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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Neon Prism Neon prism is a fun and simple but at the same time highly addictive game.

Price -99% 0.46€
Rating 6.3
Release 18 Nov 2016
拯救大魔王2 Rescue the Great Demon 2 Sino was controlled by human. Human made the rules, and annihilated every race that opposed them. Every race on this continent became slaves, except human.Demons had been enslaved for 80 years since their leader, the Great Demon was captured. This is where our story begins.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Nov 2016
Brief Karate Foolish Here comes a new epic of live action fighting game!! With 60fps smooth action, sexy and deadly guys fly into air and bounces their flab!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 18 Nov 2016
Glass Masquerade Welcome to Glass Masquerade - an artistic puzzle game inspired by Art Deco & stained glass artisans of the 20th century. You need to combine hidden glass pieces to unveil clocks and themes exhibited by various cultures of the world at the 'International Times Exhibition'

Price -92% 0.41€
Rating 9.4
Release 18 Nov 2016
Rage Wars Get prepared for the FIRST EVER shooter game based on Rage Comics ! Rage Wars is a well-made action game with a variety of weapons, worlds and enemies to challenge with.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Nov 2016
ICEY ICEY is a 2D side-scrolling action game and a META game in disguise. As you follow the narrator's omnipresent voice, you will see through ICEY's eyes and learn the truth about her world. The narrator will constantly urge you in one direction, but you must ask, "Why? Why am I following his directions?“ Obey? Rebel?

Price -91% 1.19€
Rating 8.8
Release 17 Nov 2016
RYB RYB is a logic puzzle game that plays like a combination of sudoku and minesweeper.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 17 Nov 2016
ISLANDS: Non-Places The familiar becomes magical in this critically acclaimed interactive artscape. Explore ten scenes inspired by the everyday and let your expectations of reality be transformed. Carl Burton's other work has been featured in the New York Times, Serial, Colossal, and Medium.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 17 Nov 2016
SHENZHEN I/O BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Price -68% 4.86€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Nov 2016
Kick Ass Commandos Lock and Load! It's time to Kick-Ass. Grab your machine gun, flamethrower, rocket launcher, and grenades. Assault the enemy base and free commandos to join your team while you destroy everything in sight. Make your way through enemy bunkers to rescue your comrades, and kill everyone you encounter!

Price -92% 0.56€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Nov 2016
Screeps: World Screeps: World is an open source MMO RTS sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that executes 24/7 in a massive, persistent world alongside other programmers.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 16 Nov 2016
Creeper World 2: Anniversary Edition Deceptively simple... amazingly deep. Creeper World 2 thrusts you into the 14th millennium fighting and enemy that flows and oozes through the terrain. Employ advanced weapons,gravity manipulating repulsors, wormhole like rifts, and your own wit against this never yielding enemy.

Price -30% 3.51€
Rating 8.4
Release 16 Nov 2016
Creeper World: Anniversary Edition Imagine an enemy that is everywhere and moves like a giant, organic mass across the map. Imagine your base and your people surrounded by a blanket of crushing destruction from all directions. Your only hope, well what hope? Then you take the high ground and pound this enemy into oblivion.

Price -32% 3.40€
Rating 9.1
Release 16 Nov 2016
Kopanito All-Stars Soccer Fast-paced football game without a referee on the pitch and with crazy super-powers! It may not look serious, but we guarantee, that it is. Kopanito’s match engine is well-balanced and entirely skill-based.

Price -38% 3.13€
Rating 8.2
Release 16 Nov 2016
Ittle Dew 2+ Ittle and Tippsie crash onto yet another island filled with loot, puzzles and mysterious inhabitants! With the help of a magical map, they set out to steal eight pieces of a raft from increasingly improbable locations including beaches, prairies, an art exhibit and some dude's basement.

Price -97% 0.64€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Nov 2016
Doom & Destiny Advanced Four nerds walk into a dungeon. It’s not a joke, it’s Doom & Destiny Advanced.

Price -71% 2.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 15 Nov 2016
Silence Can you save Silence, the grim, but also serene world between life and death? Can you help Noah find his little sister Renie in this suffering world? Can you bring her home? Explore Silence and join the siblings on their adventurous journey.

Price -96% 0.80€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Nov 2016
Don't open the doors! Claymation action adventure in an odd world of talking pumpkins, blue trees and stuff like that.

Price -24% 8.44€
Rating 7.9
Release 11 Nov 2016
Candle Candle is an adventure with challenging puzzles. Play as Teku, a young novice on a dangerous journey to rescue his tribe's shaman from the evil tribe of the Wakcha. But the way is littered with sinister traps and difficult obstacles.

Price -91% 0.45€
Rating 7.5
Release 11 Nov 2016
Once in Yaissor Summer, 2020, Ya'issor. Most people have become youtubers, streamers, and other scum, and almost no one wants to be a working bum. Nobody has an opinion of their own. Everyone thinks they are nihilists, atheists, reading intellectuals, and other elites.

Price -53% 0.47€
Rating 8.1
Release 09 Nov 2016
Beholder You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Price -97% 0.42€
Rating 9.0
Release 09 Nov 2016
Small Radios Big Televisions Explore the inner workings of deserted factories in search of data cassettes that contain boundless virtual worlds. Collect more tapes and explore more worlds and you'll soon discover new methods of traversal and control that will take you farther than you'd ever expect.

Price -82% 2.25€
Rating 6.8
Release 08 Nov 2016
Planet Explorers Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.1
Release 08 Nov 2016
One Night Stand After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed. What do you do?

Price -31% 2.07€
Rating 8.4
Release 07 Nov 2016
VOI Do you think 1 + 1 = 0 is correct? So what do you think about "black + black = white" statement?

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 07 Nov 2016
Wayout Relax, clear your mind and find the way out.

Price -80% 0.40€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Nov 2016
Dungeon Rats A turn-based, party-based RPG set in the Age of Decadence world and focused on squad level tactical combat. Fight your way out of prison mine or die trying.

Price -91% 0.69€
Rating 7.3
Release 04 Nov 2016
Intralism Intralism - fast and hard rhythm game. Listen to music and match arcs to the beat. Master all beatmaps or create your own and challenge friends in the online multiplayer. But remember: wrong button - failed try.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Nov 2016
Trimmer Tycoon Trimmer Tycoon is a fast survival game. You’re the new owner of a beard-trimming salon - Shavy. Customers start flowing in with absurd wishes for their beards. Can you satisfy their beardy dreams and keep up with the ever-increasing rent?

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 04 Nov 2016
Rencounter Rencounter is a difficult, turn-based, RPG, roguelike game with a mysterious atmosphere. Help your squad survive while navigating through a network of tunnels and rooms. Distribute provisions and medicine to keep them alive.

Price -96% 0.25€
Rating 6.8
Release 04 Nov 2016
Memory's Dogma CODE:01 Japan, 2030 A.D. Memories can now be digitized and archived, allowing people to communicate with the deceased. With only one week left before his best friend’s memories are deleted, can Hiroki uncover the truth behind Sorano’s death?

Price -81% 2.88€
Rating 7.4
Release 04 Nov 2016
Dead Age Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!

Price -97% 0.47€
Rating 7.9
Release 04 Nov 2016
City Car Driving City Car Driving – realistic car driving simulator, which will help you master the basic skills of the car driving in various traffic conditions, with plunging into the environment most closely resembling the real one.

Price 23.49€
Rating 8.1
Release 03 Nov 2016
EmergeNYC EmergeNYC is a simulation of New York City's Emergency Services. Drive over 30 different Emergency Vehicles with up to 32 of your friends through busy City Streets with blazing sirens and air horns. Take the role of a firefighter, medic, or police officer and ride with your friends to emergencies

Price 20.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 03 Nov 2016
Slap The Fly You will embody a fly, a spider, a bee or a human. Your mission thus is to survive or to slap the fly !

Price 5.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 02 Nov 2016
VR The Diner Duo You are a chef in VR who need to satisfy your customers in a limited amount of time. Share the experience with a friend in local multiplayer mode. Chaotic levels are waiting for you!

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 02 Nov 2016

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