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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Ruins Seeker

An adventurer named Quem is the first person to step foot inside "Heaven's Ladder" in 500 years. But not long after, she's cursed by a strange, shadowy monster. Now she must reach the top of Heaven's Ladder, and hopefully, break the spell.

Price -30% 11.75€
Rating 8.7
Release 28 May 2020

Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Shantae is back in an all-new tropical adventure! In her fifth outing, the Half-Genie hero gains new Fusion Magic abilities to explore a vast sunken city, makes new Half-Genie friends, and battles the Seven Sirens in her biggest, most thrilling quest yet!

Price 24.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 May 2020

ANIME WAR — Modern Campaign

ANIME WAR — Modern Campaign transports you along with the H.E.N.T.A.I. army to one of the hottest hotspots around the globe to take down our №1 threatening enemy.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 28 May 2020

The House of Da Vinci 2

Become an apprentice of the famous Leonardo da Vinci. Solve handcrafted mechanical 3D puzzles and discover hidden secrets. Navigate through mesmerizing environments of the Italian Renaissance. Travel through time to influence your surroundings.

Price -52% 9.56€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 May 2020

Drop In - VR F2P

Drop In - VR F2P is a Free to play Low poly social game space. In Early Access players will be able to hang out in a lobby, play mini games, Squad up for Apoc, Zombies or Sandbox. Missions are being actively developed. DLC will be added after the game comes out of early access.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 27 May 2020

Rhythm Fighter

This is a Roguelike Horizontal Action game that players need to follow the beat to defeat opponents. Beat to follow, fist to the bone. Face the foe, and dance to kill!

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.6
Release 27 May 2020

Dread X Collection

10 Tales of Terror from 10 Twisted Minds. Made in only 7 Sleepless Nights. The Dread X Collection is a series of small games created by some of the most talented indie devs around, all with the same mission: create the P.T. for the horror project of their dreams.

Price 5.69€
Rating 7.6
Release 26 May 2020

Summer Paws

Summer days, warm rain, magical nights! Sleeping kittens are hidden well. Can you find them?

Price -50% 1.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 26 May 2020

Wildfire

Master the elements in this stealth game where everything burns. Use your elemental powers to start fires, freeze water, and move earth as you outsmart superstitious enemies in this mischievous 2D stealth game.

Price -59% 6.18€
Rating 7.9
Release 25 May 2020

Red Planet Farming

Become the first Agricultural Director of Mars in Red Planet Farming! This casual strategy game tasks players with producing enough food to feed a growing population of settlers on the red planet.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 25 May 2020

Veterans Online - Open Beta

Veterans Online is a thrilling top-down twin-stick shooter suited for both casual and hardcore players, featuring fun warfare with easy to learn but hard to master mechanics.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.1
Release 22 May 2020

ShellShock Live

Demolish your friends with hundreds of upgradable weapons shot from your customizable tank in this action-packed online multiplayer tanks game. Earn XP to level up and unlock new tanks, weapons, and gear. Fight against or alongside your friends for strategic team or free-for-all matches.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.1
Release 22 May 2020

Estranged: The Departure

Estranged: The Departure follows the story of a fisherman, stranded on a mysterious island during a violent storm. Little does he know his adventure has just begun, and the island is home to more than it first seems.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 22 May 2020

Angels of Death Episode.Eddie

"The boy made up his mind to face a cruel world." The new special edition of the psychological horror-adventure game "Angels of Death", which has also been made into an anime. The past of B4 floor master Eddie is revealed...

Price 5.69€
Rating 8.3
Release 21 May 2020

Space Haven

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Price -60% 8.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 May 2020

Seed Hunter 猎源

Seed Hunter is a 2D Platformer with Roguelite element. You’re the alien finding the missing source around universe, but you get into some trouble on the planet of Earth.

Price 7.39€
Rating 6.5
Release 21 May 2020

Observation

Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.

Price -95% 1.34€
Rating 7.6
Release 21 May 2020

Total Tank Simulator

Commander in the ranks. Soldier at heart. Choose a faction and deploy and command your army into massive physics-driven WWII battles to the last man standing. Destroy everything on sight with an insane amount of units that will behave tactically.

Price -67% 6.66€
Rating 7.7
Release 20 May 2020

Neversong

Help little Peet hack-and-slash his way through a beautifully haunting coma. A hand-drawn action-adventure through a dreamy world filled with fleshy monsters, insane grown-ups, and sad children looking for their mommies.

Price -80% 2.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 20 May 2020

Timelie

Timelie is a stealth puzzle adventure, where you control time like a media player. Perceive future events to plan your escape strategy from the past, sneak an enemy, and manipulate time through this companionship journey of a mysterious cat and a little girl with a precognitive power.

Price 14.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 20 May 2020

Golf With Your Friends

Why have friends if not to play Golf... With Your Friends! Nothing is out of bounds as you take on courses filled with fast paced, exciting, simultaneous mini golf for up to 12 players!

Price -75% 3.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 19 May 2020

Left on Read

It’s March of 2020; you were just sent home from college because of the coronavirus, you have a few small regrets, mainly not telling someone how you really feel.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 19 May 2020

If Found...

If Found... is a game about going home, coming out and erasing everything.

Price -85% 1.78€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 May 2020

Island SAGA

It's time for an adventure!! Legends have it that there are mythical treasures lying deep within Valentine Island. Together with your four beautiful and well-stacked companions, will you be able to find it in this lighthearted and sometimes heart-pounding RPG?!

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 May 2020

Umurangi Generation

Umurangi Generation is a first person photography game in the shitty future. Set in Tauranga Aotearoa off the back of an impending crisis you are a courier for the Tauranga Express. Throughout the game you will unlock a variety of lenses and equipment.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 May 2020

Chex Quest HD

Travel to the remote planet of Bazoik to free galactic citizens from the evil cereal-eating Flemoids! Venture deep into the caverns of Bazoik, using an array of "zorching" devices to send these nefarious foes back to their home dimension!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 18 May 2020

BEAR, VODKA, FALL OF BERLIN! 🐻

This time, Motherland sent you to fight against the Nazi forces to capture Berlin. Kill enemies to get the maximum chance of survival.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 18 May 2020

FOS

In this game, you can do whatever you want, not necessarily follow the story of the game, you're not some dirty farmer, right? And for whom did this pathetic, boring, and generally unbearable story come up, because you don't always have to follow it right?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 16 May 2020

Green Project

Post apocalyptic survival farming, green the world to survive !

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 May 2020

Cepheus Protocol

Cepheus Protocol is an Open World RTS Military Survival Game. Play as the CERC hunting Patient 0, maintain Quarantine camps, fight dangerous mutations & Rogue Civilian Combatants . There’s nobody else coming, it’s up to you now.

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.6
Release 15 May 2020

a new life.

When your loved one hurts you, what do you do? A classic love story about letting go.

Price 2.39€
Rating 9.2
Release 15 May 2020

LIT: Bend the Light

Light, darkness and remarkable puzzles! Bend the light to your will in this award winning physics-based puzzle game. Feel like a renaissance engineer, build your own solutions to light puzzles, feel your brain grow and all of that within the beautiful and mysterious world of LIT.

Price 5.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 15 May 2020

RaiOhGar: Asuka and the King of Steel

Having cornered the evil organization Trizon, our hero Kouta and his partner Asuka move to the remote island of Okigashima with their trusted super robot RaiOhGar to prepare for a fierce battle against Trizon. However, all is not quite as it seems...

Price -40% 7.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 May 2020

Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi

Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 May 2020

Neglected

Would you like to escape the crisis with your furry partner and escape from this "mysterious dungeon", or explore and understand the secret behind this mysterious underground facility?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 13 May 2020

Aimbeast

The ultimate training and warmup solution for FPS/TPS players: Aimbeast combines human-like AI and lot of useful scenarios to make you better at all types of shooters in a fast and efficient way. Are you ready to become an Aimbeast?

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 13 May 2020

Handy Dandy

The two adventurers Handy and Dandy have caused a dimensional tear which is now separating them and the entire cave where they have to solve platforming puzzles to reunite again in this 2D co-op game.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 12 May 2020

Jet Lancer

Jet Lancer is a high-velocity aerial combat shooter where you duel enemy aviators, hunt giant robots, and defy death at supersonic speeds as you evolve from an unknown rookie aviator into a once-in-a-generation ACE pilot.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.8
Release 12 May 2020

Island Saver

A group of amazing islands need your help! Horrid plastic waste has washed up and you need to sort it out with your trusty Trash Blaster! But look out for the Litterbugs. They love mess and they’re out to muck things up.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 12 May 2020

OBEY

OBEY is an asymmetrical multiplayer game. In many games you send commands to teammates or AI units. In OBEY you command your (human) opponents, or are commanded by them. Players are always free to obey/disobey. And everyone deals with the consequences of their own decisions.

Price 6.59€
Rating 7.9
Release 12 May 2020

VirtuaVerse

VirtuaVerse is a challenging old school cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AVR graffiti writers, hacker groups, tribes of cryptoshamans, digital archeology, epic cyberwars and virtual reality debauchery.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 12 May 2020

Helltaker

Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.6
Release 11 May 2020

Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure

Delores is back home and working as a photographer for the Nickel News. Thimbleweed Park hasn’t changed at all in the year she’s been away… or has it? Sample Ron Gilbert’s new adventure game engine in this free prototype that uses “found art” from the award-winning Thimbleweed Park.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 09 May 2020

Dream Date

Date, communicate, enhance feelings and record good memories with girls!

Price 1.59€
Rating 8.2
Release 09 May 2020

Hydroneer

Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 08 May 2020

Enemy On Board

Online (6v2) social deduction game that will ruin your friendships. 6 crew members, 2 murderous shape-shifting aliens. Trust No One.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 08 May 2020

Ato

A world of Beauty and Mystery, Emotive Animations, Atmospheric Environments, Visually Driven Story, Metroidvania Exploration and Memorable Sword Duels.

Price 12.49€
Rating 9.0
Release 08 May 2020

Spirit of the North

Spirit of the North is a single-player 3rd-person adventure game inspired by the breathtaking and mysterious landscapes of Iceland. Play as an ordinary red fox whose story becomes entwined with the guardian of the Northern Lights, a female spirit fox.

Price -90% 1.76€
Rating 8.2
Release 07 May 2020