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Best Early Access Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated early access games.

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Subsistence Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Price 13.79€
Rating 7.1
Release 25 Oct 2016
WARSHIFT Unique mix of Action, RTS and RPG gameplay elements that forms an innovative game genre. You can build base, manage troops, and then come down to keep your enemy at gunpoint in the dynamic battle and customize your main characters.

Price 9.75€
Rating 6.8
Release 12 Oct 2016
Diesel Guns "Diesel Guns"- is an Arcade Multiplayer Online Car Combat (AMOCC) game set to deliver the same thrill you remember from classic AMOCCs like „Twisted Metal“ and „Vigilante 8“.

Price 6.59€
Rating 6.5
Release 22 Sep 2016
TOXIKK FRAG LIKE IT'S 1999! TOXIKK plays as if today's military shooters never existed: Designed as a spiritual successor to the FPS giants of the late 90s and early 2ks, TOXIKK carefully evolves their mechanics with modern technology and fresh ideas elaborated with Arena-FPS enthusiasts.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Sep 2016
PRINCIPIA: Master of Science Principia: Master of Science is a simulation game with the theme of European science in 17th century. Choose one of 12 real scientists from the era of Isaac Newton and proceed with your research. It is a time when even the term "Science" did not exist. Who can be the master of science?

Price -80% 1.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 09 Sep 2016
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.

Price -96% 0.69€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Sep 2016
How to Survive 2 Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.

Price -84% 2.49€
Rating 6.8
Release 08 Sep 2016
Star Crusade CCG Star Crusade: War for the Expanse is a free-to-play, online, digital collectible card game (CCG) based in a richly styled sci-fi universe, where each player takes command of one of the six factions vying for supremacy in an unclaimed exotic sector of space.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 07 Sep 2016
Aim Hero Aim Hero is an ultimate solution for practicing firing accuracy to do better in FPS games.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 05 Sep 2016
Master of Orion The ascendant spacefaring 4X strategy game returns! A new chapter in the epic Master of Orion saga is poised to once again capture the imaginations of millions of gamers.

Price 20.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 25 Aug 2016
Automobilista AUTOMOBILISTA places you in the driving seat of an advanced racing simulator, featuring elite brazilian racing series along with a wide range of racing vehicles and international tracks for a uniquely diverse motorsports experience.

Price -98% 0.57€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Aug 2016
AdVenture Communist The world's greatest communism simulator!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 23 Aug 2016
Half Dead Half dead is a multiplayer sci-fi game about a violent TV show. The players' goal is to survive in a network of rooms full of traps.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 01 Aug 2016
Ratz Instagib Shoot first, eat cheese later! Jump into a fast, frenetic and exciting one-hit, one-kill FPS arena shooter with a totally level playing field, tonnes of maps, customisation and a robust map editor!

Price -63% 2.78€
Rating 8.6
Release 27 Jul 2016
RoShamBo Welcome to RoShamBo arena! A brand new FREE arena fighting game, based on a classic rock-paper-scissors! Choose your character out of dozens unique looks, customize your gear, fight other players, knock their teeth out and become the best in RoShamBo Arena!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.1
Release 14 Jul 2016
RWBY: Grimm Eclipse RWBY: GRIMM ECLIPSE is a 4 player, online co-op, hack and slash game based upon Rooster Teeth’s international hit series RWBY.

Price -33% 13.06€
Rating 7.9
Release 05 Jul 2016
Emporea: Realms of War and Magic Emporea is an oldschool fantasy strategy game, where cooperation with other players is necessary to achieve victory. Only the best alliance can win! Multiple realms available, with new ones starting every two weeks.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 08 Jun 2016
The Way of Life Free Edition The Way of Life makes the player relive the same life's experiences from the point of view of three characters of different ages: an adult, an old man and a child.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 31 May 2016
Shoppe Keep Run an adventurers shop – a serious business in a fantasy environment. Stock your store with dangerous weapons, fancy hats, sturdy armour and magical potions.

Price -90% 0.42€
Rating 6.1
Release 20 May 2016
Who's Your Daddy?! Who's Your Daddy is a casual multiplayer game featuring a clueless father attempting to prevent his infant son from certain death. Play with up to 7 of your friends, and test your parenting skills in a competitive setup with wacky physics and over 67 potentially ominous household items.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.9
Release 13 May 2016
Dead Effect 2 Dead Effect 2 is the newest addition to the acclaimed Dead Effect franchise. This action sci-fi shooter is looking to push the boundaries of first-person shooters to new levels with slick graphics, rich narrative and RPG elements.

Price -69% 3.78€
Rating 7.1
Release 06 May 2016
Fantasy Tales Online Fantasy Tales Online is a retro MMORPG where you must form parties, collect gear, fight through dungeons and defeat bosses. Featuring puzzles, a rich item system and complex encounters. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill grindfest MMO title!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 05 May 2016
Glitchspace Glitchspace is about reprogramming the game to solve puzzles. Trapped in an abstract cyberspace world, your way forward uses visual programming to edit environmental geometry, whilst unlocking key programming concepts along the way.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 05 May 2016
Flesh Eaters Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead

Price -20% 3.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 03 May 2016
Snooker Nation Championship Dream of playing in the World Snooker Championship? Indulge your snooker fix, and play along with the televised version of the sport with Snooker Nation Championship

Price -40% 2.41€
Rating 6.1
Release 27 Apr 2016
Wayward You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

Price -93% 0.59€
Rating 8.2
Release 22 Apr 2016
Ascent - The Space Game Ascent is a PVE sandbox space MMO with 270 BILLION star systems and an emphasis on strong Sci Fi. It encourages Exploration, Colonization, Research, Asteroid mining, Farming, Trading, and Combat. Outside the tutorial sector, everything in-game has been built by players.

Price -70% 6.07€
Rating 6.5
Release 11 Apr 2016
StarsOne You’ll see an unexplored world full of dangers, mysteries and adventures. You will explore randomly generated planets, develop industry, conduct trade, plant colonies, explore outer space.

Price -77% 2.26€
Rating 7.0
Release 08 Apr 2016
Windlands A first person grappling hook exploration game.Soar through the ruins of a fallen world and discover the secrets of the ancients. Designed with full Virtual Reality support for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, also works great in Non VR.

Price -22% 9.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 05 Apr 2016
CHKN Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 01 Apr 2016
MachineCraft The main purpose of this game is showing and watching machines made out of blocks. Some of the game-modes allow you to battle or race against other players. (testing phase) You can create your original machine with ease by reassembling those machines that are distributed, or by using the automatic control block.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 25 Mar 2016
Gunscape Gunscape provides easy-to-use tools based on a block-placement interface everybody's already familiar with to create all types of maps. Don't like building stuff? Then just blast your way through hordes of monsters or duel with other players!

Price -98% 0.57€
Rating 6.4
Release 01 Mar 2016
Gnomoria Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Feb 2016
Plague Inc: Evolved Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.

Price -69% 4.72€
Rating 9.3
Release 18 Feb 2016
Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls 2d space combat like no other. From the perspective of a single crew member, explore the fully destructible interior of any ship in a massive living world. Engage in space combat with no hitpoints where you know your enemy is dead when you see them fall out of their ship into the cold dark of space.

Price 27.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 11 Feb 2016
Rivalry Rivalry is a hotseat game where two players take turns moving their rag-doll character’s limbs and weapons until one is victorious. While the beginning stages of each game captures the strategic essence of swordplay, as damage and limbs are taken, the endgame turns rather Pythonesque.

Price 2.39€
Rating 8.6
Release 22 Jan 2016

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