Best 2D Games 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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Net.Attack() - Code or Die!
CODE OR DIE! Hack enemy systems & survive the security response by engineering lethal bullet-heaven algorithms. Your brain power determines your firepower across 190+ programming nodes. Debug your failures. Optimize your code. Complete the heist. HACK THE PLANET!
Tangy TD
Strategic tower defense where you play a witch, place class-based towers, equip them with items that grant powerful abilities, combine them, create unique builds & deal ridiculous amounts of damage! Customize your builds with a deep stat system and giant skill tree!
Desktop Raid
Assemble your adventure squad on the desktop! Classic RPG meets idle play—no grind, no stress, just nonstop progress. Your heroes fight, level up, and loot while you work or study. Explore rich classes, powerful skills, and thrilling gear drops. RPG excitement, anytime, anywhere!
Planet of Lana II
As greed and power divide the tribes of their home planet, Lana and her little companion, Mui, must stand together against the forces reshaping their world – struggling not just for survival, but for the soul of their home.
Slay the Spire 2
The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
Lost and Found Co.
Lost and Found Co. is a hidden object adventure in a cozy and immersive world. Join a cast of lively characters on their epic journey across countless magical locations. Find lost items, solve puzzles, and help a tiny dragon regain her power!
The Succession of Changing Kings
Turn-based kingdom management simulator focused on decision-making. Will you survive and lead the kingdom to prosperity, or die in agony? The throne awaits.
Card Cultivation
Card Cultivation is a card management game that visualizes the process of cultivating immortality through cards. In the game, you will play as a cultivation practitioner: cultivate techniques, explore treasures, and craft weapons, Throughout re-cultivation, you will recover memory.
Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse
A Metroidvania x Roguelite where you journey with the aid of a cursed hat. Use a variety of magic or possess your enemies to reach the lowest levels! Bring back loot, build new facilities in your village, make a living and strengthen yourself for the next battle! Supports up to 4-player multiplayer.
Scott Pilgrim EX
Join Scott Pilgrim and Ramona Flowers in a brand-new brawling adventure across space, time, and the streets of Toronto!
Dice A Million
Have you ever tried to roll 1,000,000 on a set of dice? No? Build the right bag of die, and you might just pull it off.
MeteoriteFall
Let's use existence and freedom as stakes, block everything, and explore the ancient legends of the Fallen Star Village, digging out the truth buried in the long river of history.
Horripilant
KILL YOUR GOD. BECOME WORTHY. Horripilant is a chilling idle incremental dungeon crawl through the horrors of a forgotten underworld.
Rhythia
Rhythia is a game about aiming and hitting musical beats with precision timing, within a dynamic 3x3 grid system. Use your reflexes to target flying blocks, combine accurate aim with perfect rhythm, and finally master the leaderboards against players who challenge your precision skills.
Horsey Game
Collect Horses. Breed Horses. Race Horses. Genetically Modify Horses. Create a Horse paradise or just get rich!
Menherarium
"Let's play together… forever, okay?" Menherarium is a deck-building roguelite where you survive 7 days of blood-staked Chinchiro against a clingy menhera girl. Trapped and forced to gamble your blood daily in twisted dice games, use cheat items and overcome her changing rules to survive.
Insider Trading
Insider Trading is a roguelike deckbuilder where you bend the market to your will. Synergize perks, manipulate stock prices, and trade wisely or risk pricing yourself out.
Under The Island
Embark on an epic adventure in Under the Island! A 2D action-adventure steeped in ‘90s charm, step into the shoes of Nia, and battle fierce monsters, solve clever puzzles, and explore a world alive with mystery as you race to save your new home before it’s too late.
CiniCross
CiniCross is a dark fantasy roguelite where nonogram puzzles meet dungeon crawling. Solve increasingly complex puzzles, choose your path through a branching dungeon, and bend the rules using powerful artifacts. Each room is a puzzle. Each boss, a deadly challenge.
HER TREES : PUZZLE DREAM
HER TREES : PUZZLE DREAM is a unique point-and-click puzzle game where you move and combine objects to solve puzzles. Unravel the strange puzzles hidden in your dreams.
Mewgenics
Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.
Heaven Does Not Respond
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
Dead Grid
Dead Grid is a turn-based strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies, infused with an 80s retro vibe. Lead a squad of elite mercenaries, fight relentless hordes, discover survivors, and build up your camp with hundreds of scavenged upgrades.
Territory: Farming and Warfare
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
The Dark Rites of Arkham
A macabre ritual murder puts Arkham PD detectives Jack Foster and Harvey Whitman to the test. As the investigation progresses, they will unveil a disturbing connection between the Salem witch trials of the 17th century and the end of humankind.
Feng Shui Meowjong
Looks matter? Fun doesn’t?When cat memes collide with roguelike mahjong, a brand-new Meowjong is born! Feng Shui Meowjong is a fresh, lightweight roguelike puzzle game that blends classic mahjong strategy with quirky cat memes and feng shui elements.
The Last Starship
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Skewer Squad
Skewer Squad is a cute yet chaotic tower defense roguelite. Step into the apron of a Grillmaster, draft random ingredients, mix wild seasonings, and build a squad of skewers that are both delicious and powerful to defend your grill.
Touhou Blooming Soul
Follow Hata no Kokoro as she explores and defeats enemies on the stage of Gensokyo. The game contains many randomized elements such as items, skills and maps. Players can utilize a variety of different playstyles, making each run uniquely different from the last.
Labyrinth of Touhou Tri -The Dreaming Girls & The Mysterious Orbs-
The girls of Gensokyo weave together a DRPG with not-so-easy boss fights! Form a party of 12 allies out of a pool of 40+, and create with 1000+ skills to choose from! Hack, slash, and grow stronger, then make builds (or counter-builds!) to take down powerful bosses awaiting you in the dungeons!
Roots Devour
Extend your roots, imbibe fresh blood, and expand without end. Roots Devour is a strategic exploration game centered around a card-connecting mechanism. Drive your frenzied roots through swamps and over frozen mountains, invading human cities until the darkness... descends.
HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator
Unravel cyber secrets and foil mass surveillance as a skilled hacker in Hackhub. Challenge authority, rewrite the rules, and emerge as the ultimate digital rebel.
Escape from Ever After
Fight against capitalism in this satirical adventure RPG! When a greedy megacorp from the real world starts taking over fairytales for their cheap labor, a newly-hired storybook hero must climb the corporate ladder, rally together other disgruntled employees, and fight back!
FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves
26 years on, a brand-new entry in the Fatal Fury series is set to arrive on the scene! FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves features a unique art style that stimulates the senses and an innovative REV System that supercharges the excitement. Here, at long last, a new legend is about to unfold…
Microcivilization
Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.