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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[Chilla's Art] Aka Manto | 赤マント Aka Manto (赤マント Red Cloak), aka Red Cape or Red Mantle, is a Japanese urban legend about a masked spirit who wears a red cloak, and who appears to people using public or school restrooms.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Sep 2019
Overland Take care of a group of travelers on a post-apocalyptic road-trip across the United States in this turn-based survival game.

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.0
Release 19 Sep 2019
Aeon's End Deck building with a twist! Lead a team of mages against the Nameless in this magic-based card battle game and save the city of Gravehold!

Price -79% 3.12€
Rating 7.7
Release 17 Sep 2019
Nauticrawl A stolen, enigmatic machine is your only way out. It's likely to kill you, but so will the hostile planet you're escaping. Pull levers, hack devices, and puzzle out how to pilot the Nauticrawl to freedom in this unusual atmospheric adventure... or die trying.

Price -91% 1.35€
Rating 8.5
Release 16 Sep 2019
Queen's Wish: The Conqueror At last, the Queen has given you power and freedom! The cost? You must rebuild her Empire. Will you? In this epic, indie fantasy adventure, you are free to explore, fight for fame and power, and shape the world as you choose. Escape into an unpredictable open-ended story and cunning tactical combat.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.8
Release 11 Sep 2019
Creature in the Well Unlock the power of an ancient facility and face the ominous, all-seeing Creature in this unique pinball-inspired hack & slash!

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Sep 2019
Pizza Game Every boy have a secret. One of them is bones.

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.0
Release 06 Sep 2019
A Street Cat's Tale A Tale of a street cat left alone

Price -59% 1.65€
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Sep 2019
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Price 3.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 05 Sep 2019
Minotaur An adventure game with visual novel-style narrative, Minotaur tells a dark mystery story set in a newly created science fantasy world of synthets, magic-wielding androids and cybernetically enhanced penguins… God, what a (bloody) mess.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.8
Release 05 Sep 2019
Shepherd of Light Shepherd of Light is a student made game where you control a young shepherd who loses his sheep, and must brave a wolf-infested forest to get them to safety. Rescue sheep with different special abilities and direct them to solve environmental puzzles.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 04 Sep 2019
Something for Someone Else Something for Someone Else is a short atypical experience, a brief journey into the mind of a distressed game developer that feels haunted by a game he made. All in the form of a poorly hand drawn narrative platformer accompanied by the beautiful musics of Celluloid Jam.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 03 Sep 2019
MicroTown Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 30 Aug 2019
Wilmot's Warehouse Wilmot's Warehouse is a puzzle game about keeping a warehouse running in tip-top shape. Just remember where you put everything, because when the service hatch opens, you'll need to find the things people want quickly, in order to earn the coveted Performance Stars.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 Aug 2019
Great Toilet Simulator Great Toilet Simulator is a first-person indie horror telling you the story of a man who has his car broken on his way home, in the middle of a thick forest. What makes the situation even worse is that the main character is really in need of a toilet.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 23 Aug 2019
Winds of Change Lead The Rebellion, build your army, and shape the world with your choices. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options, and non-linear storytelling. A vast fantasy world waiting to be explored. Inspired by Dragon Age, and Mass Effect. Fully voice acted by a stellar cast!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 21 Aug 2019
RAD RAD is a 3D action rogue-like set in a post-post-apocalyptic world, where humanity has faced armageddon not once, but twice.

Price -97% 0.66€
Rating 7.1
Release 19 Aug 2019
Within the blade Bloody stealth platformer, about the ninja in which you cut the enemies into pieces.

Price -77% 2.53€
Rating 8.0
Release 17 Aug 2019
Coloring Game: Little City A theme-based sequel of the popular Coloring Game (coloring by numbers).

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 16 Aug 2019
Devious Dungeon Set in the Dark Ages, Devious Dungeon is a medieval focused action platformer with RPG styled upgrades.

Price -95% 0.46€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Aug 2019
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.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 16 Aug 2019
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.

Price -83% 0.59€
Rating 8.2
Release 15 Aug 2019
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.

Price -90% 0.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 14 Aug 2019
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

Price 3.29€
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Aug 2019
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.

Price -96% 0.80€
Rating 8.9
Release 12 Aug 2019
Nice Jumper Ready to test your reaction?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 09 Aug 2019
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.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 09 Aug 2019
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

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.4
Release 07 Aug 2019
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.

Price -75% 1.29€
Rating 8.2
Release 07 Aug 2019
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.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 05 Aug 2019
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.

Price -93% 1.20€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Aug 2019
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.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.9
Release 01 Aug 2019
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!

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 30 Jul 2019
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.

Price -62% 1.90€
Rating 9.2
Release 29 Jul 2019
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.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 25 Jul 2019
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!

Price -99% 0.38€
Rating 7.9
Release 25 Jul 2019

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