Best Top-Down Games on Steam
Games viewed from above for clear movement, combat, strategy, or exploration.
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1Among 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.
2Hotline Miami - Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
Oct 23, 2012
In this game, you can…
- slam a door into someone and kill them instantly.
- choose a mask before a level that changes how you play, like silent guns, faster movement, surviving one bullet, or killing with doors.
- pummel someone down, grab their dropped shotgun a split second later, and wipe the rest of the room before it reacts.
- die in one hit, restart instantly, and run the same floor until you've memorized patrol routes, gun reactions, and weapon spawns.
- bait enemies with noise, burst into rooms while they're facing away, and clear an entire floor using what you've learned from repeats.
- chain fast kills into huge combos and score grades, pushing for 20x streaks and top ranks.
- finish a massacre, then walk back to your car in silence after the music cuts out, with the level suddenly feeling empty.
3Don't Starve - Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Apr 23, 2013
In this game, you can…
- watch nightfall turn lethal as the darkness itself attacks you within seconds if you aren't holding a light.
- go insane and have your sanity turn into real combat threats that start hunting you around camp.
- build a base near friendly pigs for protection, then watch a full moon turn them into werepigs that attack you.
- start a brand-new random world every run, then spend weeks mapping it while new monsters and hazards keep spawning.
- pick up a harmless-looking plant or hit a beehive, then get instantly punished by something you didn't know was dangerous.
- hear hounds howling in the distance, gear up, then kite the pack into a beefalo herd and let them tear each other apart.
- die, then respawn using a Touch Stone or a one-time resurrection item and keep the same world going.
- drop into a sinkhole, lose the light above, then get trapped underground with spiders, rabbit-people, and bigger things closing in.
4Enter the Gungeon - Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
Apr 5, 2016
In this game, you can…
- use a gun that's a bullet that shoots guns that shoot bullets — and even get shotguns that fire other shotguns.
- fight a giant mech rat boss, then immediately settle it in a Punch-Out-style fistfight.
- open a chest that suddenly glitches out and warps you straight into a hidden boss fight.
- dodge-roll through bullet patterns and flip tables into instant cover mid-fight.
- kick a barrel across the room, shoot it to explode enemies, then hit a switch to drop a chandelier on the survivors.
- find a rainbow chest that spits out a huge pile of guns and items at once.
- free NPCs during runs so they move into your hub and open new shops, quests, and gear for future runs.
- take a cursed run where a witch makes your gun change into a different one every five seconds.
- carry a slow little pig companion for most of a run, then watch it sprint in front of you and take a fatal shot meant for you.
5Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number - Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game.
Mar 10, 2015
In this game, you can…
- play as a character who refuses to kill, forcing totally different solutions.
- control a duo that fights together, one with a chainsaw and one with a bat.
- build and share custom campaigns in a level editor using the game's characters, weapons, and music.
- restart a failed run instantly and slam back into the same room.
- dual-wield guns and wipe out grouped enemies in a single sweep.
- use a sniper rifle to pick off bodyguards across an open map.
- raid a nuclear power plant with only a four-man squad on a mission you're expected to die on.
- chain kills into massive combo scores and replay stages until you hit an A+ rank.
6FTL: Faster Than Light - This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Sep 14, 2012
In this game, you can…
- vent rooms into space to suffocate boarders or put out fires.
- reach the final boss, win the fight, then learn it has three phases and the battle keeps escalating.
- teleport your crew onto an enemy ship to sabotage systems and fight room-to-room, then lose them if the ship explodes first.
- hit a wrecked ship system again to open hull breaches that keep repair crews dying inside.
- pause mid-fight to queue repairs, reroute power, and fire weapons, then unpause for a second to let the plan land.
- get a run-ending chain reaction where fires, breaches, no oxygen, and boarders all happen at once.
- hack or mind-control enemy systems so their own doors trap their crew while your weapons tear the ship apart.
7The Binding of Isaac - Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
Sep 28, 2011
In this game, you can…
- take a dead cat that gives you 9 lives, but each life comes back with only one heart.
- trade your heart containers to the Devil for power after a boss, or refuse and try for an Angel offer later.
- pick up a treasure item and have your body and attacks mutate, like homing shots or poisonous explosions.
- escape into a basement after your mom hears God demand a sacrifice, then fight through floors of monsters to face her.
- walk into a room, get locked in, and either clear every enemy or spend a bomb to blast a way out.
- stack item combos that suddenly turn a miserable run into an absurd, screen-filling death machine.
- use bombs to uncover secret rooms and hidden paths tucked into the floor's layout.
- start seeing new characters, floors, bosses, and items unlock after wins, so the game keeps expanding instead of ending.
8暖雪 Warm Snow - 'Warm Snow' is a Rogue-like action game with a background set in a dark fantasy world, where the eerie 'Warm Snow' holds sway. You will play as the Warrior 'Bi-an' on a crusade against the Five Great Clans, in order to save a world teetering on the brink of destruction.
Jan 18, 2022
In this game, you can…
- turn your swords into wine, soak enemies with it, then ignite the alcohol so the blades start doing damage.
- remove your dash for extra stats, then use a gourd to douse enemies in alcohol and keep igniting whole crowds.
- block specific relics and swords in the hub so future drops are more likely to feed the build you want.
- launch flying swords that hunt the nearest enemy, then recall them all at once for an explosive hit.
- put the same relic in different slots and have it become a completely different power each time.
- build around parrying so a perfect parry instantly chains into brutal sword-dash attacks.
- choose how many flying swords to fire to set up a "break," then rush in and recall them for a different effect.
- stack elemental effects so applying one element boosts the others, then turn fire into true damage that also poisons.
9Titan Quest Anniversary Edition - For its 10 year anniversary, Titan Quest will shine in new splendour. This Anniversary Edition combines both Titan Quest and Titan Quest Immortal Throne in one game, and has been given a massive overhaul for the ultimate ARPG experience.
Aug 31, 2016
In this game, you can…
- see a monster wearing a flaming bow, focus it down, and loot that exact bow off its corpse.
- hit level 8, pick a second mastery, and fuse into a totally new hybrid class mid-run.
- smash enemies so hard they ragdoll over buildings and tumble into canyons.
- collect relics and charms, assemble full sets, then socket them into gear to create custom stat combos.
- replay the same campaign on higher difficulties to unlock bosses and legendary loot that don't appear on normal.
- fight through mythology set pieces like Cerberus, the Minotaur, Medusa, the Hydra, and the depths of Hades.
- run the whole loot-and-boss-hunting campaign in co-op, repeating routes together for drops and upgrades.
10Unheard - Voices of Crime - What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?
Mar 28, 2019
In this game, you can…
- solve an entire crime by listening to voices and ambient sounds, with no characters to control and no visuals to rely on.
- start hearing one side of a phone call, then jump to another room to catch the other side and reveal who's really talking.
- track anonymous moving dots on a map, match them to voices, then shadow the people you've identified across every room they enter.
- rewind time, switch rooms on a floorplan, and hear the same moment from another angle until the conversation finally makes sense.
- follow one person through a scene, then rewind and follow someone else to catch the exact moment their stories secretly intersect.
- drop timestamped notes on the timeline so you can instantly jump back to a suspicious line, a confession, or a clue you heard earlier.
- untangle a single dense recording where multiple people try to steal one painting, and the real artwork's location keeps flipping as you replay it.
