Best Touch-Friendly Games on Steam
Games designed to work well with touchscreens, taps, swipes, and simple gestures.
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1Bloons 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.
2Sid Meier's Civilization® V - Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Sep 21, 2010
In this game, you can…
- open your borders to Gandhi, then watch him pillage your land, annex cities, denounce you, and launch nukes anyway.
- send a nuclear fleet across the world, punch through a submarine blockade, fire the warheads, then drop XCOM squads to seize the top superpower's capital before the space race ends.
- absorb a nearby city-state instantly, then trigger a chain-reaction war where your allies help wipe out an empire.
- start in 4000 BC with one settler and build a world empire.
- win wars by pure positioning, using terrain choke points while cities shoot enemies from two tiles away.
- bribe leaders and city-states into alliances until a few denouncements turn into a globe-spanning world war.
- fight late-game resource wars where uranium decides everything, nuclear subs blockade coasts, cruisers break through, and XCOM drops capture capitals.
- race two victories at once, then lose one turn before winning because another nation hits a different win condition first.
- build famous wonders in completely wrong places, like the Great Pyramids in Honolulu or the Great Wall of Portugal.
3Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition - Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
May 5, 2009
In this game, you can…
- play a mode where you control the zombies, choose your horde, and break through cardboard plants to eat the brains.
- create your own custom zombie and sometimes see it wandering around in the actual attacking hordes.
- beat the final boss, then watch the zombies you fought all game perform a full ending music video together.
- plant sunflowers to generate sun, then spend it to build a defensive lineup before the next wave reaches your house.
- fight on lawns that turn into night fog, pool lanes, and a rooftop, forcing you to rethink where every plant goes.
- drop a cherry bomb to instantly erase a packed lane and flip a losing wave into a win.
- replay the whole campaign with the full plant roster, but have three of your plant picks randomly chosen for you.
- smash open vases to reveal hidden plants and zombies, then rebuild your defense on the fly based on what you found.
4Cookie Clicker - An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Sep 1, 2021
In this game, you can…
- trigger a grandma apocalypse where grandmas mutate into monsters and merge with the world, then contain and repurpose the fallout.
- turn light into cookies with prisms, pull shipments from other planets, and start harvesting cookies from other dimensions.
- time golden cookie spawns so two huge buffs overlap, then ride the surge into a Legacy reset and a prestige ascension tree.
- start by clicking one cookie, then end up running farms, banks, temples, wizard towers, and portals to the Cookieverse.
- wait for a sugar lump to ripen for a day, then spend it to level buildings and unlock new upgrades and achievements.
- train a cookie dragon to hold two auras at once, then pair it with wizard-tower spells to supercharge your best buff combos.
- mutate garden plants by arranging plots in specific patterns, breeding new plants that boost your production in different ways.
5Clicker Heroes - Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
May 13, 2015
In this game, you can…
- set things up before bed, and the game keeps progressing and earning gold even while you're away or the computer is off.
- cash in an entire run by ascending, lose your progress, and come back with hero souls that make you permanently stronger.
- start hunting special bosses past zone 100 that can drop hero souls, and every tenth boss can gild a random hero for a big bonus.
- hire heroes who keep killing monsters while you stop clicking.
- hit a boss wall with a 30-second timer, then farm the previous zone until you come back strong enough to break through.
- plan whole runs around leveling ancients and outsiders, spending hero souls to specialize in huge clicks, huge idle damage, or long-lasting skills.
- trigger clickstorm to auto-fire 10 clicks per second for 30 seconds, then use that burst to punch through a boss timer.
- send mercenaries on missions to bring back rubies, then revive them all later as a long-term completion goal.
6Game Dev Tycoon - In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.
Aug 29, 2013
In this game, you can…
- build your own game console and release games on your own platform.
- have piracy become an in-game disaster that can wreck your sales on a cracked version.
- spend millions on a custom engine for a risky genre mashup, watch it flop, then save the studio by rushing out a safe sequel.
- start in a garage, make tiny games, and grow into a full studio with a real team.
- turn one hit into a long-running franchise by cranking out sequels until it carries your whole company.
- release a game too early, ship it full of bugs, and watch your fans turn on you immediately.
- research new tech, invent new game types, and keep expanding what your studio can build over decades of industry history.
- run multiple teams so one maintains an online game while another builds a brand-new project.
7The Room - A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.
Jul 28, 2014
In this game, you can…
- use a strange eyepiece to reveal hidden markings, invisible clues, and a second layer of reality behind the shadows.
- open a cast-iron safe that keeps revealing another locked layer underneath, until the whole game is peeling back one impossible box.
- watch a normal-looking object unfold into a larger contraption, then warp into shapes that feel physically impossible yet still solvable.
- manually turn keys, slide panels, pull lids, and crank mechanisms like you're handling a real puzzle box.
- twist one dial and trigger a chain reaction: gears whirr, pieces rotate, a hatch slides open, and the new compartment is another puzzle.
- rebuild a seemingly simple inventory item early on, then carry it across chapters as it keeps unlocking new uses and meanings.
- rotate and zoom the contraption, then realize the solution was on the other side the whole time.
8Mini Motorways - Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?
Jul 20, 2021
In this game, you can…
- delete roads to reclaim pieces, but you have to wait for cars to clear the lane first.
- use "dummy" roads to block off empty space and influence where new houses and destinations can spawn.
- play daily and weekly challenges with special rule twists, including modes where roads become permanent and planning is final.
- reroute an entire city while cars keep driving.
- get a random set of upgrades each week—bridges, tunnels, roundabouts, motorways, or traffic lights—and build around whatever shows up.
- drop a motorway as an instant bypass, then watch both entrances become the new choke points you have to rebuild around.
- save limited bridges and tunnels for the exact moment rivers or mountains force your hand.
- push a run into the thousands of trips, where the map keeps zooming out and every new spawn forces a layout rethink.
9Machinarium - Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
Oct 16, 2009
In this game, you can…
- earn the in-game hint book by beating a little side-scrolling shooter instead of just getting a walkthrough.
- reshape your robot body to grow tall, shrink down, or flatten to reach different places.
- electrocute a cat, stuff it into a pipe, scare out a mouse, and use the chaos to make someone toss you a needed part.
- solve puzzles with no dialogue, using thought bubbles, pictograms, and little silent animations to explain everything.
- idle long enough to trigger tiny nostalgic flashback scenes of the hero and his girlfriend.
- beat a bar robot at five-in-a-row by placing pieces in weird spots to bait its one-end-only blocks.
- pedal an exercise bike to recharge a generator so you can retry an arcade challenge.
- die to a timed bomb once, then get thrown back right before it with what you learned and a chance to defuse it properly.
10Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed Collection - Compete across land, water and air in incredible transforming vehicles that change from cars to boats to planes mid-race.
Jan 31, 2013
In this game, you can…
- watch a port race turn into a disaster as an airship crashes, the course floods into a river, mines churn up waves, and the final lap has you flying through burning wreckage.
- race on tracks that reshape each lap, so lap two and three become totally new routes.
- choose your route by staying a boat on the water or taking a ramp to become a plane and commit to the sky path.
- get thrown off a cliff and turn your car into a jet mid-drop.
- pull off barrel rolls and flips in mid-air, then land to trigger a boost and keep the speed chain going.
- race mission modes where the rules change completely, like only staying alive on the clock by drifting, boosting, or flying through rings.
- play Capture the Chao, where you grab the objective, carry it to a dropoff, and opponents can ram you to steal it.
- hear the announcer call out specific feats like finishing a clean lap or landing a long-range hit, like you just got a medal.
