Best Early Access Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated early access games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Early Access games on Steam.

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Psycho Patrol R FPS/mecha hybrid europolice sim with emphasis on interacting with NPCs and different gameplay systems.

Price 38.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 23 Mar 2025
Wreckfest 2 Ready for mayhem? Wreckfest is back, offering the best in full-contact racing with unrivaled destruction! Witness head-to-head battles as you tear apart rival vehicles bit by bit. Powered by the enhanced physics engine, developed by the creators of Wreckfest & FlatOut!

Price -3% 29.17€
Rating 7.3
Release 20 Mar 2025
Sledders Hit the backcountry in Sledders, the snowmobile simulator! Conquer deep powder with realistic physics and compete with friends in multiplayer. Are you skilled enough to reach the peak first? Jump in and prove your sledding skills!

Price -85% 4.78€
Rating 9.2
Release 20 Mar 2025
MLB Rivals Take your rivalries to the next level in MLB RIVALS!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 17 Mar 2025
Blood Strike Gather your friends and dive into the action-packed Battle Royale, Squad Fight, or Hot Zone like there's no tomorrow! Blood Strike offers a wide range of playable Strikers, each with a unique active and passive ability letting you deploy drones, shield walls and everything in between.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 13 Mar 2025
Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone Explore the mysterious, beautiful, yet dark world of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in this post-apocalyptic action-RPG. Make your mark on this world, through your character development, choices and playstyle. But remember – everything has a price and consequences.

Price -43% 22.49€
Rating 6.1
Release 06 Mar 2025
Secret Agent Wizard Boy and the International Crime Syndicate Use magic spells and military surplus explosives to topple an evil crime syndicate hidden beneath a prestigious wizarding school. Learn spells, engage in espionage, and spread lore-unfriendly chaos.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.0
Release 06 Mar 2025
Beast Saga Beast Saga is an open-world RPG set in a martial arts universe where you play as a young wolf tribe member named Lang Jiusi. Immerse yourself in a world of free exploration, gathering, crafting, life skills, martial arts cultivation, forming alliances and experiencing unique Jianghu adventures.

Price -15% 14.86€
Rating 7.8
Release 05 Mar 2025
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based deep survival simulator and the next installment in the Card Survival Series. Carve yourself a home in a primordial forest that has a will of its own. A day-to-day life simulator in a world where nature reigns with mystery, beauty and sometimes cruelty.

Price 17.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 28 Feb 2025
R.E.P.O. An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

Price -35% 6.33€
Rating 9.5
Release 26 Feb 2025
Cafemart Simulator Create and decorate your cozy cafe, where guests can enjoy delicious food and drinks. Expand your service with a supermarket offering a wide selection of fresh products, so visitors can not only have a tasty meal but also do some shopping. Play solo or with friends in cooperative mode!

Price 7.79€
Rating 7.5
Release 25 Feb 2025
AGAINST AGAINST is a combat rhythm VR game that will immerse you in a dark comics story. Follow the beat to shoot and slice your way through evil henchmen of Dr. Vice. Empowering music is your only way out from these crime-ridden streets.

Price 16.79€
Rating 6.8
Release 25 Feb 2025
Peripeteia Peripeteia is a first-and-third-person role-playing stealth game taking place in alt-history cyberpunk Poland. Inspired by immersive sims from Ion Storm and Looking Glass Studios, Peripeteia expands on the formula with new ideas and an original setting.

Price 24.50€
Rating 8.6
Release 21 Feb 2025
Die in the Dungeon Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but dice! Deal with enemies by combining powerful dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and risk it all hoping for a good roll on unexpected encounters.

Price -80% 3.11€
Rating 8.7
Release 21 Feb 2025
The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game The Backrooms: 1998 is a first-person found footage psychological horror survival game where it tells the story of a young teen after accidentally falling into the depths of The Backrooms in 1998. Roam freely, mark, explore and try unravel the story - however you are not alone. Don't scream.

Price -30% 5.73€
Rating 8.1
Release 20 Feb 2025
Never Second in Rome Never Second in Rome is a turn-based historical game with RPG and management elements. You are a Roman centurion in the army of Julius Caesar. You will control both your character and the unit under his command.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Feb 2025
Last Remains "Last Remains" is a highly challenging multiplayer zombie survival game. Players must survive in a city overrun by the undead, scavenging for food, arming themselves, avoiding zombies, searching for loot, plundering other survivors, and finding any possible way to escape.

Price 19.50€
Rating 6.8
Release 17 Feb 2025
Cinema Simulator 2025 Cinema Simulator 2025 is a simulation game where you will manage your own movie theater and test your strategy and management skills. Starting from a small movie theater, try to become a giant in the movie industry.

Price 11.79€
Rating 7.5
Release 17 Feb 2025
Sodaman Sodaman is a bullet-heaven roguelike where you play as a supersoldier fighting alien hordes with soda powers. Find game-breaking sodas and concoct custom cocktails. Discover planets, unlock weapons, sodas, cybernetics, power-up cards, and more. But first, crack open a cold one.

Price -45% 2.78€
Rating 7.5
Release 17 Feb 2025
Chained in the Backrooms Chained in the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op, mission-based horror game. Trapped in a blurry subconscious and chained together, toy bears must solve puzzles, complete challenging missions, and survive against creatures trying to destroy them.

Price 2.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 13 Feb 2025
Legacy: Steel & Sorcery Legacy: Steel & Sorcery is an action-combat PvPvE extraction RPG set in the classic fantasy world of Mithrigarde, rich with expansive outdoor zones. Play solo or with friends to gather loot, slay creatures, and defeat other players.

Price 24.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 12 Feb 2025
JUMP KING QUEST The most BRUTAL Platforming-Action-Multiplayer-RPG in THE WORLD with NO Game-Over, only falling down… Defy the fiends of The Heights TOGETHER or alone to rise as KING on your Quest to The Smoking Hot Babe at the Top!

Price -33% 16.41€
Rating 7.9
Release 12 Feb 2025
The Succession of Changing Kings Turn-based kingdom management simulator focused on decision-making. Will you survive and lead the kingdom to prosperity, or die in agony? The throne awaits.

Price 8.88€
Rating 8.1
Release 10 Feb 2025
Astronomics Top-down action and space exploration meet asteroid mining automation! Navigate to randomly generated asteroids passing by and start mining. Impress your employer, upgrade your equipment, fight off pirates and save up for that ticket to Earth so you can finally come home... for the very first time.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.4
Release 10 Feb 2025