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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The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns A short lesbian / yuri visual novel set in England. Our heroine, Toma Andrews, meets a ghost girl wearing an old-fashioned nightgown in a graveyard who calls herself Emmeline. Just who is she, and how did she die?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Jan 2016
Cally's Caves 3 Cally's parents have been abducted, as her arch-enemy Herbert has taken control of the Caves to perform his evil experiments. Join Cally and her friends in this action-packed run and gun platformer, conquering insane bosses, exploring to find secrets, and levelling up EVERYTHING.

Price 6.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 05 Jan 2016
Suits: A Business RPG Corporations control the entire global government. Injustice has inspired a revolution in Suits City. Follow the journey of a businessman's descent into corruption...

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 05 Jan 2016
Pony Island Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.

Price -77% 1.19€
Rating 9.3
Release 04 Jan 2016
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 01 Jan 2016
Space Pilgrim Episode I: Alpha Centauri Captain Gail Pilgrim has been flying starships since she was a kid, ferrying passengers between planets and space stations across the galaxy. She has no reason to expect that this latest trip to Alpha Centauri will be anything special, even if her passengers are a little more diverse than usual....

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Dec 2015
Aviary Attorney The hottest bird lawyering game to come out of 1840s France! Join Jayjay Falcon and his witty apprentice, Sparrowson, as the two take on clients, interview witnesses, collect evidence, and deliver justice to the guilty.

Price -96% 0.64€
Rating 9.0
Release 21 Dec 2015
Gnomes Garden Dry summer withered the king’s beloved garden and the surrounding gardens of the kingdom alike. The ruler has fallen ill and the kingdom is in danger. Help the princess save the gardens and make the king better again.

Price -91% 1.40€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 Dec 2015
UnderRail UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.

Price -68% 4.75€
Rating 8.5
Release 18 Dec 2015
Bubsy Two-Fur Bubsy returns in the first authorized digital release of his first two games! What could paws-ibly go wrong?

Price 20.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 17 Dec 2015
Commander Cool 2 Commander Cool 2 is a four player local coop retro-styled adventure that is destined to be one of coolest game in 2015!

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 17 Dec 2015
Taimumari: Definitive Edition Retro-style platform game in keeping with the best traditions of games of our childhood! Take control of the Himari, the young female wizard travelling across various ages to settle the balance in time across the whole world!

Price -66% 2.40€
Rating 7.4
Release 16 Dec 2015
Contract With The Devil Welcome to the world where mysticism and reality, past and present, good and evil are united in a single whole!

Price -70% 4.43€
Rating 6.8
Release 11 Dec 2015
Dragon's Wake Dragon's Wake is a 2D Adventure Platformer where a fledgling dragon hatches into a world in which the extermination of dragons at the hands of a mysterious black knight is already underway.

Price 3.29€
Rating 8.2
Release 10 Dec 2015
PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist Join your favorite YouTubers on an Epic Quest in PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist.

Price -87% 1.04€
Rating 8.6
Release 10 Dec 2015
GUILTY GEAR Xrd -SIGN- Kept you waitin'. GUILTY GEAR Xrd -SIGN- is finally here on Steam!

Price 27.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 09 Dec 2015
Apotheon Arena Apotheon Arena is the free online-multiplayer complement to the mythic Greek action RPG, Apotheon. Pit your skills with spear and shield against other players in brutal bronze-age combat. Battle across the statuesque arenas of Olympus, depicted with beautiful black-figure pottery artwork.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Dec 2015
City of Chains City of Chains is a dark sci-fi RPG set in a dystopian city. Take control of a small group of escaped fugitives and lead them to their freedom. Decide whether to fight head on or to avoid combat, to help others or to go your own way, to show mercy or to kill. Your actions could affect the fate of the city.

Price -93% 0.67€
Rating 6.9
Release 08 Dec 2015
Gun Wings A mysterious meteorite from deep space was detected approaching the Solar System, before the meteorite is due to hit the Earth, three of the girls who had their bodies modified as weapons are sent, along with all the hopes of humanity, to destroy the meteorite and save mankind...

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 08 Dec 2015
SquareCells SquareCells is an ambient logic puzzle game.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 07 Dec 2015
Bullet Heaven 2 Bullet Heaven 2 is a bullet-hell shoot-em-up inspired by games like Touhou and Jamestown. It's all about shooting every cute thing that moves, while dodging hundreds of shiny bullets per second!

Price 13.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 07 Dec 2015
Zombie Vikings From the creators of indie smash hit Stick It to The Man! comes a new one to four-player co-op stab-you-in-the-gut-a-thon. Embark on a dead funny adventure with the Zombie Vikings. A putrid posse sent on a mission through the most epic of worlds to retrieve Odin’s lost eye.

Price 11.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 07 Dec 2015
Nuclear Throne Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?

Price -91% 1.11€
Rating 9.4
Release 05 Dec 2015
Nyan Cat: Lost In Space Play with the most celebrated flying cat in human history. Drink milk, eat ice-cream, collect coins, buy gorgeous boosts, fly like a superhero (sorry... supercat), jump onto platforms made of cake, avoid angry dogs, and discover the infinite space.

Price -50% 1.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Dec 2015
Corgi Warlock Corgi Warlock is a 1-4 player side-scrolling fantasy action game, where one brave Corgi will take on the Skeleton Bunny King's army! Against the power of Narwhals, Fencing Bears, and Crazed Unicorns, it takes more than your average Corgi to survive the King's onslaught... it takes a CORGI WARLOCK.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 03 Dec 2015
Vampire Legends: The True Story of Kisilova Discover the source of dreadful evil!

Price -97% 0.51€
Rating 8.1
Release 03 Dec 2015
The Last Dream: Developer's Edition “Reality and dreams are about to become entwined…..” The Last Dream: Developer's Edition" is a casual adventure game which, despite having some classic casual elements, will also offer a greater challenge for more experienced gamers.

Price 7.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 03 Dec 2015
DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours is the latest installment in Taito's DARIUS series of arcade-style shooting games. Blast hordes of alien sea-monsters, and blaze your own trail through branching environments.

Price -64% 17.76€
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Dec 2015
Carpe Diem Seize the day

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 30 Nov 2015
The Deed A keenly dark twist on the traditional murder mystery setting, The Deed is an Adventure/RPG game about getting away with murder. Arran Bruce, the rightful heir to Dunshiel House, returns home to settle a score with his estranged family.

Price -82% 0.18€
Rating 8.7
Release 23 Nov 2015
CLANNAD From the world renowned visual novel studio Key, the highly rated story of CLANNAD is now available on Steam! Improved visuals, achievement integration, and Dangopedia make this the best version of CLANNAD to date.

Price -12% 38.90€
Rating 9.5
Release 23 Nov 2015
Emily is Away Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 20 Nov 2015
12 is Better Than 6 12 is Better Than 6 is a dynamic top-down shooter with stealth elements, presented in a Wild West theme. The story puts you in the shoes of escaped slave fleeing to the United States in 1873.

Price -96% 0.32€
Rating 8.1
Release 20 Nov 2015
The Consuming Shadow The Consuming Shadow is a procedural survival horror adventure in which you must explore the land, fight your way through randomly-generated dungeons and try to stay sane in your quest to save the world from the invading Ancients.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 20 Nov 2015
Tick Tock Isle Strike is inadvertently transported into the past while attempting to repair a mysterious, abandoned clock tower.  Endeavoring to return to the future, Strike must fix both the time machine and the island’s dysfunctional family who are responsible for much of the clock’s disrepair.

Price -36% 0.64€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Nov 2015
hocus perspective illusion puzzle based on M.C. Escher drawings and impossible shapes

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 18 Nov 2015

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