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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Zezenia Online Zezenia is a free to play 2D MMORPG with intense PvP wars & PvE combat. Choose from three classes and seven subclasses to discover a large map with four continents, hundreds of quests, a random equipment system & more.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 07 Jul 2016
Nurse Love Addiction Follow Asuka Osachi, a ditzy girl training to become a nurse at Teito Nursing School. Experience her story with her classmates as they discover love, medicine, and adulthood.

Price -75% 10.07€
Rating 8.7
Release 07 Jul 2016
The Lion's Song: Episode 1 - Silence „The Lion's Song: Episode 1 – Silence" draws the player into the life of a talented young composer, Wilma, preparing for her breakthrough concert, the defining moment of her career. Searching for inspiration she escapes from the pressure for success to the solitude of the Austrian Alps.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 07 Jul 2016
Hero Zero - Multiplayer RPG Become a hero, build your own Hide-Out and start by saving your neighbourhood. Level up your skills, collect incredibly weird superhero gadgets, and join a superhero team to save the world!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 05 Jul 2016
Tomoyo After ~It's a Wonderful Life~ English Edition From renowned visual novel studio Key, this is the sequel to the highly acclaimed visual novel CLANNAD. Featuring a truly memorable continuation to Tomoya and Tomoyo's journey, Tomoyo After promises to draw you even further into CLANNAD's world.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 01 Jul 2016
Chicken Assassin: Reloaded Fight your way as Mean Mcallister, the baddest chicken in town, through multiple hordes of enemies to save your girlfriend in this hilarious, strategic button-mashing, action-RPG.

Price -82% 0.92€
Rating 8.7
Release 27 Jun 2016
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.

Price 14.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 21 Jun 2016
Deadlight: Director's Cut A zombie outbreak eradicated all hope of returning life back to normal, now only survival lives on. Run, hide and fight your way through the undead as Randall searches for his family in this gorgeous, gritty, destroyed world.

Price 11.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 21 Jun 2016
Drawful 2 For 3-8 players and an audience of thousands! Your phones or tablets are your controllers! The game of terrible drawings and hilariously wrong answers.

Price -96% 0.41€
Rating 7.2
Release 20 Jun 2016
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.3 Tatarigoroshi Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.

Price 7.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 17 Jun 2016
Storm Of Spears RPG Prepare for an epic 10 hour adventure in the world of Galager. Sura, the world's most sought-after mercenary, leads a band of sell-swords in a last-ditch effort to save the world. Prepare for the Storm of Spears!

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 17 Jun 2016
MAZE LORD Become the part of the legend and save the stolen princess!

Price -92% 0.42€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Jun 2016
Freebie Freebie is a casual game where you launch a ball against a paddle and hit a green surface. Be careful not to hit the red surfaces or you'll lose a life!

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 16 Jun 2016
Awareness Rooms You find yourself in a room you know nothing of. As you examine the objects around you, your awareness rises and the room slowly comes into focus. Can you find your way out?

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Jun 2016
SWARMRIDERS SWARMRIDERS is a FREE "endless runner"+"twin stick shooter" ARCADE mashup. A "machine gun swarm surfing minigame" made as a bonus content for the UBERMOSH community.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 15 Jun 2016
Unforgiving Trials: The Darkest Crusade Embark on an epic adventure to save the lands. Form a party by selecting 4 different adventurers from a pool of over 12 unique classes. Battle your way through the cursed lands scaling the highest mountains and exploring the darkest dungeons. Face more than 30 unique challenging bosses in order to reach the capital of the kingdom.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 15 Jun 2016
Bastard Bonds Bastard Bonds is a mature, fast-paced tactical RPG with high-end pixel art and in-depth character customization.

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 15 Jun 2016
Polandball: Can into Space! Crazy fun rocket simulator game with countryballs theme. Can Polandball into Space? Try to find out!

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Jun 2016
Elisa: The Innkeeper - Prequel This short Visual novel can be considered as a little introductory episode of the game Elisa the innkeeper. Enjoy our Art and Soundtrack as you begin to shape Elisa's destiny for the better or the worse!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 14 Jun 2016
Verdict Guilty - 유죄 평결 Verdict Guilty is a 90's arcade-style fighting game with a cops vs robbers theme.

Price -82% 0.82€
Rating 8.0
Release 13 Jun 2016
Roguelands Embark on an epic journey in this hardcore Multiplayer RPG! As a Galactic Cadet, you and your Combat Squad of friends must brave hostile worlds in search of valuable loot and resources. Craft powerful gear, slay otherworldly creatures, and save the galaxy.

Price -26% 7.24€
Rating 7.8
Release 13 Jun 2016
Zombie Party Zombie Party is a retro rampage of fun and over-the-top action, while still giving the players a deep and engaging Action-RPG Rogue-like experience! Go on a time traveling adventure, or delve deep into procedural dungeons full of gold, loot, and secrets!

Price -90% 0.81€
Rating 8.0
Release 10 Jun 2016
Crea Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!

Price -68% 4.49€
Rating 7.3
Release 09 Jun 2016
SteamWorld Heist Command a steam-driven pirate crew in a series of epic tactical shootouts in SteamWorld Heist. This is turn-based strategy with a twist: You manually aim the guns of your robots, allowing for insane skill shots and bullet-bouncing action!

Price -97% 0.47€
Rating 9.0
Release 07 Jun 2016
Akin In this puzzle, you only have to draw one continuous line. There are 96 puzzles on "Normal"-mode and 96 puzzles in "Time"-mode. Each puzzles can have many different solutions. This is game is Steamworks integrated with achivements, badges, trading cards and more.

Price -74% 0.26€
Rating 8.2
Release 06 Jun 2016
Ghost 1.0 A mysterious agent, capable of becoming a digital ghost, sneaks aboard the Nakamura Space Station. This is where the fun begins: the station is well-protected with its heavy defences, never-ending arsenal of weapons, and mysterious artifacts. It will all have to be destroyed.

Price -81% 2.50€
Rating 8.7
Release 06 Jun 2016
Impossible Quest Very dumb adventure game about a very dumb person from a very dumb developer.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 03 Jun 2016
Age of Barbarian Extended Cut Age of Barbarian Ex is an action hack 'n 'slash game inspired to 80s, fantasy and sword-and-sorcery genre. Muscular barbarians, scantily clad girls, hordes of bloodthirsty monsters, a lot of gore, a pretty epic story and an addictive soundtrack! What's best in life?

Price 12.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 03 Jun 2016
Captain Forever Remix Can you create the raddest spaceship? Captain Forever Remix is the spaceship builder roguelike. Voyage across the Solar System and blast apart randomly-generated enemies for spare parts. This is an officially-licensed re-imagining of the indie classic Captain Forever.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.6
Release 03 Jun 2016
Home Behind In Home Behind, you take on the role of a refugee cast out from your homeland by a band of rebels. Your home and the peace you enjoyed has been destroyed, and your family has disappeared. Can you survive the struggle, famine, and sickness to make it to the safety of Europe?

Price -69% 1.91€
Rating 8.2
Release 02 Jun 2016
Grim Legends 3: The Dark City Hunt monsters in the gothic city!

Price -87% 2.02€
Rating 8.7
Release 02 Jun 2016
Ara Fell: Enhanced Edition Take in the beauty of a magical world floating above the clouds, then take on a menacing race of vampires hidden in the dark. Ara Fell combines the best parts of Japanese-style roleplaying games with the best parts of western RPGs. The new Enhanced Edition features a slew of new features!

Price -84% 2.50€
Rating 9.0
Release 02 Jun 2016
Turmoil Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.

Price -94% 0.84€
Rating 9.1
Release 02 Jun 2016
Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure The Journey of an Idiot. 8 to 12 hours of fun!

Price -89% 1.16€
Rating 7.8
Release 31 May 2016
KNIGHTS KNIGHTS is a minimalist puzzle game based on a single chess piece, the titular knight. A simple enough to pick up and relaxing experience.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 30 May 2016
Idling to Rule the Gods Idling to Rule the Gods is a free to play Idle-Game with a lot of content and some Minigames. Depending on your play-style, you can play it fast or slow. Either way it can be fun for hundreds of hours!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 27 May 2016

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