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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Flowers -Le volume sur printemps- Suoh Shirahane, a shy girl with a mysterious past, will begin her first year of high school at Saint Angraecum Academy, where she hopes to find a new beginning. She will navigate friendships and mysteries at her new school, and discovers that love can come in many forms.

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 17 Aug 2016
Shift It's a fun puzzle game. You have to connect as many figures as possible together. Use yellow "shifters" to change direction of the line. Get more points for longer line.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 16 Aug 2016
Grow Up Leaping from mind-boggling heights, bouncing off Champolines, soaring inches from floating islands, BUD can do it all - that look of mild terror, that’s his daredevil face. Help the adorable little robot collect MOM’s scattered ship parts and return them to the moon.

Price -39% 6.13€
Rating 8.8
Release 16 Aug 2016
UBERMOSH Vol.3 The third volume of the arcade series UBERMOSH.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 15 Aug 2016
Typoman Slip into the role of an unusual HERO and find the last letter to restore hope in a merciless world.

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Aug 2016
ROD: Revolt Of Defense Explore a random generated space. Find artifacts and treasure maps. Build and develop your base on a flying platform. Attack or defend against enemies and save the universe!

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 12 Aug 2016
8-Bit Hordes From the team that brought you 8-Bit Armies comes a new fantasy RTS as fast-paced and friendly as the original! 8-BIT HORDES is a colorful strategy-arcade game that is easy to learn for players of all skill levels. Collect resources, build up and defend your base, amass your army of orcs or humans and ultimately crush your opponents!

Price -83% 2.53€
Rating 7.7
Release 12 Aug 2016
Siralim 2 Siralim 2 is an old-school monster catching RPG. Summon and customize hundreds of creatures to fight for you as you battle your way through endless dungeons. Find rare treasure and use it to upgrade your castle, empower your creatures, craft powerful artifacts, learn new spells, and much more.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 12 Aug 2016
No Man's Sky No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Price -80% 11.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 12 Aug 2016
Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala is the final chapter in the blockbuster trilogy, an exciting detective story rife with adventure, puzzles, and ancient mystery. Follow the trail of a demonic preacher and unravel the secrets of Karkhala Peak!

Price -94% 0.97€
Rating 8.8
Release 11 Aug 2016
Reigns Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 11 Aug 2016
Invisible Mind Go on a trip around the worlds created by your own mind and learn yourself.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 10 Aug 2016
Winter Novel Snow, dullness, depression. Constant dissatisfaction with work and superiors and feeling like there is no escape. Is this what life will always be? Perhaps… but I can always hope for change to be just around the corner!…

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 10 Aug 2016
Rock 'N' Roll Defense Rocked by an explosive soundtrack, choose your band, place your equipments and defend the Rock 'N' Roll from everyone and everything who try to pull it down, on a totally hardcore tower defense!

Price -94% 0.30€
Rating 8.3
Release 10 Aug 2016
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh is an Immersive Horror Adventure, featuring a Complex Story and Deep Atmosphere.

Price -96% 0.87€
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Aug 2016
#KILLALLZOMBIES #KILLALLZOMBIES is an insane twin-stick zombie shooter with Twitch streaming interactions, where you survive hordes of zombies on a dynamically changing arena and spectators may affect gameplay via special Twitch chat commands.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.3
Release 10 Aug 2016
Through Abandoned: The Forest You continue your journey in worlds of Abandoned.

Price -88% 0.49€
Rating 7.2
Release 09 Aug 2016
Spikit Spikit is a bullet hell game developed by a single developer, Igor Petrović. With a soundtrack composed by Dario Malešević. In this game, the player will have to dodge a constant barrage of spikes coming from the side of the screen.

Price -50% 0.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 09 Aug 2016
Heart&Slash Fight as Heart, an innocent robot fighting to escape the grip of mindless machines in a future where humans are no more. A fast-paced 3D brawler with roguelike elements set in a colorful yet desolated world.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 09 Aug 2016
Bear With Me - Episode One Bear With Me is an episodic noir adventure game. Amber is trying to find her missing brother while being aided by her trusty teddy, Ted E. Bear.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 08 Aug 2016
Lucius Demake Lucius game has been demade, and is now ready for mayhem. Enjoy all the gore now in fewer pixels and fewer colors. The original game has been fully demade to achieve the atmosphere of an 80's style gory adventure. Lucius is now killing all the pixels and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do about it.

Price -89% 0.58€
Rating 8.7
Release 08 Aug 2016
Infectonator: Survivors "Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.

Price 9.75€
Rating 6.5
Release 08 Aug 2016
BlackSmith HIT BlackSmith HIT – Hit the iron when it is hot! And show who is the real blacksmith!

Price -74% 0.26€
Rating 7.8
Release 05 Aug 2016
Frozen State Frozen State is a brutal, survival game set in a world embraced by the man-made ice age meant to protect mankind from pestilent hybrids. Bitter cold and numbing fear are the constant companions in the journey through the retro-futuristic Frozen State world.

Price 11.99€
Rating 6.2
Release 05 Aug 2016
Save Jesus Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!

Price -66% 0.69€
Rating 8.6
Release 04 Aug 2016
Voodoo Garden Welcome to the Voodoo Garden! You're owner of a little hut in a bustling swamp. With the help of little spirits you can earn powers and gold by producing various voodoo supplies.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 04 Aug 2016
The Cat! Porfirio's Adventure The best sim game about adventures of an urban cat in the village.

Price -78% 0.67€
Rating 7.7
Release 04 Aug 2016
CASE: Animatronics CASE: Animatronics is a truly scary and challenging first-person stealth horror on PC. Control of the police department is in the hands of anonymous hacker. All exits are locked. Electricity is off. Metallic thumps are getting closer. Will you survive, Detective Bishop?

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.0
Release 03 Aug 2016
MANDAGON Explore Mandagon, a world inspired by Tibetan theology and philosophy. With a focus on life and death, discover what it means to make a true sacrifice . . .

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 03 Aug 2016
Overcooked Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.

Price -95% 0.92€
Rating 8.8
Release 03 Aug 2016
You Have 10 Seconds You Have 10 Seconds is a fast paced arcade style platformer game with over 40 levels.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 02 Aug 2016
This Is the Police This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, you'll dive into a deep story of crime and intrigue. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?

Price -95% 0.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 02 Aug 2016
ABZU From the art director of Journey®, ABZÛ is a beautiful underwater adventure that evokes the dream of diving. Immerse yourself in a vibrant hidden world bursting with color and life as you descend into the heart of the ocean. But beware as you swim deeper as dangers lurk in the depths.

Price -90% 2.05€
Rating 9.1
Release 02 Aug 2016
Near Death Stranded at an abandoned Antarctic research base with no hope of rescue, you must battle a deadly blizzard in a desperate fight to find your way home.

Price -36% 4.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 02 Aug 2016
Broken Armor A knight exiled from his kingdom must find the holy grail if he is to return.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 01 Aug 2016
Redactem Rewind time and manipulate gravity in order to solve parkour puzzles in this exciting new 2D platformer.

Price -98% 0.14€
Rating 6.4
Release 01 Aug 2016

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