Best Indie Games 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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La Rana In La Rana, players explore the lost Rain Temple of Rana. Play as a small spirit frog who is the temple's last remaining caretaker. Traverse its grand chambers and winding passages to restore its former power and revive your fellow frog spirits along the way.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 01 Jan 2019
FrostRunner FrostRunner is a first-person platformer “speedrunning” game, where the player rapidly completes platforming challenges before the timer runs out. Using their tether tool, players compete to finish each of the 36 unique levels as quickly as possible and earn a place at the top of the leaderboards.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 01 Jan 2019
Seeker Help Alfie find the the stars to get back home to his homeland. If you don't want to follow this short story you can explore this very beautiful island in search of my personal Easter eggs. these Easter eggs will be very hard to find but in the end it will be rewarding. Thank you for playing Seeker.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 31 Dec 2018
女巫与六便士 the sibyl and sixpence It's a 15-minute experimental visual novel about a love affair as weak as tea. Story consists of two chapters, formed by a mixture of four clues. It tells a love story about the sibyl and the prince.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 31 Dec 2018
Pamali: Indonesian Folklore Horror A narrative horror game set in the daily lives of Indonesian society. Interact with various mystical objects as you explore haunted places, unravel their lingering mysteries, and experience how Indonesian myth, taboo and culture, combined with your choices, shape the course of your nights.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.9
Release 27 Dec 2018
Miracle Snack Shop Try to find love while managing a Korean snack shop.

Price -50% 4.09€
Rating 9.3
Release 25 Dec 2018
Tempest of the Heavens and Earth "Rogue Celestial, seek out your own path to the heavens." An Ecstatic-class Stylish 2D Action Game controlling Tenshi Hinanawi, as she runs all around the realms of Gensokyo! You are the path of righteousness itself! (A derivative game inspired by the Touhou Project universe.)

Price 11.59€
Rating 8.4
Release 25 Dec 2018
Snood Forget Life, Play SNOOD!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 25 Dec 2018
Heartbound Heartbound is a non-traditional role-playing game about a boy, his dog, secrets, and sanity.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.2
Release 24 Dec 2018
Beasts of Bermuda Play as a dinosaur and become part of a player-created ecosystem! Beasts of Bermuda is a multiplayer game where players endure catastrophic storms and fearsome foes while growing to monstrous sizes. Do you have what it takes to survive in the Bermuda Triangle?

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 21 Dec 2018
Rebel Forces Are you ready to be the ultimate soldier and fight until you defeat all of your enemies?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 20 Dec 2018
Crash Wheels Arcade racing with the physics of damage

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 20 Dec 2018
Wrench Wrench is a mechanic simulator where players prepare and maintain race cars. The parts in Wrench are the most detailed of any game in the genre. Extreme attention has been paid to even the smallest components, including fasteners which are accurate to the thread pitch and install torque.

Price 28.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 19 Dec 2018
ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game ATOM RPG is a post-apocalyptic indie game, inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, Wasteland, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate and many others.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Dec 2018
Wild West Saga: Idle Tycoon Clicker Wild West Saga is an idle game where you click to make money and build a business fortune! Hundreds of Towns to explore and Patent Cards to collect, dozens of Businesses to upgrade and Outlaws to hire. The end goal? To become the richest Pioneer in the Wild West! So, are you up for it?

Price Free to play
Rating 6.5
Release 18 Dec 2018
Sky Noon Sky Noon is a First-Person Shooter with Brawler mechanics. Players are equipped with a grappling hook, a lasso and an arsenal of weapons and abilities. There is no health in Sky Noon - players eliminate their enemies by pushing and pulling them off the Floating Frontier.

Price -19% 10.19€
Rating 8.1
Release 18 Dec 2018
Miscreated Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.

Price -39% 15.25€
Rating 6.5
Release 18 Dec 2018
Bladed fury An action game set in the Ancient China, bringing players addictive experiences with its unique Chinese traditional art-style and sound design.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.3
Release 17 Dec 2018
Nippon Marathon Crazy, physics-driven, four-player marathon across Japan. Combining classic racers like Micro Machines and the insanity of TV's Takeshi's Castle, smash through offices and shopping malls and hurl fruit at your opponents in a party game unlike anything you've played before!

Price -97% 0.59€
Rating 8.4
Release 17 Dec 2018
Shan Gui II: Sweet Osmanthus II Autumn goes by, girls are still waiting till osmanthus blooming.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 15 Dec 2018
SnowNight This is a small, warm story that happened in the winter. Two people who met by chance, because of each other's existence, and then felt more past that had not been deliberately remembered - After telling the story, I finally ushered in the day when the first snow fell.

Price 1.59€
Rating 8.6
Release 14 Dec 2018
Contractors Contractors is a team-based competitive multiplayer shooter game for virtual reality devices. Experience the next level virtual warfare with hardcore controls, lethal weapons, customizable load-outs, and intense firefights. BECOME AN OPERATOR.

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 14 Dec 2018
BallisticNG BallisticNG is a high speed, all thrills anti-gravity combat racer and open modding environment developed as a tribute to old school classics such as Wipeout, Rollcage and Jet Moto.

Price -48% 6.58€
Rating 9.0
Release 14 Dec 2018
Slave's Sword Slave's Sword is the story of Luna, a former aristocratic knight of the Empire. Now living peacefully as a mercenary, she quickly becomes involved in a scandal that results in her enslavement. Can Luna recapture her freedom and escape from her predicament?

Price 12.49€
Rating 6.9
Release 13 Dec 2018
GRIS Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.

Price -94% 1.00€
Rating 9.5
Release 13 Dec 2018
HEARTBEAT Make friends, make enemies, go fishing, collect cards, beat up sharks, beat up tigers, obtain the denim blade, train a fuzzy infantile insect for battle, and uncover ancient secrets in this monster-filled adventure.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Dec 2018
Sam & Dan: Floaty Flatmates Oh nooo, the world is flooded! Oh no, there is also a really big shark! You are a survivor of the apocalypse, stuck in your apartment, all by yourself, so sad... Across the street there is another survivor. Let's wave to each other, work together and both reach the boat to get to safety!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 12 Dec 2018
My 1/6 Lover This is a visual novel about a lovestory with 6 routes, numerous CGs and 200,000 words. Small town, afternoon, leisure is in the air. A young man is trying to straighten himself up and finally say it to the girl of his dream. The girl shocked him with an unexpected answer. "I'm sorry, which of us do you like?"

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 12 Dec 2018
Paperbark Paperbark is a charming game that tells a beautiful short story of a wombat, the bush and a very hot Australian Summer.

Price -88% 0.92€
Rating 8.2
Release 12 Dec 2018
Insurgency: Sandstorm Insurgency: Sandstorm is a team-based, tactical FPS based on lethal close quarters combat and objective-oriented multiplayer gameplay. Experience the intensity of modern combat where skill is rewarded, and teamwork wins the fight.

Price -81% 5.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 Dec 2018
Obenseuer Obenseuer is an urban survival RPG game, where you become a property manager of a rundown unfinished tenement building, in an isolated quarantine district of Obenseuer. Maintain and upgrade your tenement for rent, uncover the secrets of this infamous district and grow your wealth with your craft.

Price -16% 16.41€
Rating 8.8
Release 11 Dec 2018
Reignfall Reignfall is a real-time strategy game with elements of city-building and third-person action. Build a city and defend your keep against waves of increasingly difficult enemies. Can you survive against the fallen horde?

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 10 Dec 2018
Clatter Create and command your own customizable squads of fighting robots in this turn-based, arena tactics game.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 10 Dec 2018
永冻之壳 The Shell of Permafrost A girl, draped in mystery and chased by an evil fate, escapes from a frozen land. Now, a year later, with her memory gradually returning, she is forced to make an important decision.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 09 Dec 2018
Nya Nya Nya Girls (ʻʻʻ)_(=^・ω・^=)_(ʻʻʻ) The game is a classic puzzle with three levels of difficulty.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Dec 2018
Iris.Fall Iris.Fall is a puzzle adventure game featuring striking visuals and a spellbinding theme of "light and shadow".

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.5
Release 07 Dec 2018

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