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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Drifter Star: Evolution From stardust to cosmic sovereign! In this unique space game, evolve by devouring everything. Grow from a tiny rock into a massive galaxy. Each swallow brings growth, each evolution brings victory. Unlock the universe's ultimate secrets!

Price -87% 0.54€
Rating 7.1
Release 10 Dec 2025
Mamon King "Mamon King" is a monster-raising simulation where you aim to become the King. Battles feature simple turn-based command combat, yet each monster possesses unique skills. Combined with the SP required to activate these skills, this creates intense strategic gameplay that anyone can easily enjoy.

Price -20% 10.23€
Rating 8.4
Release 10 Dec 2025
Dogpile Dogpile is a roguelike deck builder about merging cute dogs into bigger dogs. Play dogs, get money, customize your dogs with special Traits, refine your deck, PLAY MORE DOGS! DOGS!

Price -79% 2.12€
Rating 9.0
Release 10 Dec 2025
Second Stellar Join the enigmatic Starfarers as they traverse the cosmos in this unique dual-character action roguelite, unraveling the mysteries of their galaxy and beyond in pursuit of the Voyager.

Price -10% 4.49€
Rating 9.1
Release 10 Dec 2025
Dunjungle A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!

Price -30% 10.35€
Rating 9.1
Release 10 Dec 2025
Angeline Era Explore a secret-filled land in this 3D Action-Adventure, where every level is hidden in plain sight! Travel and fight through a vast, unmarked overworld. The next surprise is only a single search away!

Price -20% 17.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 08 Dec 2025
Agreeee Can you 'play' this game!? To play the thrilling action game, you must agree to all 12 terms and conditions.

Price -20% 3.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 04 Dec 2025
Nine-Ball Roulette This will be the most thrilling pool game you have ever played. Join up to 3 of your friends in this exciting pool roulette game! Eliminate each other with pool until only one person is left.

Price -20% 3.19€
Rating 8.2
Release 04 Dec 2025
CivIdle CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 04 Dec 2025
Toy Smash Kaboom! Toy mayhem unleashed! Arrange, combine, and craft the wildest toy army inside your desk, then crash into chaotic cartoon brawls across the tabletop!

Price -70% 4.24€
Rating 8.2
Release 03 Dec 2025
Kingdom of Night Hunt down nightmarish demons and save the town of Miami, AZ in this 80s-themed, isometric action-RPG. With an expansive, interconnected map and open-ended quests, explore freely while unraveling the main story. Kingdom of Night is a unique blend of coming-of-age drama, cosmic horror, and true love.

Price -58% 8.27€
Rating 8.2
Release 02 Dec 2025
Wild Growth Wild Growth is a short, actionpacked incremental healer game set in a grim norse world.

Price -40% 2.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 01 Dec 2025
Winds of Valen Winds of Valen is a free fantasy sandbox MMORPG. Experience old-school progression where every level, skill, and drop is earned through effort. Train your combat, mining, and smithing skills, and hunt for rare and unique items in a seamless open world filled with danger and discovery.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 29 Nov 2025
GLONK A short incremental game about feeding Glonk! Make Glonk bigger, get more money, and explore the skill tree to upgrade your abilities, and get more Glonks!

Price -20% 2.39€
Rating 8.4
Release 27 Nov 2025
Knights College 2 KnightsCollege 2 is a kemono visual novel set in the Knight College, where elite knight candidates live. In this game, every choice is presented as a card, and the protagonist lives in the dormitory while collecting cards.

Price -20% 19.60€
Rating 8.5
Release 27 Nov 2025
The Last Case of John Morley Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.

Price -25% 9.36€
Rating 7.8
Release 27 Nov 2025
Smack Talk Say your moves out loud, trash-talk your friends, and fight to win. Smack Talk is a 1–8 player online PvP platform fighter where your voice controls your attacks. Call moves, land one-liners, and finish foes with wild ultimates.

Price -15% 5.22€
Rating 9.0
Release 26 Nov 2025
The Use of Life The Use of Life is a multi-ending adventure book style JRPG. The main character’s various attachments change in accordance with the choices the player makes, and the ending changes depending on “the use of life” you choose through your journey.

Price -30% 13.65€
Rating 8.4
Release 26 Nov 2025
Chronigma Master time in this time-bending sokoban-like puzzle game with a story. You travel back in time to be in two places at once, to solve puzzles impossible to complete alone. Your success hinges on your ability to collaborate with yourself. Can you learn to manipulate time to save humanity?

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 25 Nov 2025
Alice's World Alice's World is a story-driven 2D adventure puzzle game. Amidst desolate ruins and deserted cities in a world filled with death, the young girl Alice hears "your" voice from in front of the screen. You must guide her forward, solve the mysteries, and reach the top of the tower.

Price -15% 11.72€
Rating 8.3
Release 25 Nov 2025
Repel The Rifts Repel the Rifts is a roguelite tower defense game where you lead a commander through an alien world, uncovering new terrain each wave, drafting powerful upgrades, and constructing defenses to hold back the chaos.

Price -86% 1.89€
Rating 7.9
Release 24 Nov 2025
Abandoned Archive Abandoned Archive is a fantasy, spell-casting, rogue-like, featuring a wide variety of relics, a unique spell-upgrading system, with compelling and engaging bosses. Each floor is filled with items and mysteries for the player to uncover; what will you discover in the Abandoned Archive?

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Nov 2025
SIDE EFFECTS A twisted trial of pill roulette for up to 4 players (solo or online). Pick your poison. Use experimental items to shift the odds. And remember: only one of you can survive.

Price -30% 3.49€
Rating 8.0
Release 21 Nov 2025
Marisa!ReturnTheBook! A 2D top-down idle AFK & battle stage-clearing game set in Gensokyo. In the peaceful and tranquil Gensoukyo, a little girl with yellow hair who likes to borrow books everywhere has aroused Alice's anger. Therefore, she calls on everyone in Gensoukyo to gather in front of Marisa's house for a battle

Price -25% 4.41€
Rating 8.6
Release 21 Nov 2025
Military Incremental Complex Make weapons, make money. An active incremental game where you amass as much money as you can by starting a Military Industrial Complex company. Produce multiple different weapons, research upgrades, manipulate the stock market, and lobby the government for favors.

Price -30% 6.82€
Rating 7.9
Release 21 Nov 2025
IT Specialist Simulator Step into the world of IT! Diagnose network issues, manage servers, and repair devices while handling tasks under strict SLAs. Choose your career path, from HelpDesk to IT Project Manager. Develop real IT knowledge and climb the ranks in this realistic IT simulation!

Price -22% 10.75€
Rating 7.1
Release 20 Nov 2025
Roboquest VR The future is in flames, overrun by ruthless machines—but you’re built to fight back. Roboquest VR is a lightning-fast roguelite FPS where speed, firepower, and reflexes are your best weapons. Adapt, survive, and reboot the future!

Price -15% 22.09€
Rating 8.4
Release 20 Nov 2025
Penelope Pendrick and the Art of Deceit Pick up your magnifying glass as writer-turned-detective Penelope Pendrick in this first-person point and click mystery adventure! Three people have suddenly vanished from the sleepy town of Carlisle. Follow the clues, interrogate suspects, and solve puzzles to end this case - before it ends you.

Price -20% 19.60€
Rating 9.0
Release 19 Nov 2025
Wretch: Divine Ascent A 1v1 tactical auto battler game with elements of roguelike mechanics and backpack management in a dark medieval art style. It was inspired by Backpack Battles and developed with Unreal Engine. Create your own unique attack combos by arranging items in your backpack to connect moves.

Price -65% 5.32€
Rating 7.4
Release 19 Nov 2025
SkyBrew: Entropic Strategist Experience entrepreneurship in a floating cloud cafe. Manage your flying cafe, customize construction, train staff, handle random events, and uncover the secrets of the commercial empire, growing from a small shop to the sky's brightest star.

Price -25% 13.11€
Rating 7.3
Release 19 Nov 2025
Kingdoms of the Dump A SNES styled JRPG set in a fantasy world of garbage, created by two janitors. Join Trash Can Knight, Dustin Binsley, as he fights his way through the Five and a Half Kingdoms of the Dump!

Price -25% 14.62€
Rating 8.9
Release 18 Nov 2025
Morsels Morsels is a fast-paced creature collecting roguelite with a rotating roster of characters to switch between at will. Overcome a clique of killer cats as you fight your way out of the sewers in this unique, action-packed journey.

Price -55% 6.77€
Rating 7.2
Release 18 Nov 2025
Storebound A 1-3 co-op puzzle horror game. Lost in an accursed megastore, work together to find the exit before its lurking horrors trap you forever.

Price -67% 2.66€
Rating 7.5
Release 17 Nov 2025
The August Before The August Before is a meditative narrative 3D puzzle about cleaning up, sorting out and packing up your life before moving on. Clean up and don’t forget your old belongings on your way to the new life!

Price -90% 1.19€
Rating 8.4
Release 17 Nov 2025
Forestrike Forestrike is a martial arts roguelite where every death brings you closer to winning the fight before it begins. Use your ‘Foresight’ ability to experiment without consequences before fighting for real until earning the ultimate reward - victory without ‘Foresight’.

Price -51% 4.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Nov 2025
The Berlin Apartment One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.

Price -50% 12.25€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Nov 2025

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