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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Democracy 3 Africa Democracy 3: Africa is the new standalone 're-imagining' of the hit political strategy game 'Democracy 3'. Set entirely in countries on the continent of Africa, D3:A puts you in charge of these countries and challenges you to stay in power whilst fixing each country's problems, improving the quality of life for your electorate, and...

Price 16.49€
Rating 6.9
Release 12 Apr 2016
Ascent - The Space Game Ascent is a PVE sandbox space MMO with 270 BILLION star systems and an emphasis on strong Sci Fi. It encourages Exploration, Colonization, Research, Asteroid mining, Farming, Trading, and Combat. Outside the tutorial sector, everything in-game has been built by players.

Price -97% 0.64€
Rating 6.5
Release 11 Apr 2016
StarsOne You’ll see an unexplored world full of dangers, mysteries and adventures. You will explore randomly generated planets, develop industry, conduct trade, plant colonies, explore outer space.

Price -71% 2.86€
Rating 7.0
Release 08 Apr 2016
NO THING The year is 1994 and it is the future. NO THING is a minimalistic surreal action game set in totalitarian regime of future. Tells the story of an office clerk who is sent with important message to the Queen of Ice.

Price -32% 2.72€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Apr 2016
Antenna A machine ponders its loneliness. It scans the radio spectrum for an answer to its question.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 07 Apr 2016
A Blind Legend A Blind Legend is the first-ever action-adventure game without video – where ears replace eyes! Discover the original, innovative sensory experience of binaural 3D sound.

Price -92% 0.62€
Rating 7.2
Release 07 Apr 2016
Mushroom Wars Mushroom Wars is a dynamic real-time strategy game, where smart strategy meets furious action in epic PvP and PvE battles.

Price -74% 2.62€
Rating 7.3
Release 07 Apr 2016
Domino Sky Domino Sky is a physics based game where you place and topple domino pieces to solve puzzles. Free build mode also available.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 05 Apr 2016
Surgeon Simulator VR: Meet The Medic Surgeon Simulator VR: Meet the Medic – be the Medic and operate on the Heavy in this free and exclusive teaser for the HTC Vive!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 05 Apr 2016
Project Starship Project Starship is an arcade bullet-hell with random mechanics. No match will ever be the same. Who will you be? Garret or Gwen? Will you save the world from the mighty cthulhu?

Price 2.39€
Rating 7.7
Release 05 Apr 2016
The Cubicle. The Cubicle is a short VR experience about your regular everyday job in an office, or is it?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 05 Apr 2016
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Do you like hot dogs? How about horseshoes? Hand grenades? (everyone likes hand grenades) Anyway, we've got all that, and guns. SO MANY GUNS. So if you like ordnance, meat, and far too many groan-worthy puns, this is the VR sandbox game for you.

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 05 Apr 2016
A grande bagunça espacial - The big space mess Hello everyone! Welcome to the craziest adventure of your lives! The fearless Waldisglédson will face creatures from space and find allies on his journey!

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 05 Apr 2016
Job Simulator In a world where robots have replaced all human jobs, step into the "Job Simulator" to learn what it was like 'to job'.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.8
Release 05 Apr 2016
Windlands A first person grappling hook exploration game.Soar through the ruins of a fallen world and discover the secrets of the ancients. Designed with full Virtual Reality support for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, also works great in Non VR.

Price -16% 8.19€
Rating 7.4
Release 05 Apr 2016
Audioshield Block the beats! Audioshield puts you at the point of impact for every hit in your songs. Block incoming orbs with your shields and feel the music. Works with any song!

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.8
Release 05 Apr 2016
Hover Junkers Engage in multiplayer VR gunfights that capture real gun play like no FPS you've played before. Pilot and fortify Hover Junkers as you physically walk, duck, dodge and aim in cross ship combat.

Price 19.50€
Rating 6.1
Release 05 Apr 2016
Age of Conquest IV Age of Conquest is a turn-based grand strategy wargame.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 05 Apr 2016
Enter the Gungeon Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.

Price -85% 2.26€
Rating 9.4
Release 05 Apr 2016
The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed Embark on the sci-fi epic that started it all at the dawn of modern VR, setting standards for roomscale movement and interaction for years to come. Winner of over 30 awards including "VR Game of the Year", The Gallery is VR's premier adventure series.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.0
Release 05 Apr 2016
Holopoint Holopoint is pure archery madness. Fight your way through waves of responsive targets, samurai, and highly dangerous ninjas - all while drawing, nocking, and shooting your arrows as quickly as possible.

Price 10.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Apr 2016
HunieCam Studio In HunieCam Studio players take control of a sleazy cam girl operation. Rake in stacks of filthy internet money and attract as many disgusting fans as you can in this fast paced, click happy and thoroughly perverted take on the business tycoon / management sim genre!

Price -93% 0.55€
Rating 8.5
Release 04 Apr 2016
1979 Revolution: Black Friday 1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.3
Release 04 Apr 2016
Final Approach Take control of the skies like never before in a full Virtual Reality world! Airplanes on fire, commuter aircraft low on fuel, mid-air collisions, emergency helicopter rescues, military exercises and so much more!

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 04 Apr 2016
Christmas Adventure: Candy Storm Chtistmas Adventure: Candy Storm – is a funny Christmas Hidden Object game with puzzles and mini-games of varying difficulty.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 01 Apr 2016
Stikbold! A Dodgeball Adventure Stikbold is a glorious and intense sport which will put your friendships to the test with fast-paced, hard-hitting and occasionally hilariously unfair action! Or play the co-op story mode to unlock the full roster of quirky sporting heroes and earn achievements.

Price -82% 1.86€
Rating 8.3
Release 01 Apr 2016
CHKN Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 01 Apr 2016
Adam's Venture: Origins Embark on a bold adventure in Adam’s Venture: Origins. Set in the roaring 20’s, in Adam’s Venture: Origins you will explore ancient ruins, and recover mysterious artifacts. Together with your trusted accomplice Evelyn, you will have to outsmart the evil Clairvaux company.

Price -96% 0.42€
Rating 6.3
Release 01 Apr 2016
Hyper Light Drifter Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Price -23% 11.58€
Rating 9.1
Release 31 Mar 2016
Catch a Falling Star Catch a Falling Star is a casual and relaxing game where the aim is to catch falling stars and score points. A fun and relaxing game with beautiful graphics and soothing music - perfect for when you want to play something, but don't want to think too much.

Price -50% 0.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 30 Mar 2016
A Chair in a Room : Greenwater Explore your surroundings as the protagonist of your own horror story as you immerse yourself in this tense VR thriller set in America’s Deep South. Navigate your way through your memories, piecing together the clues and puzzles, to solve the mystery of how you have awoken in the sinister Greenwater Institute, known only as Patient No.

Price 22.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 30 Mar 2016
Epistory - Typing Chronicles Epistory immerses you in an atmospheric action/adventure game where you play a girl riding a giant fox who fights an insectile corruption from an origami world. As you progress and explore this world, the story literally unfolds and the mysteries of the magic power of the words are revealed.

Price -89% 1.68€
Rating 9.2
Release 30 Mar 2016
Adorables Great game with the cutest characters you ever imagined

Price -99% 0.44€
Rating 7.5
Release 30 Mar 2016
Leap of Fate Leap of Fate is a furiously-paced cyberpunk roguelite about overcoming your fears and achieving your fate. In a New York City where magic is real, you play as a technomage who must develop unspeakable powers to confront the Crucible of Fates. Can you survive the trials?

Price -87% 2.08€
Rating 8.2
Release 30 Mar 2016
Tasty Planet: Back for Seconds Control a tiny ball of grey goo with the ability to eat anything smaller than itself. The more it eats, the bigger it gets! Eat rats, dinosaurs, gladiators, samurai, pyramids, volcanoes... Everything! Soon you'll be eating the entire planet.

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.6
Release 29 Mar 2016
Angry Video Game Nerd II: ASSimilation When a mysterious beam from space transforms the world into a game, the Angry Video Game Nerd must return to put the "ASS" in ASSimilation. Utilize new mechanics, power-ups, abilities, and collectible armor pieces to defeat your most powerful foe yet, and save the world!

Price -89% 0.58€
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Mar 2016

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