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.

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Project Highrise Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Price -96% 0.87€
Rating 8.2
Release 08 Sep 2016
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Sep 2016
Dungeon Rushers A Heroic-Parody tactical RPG combining dungeon crawler’s gameplay and turn-based fights. Dive in an off-beat universe, manage your team and craft mighty gear to equip them! Build your own dungeon by hiding traps and monsters in your galleries, then challenge other players to clean it!

Price -94% 1.04€
Rating 6.1
Release 06 Sep 2016
Sisyphus Reborn A short atmospheric adventure game about finding meaning in a meaningless world.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 05 Sep 2016
Unbox: Newbie's Adventure Unbox: Newbie's Adventure is a 90s style 3D platformer about the ultimate postal service, self-delivering cardboard boxes! Unbox: Newbie's Adventure has giant worlds full of challenges, collectibles and boxy boss battles!

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 05 Sep 2016
Mother Russia Bleeds An old-fashioned beat 'em up with big doses of adrenaline and trippiness, somewhere between the classic style of Streets of Rage and the ultra-violence of Hotline Miami. Set in a cold, ruthless Soviet Union, Mother Russia Bleeds aims to conjure up anxiety, unease, and drug-addled frenzy.

Price -93% 1.18€
Rating 8.4
Release 05 Sep 2016
Starship Annihilator A classic style vertical scrolling-shooter. Includes 10 levels and 10 boss enemies. You will have several power-ups for weapon modification. Within each level, you will face different enemies, among which will vary from low to extreme levels of threat!

Price -77% 0.23€
Rating 6.2
Release 02 Sep 2016
Seasons after Fall Seasons After Fall is a 2D platform-puzzler game that will let you dive into a captivating universe and explore a land governed by magic and nature.

Price -88% 1.20€
Rating 7.8
Release 02 Sep 2016
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 01 Sep 2016
The Underground Man Moscow: somewhere in the near future. The city and perhaps the Earth's surface has turned into a radioactive ash. Those who decided that they could not exist in such conditions began to live under the ground.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 01 Sep 2016
Minds Eyes You venture through your mind, trying desperately to wake up from your nightmares. Will you make it out?

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 31 Aug 2016
Atomik: RunGunJumpGun Atomik: RunGunJumpGun is a tough as nails game that puts a gravity-defying weapon in your hands. One button lets you fly, the other blasts obstacles out of the way. With a cast of crazed characters, challenging gameplay, and a pulsing musical score, it delivers twitchy platforming goodness.

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 31 Aug 2016
NeuroVoider NeuroVoider is a twin-stick shooter RPG set in a cyber futuristic world about brains shooting around evil robots with nuclear rocket launchers. Battle through the horde of vigilant robots, boost your character with the smoking remains of your victims, and defeat the master NeuroVoider.

Price -97% 0.48€
Rating 7.3
Release 31 Aug 2016
The Turing Test The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.

Price -87% 2.77€
Rating 8.5
Release 30 Aug 2016
The Final Station Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Price -85% 2.26€
Rating 8.5
Release 30 Aug 2016
Hue Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.

Price -96% 0.62€
Rating 9.0
Release 30 Aug 2016
Four Sided Fantasy A game about the limits of your screen. Four Sided Fantasy is a seamless experience where you wrap the screen to solve mind-bending puzzles. Play as a man and woman who attempt to find each other throughout four seasons in a year, constantly separated by the boundaries of the screen.

Price -94% 0.68€
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Aug 2016
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is a tabletop adventure come to life! This fantasy solo RPG combines unique, simultaneous turn-based combat with a journey that changes based on each figurine you take into Firetop Mountain! Which hero will you take into Zagor's lair THIS time?

Price -95% 1.14€
Rating 7.1
Release 30 Aug 2016
Livelock Livelock is a co-operative top-down shooter where you play solo or with up to two allies to break the cycle of infinite war between machines. As one of the remaining Capital Intellects, your role is to unlock Eden and revive humanity.

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 7.6
Release 30 Aug 2016
Last Will Your deranged and mysterious Grandfather is dead, and in his last will and testament, he gave his entire fortune and mansion to you. But on one condition. You have to visit his mansion and collect the riches for yourself. But once the door shuts behind you, you realize that this is no easy task.

Price -95% 0.46€
Rating 7.2
Release 29 Aug 2016
Optika Discover the world of light physics: play with lasers, prisms, mirrors, magnets and dozens of other optical devices. Explore the world of Optika with Prof. Opticus and his assistant, Sofia! Research and complete more than one hundred challenging puzzles!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 26 Aug 2016
Tribal Pass A genre-twisting tactical runner where you maneuver, fight, think, sacrifice and evolve – all ON THE RUN.

Price -86% 0.79€
Rating 7.2
Release 26 Aug 2016
You Have 10 Seconds 2 You Have 10 Seconds 2 is the sequel to the popular Free to Play game "You Have 10 Seconds". You have 10 seconds to get from the start of each level to the end before time runs out and without dying.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 25 Aug 2016
Sixtieth Kilometer You're going to work by train, but strange things happens on the way: the train stops, the pink fog appears outside and the man who came off the train immediately dies. The main characters turned out to be locked in the train without any clues about what's happening...

Price -92% 0.44€
Rating 7.6
Release 25 Aug 2016
N++ (NPLUSPLUS) N++ is a fast-paced, momentum-based platformer about darting around obstacles, narrowly evading enemies and collecting gold in a beautiful minimalist landscape.

Price -45% 8.29€
Rating 9.0
Release 25 Aug 2016
The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt Hail to the Captain! Sail into the heart of the Caribbean in the Age of Piracy - the time of black flags and white skulls, blue waves and golden opportunities. Hoist the Jolly Roger and grab the steering wheel to sail through battles and raids, ransoms and treasures, to become the Crimson King of the Antilles!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 24 Aug 2016
Picross Touch Find the hidden image in this fun and addictive logic puzzle game. All puzzles have unique solutions, ensuring 100% logically solvable puzzle grids.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 24 Aug 2016
Valley Explore the vast and beautiful world of Valley using the power of the L.E.A.F. suit: a fierce exoskeleton that grants exceptional speed and agility along with the phenomenal ability to manipulate the life and death of all living things.

Price -91% 1.14€
Rating 8.9
Release 24 Aug 2016
Obduction A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.

Price -87% 4.03€
Rating 7.7
Release 24 Aug 2016
AdVenture Communist The world's greatest communism simulator!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 23 Aug 2016
Tempest: Pirate Action RPG Tempest is a Pirate Open World Action RPG where you rove the seas across three continents filled with dozens of colonies and forts, hundreds of quests and countless ships to plunder. Customize your ship, trade, challenge fellow pirates and face mythical monsters such as the Kraken and Leviathan!

Price -98% 0.44€
Rating 6.8
Release 22 Aug 2016
Ultimate Arena Pick and create characters to fight to the death in this action-packed nonsensical arena simulation.

Price -75% 1.25€
Rating 7.7
Release 22 Aug 2016
The VR Museum of Fine Art JUST UPDATED: Explore the Second Floor of the Museum! Explore a virtual museum in room-scale VR: see famous sculptures in full, 1:1 scale and see famous paintings without the limitations of glass and security guards.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 20 Aug 2016
Guards Four heroes are facing a horde of evil! Ultimate abilities, magic artifacts, hero upgrades and clever tactics... All these will help to defeat the Boss.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Aug 2016
Gone In November Coming home after visiting your doctor for the last time, you are told that you only have three more days to live. A sequence of short memory fragments flashing through as you try to run away from what you have done.

Price -75% 0.25€
Rating 6.1
Release 18 Aug 2016
Okhlos: Omega Squeeze into your toga and slide on your sandals to rally the angry mobs of Okhlos and bring down the oppressive god of mythological Greece!

Price -96% 0.52€
Rating 7.3
Release 18 Aug 2016

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