Best Design & Illustration Games on Steam

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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 9.75€
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
Stream Avatars Stream Avatars is a content creation tool for live video broadcasting that adds flair to your video to promote viewer engagement and channel growth! Viewers can also spend their hard-earned stream currency on avatar customizations.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 26 Jul 2017
Pixel Sketch Become the best painter in the universe in this colorful online game!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 19 Jun 2017
Passpartout: The Starving Artist Even you can become a great artist! Wrestle subjectivity as you attempt to sell your art to rude customers in order to progress in this confusing art scene. The only thing threatening you is your expensive wine and baguette addiction! Will your art end up in the Louvre or on your parents' fridge?

Price -57% 4.38€
Rating 8.6
Release 06 Jun 2017
Card Creator Card Creator is a powerful, deep and easy to use card creation software, the best tool for games designers (amateurs or pro) and fans of card and tabletop games. Card creation made easy, fast and fun!

Price 38.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 18 Apr 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 -76% 6.03€
Rating 8.4
Release 16 Mar 2017
Dungeon Painter Studio Dungeon Painter Studio is a powerful encounter map design tool, with a lot of features: Layers and groups Easy import of custom art Easy export to roll20, FG, TS, and other VTT All objects are editable Filters (Drop Shadow, Glow, Bevel, Tint...) One click D20 random generator dungeons import Export to multipage pdf for print 1 inch, 1.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 26 Feb 2017
Hidden Folks Search for hidden folks in hand-drawn, interactive, miniature landscapes. Unfurl tent flaps, cut through bushes, slam doors, and poke some crocodiles! Rooooaaaarrrr!!!!!

Price -95% 0.81€
Rating 9.4
Release 15 Feb 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
Wayout Relax, clear your mind and find the way out.

Price -75% 0.51€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Nov 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 36.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 22 May 2016
Tilt Brush Tilt Brush lets you paint in 3D space with virtual reality. Unleash your creativity with three-dimensional brush strokes, stars, light, and even fire. Your room is your canvas. Your palette is your imagination. The possibilities are endless.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 05 Apr 2016
Aseprite Aseprite is a pixel-art tool to create 2D animations, sprites, and any kind of graphics for games.

Price 16.79€
Rating 9.7
Release 22 Feb 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
Home Design 3D Home Design 3D is the reference interior design and home decor application, allowing you to draw, create and visualize your floor plans and home ideas.Design your dream projects simply and easily, in 2D and/or 3D. Get a good idea of your next home or simply have fun!

Price -90% 1.05€
Rating 7.4
Release 20 Nov 2015
ePic Character Generator Create realistic or hand-drawn character images you can use as assets for your games, illustrations for your stories, or avatars for your role-playing sessions. Export your images as PNG files with or without a background, or as a layered PSD image for further customization.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 05 Nov 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% 7.62€
Rating 8.8
Release 23 Oct 2015
ShareX ShareX is a free and open source program that can capture or record selected area from the screen with a single keypress, automatically save them to your hard disk/clipboard, and instantly upload them to an image/file hosting service and then can copy the URL to your clipboard.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 02 Oct 2015
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 -68% 3.86€
Rating 7.0
Release 20 Aug 2015
CPUCores :: Maximize Your FPS Maximize your FPS :: Use CPUCores to isolate and constrain OS + non-game processes and dedicate CPU resources to be used exclusively for your games! CPUCores fully integrates with all Steam games!

Price 12.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 06 Jul 2015
GameGuru Classic GameGuru Classic is a non-technical and fun game-maker. It allows you to build your own game world, using creative and enjoyable tools. Populate your game by placing down characters, weapons and other game items, then press one button to build your game, ready to play and share.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 19 May 2015
Blender Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. Free to use for everyone, for any purpose.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.5
Release 24 Apr 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 -89% 2.26€
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
Homebrew - Patent Unknown Unleash your creativity and craft anything from flying cars to jet-powered toilets.Fair warning: there's a learning curve. But once you've got it, the sky's the limit for your creations!While active development is paused, we focus preserving the game and keeping it accessible.

Price -96% 0.62€
Rating 7.0
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
Krita Krita is a powerful, open source and community-driven digital art tool for illustrators, concept designers, animators, comic book artists, game developers, and anyone who wants to express themselves through the creation of visual art.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.2
Release 10 Jun 2014
Game Character Hub Game Character Hub is an art program that is focused on game asset creation, especially RPG Maker's. It provides a built-in generator for character and tileset creation.

Price 14.79€
Rating 6.6
Release 23 May 2014
Fuse Fuse is a standalone 3D character creator that enables you to make unique characters to use in your game. Fuse comes with 70+ body parts, 150+ clothing meshes, 42 dynamic texturing substances, Unlimited free Auto-Rigs and Animations through the Mixamo service (activated Adobe ID required). Important notice for Fuse 1.3 customers!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 28 Mar 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 48.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 06 Jan 2014
RPG Maker XP RPG MAKER lets you create an original role-playing game without any prior specialized knowledge or training. RPG MAKER XP is full of the functions you've been asking for, including game data encryption and a scripting feature that lets you change the very heart of the RPG MAKER engine.

Price -88% 3.14€
Rating 9.0
Release 13 Dec 2013

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