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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Russian Life Simulator
The most realistic simulator of the life of a Russian person. Collect pension from birth, collect bottles to survive and become part of an exciting life-long story.
There's a Butcher Around
There's a Butcher Around, a brutal hide & seek. Bill the butcher has escaped from the asylum and is looking for new victims. During the game you will have to find a place to hide, remembering that your friends are also trying to hide from the butcher. Every round, Bill the butcher chooses a spot to investigate, are you well hidden?
Dark Future: Blood Red States
Step into the extraordinary, dystopian world of Dark Future, filled with danger, chaos and adventure. A game of both action and strategy unlike any other, featuring a unique time dilating command mode to help you make tactical decisions on the dangerous highways of this world.
铁道物语：陆王（Railway Saga:Land King）
Become a respected conductor, assemble and match your train lineup at will. In addition to transporting passengers from all walks of life, you can also set up your own factories at various city stations. Mining, planting and breeding all kinds of resources, using the craftsmen's crafts to produce a variety of famous things.
The Defender: Farm and Castle
You are an archer tasked with defending a castle from invading monsters. Inside the castle, you can manage resources and harvest crops, gather experience points to level up, and learn new skills and abilities to face stronger enemies.
Spark the Electric Jester 2
Fast paced 3D action platformer.
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love is a satirical point and click inspired by the classic adventure games. It smuggles you out of your comfort zone and throws you into the middle of a Cold War spy intrigue - where there’s an even bigger game being played …
Undead Horde
Become a necromancer and raise the dead - Undead Horde is a necromantic action game with elements from RPG, strategy and hack'n'slash. Maraud through the lands of the living, raze their villages and steal their treasures. Ultimately you'll take over the whole kingdom of the living!
Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forest
A tactical, turn-based RPG from the makers of Legend of Grimrock games. Every action, every turn counts as you control your party of heroes through challenging, handcrafted missions in the ancient, mist-clad Menhir Forest.
Elemental Girls
The game is a classic puzzle with three levels of difficulty.
Iron Marines
Real-time strategy battles in amazing sci-fi worlds! Command brave soldiers, mighty mechas and powerful aliens to face the greatest challenges in hostile alien worlds. The galaxy needs you!
Thea 2: The Shattering
In the dark lands inspired by Slavic myth, life is a struggle for survival against ever increasing odds, be it natural or malevolent. Can you lead your flock to prosperity in this innovative blend of 4X strategy, RPG and card game?
Never Again
Never Again - Horror/first-person Quest. The main essence of the game is research locations and puzzles, plunging in the dramatic story of a little girl suffering from asthma.
Astrologaster
Astrologaster is a comedy game set in Shakespeare’s London. Play as 'Doctor' Simon Forman and treat his patients using astrology. A story-driven adventure based on a truly ridiculous story.
BirdGut
BirdGut is a hand-drawn 2d puzzle-platformer from the perspective of an outcast bee who gets eaten by a bird, and discovers that the bird's internal organs are not organs at all, but facilities in which the consumed insects are brainwashed and enslaved. Experience this bizarre one-man project for yourself.
Ultra Fight Da ! Kyanta 2
Ultra Fight Kyanta 2 is a fighting game with a frantic pace and easy to learn controls. You can perform special attacks using single button presses! Fight in 2D battles across various modes using teams of hand-drawn characters.
Legal Dungeon
Legal Dungeon is a game about organizing Police Investigation Documents. The player must review and provide an Investigation Verdict on reports ranging from petty theft to murder, in eight different criminal cases. Weigh the value of people’s lives to unlock all the collectables.
PLANES ATTACK
Your homeland sky is under attack. Will you defend it?
Never Split the Party
Never Split the Party is an ultra social rogue-like! You're one of four adventurers joining together to explore a procedurally generated dungeon, amass powerful upgrades, and cooperate with your fellow adventures to conquer and crush the evil dungeon champions!
Neon Beats
Beat your best scores in Neon Beats, a 2D platformer game with rhythm based levels!
Taboos: Cracks
Relax puzzle games to keep you in a good mood.
Rise of Industry
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders
A thrilling point-and-click adventure game where you play as Di Renjie, ancient China's most famous and gifted investigator, as he tracks a serial killer in the heart of the Tang Dynasty's capital city.
Micro Mages
Micro Mages is a platformer developed for the original 8-bit NES console. Now on Steam! ROM included. Play solo or with up to 4 players simultaneously. Compete over score or cooperate to overcome challenging levels.
Precipice
A game of diplomacy and war in the atomic age. Safeguard your closest allies and change unfavorable regimes without giving away your long-term ambitions. Every action risks an enemy reprisal, and if nobody backs down from a standoff, we all lose.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
BLOCKPOST LEGACY
Procedural cubic 3D-shooter in the best traditions of the genre. The game is a rich cocktail consisting of the most popular and functional gaming solutions. Customization of characters, opening cases and improving the existing arsenal — all this is available in the game now!
Dark Devotion
Explore the secrets of a mysterious fallen temple and put your Templar faith to the test in Dark Devotion, where no sacrifice is too great in praise of your God.
Havocado: Ragdoll Fighter
Havocado is ragdoll physics based fighting, with guns, crazy vehicles, weird creatures and more, where mistakes have real consequences. Will you beat the other fighters and become the next champion?
Nova-Life: Amboise
Nova-Life: Amboise is a multiplayer role-play simulation video game. Create your character and start your second life!
Race for Tuning
The city at night, the roar of the engine, nitrous, neon, a tuning... What else do you need for a street race? Burn rubber and become the king of the streets!
Paper Dolls: Original / 纸人
Paper Dolls Original is a first-person horror adventure game steeped in Eastern culture. You act a man who is separated from his daughter after a car accident. When he awakes, he finds himself in a deserted Asian mansion. Find your daughter and unveil a terrifying story buried for a hundred years
Burning Daylight
Waking up naked in a slaughterhouse, you must escape and travel through a dystopian world to uncover the truth of your origins. Burning Daylight is a sci-fi adventure game, set in a dystopian future with light puzzle elements and environmental storytelling.
Katana ZERO
Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.
Granny Simulator
In Granny Simulator there are two players, a feeble old grandmother and her lovely grandson. The grandmothers objective is to complete her every day routine while the grandson utilizes uncanny violence and pure brutality to stop her.
Snooker 19
Snooker 19 - The official videogame of World Snooker.