Best Early Access games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our early access game recommendations are based on a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews. We believe that player feedback is the most reliable indicator of a game's true quality and enjoyment. Our algorithm evaluates user reviews to identify early access games that consistently deliver exceptional experiences. This means you can be confident that our lists feature only the best early access games on Steam, validated by the community itself.

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Ymir

Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age.

Price 29.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 16 Mar 2019

Wolfpack

A crew of players experience the tense atmosphere of a WW2 U-boat, manning the stations in this realistic co-op simulation game. Several crews may play together in a wolfpack, completing missions based on iconic events during the different stages of German U-boat warfare. Solo play included.

Price 29.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 15 Mar 2019

Refight:The Last Warship

It's a warship survival TPS game with an exciting Battle Royale gameplay for solo players, teams and groups alike. Search for resources while sailing on the Crisis-ridden Sea. The last player standing becomes the King of the Sea!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.2
Release 14 Mar 2019

Tavern Tycoon - Dragon's Hangover

Run your fantasy RPG tavern - let travellers take shelter for the night and serve 'em the best mead of their life with a good dose of humor.

Price -45% 5.93€
Rating 6.5
Release 11 Mar 2019

Aurora Dusk: Steam Age

An amazing mix of RPG, strategy, simulation, sandbox and survival game. Aurora Dusk looks like many other games, but instead of being alone, you live in a community. You can play one or more villagers and evolve from the Wood Age to the Steam Age.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Mar 2019

Cat Burglar: A Tail of Purrsuit

Cat Burglar is a short, light-hearted, stealth, puzzle platformer with a pet charity awareness campaign. Help Kat find her way into the Dogo Corps base to discover Major Bulls' master plan.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Mar 2019

Intruder

The ultimate spy-vs-guards simulator. Carefully sneak your way to the objective as Intruders or use the wide variety of tactical gadgets to trap your opponents as Guards. Intruder allows for stealth, teamwork, and environmental interactions never before seen in a multiplayer game.

Price -50% 8.39€
Rating 8.8
Release 01 Mar 2019

Space Engineers

Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Players build space ships, space stations, planetary outposts of various sizes and uses, pilot ships and travel through space to explore planets and gather resources to survive.

Price -55% 7.64€
Rating 8.7
Release 28 Feb 2019

Road to Eden

Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.

Price 16.79€
Rating 6.2
Release 28 Feb 2019

SERIES MAKERS TYCOON

Series Makers makes your dreams come true. Produce your own TV series and build your own TV studio with your team. Dominate the TV landscape and fight your way up for worldwide success!

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 22 Feb 2019

The Coin Game

A collection of ticket redemption arcades with realistic physics, a carnival, goofy robots, open world design, a global ranking system and silly prizes. Featuring 50+ modern inspired arcade machines and a pawn shop to keep money in your pocket. The Coin Game is made by a solo developer.

Price -30% 8.11€
Rating 9.2
Release 22 Feb 2019

Battlerite Royale

Explore the fantastical Talon Island in a thrilling fusion between a MOBA and Battle Royale game. Choose your Champion and master their unique abilities, loot for treasures alone or with a friend, and rise above the competition in a top-down action-fest. Only the best survive to the end!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 19 Feb 2019

Evospace

Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Feb 2019

RIOT: Civil Unrest

As civil crisis deepens and inequality tears the very fabric of society the discontentment of the masses manifests itself in violent public disturbances and civil disorder. Play as the police or the angry horde as RIOT – Civil Unrest places you in some of the world’s most fractious disputes.

Price 16.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 12 Feb 2019

Islet Online

Islet Online is a sandbox-style MMORPG. It is all about digging and placing bricks to build your own land. And with various materials from wildlife, bricks can be combined to make useful items, too. Whenever you act, your character gets experience.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 11 Feb 2019

Supraball

Play football in first person view and develop your own tactics and tricks. Play with up to 9 of your friends or join alone. No Pay2Win!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 08 Feb 2019

Hide and Seek

It is a very funny, fast and easy game which can be played by adults as well as children. This game has two teams that try to prevent each other from winning.

Price -25% 0.74€
Rating 6.0
Release 01 Feb 2019

Slay Together: Fantasy MMORPG

Join thousands of players in Slay Together, an action-packed MMORPG! Engage in thrilling battles, delve into dungeons with friends, and master diverse crafts like forging, woodworking, tailoring, and more!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 31 Jan 2019

Mystic Vale

Are you ready to lead your druidic clan and cleanse the Valley of Life? Mystic Vale is a stunning digital version of the Origins award-winning AEG card game. Debuting the unique Card Crafting System, players take turns building powerful combos in order to stop the curse. Play online or local hotseat.

Price -71% 3.66€
Rating 8.3
Release 31 Jan 2019

Volcanoids

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 29 Jan 2019

Derail Valley

Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.

Price 38.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 25 Jan 2019

When Ski Lifts Go Wrong

Ride into a hilarious construction puzzler; packed with over 100 creative physics-based challenges, sports and bloody disasters! Build contraptions to help every passenger reach their destination. Enjoy the sports by controlling your riders away from (or towards if you feel like it) peril!

Price -93% 1.00€
Rating 8.2
Release 23 Jan 2019

Timeflow – Life Sim

This game will make you rich! Learn the basics of investment and life management. Your goal is to make your dream come true. You can make a career, buy real estate, run business, trade stocks, become a blogger, or make a fortune on an art market. Study, network, and plan your time for all of it.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 18 Jan 2019

DESOLATE

DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.

Price 14.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 17 Jan 2019

Notes of Soul

The gleaning club is an immersive game experience hall, where you can participate in the script arranged according to the story by role playing. Or learn folk knowledge and taste strange culture, or realize the sad but warm past of the protagonist of the story.

Price 24.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 17 Jan 2019

Sopwith VR

Shoot down triplanes and attack tanks with your Sopwith biplane. Simple World War One flight combat simulator with touch controls, airfoil physics, computer-controlled opponents, and destructible environments, inspired by David L. Clark's classic DOS game from 1984.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 26 Dec 2018

Heartbound

Heartbound is a non-traditional role-playing game about a boy, his dog, secrets, and sanity.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.4
Release 24 Dec 2018

Beasts of Bermuda

Play as a dinosaur and become part of a player-created ecosystem! Beasts of Bermuda is a multiplayer game where players endure catastrophic storms and fearsome foes while growing to monstrous sizes. Do you have what it takes to survive in the Bermuda Triangle?

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 21 Dec 2018

Wrench

Wrench is a mechanic simulator where players prepare and maintain race cars. The parts in Wrench are the most detailed of any game in the genre. Extreme attention has been paid to even the smallest components, including fasteners which are accurate to the thread pitch and install torque.

Price 28.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 Dec 2018

Wild West Saga: Idle Tycoon Clicker

Wild West Saga is an idle game where you click to make money and build a business fortune! Hundreds of Towns to explore and Patent Cards to collect, dozens of Businesses to upgrade and Outlaws to hire. The end goal? To become the richest Pioneer in the Wild West! So, are you up for it?

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 18 Dec 2018

Miscreated

Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.

Price 24.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 18 Dec 2018

Nippon Marathon

Crazy, physics-driven, four-player marathon across Japan. Combining classic racers like Micro Machines and the insanity of TV's Takeshi's Castle, smash through offices and shopping malls and hurl fruit at your opponents in a party game unlike anything you've played before!

Price -85% 2.28€
Rating 8.4
Release 17 Dec 2018

Contractors

Contractors is a team-based competitive multiplayer shooter game for virtual reality devices. Experience the next level virtual warfare with hardcore controls, lethal weapons, customizable load-outs, and intense firefights. BECOME AN OPERATOR.

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 14 Dec 2018

Obenseuer

Obenseuer is an urban survival RPG game, where you become a property manager of a rundown unfinished tenement building, in an isolated quarantine district of Obenseuer. Maintain and upgrade your tenement for rent, uncover the secrets of this infamous district and grow your wealth with your craft.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.8
Release 11 Dec 2018

Evil Bank Manager

What could be better than having a million dollars, a billion? This will not make you all powerful in the world, your goal will not only be to make lots of money, but to print money and become a Federal reserve system

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 07 Dec 2018

Cows VS Vikings

You think you’ve seen everything in Stream already?! No, buddy, you never saw anything like that before! The Vikings against the cows! Show them the strength of Odin and twist their horns off!

Price 7.39€
Rating 7.9
Release 06 Dec 2018

War of Rights

War of Rights is a first person multiplayer game featuring massive 350 player battles with a focus on historical authenticity, teamplay and immersion. It is set during the perilous days of the American Civil War, in the Maryland Campaign of September, 1862.

Price 24.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 03 Dec 2018

Life Forge - Reborn ORPG

Life Forge is a Free 2D Online RPG. Take part in this sprawling adventure as you explore a massive world, gather resources to craft gear, engage in PvE and PvP, and buddy up with your friends to conquer end-game bosses!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.5
Release 26 Nov 2018

Wallpaper Engine

Use stunning live wallpapers on your desktop. Animate your own images to create new wallpapers or import videos/websites and share them on the Steam Workshop!

Price -26% 3.69€
Rating 9.7
Release 16 Nov 2018

Eternal Card Game

Six-guns and sorcery collide in Eternal, the new strategy card game of unlimited choices and unbelievable fun. Eternal brings AAA pace and polish to the infinite possibilities of a deep strategy card game. The only limits are your own creativity.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 15 Nov 2018

Reentry - A Space Flight Simulator

Do you have what it takes to be an astronaut? Reentry is a realistic space flight simulator based on NASAs space programs; from the first American human spaceflight in Project Mercury, the rendezvous and EVAs of Project Gemini to the Moon landing in Project Apollo.

Price 28.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 15 Nov 2018

The Wall

[Servers Temporarily Shut Down!] Build. Gather. Breach. The Wall is a never-before seen mix of genres, where dynamic maps, slick combat, base building, and economy management all come together.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 02 Nov 2018

Pocket Rogues

Pocket Rogues is a dynamic 2D-Roguelike with elements of Action-RPG, played entirely in real time. Raid endless dungeons, upgrade your Guild’s Fortress, and develop your own heroes!

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 25 Oct 2018

Rogalia

Rogalia is the sandbox with fantasy open world, meal-based character leveling, nice graphics and cozy atmosphere.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 15 Oct 2018

G2 Fighter / 基因特工

G2 FIGHTER is a Low Poly, third-person ARPG. Gameplay includes not only fast-paced shooting, but also role play, team fight, base construction and so many other elements. Step on unknown journey with Bern Pierron to seek for the truth of this chaos world.

Price -34% 8.75€
Rating 7.7
Release 12 Oct 2018

Mashinky

Mashinky is a transport strategy game about trains. The goal is to create your own transport empire on a procedurally generated map. It’s a unique blend of realistic graphics combined with an isometric construction mode and board game-like rules.

Price -15% 19.43€
Rating 8.1
Release 06 Oct 2018

Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution

Play with evolution! Species: ALRE is a scientifically-grounded, emergent simulation of natural selection. Creatures evolve and speciate in response to in-game mutation and selection forces, allowing you to experience and tinker with evolution in real-time.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.2
Release 28 Sep 2018

Cine Tracer

Cine Tracer is a realistic cinematography simulator. The player operates real world based cameras, sets up lights, and directs talent/actors in stunning next gen environments created in Unreal Engine 4.

Price 75.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 28 Sep 2018