Best Indie Games on Steam

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Panty Party Panty Party is a fast-paced battle game. Fly as a panty in the street and in-between buildings. Search for the enemy panties and kick their bad ♥♥♥!

Price -37% 6.37€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Jan 2017
CAYNE Hadley wakes in a facility. She is 9 months pregnant. They want her baby... CAYNE is the FREE, isometric horror game from the creators of STASIS.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 24 Jan 2017
Fruit Arranger Fruit Arranger is a fun puzzle game where you have to place fruits on a 9x9 table. When you match 3 in a same row or column the last fruit placed will transform into another fruit. Your goal is to place as many fruits as possible without getting stuck.OVER 100 ACHIEVEMENTS to gain

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 23 Jan 2017
Nefarious Play as the villain in Nefarious! An action platformer where you globe hop between several kingdoms kidnapping princesses who alter gameplay in unique ways. Then thwart various heroes in reverse boss fights, recreated iconic battles where you control the boss.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 23 Jan 2017
Death's Hangover Death's Hangover is a ball and bat game, featuring horror elements, mature comedy and themes.

Price -79% 0.96€
Rating 8.2
Release 20 Jan 2017
Stars in Shadow Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.

Price -99% 0.42€
Rating 7.5
Release 19 Jan 2017
Hive Jump HIVE JUMP is a sci-fi action platformer for 1-4 players blending run ‘n gun gameplay with roguelike elements.

Price -97% 0.76€
Rating 6.6
Release 18 Jan 2017
She Remembered Caterpillars A fungipunk fantasy about love, loss, and holding on, told in the format of a color-based puzzle game. A tale as the bond between parent and child, this lush and bewildering title will have players testing their wits against a variety of challenges, all beautiful and very strange.

Price -96% 0.52€
Rating 8.8
Release 17 Jan 2017
Pinkman Pinkman is a fast-paced, action platformer about a lost man with pink skin and an incredible skill to fart.

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 16 Jan 2017
I Am The Hero I Am The Hero is a pixel art, beat 'em up, fighting game that tells the story of a "Hero" with a glorious but mysterious past. Is he the hero he thinks he is or is there a another side to this legendary figure?

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Jan 2017
Alien Shooter TD Innovative Tower Defense inspired by legendary Alien Shooter series! The game was created in keeping with the best traditions of Sigma`s games, no concessions of any kind - everything is just like in real life!

Price -89% 1.12€
Rating 8.1
Release 13 Jan 2017
Zombie Estate 2 One of the highest rated Xbox Indie Games is now available for PC! How long can you survive in this online co-op wave based shooter? Featuring 35 characters, over 100 weapons, 30 stat-boosting hats, and 6 levels, Zombie Estate 2 is a frantically fun experience to share with friends!

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 13 Jan 2017
Zup! 3 Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 12 Jan 2017
Detention Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.

Price -62% 4.62€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Jan 2017
Power Hover Take control of the hoverboarding robots, explore the desolate world, defy gravity, dive into the oceans and ride with the sandworms on the dunes! Stylish graphics and groovy soundtrack will take you to an epic adventure in this action/racing game.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 10 Jan 2017
MHRD MHRD is a hardware design game, in which you design various hardware circuits in a hardware description language. The hardware circuits you design get more complex as you go until you create a fully functional CPU design.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 05 Jan 2017
Unalive Unalive is an action adventure roguelike game. Randomly generated laboratory rooms. Collect unique items to improve your abilities. Kill bosses and stay alive. You have only one chance!

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 05 Jan 2017
Pictopix Pictopix is a puzzle game where you use logic to color squares on grids in order to reveal pictures.

Price 6.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 05 Jan 2017
Infinitum Travel through space. Attend the planets. Gather resources. Find artifacts.

Price -85% 0.75€
Rating 7.7
Release 04 Jan 2017
Milkmaid of the Milky Way Milkmaid of the Milky Way is an award-winning point-and-click adventure game in rhyme that combines a gripping story with puzzles and exploration. What happens when a young milkmaid sees an alien craft in a fjord in 1920's Norway?

Price 5.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Jan 2017
Blaite A platform game so difficult and at the same time, so addictive that you will enjoy having to repeat a levels dozens of times until complete them.

Price -13% 0.87€
Rating 7.0
Release 02 Jan 2017
Trick and Treat - Visual Novel Trick & Treat is a Visual Novel that test your instincts by making choices that can get you out from the cursed forest or drive you to death… or maybe just maybe your choices can guide you to something more?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 30 Dec 2016
POLYWAR A fast paced multiplayer FPS game that focuses on creative weapons and game mechanics that reward skillful killing!

Price -52% 0.97€
Rating 6.8
Release 30 Dec 2016
Tattletail It’s Christmas 1998. The world’s most annoying toy just came out, and yours won’t stay in his box. Can you stop Tattletail from getting you in trouble before the bloodthirsty Mama Tattletail hunts you down? Story-driven first person horror. New DLC Included!

Price 7.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 28 Dec 2016
Duke of Alpha Centauri Duke of Alpha Centuri is a space shooter with amazing graphics. The main goal of our game is to have a lot of fun while blowing up hordes of different types of enemies. Engage in boss fights, upgrade your ship and ship systems until you are able to show off in an endless mode.

Price -99% 0.28€
Rating 7.3
Release 28 Dec 2016
The Price of Freedom You are Agent Zero. Your mission: assassinate Benjamin Miller, a radical who broke into CIA facilities and stole top secret chemical weapons research. Your mission quickly takes a dark turn as you learn the truth of what Miller was searching for that night.

Price 1.59€
Rating 8.6
Release 22 Dec 2016
Art of War: Red Tides Art of War: Red Tides is a fair multiplayer strategy game that allows different teams on the same platform (e.g. smartphones, PC, etc.) to battle against each other. You will encounter players around the world!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 22 Dec 2016
99Vidas "99Vidas" is a "beat 'em up" set in a contemporary world that pays tribute to both the new and the classic in gaming industry. Brought to you in all pixelated, 16 bit-esque glory, chockfull of references to not only gaming, but all 80's and 90's pop culture.

Price -69% 4.06€
Rating 7.5
Release 22 Dec 2016
Heroine Anthem Zero -Sacrifice- 《Heroine Anthem Zero : Sacrifice》 is an epic fantasy 2D side-scrolling ARPG with Japanese voiceovers and support for 7 languages. In a world unforgiven by God, it is a story of sacrifice and survival ten years in the making. Come and enter a world of adventure from long ago.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.2
Release 22 Dec 2016
Castle of no Escape 2 Explore 6 x 6 x 6 = 216 rooms of randomly generated hazards and enemies while collecting the necessary artefacts. Hundreds of monsters are roaming inside, guarding the sword shards — the last known thing to be capable of defeating the demonic castle owner.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 21 Dec 2016
Distant Space Distant Space are present the arcade game of cosmic fights in arcade style of the 80's, this is a game where you can control the spaceship and forced to destroy extraterrestrials, which are moving in the certain order.

Price -76% 0.24€
Rating 7.5
Release 20 Dec 2016
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Shantae embarks on her first full HD adventure! When a mysterious crime wave sweeps Sequin Land, it’s up to Half-Genie Hero Shantae to save the day! Use Shantae’s devastating Hair-Whip Attack to send monsters flying, or Belly Dance to transform her into more powerful forms!

Price -80% 4.08€
Rating 8.7
Release 20 Dec 2016
Pretty Girls Panic! Socially conservative sea creatures have constructed a water filled screen to hide the Pretty Girls from view. But please don't panic! Use your special tool to penetrate the barrier and reveal the girls while avoiding getting caught. Girls will gradually disrobe from stage to stage to reward you for your success.

Price -63% 0.75€
Rating 7.6
Release 19 Dec 2016
Happy Room Welcome to the laboratory! Here tests are taken upon highly durable human clones using newest weapon technologies. Your goal is to head these tests.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 19 Dec 2016
Angels of Death "Please... kill me." "Help me get outta here, and I'll kill you." ~ Angels of Death is a psychological horror-adventure game, consisting of four episodes.

Price -30% 7.04€
Rating 9.1
Release 19 Dec 2016
Slash It Slash It is a 2D colorful arcade game. The goal is to match shapes, press letters and numbers in the right time and direction.

Price -97% 1.20€
Rating 8.2
Release 17 Dec 2016

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