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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Blaite A platform game so difficult and at the same time, so addictive that you will enjoy having to repeat a levels dozens of times until complete them.

Price -14% 0.86€
Rating 7.0
Release 02 Jan 2017
Duke of Alpha Centauri Duke of Alpha Centuri is a space shooter with amazing graphics. The main goal of our game is to have a lot of fun while blowing up hordes of different types of enemies. Engage in boss fights, upgrade your ship and ship systems until you are able to show off in an endless mode.

Price -99% 0.27€
Rating 7.3
Release 28 Dec 2016
The Price of Freedom You are Agent Zero. Your mission: assassinate Benjamin Miller, a radical who broke into CIA facilities and stole top secret chemical weapons research. Your mission quickly takes a dark turn as you learn the truth of what Miller was searching for that night.

Price 1.59€
Rating 8.6
Release 22 Dec 2016
99Vidas "99Vidas" is a "beat 'em up" set in a contemporary world that pays tribute to both the new and the classic in gaming industry. Brought to you in all pixelated, 16 bit-esque glory, chockfull of references to not only gaming, but all 80's and 90's pop culture.

Price -69% 4.09€
Rating 7.5
Release 22 Dec 2016
Castle of no Escape 2 Explore 6 x 6 x 6 = 216 rooms of randomly generated hazards and enemies while collecting the necessary artefacts. Hundreds of monsters are roaming inside, guarding the sword shards — the last known thing to be capable of defeating the demonic castle owner.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 21 Dec 2016
Pretty Girls Panic! Socially conservative sea creatures have constructed a water filled screen to hide the Pretty Girls from view. But please don't panic! Use your special tool to penetrate the barrier and reveal the girls while avoiding getting caught. Girls will gradually disrobe from stage to stage to reward you for your success.

Price -87% 0.27€
Rating 7.6
Release 19 Dec 2016
Access Denied Access Denied is a puzzle game in the world where for storage of personal data are used special device in the form of protected boxes. Imagine yourself in the role of the professional cracker of such devices and test your skills for 36 different levels.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Dec 2016
Legend of Merchant Legend of Merchant is a mini-game about trading goods. You will play an ancient eastern merchant, make descisions and make money in limited time. Game has some randomness and you can always start all over again and try to achieve a higher score.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 16 Dec 2016
8-Bit Invaders! 8-Bit Invaders! is a fast-paced, retro Real-Time Strategy game for the PC. Control the military might of the Galactic Marine Corps or Invade with the devastating power of the Cranioids! Mine, Build, and Fight your way to victory! Conquering the Multiverse was never so easy.

Price -75% 3.73€
Rating 7.8
Release 16 Dec 2016
Moekuri: Adorable + Tactical SRPG It's adorable! It's tactical! The doujin/indie SRPG - Moékuri! 151+ Cute Creatures to try, over a solid grid-based tactical system! Fight through 25 story stages with your own unique strategy!

Price 11.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 16 Dec 2016
Endless Fables: The Minotaur's Curse Face off against the Minotaur!

Price -91% 1.35€
Rating 8.3
Release 15 Dec 2016
Defense Zone 3 Ultra HD The sequel to the hit strategy game, with new weapons, landscapes, and options.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.6
Release 14 Dec 2016
Cube Runner Cube Runner is a 3d action platformer that's simple to learn, exciting to play, and deep enough to challenge even the greatest gamers.

Price -97% 1.32€
Rating 8.0
Release 13 Dec 2016
The Little Acre While searching for his father, Aidan travels to a strange new world. Lily - his heroic daughter - sets off after him. Fully voiced and with hand-drawn animations, The Little Acre is a lovingly crafted adventure developed by Pewter Games with Executive Producer Charles Cecil.

Price -98% 0.27€
Rating 8.3
Release 13 Dec 2016
Root Of Evil: The Tailor You will play a telepath named James. He has the ability to connect with the soul thus he can understand their past. He was hired to explore what happened in the previous 20 years in a haunted house This is the puzzle game!

Price 6.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 08 Dec 2016
Coffin of Ashes Delilah is an ordinary school girl who accidentally discovers an old mansion on a rainy night. As her exploration in the mansion continues, she finds many mysterious phenomena that can't be explained. In this mansion covered by ashes, what's the secret hidden deep underground?

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.6
Release 08 Dec 2016
Tomato Way FPS/Slasher/Horror for people with strong nerves. Tomato Way it`s like your favorite video game, but better.

Price -8% 3.69€
Rating 7.7
Release 07 Dec 2016
Her Majesty's SPIFFING Her Majesty's SPIFFING is a quaint graphic adventure game following the exploits of Captain Frank Lee English and his trusted regional accented colleague, Aled, as they travel through the cosmos in search of planets to claim for a new Galactic British Empire!

Price -86% 1.78€
Rating 7.5
Release 07 Dec 2016
Hade Hade is a minimalist logic game with severely difficult puzzles softened by relaxing ambient music.

Price 3.29€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Dec 2016
Abode Abode is an escape room puzzle game. You will have to find, combine and utilize tools and furniture in the room to unveil all its secrets.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 01 Dec 2016
Junk Jack Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 30 Nov 2016
Radiation Island Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.6
Release 29 Nov 2016
ARAYA ARAYA is a first person horror game. Players will get a new thrilling experience inside a Thai hospital. The story will be told from the perspectives of 3 different characters. Players will explore different areas of the hospital in order to piece together the mysterious murder case of Araya.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Nov 2016
Japanese School Life Welcomed by the fluttering of cherry blossom, the main character, Brian, starts a new high school life in Japan. Brian soon starts to get along with two girls in the same class after they start to talk to him. With their help, Brian gradually learns Japanese culture and customs.

Price -80% 2.00€
Rating 7.8
Release 22 Nov 2016
Disoriented A first-person puzzle game. Simply walk to the door.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 21 Nov 2016
Alicemare Alicemare is a somehow familiar yet totally unique adventure game infused with subtle hints of horror, created by △○□× (Miwashiba) using the WOLF RPG Editor.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Nov 2016
拯救大魔王2 Rescue the Great Demon 2 Sino was controlled by human. Human made the rules, and annihilated every race that opposed them. Every race on this continent became slaves, except human.Demons had been enslaved for 80 years since their leader, the Great Demon was captured. This is where our story begins.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Nov 2016
RYB RYB is a logic puzzle game that plays like a combination of sudoku and minesweeper.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 17 Nov 2016
ISLANDS: Non-Places The familiar becomes magical in this critically acclaimed interactive artscape. Explore ten scenes inspired by the everyday and let your expectations of reality be transformed. Carl Burton's other work has been featured in the New York Times, Serial, Colossal, and Medium.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 17 Nov 2016
Kick Ass Commandos Lock and Load! It's time to Kick-Ass. Grab your machine gun, flamethrower, rocket launcher, and grenades. Assault the enemy base and free commandos to join your team while you destroy everything in sight. Make your way through enemy bunkers to rescue your comrades, and kill everyone you encounter!

Price -71% 2.06€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Nov 2016
Creeper World 2: Anniversary Edition Deceptively simple... amazingly deep. Creeper World 2 thrusts you into the 14th millennium fighting and enemy that flows and oozes through the terrain. Employ advanced weapons,gravity manipulating repulsors, wormhole like rifts, and your own wit against this never yielding enemy.

Price -32% 3.43€
Rating 8.4
Release 16 Nov 2016
Creeper World: Anniversary Edition Imagine an enemy that is everywhere and moves like a giant, organic mass across the map. Imagine your base and your people surrounded by a blanket of crushing destruction from all directions. Your only hope, well what hope? Then you take the high ground and pound this enemy into oblivion.

Price -36% 3.22€
Rating 9.1
Release 16 Nov 2016
Ittle Dew 2+ Ittle and Tippsie crash onto yet another island filled with loot, puzzles and mysterious inhabitants! With the help of a magical map, they set out to steal eight pieces of a raft from increasingly improbable locations including beaches, prairies, an art exhibit and some dude's basement.

Price -97% 0.64€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Nov 2016
Doom & Destiny Advanced Four nerds walk into a dungeon. It’s not a joke, it’s Doom & Destiny Advanced.

Price -70% 2.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 15 Nov 2016
Don't open the doors! Claymation action adventure in an odd world of talking pumpkins, blue trees and stuff like that.

Price -23% 8.53€
Rating 7.9
Release 11 Nov 2016
One Night Stand After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed. What do you do?

Price -31% 2.07€
Rating 8.4
Release 07 Nov 2016

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