Best Indie games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our indie 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 indie games that consistently deliver exceptional experiences. This means you can be confident that our lists feature only the best indie games on Steam, validated by the community itself.

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9 Monkeys of Shaolin

The true rebirth of iconic beat 'em up genre in vein of old-school video games! As a simple Chinese fisherman Wei Cheng you have to avenge the death of your friends and family slaughtered in a pirate raid at your peaceful village.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 16 Oct 2020

G String

Slip into the Standard Issue Biosuit as Myo Hyori, a gifted Korean teenage girl who must face the perils of the future. Survive many hazards, explore a seemingly endless metropolis and beyond as the world around you implodes and history marches towards its inevitable conclusion.

Price 13.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 16 Oct 2020

The Horror Of Salazar House

Will you solve the mystery of the Salazar manor or will you become another permanent inhabitant? An Italian horror inspired adventure game!

Price 3.29€
Rating 8.8
Release 15 Oct 2020

Noita

Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

Price -53% 8.98€
Rating 9.4
Release 15 Oct 2020

Professional Farmer: Cattle and Crops

Professional Farmer: Cattle and Crops takes you out into the countryside and impresses with its depth and attention to detail! Experience how exciting the profession of a farmer can be. Work your fields with original machines or coordinate these tasks with your workers.

Price 16.79€
Rating 6.5
Release 15 Oct 2020

Ring of Pain

Enter the Ring of Pain, a roguelike card crawler where encounters come to you. Each step around the ring a dire decision. Go for the loot or backstab a creeping horror? Meet strange friends bearing gifts and treasure. Choose your gear wisely to survive and discover the secrets of the Ring of Pain.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 15 Oct 2020

Space Crew: Legendary Edition

Time for your toughest mission yet! Recruit and train your crew to tackle the growing threat from alien and android armies as you defend Earth to become a Galactic Legend in Space Crew: Legendary Edition. All new content free to existing owners of Space Crew!

Price -94% 1.49€
Rating 7.3
Release 15 Oct 2020

Airplane Mode

Airplane Mode delivers all the thrills of a real-time, six-hour commercial airline flight—in Coach. At least you've got a window seat. Buckle up.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 15 Oct 2020

Cartoon Strike

"Different realities, different rules, but always fun". In the multiplayer game Cartoon Strike, each map offers a different gaming experience. Players can enjoy a few minutes of fighting in the WWII, followed by a few minutes in the present, future or even funny mode.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.2
Release 14 Oct 2020

Loot Grind Simulator

Loot Grind Simulator is a fantasy-themed game about completing quests and earning better loot to equip. The game is meant as satire of the current MMO and Looter Shooter trends and features idle gameplay elements with decisions about what quests to undertake and items to craft.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 14 Oct 2020

Cube Escape Collection

In this classic point-and-click adventure anthology you follow the path of Dale and Laura and other famous Rusty lake characters such as Mr. Crow and Mr. Owl. The series will be updated, preserved and bundled to survive the end of the Flash Games era.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 14 Oct 2020

Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room

You wake up in a spaceship with no memories. In this escape room with a sci-fi setting you will have to investigate your past solving different puzzles. Will you be able to discover what happened to you and how did you get there?

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Oct 2020

Vecter

Vecter is a fast-paced runner and shooter game where your goal is to survive by the skin of your teeth and raise hell in your path. You get in your ship, you push the throttle on max and then try to survive for as long as possible by annihilating anything that gets in your way.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 14 Oct 2020

The Jackbox Party Pack 7

Five new games: the hit threequel Quiplash 3, the collaborative chaos of The Devils and the Details, the fierce drawing game Champ’d Up, the speech game Talking Points and the guessing game Blather 'Round. Use phones or tablets as controllers and play with up to 8 players, and an audience of 10,000!

Price -63% 11.08€
Rating 9.3
Release 14 Oct 2020

Partisans 1941

Partisans 1941 is a real-time tactics game with stealth elements, set on the eastern front of WW II. As an army commander behind enemy lines you gather a group of Partisans to wage guerilla warfare against the German occupants.

Price -91% 2.84€
Rating 8.0
Release 14 Oct 2020

SPACE / MECH / PILOT

The S/M/P Initiative is not responsible for any odd abnormalities while playing. Connections to other universes are not monitored or controlled by the video game program. Keep away from children under the age of 6. Fun to play but not to eat.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 13 Oct 2020

Cats Organized Neatly

In this 2D puzzle game you have the responsibility to arrange your feline friends in a way that fits the grid. Cats Organized Neatly comes with 80 different handcrafted levels and a whole bunch of cats in all shapes and sizes.

Price 2.49€
Rating 9.4
Release 12 Oct 2020

Epicinium

Epicinium is a strategy game where nature is a finite resource. No need to wait for your move, thanks to fast, simultaneous turns. Your economy and troops are influenced by the environment and increasingly severe weather effects. Is it worth winning a war when you end up conquering dirt and ash?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 12 Oct 2020

Knight Club +

KNIGHT CLUB + Is a casual 2-4 player action platform-fighting game that brings traditional fighting game elements into an unlocked, free form movement playstyle.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 09 Oct 2020

Panoptic

Panoptic is a local multiplayer VR game that pits you against a friend, where you play as either the giant Overseer or tiny Challenger in a stealthy game of cat and mouse. Will the Challenger slip away undetected through the crowds, or will the Overseer track them down with their powerful laser eye?

Price 16.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 08 Oct 2020

Your amazing T-Gotchi!

A cute game where you care about a green anime girl!

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 08 Oct 2020

Ikenfell

A turn-based tactical RPG about a group of troublesome magic students. Use timing mechanics to power your spells and block attacks, explore the twisted halls of a vast magic school, fight challenging monsters and bosses, and uncover dark secrets never meant to be found.

Price -87% 2.65€
Rating 8.6
Release 08 Oct 2020

The Uncertain: Light At The End

The Uncertain is a story-driven adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Humanity disappeared from the face of the Earth and has been replaced by robots. Together with Emily, one of the survivors, you will have to witness how people try to live in a world ruled by robots.

Price -88% 1.00€
Rating 6.3
Release 08 Oct 2020

I Am Dead

I Am Dead is a charming puzzle adventure game from the creators of Hohokum and Wilmot’s Warehouse about exploring the afterlife.

Price -28% 13.23€
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Oct 2020

Virtual Cottage

Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.5
Release 07 Oct 2020

Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up

Design and build the most efficient metro stations known to man! Excavate. Expand. Set staff priorities. And manage the commuter flow. Overcrowd is a 2.5D management/tycoon/simulator set below the bustling city of Lubdon Town.

Price 18.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 06 Oct 2020

Cooking Companions: Appetizer Edition

Cabbage and the Chompettes want to play hide and seek! Can you find all five of them?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 06 Oct 2020

The Solitaire Conspiracy

We need your help, Spymaster. Join a world of near-future spies and take on a supervillain in this supercharged take on classic Solitaire. Precision engineered for replayable espionage action.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Oct 2020

Evil Democracy: 1932

In the unique world of this political simulator, you travel to Europe, 1932-1935, to become the party leader in one of the following countries: Germany, France, or England. You have a real chance to become the winner of WWII even before it begins...

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 02 Oct 2020

URUZ "Return of The Er Kishi"

Live the saga of Uruz! A fantasy epic action adventure based on Central Asian Turkish mythology and culture. Explore the ruined lands, help people, solve small puzzles, face the monsters and spiritual creatures, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 02 Oct 2020

Perfect Crime

With superb script and calm narrative style, Perfect Crime will reproduce every detail of a criminal case. How to make use of common objects to make a perfect crime is all up to you. An editor of cases is accompanied if help is needed. Now it’s time to log on and create your own murder.

Price 15.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 01 Oct 2020

Drake Hollow

Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?

Price 24.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 01 Oct 2020

Train Station Renovation

Welcome to an old, ruined train station. A place that will give you a lot of fun! In Train Station Renovation you play as a renovation company specialized in restoring old and damaged railway stations.

Price -94% 1.05€
Rating 7.9
Release 01 Oct 2020

Mr.Mine

Explore the depths of the earth and uncover hidden treasures in this addictive idle mining game. Unlock the power of your drill with hundreds of upgrades, discover mysterious relics, and unearth priceless gems. Can you master the mines and reveal their deepest secrets? Dive in and dig deep!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 30 Sep 2020

Seek Girl Ⅵ

This is a casual Sokoban game. Players need to use the keyboard to control the male character to move to the female character to complete the task and move to the next level.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 30 Sep 2020

FOOTSIES Rollback Edition

FOOTSIES is a simple 2D ground-based fighting game that both new and experienced players can pick up and enjoy right away. Featuring online battle mode with rollback netcode, implemented using GGPO open-source codes.

Price 3.29€
Rating 8.9
Release 30 Sep 2020

Spelunky 2

Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.

Price 16.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 29 Sep 2020

Mysteria ~Occult Shadows~

Explore the land of Sulnas as the "Shadow of Death", a cat girl who's dauntless and fierce. The land is poisoned by secret power and desperately needs salvation. Can you save it from its sure demise or will you doom its fate like everyone else would?

Price 12.79€
Rating 6.4
Release 29 Sep 2020

COCKHEAD

COCKHEAD reveals the story of a penis, a penis who made it. Experience a stunning adventure with our protagonist, enjoy fully hand-drawn graphics, original story and Big Band style jazz music. And remember that "No one's born with balls of steel"

Price 5.69€
Rating 6.1
Release 27 Sep 2020

Under the Sand REDUX - a road trip simulator

You. Your car. And world under the sand.

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.3
Release 25 Sep 2020

Paint Girl

Take you easy to make a two-dimensional beauty girl, the mode is easy and interesting, from line drawing to coloring, the whole painting process experience, you don't need painting experience to make your wife live~

Price 1.59€
Rating 8.0
Release 25 Sep 2020

Janosik

Challenging retro pixel graphics action-platformer. Become a legendary rogue Janosik and explore the big mountain castle level full of secrets. Available for FREE!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 25 Sep 2020

Propagation VR

Combining survival horror and static wave shooting, Propagation VR will get your adrenaline pumping as you try to survive a zombie apocalypse. Armed only with your guns and your fists, fight off terrifying zombies and other multi-species mutants. Will you get out alive?

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 25 Sep 2020

Root

Might makes right in the wild wood! The award-winning board game of asymmetrical woodland warfare comes to cross-platform digital play! Combine subtle strategy and bold daring to guide your forest faction to victory!

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 Sep 2020

Serious Sam 4

Serious Sam 4 reignites the classic FPS series in a high-powered prequel loaded with an explosive arsenal, intergalactic carnage, and perfectly timed one-liners.

Price -83% 6.52€
Rating 8.2
Release 24 Sep 2020

Cyber Hook

Speed through a gorgeous retrowave world using parkour skills and a grappling hook to scale and ride walls in this fast-paced, 3D platformer. Blast enemies, manipulate time and abuse physics to avoid falling to your death.

Price 12.49€
Rating 9.1
Release 24 Sep 2020

Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road

The elders have entrusted you, an elite vampire courier, to deliver their secrets. Can you outrun the hunters, the other drivers, and the rising sun?

Price 11.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 24 Sep 2020

Untitled Goose Game

It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.

Price 18.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 23 Sep 2020