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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Fingerbones Explore a mysterious abandoned bunker and find notes that paint a disturbing picture.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 03 Aug 2015
Submerged Submerged is a third-person combat-free game in which you explore a mysterious flooded city and discover the beauty of desolation in vast outdoor environments. You take on the role of Miku, a young girl who has brought her wounded brother to the city in their small fishing boat.

Price -65% 6.94€
Rating 7.4
Release 03 Aug 2015
Duet Elegant and minimal, Duet asks players simply to navigate two orbiting spheres past an increasingly complex maze of falling obstacles. As the difficulty increases, the tension mounts, and a peculiar narrative unfolds.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 03 Aug 2015
PixelJunk™ Nom Nom Galaxy Welcome to SoupCo, Astroworker! In Nom Nom Galaxy, construct and automate gigantic soup factories on unexplored planets throughout the universe, harvest flora and fauna to turn them into artisanal soups, and rocket your product into the gullets of the galaxy!

Price -25% 7.55€
Rating 7.3
Release 03 Aug 2015
Gynophobia Gynophobia is a horror themed shooter about abnormal fear of women. Gynophobia is using classic first person shooter gameplay, to convey story about Mark, who is suffering from different phobias, including abnormal fear of woman.

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 31 Jul 2015
Gunjitsu Gunjitsu is a fast-paced platform shooter with grappling hooks, rocket launchers, guns and grenades! Kill your opponents or race them for the fastest time. Inspirations from old platform shooters gives Gunjitsu a classic feel while modern tech takes it to a new level of frantic action!

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 31 Jul 2015
Mitos.is: The Game Step into the microscopic world of Mitos.is! Eat or be eaten—become the ultimate cell in a highly addictive multiplayer game. Diverse modes, daily tournaments, guilds, and gear await! The BEST game of 2015 is back!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 29 Jul 2015
Sakura Clicker The latest entry in the Sakura series is more action-packed than ever before! Sakura Clickers is a fast-paced, exciting adventure, full of content, in which you defeat your foes with the power of your mouse!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 29 Jul 2015
The Swindle The Swindle is a steampunk cybercrime caper about breaking into buildings, hacking their systems, stealing all their cash, and quickly running away again before the police show up.

Price -95% 0.79€
Rating 6.2
Release 28 Jul 2015
Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion Can you survive 1000 rooms of cute terror? Or will you break once the cuteness starts to fade off and you're running for your life from the unspeakable hideous beings that shake and writhe in bowels of this house? They wait for you, they wait and hunger for meeting you.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 28 Jul 2015
Cradle Cradle is a sci-fi first-person-view quest designed for the player to explore the surrounding world. The story is built around the relations of the protagonist and a mechanical girl who by quirk of fate found themselves amidst the desert.

Price 12.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 24 Jul 2015
Victor Vran ARPG Victor Vran is the isometric action-RPG where your skill is just as essential as your character build and gear. Experience intense combat action: dodge, jump and unleash powerful skills to finish off your enemies!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 24 Jul 2015
Five Nights at Freddy's 4 In this last chapter of the Five Nights at Freddy's original story, you must once again defend yourself against Freddy Fazbear, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, and even worse things that lurk in the shadows.

Price 7.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 23 Jul 2015
Time Clickers Time Clickers is what's called an 'incremental game'. There's always a fun upgrade to look forward to, and the numbers keep getting bigger! Hire a team to fight for you, even when you're offline!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 23 Jul 2015
9 Clues 2: The Ward Solve the mystery of Mnemosyne Asylum!

Price -89% 1.65€
Rating 8.6
Release 23 Jul 2015
FEIST A desperate, savage survival experience full of stunning visuals, dynamic creatures, and a haunting soundtrack.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.1
Release 23 Jul 2015
Through Abandoned: The Underground City It’s the first game of Through Abandoned series, classical point and click game. You try to find your twin-brother who disappeared in a huge and mysterious place called Abandoned.

Price -80% 0.20€
Rating 7.6
Release 22 Jul 2015
Blues and Bullets Blues and Bullets is a dark and violent crime thriller. Set in an alternative Eliot Ness & Al Capone story, Blues and Bullets blends a stunning script with detective work to deliver an amazing interactive experience.

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.1
Release 22 Jul 2015
Battle of Empires : 1914-1918 Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 is a story-driven RTS that brings to life some of the most brutal battles of the Great War. Each mission showcases the era’s most devastating weaponry — sabotage, stealth, trench warfare, gas attacks, artillery, and mobile infantry. BoE delivers the full WWI experience.

Price 7.39€
Rating 6.7
Release 22 Jul 2015
TEMBO THE BADASS ELEPHANT Shell City is plunged into a state of emergency after coming under attack from the devastating forces of PHANTOM. As the National Army struggle to contain the terrifying war machines, they call upon the only thing that stands between Shell City’s obliteration and its salvation; the peanut chompin’, villain stompin’, TEMBO THE BADASS...

Price -81% 2.53€
Rating 7.1
Release 21 Jul 2015
Super Hipster Lumberjack You can't beat this game!!! Noah attempts to make a game for the first time. He then gets trapped in his own creation.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 20 Jul 2015
TIS-100 TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!

Price -95% 0.40€
Rating 9.3
Release 20 Jul 2015
Tap Tap Infinity Tap Tap Infinity is a fully 3D incremental RPG. Hire Heroes to fight for you, even with the game closed! Gain unimaginable DPS, mountains of gold, conquer thousands of levels and millions of monsters on your quest to defeat ‘The Master'.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 17 Jul 2015
No Time To Explain Remastered "I Am You From The Future! No Time To Explain, Follow m-OH CHRIST!" Chase your future self through time and alternate realities while fighting giant monsters, collecting hats, and eating cake! No Time To Explain Remastered is the remake of tinyBuild's debut game. Now with multiplayer!

Price -96% 0.72€
Rating 7.6
Release 17 Jul 2015
Aberoth Aberoth is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role playing game with charming retro graphics and tons of freedom.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.3
Release 17 Jul 2015
Executive Assault Executive Assault is an indie real-time strategy/first-person shooter where you can not only build your base and create armies, but also take control of your units and fight as one of them.

Price 10.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Jul 2015
Atonement: Scourge of Time The last king was killed over 400 years ago and the global rule of the land ceased to exist. The Vindicator is coming. ~a decadent, dark fantasy world with a new take on the concepts of Angels and Demons!

Price -86% 0.73€
Rating 6.6
Release 16 Jul 2015
MechaNika If it's not cool, it will disappear. If you're not cool, hide. MechaNika is here.

Price -79% 0.84€
Rating 8.6
Release 16 Jul 2015
Odallus: The Dark Call The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.

Price -79% 2.13€
Rating 8.4
Release 15 Jul 2015
Guild of Dungeoneering Ultimate Edition Now fully rebuilt and remastered, Guild of Dungeoneering Ultimate Edition is a turn-based dungeon crawler with a twist: instead of controlling the hero you build the dungeon around them.

Price -66% 6.81€
Rating 7.5
Release 14 Jul 2015
Rake Do ghosts exist? What about Bigfoot, Chupacabras,Rake or Skinwalkers? And how will we ever know? You play as Gordon Davis, a scientist,a traveller and an explorer of unknown creatures and unusual events.

Price 3.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 13 Jul 2015
Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is a wacky simulation game where you manage your very own weapon shop and expand its business across an incredible potato world.Use your potato smiths to forge weapons and sell them to questing heroes.

Price -96% 0.45€
Rating 7.0
Release 13 Jul 2015
Card Hunter Shuffle your cards and ready your dice - Card Hunter is a fresh new card gaming spin on classic tabletop RPGs. Battle your way through a massive campaign solo or with friends and compete with other players in ranked play and tournaments.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 13 Jul 2015
TeraBlaster TeraBlaster is a top-down arcade shooter micro-game which draws heavy inspiration from Geometry Wars. Duke it out with hordes of enemies on randomly generated levels, trigger massive explosions, and die a truly glorious death.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 10 Jul 2015
Contradiction: Spot The Liar Spot the lie and beat the liars in 'Contradiction' - the all-video murder mystery adventure!

Price 12.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 10 Jul 2015
The Magic Circle In this darkly comedic story, you are the hero of an unfinished fantasy game, and your designers have failed you. Steal the power of a game god - trap their creations, swap behaviors and body parts, crafting your own unique solutions to free-form puzzles. Can you release a game ...from the inside?

Price -90% 2.13€
Rating 8.8
Release 09 Jul 2015

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