Indie Hidden Gems 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 indie games.

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Dark Bestiary Dark Bestiary is a turn-based tactic game with RPG elements. The very core of the game consists of continuous and exciting battles with monsters rather than a deep story. So, you will have to explore a rich combat system and discover your character’s possibilities.

Price 8.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 12 Jul 2020
ARIA CHRONICLE Randomized dungeons, strategic battles, diverse growth factors, unique characters... ARIA CHRONICLE offers an unparalleled gaming experience. Let’s set out to help the Princess of Tamageria!

Price -59% 6.26€
Rating 7.6
Release 11 Jul 2020
Primal Light Inhabit Krog, a mysterious blue creature in a red loincloth, as he traverses a labyrinth of ladders, levers, traps, and monsters. Explore the nooks and crannies of a bizarre and evocative world as you hack and slash your way to victory, leaving a graveyard of grotesque bosses in your wake.

Price -83% 1.37€
Rating 7.7
Release 08 Jul 2020
Escape the Clinic A first-person puzzle horror game. Solve clues, find hints, discover keys, and use passwords to navigate the haunted Clinic and find a way out.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 07 Jul 2020
RITE RITE is a high-speed, precision platformer where you must conquer a series of challenging trials, a rite of passage for every Nim.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 06 Jul 2020
Friendly Fire Can you save the world from an unknown destiny?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 05 Jul 2020
Don't Be Afraid - The First Toy Don't Be Afraid - The First Toy, is an introduction to the dramatic story of a boy kidnapped by a psychopath. Exploring the giant house of your torturer you will soon discover things worse than your childish nightmares. Take on the role of Jamie and see what phrase “The First Toy” actually means.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 02 Jul 2020
Vectromirror 0™ Become the Test Subject and attempt to complete a challenging experiment to awaken emotional responses in your Artificial Intelligence. Jump, wall-run, and parkour your way through the free-to-play prequel to the upcoming game.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 02 Jul 2020
Monolight MONOLIGHT is 2D plat-former puzzle adventure game. Using tiny lantern, go through the maze.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 29 Jun 2020
Gatewalkers (Alpha) Gatewalkers is a cooperative action RPG game with survival elements, where players travel across different worlds in order to save their own. Explore procedurally generated worlds, face hostile inhabitants, face challenges like extreme weather conditions, toxic atmosphere, lack of water and more.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 25 Jun 2020
A Place, Forbidden A Place, Forbidden is a first-person, lo-fi horror-puzzle game set in the Library of Ouroboros, a seemingly innocuous library that, rumor has it, contains knowledge not meant for the eyes of mortal man. We hope you enjoy your visit.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 25 Jun 2020
Mini Motor Racing X Welcome to the world of Mini Motor Racing X! Strap yourself in, or strap on your VR headset, and jump into a nitro fueled world where little cars mean BIG fun!

Price -61% 4.90€
Rating 7.9
Release 23 Jun 2020
Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 The ultra-refined 2D side-scrolling action you remember from "Azure Striker Gunvolt" is recharged and better than ever! In Gunvolt 2, series anti-hero Copen joins the fray as a playable character! Copy abilities from defeated boss characters and use them as your own!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 21 Jun 2020
Fatum Betula Placed in a world without change, you must create fate by watering an ancient plant. Determine a future and live with it.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 20 Jun 2020
Clam Man 2: Open Mic OPEN MIC is the free prologue to the upcoming Clam Man 2: Headliner - a narrative adventure RPG where you escape your boring desk job to become a comedian!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 19 Jun 2020
Britannic: Patroness of the Mediterranean Explore the Britannic, sister ship of the infamous Titanic, and relive her tragic sinking after striking a mine in the First World War.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.5
Release 19 Jun 2020
Starship EVO Create the Starship of your dreams, explore the vast expanse of the galaxy, land on planets and jump into epic space battles. Experience a truly unique and powerful building engine where your imagination is the limit. Welcome to the next evolution in Space Sandbox gaming!

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Jun 2020
The Swine Say goodbye to southern hospitality in the backwoods of rural America. The Swine is a short horror experience that explores isolation, witchcraft, and unforeseen consequences in your rural homestead.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 18 Jun 2020
Alwa's Legacy Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.

Price -98% 0.46€
Rating 8.2
Release 17 Jun 2020
Saint Kotar: The Yellow Mask Follow the fear of Benedek Dohnany and Nikolay Kalyakin and play the onset of a dark and chilling narrative adventure. Make decisions and affect the events that precede a macabre series of murders, allegedly related to devil worship and witchcraft.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 17 Jun 2020
GOHOME This is a third-person horror game set in a residential area in 2000s Japan. It's the complete version of the free horror game GOHOME, which was released in 2019 and caused a boom. The map has been doubled, and six more ghosts, including hidden characters, have been added to the game.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 16 Jun 2020
[Chilla's Art] Missing Children | 行方不明 Missing Children | 行方不明 is a Japanese horror-themed adventure game about a bully detective searching for reported missing children.

Price -10% 2.69€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Jun 2020
A Hand With Many Fingers Unravel a real conspiracy from deep within the CIA’s archives. Search classified documents and follow new leads in this non-linear investigative thriller.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 09 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% 0.73€
Rating 7.0
Release 09 Jun 2020
Cyber Agent Welcome to the world of Cyber Agent! This is an easy to play, hotly fought 3D tower defense game, please use your mouse to aim at the enemy, auto shoot and make sure not to get hurt by the enemy! And pretty ladies to fight with you!

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 08 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 24.50€
Rating 7.5
Release 05 Jun 2020
The Walking Fish 2: Final Frontier The Walking Fish returns, this time in space, in an all-new fish comedy horror experience. Stuck on a space station, you have to solve the mystery of the Walking Fish, and escape its terror.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 01 Jun 2020
Methods: The Detective Competition One hundred detectives compete against each other in a crime-solving competition.

Price -74% 5.11€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 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
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
ANIME WAR — Modern Campaign ANIME WAR — Modern Campaign transports you along with the H.E.N.T.A.I. army to one of the hottest hotspots around the globe to take down our №1 threatening enemy.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 28 May 2020
Ruins Seeker An adventurer named Quem is the first person to step foot inside "Heaven's Ladder" in 500 years. But not long after, she's cursed by a strange, shadowy monster. Now she must reach the top of Heaven's Ladder, and hopefully, break the spell.

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 28 May 2020
Rhythm Fighter This is a Roguelike Horizontal Action game that players need to follow the beat to defeat opponents. Beat to follow, fist to the bone. Face the foe, and dance to kill!

Price -96% 0.56€
Rating 7.6
Release 27 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
Dread X Collection 10 Tales of Terror from 10 Twisted Minds. Made in only 7 Sleepless Nights. The Dread X Collection is a series of small games created by some of the most talented indie devs around, all with the same mission: create the P.T. for the horror project of their dreams.

Price -73% 1.54€
Rating 7.6
Release 26 May 2020
Summer Paws Summer days, warm rain, magical nights! Sleeping kittens are hidden well. Can you find them?

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 26 May 2020

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