Best Early Access Games on Steam

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My Village Life My Village Life is an open world village simulator vehicle driving game.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 27 Aug 2020
Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game Chef is a Restaurant Management game in which you create your own character, acquire supreme cooking skills, customize restaurants, design unique menus, and devise innovative recipes with a realistic editor.

Price -98% 0.58€
Rating 7.1
Release 20 Aug 2020
PANZER BALL Panzer Ball is a fast-paced 3D platformer inspired by the classic surf and bunnyhop game modes. Jump in and see how fast you can complete the courses in both single and multiplayer.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 15 Aug 2020
Progress Game Experience Progress in its purest form as an Idle-Game!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 14 Aug 2020
Godhood Create your Religion, raise your Disciples, and guide them to bring you glory! Inspire growth in your Disciples so they may challenge the false gods and convert their followers. Defeat your rivals, and become the One Truth!

Price 24.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 11 Aug 2020
Risk of Rain 2 Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.

Price -82% 4.60€
Rating 9.3
Release 11 Aug 2020
CHRONOSHOT CHRONOSHOT is a free-to-play score-driven sci-fi arena shooting game, with specialized time mechanics. The player is equipped with a Jetpack, several weapons, and special ammunition which can be used to turn the tide against the enemy and dominate the leader board!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 07 Aug 2020
The Infected The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.

Price -82% 2.98€
Rating 8.3
Release 06 Aug 2020
Soulfire Soulfire is a battle royale fighter that pits more than 20 teams against each other in a struggle for win.Compared to similar games, it features a 2.5D souls-lite combat system.

Price -37% 3.83€
Rating 6.9
Release 03 Aug 2020
Handy Harry's Haunted House Services Team up with up to 8 friends online to explore the haunted, randomly generated depths of these dusty attics. Find and repair the objectives, flip the master switch and escape before the ghastly ghoul that lurks in the darkness catches up to you. Play through the career mode or explore free play!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 31 Jul 2020
Spirit Island Become the spirits of the land, and defend the island from colonizing Invaders spreading blight and destruction! Your spirits work with the native islanders to increase your power and drive the invading colonists from your island in this strategic area-control game.

Price 24.50€
Rating 8.7
Release 29 Jul 2020
Travellers Rest Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.

Price -50% 9.00€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 Jul 2020
Vibrant Venture Vibrant Venture is a singleplayer 2D adventure platformer game featuring a quirky cast of characters! The game features four playable characters with multiple unique abilities that can be combined for extremely versatile, fluid and fun movement!

Price -82% 2.25€
Rating 9.1
Release 24 Jul 2020
Meteorfall: Krumit's Tale Krumit's Tale, the second game in the Meteorfall universe, is a new take on the deckbuilding roguelike genre. Use your cards to clear dungeons, then upgrade your deck with new cards and perks to press forward. The fate of the world is in your hands.

Price -96% 0.62€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Jul 2020
SpaceBourne Spacebourne is an open space exploration game with Rpg elements. Its world consists of different factions at war. You as an expert pilot need to choose your side or be on no one's side and create a force of your own. Load up your weapons, Ready your ship and warp to adventure.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.3
Release 18 Jul 2020
RPG World - Action RPG Maker RPG World – THE Action RPG Maker! Unleash your imagination with RPG World and create, share and play amazing 3D games with our growing community. Claim glory and treasure as you conquer magical worlds, alone or as a team. No coding required!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 17 Jul 2020
Soviet Jump Game Snag powerups, collect coins, and battle against 49 other comrades in this 2D sidescrolling free-for-all. Together, we are one--but will you be the one who is held above all others?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 16 Jul 2020
Ginkgo Ginkgo is a single player 3D horror game inspired by East Asian horror. Armed with a magic needle that can sew parts of the world together, solve puzzles and outsmart monsters as you explore a surreal world.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 26 Jun 2020
Starship EVO Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.

Price -20% 19.60€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Jun 2020
SKYE SKYE is a relaxing explorative game where you venture into a world inspired by the Western Isles. Fly around the captivating islands, help the locals with their troubles, and set the fastest time in races while absorbing everything around you through the painterly environment.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Jun 2020
Baldi's Basics Plus Baldi's Basics® Plus is an active stealth roguelike that parodies cheap '90s edutainment with a subtle horror twist! Play Hide & Seek with Baldi as he chases you through procedurally generated levels while using your surroundings, items, and game knowledge to shift chaos in your favor.

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.4
Release 11 Jun 2020
Deck of Ashes Deck of Ashes is an adventure game with tactical card combat. One character at a time, lead the cast of antiheroes on a quest for redemption. Explore the cursed fantasy world and hunt down powerful cards. Forge a unique Battle Deck, and crush your foes! Can you rid the world of the Ash Curse?

Price -97% 0.74€
Rating 7.0
Release 09 Jun 2020
Space Simulation Toolkit Physics sandbox game that uses a graphics card as a supercomputer. Change the laws of physics, design mechanisms, create A-Life worlds and inhabit them with living beings, experiment with evolution and AI.

Price -30% 17.15€
Rating 7.5
Release 05 Jun 2020
Easy Pose Easy Pose is a human body pose app for people who draw or is learning to draw.

Price 10.79€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Jun 2020
Bomb Bots Arena Send your Bomb Bots into online arenas or blast your friends off the couch locally in Bomb Bots Arena! Bomb Bots Arena is a pure multiplayer experience with every element of the game tailored to please competitive and casual gamers alike.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 01 Jun 2020
Tales Of Glory Tales Of Glory is setting a new standard for medieval melee fights, bringing best of both worlds by combining large scale battles and full physics one vs many combat, everything packed into a 30+ hours sandbox campaign

Price 27.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 30 May 2020
ManaRocks ManaRocks is a new type of digital card game called Seasonal Card Game. Experience a Free to Play Game with 4 players at the same time on 2v2 matches.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 29 May 2020
Drop In - VR F2P Drop In - VR F2P is a Free to play Low poly social game space. In Early Access players will be able to hang out in a lobby, play mini games, Squad up for Apoc, Zombies or Sandbox. Missions are being actively developed. DLC will be added after the game comes out of early access.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 27 May 2020
Estranged: The Departure Estranged: The Departure follows the story of a fisherman, stranded on a mysterious island during a violent storm. Little does he know his adventure has just begun, and the island is home to more than it first seems.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 22 May 2020
ShellShock Live Demolish your friends with hundreds of upgradable weapons shot from your customizable tank in this action-packed online multiplayer tanks game. Earn XP to level up and unlock new tanks, weapons, and gear. Fight against or alongside your friends for strategic team or free-for-all matches.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.1
Release 22 May 2020
Seed Hunter 猎源 Seed Hunter is a 2D Platformer with Roguelite element. You’re the alien finding the missing source around universe, but you get into some trouble on the planet of Earth.

Price -88% 0.88€
Rating 6.5
Release 21 May 2020
Space Haven Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Price -79% 5.27€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 May 2020
Golf With Your Friends Why have friends if not to play Golf... With Your Friends! Nothing is out of bounds as you take on courses filled with fast paced, exciting, simultaneous mini golf for up to 12 players!

Price -95% 0.87€
Rating 8.7
Release 19 May 2020
PlayClaw 7 - Game Overlays, Recording and Streaming Use our cool in-game overlays to achieve the best gaming experience! Harnessing the power of your GPU, hardware accelerated H.264 codecs and the various overlays, you will have an advantage over your opponents and you can share your victories.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 16 May 2020
Cepheus Protocol Cepheus Protocol is an Open World RTS Military Survival Game. Play as the CERC hunting Patient 0, maintain Quarantine camps, fight dangerous mutations & Rogue Civilian Combatants . There’s nobody else coming, it’s up to you now.

Price -90% 2.00€
Rating 7.6
Release 15 May 2020
OBEY OBEY is an asymmetrical multiplayer game. In many games you send commands to teammates or AI units. In OBEY you command your (human) opponents, or are commanded by them. Players are always free to obey/disobey. And everyone deals with the consequences of their own decisions.

Price 6.59€
Rating 7.9
Release 12 May 2020

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