Best Pixel Graphics games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our pixel graphics game recommendations are based on a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews. We believe that player feedback is the most reliable indicator of a game's true quality and enjoyment. Our algorithm evaluates user reviews to identify pixel graphics games that consistently deliver exceptional experiences. This means you can be confident that our lists feature only the best pixel graphics games on Steam, validated by the community itself.

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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 4.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 13 Feb 2014

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger

The first hi-res 2D fighter from the creators of the Guilty Gear series! BlazBlue is a traditional 2D fighter where two characters participate in a duel.

Price -85% 1.34€
Rating 8.3
Release 13 Feb 2014

Descent

Prepare To Start Your Descent.Sensory overload in 360° 3-D.Welcome to Descent™ - 27 levels of the most mind-bending, stomach-churning action game ever. Featuring true 3-Dimensional worlds with light source shading, texture mapping, 3-D morphing, directional sound effects and sizzling music, this is technology taken to the limit.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 11 Feb 2014

LOVE

Love is a reductive platforming game with a retro aesthetic and a focus on a challenging difficulty. It has an custom respawn system, 16 levels, 12 track soundtrack, competitive scoring, and a simple-to-use level creation feature.

Price 2.39€
Rating 8.6
Release 07 Feb 2014

Oniken: Unstoppable Edition

When a global war nearly decimated humankind, an evil military organization called Oniken takes advantage of the situation to dominate and oppress the few remaining survivors. Even though any resistance to this organization seemed hopeless, a small rebel movement organizes strikes against Oniken.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 05 Feb 2014

Aqua Kitty - Milk Mine Defender

Aqua Kitty is a fast paced retro styled submarine arcade shooter with optional 2 player local Co-op.Blast through hordes of mechanical sea monsters in your kitty sub and defend the deep sea milk mining kittens!THE MILK MUST FLOW!

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.1
Release 03 Feb 2014

Saturday Morning RPG

Saturday Morning RPG is an episodic JRPG set in world heavily inspired by 1980s Saturday morning cartoons and pop culture.

Price 6.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 29 Jan 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

Nidhogg

Nidhogg is the epic award-winning fencing tug-of-war, full of graceful acrobatics and clumsy stabs. IRL yelling and excitement may occur, in this ultimate two-player showdown of fast-paced fencing and melee attacks. Beware, advantages in Nidhogg are often fleeting, as new opponents continually spawn in your way.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 13 Jan 2014

3089 -- Futuristic Action RPG

3089 is a futuristic, procedurally generated, open-world action role-playing game. All terrain, enemies, weapons, items, quests & more are uniquely generated. Will you obey your creator, the Overlord, or find your own path?

Price 6.89€
Rating 6.7
Release 10 Jan 2014

Samurai GUNN

Samurai GUNN is a lightning-fast Bushido brawler for two to four players. Each samurai is armed with a sword and gunn, with only 3 bullets to a life. Strategy and quick reflexes are the key to deflecting bullets and sending your opponents’ heads rolling.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 10 Dec 2013

Nimble Quest

Nimble Quest! Lead a conga line of heroes to glory against hordes of enemies across an endless number of stages. How many enemies can you defeat? Steer your unstoppable (seriously, you can’t stop) party as they cut a path of destruction through levels filled with different enemies and power-ups.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 06 Dec 2013

MURI

MURI is a DOS-style shooter from Remar Games and Ludosity. Features PC Speaker sound and 16-color EGA graphics.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Dec 2013

Savant - Ascent

A malicious orb has cast Savant out of his tower and transformed his surroundings into dangerous enemies!Dodge and shoot your way back up the tower, and blast down waves of enemies as you make your way towards the top! As you progress, you unlock CDs that not only give you new tracks to play to, but also grant you powerful new abilities!

Price -50% 0.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Dec 2013

Finding Teddy

We are currently working on Finding Teddy 2 !!Stay tuned, we are currently sending confidential preview versions to journalistsSpecial Offer : Buy Finding Teddy and get Free OST !In BriefThe revival of Point'n-Click.Graphics completely handmade, realized pixel by pixel.

Price 6.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Dec 2013

Mutant Mudds Deluxe

Love pixels? Fond of platformers? Is there a special place in your heart for the 8-bit and 16-bit era? Want to have fun? Yes!? Well, you’ve come to the right place, my friend. Mutant Mudds Deluxe is a “12-bit” action platformer full of pixels and platforming fun!

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.1
Release 21 Nov 2013

The Shivah

Russell Stone is a Jewish Rabbi at a poor synagogue in New York City. He is a devout man with a problem. Membership is way down and he lacks the funds to keep his synagogue open. Things are looking very bleak, and he has grown progressively more cynical and bitter with the passage of time.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 21 Nov 2013

Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic

For the first time in over 20 years, we are heralding the return of a much loved piece of gaming history with the classic RPG, Wasteland! Mutants. Again. Even more than there were last time: they seem to materialize out of the very grains of the radioactive desert sand. Venomous yellow eyes.

Price 5.49€
Rating 7.4
Release 13 Nov 2013

PixelJunk™ Shooter

In PixelJunk™ Shooter, you must pilot your spacecraft through a range of cavernous environments in a bid to save the scientists trapped underground. Making your way through the game will rely on your keen sense of observation and the ability to manipulate your surroundings.

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 11 Nov 2013

Risk of Rain (2013)

Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.

Price -80% 1.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 08 Nov 2013

King Arthur's Gold

Would you enjoy building CASTLES, traps and siege machines in MULTIPLAYER? And then undermine your opponents castle and collapse it with 2D PHYSICS & DESTRUCTION?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 05 Nov 2013

Eldritch

Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.

Price 11.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Oct 2013

Super Amazing Wagon Adventure

Super Amazing Wagon Adventure is a fast-paced 2d shooting game with a random story. You control a group of three migrants traveling west along a wagon trail. The game consists of short scenes that are sequenced together in a semi-random way to tell a crazy adventure story.

Price 2.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Oct 2013

Escape Goat

Escape Goat is a puzzle platformer where you take control of a goat, who has been imprisoned for witchcraft, and overcome traps and obstacles to escape the Prison of Agnus. Fear not, for with your supreme agility, sturdy horns, and the help of a magic mouse friend, you can turn the tables on foes and use the environment to your advantage.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 09 Oct 2013

PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition DX+

It's time to gear up!Get ready for more ghost chain gobbling and frantic action in PAC-MAN® CE-DX+! The award-winning chomping game makes a shattering debut on Steam with even more content and a refined user-interface to compare high scores with your friends!

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 24 Sep 2013

Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures

"The most rewarding game of 2013!" Influenced by retro classics Mega Man and Castlevania, Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures features the AVGN and friends as they blast their way through 10 levels of fun, fast paced 2D action based on the AVGN's adventures in his online series.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 20 Sep 2013

Legend of Dungeon

Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated action RPG Beat'em'up with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals, and dynamic music.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 13 Sep 2013

Volgarr the Viking

Return to the Golden Age of arcades with a hardcore action platformer that pulls no punches! Possesses all the hallmarks of true classics like Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts (SNES), Rastan Saga (Arcade), Castlevania (NES) and more with precise controls, high challenge, and meticulous design.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 13 Sep 2013

Electronic Super Joy

Electronic Super Joy is a brutally hard platformer set in a world of pulse-pounding electronic music. Run, jump, smash & fly your way through 45+ weird & different levels, with low-gravity, world rotation, giant monsters & swarming missiles.

Price 5.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 23 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 9.75€
Rating 8.7
Release 12 Aug 2013

Papers, Please

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.6
Release 08 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 12.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 24 Jul 2013

Bleed

Wryn is a girl with a big arsenal and big dreams -- she wants to be the ultimate videogame hero! Help her take down the Greatest Heroes of All Time in an action-packed bid to claim the title for herself and show the world what a true hero looks like!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 03 Jul 2013

The Apogee Throwback Pack

The Apogee Throwback Pack is a collection of four classic Apogee Software titles all in one kick ass package. Blast your way across the galaxy as British Special Agent Blake Stone in "Aliens of Gold" and "Planet Strike", then take on an ancient evil menace as the H.U.N.T in "Rise of the Triad".

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 01 Jul 2013

Rogue Legacy

Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 27 Jun 2013

Fist Puncher

The sinister Milkman holds the city of San Cruces in his nasty criminal grip, and it’s up to legendary black belt neurosurgeon Dr. Karate and the rest of the Fist Puncher team to deliver old-school justice to the lawless streets.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 21 Jun 2013

Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Edition

Set out on a grand adventure in this turn-based, retro style, pixel-art RPG, inspired by the great titles of the 90's. Take on the roles of in-game players taking on the roles of their characters in a traditional pen and paper RPG session in the ultimate meta roleplaying experience.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 18 Jun 2013

Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara

Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara brings reworkings of two of Capcom’s classic arcade hits - Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom and Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara – together in one definitive digital package.

Price 13.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 18 Jun 2013

Gunpoint

Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game that lets you rewire its levels to trick people. You play a freelance spy who takes jobs from his clients to break into high security buildings and steal sensitive data.

Price 7.00€
Rating 9.5
Release 03 Jun 2013

Cubetractor

WINNER: IGF China award for BEST GAME!Cubetractor is a neo-retroesque action-strategy-puzzle hybrid where you defeat enemies through an unconventional cube-pulling, turret-buildling mechanic. The game carries elements of a reverse tower defence and a grounded bullet-hell dodger to deliver a unique gameplay experience presented in a...

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 29 May 2013

Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe

The title says it all. Take one part falling block puzzle game, combine one part old-school platformer, add a couple thousand pixels, blend and serve. Why match colored blocks when you can just shoot the hell out of them? Your goal is to survive as long as you can. From celebrated indie developer Andrew Morrish and Adult Swim Games.

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 24 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 4.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 09 May 2013

FEZ

Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 01 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 14.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Apr 2013

La-Mulana

LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 15 Apr 2013

Evoland

Evoland is a journey through the history of action/adventure gaming, allowing you to unlock new technologies, gameplay systems and graphic upgrades as you progress through the game.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 04 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 9.75€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Mar 2013

Organ Trail: Director's Cut

Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 19 Mar 2013