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.

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Cows VS Vikings You think you’ve seen everything in Stream already?! No, buddy, you never saw anything like that before! The Vikings against the cows! Show them the strength of Odin and twist their horns off!

Price 7.39€
Rating 7.9
Release 06 Dec 2018
War of Rights War of Rights is a first person multiplayer game featuring massive 400 player battles with a focus on historical authenticity, teamplay and immersion. It is set during the perilous days of the American Civil War, in the Maryland Campaign of September, 1862.

Price 24.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 03 Dec 2018
Life Forge - Reborn ORPG Life Forge is a Free 2D Online RPG. Take part in this sprawling adventure as you explore a massive world, gather resources to craft gear, engage in PvE and PvP, and buddy up with your friends to conquer end-game bosses!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.5
Release 26 Nov 2018
Wallpaper Engine Use stunning live wallpapers on your desktop. Animate your own images to create new wallpapers or import videos/websites and share them on the Steam Workshop!

Price -23% 3.86€
Rating 9.7
Release 16 Nov 2018
Eternal Card Game Six-guns and sorcery collide in Eternal, the new strategy card game of unlimited choices and unbelievable fun. Eternal brings AAA pace and polish to the infinite possibilities of a deep strategy card game. The only limits are your own creativity.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 15 Nov 2018
The Wall [Servers Temporarily Shut Down!] Build. Gather. Breach. The Wall is a never-before seen mix of genres, where dynamic maps, slick combat, base building, and economy management all come together.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 02 Nov 2018
Pocket Rogues Pocket Rogues is a dynamic 2D-Roguelike with elements of Action-RPG, played entirely in real time. Raid endless dungeons, upgrade your Guild’s Fortress, and develop your own heroes!

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.3
Release 25 Oct 2018
Rogalia Rogalia is the sandbox with fantasy open world, meal-based character leveling, nice graphics and cozy atmosphere.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 15 Oct 2018
G2 Fighter / 基因特工 G2 FIGHTER is a Low Poly, third-person ARPG. Gameplay includes not only fast-paced shooting, but also role play, team fight, base construction and so many other elements. Step on unknown journey with Bern Pierron to seek for the truth of this chaos world.

Price -35% 8.75€
Rating 7.7
Release 12 Oct 2018
Mashinky Mashinky is a transport strategy game about trains. The goal is to create your own transport empire on a procedurally generated map. It’s a unique blend of realistic graphics combined with an isometric construction mode and board game-like rules.

Price -37% 15.67€
Rating 8.1
Release 06 Oct 2018
Cine Tracer Cine Tracer is a realistic cinematography simulator. The player operates real world based cameras, sets up lights, and directs talent/actors in stunning next gen environments created in Unreal Engine 4.

Price 75.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 28 Sep 2018
Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution Play with evolution! Species: ALRE is a scientifically-grounded, emergent simulation of natural selection. Creatures evolve and speciate in response to in-game mutation and selection forces, allowing you to experience and tinker with evolution in real-time.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.2
Release 28 Sep 2018
Zeal Zeal is a 3rd person Action RPG focusing on customizable character builds and competitive PvP/PvE without grinding.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 24 Sep 2018
Dream Car Builder Design your car from scratch: from the frame to the suspension and race it!

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.8
Release 21 Sep 2018
The Scroll Of Taiwu "The Scroll of Taiwu" is an indie game themed around Chinese mythology and wuxia. Players assume the role of the mysterious "heir of the Taiwu clan" in an alternate ancient China, working through generations of heirs to defeat a powerful hereditary enemy and shape the fate of the human world.

Price 16.79€
Rating 6.9
Release 20 Sep 2018
Maximum Action MAXIMUM Action is a brutal and satisfying physics-based first person shooter influenced by Hong Kong cinema, heroic slow motion bloodshed, and old-school FPS ACTION.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.7
Release 19 Sep 2018
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing Liftoff® is a drone simulator that translates the rush of first-person view drone flight to the digital world. Join the biggest community for virtual FPV racing and freestyle!

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 13 Sep 2018
Boundless Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.

Price -93% 1.38€
Rating 6.8
Release 11 Sep 2018
Touhou Big Big Battle just a touhou rts game

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 10 Sep 2018
Endless Road: Reborn Endless Road: Reborn is a roguelike card game where players use a variety of equipment & skills to defeat vile creatures lurking along a treacherous, endless road. Players will also be faced with choices that will test their decision-making abilities and survival skills.

Price 8.69€
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Sep 2018
Panzer Strategy Panzer Strategy is a World War II wargame that combines classic turn-based strategy gameplay with modern looks. Command your armies and adapt your units to any objective using a huge selection of real-life military equipment and battle skills.

Price -85% 3.74€
Rating 6.3
Release 31 Aug 2018
Brawlout Brawlout is the platform fighting game, designed for couch play, online ranked matches and competitive tournaments. Now at 2.0!

Price -94% 1.07€
Rating 7.2
Release 20 Aug 2018
Perfect Heist Perfect Heist is a round-based online game, where the robber team tries to execute a bank robbery without getting noticed, and the cop team tries to prevent it. Robbers hide in plain sight and try to slowly infiltrate the bank while the Cops try to figure out who is a normal customer, and who is a robber!

Price -77% 1.18€
Rating 6.8
Release 17 Aug 2018
Mist Survival MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t

Price 8.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 14 Aug 2018

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