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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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

DED

DED - a game in the shoot'em up genre. Your granddaughter has been kidnapped, and your daughter and son-in-law murdered. Having just bits and pieces of information about the abductors, you will have to save your granddaughter and find the masterminds behind these crimes.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 03 Mar 2017

Dungeon Painter Studio

Dungeon Painter Studio is a powerful encounter map design tool, with a lot of features: Layers and groups Easy import of custom art Easy export to roll20, FG, TS, and other VTT All objects are editable Filters (Drop Shadow, Glow, Bevel, Tint...) One click D20 random generator dungeons import Export to multipage pdf for print 1 inch, 1.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 26 Feb 2017

Impulse of War

Stop! You haven't captured the train yet? Didn't build a base and haven't mastered the planet? I won't jump from a springboard to take the flag! I'll be waiting for you!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.2
Release 24 Feb 2017

Dropzone

Dropzone is a game of action, strategy and skill. Win 15 minute battles by scoring points. Unlock gear, customize your squad of up to 3 Units and compete in Team 3v3, 2v2 or 1v1 matches. Lay claim to the riches of Europa!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 15 Feb 2017

Tale of Fallen Dragons

This is a dungeon crawler game with roguelike elements based on Ancient Chinese story. Under the Fallen Dragons Temple, you`ll fight with various dragons which all have different shapes. The art style is based on real artifacts from China, we hope you could experience a different style of our culture.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 06 Feb 2017

ANIMALITY

ANIMALITY is a skill based animal runner game, the goal of the game is to avoid dragons and demons all whilst trying to grab life gems, either do this singleplayer or with your friend in local multiplayer co-op, you can collect 9 fabulous pixel art animals which are purchased using your running cash!

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 02 Feb 2017

VRChat

Join our growing community as you explore, play, and help craft the future of social VR. Create worlds and custom avatars. Welcome to VRChat.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 01 Feb 2017

BIGFOOT

You are a Bigfoot hunter with an important mission: to put an end to rumours once and for all and prove to yourself that Bigfoot is not just a myth or an invention of the mind...

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 31 Jan 2017

Warcube

Become the WARCUBE. Crush your enemies, siege castles, and bring glory to your six-sided self! These cubes were made for battle, not building.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 27 Jan 2017

Guild Quest

You’ve just bought yourself a new island and it’s time to fill it up with QUESTS! Collect guildians, upgrade their guildhalls, and unleash them onto your own custom quest lines.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 26 Jan 2017

Low Magic Age

Adventure and fight in a medieval fantasy open world! Build heroic characters with various abilities, travel through villages, cities, or perilous dungeons. Strategic turn-based combat system and advanced character building - Fog of war, charging and flanking, and more in the fast-paced Arena mode.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 10 Jan 2017

Art of War: Red Tides

Art of War: Red Tides is a fair multiplayer strategy game that allows different teams on the same platform (e.g. smartphones, PC, etc.) to battle against each other. You will encounter players around the world!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 22 Dec 2016

Prominence Poker

Welcome to Prominence Poker, a card game that pits players from around the world against each other – and devious AI – to build the rep, prestige, and bankroll needed to be, and beat, the best of the best.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 12 Dec 2016

Gods and Idols

Take the role of a newly ascended deity in Gods and Idols. Carve your place among the stars in an open, dynamic, and massive MMORTS universe. Command the powers of the cosmos, form alliances, and use your worshipers as instruments to further your goals.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 12 Dec 2016

Exoplanet: First Contact

Build your path in this alien world. Do a dirty job for food or become the one who makes calls. Sometimes the right word makes a bigger impact than a big gun. Explore local culture and mysteries, and discover the harsh yet beautiful nature in this handcrafted singleplayer action RPG.

Price -13% 16.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 09 Dec 2016

Junk Jack

Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 30 Nov 2016

Drunkn Bar Fight

Drunkn Bar Fight is a simple, immersive, silly, rowdy game. Now with 4 player Co-op! The only limits to the mayhem is your imagination and your moral decency.

Price 11.59€
Rating 7.3
Release 28 Nov 2016

Planet Explorers

Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.1
Release 08 Nov 2016

EmergeNYC

EmergeNYC is a simulation of New York City's Emergency Services. Drive over 30 different Emergency Vehicles with up to 32 of your friends through busy City Streets with blazing sirens and air horns. Take the role of a firefighter, medic, or police officer and ride with your friends to emergencies

Price 20.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 03 Nov 2016

Subsistence

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Price -20% 11.03€
Rating 7.1
Release 25 Oct 2016

WARSHIFT

Unique mix of Action, RTS and RPG gameplay elements that forms an innovative game genre. You can build base, manage troops, and then come down to keep your enemy at gunpoint in the dynamic battle and customize your main characters.

Price 8.19€
Rating 6.8
Release 12 Oct 2016

Diesel Guns

"Diesel Guns"- is an Arcade Multiplayer Online Car Combat (AMOCC) game set to deliver the same thrill you remember from classic AMOCCs like „Twisted Metal“ and „Vigilante 8“.

Price 6.59€
Rating 6.5
Release 22 Sep 2016

Stellar Tactics

A Sci-Fi role-playing game featuring turn-based ground combat, space exploration, deep character customization and a massive living universe with over 160,000 star systems. Equip your ships with the best equipment you can find, gather a powerful crew of mercenaries and set out into the void!

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.8
Release 22 Sep 2016

TOXIKK™

FRAG LIKE IT'S 1999! TOXIKK plays as if today's military shooters never existed: Designed as a spiritual successor to the FPS giants of the late 90s and early 2ks, TOXIKK carefully evolves their mechanics with modern technology and fresh ideas elaborated with Arena-FPS enthusiasts.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Sep 2016

PRINCIPIA: Master of Science

Principia: Master of Science is a simulation game with the theme of European science in 17th century. Choose one of 12 real scientists from the era of Isaac Newton and proceed with your research. It is a time when even the term "Science" did not exist. Who can be the master of science?

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 09 Sep 2016

How to Survive 2

Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.

Price -84% 2.45€
Rating 6.8
Release 08 Sep 2016

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Sep 2016

Star Crusade CCG

Star Crusade: War for the Expanse is a free-to-play, online, digital collectible card game (CCG) based in a richly styled sci-fi universe, where each player takes command of one of the six factions vying for supremacy in an unclaimed exotic sector of space.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 07 Sep 2016

Aim Hero

Aim Hero is an ultimate solution for practicing firing accuracy to do better in FPS games.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 05 Sep 2016

Master of Orion

The ascendant spacefaring 4X strategy game returns! A new chapter in the epic Master of Orion saga is poised to once again capture the imaginations of millions of gamers.

Price 20.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 25 Aug 2016

Automobilista

AUTOMOBILISTA places you in the driving seat of an advanced racing simulator, featuring elite brazilian racing series along with a wide range of racing vehicles and international tracks for a uniquely diverse motorsports experience.

Price -96% 1.00€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Aug 2016

AdVenture Communist

The world's greatest communism simulator!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 23 Aug 2016

Half Dead

Half dead is a multiplayer sci-fi game about a violent TV show. The players' goal is to survive in a network of rooms full of traps.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 01 Aug 2016

Ratz Instagib

Shoot first, eat cheese later! Jump into a fast, frenetic and exciting one-hit, one-kill FPS arena shooter with a totally level playing field, tonnes of maps, customisation and a robust map editor!

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 27 Jul 2016

RoShamBo

Welcome to RoShamBo arena! A brand new FREE arena fighting game, based on a classic rock-paper-scissors! Choose your character out of dozens unique looks, customize your gear, fight other players, knock their teeth out and become the best in RoShamBo Arena!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.2
Release 14 Jul 2016

RWBY: Grimm Eclipse

RWBY: GRIMM ECLIPSE is a 4 player, online co-op, hack and slash game based upon Rooster Teeth’s international hit series RWBY.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 05 Jul 2016

Zaccaria Pinball

Play free and try tables in trial mode with Zaccaria Pinball, featuring 140+ tables, including 40+ officially licensed from Zaccaria was founded by three brothers: Marino, Franco, & Natale. Zaccaria was the world’s 3rd largest pinball manufacturer, next to Bally & Williams. Relive the golden age.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 16 Jun 2016

Emporea: Realms of War and Magic

Emporea is an oldschool fantasy strategy game, where cooperation with other players is necessary to achieve victory. Only the best alliance can win! Multiple realms available, with new ones starting every two weeks.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 08 Jun 2016

The Way of Life Free Edition

The Way of Life makes the player relive the same life's experiences from the point of view of three characters of different ages: an adult, an old man and a child.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 31 May 2016

Shoppe Keep

Run an adventurers shop – a serious business in a fantasy environment. Stock your store with dangerous weapons, fancy hats, sturdy armour and magical potions.

Price 3.99€
Rating 6.1
Release 20 May 2016

Who's Your Daddy?!

Who's Your Daddy is a casual multiplayer game featuring a clueless father attempting to prevent his infant son from certain death. Play with up to 7 of your friends, and test your parenting skills in a competitive setup with wacky physics and over 69 potentially ominous household items.

Price 6.89€
Rating 7.9
Release 13 May 2016

Dead Effect 2

Dead Effect 2 is the newest addition to the acclaimed Dead Effect franchise. This action sci-fi shooter is looking to push the boundaries of first-person shooters to new levels with slick graphics, rich narrative and RPG elements.

Price 11.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 06 May 2016

Fantasy Tales Online

Fantasy Tales Online is a retro MMORPG where you must form parties, collect gear, fight through dungeons and defeat bosses. Featuring puzzles, a rich item system and complex encounters. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill grindfest MMO title!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 05 May 2016

Glitchspace

Glitchspace is about reprogramming the game to solve puzzles. Trapped in an abstract cyberspace world, your way forward uses visual programming to edit environmental geometry, whilst unlocking key programming concepts along the way.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 05 May 2016

Flesh Eaters

Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead

Price -20% 3.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 03 May 2016

Snooker Nation Championship

Dream of playing in the World Snooker Championship? Indulge your snooker fix, and play along with the televised version of the sport with Snooker Nation Championship

Price -70% 1.19€
Rating 6.1
Release 27 Apr 2016

Wayward

You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.2
Release 22 Apr 2016