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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Drop Alive

“Happiness is only real when shared, especially with a water drop”. (Isn’t that how it goes?). Take a deep breath and immerse yourself in the greatest journey you’ll ever set out on with the cutest friend.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 06 Dec 2016

Zup! 2

Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 05 Dec 2016

Lara Croft GO

Lara Croft GO is a turn based puzzle-adventure set in a long-forgotten world. Explore the ruins of an ancient civilization, discover well-kept secrets and face deadly challenges as you uncover the myth of the Queen of Venom.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 04 Dec 2016

Dungeon Souls

Dungeon Souls is an action-adventure roguelike dungeon crawler which draws heavy inspiration from Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, and Overture. Explore vast procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot, and slay hordes of challenging enemies!

Price 10.79€
Rating 7.2
Release 02 Dec 2016

Hade

Hade is a minimalist logic game with severely difficult puzzles softened by relaxing ambient music.

Price 3.29€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Dec 2016

Maize

Maize is a first-person adventure game about what happens when two scientists misinterpret a memo from the U.S. Government and create sentient corn. And that last sentence is pretty much the least ridiculous thing about the game.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 01 Dec 2016

Abode

Abode is an escape room puzzle game. You will have to find, combine and utilize tools and furniture in the room to unveil all its secrets.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 01 Dec 2016

Tabletopia

Tabletopia is a sandbox virtual table with high-quality board games and ready setups. Already 2,400+ games and counting! Play how you want with whom you want: guests don’t need accounts to play. Or make your own games, no programming skills required.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.2
Release 30 Nov 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

Radiation Island

Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.6
Release 29 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

ARAYA

ARAYA is a first person horror game. Players will get a new thrilling experience inside a Thai hospital. The story will be told from the perspectives of 3 different characters. Players will explore different areas of the hospital in order to piece together the mysterious murder case of Araya.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Nov 2016

Masked Forces

Masked Forces is an action-packed game where your main purpose is to eliminate your enemies using any means necessary. You have a great singleplayer campaign and multiple online game modes that you can use to show your might.

Price -20% 0.79€
Rating 6.4
Release 23 Nov 2016

Japanese School Life

Welcomed by the fluttering of cherry blossom, the main character, Brian, starts a new high school life in Japan. Brian soon starts to get along with two girls in the same class after they start to talk to him. With their help, Brian gradually learns Japanese culture and customs.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.8
Release 22 Nov 2016

Alicemare

Alicemare is a somehow familiar yet totally unique adventure game infused with subtle hints of horror, created by △○□× (Miwashiba) using the WOLF RPG Editor.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Nov 2016

Disoriented

A first-person puzzle game. Simply walk to the door.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 21 Nov 2016

Glass Masquerade

Welcome to Glass Masquerade - an artistic puzzle game inspired by Art Deco & stained glass artisans of the 20th century. You need to combine hidden glass pieces to unveil clocks and themes exhibited by various cultures of the world at the 'International Times Exhibition'

Price -31% 3.46€
Rating 9.4
Release 18 Nov 2016

Brief Karate Foolish

Here comes a new epic of live action fighting game!! With 60fps smooth action, sexy and deadly guys fly into air and bounces their flab!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 18 Nov 2016

拯救大魔王2 Rescue the Great Demon 2

Sino was controlled by human. Human made the rules, and annihilated every race that opposed them. Every race on this continent became slaves, except human.Demons had been enslaved for 80 years since their leader, the Great Demon was captured. This is where our story begins.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Nov 2016

Neon Prism

Neon prism is a fun and simple but at the same time highly addictive game.

Price -95% 1.49€
Rating 6.2
Release 18 Nov 2016

Kick Ass Commandos

Lock and Load! It's time to Kick-Ass. Grab your machine gun, flamethrower, rocket launcher, and grenades. Assault the enemy base and free commandos to join your team while you destroy everything in sight. Make your way through enemy bunkers to rescue your comrades, and kill everyone you encounter!

Price 6.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Nov 2016

SHENZHEN I/O

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Price -58% 6.17€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Nov 2016

ISLANDS: Non-Places

The familiar becomes magical in this critically acclaimed interactive artscape. Explore ten scenes inspired by the everyday and let your expectations of reality be transformed. Carl Burton's other work has been featured in the New York Times, Serial, Colossal, and Medium.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 17 Nov 2016

RYB

RYB is a logic puzzle game that plays like a combination of sudoku and minesweeper.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 17 Nov 2016

ICEY

ICEY is a 2D side-scrolling action game and a META game in disguise. As you follow the narrator's omnipresent voice, you will see through ICEY's eyes and learn the truth about her world. The narrator will constantly urge you in one direction, but you must ask, "Why? Why am I following his directions?“ Obey? Rebel?

Price -66% 4.13€
Rating 8.8
Release 17 Nov 2016

Rage Wars

Get prepared for the FIRST EVER shooter game based on Rage Comics ! Rage Wars is a well-made action game with a variety of weapons, worlds and enemies to challenge with.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Nov 2016

Kopanito All-Stars Soccer

Fast-paced football game without a referee on the pitch and with crazy super-powers! It may not look serious, but we guarantee, that it is. Kopanito’s match engine is well-balanced and entirely skill-based.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 16 Nov 2016

Creeper World 2: Anniversary Edition

Deceptively simple... amazingly deep. Creeper World 2 thrusts you into the 14th millennium fighting and enemy that flows and oozes through the terrain. Employ advanced weapons,gravity manipulating repulsors, wormhole like rifts, and your own wit against this never yielding enemy.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 16 Nov 2016

Creeper World: Anniversary Edition

Imagine an enemy that is everywhere and moves like a giant, organic mass across the map. Imagine your base and your people surrounded by a blanket of crushing destruction from all directions. Your only hope, well what hope? Then you take the high ground and pound this enemy into oblivion.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 16 Nov 2016

Screeps: World

Screeps: World is an open source MMO RTS sandbox game for programming enthusiasts, wherein the core mechanic is programming your units AI. You control your colony by writing JavaScript which operates 24/7 in the single persistent open world filled by other players on par with you.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 16 Nov 2016

Doom & Destiny Advanced

Four nerds walk into a dungeon. It’s not a joke, it’s Doom & Destiny Advanced.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 15 Nov 2016

Ittle Dew 2+

Ittle and Tippsie crash onto yet another island filled with loot, puzzles and mysterious inhabitants! With the help of a magical map, they set out to steal eight pieces of a raft from increasingly improbable locations including beaches, prairies, an art exhibit and some dude's basement.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Nov 2016

Silence

Can you save Silence, the grim, but also serene world between life and death? Can you help Noah find his little sister Renie in this suffering world? Can you bring her home? Explore Silence and join the siblings on their adventurous journey.

Price -94% 1.24€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Nov 2016

Candle

Candle is an adventure with challenging puzzles. Play as Teku, a young novice on a dangerous journey to rescue his tribe's shaman from the evil tribe of the Wakcha. But the way is littered with sinister traps and difficult obstacles.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 11 Nov 2016

Don't open the doors!

Claymation action adventure in an odd world of talking pumpkins, blue trees and stuff like that.

Price 10.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 11 Nov 2016

Beholder

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Price -93% 1.00€
Rating 9.0
Release 09 Nov 2016

Once in Yaissor

Summer, 2020, Ya'issor. Most people have become youtubers, streamers, and other scum, and almost no one wants to be a working bum. Nobody has an opinion of their own. Everyone thinks they are nihilists, atheists, reading intellectuals, and other elites.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 09 Nov 2016

Small Radios Big Televisions

Explore the inner workings of deserted factories in search of data cassettes that contain boundless virtual worlds. Collect more tapes and explore more worlds and you'll soon discover new methods of traversal and control that will take you farther than you'd ever expect.

Price 11.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 08 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

VOI

Do you think 1 + 1 = 0 is correct? So what do you think about "black + black = white" statement?

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 07 Nov 2016

One Night Stand

After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed. What do you do?

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 07 Nov 2016

Dead Age

Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!

Price -93% 1.00€
Rating 7.9
Release 04 Nov 2016

Memory's Dogma CODE:01

Japan, 2030 A.D. Memories can now be digitized and archived, allowing people to communicate with the deceased. With only one week left before his best friend’s memories are deleted, can Hiroki uncover the truth behind Sorano’s death?

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.4
Release 04 Nov 2016

Rencounter

Rencounter is a difficult, turn-based, RPG, roguelike game with a mysterious atmosphere. Help your squad survive while navigating through a network of tunnels and rooms. Distribute provisions and medicine to keep them alive.

Price -88% 0.70€
Rating 6.8
Release 04 Nov 2016

Trimmer Tycoon

Trimmer Tycoon is a fast survival game. You’re the new owner of a beard-trimming salon - Shavy. Customers start flowing in with absurd wishes for their beards. Can you satisfy their beardy dreams and keep up with the ever-increasing rent?

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 04 Nov 2016

Intralism

Intralism - fast and hard rhythm game. Listen to music and match arcs to the beat. Master all beatmaps or create your own and challenge friends in the online multiplayer. But remember: wrong button - failed try.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Nov 2016

Dungeon Rats

A turn-based, party-based RPG set in the Age of Decadence world and focused on squad level tactical combat. Fight your way out of prison mine or die trying.

Price 6.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 04 Nov 2016

Wayout

Relax, clear your mind and find the way out.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Nov 2016