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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The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns A short lesbian / yuri visual novel set in England. Our heroine, Toma Andrews, meets a ghost girl wearing an old-fashioned nightgown in a graveyard who calls herself Emmeline. Just who is she, and how did she die?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Jan 2016
Cally's Caves 3 Cally's parents have been abducted, as her arch-enemy Herbert has taken control of the Caves to perform his evil experiments. Join Cally and her friends in this action-packed run and gun platformer, conquering insane bosses, exploring to find secrets, and levelling up EVERYTHING.

Price 6.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 05 Jan 2016
Sora From Orange Juice comes a shoot'em'up starring the lone enhanced human, Sora. The sequel of the high-speed shoot'em'up "Suguri", with improved game system and graphics.

Price -59% 3.61€
Rating 8.6
Release 05 Jan 2016
Linea, the Game The goal of the game is to survive for more than 60 seconds on each level, dodging platforms and objects, listening to bitpop soundtracks. Four levels, online-records, achievements and trading cards are waiting for you.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 04 Jan 2016
Pony Island Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.

Price -77% 1.19€
Rating 9.3
Release 04 Jan 2016
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 01 Jan 2016
Blood Code A story about an ordinary human girl and her romantic encounters with knights and princes. These characters may be gentle, passionate, considerate, or inhospitable. There are many character styles to suit a variety of individual player tastes.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.1
Release 28 Dec 2015
12 Labours of Hercules IV: Mother Nature (Platinum Edition) The legendary hero Hercules and his wife Megara are back, ready to embark on their next adventure! The Gods are outraged at their defeat and have summoned a fearsome beast who can match Hercules's god-like strength.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 25 Dec 2015
Heaven Island - VR MMO More a Journey in your Inner Self than a game, "Heaven Island" is an experience in which you'll explore wonderful places. The inspiration for the environments comes from the Renzo Piano designs and from the book "Origins of Architectural Pleasure" in which the welfare is of primary importance.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.2
Release 23 Dec 2015
PERFECT ANGLE: The puzzle game based on optical illusions Challenge your mind with puzzles based on optical illusions. Find the perfect angle by rotating the camera to clean up the chaos and find a shocking story fraught with twists.

Price -50% 4.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 22 Dec 2015
Dance of Death A mysterious and fascinating quest in Hidden Object genre.

Price 3.99€
Rating 6.1
Release 21 Dec 2015
Space Pilgrim Episode I: Alpha Centauri Captain Gail Pilgrim has been flying starships since she was a kid, ferrying passengers between planets and space stations across the galaxy. She has no reason to expect that this latest trip to Alpha Centauri will be anything special, even if her passengers are a little more diverse than usual....

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Dec 2015
Oh...Sir! Prototype A Ridiculous local 1v1muliplayer Insult Simulator for two!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 21 Dec 2015
Drift Streets Japan Racing Game about Illegal Night Street Racing. Nice Cars and Advanced Engine Tuning. Most Realistic and Best Physics. Most Quality Graphics. Drive the Large Japan Highway with traffic. Feel the Real experience, try to drift with car cockpit camera.

Price -96% 0.24€
Rating 6.3
Release 21 Dec 2015
Aviary Attorney The hottest bird lawyering game to come out of 1840s France! Join Jayjay Falcon and his witty apprentice, Sparrowson, as the two take on clients, interview witnesses, collect evidence, and deliver justice to the guilty.

Price -96% 0.64€
Rating 9.0
Release 21 Dec 2015
Gnomes Garden Dry summer withered the king’s beloved garden and the surrounding gardens of the kingdom alike. The ruler has fallen ill and the kingdom is in danger. Help the princess save the gardens and make the king better again.

Price -91% 1.40€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 Dec 2015
Cards and Castles Collectible cards come to life in this tactics and CCG hybrid! Collect cards, build decks, and challenge players head to head on a Tactical Game Board. Play as Vikings, Pirates, Ninjas and more!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 18 Dec 2015
UnderRail UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.

Price -68% 4.75€
Rating 8.5
Release 18 Dec 2015
Wick Wick is a survival horror game where ghost stories are brought to life. Explore a local legend about the long lost children in the woods who can still be seen... but only by those who dare to enter alone by candlelight.

Price -65% 2.13€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Dec 2015
Commander Cool 2 Commander Cool 2 is a four player local coop retro-styled adventure that is destined to be one of coolest game in 2015!

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 17 Dec 2015
Taimumari: Definitive Edition Retro-style platform game in keeping with the best traditions of games of our childhood! Take control of the Himari, the young female wizard travelling across various ages to settle the balance in time across the whole world!

Price -66% 2.40€
Rating 7.4
Release 16 Dec 2015
Sinless + OST "Before we knew it, what we once knew as 'freedom' became nothing more but a faint and distant memory." Venture forth and discover the truth behind the seemingly perfect OmniCare society in Sinless: a unique point and click and visual novel hybrid, set in an original cyberpunk reality.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 16 Dec 2015
OH! RPG! Heroes always win! But what happens to those who don't? Play as unique and colorful characters as the world comes to an end after our heroes' utter defeat.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 11 Dec 2015
Emily Wants To Play It’s 11pm and the last house on your route. The windows are boarded up, the yard is overgrown, but the lights are on and the front door is open… strange place to deliver a pizza. You’re getting soaked from the rain, so you hesitantly step inside the house. You shouldn’t have done that.

Price -47% 2.68€
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Dec 2015
Dragon's Wake Dragon's Wake is a 2D Adventure Platformer where a fledgling dragon hatches into a world in which the extermination of dragons at the hands of a mysterious black knight is already underway.

Price 3.29€
Rating 8.2
Release 10 Dec 2015
PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist Join your favorite YouTubers on an Epic Quest in PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist.

Price -87% 1.04€
Rating 8.6
Release 10 Dec 2015
Rytmik Ultimate Rytmik is a powerful music station allowing you not only to play with samples and musical instruments but also to mix them together, shape them and create music clips or whole songs for your Friday night set-list.

Price 17.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 10 Dec 2015
Block Story™ There isn’t much better than a wide open game world in which you have essentially no limits and can alter the very landscape in which you play – that is, unless you add dragons, of course…

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 10 Dec 2015
Apotheon Arena Apotheon Arena is the free online-multiplayer complement to the mythic Greek action RPG, Apotheon. Pit your skills with spear and shield against other players in brutal bronze-age combat. Battle across the statuesque arenas of Olympus, depicted with beautiful black-figure pottery artwork.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Dec 2015
City of Chains City of Chains is a dark sci-fi RPG set in a dystopian city. Take control of a small group of escaped fugitives and lead them to their freedom. Decide whether to fight head on or to avoid combat, to help others or to go your own way, to show mercy or to kill. Your actions could affect the fate of the city.

Price -93% 0.67€
Rating 6.9
Release 08 Dec 2015
Ben and Ed Ben and Ed is a 3D platformer, in which the player controls Ed the Zombie, who is forced to participate in a grotesque game show called "Rundead". Will he beat all obstacles Hans Showmaster confronts him with, to save his best friend Ben?

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Dec 2015
The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare Take part of history’s greatest battle of Green VS. Tan. Fight amongst and against others online. Jump, shoot and roll your way into victory with fast paced objective based gameplay. Sometimes the greatest battles are fought by the smallest of soldiers.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Dec 2015
Gun Wings A mysterious meteorite from deep space was detected approaching the Solar System, before the meteorite is due to hit the Earth, three of the girls who had their bodies modified as weapons are sent, along with all the hopes of humanity, to destroy the meteorite and save mankind...

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 08 Dec 2015
SquareCells SquareCells is an ambient logic puzzle game.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 07 Dec 2015
Bullet Heaven 2 Bullet Heaven 2 is a bullet-hell shoot-em-up inspired by games like Touhou and Jamestown. It's all about shooting every cute thing that moves, while dodging hundreds of shiny bullets per second!

Price 13.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 07 Dec 2015
Pool Nation FX Lite Pool Nation FX, is a seriously fun Pool & Snooker Sim! A visually stunning billiards simulation with the critically acclaimed POOL NATION physics engine. Play 8 Ball, 9 Ball, Snooker, Killer & more, unlimited Career modes with customised difficulty levels, Trickshots, Local and Online Multiplayer, spectate live matches and feel...

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 07 Dec 2015

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