Most Popular Software Games on Steam

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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 -23% 3.86€
Rating 9.7
Release 16 Nov 2018
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
Soundpad Play sounds in voice chats in high digital quality. Add sounds or music to your microphone signal so others will hear it, too.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 30 Sep 2017
Crosshair X Overlay custom crosshairs on every game you play. Choose from thousands of unique crosshairs created by the Crosshair X community or design your own using the designer.

Price 5.19€
Rating 9.2
Release 17 Aug 2020
Lossless Scaling All-in-one gaming utility for frame generation and scaling

Price -23% 5.33€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Dec 2018
SteamVR Grab SteamVR to access and play VR games using your HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows Mixed Reality headset, or any other supported VR headset and controllers.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release
Source Filmmaker The Source Filmmaker (SFM) is the movie-making tool built and used by us here at Valve to make movies inside the Source game engine. Because the SFM uses the same assets as the game, anything that exists in the game can be used in the movie, and vice versa.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 10 Jul 2012
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
3DMark 3DMark is for gamers, overclockers and system builders who want to get more out of their hardware. With its wide range of benchmark tests, 3DMark has everything you need to test your PC or Mac's performance.

Price -87% 4.50€
Rating 9.1
Release
RetroArch RetroArch is an open source and cross platform frontend/framework for emulators, game engines, video games, media players and other applications

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 27 May 2022
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
Godot Engine Godot Engine is a feature-packed, cross-platform game engine to create 2D and 3D games from a unified interface. It provides a comprehensive set of common tools, so that you can focus on making games without having to reinvent the wheel.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Feb 2016
VTube Studio VTube Studio is all you'll ever need to become a Live2D VTuber, with innovative features such as pinning props to your model and many more still to come.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 12 Mar 2021
TurnSignal A minimalistic, intuitive, visual, IN-GAME utility for keeping track of Cord Wrapping/Tangling in SteamVR!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 28 Aug 2017
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
OVR Advanced Settings OVR Advanced Settings is a Dashboard Application for VR, that allows you to access many settings. OVRAS also has a myriad of utility features such as: simulated movement, adding smooth/snap turn to any game, video controls for the headset such as brightness, per-app bindings and much more.

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 14 Apr 2020
HudSight - crosshair overlay Create unique crosshairs for any game! Choose from many built-in crosshairs or download from the Steam Workshop, and create your own. User-friendly interface, anti-cheat compatible. Customize your gaming experience!

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 05 Jan 2021
VRoid Studio VRoid Studio is a 3D character creation software developed for you to freely express yourself, even without 3D modeling expertise. The software is easy-to-use. Even first-time users can fully enjoy the software by picking preset items and playing around with the parameters’ sliders.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 23 Dec 2020
MyDockFinder MyDockFinder is a software for quick system startup and control viewing system functions. You can drag and drop to add your favorite programs or files, and drag and drop to directly use the program to open the file. Based on WinUI using GPU rendering, smooth animation effects.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 25 Nov 2021
EVGA Precision X1 The next generation of EVGA Precision has arrived with EVGA Precision X1. This software allows you to fine tune your NVIDIA graphics card, maximizing cooling and performance.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 16 Jul 2014
DSX DSX brings out the full potential of your PlayStation controllers on PC. Personalize input response, adaptive triggers, lighting, and haptics for unmatched precision and immersion. Whether you play competitively or casually, DSX helps you play at your best.

Price 10.25€
Rating 6.7
Release 24 Jun 2022
OVR Toolkit - Desktop Overlay OVR Toolkit is a utility application designed to make viewing the desktop in VR simple and fast, it allows for viewing the desktop within VR, placing desktop windows around the world, mouse input, typing with a virtual keyboard, and quickly switching between windows.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.5
Release 28 Jun 2019
Bigscreen Beta Bigscreen lets you use your PC desktop in VR. Watch movies with friends in a virtual movie theater. Play your favorite PC video games on a huge screen. Hangout in social VR chat rooms. Participate in weekly 3D Movie Nights, VR LAN parties, live rocket launch events, and more!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 28 Apr 2016
Animaze by FaceRig Livestream, chat, or create videos as world-class 2D and 3D avatars. Use one of the over 60 avatars provided or import your own 2D, 3D, VRM, or Ready Player Me model. Animaze is powering PuffPuff, one of the top real-time mocap virtual beings on TikTok with 4.7 million followers.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 17 Nov 2021
YoloMouse - Cursor Changer Make your game or app cursor stylish and always visible. Replace, resize, recolor, and enhance with effects and animated styles. Create and share via Steam Workshop.

Price 4.05€
Rating 8.8
Release 01 May 2020
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 -30% 13.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 19 May 2015
Smart Game Booster Smart Game Booster is an easy-to-use yet efficient game optimization utility, essential for any gamer who wants a smoother gaming experience.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 11 May 2020
Virtual Desktop Classic Virtual Desktop is an application developed for the Oculus Rift / Rift S, HTC Vive, Valve Index and WMR headsets that lets you use your computer in VR. This app is NOT for the Oculus Quest or Pico headsets. You can browse the web, watch movies, Netflix or even play games on a giant virtual screen.

Price 14.79€
Rating 6.7
Release 31 Mar 2016
PrprLive PrPrive is a Live2D live broadcast assistant software developed by us. The software can achieve a high frame rate, multi-expression switching, targetless auto-drop frame at a lower CPU occupancy.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 14 May 2020
Driver Booster for Steam Driver Booster 13 for Steam is a must-have driver updater to keep drivers and game components up to date. It is very powerful and easy-to-use for all Windows users.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 01 Nov 2018
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
Action! - Gameplay Recording and Streaming With Action! you can record and live stream your HD/4K/HDR10/8K gameplay, display game's fps, add webcams, live audio commentary, add streaming overlays such as chatbox, alert box, monitor the status of your recording and streaming, benchmark your computer and more!

Price -38% 15.63€
Rating 8.3
Release 08 May 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
Pixel Studio - pixel art editor Best pixel art editor. Simple. Fast. Portable.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 24 Dec 2019
Borderless Gaming Borderless Gaming: Seamlessly play games in borderless full-screen mode for uninterrupted gaming and effortless multitasking.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.1
Release 23 Jul 2015
Live2DViewerEX The best cross-platform Live2D solution, three display modes (Wallpaper / Desktop / Desktop Window), multiple platforms (Windows / MacOS / Android / iOS), high-precision facial capture, and many other features.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 31 Dec 2021

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