Best Competitive 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 competitive games.

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BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger The first hi-res 2D fighter from the creators of the Guilty Gear series! BlazBlue is a traditional 2D fighter where two characters participate in a duel.

Price -96% 0.42€
Rating 8.3
Release 13 Feb 2014
Insurgency Take to the streets for intense close quarters combat, where a team's survival depends upon securing crucial strongholds and destroying enemy supply in this multiplayer and cooperative Source Engine based experience.

Price -91% 1.19€
Rating 9.1
Release 22 Jan 2014
Nidhogg Nidhogg is the epic award-winning game of fencing tug-of-war complete with flying giant worms.

Price -54% 4.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 13 Jan 2014
Samurai GUNN Samurai GUNN is a lightning-fast Bushido brawler for two to four players. Each samurai is armed with a sword and gunn, with only 3 bullets to a life. Strategy and quick reflexes are the key to deflecting bullets and sending your opponents’ heads rolling.

Price -55% 2.29€
Rating 8.6
Release 10 Dec 2013
Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition enhances the bold new franchise to the fighting game genre from NetherRealm Studios. Featuring six new playable characters, over 30 new skins, and 60 new S.T.A.R. Labs missions, this edition packs a punch.

Price -97% 0.61€
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Nov 2013
King Arthur's Gold Would you enjoy building CASTLES, traps and siege machines in MULTIPLAYER? And then undermine your opponents castle and collapse it with 2D PHYSICS & DESTRUCTION?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 05 Nov 2013
Contagion Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.

Price -86% 1.15€
Rating 7.2
Release 25 Oct 2013
Megabyte Punch Megabyte Punch is a fighting/beat ‘em up game in which you build your own fighter! As you travel through different environments, you battle other creatures to get their parts. Parts have their own powers and bonuses, like gun arms for a shoot ability or powerful hips for a devastating pelvic thrust attack.

Price -86% 2.03€
Rating 8.5
Release 15 Oct 2013
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII STEAM EDITION [[i]i]“THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII”[/i], SNK PLAYMORE’s flagship 2D versus fighting title returns in an ultimate version on Steam!!

Price -66% 6.86€
Rating 8.7
Release 13 Sep 2013
Skullgirls 2nd Encore --Main Stage Game at Evo 2022!-- The ultimate Skullgirls experience: Featuring 14 hand-animated characters, fully voiced story mode, countless palettes, and unparalleled GGPO-based multiplayer netcode.

Price -67% 6.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 22 Aug 2013
Divekick Divekick is the world’s first two-button fighting game. It distills the essence of the fighting game genre into just two buttons with no d-pad directional movement. Includes two extra playable characters: Fencer from Nidhogg and Johnny Gat from Saints Row!

Price -85% 0.60€
Rating 8.0
Release 20 Aug 2013
Dota 2 Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 09 Jul 2013
TrackMania² Valley TrackMania² Valley is the third environment of TrackMania², the sequel to Nadeo Studio’s online racing phenomenon TrackMania, already enjoyed by millions of players. Valley is a new take on the classic arcade rally racing genre. Flirting between arcade and simulation, Valley marks a new checkpoint in the history of racing games.

Price -51% 9.85€
Rating 7.6
Release 04 Jul 2013
TrackMania² Stadium TrackMania² Stadium is the return of the popular Stadium environment enjoyed by millions of players with TrackMania Nations Forever. Now part of the ManiaPlanet environment, Stadium allows for improved services around the game, better graphics and a powerful track editor.

Price -29% 7.19€
Rating 8.6
Release 20 Jun 2013
ShootMania Storm ShootMania the FPS “Powered By Players”ShootMania Storm is revolutionizing the multiplayer FPS by adding a community dimension and unlimited replayability. Developed by the Nadeo studio, renowned for community racing game, TrackMania, ShootMania Storm boasts quick-fire matches and epic battles, where only your talent will distinguish you...

Price -98% 0.49€
Rating 8.1
Release 10 Apr 2013
Age of Empires II (Retired) Age of Empires II has been re-imagined in high definition. With the release of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, this product will not be updated further.

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 09 Apr 2013
RaceRoom Racing Experience RaceRoom is free to download and built on true-to-life physics and Force Feedback. Drive DTM, FIA WTCC, WTCR and a huge library of cars and tracks—including the most up-to-date Nordschleife. Jump in, race instantly, and expand your garage with a massive selection of content.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 12 Feb 2013
Natural Selection 2 A fast paced multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival!

Price -22% 3.91€
Rating 8.3
Release 30 Oct 2012
Guns of Icarus Online Assemble your crew, take to the skies in the premier PvP airship combat game. Guns of Icarus Online is all about flying massive airships, shooting big turret weapons, and working as a team for supremacy of the skies. Everyone as one, victory or death, together.

Price -91% 0.49€
Rating 8.8
Release 29 Oct 2012
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare Besiege castles and raid villages in Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, a fast-paced medieval first person slasher with a focus on multiplayer battles

Price -97% 0.80€
Rating 8.1
Release 16 Oct 2012
Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition This bonecrunching sport features 23 playable races, each with its own style, vicious moves, rankings & more!

Price -87% 1.98€
Rating 7.8
Release 11 Oct 2012
Counter-Strike 2 For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 21 Aug 2012
Awesomenauts Use your power, show your might! Play this Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game! AWESOMENAUTS combines 2D platforming with team-based strategy and hero based action. Whether you are a new recruit or an intergalactic legend, play AWESOMENAUTS!

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 01 Aug 2012
Tribes: Ascend This edition packages weapon DLC from ten previous expansions as well new featured content.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 27 Jun 2012

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