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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The Old City: Leviathan The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.

Price -46% 3.26€
Rating 6.9
Release 03 Dec 2014
Wings of Vi Wings of Vi is a challenging 2D platformer in which the player controls the angel Vi, tasked with defeating the Demon Lord Jeh’oul after he is freed from captivity. While inspired by masochistic retro platformers, Wings of Vi aims to cut out arbitrary difficulty in favor of skill based gameplay.

Price -74% 4.03€
Rating 7.6
Release 28 Nov 2014
Joe Dever's Lone Wolf HD Remastered For Sommerlund and the Kai! Lone Wolf is back with an exclusive storyline, stunning graphics and a deep combat system. Make meaningful choices and carve your own path.

Price -97% 0.56€
Rating 7.2
Release 27 Nov 2014
The Marvellous Miss Take The stealth genre gets turned on its head in The Marvellous Miss Take – the only heist adventure that invites you to steal with style! Use cunning, guile and the art of deception to grab the loot and escape without getting caught by the guards!

Price -85% 2.75€
Rating 7.6
Release 20 Nov 2014
Death Skid Marks Death Skid Marks is a rogue-like car combat game about what so many of us have experienced: a road trip to a music gig… only in this game, things get violent. The game uniquely blends top down arcade action and RPG mechanics.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 20 Nov 2014
Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade "Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade" is a detective story told by a dweller of a cruel dark fantasy world affected by the pandemic. The world ruled by a five noble-born kins under the suzerainty of the undead Plague King.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 18 Nov 2014
Rollers of the Realm Bounce, spin, and battle through scenes of an epic storyline with a band of medieval misfits tasked with reclaiming the world from dark and ancient magic. Your characters are the balls—meeting new characters unlocks new sets of equipment and abilities!

Price -88% 1.22€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Nov 2014
Airline Tycoon Deluxe Airline Tycoon Deluxe is a funny economy simulation proceeding in realtime and assigning you the complete responsibility for an airline.

Price -95% 0.52€
Rating 7.9
Release 14 Nov 2014
QP Shooting - Dangerous!! QP Shooting - Dangerous!! is a bullet hell type shoot’em’up starring the pudding-loving dog girl QP seen in 100% Orange Juice. Nothing can stand between QP and her pudding - not even difficulty options to reduce the experienced gamer to tears!

Price -64% 2.88€
Rating 8.7
Release 14 Nov 2014
Lords of Xulima Lords of Xulima is a challenging Role-playing game set on the mythical continent of Xulima, where Gods and humans once walked side by side. Experience a genuine RPG featuring over 100 hours of gameplay, and discover one of the most epic sagas ever told.

Price -50% 9.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 14 Nov 2014
Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder Explore disturbing corners of the human psyche. Delve into a dimension of nightmares, the occult and a tense psychological world created in classic Lovecraftian style. As police detective Howard E. Loreid, you are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult.

Price -85% 1.16€
Rating 7.0
Release 13 Nov 2014
Chariot Embark on a journey to give his majesty the ride of his afterlife. Guide a chariot containing the King's remains through underground caves using physics-based mechanics such as pushing, pulling, riding and swinging.

Price -97% 0.50€
Rating 7.7
Release 12 Nov 2014
Merchants of Kaidan Regain your riches, restore your honor and avenge your father's murder. A challenging trading game with lots of RPG elements.

Price -98% 0.31€
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Nov 2014
Royal Defense The castle needs a hero – hordes of trolls are surrounding it! Build towers, save money, learn spells - don't let the enemy in! Follow the exciting story of the dwarven kingdom's eternal struggle against the troll hordes, who want only to crush the dwarves and claim their territory.

Price -70% 4.43€
Rating 6.9
Release 10 Nov 2014
Crowntakers Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.

Price -97% 0.34€
Rating 7.0
Release 07 Nov 2014
FOTONICA Ever wondered what running at 140mph feels like? FOTONICA is a first-person game about the thrill of speed and traveling flawlessly through complex environments.FOTONICA is simple, but is not easy: it follows a tradition of arcade games that are easy to pick up and almost impossible to master.

Price -88% 1.79€
Rating 8.2
Release 06 Nov 2014
Cosmic DJ Cosmic DJ is a quick, "pick-up and play" musical experience about the joy of music creation for budding intergalactic musicians of all skill levels. Set among the stars, you will strive to become the legendary Cosmic DJ through six musical adventures as you’re tasked with repairing the all-important “Jamtennas” and bring...

Price -75% 0.74€
Rating 8.3
Release 30 Oct 2014
The Detail The Detail, a crime noir adventure in a modern American city. This is a city where cases matter, clearance rates matter, and on a good day even justice matters.

Price 2.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 28 Oct 2014
Dark Arcana: The Carnival Find the missing woman lost in a mysterious Carnival of Horrors.

Price -92% 1.20€
Rating 8.4
Release 28 Oct 2014
Coin Crypt A roguelite deckbuilding adventure game about magical coins. You play as a lootmancer, who can unlock the hidden power inside of coins and use them in magical duels. The loots you take from chests and enemies also become your next moves, so plan carefully!

Price -92% 0.82€
Rating 8.1
Release 28 Oct 2014
REVOLVER360 RE:ACTOR The world really does revolve around you in this mind-bending shooter where changing your perspective could save your life.

Price -80% 1.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 24 Oct 2014
Sproggiwood Bring civilization to Sproggiwood, a story-driven, turn-based roguelike set in a humorous world inspired by Finnish mythology. Grow your civilization and plunder procedural dungeons with six unique classes. Outsmart mischievous monsters who work together in unexpected ways. No two dungeon dives are alike.

Price -94% 0.89€
Rating 7.6
Release 24 Oct 2014
Super Life of Pixel Join Pixel as he quests through gaming history, teleporting across the most iconic video game systems of generations past. He’ll have to jump, dodge and play smart if he wants to survive all the traps, puzzles and enemies waiting to take him down at every turn.

Price -72% 2.30€
Rating 7.4
Release 22 Oct 2014
Time Rifters Be your own teammates in this unique single-player co-op shooter!

Price -75% 2.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Oct 2014
Perpetuum Perpetuum is a persistent, sandbox, single server, massively multiplayer sci-fi rpg (MMORPG). Control huge robots and mechs to gain access to an alien planet's resources and knowledge, amass huge wealth, or even claim part of the world for yourself using terraforming and complex infrastructure.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 17 Oct 2014
A Golden Wake The rise and fall story of a real estate agent in 1920s Miami. Based on historical events. From Francisco González, creator of the Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator series, Shardlight, and Lamplight City.

Price -80% 1.95€
Rating 7.0
Release 09 Oct 2014
TRI: Of Friendship and Madness Find a way through the towers and dungeons of TRI by solving puzzles, climbing impossible ascents and reflecting light-rays. The mystical TRI will let you create your own paths in this strange world – just try not to lose your mind when you're falling upside down!

Price -94% 0.96€
Rating 8.0
Release 09 Oct 2014
Costume Quest 2 A sequel to the popular Halloween adventure from Double Fine Productions!

Price -80% 3.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 07 Oct 2014
Metal Dead A hilariously terrifying adventure filled with laughs, blood, insanity, and of course... hordes of the undead.

Price -50% 1.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 06 Oct 2014
Left in the Dark: No One on Board Discover what connects a lost ship’s disappearance with Devil’s Island and a local family’s unsolved murder.

Price -89% 1.73€
Rating 7.9
Release 02 Oct 2014
Silence of the Sleep You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.

Price -92% 0.42€
Rating 7.1
Release 01 Oct 2014
STARWHAL The local multi-player space narwhal fighting game that has rocked the internet is finally ready for its big debut in a fully loaded release! Flop it out with 1-4 players in a retro, epic narwhal battle in space! The heart-piercing action is furious and unrelenting. STARWHAL will change your life.

Price -89% 1.10€
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Sep 2014
Kraven Manor Turn out the lights, take a deep breath, and prepare yourself. Explore the depths of the immersive, atmospheric world of Kraven Manor. Uncover its secrets, solve its mystical puzzles, and face its growing threat. Face your fears and see if you have what it takes...the doors of Kraven Manor await you.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 26 Sep 2014
Beyond Gravity Beyond Gravity is procedurally generated "platformer" where you jump in-between planets and try to collect as many pickups as you can. This gets progressively harder the further you jump. No need to worry tho as you can upgrade your character with loads of upgrades and power-ups!

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Sep 2014
Magicmaker Ever wanted to shoot poisonous lightning lasers? Freezing fireballs? Turrets that fire waves of miniature suns? How about lasers that shoot exploding black holes that suck out your enemies' life force? You can do that all in Magicmaker, the spellcrafting-focused platformer dungeon-crawler!

Price -25% 7.49€
Rating 8.4
Release 22 Sep 2014
6180 the moon Simple space, dynamic jump. 6180 the moon offers a fresh, unseen game play style by connecting the top and bottom of the screen.

Price -61% 1.55€
Rating 8.5
Release 19 Sep 2014

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