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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BLUE REVOLVER Fight, fly, flourish! BLUE REVOLVER is a manic arcade-style shoot-em-up built for newcomers and psychos alike. Powerful special weapons cut through tough areas, while an adaptive difficulty system tailors the game to your skill level as you evade and counter a maniac environmental force!

Price 14.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 11 Oct 2016
Sakura Space Captain Shika has seen all kinds of things in her adventures throughout the universe, and with her two loyal crew members by her side, she's managed to make a name for her small company of mercenaries. When Shika finds a bounty job offering an absurd amount of money, she doesn't hesitate to act: tracking hardened criminals is part of the...

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Oct 2016
Alice's Patchworks 2 Assemble patchwork mosaics, meet your favorite heroes from the world beyond the looking glass and help Alice become the queen!

Price -82% 2.77€
Rating 7.6
Release 07 Oct 2016
THOTH THOTH is a challenging twin-stick shooter you can conquer alone or cooperatively with a friend. Each stage is handcrafted to test coordination and puzzle-solving skills. Colorful minimalist graphics combine with an intense unnerving soundtrack, making for an exciting mix of art and arcade.

Price -97% 0.19€
Rating 7.8
Release 07 Oct 2016
Doorways: Old Prototype An immersive and twisted adventure created before the official development of the Doorways saga

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 05 Oct 2016
Zombo Buster Rising Shoot zombies from terrace like a boss! Zombo Buster Rising Remastered brings you a nostalgic experience of classic 2D side shooting-defense in enhanced build right from your Steam library!

Price -69% 0.62€
Rating 8.7
Release 02 Oct 2016
Recursed A puzzle game where the rooms are items and the items are rooms. Get to the goal by moving, rearranging and duplicating rooms and altering the structure of the world.

Price 7.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 Sep 2016
8Bit Fiesta - The Drinking Game 8Bit Fiesta brings everything you need to the table with its action packed local multiplayer mayhem including a built in drinking game! Choose between a ton of characters and challenge your friends and prove yourself worthy the title "King of the Fiesta".

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 30 Sep 2016
Caravan Are you ready to embark on a journey through deserts and dangers? Will you be able to safely navigate your fellowship through the lands of the Orient and uncover your destiny? Through strategic trading and traveling you will overcome obstacles and adversity.

Price -94% 0.36€
Rating 7.4
Release 30 Sep 2016
Soundboxing Soundboxing is a VR music video kickboxing game where you create the beats! You can either punch to the music and compete to beat the best, or record your own challenge for others to beat—all set to your favorite music in a cool outdoor environment.

Price 15.79€
Rating 8.2
Release 29 Sep 2016
The Metronomicon: Slay The Dance Floor A Rhythm Role-Playing Game! Fight party crashing monsters with the power of music! Level your party and upgrade your gear while dancing to the beat of some groovin' tunes. Grab a friend and combine forces in all game modes in The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor!

Price -96% 0.89€
Rating 7.8
Release 29 Sep 2016
Giant Machines 2017 Take control over seven of the biggest industrial machines in the world. During the 14 mission campaign you will punch through the snows of Greenland, plow the steppes of Wyoming and travel all the way to sunny Florida. Your hard work will be completed by launching a space shuttle into space.

Price -95% 1.10€
Rating 6.9
Release 29 Sep 2016
8infinity 8infinity (8 infinity) is a dynamic and rhythm game where the player reaches eights “8” - levels of infinity.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 7.2
Release 23 Sep 2016
Children of a Dead Earth The most scientifically accurate space warfare simulator ever made. Now with Steam Workshop!

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.5
Release 23 Sep 2016
Toadled Classic A seemingly normal afternoon turns into an apocalyptic day when one tiny toad gains the ability to grow more and more with each thing he eats...

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 22 Sep 2016
Heroes of the Monkey Tavern Heroes of the Monkey Tavern is a first-person dungeon-crawling game designed as an introduction to the genre : simplified rules, balanced puzzles and challenges. An independent project developed solo.

Price -86% 1.19€
Rating 7.0
Release 22 Sep 2016
hackmud hackmud is a retro cyberpunk RPG where you play a digital persona in a chaotic, unpredictable, and often goofy abandoned internet. Enter a 90s hacker movie filled with scripts, scams, and sabotage. Explore the world of digital secrets and forge your legacy through cunning, creativity, or disruption.

Price 18.49€
Rating 7.5
Release 22 Sep 2016
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 -87% 1.07€
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 19.50€
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 -91% 0.94€
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 -49% 2.59€
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 -87% 0.40€
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% 0.43€
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% 0.77€
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 -2% 4.94€
Rating 8.0
Release 26 Aug 2016

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