Best Game Development Games on Steam
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1The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe - The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.
Apr 27, 2022
In this game, you can…
- earn an achievement that requires not playing the game for 10 years.
- pick up a second bucket and watch both buckets explode.
- fall through a glitch and land inside the Mind Control Facility.
- carry a bucket that changes what happens as you explore.
- jump into a "mostly-infinite" hole, realize it isn't infinite, then keep jumping anyway.
- crouch in the broom closet again, now while holding a bucket.
- get called out by the narrator for pressing buttons.
- set the in-game clock to exactly 4:20pm.
- earn an achievement by leaving the game running for 24 hours straight.
2The Looker - You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Jun 17, 2022
In this game, you can…
- turn a familiar maze panel into a first-person shooter sequence, then finish it like an arcade challenge.
- reach a final puzzle that ends the whole game as a single escalating punchline.
- play a sudden Snake-style arcade segment in the middle of the puzzle island.
- solve maze puzzles that are hidden in the world, not just on panels.
- cheat at labyrinths by exploiting how the world and panels interact.
- solve a puzzle using sound cues instead of visual logic, and brute-force it if you want.
- unlock running late in the game and realize you could've been sprinting around the island the whole time.
- look through a telescope straight at the sun.
3Software Inc. - Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
May 1, 2015
In this game, you can…
- fight off night-time robbers by hiring security, because thieves can steal literally everything you own
- build your own operating system, then rerelease all your old software only for it so the market has to switch
- race other companies to file the first patents of the year, then collect royalties indefinitely while everyone else pays to use your tech
- start in a garage with almost no money, grind tiny contracts, then end up owning skyscrapers and subsidiaries as a billion-dollar company
- spend years building an operating system, run out of cash mid-project, survive on contract work, then finish it and watch it go from selling nothing to suddenly exploding
- buy out competing software companies, shelve their products, and corner entire markets until you're basically the only vendor left
- design an office with no grid, then micromanage walking distances, bathrooms, coffee, temperature, and elevators so the layout directly affects productivity
- set up hardware manufacturing with conveyor belts to build consoles and phones as a full second business alongside software
4Mad Games Tycoon 2 - Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.
May 31, 2023
In this game, you can…
- design, manufacture, and revise your own console line, then drive sales with exclusives, warranties, and Slim/Pro upgrades.
- buy rival studios and force them to make only games for your console, or grind out a single franchise forever.
- play up to four-player business warfare: trade tech, send funds, team up, or sabotage each other while racing the charts.
- start in a garage, sign an exclusive publishing deal, and have it erase your debt and fund your next studio era.
- build your own game engine, license it to other studios, and live off royalties when your big projects bleed money.
- pour $20 million into an MMO for five years, launch right as the trend hits, then keep it alive with paid DLC every three months.
- run as a pure publisher: sign exclusives, republish hits, and ship budget, deluxe, collector's, GOTY, and bundle editions.
- go from one shaky hit to a sequel empire, then turn the original franchise into an MMO that earns around $168 million.
5Arctic Eggs - Eggs: perfection in two parts. The simple whites. The sublime yolk. Each the lesser without its partner. Chorus and verse. A symphony of flavor. The catchy tune reminding us of warm baths and late-night movies. The elevator music to whatever lies beyond.
May 16, 2024
In this game, you can…
- take orders to fry absurd stuff like cigarettes, beer, cockroaches, and even a live pufferfish.
- keep ice cubes inside a shot glass while you fry the glassed-up ice on the skillet.
- fry bullets until they explode in your pan.
- cook only while you keep the frying pan moving, wiggling and flipping so the food doesn't slide out.
- stack up a custom breakfast of one egg and 12 cigarettes, then serve it like it's normal.
- light a cigarette to check how many hungry people are left.
- watch dialogue backspace and correct itself mid-conversation like the world is rewriting what it meant to say.
- feed enough strangers to unlock locked doors and meet the "weird hungry freaks" waiting behind them.
6Press Any Button - This video game realized how boring it had been and now is trying its best to fix that.
Jan 7, 2021
In this game, you can…
- watch an AI turn a lab assignment into a game he's building in front of you.
- start with a one-button reflex test, then have it replaced by a falling-block arcade game mid-session.
- watch the game end by closing itself to your desktop after its final goodbye.
- catch falling blocks with three movable platforms while the game keeps introducing new block behaviors that change your strategy.
- freeze a platform in place, then race across the screen to click the exact one you need to unlock.
- learn a level's hidden rule and make accordions disappear only by catching them at the bottom, or at the exact end of their compression.
- play a music-timing mini-game that shows up as the AI invents new tests on the fly.
7THE CORRIDOR - THE CORRIDOR is a 20-30 minute experience about the relationship between player and game.
Dec 4, 2020
In this game, you can…
- press a big orange button and have the game immediately close itself.
- get kicked to desktop for obeying, then relaunch and continue like nothing happened.
- walk into a cardboard man's cardboard plan: cook with a cardboard pan, ride a cardboard van to the beach, and get a cardboard tan.
- pick a fight with the narrator by pressing the button anyway, even as it scolds you and tries to stop you.
- push through corridor sections that suddenly change the rules, like making the hallway longer or flipping your controls.
- replay it to chase missable achievements that only appear on certain runs or alternate outcomes.
- watch the corridor branch into different rooms and art styles, then spill into places that aren't even the hallway anymore.
- keep going until the game turns into a meta battle between you, the developer, and what counts as "satisfying."
8Indie Game: The Movie - The emotional journey of four developers as they sacrifice money, health and sanity to realize their lifelong dreams of sharing their games with the world.
Jun 12, 2012
9City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins - Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend, it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!
Aug 24, 2021
10Braid, Anniversary Edition - Control the flow of time to solve puzzles in this new version of the indie classic, featuring fully repainted artwork, a new world of puzzles, and seriously in-depth commentary.
May 14, 2024
