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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Lydia Award winning emotional visual novel about a little girl in a world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?

Price -50% 1.42€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Jun 2017
Tormentor❌Punisher Everything in Tormentor❌Punisher can be killed in one hit, from bosses to yourself. Bosses conjure traps to make the arena hellish. Demons adjust to your play style and punish you. Perform combos on enemies and gain cool upgrades. Reload your machine gun by firing your shotgun. Let's do this!

Price -60% 3.19€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Jun 2017
FORM Enter a surreal adventure where puzzles are built from dreams and memories. Solve the mystery behind an ancient artifact. Advance through a world that transforms around you. Transcend this existence.

Price -75% 3.12€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 Jun 2017
Armed with Wings: Rearmed You are the sword; cut down your foes with steel and thunder. You are the wings; explore the skies and uncover unreachable mysteries. Embark on a journey through a vicious world ruled by darkness and imperial tyranny - the lands of Blackmist.

Price -72% 2.89€
Rating 8.2
Release 01 Jun 2017
Oh...Sir! The Hollywood Roast The boys are back , and they look better than ever! Oh…Sir! The Hollywood roast is a brand new spinoff to the surprise indie hit 0f 2016, Oh…Sir!! The Insult Simulator. This time around we’re taking tinsel town down a few notches, whilst classing up the joint.

Price -86% 0.57€
Rating 7.9
Release 31 May 2017
Perception An award-winning narrative thriller about a blind woman’s journey to uncover the truth about the mansion from her nightmares, or else become one of its victims.

Price -75% 4.19€
Rating 6.9
Release 30 May 2017
Putrefaction 2: Void Walker Putrefaction 2: Void Walker is fast-paced, hardcore, arcade FPS, inspired by old-school shooters.

Price -80% 0.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 29 May 2017
Flying Tigers: Shadows Over China FLYING TIGERS: SHADOWS OVER CHINA is an air-combat action game based on the historical events of America’s secret volunteer squadrons that defended China against Japan in the China-Burma-India theatre of World War 2.

Price -71% 3.69€
Rating 6.9
Release 29 May 2017
CrossCells CrossCells is an ambient logic puzzle game.

Price -70% 0.89€
Rating 7.9
Release 26 May 2017
Detective Butler: Maiden Voyage Murder Follow Detective Butler and his sidekick Gilligan as they solve a locked-room murder during a haunted cruise ship's maiden voyage. Can you solve the mystery before Detective Butler reveals the answer?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 26 May 2017
50 years 50 Years is a fast-paced alternative to the bigger, longer turn-based strategy games. You can win or lose a game in a single evening. Either way you'll want to play it again.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 26 May 2017
The Fidelio Incident The Fidelio Incident is a single-player, first-person thriller set off the coast of Iceland. Inspired by Beethoven's only opera Fidelio. After a violent plane crash, Stanley must search a desolate frozen island in search of his wife Leonore while covering up any traces of their bloody Irish past.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 23 May 2017
Heart's Medicine - Hospital Heat The long awaited sequel to "Heart's Medicine - Time to Heal". An intense, but also funny, medical drama that deals with a lot of life-changing decisions. Become an aspiring doctor at Little Creek Hospital!

Price -20% 15.60€
Rating 8.8
Release 23 May 2017
StarCrawlers StarCrawlers is a modern take on a classic cRPG dungeon crawler set in a gritty spacepunk universe. Build a crew of renegade adventurers on the fringes of space, taking jobs from megacorps to hunt bounties, sabotage rivals and conduct corporate espionage.

Price -50% 9.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 23 May 2017
Hyper Knights Slash and Dash, raise your army, learn powerful combos and take back your land!

Price -76% 1.20€
Rating 8.4
Release 19 May 2017
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!

Price -67% 2.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 19 May 2017
Ghost Files: The Face of Guilt Lead the Police investigation in the afterlife!

Price -84% 2.38€
Rating 6.8
Release 18 May 2017
TO THE TOP VR Platforming Game, that gives you the freedom to move across the environment with superhuman abilities. Conquer over 35 levels with new obstacles and challenges. Compete for the fastest times or explore the environment. Experience the freedom of movement.

Price -29% 12.00€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 May 2017
Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs Regalia: Of Men And Monarchs is a tactical RPG set in a cheerful fantasy world full of weirdness and wonder. Assemble your party, go adventuring, manage your kingdom, make new friends, and defeat your opponents in challenging turn-based combat.

Price -90% 2.19€
Rating 7.5
Release 18 May 2017
OVIVO OVIVO is a minimalistic platformer with unusual mechanics where everything is as simple as black and white. The journey in this metaphoric world is filled with illusions and hidden messages.

Price -80% 1.95€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 May 2017
Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea! Try and navigate your way through one of the world's most tightly controlled dictatorships, with two cute soldiers by your side. Avoid getting shot, executed, black-bagged, or tried for treason as you explore Pyongyang's most famous tourist attractions.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 11 May 2017
Block'hood Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.

Price -85% 2.29€
Rating 7.1
Release 10 May 2017
#monstercakes Pretty simple game combination between 2048 and match-3 settings with awesome monster cakes. Put your monster cake in the good hole and combine them together to get higher monster cake. Combine them as high as you can and be on the top of the leaderboard!

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 05 May 2017
Griptape Backbone A relaxing meditative and Zen like first person vaporwave skateboarding game. An interactive mixtape.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 05 May 2017
World to the West World to the West is a standalone followup of Teslagrad, the indie hit that sold more than 1.6 million copies worldwide. A vast world of blue skies and dark caves awaits you in this 3D action adventure, as you try to unveil the mysteries of an ancient prophecy.

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 7.3
Release 05 May 2017
Mass Exodus Redux Whether you’re playing the seeker (VR) or rogue android (PC), Mass Exodus is a tense and absorbing local multiplayer game. With 4 extensive maps each with unique kill methods and some creative power-ups, you need to try outsmart your friends anyway you can. Oculus Touch and HTC Vive compatible.

Price 6.89€
Rating 6.9
Release 04 May 2017
Battle Bruise Stay atop a mountain of corpses! Fight numerous swarms of enemies, while dealing with the changing terrain.This game isn't messy. It's MESS ITSELF!

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 03 May 2017
Dong-Jin Rice-hime(東津萌米) It takes all sorts to make a world, also all sorts of rice!? From Simon Creative and Storia, one of our most popular games of 2016, here comes the rice growing simulation game!

Price -60% 7.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 28 Apr 2017
One Dog Story One Dog Story is an engaging pixel adventure game with RPG elements, gameplay that’ll get you hooked for hours, and well-developed characters. You wake up in an underground laboratory, free again after a horrific accident. Prepare to explore this expansive game world and its many secrets and mysteries.

Price -92% 0.79€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Apr 2017
Mini Ghost "Mini Ghost" is a mini metroidvania in the 80's MSX art style and gameplay. It's the mini prequel of Ghost 1.0.

Price -12% 1.77€
Rating 8.7
Release 28 Apr 2017
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.5 Meakashi 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.

Price -35% 5.19€
Rating 9.1
Release 28 Apr 2017
Just Ignore Them One night can feel like a lifetime of pain, suffering and horror to a child...do you have what it takes to survive the night? Play as an 8 year old child who is tormented by monsters in his house. Your choices make his future which lives can be saved or ended.

Price -90% 0.40€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Apr 2017
Hearthlands Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.

Price -50% 7.89€
Rating 7.7
Release 28 Apr 2017
Agatha Knife Embark on a whimsically twisted adventure with Agatha, a child torn between her love for eating meat and her friendships with animals. Join her as she discovers religion and creates her own, Carnivorism, to convince animals that the sacrifice of their flesh is the secret to their eternal happiness.

Price -84% 1.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 27 Apr 2017
Under Leaves Journey into the forest, the jungle or the depths of the deep blue sea. Find chestnuts for the pigs, a caterpillar for the crocodile or a starfish one, two three. A color-filled hidden object game from the world of animals.

Price -33% 3.34€
Rating 8.9
Release 27 Apr 2017
de Blob The evil I.N.K.T. Corporation has declared 'Color is a Crime!' and leeched Chroma City of all its beauty and interest. The race to rescue Chroma City has just begun, and only de Blob can save the world from a black-and-white future with his unique abilities to color the world back to life.

Price -88% 2.50€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Apr 2017

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