construct new buildings, explore the stories, and find out the ultimate fate of this urban village!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 31 Aug 2020
9-nine-:Episode 3 9-nine-: Episode 3 is the latest chapter in this series of supernatural mystery visual novels with the focus now shifted towards a new heroine, Haruka Kosaka.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.6
Release 31 Aug 2020
Seek Girl V This is a Sokoban casual game. Players need to fill the holes in the ground with cubes to rescue the trapped girl.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 28 Aug 2020
Struggling Struggling is a physics-based co-op platformer with a twisted spin on teamwork. Control the arms of a squishy abomination and lead it through a deranged world.

Price -96% 0.58€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Aug 2020
Spirits Abyss Spirits Abyss is a roguelite platformer with destructible terrain. Cast into the Abysm you must explore its diverse depths battling phantasmic meanies and plundering its useful treasures to find a way home... but does something nestle beyond the realmic veil of death?

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 27 Aug 2020
My Exercise Let's do sit-ups! Let a chubby boy do his exercise and sink into a dog's body. Maybe animals will come to cheer him up.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 26 Aug 2020
SHEEPO Explore a strange planet, collect the creatures you find, and then shape-shift into them to expand your world. Build your own path, chat with the locals, and discover the planets sprawling secrets in this quirky metroidvania platformer.

Price -60% 3.27€
Rating 9.0
Release 26 Aug 2020
Sense - 不祥的预感: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story A 2.5D horror game inspired by Clock Tower and Fatal Frame, mixing cyberpunk with traditional Cantonese folklore. With careful attention to pacing, atmosphere and storytelling, Sense hopes to return the horror genre to its roots by celebrating visceral horror and the slow, fearful creep of dread.

Price -83% 2.92€
Rating 7.5
Release 25 Aug 2020
Ethereal Enigma A choice-driven, slice of life visual novel featuring full voice-over and an intricate relationship system!

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.8
Release 22 Aug 2020
Eternal Hope Eternal Hope is a puzzle platformer game that follows the story of Ti’bi – a boy who must embark on a journey of love and hope to find his beloved’s soul.

Price -76% 2.48€
Rating 7.8
Release 20 Aug 2020
First Snow Having moved away from her friends and family to attend community college, Allison Merlo is a fresh student struggling with the day to day challenges of life.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 19 Aug 2020
Helheim Hassle Helheim Hassle is a narrative adventure game with puzzle platforming elements. Play as Bjørn, a pacifist Viking that can detach and combine limbs at will to solve challenging puzzles and get out of uncomfortable situations involving desperate Norse Gods, Goblins, Dragons, and angry skeletons.

Price -98% 0.48€
Rating 8.4
Release 18 Aug 2020
Progress Game Experience Progress in its purest form as an Idle-Game!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 14 Aug 2020
One Way: The Elevator One Way: The Elevator is a creative point-and-click game developed by CottonGame. You need to find a blue sphere in each scene to power an elevator to travel upward.

Price -61% 1.55€
Rating 8.6
Release 13 Aug 2020
For the People For the People is a mix of a political management sim and a visual novel, putting players in the shoes of an idealistic young state official tasked with shaping the future of a communist factory town. Will the party provide for the people, or are the people just cogs in its machine?..

Price -96% 0.65€
Rating 7.1
Release 13 Aug 2020
Sword Rogue A simple rogue like action game. Use WASD to move, use the mouse to control the player character's direction, use the left mouse button to attack and right mouse button to use skill. Also supports keyboard only mode, see details in the ingame guide.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 05 Aug 2020
東方催狐譚 ~ Servants of Harvest Wish Set off on a journey to an autumnal paradise in this bountiful Touhou vertical Bullethell Shmup fan game made by overseas fans!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 03 Aug 2020
Core Defense A roguelike tower defense game with a dash of deckbuilding. Choose a reward, improve your build, survive the next wave, repeat. Highly replayable, difficult, and addictive. You'll want just one more wave, just one more run!

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.5
Release 30 Jul 2020
Vibrant Venture Vibrant Venture is a singleplayer 2D adventure platformer game featuring a quirky cast of characters! The game features four playable characters with multiple unique abilities that can be combined for extremely versatile, fluid and fun movement!

Price -93% 0.94€
Rating 9.1
Release 24 Jul 2020
From Frontier By an accident,the protagonist set out on a journey to the "Lemuria Continent" with the second princess of the demon country who was running away from home.Awaiting in the pioneer land is encounters with dangerous monsters, unexplored land, and fascinating beauties.

Price 13.29€
Rating 9.0
Release 24 Jul 2020
THE IMPOSSIBLE THE IMPOSSIBLE is a minimal perspective illusion puzzle game. You control a small square in the IMPOSSIBLE world and remember: nothing is IMPOSSIBLE.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 24 Jul 2020
Panzer Paladin Hop in the Paladin power armor, seize melee weapons from the demonic invaders and give them a taste of their own medicine!

Price -96% 0.74€
Rating 7.2
Release 21 Jul 2020