Discounted 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 -24% 22.18€
Rating 8.2
Release 11 Jul 2025
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 -58% 4.15€
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 -90% 1.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 14 May 2024
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 -49% 10.88€
Rating 9.1
Release 31 May 2023
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.

Price -60% 8.79€
Rating 9.2
Release 27 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 -80% 1.18€
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Jul 2021
Crypto Mining Simulator Realistic Mining simulator with custom builds mechanics! A lot of GPUs, CPUs, Motherboards, RAMs, SSDs, PSUs and more! Build your dream farm with 1000+ GPUs!

Price -38% 3.10€
Rating 6.4
Release 24 Apr 2021
THE CORRIDOR THE CORRIDOR is a 20-30 minute experience about the relationship between player and game.

Price -86% 0.28€
Rating 9.1
Release 04 Dec 2020
RPG Maker MZ You want to create an RPG, but every game making tool you have found was either too complex or too limited? RPG Maker MZ empowers you with simple tools to create your RPG right out of the box, yet is customizable enough to make the exact RPG you want!

Price -57% 33.89€
Rating 8.1
Release 27 Aug 2020
Yumeutsutsu Re:Master Yumeutsutsu Re:Master is a girls-love adventure game set in a small game studio.

Price -88% 7.78€
Rating 8.3
Release 12 Jun 2019
Wallpaper Engine Use stunning live wallpapers on your desktop. Animate your own images to create new wallpapers or import videos/websites and share them on the Steam Workshop!

Price -26% 3.70€
Rating 9.7
Release 16 Nov 2018
FPS Monitor – hardware in-game & desktop overlays FPS Monitor tracks your PC's hardware state and displays this information as an overlay in-game or over desktop. Does not require configuration, it works immediately after installation.

Price -30% 8.95€
Rating 8.1
Release 09 Nov 2018
Aseprite Aseprite is a pixel-art tool to create 2D animations, sprites, and any kind of graphics for games.

Price -20% 13.48€
Rating 9.7
Release 22 Feb 2016
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 -89% 8.83€
Rating 8.8
Release 23 Oct 2015
Game Corp DX Manage your Game Studio, earn big bucks, impress the critics, beat rival studios and clean up at the awards!

Price -63% 1.11€
Rating 8.5
Release 02 Oct 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 -93% 1.47€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Apr 2015
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
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 -96% 0.63€
Rating 6.6
Release 23 May 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% 3.09€
Rating 9.0
Release 13 Dec 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 -91% 6.25€
Rating 9.0
Release 10 Dec 2012
Indie Game: The Movie The emotional journey of four developers as they sacrifice money, health and sanity to realize their lifelong dreams of sharing their games with the world.

Price -92% 0.85€
Rating 8.8
Release 12 Jun 2012