Best Competitive Games on Steam
Games built for contests, rankings, skill expression, and player-versus-player mastery.
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1Team Fortress 2 - Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats!
Oct 10, 2007
In this game, you can…
- join a match that turns into a ceasefire where both teams build sentries, drain their ammo to make them click, then stack into towers on top.
- watch the objective get stolen and then join a conga line that marches across the map until both teams are partying in the goal room.
- blast-jump yourself across the map with rockets to reach rooftops, flank fights, and escape danger.
- switch between nine totally different classes with roles that change how you move, fight, and support your team.
- go invisible as a spy, sneak behind the enemy line, and take people out up close before vanishing again.
- play a co-op mode where you team up to survive wave after wave of attacking robots.
- get headshot while you're doing a taunt because a sniper is calmly posted on a distant tower.
- walk into a live round and end up playing rock-paper-scissors with an enemy instead of fighting.
2Hearts of Iron IV - Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.
Jun 6, 2016
In this game, you can…
- stage a surprise airborne invasion that takes an enemy capital before your own sea landing even leaves port.
- start as tiny Bolivia and snowball from beating one neighbor into grinding down half a continent, then gearing up to fight Brazil.
- oust Stalin in a civil war, reunite China as a warlord, or put another Napoleon on France's throne in the same game.
- manually switch combat plans mid-battle multiple times to change how a fight plays out instead of just watching it resolve.
- drive a tank army straight through a country that has no anti-tank and rip the front so wide it looks like someone took a bite out of the map.
- race the clock in a WW1 mod: stabilize a collapsing front, rush 1918 fighters to wipe the enemy air force, then snake an armored car into Paris seconds before the USA joins.
- turn a small nation into an industrial powerhouse through years of buildup, then flip the switch into rapid conquest the moment you're ready.
3Splitgate - Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
May 24, 2019
In this game, you can…
- play a mode where you only score by teabagging enemies after you kill them.
- fall into a floor portal, keep your momentum, and slingshot across the map into the enemy team for point-blank shotgun kills.
- set a portal on a safe side of the map and snipe through it, picking people off from an angle they can't see coming.
- portal behind someone mid-rush, kill them in the back, and watch them step into the portal thinking they're chasing you.
- open and close portals on the fly, then throw an EMP grenade to erase enemy portals and cut off their escape routes.
- stack custom modifiers like big heads, low gravity, and unlimited ammo to turn a match into a completely different game.
- run a custom lobby with friends as 5 humans vs 5 hard bots with 1-second respawns, turning every fight into nonstop chaos.
4Age of Empires II (Retired) - Age of Empires II has been re-imagined in high definition. With the release of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, this product will not be updated further.
Apr 9, 2013
In this game, you can…
- convert enemy soldiers so they instantly switch sides mid-battle.
- raise the population cap to 500 and flood the map with armies big enough to change your entire battle plan.
- win without conquering everyone by guarding a king, collecting relics, or building and defending a wonder.
- mass monks behind walls, upgrade them into tanky converters, then march out stealing whole armies while they chant.
- watch monks on both sides convert the same troops back and forth until someone breaks the stalemate with a surprise demolition squad.
- set up two markets far apart and generate more gold from trade just because the route is longer.
- fire a mangonel shot into a clump of archers and flatten them all at once.
- play campaigns as famous historical leaders like Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, or Joan of Arc.
5DRAGON BALL FighterZ - DRAGON BALL FighterZ is born from what makes the DRAGON BALL series so loved and famous: endless spectacular fights with its all-powerful fighters.
Jan 26, 2018
In this game, you can…
- swap bodies as Captain Ginyu mid-match, leaving your opponent suddenly controlling the wrong character.
- tag between three fighters to keep a team combo snowballing, then cancel one super straight into another finisher.
- trigger cinematic super attacks that blow up the stage and swing the camera in for a dramatic ending.
- chain a single clean hit into a huge combo.
- land punches and specials that recreate specific Dragon Ball scenes and tiny move details in actual fights.
- throw out simplified supers and flashy strings with beginner-friendly inputs, even if you're brand new.
- homing-dash straight to your opponent anywhere on screen, then immediately start pressure before they can reset.
- use character-specific gimmicks like Nappa summoning AI saibaimen for pressure or Beerus ricocheting projectiles off his attacks.
6Left 4 Dead - From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.
Nov 17, 2008
In this game, you can…
- get punched by a Tank into a Witch, get puked on, get lasso-dragged, then get pinned, all before you reach the rescue.
- play as the monsters in versus, using their grab, pin, and pounce powers to ambush real players.
- get a different run every time because the game changes how many zombies show up based on how well you're doing.
- set off an alarm and trigger a horde, and the game keeps escalating the attack until you break through the holdout.
- get yanked off the group by a monster, and only a teammate can free you before you just die.
- fall off a ledge, hang there alive, and wait while your team hauls you back up.
- throw a pipe bomb to pull a huge crowd into one spot, then blow it up, or block a path with fire and explosions.
- hit the finale and have to survive a long rescue wait while attacks intensify until the escape finally arrives.
7Ultimate Chicken Horse - Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.
Mar 4, 2016
In this game, you can…
- build the level as you play, placing traps and platforms before everyone races through it.
- seal off the start so other players spawn into a cage and can't even leave.
- create community-style levels with up to 500 placed items on a single map, then make friends try to clear it.
- draft a trap from a shared box, snatch it first, and watch the route change for everyone that round.
- stack traps so one mistake sets off multiple hazards and someone dies to four different things at once.
- throw a bomb to blow up a carefully built cluster of traps right before the next run.
- race on a space level where gravity gets lower the higher you climb toward the goal.
- make a course that's technically beatable, but only if you know the exact jump and wall-jump sequence.
- host matches with custom rules that change gravity, speed, lives, and how scoring works.
8Assetto Corsa Competizione - Assetto Corsa Competizione, the official GT World Challenge videogame. Thanks to the extraordinary quality of simulation, you will experience the atmosphere of the GT3 championship. Compete against official drivers, teams, cars and official circuits reproduced to the highest quality ever seen.
May 29, 2019
In this game, you can…
- start an endurance race in afternoon rain, watch it turn into a dry-line-on-wet track by evening, and keep racing through the whole transition.
- save mid-endurance event and resume the same race over multiple real-world days.
- go three-wide into Monza Turn 1 and use outside-car audio to judge exactly where the other cars are.
- tweak traction control and ABS while driving, then feel the car transform when you nail tire pressures in a tight window.
- chase a special-event leaderboard time by practicing, tuning the car, and slowly hunting tenths instead of jumping straight into races.
- feel your helmet view tilt and rotate with g-forces, so the camera moves like your body does in the car.
- earn trust and safety ratings to unlock ranked online racing, so clean driving becomes the gateway to better lobbies.
- run endurance stints where brake wear matters, pick different brake pads, and manage the car so it stays fast at the end.
9Duck Game - Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory. Blast your friends with Shotguns, Net Guns, Mind Control Rays, Saxophones, Magnet Guns, and much, much more. This is DUCK GAME. Don't blink.
Jun 4, 2015
In this game, you can…
- mind-control an enemy duck and steer them off the map, unless they're wearing a tin-foil hat countermeasure.
- fake your own death by playing dead, then pop back up when everyone stops paying attention.
- block bullets and wall-climb with a sword, turning it into defense, mobility, and murder at once.
- open a present, pull a reverse pistol, and instantly shoot yourself in the face.
- ragdoll on purpose to gain momentum and launch into huge jumps that would normally be impossible.
- use gun recoil as a movement tool, like firing a huge magnum to kick yourself upward shot by shot.
- slide on your knees to dodge bullets and keep moving while you shoot.
- start each round in a scramble from empty spawns to snag the best weapons before the first one-hit kills begin.
- build maps with hidden weapons, weird powerup placements, spikes, and bottomless pits so the level itself creates kills and escapes.
10Rivals of Aether - RIVALS OF AETHER is an indie fighting game where warring civilizations summon the power of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. Play with up to four players either locally or online.
Mar 28, 2017
In this game, you can…
- fight offstage with no ledges to grab, wall-jump to refresh recovery, cancel special fall, and use your up move twice.
- drop a puddle, teleport back to it, turn it into a bubble pillar that lifts enemies, then drink it to power up huge attacks.
- load workshop characters like Obama, an Among Us crewmate, Tetris, or a literal chair, and fight them on custom stages.
- parry attacks for a few frames to stun enemies or reflect projectiles.
- land one opening and carry someone through a long chase combo that can jump to near-death if you keep reading them.
- set someone on fire, leave burning flames on the stage, then cash it out by absorbing the burn to launch them twice as far.
- play a wave-survival mode where you unlock runes that change your build, then take that powered-up chaos into versus matches.
- play a full beach-sport tetherball mode that turns into a serious back-and-forth instead of a throwaway minigame.
