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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Tiny Combat Arena Tiny Combat Arena is an approachable combat flight simulator sporting a stylized look and various game modes. Dogfight your way in the Arena and in Quick Action or craft your own scenarios and take part in a vast war with objectives and friendly armies to support.

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 22 Feb 2022
Spaceflight Simulator In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.

Price 14.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 17 Feb 2022
GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon Death is not the end: defeat infernal foes until you die and carry on the fight with your eternal soul and memories in a new body!

Price -93% 1.97€
Rating 7.4
Release 16 Feb 2022
The WILDS Become iconic animals and fight for survival in the The WILDS. Finding food, water, and shelter will be the easy part, protecting your family from hungry predators and a harsh environment will separate the weak from the strong. Welcome to a uniquely immersive animal experience...

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 15 Feb 2022
Touhou Mystery Reel Touhou Mystery Reel is a 2D platformer action game with special combat system. You can experience exciting battles and interesting stories in the game. There will be different endings of the stages. The player has the freedom to choose either to fight the powerful bosses or to take "shortcuts".

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 13 Feb 2022
NEBULOUS: Fleet Command Take command of your hand-tailored fleet of space warships and use realistic radar, electronic warfare, advanced movement controls in 3D space, and precision targeting to outmaneuver and outwit your opponents in a simulation-heavy tactical space game like no other.

Price -73% 8.11€
Rating 8.0
Release 11 Feb 2022
Gods of Sand Train gladiators. Manage a ludus. Fight in the arenas. Conquer the tower. Gods of Sand is a gladiator manager with intense turn-based combat, inspired by the Swords and Sandals series, in a dark and unforgiving setting.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.3
Release 07 Feb 2022
SCP: Nine-Tailed Fox You are a leader of Foxtrot Unit 1 "Nine-Tailed Fox", a highly trained force tasked with re-containing a multitude of terrifying anomalous monsters that have broken loose inside of a top-secret research facility.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 02 Feb 2022
Solargene Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

Price 28.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 31 Jan 2022
Ancient Wars: Sparta Definitive Edition One of the most innovative Real-Time Strategy Games comes back totally renewed and improved to the smallest detail, with epic large scale battles, new civilizations, unit customization system never seen before in a game, 8K support, and much more.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 28 Jan 2022
Zenith: Nexus Fight, explore, and lose yourself in an anime-inspired world built for VR. Two action-packed game modes available. How will you use your power?

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 27 Jan 2022
Movie Night Movie Night is a casual online multiplayer game giving players the ability to create their own virtual cinema to watch youtube with their friends in sync.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 27 Jan 2022
Last Wood In Last Wood, it is an oceanic world after the Fall. You will guide several survivors in the ocean from pieces of rafts, survive, build rafts, defense the threats, explore the unknown world, even have their offsprings, and find the truth of the world.

Price 12.49€
Rating 6.5
Release 26 Jan 2022
Hidden Deep Hidden Deep is an atmospheric sci-fi action game heavily inspired by Aliens, The Thing, and Half-Life. Explore, climb, swim, scan, blast and shoot your way through dangerous missions in a huge sub oceanic mining and research facility. Fear the horrors that lurk below…

Price -85% 3.16€
Rating 7.5
Release 24 Jan 2022
Sentimental K 'Sentimental K' is a 3D roguelike action game. Weapons, skills, artifacts, bosses, dungeon layouts are randomly generated each time you play. Make strategic choices to create powerful synergies and enjoy the unexpected and challenging play!

Price 19.49€
Rating 7.7
Release 17 Jan 2022
GearCity Do you find tycoon games too simplistic? GearCity is a complex and in-depth business simulator. It focuses on a realistic economic simulation of the global automobile industry. The game takes several hours to grasp and hundreds of hours to master. Can you succeed where many other CEOs have failed?

Price -2% 18.69€
Rating 8.5
Release 14 Jan 2022
Draconia Create your dragon, customize it, level it. Explore the world of Draconia and unravel its story. Draconia is an MORPG where YOU play as the dragon!

Price 19.50€
Rating 6.6
Release 13 Jan 2022
Garden of the Sea (VR) You wake up on a small island in a magical world. Grow your garden, nurture local creatures, furnish your home or adventure across the seas to explore more islands and gather new resources. This world is for you.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.8
Release 13 Jan 2022
DeadPoly DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 12 Jan 2022
SuperTux Classic 2D jump'n'run sidescroller featuring Tux the penguin. Run and jump through multiple worlds, fighting off enemies by jumping on them, bumping them from below or tossing objects at them, grabbing power-ups and other stuff on the way.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 12 Jan 2022
Black One Blood Brothers Black One Blood Brothers is a tactical military shooter game where strategy and coordination are key. Command a squad of top operators, with unique skills, through high-risk missions around the globe. Customize your crew, plan your missions, and adjust on the fly for a vast replayability.

Price -25% 11.34€
Rating 7.7
Release 11 Jan 2022
Climbey Climbey is a VR-only climbing game! The goal is to climb to the finish as fast as you can, avoiding obstacles and trying not to fall along the way.

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 08 Jan 2022
Ghost Exile Ghost Exile - is a cooperative horror from 1 to 4 players: when hunting for ghosts, you need to determine the type of ghost, carry out a ritual of exorcism and then the ghost can no longer harm anyone. Be careful! Hasty conclusions can lead you to a sad outcome.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.5
Release 07 Jan 2022
Bitardia In Bitardia you will experience all the rules of the Internet in action, and venture on a journey in the spirit of classic low-budget shooters, making your way through the obstacles of the fantastic world of an imageboard.

Price 5.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 28 Dec 2021