Best 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.

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RIVE This 360-degree shooter/platformer hybrid lets you choreograph a ‘dance of destruction’ in insanely spectacular battles and set-pieces. RIVE feels like the explosive games of yore, pumping megapixels in true 21st century style.

Price -35% 9.68€
Rating 8.0
Release 13 Sep 2016
Monsti Playing Monsti is easy, all you have to do is to click and fly for as much time as you can. There will be many obstacles that come your way and you have to do all in your power in order to avoid them.

Price -63% 0.37€
Rating 6.9
Release 12 Sep 2016
PRINCIPIA: Master of Science Principia: Master of Science is a simulation game with the theme of European science in 17th century. Choose one of 12 real scientists from the era of Isaac Newton and proceed with your research. It is a time when even the term "Science" did not exist. Who can be the master of science?

Price -70% 2.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 09 Sep 2016
Princess Remedy 2: In A Heap of Trouble An enormous Boss Tower has sprung from the ground, lifting entire towns up with it. Now, the people living on the tower are starting to contract all sorts of mysterious illnesses. Princess Remedy, still in Saturnian healing school, must use her powers to heal everyone and defeat the Boss Tower!

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.5
Release 08 Sep 2016
Flat Heroes Dodge, jump, and dash your way through hundreds of terrifying geometric levels and epic bosses. Too tough? Bring your friends!

Price -95% 0.55€
Rating 8.4
Release 08 Sep 2016
Project Highrise Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Price -96% 0.87€
Rating 8.2
Release 08 Sep 2016
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Sep 2016
Dungeon Rushers A Heroic-Parody tactical RPG combining dungeon crawler’s gameplay and turn-based fights. Dive in an off-beat universe, manage your team and craft mighty gear to equip them! Build your own dungeon by hiding traps and monsters in your galleries, then challenge other players to clean it!

Price -94% 1.04€
Rating 6.1
Release 06 Sep 2016
Sisyphus Reborn A short atmospheric adventure game about finding meaning in a meaningless world.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 05 Sep 2016
Mother Russia Bleeds An old-fashioned beat 'em up with big doses of adrenaline and trippiness, somewhere between the classic style of Streets of Rage and the ultra-violence of Hotline Miami. Set in a cold, ruthless Soviet Union, Mother Russia Bleeds aims to conjure up anxiety, unease, and drug-addled frenzy.

Price -93% 1.18€
Rating 8.4
Release 05 Sep 2016
Seasons after Fall Seasons After Fall is a 2D platform-puzzler game that will let you dive into a captivating universe and explore a land governed by magic and nature.

Price -88% 1.20€
Rating 7.8
Release 02 Sep 2016
Curious Expedition Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame, science and treasures.

Price -80% 2.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 02 Sep 2016
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 01 Sep 2016
The Underground Man Moscow: somewhere in the near future. The city and perhaps the Earth's surface has turned into a radioactive ash. Those who decided that they could not exist in such conditions began to live under the ground.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 01 Sep 2016
Don't Disturb Single-player puzzle adventure with a beautiful, distinctive art style and a genuinely emotional story. As a lonely dog wandering the afterlife searching for his dead master, 'Don't Disturb' explores traditional Asian views on death and the underworld.

Price -91% 0.37€
Rating 7.9
Release 01 Sep 2016
Atomik: RunGunJumpGun Atomik: RunGunJumpGun is a tough as nails game that puts a gravity-defying weapon in your hands. One button lets you fly, the other blasts obstacles out of the way. With a cast of crazed characters, challenging gameplay, and a pulsing musical score, it delivers twitchy platforming goodness.

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 31 Aug 2016
Lost Castle / 失落城堡 Lost Castle is an action RPG beat'em up with roguelike elements and randomized dungeons for up to four players online and local!

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 31 Aug 2016
NeuroVoider NeuroVoider is a twin-stick shooter RPG set in a cyber futuristic world about brains shooting around evil robots with nuclear rocket launchers. Battle through the horde of vigilant robots, boost your character with the smoking remains of your victims, and defeat the master NeuroVoider.

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 7.3
Release 31 Aug 2016
The Final Station Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Price -84% 2.50€
Rating 8.5
Release 30 Aug 2016
Hue Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.

Price -92% 1.32€
Rating 9.0
Release 30 Aug 2016
Four Sided Fantasy A game about the limits of your screen. Four Sided Fantasy is a seamless experience where you wrap the screen to solve mind-bending puzzles. Play as a man and woman who attempt to find each other throughout four seasons in a year, constantly separated by the boundaries of the screen.

Price -93% 0.72€
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Aug 2016
Quest for Glory 1-5 The world of Gloriana, with all its wonderful diversity, awaits you.

Price -28% 7.20€
Rating 8.8
Release 29 Aug 2016
Tribal Pass A genre-twisting tactical runner where you maneuver, fight, think, sacrifice and evolve – all ON THE RUN.

Price -86% 0.79€
Rating 7.2
Release 26 Aug 2016
You Have 10 Seconds 2 You Have 10 Seconds 2 is the sequel to the popular Free to Play game "You Have 10 Seconds". You have 10 seconds to get from the start of each level to the end before time runs out and without dying.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 25 Aug 2016

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