Best Tutorial Games on Steam
Games or software focused on teaching mechanics, workflows, skills, or concepts.
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1Stormworks: Build and Rescue - Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
Sep 17, 2020
In this game, you can…
- pump water out of an airlock 200 meters underwater, juggling fluid pressure until the chamber clears.
- build a missile that loiters around a waypoint until a target appears, then guides itself in for a strike.
- use radar automation to coordinate an automatic drone firefighter swarm as a tiny robotic emergency fleet.
- design your own air-sea rescue fleet, then take it into storms to fight fires, repair oil rigs, and run power stations.
- wire a full command center with cameras, live monitors, and radios you built, then run the whole vehicle remotely.
- iterate a boat through failures until it becomes a 200+ km/h hydrofoil that outruns most multiplayer craft.
- design a pipeline that flexes with waves, locks together, and feeds an oil rig while a tug boat holds everything in place.
- fly a helicopter through heavy winds and land it in rough seas, where the waves are big enough to punish bad design.
2Granblue Fantasy: Relink - A grand adventure in the skies awaits! Form a party of four from a diverse roster of skyfarers and slash—or shoot or hex—your way to victory against treacherous foes in this action RPG. Take on quests solo or with the help of others in up to 4-player co-op play!
Jan 31, 2024
In this game, you can…
- time all four ultimates at once to interrupt the boss and detonate a single massive team burst.
- build Link Attacks until Link Time triggers, slows everything down, buffs the party, and lets everyone unload together.
- play solo with CPU allies who dodge, revive you, and use support skills well enough to feel like a real squad.
- fight a god on a flying ship in the opening minutes.
- cancel almost any attack into a dodge or guard to keep your combo alive.
- wait out a boss's hyper-aggressive phase, then counter into a stagger and get a long window to freely punish.
- switch to a completely different combat style by recruiting a new crewmate, then rebuild how you approach every boss fight.
- finish the story, then unlock harder modes where the real loop is farming bosses, tuning builds, and pushing faster clears.
3Post Void - Post Void is a hypnotic scramble of early first-person shooter design that values speed above all else. Keep your head full and reach the end; Kill what you can to see it mend; Get the high score or try again.
Aug 6, 2020
In this game, you can…
- carry an idol in your left hand that's both your life bar and your timer, then refill it only by killing enemies.
- stack upgrades like ricocheting bullets and explosive enemies until you're firing into crowds and destruction cascades across the room.
- slide through corridors and land headshots while aiming backward.
- sprint through short levels, hit an oasis breather, pick one of three random upgrades, then launch into an even harder stretch.
- keep yourself alive by killing at exactly the right pace so the idol refills faster than time and enemy hits drain it.
- switch between runs where you blast hordes with a shotgun and runs where you go knife-only and survive on the edge of death.
- chain headshots that instantly buy you more time and keep the run alive.
4BlazBlue Centralfiction - Combining a 2D fighting game with a visual novel, the BlazBlue series continues on with massive fan support! The latest installation, BlazBlue: Centralfiction, serves as the ending to the Azure Saga, revealing the hidden truth of the world!
Apr 25, 2017
In this game, you can…
- push yourself, your projectiles, and even the opponent around mid-fight with a wind button and a direction.
- magnetize your opponent so your moves start dragging them toward you for grabs and follow-ups.
- run a 100-fight gauntlet where wins give you buffs, and you assemble those buffs into a boss run that becomes a route-planning puzzle.
- turn on Stylish and mash one button to auto-chain big damage combos after you land a hit.
- build a long combo, reset them on purpose, then cash out into a cinematic super or a round-ending finisher.
- pick characters with wildly specific gimmicks like a sister-machine, a bug-spewing blob, or robots that can combo from across the screen.
- bounce around on a spring pogo stick and smack people with a frying pan as a full fighting style.
5Age of Mythology: Retold - Play as mythological Gods and smite your enemies in this award-winning, mythological Real-Time Strategy classic given new life. Wage war across timeless campaigns, fierce skirmishes, and god-powered multiplayer modes.
Sep 4, 2024
In this game, you can…
- reuse god powers by spending Favor, so you can keep dropping lightning, quakes, meteors, tornadoes, teleports, and mass resurrections.
- summon the trees themselves and watch a forest get up and fight.
- march a Titan into the ocean and have it swim to the next shore.
- fight land, sea, and air battles at the same time in one match.
- field much larger armies now, turning late-game fights into massive clashes.
- play a 50-mission myth campaign that jumps from the Trojan War to the underworld, then races to stop a god's resurrection.
- run a 35-skirmish gauntlet as a legendary hero, taking on divine challenges with escalating difficulty.
- use an editor tool that can transform units into other units, letting you script custom myth battles without rebuilding everything from scratch.
6GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2 - Astonishing 3D cell animations and overwhelming content volume, the next-generation fighting game "GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2" is now out on Steam! Total cast of 25 unique characters, and tons of game modes, get ready to ROCK!
Dec 14, 2016
In this game, you can…
- wrap yourself in a blanket, sink into the floor, and pop out of a door on the other side of the stage.
- spend meter mid-attack to cancel what you're doing, extend a combo, or suddenly stop and do something else.
- hang out in an arcade-like lobby as a little avatar, line up at cabinets, chat, emote, and kick a soccer ball while waiting.
- learn the basics through tutorial mini-games where you fight the instructor's minions instead of reading walls of text.
- turn one opening into a whole sequence, only for a single defensive burst to blow it up and reset the fight unless you bait it.
- switch into a scalpel stance that lets you bounce around like a signpost and lash out with a long-range tongue attack.
- take fights airborne constantly with jumps, double jumps, air dashes, and character-specific movement that keeps both players off the ground.
- watch the story as a full in-engine anime movie with long cinematic cutscenes and dramatic camera work.
- build absurd character dioramas in a digital figure mode by posing models and arranging scenes like a toybox.
7Tetris® Effect: Connected - Tetris® Effect: Connected adds an all-new robust multiplayer expansion to the huge variety of addictive and innovative single-player modes that Tetris Effect is known for, with all-new co-op and competitive online and local multiplayer modes!
Aug 17, 2021
In this game, you can…
- stop time and freeze falling pieces to escape a near game over.
- link three players' boards into one giant shared field and fight an AI boss together, then split back apart and keep building.
- join weekly matches where one player becomes the boss and everyone else teams up to take them down.
- freeze time, keep placing, then unfreeze into a huge line-clear payout.
- turn one-on-one matches into a time-stopping duel where you bank giant clears, then swing the round in a single release.
- play a stage where every move and rotation triggers piano notes, so your stacking becomes the music.
- play a full classic NES Tetris recreation inside the same game.
- host matches where up to eight people are in the room, and spectators can jump in with emotes during the game.
- matchmake and play co-op or versus with friends across different platforms.
8Software 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
9Race The Sun - You are a solar-powered craft. The sun is your death timer. Hurtle towards the sunset at breakneck speed in a futile race against time. Delay the inevitable by catching speed boosts which reverse the setting sun - if only for a moment. Don't crash, stay in the light, and don't slow down!
Dec 9, 2013
In this game, you can…
- race a solar-powered craft where the setting sun is your death timer.
- grab a speed boost that shoves the sun back up for a moment.
- hit world portals that toss you into entirely different user-created worlds mid-run.
- play a world that regenerates every 24 hours, so yesterday's route can betray you today.
- take challenge missions like finishing a region while only turning left.
- unlock upgrades like extra battery life, power-up storage, and a one-time resurrection.
- switch into Apocalypse mode where obstacles come faster and tighter.
- enter Labyrinth mode to slow everything down and navigate a maze-like course.
- use a level editor and Workshop maps to race through space, underwater, or stranger custom worlds.
10Öoo - A Bomb Caterpillar's Big Adventure! "Öoo" is a charming yet mysterious exploration puzzle platformer where you discover creative ways to use bombs!
Aug 7, 2025
In this game, you can…
- play as a caterpillar made of bombs.
- cross gaps and climb platforms by placing a bomb, then detonating it to launch yourself.
- feed a fly to a frog blocking the way by using bomb movement to manipulate the environment.
- get funneled into a dead end, warp back to the start, and use the bomb trick the level quietly taught you to break through.
- unlock a second bomb and suddenly have way more ways to solve the same room.
- reach a dead end, warp back, and turn what you just learned into the shortcut that opens the blocked route.
- use bomb jumps to redraw how nearby rooms connect, turning "separate" areas into one quick loop.
