Seems a bit overwhelming at first, but it is very quick and easy.

After using a few quick tutorials you can quickly catch on to the event system this program uses and quickly be able to build any type of 2D game you want. You can download a few sprites from google and put together a working level of Mega Man with character movement / animation / enemies / collision detection / scoring / Tile map and AI within about 2 hours.

The built in behaviors are incredible. It's amazing how Construct can simplify the most redundant tasks in game development.

Construct's powerful 'Event System' allows you to make thing happen without code. Example: When Space is Pressed -> Player Jumps.

Behaviors add pre-packaged functionality to object types.

Basic sprites and tiles of 2D games can be made with engine's built-in tools.

Construct 2 is fast to pick up, get into, and belt out some pretty impressive games in a relatively small amount of time. Seems to be built for people who don't have a lot of programming skills, but want to make great games.

Using Construct 2 requires very little programming knowledge because it's all drag'n'drop, intuitive, visual and event-driven instead of code-only.

You can also download Construct 2 on Steam.

You can use Cordova plugins from the community.

It's a one off cost for Construct 2 and all updates to the Construct 2 editor are free for life.

Construct 2 has a supportive community. Their forums have tens of thousands of topics with ten times more posts. The core maintainers are very helpful and friendly and often reply to questions or issues that may be discussed in the forums.

Developers provide regular updates (usually bi-weekly) with new features and bug fixes.

There are three editions of C2: Free, Personal and Business.

The Free edition has some limits in functionality, and prohibits you from making money from your C2 creations.
With the Personal edition ($129.99), you get more features and are free to make up to $5,000 with your C2 creations if you're an individual. If you haven't reached $5,000, you don't need the Business edition ($429.99). Non-profit organizations also don't need the Business edition.

After you've made $5,000, you must upgrade to the Business edition ($299.99); but once you've made $5,000, this should be easily affordable. If you're a for-profit business, you must purchase the Business edition, unless your company hasn't made $5,000 business revenue.

There is no difference in terms of features between the Personal and Business editions, just the runtime license agreement.

There is also an education license specifically for educational institutes, where they offer site licenses and take-home licenses.

Thanks to the great power of Erin Catto's Box2D, Construct 2 is able to make physics games which are similar to Cut the Rope and Angry Birds.

Construct 2 has an active plugin ecosystem providing behaviors and features that smooth the workflow for certain game types.

With spriter file implementation and internal animation editor Construct 2 provides an easy way of creating particles and animations.

All platform exporters are part of the subscription. There are no additional fees and new exporters are added quickly and maintained well. Currently, 15 platforms are supported, including HMTL 5, iOS, Android, Windows, Chrome Store, PhoneGap and Scirra.

A free version of Construct 2 is available. It's not time restricted in any way, but is feature limited.

Construct 2's event system allows for deep, detailed control over all aspects of your game. You aren't limited to just a few options. Rather, Scirra has thought of nearly everything in advance with access to any desired parameter of any object all paired with simple and intuitive ways to interact with them. Your events can be organized with event sheets (that can be included in other sheets), event groups, sub-events, loops, and functions that make the coding portion of your game as efficient as possible. You don't need any programming knowledge, but if you do have some, you'll feel right at home with the freedom C2 offers.

This engine provides an intuitive workflow for people that are used to the Windows environment.

The developers are always available to help.

Can use cameras in PCs and on mobiles. You can use the synthesis that can recognize your speech or you can write something and it can talk for you.

Construct 2 uses WebRTC technology to support it's multiplayer functionality. The nature of the technology allows peer-to-peer connection which does not require game developer to create server side architecture to allow communication between games.

Performs well on most devices and browsers.

In Construct 2 you can preview your games instantly at any time. There’s no need to wait for compiling or other time consuming processes.

Construct 2 is a tool for not just programmers, but artists as well. You can create a game with only visual coding, which is easy to learn and doesn't require any previous programming knowledge. You can focus on making your game better instead of just coding. It has some limitations of course, but it's definitely worth it.

The tilemap object allows tile-based games to be designed more easily. The object's tilemap can also be edited in the layout view using the tilemap bar.