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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DUCKSIDE

Imagine DayZ or Rust but you're a duck. A persistent world survival game with PVP, PVE, crafting, base building and hat wearing ducks, wielding weapons.

Price -35% 9.61€
Rating 7.3
Release 25 Sep 2024

The Forever Winter

March Update is here! AI spawning and awareness are sharper, gunplay is smoother, looting is smarter, & network & performance are improved. Oh, & Water 3.0 is here! The in-game timer is gone, replaced with a new system you should check out. Plus, a brand-new map, Stairway Gate, watch your step!

Price -41% 17.05€
Rating 7.1
Release 24 Sep 2024

Witchfire

Witchfire is a first-person dark fantasy RPG shooter in which you play as a wicked sinner turned witch hunter on his final mission to reach salvation.

Price 39.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 23 Sep 2024

Rune Coliseum

A deck-building roguelike game with unique semi-real-time combat system. Step into the shoes of an ancient gladiator and do your best to survive in the coliseum. Combine various skills and equipment, develop your own fighting style, and defeat all the enemies to become the next champion!

Price 18.49€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Sep 2024

Project Castaway

Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.

Price 19.50€
Rating 6.8
Release 23 Sep 2024

BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT

A BRAZILIAN BOOMER SHOOTER GAME MADE USING THE ID TECH 2 ENGINE! SHOOT, JUMP, EMBARK ON A JOURNEY THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO, HELL AND EVEN HEAVEN! SAVE BRAZIL!

Price -20% 2.39€
Rating 9.3
Release 21 Sep 2024

Path of Kung Fu

"Jianghu Road" is an open world side-scrolling action RPG . it is a heavy dark style martial arts plot, it is a self-operating open world built by random NPCs and events, We pursue the "punch to flesh" effect of martial arts . Friends who like it, please add it to your wish list to support us!

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.4
Release 19 Sep 2024

Fera: The Sundered Tribes

Fera: The Sundered Tribes is an enthralling mixture of monster hunting survival action RPG with village building and tribe management with groundbreaking aerial traversal and combat mechanics.

Price 9.75€
Rating 6.1
Release 17 Sep 2024

The Spell Brigade

Survivors-like with ONLINE CO-OP for 1-4 players. Team up with your wizard friends to slay hordes of dark creatures. Complete team-based objectives, unlock new upgrades and create overpowered spell synergies. Friend nor foe is safe in this friendly fire bullet hell!

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.6
Release 16 Sep 2024

TCG Card Shop Simulator

Open your own local game store. Stock shelves with the latest booster packs, or crack them and collect the cards for yourself. Set your own prices, hire staff, host events, and expand your card shop.

Price 12.79€
Rating 9.5
Release 15 Sep 2024

Internet Cafe & Supermarket Simulator 2024

"Internet Cafe & Supermarket Simulator 2024" is a comprehensive simulation game that combines the management of both an internet cafe and a supermarket. Step into the role of a shop owner, apply your business acumen, and expand your empire step by step.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.8
Release 13 Sep 2024

Lucky Tower Ultimate

Escape from an incredibly dangerous, randomly generated tower in a slapstick, roguelite adventure that looks like a cartoon and feels like a joke. Slashy slashy!

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 13 Sep 2024

Drill Core

Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

Price -53% 9.14€
Rating 8.2
Release 12 Sep 2024

REKA

Channel your inner witch! Build your cozy chicken-legged hut, practice witchcraft, and forage for ingredients in autumnal woodlands. Solve quests & uncover the great mysteries of the legendary witch Baba Jaga…

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 12 Sep 2024

Chef RPG

Craft your culinary adventure in a beautiful pixel art world. Manage your restaurants, forage and hunt for ingredients, befriend locals, and grow your culinary empire. What kind of chef will you be?

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 12 Sep 2024

FaeVerse Alchemy

What wonders await those brave enough to follow the alchemical path of magic?

Price 5.89€
Rating 6.4
Release 11 Sep 2024

Satisfactory

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Price 38.99€
Rating 9.6
Release 10 Sep 2024

Critter Cove

A deep, open world life sim and town building game set in a cozy post-apocalyptic paradise. Restore an old town, sail across a mysterious archipelago. Hunt for relics and farm, fish & craft everything you need. Can you help turn Critter Cove into a thriving tourist town once again?

Price 24.50€
Rating 9.0
Release 10 Sep 2024

Towerborne

The Belfry stands as a beacon of hope and safety amongst the ruins of humanity and the City of Numbers, with monsters lurking right outside the tower’s walls. You are an Ace, born anew from the spirit realm with the skills, the grit, and the determination to protect the people of the Belfry.

Price 24.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Sep 2024

Utopia Must Fall

Defend humanity's last surviving metropolis from mysterious alien machinations in this challenging base-defense arcade shooter. Featuring rapid upgrade progression, procedurally generated attack waves, dark humor and laser-sharp aesthetics.

Price 6.89€
Rating 9.0
Release 09 Sep 2024

Boyhood's End

Boyhood's End is an adventure horror game following Giovanni, the boy with the lowest human score in the universe, and Campenella, the delinquent genius, and their journey on the galactic railroad regarding the "human" and "inhuman".

Price 10.79€
Rating 8.0
Release 05 Sep 2024

Fantasy Map Simulator

Fantasy Map Simulator: Create and watch imaginary worlds evolve over centuries. Design maps, simulate nations, and control destinies. See empires rise and fall on your desktop wallpaper. A unique simulation for history buffs and creative minds.

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 04 Sep 2024

QANGA

QANGA: Dive into a sci-fi adventure of exploration and resilience across the cosmos. Merge your mind with a state-of-the-art cyborg crafted by ICLab's Industry labs, and journey through this expansive universe!

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.4
Release 02 Sep 2024

MEMORIAPOLIS

Memoriapolis invites you to construct a city that spans 2,500 years of history, from Antiquity to the Age of Enlightenment. Choose your culture, manage resources, face historical events, build "Wonders" to achieve the status of Capital of Capitals and leave your mark in history!

Price 24.50€
Rating 7.7
Release 29 Aug 2024

Cat Bait

Cat Bait is a casual game with cute pixel graphics. Control the Cat Bait, dodge enemies, and use the unique abilities of helper cats.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 27 Aug 2024

Peglin

Peglin is a Pachinko Roguelike - Fight enemies by collecting special orbs and popping pegs to deal damage. Acquire special relics that radically change the game and ensure no two runs are the same. Aim carefully to survive in this unique turn-based RPG!

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Aug 2024

Endzone 2

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Price -38% 15.42€
Rating 6.7
Release 26 Aug 2024

Inn Tycoon

Welcome to Inn Tycoon! Build, design, and manage your dream inn. Serve delightful meals, offer various services, and hire a stellar staff. Create a top-notch hospitality empire and become the ultimate Inn Tycoon!

Price -58% 4.09€
Rating 7.7
Release 26 Aug 2024

Toy Shire

Are you prepared for a thrilling toy army tower defense adventure? Welcome to the Toy Shire! Battle diverse foes in various locations, defend your family, and repel foes from your area. Save the world by strengthening your defense with toy towers!

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.5
Release 26 Aug 2024

TIEBREAK: Official game of the ATP and WTA

The official ATP and WTA Tennis game has finally arrived! Become the Number One player in the world, competing for entire seasons against the largest cast of professional tennis players ever united in a tennis videogame.

Price -33% 33.71€
Rating 6.7
Release 22 Aug 2024

Predecessor

Inspired by the legacy of Paragon, built with love by the community, and powered by Unreal Engine 5, Predecessor is the ultimate fusion of shooter action and MOBA strategy. Join more than 2,000,000 players and play for FREE now!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 20 Aug 2024

Dawn of Defiance

You are the Defier, subjected to a mythic plot across ruined isles. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft and upgrade your gear, and face down the trials of Gods with up to 3 friends.

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.4
Release 15 Aug 2024

shapez 2

Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Construct sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle increasingly complex automation challenges at your own pace – you won’t have to worry about enemies.

Price -39% 14.52€
Rating 9.5
Release 15 Aug 2024

KALPA: Cosmic Symphony

KALPA, the authentic rhythm game, is finally out on STEAM! The doomed universe needs you to play your life away. Play your life's music with Kalpa to save the dying Yggdrasil and revive the universe!

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Aug 2024

Nova Drift

Nova Drift distills the mechanical depth and strategy of an ARPG into classic arcade space combat. Control an endlessly evolving bio-mechanical ship, face legions of strange and deadly foes, and ride the wake of a dying star across the void.

Price -68% 5.46€
Rating 9.3
Release 12 Aug 2024

Preserve

Preserve is a relaxing puzzle nature-building game in which you flourish a vibrant ecosystem by cleverly placing plants and animals to create a perfect symbiosis to your liking.

Price -22% 9.76€
Rating 8.6
Release 08 Aug 2024

Mini Settlers

Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Price -55% 5.80€
Rating 8.6
Release 08 Aug 2024

Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks

Blaze into high-Orktane mayhem of clashing speedmobs, with adrenaline-fueled combat racing through the brutal Warhammer 40,000 universe. Drive ramshackle vehicles loaded with bombastic weapons and powerful abilities in a breakneck, full-throttle Speedwaaagh! to the death.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 06 Aug 2024

Aero GPX

Aero GPX is an anti-gravity racer focused on high velocity, flight, machine-to-machine combat, and responsive controls that are easy to pick up but difficult to master. Fight for the best position possible with high speeds, risky maneuvers, and visceral attacks!

Price 19.50€
Rating 9.2
Release 06 Aug 2024

Fields of Mistria

Start your new life! Build the farm of your dreams as you discover a world brimming with possibilities. Magic, romance, and adventure all await you in this nostalgic farming / life sim RPG!

Price 13.79€
Rating 9.5
Release 05 Aug 2024

Pixel Art Academy: Learn Mode

Learn how to draw pixel art with a video game! Start from zero and develop real art skills in a relaxing way. Complete interactive tutorials, draw pixel art sprites, and play the games you create. Everyone can do this!

Price 12.00€
Rating 9.0
Release 05 Aug 2024

Ai Vpet

The new generation of table pets in the AI era provides users with a comprehensive AI customized platform for creating table pets, including image, voice, character design, and even interactive methods, through AI technologies such as deep learning and language processing.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 01 Aug 2024

Car Manufacture

Car Manufacture is an automotive tycoon game. Start in the beginning of the XX century and create thriving business. Build cars, manage people, expand your plant and research new technology. Make tons of money and stay on top.

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.4
Release 01 Aug 2024

DEVIATOR

Deviator is a Metroidvania game centered around deflect, featuring exquisite 2D hand-drawn visuals. Exploring unknown wilderness and mysterious cities, delving into enigmatic realms of consciousness and encountering peculiar creatures. Try to find the truth behind this chaotic world.

Price 7.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 01 Aug 2024

JIANGHU CHRONICLES

JIANGHU CHRONICLES is a Wuxia-themed clan simulator, which focuses on simulating Jianghu clans and experiencing realistic battle. Set up a clan of your own, recruit disciples, complete missions... And eventually make your clan second to none by improving its power and reputation.

Price 16.49€
Rating 7.1
Release 31 Jul 2024

Smack Studio

A sandbox fighting game with built-in creation tools to create characters and stages. Animate pixel art characters using our 3D pixel art rotation technology, then battle with up to 8 players! Use our tools to export sprites for your own projects.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.1
Release 31 Jul 2024

BioGun

Get injected into the microscopic world of BioGun. Face viral threats and winding corridors on your mission to save man’s best friend from the inside. Will you save dog-kind from extinction?

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 31 Jul 2024

Drug Lord Tycoon

Start from nothing and rise to the top as you expand your criminal empire in Drug Lord Tycoon.

Price 11.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 31 Jul 2024