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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Fine Sweeper Fine Sweeper is a Minesweeper variant with additional features such as a campaign mode, “classic mode”, item drops, leader-boards, and achievements.

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.2
Release 25 May 2015
Fort Defense All hands on deck! Pirate armada dead ahead! Take part in an uncompromising struggle repelling freebooters' assaults. Watch out, the enemy may catch the tide for ruining your fortress. Build towers, collect crystals, upgrade spells and believe in your victory!

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 22 May 2015
Interloper Interloper is an online multiplayer real-time strategy game with matches that take only 5 minutes. Instead of destroying your opponent, you win by claiming domain. By predicting your opponent's movements, you corner them to claim the entire map.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 21 May 2015
NEON STRUCT You are Jillian Cleary: an ex-spy on the run, framed for treason and hunted by your former agency. You must move in secret, survive off the grid, and find a way to clear your name. Old friends and new allies will lend their support; but with the eyes of the world upon you, who can you trust?

Price 15.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 20 May 2015
Quell An enchanting game of logic and relaxation.

Price -89% 0.45€
Rating 9.0
Release 14 May 2015
Home is Where One Starts... Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.

Price -85% 0.45€
Rating 7.4
Release 12 May 2015
Why Am I Dead At Sea Why Am I Dead At Sea is an adventure game where you solve the mystery of your own murder. As a ghost, you will have to possess people and use them to investigate your surroundings. But in this place no one is who they seem...and everyone has a secret.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 11 May 2015
Inside My Radio Can you beat the beat? Journey as a green LED mysteriously trapped inside a dying boombox and play the ultimate musical experience. In this rhythmic platform adventure where your every action needs to be right on the beat, bring electro, dub and disco music back to life!

Price -97% 0.45€
Rating 8.2
Release 11 May 2015
Quintet A cooperative, cross-platform, multiplayer scifi game where players control the same ship through 5 roles — Captain, Helm, Tactical, Engineering & Science. Battle with other player crews over the Internet.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 11 May 2015
Action Henk Run, jump and butt-slide into the glorious toy-filled world of Action Henk! Become a master of momentum and defy physics as you race against a band of ragged 90s action figures to once and for all prove that Action Henk is the fastest of them all!

Price -91% 1.42€
Rating 8.3
Release 11 May 2015
Last Word In a society where having the last word means having power over others, a small party is disrupted by a gentleman who politely issues orders via one-way intercom.

Price -96% 0.46€
Rating 7.7
Release 08 May 2015
The Music Machine A teenage girl and the vengeful ghost possessing her stumble onto horrors of cosmic proportions as the latter searches for a way to murder the former.

Price -37% 3.18€
Rating 8.3
Release 06 May 2015
Super Indie Karts Super Indie Karts is a classic retro 16 to 64-bit style karting game, with Time Trials, Grand Prix, Splitscreen GP, Mission Mania, and Battle Mania! Featuring 48 racetracks, with many more coming soon. You don't have to wait until completion though as you can join the race now with Early Access!

Price -90% 1.96€
Rating 7.7
Release 06 May 2015
Lux Delux Lux Delux is a fast-paced turn-based-strategy game of risk and world domination, with so much more! Highly moddable, Lux has over 900 maps, diverse random map generators, a biohazard mode, an AI SDK, and an online multi-player league.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 01 May 2015
ROCKETSROCKETSROCKETS ROCKETS fire ROCKETS at ROCKETS in this action-arcade, arena-combat, gorgeous festival-of-fireworks! It's dogfighting meets figure-skating in space with local multiplayer and single-player fast-paced action modes plus a ZEN MODE where ROCKETS learn to LOVE.

Price -93% 0.49€
Rating 7.1
Release 01 May 2015
Spermination Fight the battle you already won, but never remember. It is you up against 1000 other sperm fighters. Can you beat off your competition and come first? Finally, collect your very own baby gnomes as trophies for your minivan!

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 29 Apr 2015
Cosmochoria A tiny, naked cosmonaut with a jetpack & laser blaster must revive a dying galaxy by planting one seed at a time. An innovative and addictive arcade adventure experience with mystery and intrigue in all the right places.

Price -6% 9.42€
Rating 8.3
Release 27 Apr 2015
Mind Snares: Alice's Journey Escape from the Shadow Land!

Price -97% 0.56€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Apr 2015
The Charnel House Trilogy Witness The Charnel House Trilogy, the chronicle of one fateful night aboard a train bound for Augur Peak. Three thrilling, horrifying adventure games in one, from the depths of the Sepulchre, starring Madeleine Roux, Peter Willington, Jonathan Grier, Jim Sterling, and Ben Chandler as Grub.

Price -57% 2.16€
Rating 7.6
Release 16 Apr 2015
Sunrider Academy You are Kayto Shields, an ordinary man thrown into an extraordinary adventure. Control Kayto's day to day life as well as his responsibilities as club manager in this stat management sim.

Price -79% 2.06€
Rating 7.9
Release 15 Apr 2015
Defend Your Life: TD Defend Your Life! Is tower defense set in human body where players are fighting against villain hordes of viruses and bacteria. Levels and units correspond to reality of human anatomy.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.6
Release 10 Apr 2015
Fire: Ungh’s Quest FIRE is an exploration-adventure with intuitive puzzle design. Without losing many words it tells a savagely hilarious story. Journey into the Stone Age and face the most challenging task of this era: The search for fire!

Price -92% 0.82€
Rating 8.0
Release 09 Apr 2015
Adventures of Bertram Fiddle 1: A Dreadly Business A classic point and click adventure game, featuring weird and wonderful characters, beautiful animation and a fantastic soundtrack. "It is quite possibly one of the finest point-and-click comedy murder mystery adventure games set in Victorian London you will play today" - Bertram Fiddle

Price -84% 0.81€
Rating 8.1
Release 02 Apr 2015
VoidExpanse Explore the vast reaches of VoidExpanse -- mine asteroids, upgrade your ship, trade, complete missions, advance your character and survive fast-paced combat with hostile aliens and mercenaries in the rich and exciting Sci-Fi universe of VoidExpanse!

Price -93% 1.07€
Rating 6.8
Release 02 Apr 2015
The Rainy Port Keelung 雨港基隆 The story will develop into the year of 1947, where the players would face one of the most traumatic historical events in the history of Taiwan.Sorry,now there are only English interface, English subtitles are still being processed,we hope to complete as soon as possible.

Price 24.50€
Rating 8.1
Release 30 Mar 2015
Bloodsports.TV Co-Op Hero Defense set in a deadly post-apocalyptic Sweden. Team up with your friends and protect the Missile Silo against horrific beasts and outlaws.

Price -94% 0.69€
Rating 7.4
Release 30 Mar 2015
Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure is a cute and clever action RPG featuring real-time combat, 3D graphics, 90+ items, mini-games, multiple endings, a rocking soundtrack, 35+ hours of playtime, tons of fully voiced characters by an all-star cast of voice actors, and more!

Price -85% 1.23€
Rating 8.6
Release 30 Mar 2015
Unium Draw a line. A single line. How complex can that be?

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 27 Mar 2015
Ironcast Puzzlequest meets FTL in this Steampunk Victorian era roguelite.

Price -97% 0.51€
Rating 7.0
Release 26 Mar 2015
Spirits of Xanadu At the farthest edge of the explored universe, the research ship Xanadu slumbers in orbit around a mysterious planet. Her systems remain active but there has been no message from her crew for months. Now a lone operative has been sent to wake the Xanadu and bring her home to Earth.

Price -71% 1.46€
Rating 7.4
Release 26 Mar 2015
Dyscourse Dyscourse is an interactive choice-based narrative adventure game where you journey through a stylized world of choice and consequence. Choose wisely.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 25 Mar 2015
Glorkian Warrior: The Trials Of Glork A comic-styled mashup of Galaga-style shoot-em-up, simple platforming action, and Saturday morning cartoon. In collaboration with Eisner-award-winning cartoonist James Kochalka!

Price -81% 0.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 24 Mar 2015
VRC PRO VRC Pro takes you deep into the world of cutting edge, modern RC cars. You can race up to 15 different RC cars on real existing mini race tracks all around the world; all fully customizable & tunable.

Price -33% 26.79€
Rating 8.2
Release 24 Mar 2015
Karate Master 2 Knock Down Blow Karate Master 2 Knock Down Blow is a fighting game that mixes elements of RPG, simulation and arcade, in an explosive combination to relieve the Beat'em up genre!

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 20 Mar 2015
Vox Populi Vox Dei 2 Your adventure is not over yet, the real enemy has appeared. Dr. Wolf has taken your lovely girl and you won't stop until you find her. To accomplish your mission, you will pass through many difficult challenges, putting your own life at risk.

Price 2.39€
Rating 8.0
Release 17 Mar 2015
Tennis Elbow 2013 Created by and for tennis fans, Tennis Elbow 2013 is a tennis simulation with an easy and intuitive learning curve, but with exceptional gameplay depth.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 13 Mar 2015

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