Best Design & Illustration 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 design & illustration games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Design & Illustration games on Steam.

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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 -86% 10.98€
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 -75% 3.02€
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 -90% 1.95€
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 -97% 0.46€
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 Leadwerks Game Engine is the easiest way to make 3D games and VR experiences. Learn everything you need with our comprehensive tutorials. Build games with the world's most intuitive game development system. Sell your games with a royalty-free license or share them with the world for free.

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 -90% 2.45€
Rating 9.0
Release 13 Dec 2013
Axis Game Factory's AGFPRO v3 Axis Game Factory’s AGFPRO v3.0 – for PC, MAC and LINUXWe just released version 3.0 of AGFPRO & Premium - there are a TON of new features, assets and functionality that have been added, giving users the ability to create amazing game levels and maps like NEVER BEFORE!!Major features to AGFPRO 3.

Price 8.19€
Rating 6.0
Release 19 Nov 2013
RPG Maker VX Ace RPG Maker VX Ace improves on every aspect of creating your very own epic adventure. An extremely powerful editor, Ace supports multiple tilesets, offers full control over autoshadow and has a very flexible features system.

Price -95% 3.54€
Rating 9.0
Release 10 Dec 2012