Best Casual 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 casual games.

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Dragon's Lair Haven't heard of Dragon's Lair?! Well, you play the heroic Dirk the Daring, a valiant knight on a quest to rescue the fair princess from the clutches of an evil dragon! Originally released in the summer of 1983, Dragon's Lair has solidified itself as a cultural icon in gaming.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 17 May 2013
Reus In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.

Price -91% 0.90€
Rating 7.6
Release 16 May 2013
Super Sanctum TD Super Sanctum TD is a retro-styled Tower Defense game that focuses on strategy, customization and replayability. Build advanced mazes and construct powerful towers to prevent alien hordes from reaching the Core!

Price -90% 0.51€
Rating 8.3
Release 09 May 2013
FEZ Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.

Price -71% 2.90€
Rating 9.0
Release 01 May 2013
Jack Lumber A tree killed his granny and now he is out for revenge. Meet Jack Lumber, the supernatural lumberjack who hates trees, loves animals, and hates trees. Did we say that twice? The guy really hates trees, and boy does he have an axe to grind.

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.1
Release 30 Apr 2013
Poker Night 2 The chips are down and the ante is up in this sentence already bursting with poker clichés! Take the fifth seat in Poker Night 2, at a table featuring Claptrap (Borderlands 2), Brock Samson (The Venture Bros.), Ash (Army of Darkness) and Sam (Sam and Max series).

Price 158.30€
Rating 8.5
Release 26 Apr 2013
The 39 Steps Prepare to experience the original man-on-the-run thriller in a completely new way! There are secrets to be discovered, locations to be explored and - above all - an incredible tale to be told in this ground-breaking interactive novel.

Price -69% 0.31€
Rating 7.3
Release 25 Apr 2013
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.

Price -94% 0.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Apr 2013
Surgeon Simulator Surgeon Simulator is an over-the-top operation sim, stitching together pitch-black humour with life-saving surgery. Become Dr. Burke, a would-be surgeon with a less than conventional toolkit, as he performs procedures on patients including the Heavy from TF2! ...is that a hammer?

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Apr 2013
Papo & Yo Quico’s best friend, Monster, is a huge beast with razor-sharp teeth, but that doesn’t scare Quico away from playing with him. That said, Monster does have a very dangerous problem: an addiction to poisonous frogs.

Price -97% 0.48€
Rating 8.9
Release 18 Apr 2013
Evoland Evoland is a journey through the history of action/adventure gaming, allowing you to unlock new technologies, gameplay systems and graphic upgrades as you progress through the game.

Price -77% 2.34€
Rating 8.0
Release 04 Apr 2013
Dungeon Hearts Dungeon Hearts fuses the strategy and pattern matching of puzzle games with the kinetic pace of action games. Align magical runes as they flow along the Fatestream to attack, defend, and conjure magic in frenetic battles against a bestiary of fantastic creatures out to use those same runes against you.

Price -78% 0.66€
Rating 6.1
Release 28 Mar 2013
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is a hybrid roguelike game of space exploration, adventure and starship combat.

Price -84% 0.65€
Rating 6.3
Release 19 Mar 2013
DLC Quest What happens when DLC practices go too far? An indie developer makes a game that mocks the industry and its foibles, that's what! Defeat the bad guy, save the world and get the girl! But first you'll need to find coins to buy DLC to enable animation, sound and even pausing.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 18 Mar 2013
Monster Loves You! Live the life of a Monster, from birth to elderhood and beyond, making decisions that affect the world of Monsters and Humans. Solve problems. Meet animals and interesting people. Get to know them. Eat them. Make your own story!

Price -91% 0.90€
Rating 7.5
Release 18 Mar 2013
Go Home Dinosaurs! Todd Rex wants steak. Todd Rex wants YOUR steak. Are you gonna let him take it? No way! Go Home, Dinosaurs!Prevent hordes of marauding Dinos from crashing your party in the world’s premier BBQ defense simulator! Unlock powerful towers that act like little weaponized puzzle pieces.

Price -96% 0.41€
Rating 8.2
Release 14 Mar 2013
BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien Step into rhythmic bliss with Runner2! Best Indie Game winner, Guinness World Record holder, and narrated by Charles Martinet. Unleash vibrant moves and beats in 120 levels!

Price -96% 0.58€
Rating 8.8
Release 26 Feb 2013
The Bridge The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.

Price -90% 1.09€
Rating 8.4
Release 22 Feb 2013
Scribblenauts Unlimited The best-selling, award-winning franchise is back – on your home PC in gorgeous HD for the first time.

Price -97% 0.66€
Rating 9.1
Release 15 Feb 2013
Proteus Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it.

Price -44% 5.67€
Rating 7.3
Release 30 Jan 2013
The Cave Assemble your team of three from seven unlikely adventurers, then descend into the mysterious depths to explore The Cave!

Price 12.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 23 Jan 2013
10,000,000 10000000: The Dungeon Crawling Matching Game

Price -79% 1.08€
Rating 8.6
Release 15 Jan 2013
Fieldrunners 2 Get ready to DEFEND THE WORLD! The biggest sequel in tower defense history is finally here: Fieldrunners 2 has arrived! From Subatomic Studios, creators of the award winning classic strategy game comes an all new adventure that was years in the making.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 10 Jan 2013
Dead Pixels A toxic waste spill finds its way into the water supply, causing the recently deceased to rise from their graves. Now it's up to you to blast your way through the hordes of undead if you're going to escape the city. On the way to your rescue, you'll search stores and houses for supplies, and trade with other survivors.

Price -58% 1.28€
Rating 8.4
Release 07 Dec 2012
Mabinogi Embark on amazing adventures, build lasting friendships or even find romance in this unique social game, where a welcoming community with thousands of devoted players await! Whoever you are, or whatever your heart’s desire, come express it in Mabinogi and start living your fantasy life!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 06 Dec 2012
Triple Town Triple Town is an award-winning original puzzle game in which you try to grow the greatest possible city. The larger the city you build, the more points you score. You build your city by matching three or more game-pieces: combine three grasses to make a bush, three bushes to make a tree...

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.7
Release 06 Dec 2012
Super Hexagon Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.

Price -86% 0.44€
Rating 9.5
Release 27 Nov 2012
LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™ Based on The Lord of the Rings motion picture trilogy, LEGO® The Lord of the Rings follows the original story-lines of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, taking players through the epic story events re-imagined with the humor and endl

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 27 Nov 2012
Little Inferno Throw your toys into your fire, and play with them as they burn. An adventure that takes place almost entirely in front of a fireplace - about looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall. From the creators of World of Goo and Human Resource Machine.

Price -71% 4.35€
Rating 9.2
Release 19 Nov 2012
Thomas Was Alone Guide a group of rectangles through 120 levels, using their different skills together to overcome a series of obstacles in each environment. Discover the human-made story of the first sentient artificial intelligences with Danny Wallace’s BAFTA-winning narration.

Price -95% 0.44€
Rating 9.1
Release 12 Nov 2012
Puddle Guide your puddle of fluid through a vast range of environments and puzzles!

Price -95% 0.35€
Rating 7.0
Release 09 Nov 2012
Cargo Commander Alone in space, light years away from your family, armed with only your Fistcannon™; you are Cargo Corps' latest recruit, a Cargo Commander.

Price -91% 0.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 01 Nov 2012
7 Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover The long-standing 7 Wonders series keeps getting better and better! The fifth installment, 7 Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover, adds an entirely new game component, new Wonders and a new and exciting material – Alien Energy!

Price -96% 0.42€
Rating 7.9
Release 24 Oct 2012
A Game of Dwarves A Dwarven Prince on a quest to reclaim his people’s stolen land will take you on a great journey. Explore a continent filled with buried treasures and unearth mysteries that have laid hidden since the Great War.

Price -90% 1.07€
Rating 6.1
Release 23 Oct 2012
Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement The original puzzle adventure game based on twisted William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Price -92% 0.44€
Rating 6.1
Release 22 Oct 2012
Dwarfs - F2P Dwarfs!? is an addictive, fast paced arcade-like experience, with plenty of difficulty levels and game modes, in the tradition of great games such as “Lemmings” and “Dwarf Fortress”.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 18 Oct 2012

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