Best Instrumental Music Games on Steam
Games centered on non-vocal music, instrumental scoring, or performance.
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1The one who pulls out the sword will be crowned king - Are you The Rightful King™ or just a filthy peasant? The sword is waiting for you to lift it, but it gets longer and heavier each time someone else succeeds...
Mar 28, 2022
In this game, you can…
- join an online mode where every time someone pulls the sword out, it gets longer and heavier for everyone else.
- get crowned king, then almost immediately get escorted out and executed or replaced by the next ruler.
- pull the sword out, get praised by the crowd, get married, have an heir, then come back later to find the sword in the stone again.
- pull the sword by holding left-click and dragging upward, and lose all progress the instant you let go or slip off it.
- spend minutes inching the sword up, then watch it drop all the way back down from one tiny slip.
- crank your mouse sensitivity and physically reposition your mouse over and over to keep the pull going.
- win the pull, get crowned king, and receive achievements that prove you earned the crown.
2News Tower - Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!
Nov 18, 2025
In this game, you can…
- tailor the same paper to different NYC neighborhoods, because each borough has totally different reader tastes.
- take shady deals from the mayor, mafia, military, or high society, then deal with lawsuits, mobs, or baseball-bat "courtesy visits" if you anger them.
- hold finished stories for next week, then drop them together to stack combo bonuses.
- pull the big Print lever and watch your whole newspaper run through the press.
- build a front page like a puzzle, chaining matching tags like Crime or gossip into multipliers.
- get a breaking-story alert, dispatch a reporter, rush the scoop through typesetting and layout, and lock the whole issue right before Sunday deadline.
- send reporters to stories you spot across the U.S. via telegraph, picking who goes based on their traits and skills.
- turn a tiny newsroom into a multi-floor production line where photos, maps, engravings, ads, and editors all feed the press before Sunday.
3Lumines Arise - A mind-blowing, fiendishly addictive reinvention of the puzzle classic Lumines from the creators of Tetris® Effect: Connected, where sound pulses through your body, mind, and every block you place, triggering dazzling visuals synched to the driving beat of an infectious, eclectic soundtrack.
Nov 11, 2025
In this game, you can…
- freeze a matched square so it won't clear, keep feeding it for multiple sweeps, then release it into a massive clear and a cascade.
- compose the soundtrack as you rotate and slide blocks, with each move adding a new sound.
- make the music evolve in real time as your combo grows, adding layers and pushing the song forward faster.
- hit a stage transition where the song speeds up and the sweep accelerates, forcing you to instantly adapt to a new pace.
- watch the entire board transform mid-stage as blocks morph into themed shapes like bubbles, gears, lanterns, and spiderweb balls.
- battle 1v1 by building Burst clears that dump garbage blocks onto your opponent while you race to survive your own grid.
- stitch your favorite stages into a custom playlist so the pacing, visuals, and music become a curated run arc.
4ODDADA - A musical toy box, filled with weird creatures, tiny houses and wondrous machines. Create your own songs! Unlock new instruments! Design your own cassettes! Share them! ODDADA!
Aug 15, 2024
In this game, you can…
- print your finished song onto a cassette, decorate the tape art, pop it into a player, and listen back.
- unlock tools that let you modulate any sound system, then pitch-shift each instrument to warp the whole track.
- rearrange a diorama-like scene where each sound comes from a tiny animated object you can move and experiment with.
- fiddle with random toy gadgets until a new sound clicks into place.
- build a track one weird stage at a time, layering melodies, rhythms, harmonies, and effects until a full song appears.
- pull levers, slide parts, and click chunky doodads that reshape the sounds you already added.
- store your favorite tapes in a box, burn old ones, and keep making new cassettes like a little music collection.
- save your tracks as .wav or .mp4 files and share them as stream alerts, transitions, or tiny keepsakes.
5Symphonia - Awaken an expansive musical realm in this non-violent and poetic platformer. In Symphonia, you'll use the power of your violin coupled with your platforming skills to gather an orchestra to bring the musical machinery of the world back to life.
Dec 5, 2024
In this game, you can…
- catapult yourself with a violin bow and chain slinghook-style swings across gaps.
- play your violin to trigger platforms, unlock paths, and wake up level machinery mid-run.
- finish the journey with a full concert sequence that pays off everything you rebuilt along the way.
- hunt down lost orchestra leaders across different instrument-themed regions, then reunite them for a full performance.
- turn cleared stages into a shadow-chase race where a pursuing darkness forces faster, cleaner movement.
- tackle optional challenge rooms packed with the most technical platforming for hidden collectibles and new abilities.
- revisit earlier areas after unlocking new movement powers to reach secrets that were impossible before.
6Trombone Champ: Unflattened - It’s time to step up and fulfill your destiny in Trombone Champ: Unflattened! A rhythm game where every note is yours to command. With more than 58+ unforgettable tracks, an all-new campaign, collectible cards, and wild trombones, you’re not just playing along with the music—you’re creating it! 🔥🎺
Nov 26, 2024
In this game, you can…
- hold a virtual trombone in one hand, slide with the other, and control breath length while two note sheets rush at you.
- earn currency and buy trombones shaped like cats, fish, ice cream cones, or rubber chickens, each with its own sound.
- import custom songs into VR so your song library can grow by hundreds of tracks.
- perform on a full stage where the crowd cheers, claps, boos, winces, or covers their ears in real time based on your playing.
- collect and inspect lore cards in VR like real cards, then use them to unlock new instruments and complete the set.
- choose simplified charts to get through a song, or take the full version with fast up-and-down tap chains that can shred your combo.
- finish a song, get an F-to-S grade plus global and friend rankings, and immediately queue another run to climb the leaderboard.
- play through a story-driven campaign that openly acknowledges it's awkwardly forcing a narrative into a trombone concert.
7WORLD OF ART JIGSAW PUZZLES - Welcome to WORLD OF ART - Learn with JIGSAW PUZZLES! Explore over 2000+ artworks, solve puzzles, test your knowledge with quizzes, and enhance your mind while enjoying classical music. New paintings added for free regularly!
Jun 18, 2020
In this game, you can…
- download completed paintings and use them as wallpapers on your computer.
- finish 300-piece puzzles with piece rotation turned on.
- browse through hundreds of paintings like a gallery before you even start puzzling.
- take on 300-piece jigsaw puzzles.
- blitz through daily build challenges, climbing piece-count tiers in one sitting until you hit a 300-piece finale.
- solve puzzles to earn points, then spend them to unlock more paintings faster by tackling higher piece counts.
- zoom in after finishing to study fine details in the artwork, like van Gogh brush strokes.
- save mid-puzzle and come back later, turning a huge build into a long-term project.
8Shy Cats Hidden Orchestra - Shy Cats Hidden Orchestra is a hidden object game where you need to find musician cats that are embarassed to play their music. When you find them, they will play songs for you.
Jul 22, 2023
In this game, you can…
- turn a silent hidden-object scene into a full orchestra as you find cats.
- toggle individual cats on and off to mute parts, isolate weird instruments, and remix the ensemble.
- catch kittens on the start menu and build a little opening song before you even enter a level.
- build a song one shy cat at a time.
- find a secret bonus cat by locating a key, opening a mystery box, or solving a clue-based mini puzzle.
- unlock a hidden cat by selecting the right set of musicians you've already discovered.
- move the camera and zoom around the scene to inspect cluttered areas for hidden cats.
- jump between environments where the same orchestra mechanic shifts into different regional and spooky musical styles.
9Nocked! True Tales of Robin Hood - You are Robin Hood! Forge your destiny and fight to liberate Nottingham in this epic story-driven RPG blending interactive fiction, resource management, and base building set within a lushly-illustrated Sherwood Forest.
Jul 16, 2019
In this game, you can…
- romance Little John, who comes with a pet bear, in the same run you recruit him.
- befriend and recruit mythic figures like Morgana le Fay, a unicorn named Elsa, and the giant from Jack and the Beanstalk.
- reveal Robin as a woman after the opening and have the story respond to that shift.
- choose how to handle Little John on the bridge: fight him on the log, pay him off, or talk him into joining you.
- plan a raid, gather resources, then hit tax collectors or a treasure vault and walk away with a massive payout if it goes right.
- grow a Sherwood hideout into a full stronghold, with new buildings, new storylines, and visuals that change as it develops.
- build favor with peasants, nobility, the church, and the fae, then watch those alliances decide whether you survive the endgame.
- play through days, weeks, and season checkpoints where you have to live with choices until the next major turning point.
10I commissioned some bees 13 - I paid more artists to hide bees in 7 pieces of artwork. Can you find them all? Warning: Spooky.
Oct 20, 2023
In this game, you can…
- turn on a spooky mode where the scene flickers and you can only search within a small pool of light.
- finish a painting, then re-hide a few objects inside it and hunt them down again.
- work through 7 artworks with 700+ bees and bee-related objects hidden across them.
- sweep your cursor like a flashlight across darkened artwork to find hidden bees.
- zoom and pan through hand-drawn scenes to spot bees that are nearly microscopic.
- clear most of a painting, then get stuck hunting the last few hidden bees in impossible corners.
