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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THOTH

THOTH is a challenging twin-stick shooter you can conquer alone or cooperatively with a friend. Each stage is handcrafted to test coordination and puzzle-solving skills. Colorful minimalist graphics combine with an intense unnerving soundtrack, making for an exciting mix of art and arcade.

Price -80% 1.00€
Rating 7.9
Release 07 Oct 2016

KUBOOM

Cross-platform hurricane online 3D Shooter

Price Free to play
Rating 6.1
Release 07 Oct 2016

Alice's Patchworks 2

Assemble patchwork mosaics, meet your favorite heroes from the world beyond the looking glass and help Alice become the queen!

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 07 Oct 2016

Unforgiving Trials: The Space Crusade

The world is dying. Many years after the banishment of the evil that plagued the land, the world was hit by waves of unbearable heat. Now in order to save the world the band of young adventurers have set upon a quest to vanquish the Sun.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.0
Release 07 Oct 2016

BUTCHER

BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.

Price -75% 2.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 05 Oct 2016

True Love ~Confide to the Maple~

Guo Hengyi and Yao Fengyi are childhood sweetheart. But their relationship goes far gradually after divided into different classes and the great college entrance exam pressure. Tang Haiyin and Yao Fengxi came to his life as well. An unexpected accident had involved them together.

Price 10.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 05 Oct 2016

Doorways: Old Prototype

An immersive and twisted adventure created before the official development of the Doorways saga

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 05 Oct 2016

Zup!

Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 04 Oct 2016

Aragami

Aragami is a third person stealth game that casts you as an undead assassin with the power to control the shadows. Teleport to any shadow, become invisible, materialize weapons or even summon a shadow dragon to infiltrate the enemy ranks and dispose of your targets.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Oct 2016

Zombo Buster Rising

Shoot zombies from terrace like a boss! Zombo Buster Rising Remastered brings you a nostalgic experience of classic 2D side shooting-defense in enhanced build right from your Steam library!

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 02 Oct 2016

Caravan

Are you ready to embark on a journey through deserts and dangers? Will you be able to safely navigate your fellowship through the lands of the Orient and uncover your destiny? Through strategic trading and traveling you will overcome obstacles and adversity.

Price 5.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 30 Sep 2016

8Bit Fiesta - The Drinking Game

8Bit Fiesta brings everything you need to the table with its action packed local multiplayer mayhem including a built in drinking game! Choose between a ton of characters and challenge your friends and prove yourself worthy the title "King of the Fiesta".

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 30 Sep 2016

Recursed

A puzzle game where the rooms are items and the items are rooms. Get to the goal by moving, rearranging and duplicating rooms and altering the structure of the world.

Price 7.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 Sep 2016

Zombie Defense

A modern hybrid of the classic RTS and modern Tower Defense. Recruit soldiers, place them on slots and let them shoot incoming waves of zombies by their own. Order supplies, throw grenades, order airstrikes and many more... Perfect mix of strategy, tactics and micromanagement.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 30 Sep 2016

Half-Life: A Place in the West

In a devastated America, sinister commandos are kidnapping children and taking them to a hidden city with a mysterious cosmic tower at its heart – a tower that may prove to be humanity’s salvation, or its doom. Join three survivors in this fan-made comic as they attempt to unlock the city’s secrets.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 29 Sep 2016

Giant Machines 2017

Take control over seven of the biggest industrial machines in the world. During the 14 mission campaign you will punch through the snows of Greenland, plow the steppes of Wyoming and travel all the way to sunny Florida. Your hard work will be completed by launching a space shuttle into space.

Price -83% 3.32€
Rating 6.9
Release 29 Sep 2016

Burly Men at Sea

A branching folktale misadventure about a trio of large, bearded fishermen. Shape a custom tale that begins again where it ends, through waters where lurk creatures from Scandinavian folklore.

Price -68% 3.08€
Rating 6.1
Release 29 Sep 2016

The Metronomicon: Slay The Dance Floor

A Rhythm Role-Playing Game! Fight party crashing monsters with the power of music! Level your party and upgrade your gear while dancing to the beat of some groovin' tunes. Grab a friend and combine forces in all game modes in The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor!

Price -85% 2.88€
Rating 7.8
Release 29 Sep 2016

Particle Fleet: Emergence

Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 29 Sep 2016

Ninja Stealth

Evade the guards and the defences to escape the evil facility on this click and play stealth game, there will be difficult on your path, young padawan!

Price -90% 0.49€
Rating 6.7
Release 29 Sep 2016

Soundboxing

Soundboxing is a VR music video kickboxing game where you create the beats! You can either punch to the music and compete to beat the best, or record your own challenge for others to beat—all set to your favorite music in a cool outdoor environment.

Price 13.29€
Rating 8.2
Release 29 Sep 2016

UNLOVED

Based on the community award-winning Doom2 mod with the same name by the same creator, UNLOVED is reimagined in the Unreal Engine 4 to bring forth the unspeakable terror in new ways. Play coop with your friends, increase your skills, mod your weapons and face the horror that this unearthly place holds...

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 29 Sep 2016

Bloody Walls

The world was plunged into chaos following an accident at a bio-weapon research facility. 100% of the earth's population has been infected. There is an antidote that blocks infection from the airborne strain of the virus, but the effect is temporary.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 28 Sep 2016

Clustertruck

Clustertruck is a chaotic physics based truckformer. Jump your way through insane levels in a game of "the floor is lava" on top of speeding trucks driven by terrible drivers.

Price -88% 1.76€
Rating 9.1
Release 27 Sep 2016

Trick & Treat

Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 26 Sep 2016

Turbo Pug DX

Turbo Pug is back and better than ever! In Turbo Pug DX you'll explore a variety of beautiful, passionately crafted environments. Collect treasures, score boosters, unlock other creatures to play as. Unlock secret mini games. Create custom level skins or enjoy skins created by other players.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 26 Sep 2016

Make America Great Again: The Trump Presidency

A Pro-Donald Trump presidential simulation. Make America Rich Again through trade. Make America Safe again by Defeating ISIS. Make America Great Again!

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 26 Sep 2016

Haydee

"Haydee" is a hardcore old-style metroidvania mixed with modern-day third person shooter and platformer mechanics. As well as a sexy character.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 26 Sep 2016

Children of a Dead Earth

The most scientifically accurate space warfare simulator ever made. Now with Steam Workshop!

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.4
Release 23 Sep 2016

8infinity

8infinity (8 infinity) is a dynamic and rhythm game where the player reaches eights “8” - levels of infinity.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 23 Sep 2016

Virginia

Virginia is a single-player first-person thriller set in a small town with a secret. Experience a missing person investigation through the eyes of graduate FBI agent Anne Tarver.

Price -70% 3.00€
Rating 6.3
Release 22 Sep 2016

The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day

The Uncertain is an story-driven adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Experience the mysterious vibe of each of carefully explored locations, solve diverse puzzles, make fateful decisions and discuss intriguing matters to find out the whole truth being kept from you.

Price -88% 1.00€
Rating 7.4
Release 22 Sep 2016

Stellar Tactics

A Sci-Fi role-playing game featuring turn-based ground combat, space exploration, deep character customization and a massive living universe with over 160,000 star systems. Equip your ships with the best equipment you can find, gather a powerful crew of mercenaries and set out into the void!

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.7
Release 22 Sep 2016

hackmud

hackmud is a text-based multiplayer hacking simulator for keyboard-compatible personal home computers. Crack protected systems and solve puzzles as you explore the abandoned internet of the future. Write scripts to protect your winnings and trick other players. Lose everything. Get it back.

Price 19.10€
Rating 7.5
Release 22 Sep 2016

Mad Father

Witness the tale of a most foolish family. A remake of the classic horror exploration game makes its way to Steam.

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.4
Release 22 Sep 2016

Heroes of the Monkey Tavern

After countless days and nights celebrating within the infamous Monkey Tavern, our team of adventurers have spent every last penny... Their fates, however are about to change...

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 22 Sep 2016

Toadled Classic

A seemingly normal afternoon turns into an apocalyptic day when one tiny toad gains the ability to grow more and more with each thing he eats...

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 22 Sep 2016

Dog Sled Saga

As a rookie musher, foster a dogsledding team whose skills will grow if they're treated right. Week by week, get to know your dogs' unique traits, and carve your story into the trails of the Mount St. Something region.

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 22 Sep 2016

Pankapu

Pankapu is a narrative action-platformer that takes place in the dreams of Djaha’rell, a child troubled by a tragic incident. Upgrade your skills, find new competencies, switch your Aegis in real time in order to get rid of Nightmare's invasion.

Price -63% 4.40€
Rating 6.4
Release 21 Sep 2016

BalanCity

BalanCity is a city building / balance physics game. It's a mixture between old school SimCity and Jenga. You must build the tallest towering city over a balancing platform while keeping your citizens happy.

Price 7.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 21 Sep 2016

The Bunker

The Bunker is an award-winning interactive psychological horror movie. You are John, born underground the day the bombs fell, now alone and trying to survive. But when an alarm goes off, a catastrophic chain of events begins. Unlock the dark secrets of your past as you try to escape The Bunker.

Price 14.79€
Rating 6.8
Release 20 Sep 2016

Turbo Pug 3D

Turbo Pug is back! And this time, he's three dimensional! Join Turbo Pug and friends, sprint your way through a randomly generated voxel world with scaling difficulty. Turbo Pug 3D - Fast paced, casual fun.

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 20 Sep 2016

Toy Odyssey: The Lost and Found

​Toy Odyssey is fundamentally an action-adventure platformer. The player spends the night exploring a randomly-generated house, defeating bosses in each of the unique rooms, and then going up against the final boss.

Price 14.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 20 Sep 2016

Seraph

Seraph is a skill-based, acrobatic shooter... without aiming! Take the role of an angel who's mastered the art of 'Gun Fu' as she blasts and cartwheels her way through hordes of twisted demons.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 20 Sep 2016

Zenith

Zenith is an action RPG coated in humor. Adventuring! Exploring ruins! Saving the world! You know the drill. A single player game with an actual story. No oneiric or do-it-yourself crap. You won't need to piece the story together by yourself as if it was a swedish chair. We promise.

Price 6.59€
Rating 6.7
Release 20 Sep 2016

Heart's Medicine - Time to Heal

An intense, but also funny, medical drama that deals with a lot of life-changing decisions. Become an aspiring surgeon at Little Creek Hospital!

Price 17.49€
Rating 8.8
Release 20 Sep 2016

Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor

Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is an anti-adventure game about picking up trash in an alien bazaar. Play as the Janitor, an Alaensee girlbeast with a municipally-subsidized trash incineration job and dreams of leaving the planet of Xabran's Rock far behind her.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.0
Release 16 Sep 2016

True or False

Take a quiz to test your intuition and knowledge - and learn some interesting and specific facts along the way!

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 16 Sep 2016