Design & Illustration Hidden Gems 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 design & illustration games.

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House Builder: First Job Become a one-man construction crew! Travel around the world and through the ages to build iconic designs! Beware unpleasant temperatures and dangerous fauna!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 15 Jul 2021
Toy Tinker Simulator: BETA Have you ever wanted to be a toy tinker? Here you can take the first step to become one! This is a tiny portion of Toy Tinker Simulator, which includes only ten toys.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 21 May 2021
Pixel Art Coloring Book Pixel Art Coloring Book easily removes your stress! A huge range of colorful pixel art images in this coloring book is for ALL AGES! Relax while coloring awesome pixel art coloring pages. Start color by number today & feel better. It’s simple. It’s good. It’s fun.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 12 Apr 2021
Coloring Book for Adults Boost your creativity with Coloring Book for Adults! Choose from a wide range of coloring pages within the app and experience coloring many different characters, patterns, and objects. Lose yourself in colors, forget about time and duties, say goodbye to stress!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 05 Nov 2020
Lucifer Within Us Solve 3 increasingly intricate murders by examining the evidence -- find the motive, the means, and the opportunity. Use testimonies of the suspects as evidence by examining every detail for contradictions... and signs of sin. Purify the possessed. Purge the daemons.

Price -90% 2.14€
Rating 7.2
Release 15 Oct 2020
VTuber Maker VTuber Maker is the #1 free, simplistic, and 3D Tool for VTuber Content Production, just with a webcam.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 07 Aug 2020
projectM Music Visualizer Experience psychedelic and mesmerizing visuals by transforming music into equations that render into a limitless array of user-contributed visualizations.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 26 Jul 2020
Easy Pose Easy Pose is a human body pose app for people who draw or is learning to draw.

Price -25% 8.09€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Jun 2020
Bot Studio for Discord The easiest way to make Discord bots. A drag and drop editor makes it simple to create the perfect bot for your servers, no coding required!

Price 8.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 12 May 2020
Coloring Game: Little City A theme-based sequel of the popular Coloring Game (coloring by numbers).

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 16 Aug 2019
KumaKuma Manga Editor KumaKuma Manga Editor is a comic editor for dummy based on 3d models. Our goal is to let everyone create manga without has to conquering the barrier of learning how to draw. You don’t need any device other than your computer, or any basic knowledge of art.

Price 5.89€
Rating 7.3
Release 27 Feb 2019
sheepChat Simple and convenient cross platform multichat capable to satisfy the needs of any streamer. Can display messages from majority of streaming resources and show that information the way YOU want!

Price 8.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 20 Dec 2018
Just, Bearly An honest comedy about anxiety and feeling awkward, played through painfully relatable mini games.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 31 May 2018
Ultimate Racing 2D The ultimate top-down racing game, with 35 racing classes, over 45 visual stunning tracks, extensive career mode, championship mode and online/offline multiplayer modes.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 24 May 2018
Illwinter's Floorplan Generator This grid based floorplan generator is ideal to quickly create encounter locations for your favorite RPG. These can then easily be printed or exported to Roll20, Fantasy Grounds and similar applications.

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 04 May 2018
Live Wallpaper Master The program gives access to a large collection of animated wallpapers. In addition, the powerful built-in editor enables you to create your own wallpapers.

Price 3.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 07 Dec 2017
Engare Engare is a game about motion and geometry. Part puzzle game, part drawing tool, Engare is all about your geometric imagination. It’s a meditation on the dynamics of simple machines and the beauty buried deep within repeating motion.

Price -65% 3.41€
Rating 8.8
Release 23 Oct 2017
openCanvas 7 openCanvas is a painting software dedicated to Windows Operating System, that is suitable to beginners to advanced users. Equipped with analog-like brush strokes and functional yet user-friendly interface, openCanvas has the higher basic performance and the unique "Event" function that enables to record and replay the drawing...

Price 50.20€
Rating 7.3
Release 20 Sep 2017
Virtual Rides 3 - Funfair Simulator Design! Control! Ride! Virtual Rides III is here! Set foot in an even bigger, more colorful, and more impressive fairground than ever before! Let your imagination be your guide! Design, control, and ride more than 15 unique attractions!

Price -80% 4.92€
Rating 8.4
Release 16 Mar 2017
Kingspray Graffiti VR Hanging out with friends, bombing walls, and smashing bottles would be much more fun with out the jail time.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 06 Dec 2016
RutonyChat RutonyChat is a program for receiving messages from chats and notifications from various streaming sites. A faithful assistant to the streamer and video blogger who wants to spice up or spruce up their content.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 19 Sep 2016
FireAlpaca SE FireAlpaca SE is painting software for Windows/Mac that has evolved as a higher brand of the regular version of FireAlpaca. We provide a professional creative environment where your creativity can be visualized immediately.

Price -20% 29.59€
Rating 8.6
Release 22 May 2016
Marmoset Hexels 3 Marmoset Hexels™ is a grid-based painting tool for vector art, pixel art, design, and animation. A geometric canvas grid lets artists create complex pixel and vector designs with the stroke of a brush.

Price 19.00€
Rating 8.5
Release 15 Feb 2016
Black Ink Explore Black Ink, a GPU-based painting app redefining creativity. Move beyond traditional tools, customize brushes, and let your imagination soar. Node-based system offers limitless control. Create in high-definition without performance loss.

Price 33.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 08 Feb 2016
RymdResa A relaxed roguelike space odyssey in a procedurally generated universe! Travel through a lonely and mysterious cosmos. Customize your ship, explore and survive!

Price -84% 2.07€
Rating 7.0
Release 20 Aug 2015
RPG Maker 2003 For the first time ever, RPG Maker 2003 is officially available in English! This legendary game development engine is both highly affordable and easy to use, and it remains one of the most popular RPG Maker installments to date.

Price -95% 1.11€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Apr 2015
Nimble Writer Nimble Writer is a general-purpose tool for writing stories, be it short fiction stories or even complete novels or books. It focuses on being distraction-free, simple, and fully customizable.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Apr 2015
Spriter Pro Spriter makes it easy for anyone, regardless of experience, to create 2D game animations using a technique called Modular Animation. Individual sprite pieces can be attached to bones and then easily animated with the powerful, yet easy to use toolset.

Price 54.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 14 Nov 2014
openCanvas 6 openCanvas is a painting software dedicated to Windows Operating System, that is suitable to beginners to advanced users. Equipped with analog-like brush strokes and functional yet user-friendly interface, openCanvas has the higher basic performance and the unique "Event" function that enables to record and replay the drawing...

Price 45.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Sep 2014
Manga Maker Comipo Make your own manga with ComiPo! The next gen manga software! Quickly make your own unique stories and situations simply by choosing 3D characters, poses, and all the other necessary items (background, bubbles ...) out of hundreds provided with ComiPo!

Price 48.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 07 Mar 2014
Leadwerks Game Engine 5 Learn, Build, and Play with an all-new update that makes game development easier than ever. Dive into our video tutorials and learn everything you need to bring your ideas to life. Create with ease using our intuitive visual editor and Lua script. Publish your projects with a royalty-free license.

Price -60% 19.59€
Rating 6.8
Release 06 Jan 2014

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