Best Game Development 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 game development games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Game Development games on Steam.

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Brickadia Brickadia is a next-generation brick building sandbox that gives you the tools to create and play, your way. Build massive worlds, invent cool contraptions, and play in them however you like - all with your friends!

Price 28.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 11 Jul 2025
Last Remains "Last Remains" is a highly challenging multiplayer zombie survival game. Players must survive in a city overrun by the undead, scavenging for food, arming themselves, avoiding zombies, searching for loot, plundering other survivors, and finding any possible way to escape.

Price 19.50€
Rating 6.8
Release 17 Feb 2025
Moral Dilemma: The Interview A fourth-wall-breaking narrative adventure. It’s interview day, and you really need this job—enough to ignore the talking printer, the anomaly corridor, and the ridiculous life-or-death trials your interviewer keeps putting you in. But deep down, you know... something here is very, very wrong.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 31 Jan 2025
Pixel Art Academy: Learn Mode Learn how to draw pixel art with a video game! Start from zero and develop real art skills in a relaxing way. Complete interactive tutorials, draw pixel art sprites, and play the games you create. Everyone can do this!

Price 12.00€
Rating 9.0
Release 05 Aug 2024
Smack Studio A sandbox fighting game with built-in creation tools to create characters and stages. Animate pixel art characters using our 3D pixel art rotation technology, then battle with up to 8 players! Use our tools to export sprites for your own projects.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.0
Release 31 Jul 2024
Arctic Eggs Eggs: perfection in two parts. The simple whites. The sublime yolk. Each the lesser without its partner. Chorus and verse. A symphony of flavor. The catchy tune reminding us of warm baths and late-night movies. The elevator music to whatever lies beyond.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.3
Release 16 May 2024
Braid, Anniversary Edition Control the flow of time to solve puzzles in this new version of the indie classic, featuring fully repainted artwork, a new world of puzzles, and seriously in-depth commentary.

Price 19.50€
Rating 9.0
Release 14 May 2024
Kodon Kodon is a 3D sculpting software for VR and Desktop. We make beginners experts with our intuitive, easy to learn interface, and invite experts to become gods through speed, immersion and feel.

Price 58.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 10 Dec 2023
Resonite Enter a novel digital universe with infinite possibilities. Whether you resonate with people around the world in a casual conversation, playing games and socializing or you riff off each other when creating anything from art to programming complex games, you'll find your place here.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 06 Oct 2023
Plasma Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 13 Sep 2023
Beam Eye Tracker Turn your webcam into an AI-powered head & eye tracker and ditch the bulky tracking hardware. Enable gaming extensions like OpenTrack for immersive eye and head tracking. Gain insights and improve your gameplay using the eye tracking overlay or enhance your live streams.

Price -20% 23.19€
Rating 8.2
Release 02 Aug 2023
TRY AGAIN You're Benny, a test character trapped in an unfinished game by a figure called The Designer. She's up against a deadline for her publisher which means it's your last day as a test character. Navigate the facility, dodge game-dev chaos and defy expectations to become the main character.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 14 Jul 2023
Mad Games Tycoon 2 Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.

Price -56% 9.43€
Rating 9.1
Release 31 May 2023
GameGuru MAX GameGuruMAX is designed to support the rapid development of a wide range of genres, from first-person shooters, and RPGs to puzzle games and narrative adventures. Included demo levels and templates help you learn the workflow and kickstart your projects with confidence.

Price 44.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 26 Apr 2023
Pleh! Pleh! is a short psychological horror walking simulator that tells the story of a depressed game developer, his intrusive thoughts and his dark mysterious secrets.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 17 Mar 2023
Retro Gadgets Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 30 Nov 2022
Title_Pending Congratulations! You've been hired by an up and coming Game Development Studio to play-test their New Game (which as of now does not have a title). Not only that, you'll get to talk with the Lead Developer of the project, Matthew Stanton, who will give insight on his team's creative process.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.8
Release 27 Sep 2022
RPG Time: The Legend of Wright It's time for an adventure! Once classes are over, RPG Time begins! Game master Kenta's notebook holds a handwritten RPG made just for you.

Price 29.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Sep 2022
One Dreamer Manipulate the world around you by editing source code in an adventure game about a burnt out indie game developer's quest to fulfill a lifelong dream.

Price 13.29€
Rating 8.5
Release 09 Sep 2022
"LIFE" not found; This small Narrative Point & Click (Puzzle) game is about the mental health struggles of a adolescent high school dropout who's lost at life. Find out what they're struggling with, you might even recognize some things from your own life.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 23 Jun 2022
The Looker You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.5
Release 17 Jun 2022
DPET : Desktop Pet Engine DPET is a desktop pet generation engine that can summon many virtual pets to decorate your desktop and create endless fun. For a streamer, DPET can also create virtual pet avatars for chatting viewers to promote their engagement and channel activity.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 13 May 2022
RPG in a Box Bring your stories and ideas to life! RPG in a Box lets you create games and other interactive experiences in a fun and simple way!

Price 48.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 10 May 2022
GameMaker GameMaker has everything you need to take your idea from concept to finished game. With no barriers to entry and powerful functionality, GameMaker is the ultimate 2D development environment!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 03 May 2022