Best Casual Games on Steam
Approachable games with low friction, simple rules, and relaxed commitment.
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1Stardew Valley - You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Feb 26, 2016
In this game, you can…
- marry someone with the exact salad you found in a trash can.
- build an 8-player farm together and even tweak the group profit split for a harder run.
- spam bombs in a monster-filled cavern to blast straight through floors for loot.
- run the mines in co-op, with one person fighting monsters while the other grabs ore and bolts.
- restore a run-down community center to reshape the whole town, or buy into a big corporation instead.
- ignore farming and still build a whole life by fishing, mining, foraging, cooking, and specializing into different work paths.
- befriend townspeople by learning their schedules, catching them at dawn, and steadily unlocking personal cutscenes and secrets.
- turn an overgrown inherited farm into a working homestead by clearing debris, planting crops, upgrading tools, and expanding your setup.
2Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
Oct 12, 2012
In this game, you can…
- practice alley-docking so much in-game that it carries over to real CDL-style trailer backing tests.
- join online convoys where a small bump can turn into a cross-country chase, or into a friendly honk-and-wave road trip with strangers.
- install major map mods and end up convoying through places like Iceland on custom roads with new physics and navigation.
- start with quick jobs, buy your first truck, take out loans, hire drivers, and grow into a multi-garage fleet that earns while you're out hauling.
- hammer down the highway with the speed limiter off, then sweat every speed camera and fine as you try to keep the delivery on time.
- reverse a full trailer into a tight loading bay and park it cleanly.
- cross a border and immediately deal with new road rules, new signage, and suddenly driving on the opposite side in the UK.
- haul everything from fuel and chemicals to oversized machinery and vehicles, then adjust how you drive to keep the cargo intact.
- tune in to live local radio stations as you drive and switch countries until the music and traffic rhythm sync up with the route.
3Among Us - An online and local party game of teamwork and betrayal for 4-15 players...in space!
Nov 16, 2018
In this game, you can…
- crawl through vents and pop out somewhere unexpected.
- kill someone, then report the body yourself and lead the investigation away from you.
- get killed or voted out and still keep doing tasks to help your team win from beyond the grave.
- find a body, report it, and instantly drag everyone into a meeting to reconstruct who was where.
- lock doors to trap someone in a room, cut off their escape, and kill them in private.
- trigger an oxygen or reactor emergency that forces everyone to sprint to fixes while you pick off someone separated from the group.
- pretend to do tasks while everyone watches the task bar for proof you're actually helping.
- watch security cameras or the admin map to spot suspicious movement without being in the room.
4Geometry Dash - Jump and fly your way through danger in this rhythm-based action platformer!
Dec 22, 2014
In this game, you can…
- build full animations, minigames, and even whole games inside the level editor using massive chains of objects and logic-like setups.
- dive into millions of community-made levels and keep finding completely different stages, from quick showcases to absurdly hard challenges.
- get thrown from normal jumping into rocket flight, then into upside-down gravity, without stopping, while squeezing through spike corridors on the beat.
- control a character that runs on its own, and restart the whole level the instant you mess up.
- tap mid-air orbs to launch yourself, hit portals that flip gravity or change speed, and swap into flight or teleport movement mid-run.
- drop and remove checkpoints in practice, drill the nastiest transitions, then go back and clear the entire level in one clean run.
- play levels where the jumps and gravity flips are timed to the soundtrack, so the song effectively tells you when to move.
5Unturned - Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.
Jul 7, 2017
In this game, you can…
- arrest other players with handcuffs and blindfolds instead of killing them, then stage prisoner captures on roleplay servers.
- find a tank, stock ammo for it, and use it to raid other players' bases.
- pose as a killed player, talk your way into their squad, ride in their truck, then shoot the front seats and take everything.
- build a silenced, scoped marksman gun from junk parts, including duct-tape optics and a campfire-made muffler.
- shoot out of vehicles, cram friends into a truck, and do drive-bys as a rolling squad platform.
- fortify rooftops and hillside bases with barricades and traps, or even build on a vehicle to make a moving fortress.
- recruit a beach full of kids into your crew, make yourself the leader, and roll up on bases as a growing mob.
- explore huge maps for hidden bunkers, military zones, and radioactive deadzones, then hop into custom workshop maps built for totally different modes.
6Bloons TD 6 - The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Dec 17, 2018
In this game, you can…
- watch a necromancer tower raise zombie bloons that march backward and pop the bloons behind them.
- drag a helicopter around mid-wave, lock it in place, or set it to patrol between two points.
- spend three days building money, then drop a single Paragon tower that melts everything it touches.
- hit round 100 and get a free insta-monkey you can save for any future run.
- take a sniper tower and upgrade it into a rapid-fire machine-gun monster that plays nothing like the starter version.
- play co-op where the screen splits into sections and each player controls their own slice of the map.
- fight timed boss events where a single boss bloon becomes the whole match's win-or-lose objective.
- push into extreme late-game until the map is so packed with maxed-out towers and effects you can barely find your cursor.
7People Playground - Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Jul 23, 2019
In this game, you can…
- tear maps open with explosives until wall panels fall away, revealing detailed pipes and wiring hidden behind the surface.
- strap rocket boosters to ragdolls, then escalate into spike-and-flamethrower traps and a machine that launches someone into space.
- swap a person's blood for other liquids, like acid or atomic-bomb ingredients, and watch their body chemically change and even glow green.
- kidnap three people, make them fight to the death, then set the last one free.
- wire generators, logic gates, and machines together into contraptions that mix electricity, fire, acid, bullets, syringes, and healing fields.
- spawn people with jetpacks and swords, then make them fight robots or other AI while you stage the whole arena.
- mess with the environment—temperature, rain, snow, lightning, ocean, lava, abyss—and use it to run controlled catastrophe experiments.
8Cities: Skylines - Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Mar 10, 2015
In this game, you can…
- accidentally route sewage outflow into your own drinking-water pumps and watch the whole city get sick from polluted water.
- follow a single named citizen as they commute, work, shop, and chain a metro ride into a bus transfer.
- use mods to expand the playable map far beyond the base size and even fly a plane through your own city.
- lay roads from a lone highway connection and watch empty land turn into neighborhoods with homes, shops, and factories.
- rebuild highway exits and roundabouts until traffic patterns actually change and congestion drops dramatically across the city.
- draw and rename districts, then flip policies like free public transport or no high-rises to reshape how an area develops.
- build a dam that raises the river, then watch the new water level flood whatever neighborhoods you put too close.
- run buses, metros, trains, taxis, cargo ships, and airports, then tune routes so the entire transport network works together.
9Vampire Survivors - Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Oct 20, 2022
In this game, you can…
- fight a giant praying mantis while 10,000 skeletons pack the screen around you.
- turn into the bullet hell: you only move while your weapons auto-fire until the screen is pure lasers and explosions.
- stack golden eggs to turn even the weakest character into a ridiculous monster.
- start with a whip and end up an immobile tree that kills by radiating garlic.
- open a chest and instantly level up multiple weapons at once, plus grab a big cash payout mid-run.
- combine the right weapon and passive to evolve them into dramatically stronger versions.
- use a shield and a time-freeze as panic buttons, then calmly reposition while everything else is stuck.
10Human Fall Flat - Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
Jul 22, 2016
In this game, you can…
- lay siege to a Viking village, launch yourself from a catapult, slam a rock into a chasm with a battering ram, then barrel-ride through fjords to a longboat finish.
- play online with up to eight people, where seven other players flail around the same objectives and everything becomes a moving pileup.
- learn to scale walls, start chaining speed hops, and even pull off stuff like climbing straight up or "levitating" with a stick.
- grab your friends by the arms and collars, hoist them up, then toss them off cliffs or into the void when they get in the way.
- break a window, stack mattresses into a janky staircase, and climb through to skip the route the level clearly wanted you to take.
- swing on vines like Tarzan, row boats, fire yourself out of catapults, and mess with trucks and cranes to move through puzzles.
- drag a plank around for 20 minutes, finally line it up as a perfect bridge, then watch it vanish the moment you celebrate.
