Hidden 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
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
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
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 -75% 7.49€
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
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
ACTION SANDBOX A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.1
Release 21 Apr 2022
Legend of Homebody The simple game of a shut-in learning from home and earn money. (The game is purely fictional, do not try this out in reality. This is a somewhat serious and heavy game, so don't be fooled by appearances.)

Price -92% 0.48€
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Jul 2021
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
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
Yumeutsutsu Re:Master Yumeutsutsu Re:Master is a girls-love adventure game set in a small game studio.

Price -63% 23.85€
Rating 8.3
Release 12 Jun 2019
Rytmik Studio Rytmik Studio is a music creation software based around a beautifully simple, yet wonderfully powerful concept. It’s flexible, instant and fun. Create a basic melody in a few steps, compose a great song in a few minutes, and show your musical flare with a whole range of instruments and effects.

Price 28.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 15 Nov 2017
Clickteam Fusion 2.5 Free Edition Game and software creation has never been easier or quicker than with Clickteam Fusion 2.5! Discover the tool used by so many multimedia professionals, game creators, and creative people from all walks of life.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 16 Jun 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
Rytmik Ultimate Rytmik is a powerful music station allowing you not only to play with samples and musical instruments but also to mix them together, shape them and create music clips or whole songs for your Friday night set-list.

Price 17.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 10 Dec 2015
The Secret of Tremendous Corporation Explore the deepest SECRETs™ of the Tremendous Corporation®. Find out what happened to indie devs and save the gaming industry!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 12 Oct 2015