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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War, the Game 'War, the Game' is a RTS for pc in realistic present day setting.The controls are intuitive, the game rules are simple and transparent.The game focuses on strategy and the use of ones brain to complete the scenarios.The map is a spherical version of earth. That's new.

Price -85% 1.07€
Rating 6.5
Release 12 Jan 2015
Unhack The 5K Worm is on a rampage across cyberspace. As the top unhacker in Smash Security, it is your mission to bring an end to this virus. Join forces with AI companion Weedy and become an unstoppable duo!

Price -87% 0.53€
Rating 8.0
Release 09 Jan 2015
Sword of Asumi Take on the role of Asumi, a new warrior for the people of Edo. As Asumi you must root out a rebel from within a prestigious samurai academy. Now the assassin must walk in the light for all to see.

Price -78% 2.16€
Rating 6.9
Release 08 Jan 2015
Castle Build and protect castles simultaneously in this original and addictive game!

Price -86% 0.58€
Rating 6.7
Release 07 Jan 2015
NEKOPARA Vol. 1 What's NEKOPARA? Why, it's a cat paradise! Kashou Minaduki, the son of a long line of Japanese confection makers moved out to open his own shop "La Soleil" as a patisserie.

Price -25% 7.38€
Rating 9.3
Release 29 Dec 2014
Ukrainian Ninja Ukrainian Ninja is a multiplayer platformer game for Windows. The Ninja shoots and slashes, using weapons sold by the trader to clear each world.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Dec 2014
Sentinels of the Multiverse You've never played a comic book like this! Control a team of heroes battling evil villains across dynamic environments. Play out epic comic book battles come to life in this exciting adaptation of the hit card game.

Price -85% 1.54€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Dec 2014
Alchemy Mysteries: Prague Legends Follow orphan Eva on a trip to mystical Prague in Alchemy Mysteries: Prague Legends.

Price -74% 0.52€
Rating 7.6
Release 22 Dec 2014
Geometry Dash Jump and fly your way through danger in this rhythm-based action platformer!

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 22 Dec 2014
Choice of Robots Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.

Price 6.89€
Rating 9.1
Release 19 Dec 2014
Assetto Corsa Assetto Corsa v1.16 introduces the new "Laguna Seca" laser-scanned track, 7 new cars among which the eagerly awaited Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio! Check the changelog for further info!

Price -89% 2.29€
Rating 9.2
Release 19 Dec 2014
Fork Parker's Holiday Profit Hike Against explosive firepower, bitter cold, and dizzying heights, Fork Parker must outwit a group of no-talent game developers in a deadly holiday promotional game. Also, it's free.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 18 Dec 2014
Verde Station What do you trust most — what you see, what you're told, or your instincts? On a year long solo mission aboard Verde Station, you will test your wits and question everything, but you may not find answers. Welcome to solitude.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Dec 2014
Dead Effect Fight for your life in the INDIE SCI-FI FPS game fit for both casual and hard-core gamers with a passion for hunting down hordes of zombies. Prepare yourselves for the incoming nightmare!

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 17 Dec 2014
LISA: The Painful The miserable journey of a broken man...

Price -40% 11.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 15 Dec 2014
Town of Salem Inspired by the party games Werewolf and Mafia, Town of Salem is a game of murder, mystery and deception.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Dec 2014
bit Dungeon II bitDungeon II is fast action-adventure game with a giant overworld to explore. You are a spirit in an undead world of demons. Your "loved one's " grave has been desecrated. Fight through these corrupted lands, and bring peace to her soul.

Price -80% 0.80€
Rating 7.9
Release 15 Dec 2014
fault - milestone one fault is a series of Science Fantasy Cinematic Novels using a unique 3D Camera system for a visually immersive reading experience. Follow Selphine, the bubbly Princess and her sharp-witted Royal Guardian, Ritona, on their journey of a lifetime back to their homeland of Rughzenhaide.

Price -88% 1.80€
Rating 8.9
Release 15 Dec 2014
NEO Scavenger NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.

Price -83% 2.56€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Dec 2014
Oblivious Garden ~Carmina Burana This is a sumptuous palace built for the seven princesses. It is a "birdcage" glorified with the name "garden"… Irell Reis was once a famous general leading thousands of soldiers. However, the defeat three years ago cost him everything. Now, he is summoned by the Emperor of Celantu again...

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 Dec 2014
About Love, Hate and the other ones About Love, Hate and the other ones is a puzzle game, in which you influence your surroundings by the force of Hate and the power of Love. Find a way through caves and ice, castles and factories, all by the might of your puzzling!

Price -93% 0.62€
Rating 8.5
Release 12 Dec 2014
Words for Evil Words for Evil is a fast paced word game combined with a fantasy RPG. It features everything you expect from an RPG, including combat, hero progression, loot and more, all built on top of word game mechanics.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 11 Dec 2014
Xeodrifter Xeodrifter is the story of an interstellar drifter traveling the stars on a simple mission of exploration. We join our nomad as he embarks on the investigation of a small cluster of four planets in the omega sector, after a collision with a rogue asteroid damaged his warp core.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.3
Release 11 Dec 2014
The Talos Principle The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

Price -93% 2.21€
Rating 9.3
Release 11 Dec 2014
Dungeonmans Crush monsters and get loots in the classic turn-based style of deep dungeons and high adventure! Grow the Dungeonmans Academy, a bastion of learning that expands as you play. Serious gameplay with a light-hearted atmosphere, combining the feel of history's great RPGs and dice-slinging adventures around the tabletop.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 09 Dec 2014
I, Zombie Quite a different zombie game - this time YOU are the zombie! Command your infested comrades, fight your way to freedom and let the zombie kind dominate the world! Oh, and you're able to create your own scenarios!

Price -72% 0.57€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 Dec 2014
Galcon 2: Galactic Conquest Galcon 2 is a demolition derby in space! Send swarms of ships from planet to planet to conquer the galaxy in this fast paced multiplayer strategy game!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 05 Dec 2014
Carmageddon TDR 2000 Yes, it's the game literally... SOME of you asked for! And so, in the spirit of "well, alright then, if you insist..." we present the third game in the Carmageddon series, in the knowledge that some of you Carma fans out there would like to have a complete Carmageddon collection in your Steam library. Nothing wrong with that.

Price -90% 0.40€
Rating 7.0
Release 04 Dec 2014
Demon Hunter: Chronicles from Beyond Discover your true identity and face a mysterious entity from another dimension!

Price -96% 0.61€
Rating 6.2
Release 04 Dec 2014
Fight The Dragon A COMMUNITY CREATED Hack'n Slash RPG where players can team up and tackle exciting adventures made by other community members in our in-game Adventure Construction Kit - It's DIABLO meets LITTLE BIG PLANET!

Price 7.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 04 Dec 2014
StarMade The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!

Price -61% 5.85€
Rating 6.6
Release 04 Dec 2014
Dead State: Reanimated Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 04 Dec 2014
Potatoman Seeks the Troof Potatoman will put your reflexes and worldview to the test as you journey through scorching deserts, dark forests, busy cities, the tallest mountains and eventually your own potato-consciousness in search of the ultimate answer. Are you prepared to face the TROOF?

Price -95% 0.21€
Rating 7.2
Release 03 Dec 2014
Rising World Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 03 Dec 2014
The Old City: Leviathan The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.

Price -90% 0.62€
Rating 6.9
Release 03 Dec 2014
Lumino City The BAFTA award winning handmade puzzle adventure game made entirely by hand. Explore the city and use your ingenuity to piece together puzzling mechanisms and bring back power to this unique world. Three years in the making, it's handmade entirely out of paper, card, miniature lights and motors.

Price -95% 0.60€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Dec 2014

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