Hidden Indie 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 indie games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Indie games on Steam.

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Another Perspective Another Perspective is a puzzle platformer following the very confusing adventure of someone looking for something. Swap minds to see the world in different ways! Where one mind sees a bottomless pit, another might not. Where one sees a locked door, another sees a key. To change perspective is to change reality!

Price -94% 0.41€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 Aug 2014
GamersGoMakers In GamersGoMakers, you found a little company creating the first video games in history. Create your first game with only basic sound and simple graphics available in the year 1980. You´re one of the pioneers entering the rising global market for computer games.

Price 7.39€
Rating 7.3
Release 08 Aug 2014
OTTTD Take command of HEROCORP™ and launch a Preemptive Defence Campaign™ against parallel dimensions in OTTTD, the most outrageous Tower Defence title around.

Price -92% 0.63€
Rating 7.1
Release 06 Aug 2014
Road Not Taken Road Not Taken is a roguelike puzzle game about surviving life’s surprises. You play as a ranger adventuring through a vast, unforgiving forest in the aftermath of a brutal winter storm, rescuing children who have lost their way.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.5
Release 05 Aug 2014
Northmark: Hour of the Wolf Adventure across the lands of Northmark and save your homeland from the plot in this original card RPG.

Price -97% 0.32€
Rating 7.7
Release 02 Aug 2014
Vertical Drop Heroes HD Vertical Drop Heroes is a procedural platformer RPG hybrid with roguelike elements, where your hero adventures through randomly generated stages. Armed with a variety of skills and traits, you must use your cunning and reflexes to survive the dangers of each stage.

Price -91% 0.64€
Rating 7.7
Release 25 Jul 2014
Halfway Halfway is a turn-based strategy RPG taking place a few hundred years into the future. Humanity has started colonising new worlds. Until now, they were alone ...

Price -80% 2.64€
Rating 7.0
Release 22 Jul 2014
OlliOlli OlliOlli mixes addictive one-life gameplay with over 120 tricks and grinds across 50 deviously crafted levels, 250 Challenges, Spots Mode and Daily Grind.

Price -90% 1.30€
Rating 7.5
Release 22 Jul 2014
Sokobond Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and beautiful - crafted with love and science.

Price -89% 1.74€
Rating 8.8
Release 21 Jul 2014
Wildlife Park 2 Now’s the chance to build the Zoo of your dreams! Just like in a real Zoo, your animals must receive complete care. Feed them, train them, cure them and even relocate them. Observe their realistic interactions with one another, the landscape, the play equipment and even Zoo visitors.

Price -30% 4.89€
Rating 6.9
Release 17 Jul 2014
Hidden in Plain Sight Hidden in Plain Sight is a local-multiplayer stealth party game. Blend into the crowd of AI characters and eliminate the other players before they eliminate you!

Price 5.89€
Rating 9.3
Release 16 Jul 2014
Super Panda Adventures In Super Panda Adventures, you play as the brave panda-knight Fu, who is about to finish his training to become the new guardian of the Princess. At the same day of the big celebration party, some uninvited Robots show up to conquer the planet and take the Princess away in their Space Ships!

Price -92% 0.33€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 Jul 2014
MouseCraft Ever wondered what a cross between Tetris and Lemmings would look like? Well, wonder no more, 'cause... MouseCraft is here! MouseCraft is an A to B puzzle game where players help Schrödinger, the crazy cat scientist, in completing his mysterious, mice-powered invention.

Price -94% 0.60€
Rating 8.2
Release 08 Jul 2014
Memories of a Vagabond You play as a young mercenary and travel from soul to soul to avenge your fiance and her family. While finding a way to change the flow of past events, you will encounter many obstacles and meet new allies. Will you be brave enough?

Price -96% 0.21€
Rating 7.7
Release 07 Jul 2014
Lexica The unique word puzzle which combines the skill of Sudoku with the knowledge of Scrabble®. Lexica has been featured in a number of UK daily newspapers but is now available for the first time in an interactive form.

Price -89% 0.56€
Rating 7.1
Release 04 Jul 2014
Spoiler Alert Spoiler Alert is a video game that tests your platforming skills… in reverse. It’s a comedy platformer that you play backwards.

Price -79% 0.64€
Rating 7.3
Release 30 Jun 2014
Don Bradman Cricket 14 The first thing to think about when you start playing Don Bradman Cricket 14 is to forget what you know about Cricket games and start afresh…it's cricket like you've never seen it before!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 25 Jun 2014
WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.01 From the author of Spice and Wolf, Isuna Hasekura, comes WORLD END ECONOMiCA. This is the first episode out of three part sci-fi/economic thriller visual novel set on the moon.

Price -87% 1.74€
Rating 8.0
Release 17 Jun 2014
Heroes Rise: The Prodigy Do you have what it takes to become a legendary Powered hero? "Heroes Rise" is an epic interactive novel where your choices control the story. The game is entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. How high will you rise?

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 17 Jun 2014
Farm for your Life Your community was taken down by a heavy storm which caused an apocalypse and unleashed the living dead. Together with the other survivors, it is your task to rebuild and to allow that sustainable life can still be assured. Cultivate your farm and manage your restaurant to provide food and deal with all the zombies.

Price -74% 2.63€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Jun 2014
Fancy Skulls Fancy Skulls is a challenging first person shooter with procedural generation, permadeath and distinct art style. Intense and tactical combat, unique weapon mods and items that change the way you play.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 16 Jun 2014
Battle Group 2 Your battleships are fully loaded with the return of Battle Group. Command the war against advanced pirates with brand new Satellite Strikes and upgrades for your state-of-the-art battleships. As the commanding gunner of this advanced armada, it's imperative you stop a terrifying new foe our world has yet to fathom.

Price -92% 0.70€
Rating 7.8
Release 13 Jun 2014
World of Subways 2 – Berlin Line 7 Volume 2: "U7 - Berlin" is the next release continuing the successful product series " World of Subways" introducing famous subway lines around the world to all subway enthusiasts. After Vol. 1, Vol. 2 contains the route U7 of Berlin`s subway.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 12 Jun 2014
Ichi Ichi is an easy to play but challenging one button puzzle game. Don't be deceived by the game simplistic look, it’s a braintwister for sure! Collect golden rings by rotating objects, using teleporters, breaking blocks and more.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 12 Jun 2014