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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Bulb Boy One gloomy night, Bulb Boy wakes suddenly from a frightening nightmare to discover that evil has overshadowed the Bulbhouse. His family has disappeared and there are horrid monsters lurking in the shadows. Gather the courage and use his glass head to save everything he loves.

Price -83% 1.59€
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Oct 2015
Pink Hour Help a pink-clad office lady find a missing document so the boss doesn't get angry in this free spin-off minigame to Kero Blaster.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Oct 2015
Albert and Otto Created by solo developer Nikola Kostic - Traverse a haunting world set in 1939 Germany in search of a mysterious girl with rabbit ears. Utilize a little bunny in creative ways to solve puzzles. Levitate sheep, use them as torches or wolf bait and make your way through a dangerous land.

Price 4.60€
Rating 6.2
Release 28 Oct 2015
Star Sky Star Sky is a game about a man taking a midnight stroll. You take the same road as many times as you want, each time hopefully unlocking new encounters. Can you unlock the mysteries of the night?

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 23 Oct 2015
RPG Maker MV POWERFUL enough for a developer SIMPLE enough for a child VERSATILE enough for any platform!RPG MAKER MV allows you to make the RPG of your dreams! This latest version includes a host of new featuresand export options for MacOSX, Android, and iPhone!

Price -91% 7.66€
Rating 8.8
Release 23 Oct 2015
200% Mixed Juice! 200% Mixed Juice! is the 10th Anniversary game of OrangeJuice, an old school RPG featuring a 200% mix of OrangeJuice characters.

Price -94% 0.44€
Rating 7.0
Release 23 Oct 2015
Message Quest Message Quest is a tiny stained-glass point-n-click adventure about laziness and her herald. Imagine yourself as the main hero’s conscience, the one that must make him work when all he wants to do is sleep.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 22 Oct 2015
DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.

Price -90% 0.54€
Rating 9.1
Release 21 Oct 2015
Kingdom: Classic Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 21 Oct 2015
Toby: The Secret Mine A challenging puzzle platformer inspired by games like Limbo and Badland.

Price -85% 1.39€
Rating 6.8
Release 20 Oct 2015
Empire TV Tycoon Empire TV Tycoon is a game in which you manage a TV channel and fight for audiences taking decisions that will project your channel to fame and fortune.You will decide the content of your channel, select advertisers, hire workers, make your own productions, hire actors, and engage in much more activities!

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 20 Oct 2015
Knights of Pen and Paper 2 Prepare to inhabit a world of chivalry, class warfare and off-beat pop references. Knights of Pen & Paper 2 is a turn-based, retro style, pixel-art adventure full of danger, intrigue, death, and saving throws!

Price -93% 0.62€
Rating 8.4
Release 20 Oct 2015
Rebel Galaxy Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.

Price -98% 0.46€
Rating 8.3
Release 20 Oct 2015
FreeCell Quest FreeCell Quest is an RPG Free Cell game. You've never played Free Cell like this before! Explore 533 cities while collecting cards, gold, levels, armor, and spells on your epic quest of card sorting! Think quickly before the cards strike and drain your precious health. A new twist on a classic game!

Price -94% 0.66€
Rating 6.8
Release 19 Oct 2015
Spooky Bonus Uncover dark forces emanating from the heart of Old Town, and grab spooky accessories for your front yard makeover, too! You’ll be spellbound by this adorably ghoulish horror-themed puzzle game.

Price -95% 0.55€
Rating 8.8
Release 15 Oct 2015
Human Resource Machine Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.

Price -94% 1.01€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 Oct 2015
Downwell Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.

Price -82% 0.56€
Rating 9.4
Release 15 Oct 2015
Broforce Broforce is an action-packed side-scrolling run ‘n’ gun ode to freedom, putting you in control of an under-funded, overpowered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force.

Price -94% 0.95€
Rating 9.5
Release 15 Oct 2015
Mushroom 11 An award-winning anti-platformer where destruction is the only way to move. Mold yourself into any form by destroying your cells, and traverse a devastated landscape filled with brain-twisting puzzles and bizarre mutations. Are you ready to break the mold?

Price -97% 0.50€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Oct 2015
Crusaders of the Lost Idols Crusaders of the Lost Idols is an idle game of heroic awesomeness! Create a band of fighters to fight monsters, earn gold and create strategies for the perfect formations over multiple campaigns! Upgrade your heroes, collect unique gear, and unlock new Crusaders in regular new events.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 13 Oct 2015
The Secret of Tremendous Corporation Explore the deepest SECRETs™ of the Tremendous Corporation®. Find out what happened to indie devs and save the gaming industry!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 12 Oct 2015
Legend of Mysteria RPG An exciting JRPG by the writer of Labyronia. As tensions grow between factions of mages, you are framed for the murder of a demigod. Solve the mystery behind his assassination or risk a war that could send the world into chaos for millenia.

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 09 Oct 2015
Fairy Tale Mysteries 2: The Beanstalk Vanquish the last giant!

Price -97% 0.56€
Rating 7.1
Release 08 Oct 2015
SKYHILL World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...

Price -92% 0.88€
Rating 7.6
Release 06 Oct 2015
2064: Read Only Memories 2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society

Price -92% 0.75€
Rating 7.6
Release 06 Oct 2015
Prison Architect Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Price -85% 3.89€
Rating 8.8
Release 06 Oct 2015
Game Corp DX Manage your Game Studio, earn big bucks, impress the critics, beat rival studios and clean up at the awards!

Price -87% 0.40€
Rating 8.5
Release 02 Oct 2015
Hylics Hylics is a recreational program with light JRPG elements.

Price 2.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 02 Oct 2015
Steredenn: Binary Stars Steredenn is a frenetic and chaotic space shooter, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Embark in your ship and engage the fight against dreadful space pirates in a never-ending combat for your survival.

Price 12.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 01 Oct 2015
Expand Expand is a meditative video game in which you explore a circular labyrinth that constantly twists, stretches and expands around you.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 30 Sep 2015
The Escapists: The Walking Dead Merging the smash hit indie game The Escapists with the world wide phenomenon that is The Walking Dead, Team17 have taken the very best of both worlds and are now providing players with the opportunity to play Rick Grimes as he takes on hordes of zombies let loose upon the world.

Price -92% 1.34€
Rating 6.2
Release 30 Sep 2015
Ninja Pizza Girl Ninja Pizza Girl is a serious game about bullying, emotional resilience – and pizza delivering ninjas! It’s a fast, flow-based game about Gemma, a sixteen-year-old girl trying to keep her dreams alive in face of the most merciless enemies known to any teenage girl – other teenagers.

Price -94% 0.42€
Rating 7.5
Release 30 Sep 2015
Mighty Gunvolt Take control of one of three playable characters (Gunvolt, Ekoro, and Beck) as you blast your way past the baddies in stage after stage of side-scrolling action! Each stage ends with a boss encounter. Defeat the boss to complete the stage.

Price -65% 1.74€
Rating 7.0
Release 29 Sep 2015
Arcana Heart 3 LOVE MAX!!!!! With its own unique battle system and a wide selection of characteristic angels, the girls are appearing on Steam for the first time in [Arcana Heart 3 LOVE MAX!!!!!]!!

Price -91% 2.75€
Rating 7.6
Release 29 Sep 2015
Jotun: Valhalla Edition Jotun is a hand-drawn action-exploration game set in Norse mythology. In Jotun, you play Thora, a Viking warrior who died an inglorious death and must prove herself to the Gods to enter Valhalla. Impress the Gods!

Price -92% 1.24€
Rating 7.6
Release 29 Sep 2015
Dino Run DX DINOSAURS. PIXELS. PYROCLASTIC DOOM WALLS. MASSIVE INDIE CROSSOVERS. Dino Run DX has all of that and more. Come rediscover the original runner and escape extinction all over again.

Price -93% 0.42€
Rating 8.9
Release 29 Sep 2015

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