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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Dog Sled Saga As a rookie musher, foster a dogsledding team whose skills will grow if they're treated right. Week by week, get to know your dogs' unique traits, and carve your story into the trails of the Mount St. Something region.

Price -95% 0.44€
Rating 8.6
Release 22 Sep 2016
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 surgeon at Little Creek Hospital!

Price -20% 15.60€
Rating 8.8
Release 20 Sep 2016
Seraph Seraph is a skill-based, acrobatic shooter... without aiming! Take the role of an angel who's mastered the art of 'Gun Fu' as she blasts and cartwheels her way through hordes of twisted demons.

Price -87% 0.55€
Rating 7.5
Release 20 Sep 2016
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is an anti-adventure game about picking up trash in an alien bazaar. Play as the Janitor, an Alaensee girlbeast with a municipally-subsidized trash incineration job and dreams of leaving the planet of Xabran's Rock far behind her.

Price -90% 0.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 16 Sep 2016
Floppy Heroes Floppy Heroes is a ragdoll physics brawler with dismemberment, a wide range of weapons and armor, very simple controls, and custom battles playable with up to 6 local players.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 13 Sep 2016
RIVE This 360-degree shooter/platformer hybrid lets you choreograph a ‘dance of destruction’ in insanely spectacular battles and set-pieces. RIVE feels like the explosive games of yore, pumping megapixels in true 21st century style.

Price -35% 9.68€
Rating 8.0
Release 13 Sep 2016
What The Box? What the box is an Online Multiplayer shooter in which players control living boxes hiding amongst regular boxes while trying to destroy each other. Run around with your trusty box cutter in hand or stand still and wait for the perfect moment to strike!

Price -70% 1.49€
Rating 7.5
Release 12 Sep 2016
Iron Sea Defenders Man the guns! The enemy fleet is on the horizon! Defend your fort from attacks – show your tactical skill.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.6
Release 09 Sep 2016
Princess Remedy 2: In A Heap of Trouble An enormous Boss Tower has sprung from the ground, lifting entire towns up with it. Now, the people living on the tower are starting to contract all sorts of mysterious illnesses. Princess Remedy, still in Saturnian healing school, must use her powers to heal everyone and defeat the Boss Tower!

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.5
Release 08 Sep 2016
Calm Down, Stalin Calm Down, Stalin is a game where you directly control your hands to threaten your enemies with nuclear weapons by moving your finger closer to The Button while signing important state papers, answering phone, dealing with your subordinates and fighting the stress of your job by smoking your pipe!

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 08 Sep 2016
Safety First! Safety First! is a twin stick physics puzzler in which you have to fix broken electric wires using your Magical Yellow Repair Liquid (MYRL). Can you beat all 69 levels?

Price -52% 1.45€
Rating 7.5
Release 08 Sep 2016
Sisyphus Reborn A short atmospheric adventure game about finding meaning in a meaningless world.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 05 Sep 2016
Unbox: Newbie's Adventure Unbox: Newbie's Adventure is a 90s style 3D platformer about the ultimate postal service, self-delivering cardboard boxes! Unbox: Newbie's Adventure has giant worlds full of challenges, collectibles and boxy boss battles!

Price -86% 2.97€
Rating 7.8
Release 05 Sep 2016
Atomik: RunGunJumpGun Atomik: RunGunJumpGun is a tough as nails game that puts a gravity-defying weapon in your hands. One button lets you fly, the other blasts obstacles out of the way. With a cast of crazed characters, challenging gameplay, and a pulsing musical score, it delivers twitchy platforming goodness.

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 31 Aug 2016
NeuroVoider NeuroVoider is a twin-stick shooter RPG set in a cyber futuristic world about brains shooting around evil robots with nuclear rocket launchers. Battle through the horde of vigilant robots, boost your character with the smoking remains of your victims, and defeat the master NeuroVoider.

Price -97% 0.45€
Rating 7.3
Release 31 Aug 2016
Four Sided Fantasy A game about the limits of your screen. Four Sided Fantasy is a seamless experience where you wrap the screen to solve mind-bending puzzles. Play as a man and woman who attempt to find each other throughout four seasons in a year, constantly separated by the boundaries of the screen.

Price -93% 0.75€
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Aug 2016
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is a tabletop adventure come to life! This fantasy solo RPG combines unique, simultaneous turn-based combat with a journey that changes based on each figurine you take into Firetop Mountain! Which hero will you take into Zagor's lair THIS time?

Price -98% 0.41€
Rating 7.1
Release 30 Aug 2016
Last Will Your deranged and mysterious Grandfather is dead, and in his last will and testament, he gave his entire fortune and mansion to you. But on one condition. You have to visit his mansion and collect the riches for yourself. But once the door shuts behind you, you realize that this is no easy task.

Price -95% 0.46€
Rating 7.2
Release 29 Aug 2016
Optika Discover the world of light physics: play with lasers, prisms, mirrors, magnets and dozens of other optical devices. Explore the world of Optika with Prof. Opticus and his assistant, Sofia! Research and complete more than one hundred challenging puzzles!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 26 Aug 2016
Tribal Pass A genre-twisting tactical runner where you maneuver, fight, think, sacrifice and evolve – all ON THE RUN.

Price -80% 1.14€
Rating 7.2
Release 26 Aug 2016
You Have 10 Seconds 2 You Have 10 Seconds 2 is the sequel to the popular Free to Play game "You Have 10 Seconds". You have 10 seconds to get from the start of each level to the end before time runs out and without dying.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 25 Aug 2016
Ultimate Arena Pick and create characters to fight to the death in this action-packed nonsensical arena simulation.

Price -90% 0.53€
Rating 7.7
Release 22 Aug 2016
The VR Museum of Fine Art JUST UPDATED: Explore the Second Floor of the Museum! Explore a virtual museum in room-scale VR: see famous sculptures in full, 1:1 scale and see famous paintings without the limitations of glass and security guards.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 20 Aug 2016
Guards Four heroes are facing a horde of evil! Ultimate abilities, magic artifacts, hero upgrades and clever tactics... All these will help to defeat the Boss.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Aug 2016
Okhlos: Omega Squeeze into your toga and slide on your sandals to rally the angry mobs of Okhlos and bring down the oppressive god of mythological Greece!

Price -96% 0.54€
Rating 7.3
Release 18 Aug 2016
Shift It's a fun puzzle game. You have to connect as many figures as possible together. Use yellow "shifters" to change direction of the line. Get more points for longer line.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 16 Aug 2016
Typoman Slip into the role of an unusual HERO and find the last letter to restore hope in a merciless world.

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Aug 2016
ROD: Revolt Of Defense Explore a random generated space. Find artifacts and treasure maps. Build and develop your base on a flying platform. Attack or defend against enemies and save the universe!

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 12 Aug 2016
8-Bit Hordes From the team that brought you 8-Bit Armies comes a new fantasy RTS as fast-paced and friendly as the original! 8-BIT HORDES is a colorful strategy-arcade game that is easy to learn for players of all skill levels. Collect resources, build up and defend your base, amass your army of orcs or humans and ultimately crush your opponents!

Price -76% 3.69€
Rating 7.7
Release 12 Aug 2016
Siralim 2 Siralim 2 is an old-school monster catching RPG. Summon and customize hundreds of creatures to fight for you as you battle your way through endless dungeons. Find rare treasure and use it to upgrade your castle, empower your creatures, craft powerful artifacts, learn new spells, and much more.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 12 Aug 2016
Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala is the final chapter in the blockbuster trilogy, an exciting detective story rife with adventure, puzzles, and ancient mystery. Follow the trail of a demonic preacher and unravel the secrets of Karkhala Peak!

Price -94% 0.93€
Rating 8.8
Release 11 Aug 2016
Winter Novel Snow, dullness, depression. Constant dissatisfaction with work and superiors and feeling like there is no escape. Is this what life will always be? Perhaps… but I can always hope for change to be just around the corner!…

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 10 Aug 2016
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh is an Immersive Horror Adventure, featuring a Complex Story and Deep Atmosphere.

Price -98% 0.57€
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Aug 2016
#KILLALLZOMBIES #KILLALLZOMBIES is an insane twin-stick zombie shooter with Twitch streaming interactions, where you survive hordes of zombies on a dynamically changing arena and spectators may affect gameplay via special Twitch chat commands.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.3
Release 10 Aug 2016
Through Abandoned: The Forest You continue your journey in worlds of Abandoned.

Price -88% 0.49€
Rating 7.2
Release 09 Aug 2016
Spikit Spikit is a bullet hell game developed by a single developer, Igor Petrović. With a soundtrack composed by Dario Malešević. In this game, the player will have to dodge a constant barrage of spikes coming from the side of the screen.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 09 Aug 2016

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