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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Devious Dungeon
Set in the Dark Ages, Devious Dungeon is a medieval focused action platformer with RPG styled upgrades.
Project 5: Sightseer
Open world multiplayer sandbox/RPG game. Explore, gather, build, research, and fight to protect what's yours -- by yourself or together with your friends.
ARIDA: Backland's Awakening
ARIDA: Backland's Awakening. A story of survival and adventure in the brazilian backlands. Face the drought to explore the more arid regions, gather resources and discover clues about the fate of the young Cícera.
The Great Perhaps
The Great Perhaps is a time travel puzzle game about an astronaut returning to Earth destroyed by natural cataclysms. There, among the ruins he finds an unusual artifact — an old lantern, in the light of which you can see glimpses of another time and travel to the past.
Ballex
In Ver.1.1 update, Ballex has added a new chapter: Chapter3, including new levels(13 to 17), with difficulty and challenges. We have optimized a lot of problems, added new screen Settings and so on. Go ahead and update it! Come and experience this difficult game! XD
Anodyne 2: Return to Dust
A 3D-2D adventure where you travel a 3D world and explore 2D dungeons inside of its characters' bodies and minds! In an unforgettable, surreal story, travel the world, meet whimsical denizens, and save the world from the dangerous Nano Dust.
Nice Jumper
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Electronic Super Joy 2
Electronic Super Joy 2 is a brutally hard platformer, set in a world of brain-smashing electronic music. Run, jump, smash, & slice your way through 55+ weird & different levels, with giant monsters, swarming missiles & secret areas.
Phantom Rose
Phantom Rose is a roguelike deckbuilding card game. Fight and collect powerful cards as Reina, a maid exploring a mansion ravaged by evil creatures
Roombo: First Blood
Roombo: First Blood is a comedic, top-down, stealth-action game about being a robot vacuum cleaner and fending off burglars from your home. A short, experimental game and the first in the JUSTICE SUCKS series.
Under What?
“Under what?” is a short but very capacious story-tale about an old fisherman who suddenly faced the surface of the water. In this story there will be no dragons, the battle of good and evil, and other boring nonsense. But there will be some bad jokes and extraordinary characters.
Dry Drowning
Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.
Tina: Swordswoman of the Scarlet Prison
Play as Tina and Cecile as they investigate Durham and try to uncover the cause of the village's sudden surge of crime. With the reappearance of an old foe, their job won't be easy.
变量 Variables
We created this unique single player game with a combination of Tower Defence and Roguelike. Come and create your maze, build your turret, defeat the invaders, and save the world!
Don't Escape Trilogy
In this classic point-and-click adventure anthology by award-winning indie developer Scriptwelder, you'll protect an unsuspecting hamlet from yourself, try to prepare for an incoming undead horde, and search a seemingly empty spaceship for answers to a gruesome mystery.
1000 days to escape
Only 1000 days left until the end of the world. You have to realize the largest space program ever to save as many people as you can. Explore planets, colonize them, help people find a new home.
Interstellar Space: Genesis
Interstellar Space: Genesis is a turn-based space 4X strategy game in which you attempt to build a thriving galactic empire. Discover mysteries among the stars, colonize worlds, and engage enemies in tactical turn-based combat on your journey to becoming the ruler of the galaxy!
Songbird Symphony
Musical Metroidvania, with pixel art to die for. Guide orphaned chick 'Birb', on a platform adventure, as he faces off against the denizens of the forest in rhythm-action boss battles. Acclaimed for its gorgeous animation, and heart-warming storytelling, as Birb strives to discover his true origins.
Takelings House Party
A frantic and whimsical local multiplayer party game for VR. Takelings have invaded this quiet suburban home and it's up to Hal to exterminate these pests using whatever means necessary! Up to 8 players hide, sneak, attack and cause chaos against 1 VR player in a variety of asymmetric minigames
Automachef
Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!
Elsinore
Elsinore is a time-looping adventure game set in the world of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Elsinore combines strong social simulation elements, a dynamic story that reacts immediately to player decisions, and a world full of diverse characters with secrets to uncover.
Arizona Derby
Hit the pedal, run out the offroad.
Super Life (RPG)
Welcome home to Sun Villa! After a long summer at grandpa's ranch, it's time to finish school, get a job and move into your own place. Let the adventure of life begin!
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.7 Minagoroshi
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Fate Hunters
Fate Hunters is a hardcore mix of strategy card battles and a roguelike adventure. Build your deck, explore the dangerous dark fantasy world and face fearsome foes! Risk your life to get powerful treasures!
Etherborn
Delve into an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice awaits your arrival. Go forth and seek your purpose.
Horace
"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
局外人 L'Etranger
A unique visual novel about the high school experiences in alternate-history East Asia.
Night Call
Friend. Confidant. Therapist. Voyeur. As a cab driver working the Paris night shift, you are many things to different people. Your gift is getting people to talk; and in order to catch the serial killer who left you for dead, that’s exactly what you’ll need to do.
Summer Catchers
Summer Catchers is an epic story that combines an endless runner with inventory management. Set your goals, complete tasks and stock up on gear to get as far as you can and advance this charming story full of strange and wonderful characters.
Galaxy Squad
Galaxy squad is a hardcore turn-based tactical roguelike, inspired by FTL and XCOM.
Atma
Atma is a pixel art adventure game : Embody Shaya, Guardian of the living and the spirit world. Atma, your lover, calls you from the afterlife: he needs help. What if you could bring him back to you? However, this would mean disrupting the balance between the two worlds... What choice will you make?
Waltz of the Wizard
Magic, mayhem and mild sarcasm.
Dungeon Of Dragon Knight
Dungeon of Dragon Knight is a retro dungeon crawler RPG in modern visual design. Pointed by a mysterious witch, your party will descend into a dungeon with traps and monsters in search of the evil Dragon Knight and his treasure weapon. Or, are you fooled by the witch?
Monsters of Little Haven
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.