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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Tank Force: Online Shooter Game

Tank Force - the coolest free online tank shooter! This is a new word in online tank battles, which combines the best qualities of a tank simulator and thrilling arcade battles.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.5
Release 23 Oct 2017

Cogmind

Cogmind is a sci-fi roguelike epic in which you play a robot building yourself from components found or salvaged from other robots. Explore a living, breathing world through turn-based tactical combat, or sneak, hack, and fly your way to victory.

Price 24.50€
Rating 9.2
Release 16 Oct 2017

Computer Tycoon

Computer Tycoon is a fairly complex Business Grand Strategy game about Computer Evolution. Start in the 70s, invent until 2034, create the best computer systems, upgrade your infrastructure, lead a team, and alter computer history! It is time to "Think Different"

Price -20% 13.43€
Rating 8.1
Release 12 Oct 2017

Press X to Not Die

A ridiculous live-action B-movie adventure you will never forget! You wake up to find your town in chaos. Everyone has gone crazy and is just attacking each other! A cryptic message is the secret to survival-- Press X to not die!

Price -75% 0.74€
Rating 8.7
Release 06 Oct 2017

Project Nimbus: Complete Edition

Project Nimbus is a high speed mech action game set in a post apocalyptic world. Players control 'Battle Frames' - humanoid battle suits armed with an arsenal of weapons.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.2
Release 26 Sep 2017

Ratty Catty

Ratty Catty is a Multiplayer / CO-OP hide & seek game about the adventures of a domestic cat Catty and hazel dormouse Ratty, who eats the foods in the house, feeds its babies, and lives in a small rat nest.

Price 14.79€
Rating 6.4
Release 19 Sep 2017

Eternity Warriors VR

Packed with classical action game essences, high-definition visual, and real-time multiplayer features.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 17 Sep 2017

Oriental Empires

Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.

Price 28.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Sep 2017

Fugl

Soar with the wind as a shape-shifting bird. Explore worlds teeming with life. Discover and morph into hundreds of animal species. Relax and enjoy the freedom of Fugl.

Price -50% 4.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 14 Sep 2017

FPV Drone Simulator

This FPV Drone Simulator is especially designed for practicing your drone flying skills! Fly in different environments. Choose 'abandoned factory', 'free ride' or 'fantasy forest'.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.3
Release 09 Sep 2017

Pixel Gladiator

Distant future… Brutal gladiatorial battles is a top-rated show, extremely popular all over the Universe. You’ve been sent to the abandoned planet as one of the participants of the show. Your goal is to survive as long as possible, fighting back deadly creatures in the focus of billions of viewers.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 08 Sep 2017

红石遗迹 - Red Obsidian Remnant

A Roguelike gameplay and action system combined dungeon game.

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 04 Sep 2017

ARK: Survival Evolved

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 27 Aug 2017

Robocraft

Build insane, fully customisable robot battle vehicles that drive, hover, walk and fly in the free-to-play action game Robocraft. Add weapons from the future and jump in the driving seat as you take your creation into battle against other players online!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 24 Aug 2017

Castle Story

Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

Price 9.75€
Rating 6.3
Release 17 Aug 2017

Shark Dating Simulator XL+

Shark Dating Simulator XL+ is a quick-to-play comedy visual novel with colorful cartoon characters and a multiple choice storyline with consequences for your actions. The only thing for sure is that at some point you'll make it with a shark girl. Go you!

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 14 Aug 2017

Gangs of Space

Gangs of Space is a massively-multiplayer Rogue Shmup where Gangs of players compete for the conquest of the galaxy.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Aug 2017

Time Lock VR 1

TimeLock VR is an Escape the Room with Action elements where you take control over the time!

Price 11.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 09 Aug 2017

Demise of Nations

Demise of Nations is a 4X turn-based grand strategy wargame covering the rise of Rome till the fall of modern civilization.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 08 Aug 2017

Party Panic

Party Panic is an online and local-multiplayer party game. Compete against your friends in the all new board game, play 30+ rapid fire minigames, race through the brutal Gauntlet, or complete the challenges on Trophy Island. There is even a built in drinking game! You'll laugh, you'll cry, it's stupid.

Price 13.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 07 Aug 2017

Slime Rancher

Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Price 18.99€
Rating 9.7
Release 01 Aug 2017

The Long Dark

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Price 16.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 01 Aug 2017

Sky Knights

Prove your skills as a pilot in this action-packed multiplayer dogfighting game. Take part in 4 vs 4 battles and outmaneuver opponents, master a variety of jets and weapons, support allied ground troops, and land on the runway. Only a well-orchestrated team of pilots can bring down the enemy bases.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 27 Jul 2017

SAELIG

SÆLIG is a game that blends together elements of simulation, strategy, RPG, and business management. Centred around the life of you and your family, you must try to survive and bring wealth and prosperity to your household.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.0
Release 30 Jun 2017

Zooicide

Zooicide is a casual team-based multiplayer game featuring animals fighting against humans within a playfully dangerous environment, the zoo.

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 30 Jun 2017

Colony Survival

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Price 24.95€
Rating 8.9
Release 16 Jun 2017

Orake Classic

Orake Classic is an old school, 2D tile-based ORPG featuring a variety of skills, monsters, bosses, quests, and extensive lands to explore.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 16 Jun 2017

Kindergarten

Welcome to Kindergarten! Have fun trying to learn and share...and not die. That's important too. In a school that's just not quite right, it's important to be friendly...and take out those that aren't.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 15 Jun 2017

Face It - A game to fight inner demons

Carefuly crafted puzzles in a challenging 3D plaformer take the player on a surrealistic journey through a maze of feelings. In Face It, abstract concepts are shaped into gameplay: darker emotions are monsters and traps, while brighter concepts are the powers you need to beat the levels.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 09 Jun 2017

Armed with Wings: Rearmed

You are the sword; cut down your foes with steel and thunder. You are the wings; explore the skies and uncover unreachable mysteries. Embark on a journey through a vicious world ruled by darkness and imperial tyranny - the lands of Blackmist.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 01 Jun 2017

Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator

Here is a sandbox like no other. Create massive battles with absolutely no limits. Want to see 10,000 chickens fight an army of Romans?? Sure, why not. Want to see a company of WW2 U.S soldiers fight 11,000 Medieval soldiers?? There are simply no limits to the carnage you can achieve in UEBS.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.5
Release 01 Jun 2017

Life is Feudal: Forest Village

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Price 22.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 26 May 2017

Gene Shift Auto

Gene Shift Auto is a GTA-style battle royale with roguelike build crafting. Loot, shoot, and adapt your build to create godlike synergies before the final fight.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 23 May 2017

StarCrawlers

StarCrawlers is a modern take on a classic cRPG dungeon crawler set in a gritty spacepunk universe. Build a crew of renegade adventurers on the fringes of space, taking jobs from megacorps to hunt bounties, sabotage rivals and conduct corporate espionage.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 23 May 2017

Running Through Russia

Running Through Russia - funny runner with a bunch of memes about Russia and russian people.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 21 May 2017

Ravenfield

Fight upon the Ravenfield together with your Blue allies! Take down those pesky Reds using helicopters, tanks, guns, and active ragdoll physics!

Price 17.49€
Rating 9.5
Release 18 May 2017

Portal Knights

The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 May 2017

Bounty Train

Explore the dangerous life, the accurate historic events and contemporary inventions of the North American/US 19th century. Acquire one of the most legendary steam machines and transform it into a fortress on rails.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 16 May 2017

Block'hood

Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.1
Release 10 May 2017

VR Dungeon Knight

VR Dungeon Knight is a dungeon crawler with random level generation and Online Co-op. Explore, fight monsters, loot dungeons, level up, unlock classes and become the ultimate Dungeon Knight!

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 24 Apr 2017

ONRAID

Onraid is a challenging 2D shooter game, where you are free to develop your own play style and tactics to destroy your enemies.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 18 Apr 2017

Shardbound: Forge Your Path, Master Your Strategy

Shardbound brings fast, fun, and tactical card strategy to the table! Build your deck, take control of the board, and face off in exciting battles that are as unpredictable as they are action-packed.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 06 Apr 2017

Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter

Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is a frantic arcade action FPS, featuring singleplay and co-op campaign, various multiplayer modes, all presented in glorious VR and with different locomotion movements.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.2
Release 30 Mar 2017

Pastelia Stories

"Pastelia Stories" is a turn-based JRPG. You will be summoned into Pastelia world, and here begins your wonderful journey. Explore big world just like you want, pick any out of 30 companions, chose one of the story lines and factions to find your way back home.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.2
Release 16 Mar 2017

Maximum Override

Maximum Override is a chaotic city destruction game where the machines come alive. Wreak havoc in a fully destructible randomly generated city with anything you can find.

Price 6.89€
Rating 6.4
Release 09 Mar 2017

Faeria

With its unique living board, Faeria is also the only card game where you can gain all 300 cards in less than 50 hours.

Price -80% 3.90€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 Mar 2017

Reflex Arena

Reflex is a competitive Arena FPS that combines modern tech with the speed, precision and freedom of a 90s shooter. If you sunk countless hours into the Quake or Unreal series, Reflex will feel like a welcome return of the old school shooter feel.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 Mar 2017

LEGO® Worlds

Experience a galaxy of Worlds made entirely from LEGO bricks. EXPLORE gigantic landscapes, DISCOVER countless surprises, and CREATE anything you can imagine by building with LEGO bricks.

Price 29.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 07 Mar 2017