Best Indie Steam Games on Sale

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Star Ruler Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves)...

Price -79% 1.43€
Rating 7.7
Release 20 Sep 2010
Faerie Solitaire Have magical fun in the addicting Card game, Faerie Solitaire! Find and raise a Faerie pet and repopulate the magical land of Avalon using the resources found by clearing each level.

Price -96% 0.52€
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Sep 2010
Hacker Evolution Hacker Evolution is a hacking simulation game, featuring unparalleled graphics and features. You play the role of a former intelligence agent, specializing in computer security. When a chain of events sets off worldwide, leaving critical service disabled, you assume the role a computer hacker to find out what happened and attempt to stop...

Price -91% 0.47€
Rating 6.6
Release 14 Sep 2010
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale Recettear is the story of an item shop, the girl who lives in it, and the fairy who turned her life upside down. Recette Lemongrass finds herself in charge of an item shop built into her house, in order to pay back a loan her father took and then skipped out on - and Tear, her newfound fairy "companion", won't take no for an answer!

Price -80% 2.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 10 Sep 2010
Amnesia: The Dark Descent Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.

Price -97% 0.74€
Rating 9.3
Release 08 Sep 2010
VVVVVV VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?

Price -92% 0.41€
Rating 9.3
Release 07 Sep 2010
Chime A Zoë Mode production for the video game charity initiative OneBigGame, Chime pits gamers against the melody in this acclaimed puzzle experience.

Price -75% 0.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 06 Sep 2010
Making History II: The War of the World What if Germany won the Battle of Britain? What if Moscow fell in 1942?You’re in charge. Anything can happen and history will never repeat itself in this classic WWII grand strategy game MAKING HISTORY II: The War of the World. Are you ready to battle for global dominance?

Price -87% 2.02€
Rating 7.5
Release 27 Aug 2010
Jolly Rover A comedic 2D point and click adventure, featuring a crazy cast of poxy pirate pooches.

Price -75% 2.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 07 Jun 2010
eversion The Princess of the Flower Kingdom has vanished! She was taken by the Ghulibas of the north, and it is up to brave Zee Tee to rescue her. On his quest, he - and you - will discover the hidden lands behind the peaceful kingdom, and come face to face with secrets that will set you on edge!

Price -19% 3.26€
Rating 8.7
Release 07 Jun 2010
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Month!

Price -88% 2.56€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 Apr 2010
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom Enter a macabre and comical silent world filled with mischief, time travel and delicious pie. Includes Steam Achievements, Cloud, and Leaderboards!

Price -50% 1.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 20 Apr 2010
Beat Hazard Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.

Price -95% 0.49€
Rating 9.2
Release 15 Apr 2010
Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West is a third-person shooter that delivers an intense team-based multiplayer experience. Relive the violent era of the Wild West with adrenaline-fueled action and fast-paced gunfights. Engage in gritty battles in beautifully rendered classic Western settings.

Price -90% 0.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 08 Apr 2010
Mount & Blade: Warband In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!

Price -75% 4.99€
Rating 9.7
Release 31 Mar 2010
Shatter Shatter is a retro-inspired brick-breaking game that merges familiar action with unique twists and a modern crafted production approach.

Price -80% 0.32€
Rating 8.9
Release 15 Mar 2010
Toki Tori The gameplay in Toki Tori is a blend of two genres. While it looks like a platform game, it's a puzzle game at heart. To progress through the game, the player must pick up each egg in a level using a set number of tools.

Price -89% 0.59€
Rating 8.4
Release 28 Jan 2010
Zero Gear Zero Gear is physically-fueled, online multiplayer kart combat madness. Deck out your kart and character before jumping into one of many different game modes. Outrageous kinematic gameplay and weapons make every round a blast. The potential for tiny vehicular mayhem has never been so humongous!

Price -75% 1.24€
Rating 7.5
Release 12 Jan 2010
Roogoo Roogoo is an innovative and unusual 3D puzzle game that has players guide and stack different shaped blocks through various platforms to not only save planet Roo, but the entire Roogoo race. Roogoo tasks players with guiding meteors in the form of shaped blocks through a series of rotating disks as a means of saving planet Roo and the...

Price -80% 0.79€
Rating 7.4
Release 17 Dec 2009
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake version of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS which was Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001 and which scored overall of 87% on Metacritic!

Price -93% 1.18€
Rating 9.1
Release 24 Nov 2009
Zombie Shooter 2 Just choose a character to the liking, get experience to develop skills, earn money and spend it at weapons, medications and useful devices. All of this will be used against thousands of enemies. The zombies fill the game screen, never letting you rest, even for a minute.

Price -79% 2.10€
Rating 7.5
Release 18 Nov 2009
Gratuitous Space Battles The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.

Price -75% 3.69€
Rating 6.9
Release 16 Nov 2009
Torchlight Adventure awaits in the award-winning Action RPG debut from Runic Games! Explore the randomized depths of this boom town, collect loot, and level up to save Torchlight - and possibly the world.

Price -95% 0.84€
Rating 8.8
Release 27 Oct 2009
AI War: Fleet Command "You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their...

Price -93% 0.76€
Rating 7.9
Release 21 Oct 2009
Machinarium Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!

Price -90% 2.17€
Rating 9.3
Release 16 Oct 2009
Windosill A short, surprising, toy-like puzzle game.

Price -41% 1.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 25 Sep 2009
Zuma's Revenge! An irresistible force has taken our fearless frog to an island where the puzzle-action of Zuma has evolved in amazing ways… but evil spirits and tenacious tiki bosses rule the land! Survive by firing stone spheres to destroy the deadly stream of balls. Conquer over 60 levels!

Price -80% 0.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 15 Sep 2009
Nation Red Nation Red is an ultra fast infinite play arena-based shooter providing an exceptional close-quarter battlefield experience. Fight thousands of zombie mutants and their bosses in frantic bloody gameplay while earning close to 100 perks. Fight in Barricade, Survival or Free Play mode.

Price -79% 0.60€
Rating 8.5
Release 03 Sep 2009
Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! Special Edition Double Pack Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please! are a couple of rip-roaring point-and-click adventure games . With tongue firmly in cheek, sit back, relax, and put your mind to work solving puzzles, and reading some very funny dialogue. It's like a book, only good!

Price -75% 0.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 25 Aug 2009
Osmos Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax - good things come to those who wait.

Price -96% 0.35€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 Aug 2009
Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge Bad Rats is a physics puzzle game where rats finally get their bloody revenge on their new prisoners: The cats. Come up with creative solutions for each puzzle using physics, functional objects, and your specially trained Rats. Try different ways of solving each puzzle to finish faster or earn higher scores.

Price -60% 0.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 20 Jul 2009
Trine Enchanted Edition Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world of great castles and strange machinery, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.

Price -95% 0.86€
Rating 9.3
Release 02 Jul 2009
Zombie Shooter The human race is in danger again. This time scientists could not cope the imminent threat and became monsters themselves. Crowds of zombie people filled the secret research base. The dreadful contagion is about to spread earth wide. Use the last chance to save the humanity from total annihilation!

Price -75% 1.24€
Rating 7.9
Release 27 May 2009
Alien Shooter: Revisited Crowds of blood-thirsty monsters, crawling from every corner of the secret research base. Gloomy basements and modern labs, darkness changing into blazing bulbs. The only usual thing is: you're in a bad place alone, and there's no one to help you!

Price -75% 1.24€
Rating 6.2
Release 27 May 2009
Alien Shooter The endless darkness and the somber, long passages of a military complex have become the abode of evil, thousands of blood-thirsty creatures fill its offices, storehouses and mysterious laboratories. About 1,000 monsters on each map, showing up to 100 monsters simultaneously on one playing screen.

Price -75% 1.24€
Rating 9.2
Release 27 May 2009
Restaurant Empire II Restaurant Empire 2 is the most realistic and comprehensive restaurant business simulation available, featuring 4 cuisines, 600 recipes, 4 huge cities, 2 campaigns with a total of 34 missions, 1400 interior objects, and a mix of business strategy and role-playing gameplay such as cooking contests.

Price -60% 7.80€
Rating 7.1
Release 27 May 2009

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