Best Top-Down Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated top-down games.

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Diary of Lucie Diary of Lucie is action-roguelite game made with RPG Maker. In addition to simply avoiding the enemy's barrage, strategically use the enemy's bullet to make the battle situation advantageous!

Price 12.79€
Rating 8.2
Release 24 Feb 2023
Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator Ages of Conflict is a versatile Map Simulation game where you create and observe custom AI nations battle it out across an infinite number of worlds. Paint beautiful maps and scenarios, and command nations to change history into your liking!

Price 6.89€
Rating 9.3
Release 17 Feb 2023
Dust & Neon Rain down hell on the robot army in DUST & NEON, an award-winning best-in-class post-apocalyptic shooter where twitchy-finger gunslingers are rewarded with fame and glory.

Price -72% 4.21€
Rating 7.2
Release 16 Feb 2023
SkyIsland "SkyIsland" is made by a group of students in a college, quarter-view action-adventure game. Enjoy the wonderful world and beautiful environments as you help the protagonist, Pino, fix his broken plane and defeat monsters to return home safely.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Feb 2023
Tower Escape Tower Escape is a reverse tower defense game, where instead of defending against incoming enemies, you play the baddies and guide your minions to the exit. Recruit a team of minions, and collect powerful gems and relics that make each run unique.

Price -96% 0.32€
Rating 7.7
Release 15 Feb 2023
Ikki Unite SUNSOFT relapses... The legendary Bad Game Hall of Famer "Ikki" is back, and this time it's a multiplayer experience! You can't start a riot with just one or two people! Enlist up to 16 friends in this Roguelite madness... Ikki but united!

Price 11.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 14 Feb 2023
Noobs Want to Live Noobs Want to Live is a fast-paced roguelike featuring several characters and a large pool of skills to choose from (that synergize with one another, too!) Fight, kill, grow. Each run is a new chance to create a steamrolling build!

Price -64% 1.82€
Rating 8.7
Release 13 Feb 2023
Tower Tactics: Liberation We fused deck-building roguelikes and tower defenses in a way never seen before - deploy your towers, collect valuable trinkets and cast powerful spells to defend yourself against the Salkoth!

Price -48% 6.77€
Rating 8.5
Release 06 Feb 2023
Broken Universe - Tower Defense Get ready to rethink all your defense strategies! Build barricades to stop monsters, or lure them into a maze and attack. A variety of stages that change each time depending on how you play them.

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 04 Feb 2023
SpellForce: Conquest of Eo On a journey to great magical might, explore and control the lands of Eo in this ever-changing turn-based strategy role-playing game. Field armies and heroes in tactical combat, finish hundreds of quests, and gather spells and artefacts to become the most powerful mage of all.

Price -99% 0.41€
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Feb 2023
Second Front Second Front is a tactical WWII turn-based strategy game. Craft & share your own scenarios and maps or use your strategic prowess in 48 scenarios set in iconic locations. Command over 40 types of infantry and 216 tanks, vehicles and guns. An infinite tactical sandbox experience.

Price 33.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 31 Jan 2023
Cultivation Story: Reincarnation Cultivation Story: Reincarnation is a top-down pixel art style action roguelike based on cultivation and Chinese mythology.

Price -50% 4.09€
Rating 8.8
Release 30 Jan 2023
Bloody Hell A short but sweet game about an Angel on a Bloody Bullet-hell mission to kill Satan! Dash, Double Dash, Grapple & Blast your way through Hell to fulfill your Holy Mission. Will you be able to kill Satan? Or will you fail to master your abilities and DIE in this BLOODY HELL?

Price Free to play
Rating 9.4
Release 27 Jan 2023
The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation Deep and innovative space survival simulation experience. Build your station, manage your crew and explore the harsh environment of Io, the innermost moon of Jupiter. Are you brave enough to survive?

Price 29.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 20 Jan 2023
2112TD: Tower Defense Survival Get ready for the ULTIMATE tower defense onslaught. Build, deploy, research and upgrade your defenses in this epic, old school RTS inspired sci-fi adventure.

Price -76% 1.20€
Rating 8.2
Release 19 Jan 2023
Handshakes Take your brain for a walk in Handshakes, a simple yet tricksy sokoban puzzle game. Guide two hands through puzzles designed to stump, not frustrate, so that they may achieve their dream of a warm, firm handshake.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.5
Release 13 Jan 2023
Dominance Dominance is a multiplayer top-down shooter, built on a no-limits attitude. Choose between a rich variety of different ability and item combinations, select one of 6 distinct characters. Battle up to 24 foes on the ever-evolving terrain — and prove your Dominance.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.2
Release 12 Jan 2023
Coralina A RETRO RPG about lost MEMORIES in the LIMBO! Coralina needs to solve cases, alongside a Crow with a tophat.

Price 3.00€
Rating 8.7
Release 06 Jan 2023
Battle Ram Battle Ram - an experiment of scientists developed in a secret laboratory, a powerful creature against robots, who will win?

Price -99% 0.48€
Rating 8.1
Release 05 Jan 2023
Super Lesbian Animal RPG Melody has decided to become a healer in this classic-inspired turn-based RPG about love, anxiety, and fighting funny-looking monsters in dungeons.

Price -76% 3.03€
Rating 9.4
Release 20 Dec 2022
Coffee Shop Tycoon Manage your own coffee shop and control every detail to make it the most popular one in town! Roast your own beans and create your recipes. Hire and train your staff, manage your economy and marketing, and destroy your competition to become the ultimate legal coffee monopoly in Coffee Shop Tycoon.

Price -85% 1.47€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Dec 2022
Chicken Invaders Universe A deliciously addictive core of finger-blistering shooting action, surrounded by delectable morsels of galactic exploration, spacecraft customization, and community competitions.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 15 Dec 2022
Aka Find inner peace in a small, open-world game. On these carefully handcrafted islands, you can take a nap on a giant monster, feed baby dragons, take care of the fauna and flora... ...but demons from your past might come back to remind you what you want to forget.

Price -81% 2.51€
Rating 7.2
Release 14 Dec 2022
Fate Seeker: Journey Fate Seeker: Journey is an action role-playing game that combines random elements of Roguelite. In this game, you will be the hero to choose talents, obtain items and combine skills to defeat enemies in every stage.

Price 11.00€
Rating 7.5
Release 11 Dec 2022
Gunlocked A twin stick shooter without the twin stick, Gunlocked is a sci-fi action roguelike about careful positioning and upgrade selection. Manage unique targeting systems across multiple weapons and upgrades, as you battle legions of alien ships, and then do it all over again!

Price -61% 1.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 06 Dec 2022
Another Farm Roguelike Another Farm Roguelike is a 2D farming & crafting game with rougelike elements where your job is to earn as much money as possible to pay the rent. Start from scratch and build the most profitable farm you can make as soon as possible. Work hard to be able to afford the rent.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Nov 2022
Lords and Villeins Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Price -99% 0.49€
Rating 7.0
Release 10 Nov 2022
From Space From Space is a solo and co-op action-shooter for squads up to four players. Take on the challenge of liberating the earth from an alien infestation with your friends, using over-the-top weaponry in a post-apocalyptic world with awesomely stylized graphics. The apocalypse has never been so much fun!

Price -99% 0.26€
Rating 6.6
Release 03 Nov 2022
Spellbook Demonslayers Slay endless hordes of demons to protect the Cosmic Library! Steal their abilities, find powerful equipment, and unlock the secrets of each spellbook to become unstoppable! Will you be able to destroy the demonic legion?

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 02 Nov 2022
Endoparasitic Three limbs ripped off, infected with a deadly parasite, you must save your research. Drag yourself through the corridors of a secret research lab on a remote asteroid, fight off horribly mutated monsters, inject countless syringes of vaccines, and survive at all costs.

Price -50% 4.09€
Rating 8.9
Release 24 Oct 2022
Hell is Others Hell is Others is an extraction top-down shooter combining roguelike elements. Outside the safety of your apartment lies the noir hellscape that is Century City. A city of endless night that straddles the line between reality and insanity. Explore, hunt, and loot in a place where blood is currency.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 20 Oct 2022
Internet Generation A story about a dying chat server. Moderators are abusing their power, the owner has neglected the server, and the lives of members are miserable. And you, as a newcomer, will pick up your keyboard, and overthrow the owner and moderators' tyranny!

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Oct 2022
Mage and Monsters Create an army and use spells while it fights for you. Mage & Monsters is an active auto battler, where you must choose wisely between upgrading the might of your army, or increasing the power of your spells.

Price -35% 3.24€
Rating 8.5
Release 12 Oct 2022
LEGO® Bricktales In this puzzle-adventure, use an intuitive brick-by-brick building mechanic to solve puzzles and bring your creations to life! Experience a charming story as you explore beautiful LEGO® dioramas and help the people inhabiting them.

Price -92% 2.69€
Rating 8.2
Release 12 Oct 2022
Nomad Survival Battle against hordes of enemies, conquer Boss encounters, and explore various character and skill combinations in this time-based auto-attacking Roguelite in your quest to become stronger and defeat the most menacing of creatures that lay in wait at the end of each run.

Price -97% 0.17€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 Oct 2022
Bombergrounds: Reborn BOMBERGROUNDS: Immerse in a free-to-play massive multiplayer action-packed arena inspired by classic bomber games. Dash, bomb, bat, and explode your way to victory. Your realm of relentless arcade action is just a click away—dive in and rule the grounds!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Oct 2022

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