Best Top-Down 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 top-down games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Top-Down games on Steam.

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OMG Zombies! OMG! Alert! Alert! The City of Redfield has been hit by an outbreak of exploding zombies! For cool and unimportant reasons these suckers literally explode when shot, showering their zombie brethren with gore and causing chain reactions of showering zombie gibs with just a single bullet!

Price -80% 0.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 13 Feb 2014
Little Racers STREET Little Racers STREET fuses the fun-oriented simplicity of top-down racing games with the excitement of street racing, and the results couldn't be better!

Price -80% 1.20€
Rating 7.9
Release 06 Feb 2014
Hero Siege Hero Siege brings you the loot with a legion of playable character classes, procedually generated world, over 1000 unique items, endless replayability and a wide variety of dungeons and dangerous zones to explore!

Price 7.79€
Rating 6.8
Release 29 Jan 2014
Tales of Maj'Eyal Tales of Maj’Eyal is a roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles, and developing characters with your own tailored mix of abilities and powers.

Price -32% 4.80€
Rating 9.2
Release 12 Dec 2013
Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages Ring Runner combines the fast-paced action of space combat with the rich story and skill variety of an RPG.Trek across the universe in a 30 hour long story-driven campaign based on a companion Sci Fi novel, or challenge 6 scenarios alone, cooperatively, or competitively through local or online multiplayer.

Price -89% 0.58€
Rating 7.9
Release 19 Nov 2013
Anomaly Korea Exclusively brought to Steam for PC, Mac and Linux in Anomaly Bundle, Anomaly Korea is an expansion campaign to Anomaly Warzone Earth. The alien robots are back and this time they’ve got Korea in their sights. It’s your job to lead a squad into fierce fire-fights and fend off the alien invasion.

Price -91% 0.46€
Rating 7.5
Release 06 Nov 2013
Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign continues Steam's Anomaly Warzone Earth in an extra 15-level campaign. Originally released on mobile devices, the campaign is brought to Steam for PC, Mac and Linux exclusively in Anomaly Bundle. AWE Mobile Campaign turns tower defense on its head.

Price -89% 0.59€
Rating 7.5
Release 06 Nov 2013
FORCED: Slightly Better Edition FORCED is a challenging 1-4-player game with co-op at its heart! A mix of tactical arcade action, RPG elements and puzzles will forge you and your friends together. As slaves in the toughest gladiator school of them all, you will face a plethora of unique trials - designed to be your death!

Price 13.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 24 Oct 2013
Sparkle 2 Evo Control the evolution with the touch of your finger. Can you grow the biggest Sparkle in the world?

Price -90% 0.52€
Rating 7.1
Release 24 Oct 2013
Bionic Dues Bionic Dues is a tactical, turn-based roguelite with mech customization. Out-think wide-ranging tactical situations featuring robots with bad GPS, terrible aim, insecurity, a lack of focus, a tendency to backstab, and dozens of other maladies to exploit.

Price -92% 0.81€
Rating 7.2
Release 08 Oct 2013
The Chaos Engine Prepare for the dark world of The Chaos Engine, a steampunk Victorian age in which one or two players must fight the hostile creations of the Chaos Engine across four dynamic landscapes and take part in the ultimate battle.Choose from six hard-nailed mercenaries each with their own unique weapons and skills.

Price -66% 3.35€
Rating 6.5
Release 29 Aug 2013
Hammerwatch A hack and slash action adventure, set in a fantasy pixel art environment. Play solo or co-op in this adventure from bottom to top of Castle Hammerwatch. Kill hordes of enemies with varied looks and features through four unique environments with traps, hidden secrets and puzzles.

Price -91% 0.90€
Rating 8.7
Release 12 Aug 2013
Teleglitch: Die More Edition In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.

Price -92% 1.06€
Rating 8.2
Release 24 Jul 2013
Ittle Dew Adventuress Ittle Dew and her sidekick Tippsie crash onto a strange island, filled with loot and mysterious inhabitants. It quickly dawns on the duo that this might become their biggest adventure yet.Ittle Dew boils down the classic adventure formula until there is only fun left.

Price -96% 0.96€
Rating 8.7
Release 23 Jul 2013
Anomaly 2 Anomaly 2 is a sequel to the critically acclaimed Anomaly Warzone Earth. Maintaining the core elements of the original, Anomaly 2 adds plenty of new features: unit morphing, over million tactical combinations, post-apo world and tower defense vs tower offense multiplayer mode.

Price -99% 0.19€
Rating 7.6
Release 15 May 2013
Super Sanctum TD Super Sanctum TD is a retro-styled Tower Defense game that focuses on strategy, customization and replayability. Build advanced mazes and construct powerful towers to prevent alien hordes from reaching the Core!

Price -90% 0.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 09 May 2013
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.

Price -96% 0.64€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Apr 2013
Don't Starve Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Price -75% 2.04€
Rating 9.5
Release 23 Apr 2013
Anodyne In this unique Zelda-lite game, explore and fight your way through surreal and creepy, nature, urban and abstract themed areas in the human Young's subconscious, evoked by a 16-bit-era visual style and a moody, dream-like soundtrack.

Price -63% 3.65€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Mar 2013
Ys I & II Chronicles+ Long, long ago, there was an ancient kingdom called Ys which prospered under the auspices of two heavenly Goddesses. Over time, the kingdom came to be known as Esteria, and its divine history was largely forgotten by all but the descendants of those who once preached the Goddesses’ will.

Price -86% 1.70€
Rating 8.5
Release 14 Feb 2013
Droid Assault Play Droid Assault and experience running blaster battles with hordes of rampaging killer robots! Discover a unique tactical arcade shooter, with the fun addictive gameplay of 8-bit classics. You'll need your wits and the help of your acquired droid squad to stay alive in this fast-paced retro actionfest.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.7
Release 09 Jan 2013
Hotline Miami Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.

Price -90% 1.07€
Rating 9.6
Release 23 Oct 2012
Dwarfs - F2P Dwarfs!? is an addictive, fast paced arcade-like experience, with plenty of difficulty levels and game modes, in the tradition of great games such as “Lemmings” and “Dwarf Fortress”.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 18 Oct 2012
Zombie Driver HD Insane mix of cars, speed, explosions, blood and zombies! Fight through an epic narrative campaign or test yourself in the Slaughter and Blood Race modes.

Price -97% 0.30€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Oct 2012