Best Indie Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated indie games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Indie games on Steam.

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Banner of the Maid Banner of the Maid is a mix of turn-based strategy and JRPG. Set in an alternate French Revolution with fantasy elements. As the young officer Pauline Bonaparte you will have to lead your troops to battle and play a role in the political vortex of Paris.

Price -90% 1.71€
Rating 8.5
Release 27 May 2019
Constructor Plus Constructor Plus is the definitive building simulation for the modern day tycoon. Build your dream town full of crackpot undesirables, businesses, and quirky tenants whilst fending off your rivals in the eagerly awaited sequel to Constructor HD. With almost 3 times more content, building just got bigger!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 27 May 2019
Interstellar Transport Company Build a galactic transportation empire and supply humanity with everything it needs to colonize the stars. In this sci-fi logistics simulator, grow your company from a local transport agency into an interstellar logistics behemoth! Singleplayer, vs AI, and online multiplayer.

Price 21.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 24 May 2019
Splitgate Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 24 May 2019
Plasticity Plasticity is a hauntingly beautiful puzzle-platformer where you explore a plastic-ridden world. Traverse flooded cities and ravaged lands as you make choices that profoundly change both gameplay and your future.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 24 May 2019
Blood Card This card game combines elements of roguelike and deckbuilding. During the game, you shall strive ahead, gathering cards to build a unique deck and use it to defeat the enemies getting in your way. You will have to choose between escaping or try to defeat Death, who is relentlessly pursuing you.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.7
Release 24 May 2019
China: Mao's legacy Year 1976, the stormy Cultural revolution has died down, hard times of hongweibing and public critics are coming to an end. Old and sick Mao Zedong will soon leave China to his comrades from CPC. The Cold War is coming into a new phase...

Price -91% 0.67€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 May 2019
Pathologic 2 Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.

Price -98% 1.01€
Rating 8.9
Release 23 May 2019
Alternate DiMansion Diary A university student named Sae finds herself lost in the mountains. While searching for help, she comes across an old looking mansion and decides to enter it. However, there was more to this mansion than meets the eye. What will become of Sae? Find out in this Puzzle-Escape RPG!

Price -60% 3.27€
Rating 8.1
Release 23 May 2019
YORG.io YORG.io is a game with an original twist on supply chains and zombies. Your goal is to build a base which survives the night which is when zombies attack. Build and upgrade defensive towers to protect your base and try to survive as long as possible.

Price -86% 0.56€
Rating 8.5
Release 23 May 2019
S.W.I.N.E. HD Remaster S.W.I.N.E. HD Remaster is the new edition of the challenging classic strategy game S.W.I.N.E! The filthiest of all wars between the Rabbit and the Pig armies is a sophisticated real-time strategy with completely revised textures, detailed unit models, a 16:9 adapted interface.

Price -95% 0.53€
Rating 8.6
Release 23 May 2019
GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 22 May 2019
Beat Saber Beat Saber is a VR rhythm game where you slash the beats of adrenaline-pumping music as they fly towards you, surrounded by a futuristic world.

Price 29.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 21 May 2019
BOXVR Designed to give us back the fun we lost in exercise, BoxVR is the award-winning VR fitness game where you jab, weave and uppercut your way through workouts in time to adrenaline-pumping music.

Price 27.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 21 May 2019
BLOCKADE BLOCKADE Classic! First Person Shooter in an editable procedural cubic world. A large arsenal of weapons, 4 teams at the same time and up to 32 players on one map. A large number of game modes!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 21 May 2019
American Fugitive FREE UPDATE; STATE OF EMERGENCY, OUT NOW! Framed for your father’s murder, you’ll need to do whatever it takes to unveil the real culprit. Tackle thrilling missions for the criminal underworld - just don’t let the cops track you down!

Price -97% 0.67€
Rating 7.3
Release 21 May 2019
Hell is Other Demons Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.5
Release 20 May 2019
Neon Boost Neon Boost is a frenetic First Person Platformer based on mechanics like Rocket-Jump or Wall-Run. Run across 3 different worlds to get the best times!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 20 May 2019
Otaku's Adventure "Otaku's Adventure" is a different kind of AVG.The story tells of an Otaku who has been single for many years and thirst for love. While he inadvertently embarks on a fantastic journey, he eventually wins girls' love. The game combines storytelling with alternative TAKAGISM, and mini-games.

Price -26% 4.25€
Rating 9.2
Release 20 May 2019
Lords Of The Lockerroom In this 3D physics based "fighter", take control of Aniki, Kazuya, Obama, and the rest of the cast as you duke it out in famous gachimuchi locations to see who's really the boss of the gym!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 17 May 2019
Eden Rising Brace yourself for a brand new action-packed Open World. Explore a huge world to gather materials for gear and defenses. Use everything at your disposal to defend your bases and defeat hordes of hostile monsters. Play solo or up to 8-player online!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.3
Release 17 May 2019
Pew Dew Redemption Dive into the role of Pew and fulfill your destiny as the last independent content creator. Face and Destroy the company and all of its subjects to bring peace and freedom back to the internet.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 17 May 2019
Russian Life Simulator The most realistic simulator of the life of a Russian person. Collect pension from birth, collect bottles to survive and become part of an exciting life-long story.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 May 2019
There's a Butcher Around There's a Butcher Around, a brutal hide & seek. Bill the butcher has escaped from the asylum and is looking for new victims. During the game you will have to find a place to hide, remembering that your friends are also trying to hide from the butcher. Every round, Bill the butcher chooses a spot to investigate, are you well hidden?

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 May 2019