2D Hidden Gems on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated 2d games.

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Subspace Continuum THE legendary free online multiplayer space shooter! Addictive, fast-paced, easy to learn, and impossible to master.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 03 Jul 2015
Age of Fear: The Undead King Play as either Sir Edward, a noble Knight defending the Human Kingdom, or Krill, a wicked Necromancer with an unearthly lust for power! The Age of Fear series is a deep and complex turn-based strategy (full of humour!) that fuses a tabletop wargame with RPG elements.

Price -96% 0.95€
Rating 8.2
Release 26 Jun 2015
DinoSystem A 2D ecosystem and survival simulation where you can manage the ecology of an evolving island or survive on it as a human, facing realistic survival mechanics and a deep character progression system.

Price -93% 0.50€
Rating 8.1
Release 25 Jun 2015
Tomb of Tyrants Claim and defend the Tomb of Tyrants against greedy adventurers by matching tiles to build a deadly dungeon full of traps, minions, and more!

Price 7.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 25 Jun 2015
Super Chibi Knight The Kingdom of Oukoku is threatened by the spicy influence of General Tso. Citizens have placed their hope in a small knight who fits the requirements of ancient legends. Which path will the Chibi Knight choose...

Price -43% 3.93€
Rating 8.1
Release 24 Jun 2015
Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio is an exciting, fast-paced action game.Help Tcheco the Adventure Boy to leave a mysterious castle full of deadly creatures! Be ready for a big challenge, full of nonsense humor and retro goodness.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Jun 2015
Super Star Path Classic color match puzzle meets space shoot'em up action! Hop into your spaceship, open a path through huge waves of aliens and other hazards, and face intense boss battles!

Price -91% 0.48€
Rating 7.7
Release 22 Jun 2015
Spooky Cats Oh no! This cute little kitty cat is alone and lost in a haunted house! Only by collecting pennies and defeating monsters can she find the way out! Use your fast fingers to defeat this adorably dark and funny platform game.

Price -64% 1.09€
Rating 7.9
Release 04 Jun 2015
Supercharged Robot VULKAISER 70s giant robot anime-inspired side-scrolling shooting from the creators of SATAZIUS and GIGANTIC ARMY!

Price -83% 0.86€
Rating 8.6
Release 04 Jun 2015
The Enchanted Cave 2 Uncover the dark secrets of a cave with an endless supply of monsters and loot!

Price -62% 3.15€
Rating 8.5
Release 03 Jun 2015
SimpleRockets I am excited to release my first game on Steam! SimpleRockets was released in 2013 for mobile and I've put a ton of work into it to get it ready for PC and Mac. It was inspired by KSP, and it offers a simpler 2D experience for building rockets and exploring space with realistic orbital mechanics.

Price -91% 0.74€
Rating 7.9
Release 03 Jun 2015
Pixel Dungeon Pixel Dungeon is an exciting and extremely popular roguelike (more than 2 million mobile installs!). Explore the depths of Pixel Dungeon, collect useful items and fight fierce monsters to find the Amulet of Yendor - the ultimate artefact of this game world!

Price 4.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 29 May 2015
Chip's Challenge 1 Before Chip can join the Bit Busters computer club and hang out with the girl of his dreams, Melinda the Mental Marvel, he must solve all 144 challenging puzzles. Your bird's-eye view can help Chip rush through the puzzles and mazes before he's deleted by monsters, traps and the passage of time.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 28 May 2015
A Bastard's Tale A game about parrying, attacking, and overcoming difficult foes

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 26 May 2015
Fine Sweeper Fine Sweeper is a Minesweeper variant with additional features such as a campaign mode, “classic mode”, item drops, leader-boards, and achievements.

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.2
Release 25 May 2015
Fort Defense All hands on deck! Pirate armada dead ahead! Take part in an uncompromising struggle repelling freebooters' assaults. Watch out, the enemy may catch the tide for ruining your fortress. Build towers, collect crystals, upgrade spells and believe in your victory!

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 22 May 2015
Interloper Interloper is an online multiplayer real-time strategy game with matches that take only 5 minutes. Instead of destroying your opponent, you win by claiming domain. By predicting your opponent's movements, you corner them to claim the entire map.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 21 May 2015
Inside My Radio Can you beat the beat? Journey as a green LED mysteriously trapped inside a dying boombox and play the ultimate musical experience. In this rhythmic platform adventure where your every action needs to be right on the beat, bring electro, dub and disco music back to life!

Price -97% 0.46€
Rating 8.2
Release 11 May 2015
Lux Delux Lux Delux is a fast-paced turn-based-strategy game of risk and world domination, with so much more! Highly moddable, Lux has over 900 maps, diverse random map generators, a biohazard mode, an AI SDK, and an online multi-player league.

Price -66% 3.39€
Rating 7.6
Release 01 May 2015
ROCKETSROCKETSROCKETS ROCKETS fire ROCKETS at ROCKETS in this action-arcade, arena-combat, gorgeous festival-of-fireworks! It's dogfighting meets figure-skating in space with local multiplayer and single-player fast-paced action modes plus a ZEN MODE where ROCKETS learn to LOVE.

Price -94% 0.48€
Rating 7.1
Release 01 May 2015
Space Colony: Steam Edition Space Colony: Steam Edition is a remaster of the real-time base builder and strategy game from Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series. In Space Colony you colonize to survive, designing intergalactic bases that keep your crew productive, happy and defended against hostile alien threats.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 30 Apr 2015
Cosmochoria A tiny, naked cosmonaut with a jetpack & laser blaster must revive a dying galaxy by planting one seed at a time. An innovative and addictive arcade adventure experience with mystery and intrigue in all the right places.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 27 Apr 2015
RPG Maker 2003 For the first time ever, RPG Maker 2003 is officially available in English! This legendary game development engine is both highly affordable and easy to use, and it remains one of the most popular RPG Maker installments to date.

Price -90% 1.95€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Apr 2015
Mind Snares: Alice's Journey Escape from the Shadow Land!

Price -88% 1.80€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Apr 2015
JumpJet Rex Test your dinosaur jump-jet skills with a game that redefines the platformer genre, aptly renaming it "platflyer." Simply put, you're a t-rex with rocket boots trying to save earth from an incoming asteroid. Do you have what it takes to stop it?

Price -88% 1.24€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Apr 2015
The Charnel House Trilogy Witness The Charnel House Trilogy, the chronicle of one fateful night aboard a train bound for Augur Peak. Three thrilling, horrifying adventure games in one, from the depths of the Sepulchre, starring Madeleine Roux, Peter Willington, Jonathan Grier, Jim Sterling, and Ben Chandler as Grub.

Price -57% 2.19€
Rating 7.6
Release 16 Apr 2015
Defend Your Life: TD Defend Your Life! Is tower defense set in human body where players are fighting against villain hordes of viruses and bacteria. Levels and units correspond to reality of human anatomy.

Price -60% 3.90€
Rating 7.6
Release 10 Apr 2015
Fire: Ungh’s Quest FIRE is an exploration-adventure with intuitive puzzle design. Without losing many words it tells a savagely hilarious story. Journey into the Stone Age and face the most challenging task of this era: The search for fire!

Price -92% 0.82€
Rating 8.0
Release 09 Apr 2015
Adventures of Bertram Fiddle 1: A Dreadly Business A classic point and click adventure game, featuring weird and wonderful characters, beautiful animation and a fantastic soundtrack. "It is quite possibly one of the finest point-and-click comedy murder mystery adventure games set in Victorian London you will play today" - Bertram Fiddle

Price -84% 0.81€
Rating 8.1
Release 02 Apr 2015
Age of Fear 2: The Chaos Lord GOLD Play as either Bel'Kara, a seductive Succubus at odds with the Underworld, or Katzok, a brutal Orc Chieftan fighting for his clan's dominance. The Age of Fear series is a deep and complex turn-based strategy (full of humour!) that fuses a tabletop wargame with RPG elements.

Price -80% 3.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 27 Mar 2015
Karate Master 2 Knock Down Blow Karate Master 2 Knock Down Blow is a fighting game that mixes elements of RPG, simulation and arcade, in an explosive combination to relieve the Beat'em up genre!

Price -50% 4.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 20 Mar 2015
Vox Populi Vox Dei 2 Your adventure is not over yet, the real enemy has appeared. Dr. Wolf has taken your lovely girl and you won't stop until you find her. To accomplish your mission, you will pass through many difficult challenges, putting your own life at risk.

Price 2.39€
Rating 8.0
Release 17 Mar 2015
Zombie Kill of the Week - Reborn Zombie Kill of the Week - Reborn is a challenging, fast paced, 2D survival shooter! Featuring a compelling single player survival mode and cooperative multiplayer for up-to four players, this is one zombie firefight you're not going to want to miss!

Price -78% 1.34€
Rating 8.6
Release 13 Mar 2015
Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun Dive into an epic story of honor and courage and help a Geisha and a Samurai save the day.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.7
Release 27 Feb 2015
Catacomb Kids Catacomb Kids is a brutal platformer roguelike that pits you against the deadly Catacombs aided only by magic, steel, and your quick reflexes. Traverse procedurally generated dungeons and hack, slash, burn, and blast your way through hordes of things that want to kill you.

Price 15.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 20 Feb 2015
David. You play David, an awfully small abstracted chosen hero tossed into a blissfully simple world overrun by giant culminations of evil physics-beasts. As David, you are given a slingshot-esque gift that you will have to use to conquer your colossus foes. Be there AND be square.

Price -55% 0.90€
Rating 7.5
Release 16 Feb 2015

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