Best Indie Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our 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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Double Action: Boogaloo Double Action is a free stylish multiplayer game about diving, flipping, and sliding your way into action movie mayhem.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 23 Oct 2014
Super Life of Pixel Join Pixel as he quests through gaming history, teleporting across the most iconic video game systems of generations past. He’ll have to jump, dodge and play smart if he wants to survive all the traps, puzzles and enemies waiting to take him down at every turn.

Price -71% 2.39€
Rating 7.4
Release 22 Oct 2014
Time Rifters Be your own teammates in this unique single-player co-op shooter!

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Oct 2014
Sinister City Who would name their town Sinister City? Vampires, of course! When John discovers his bride-to-be has been kidnapped by Sinister City's number one bloodsucker, there's only one thing to do - search for hidden objects! And kill vampires! Or at least insult them until they give your girl back.

Price -47% 0.53€
Rating 6.6
Release 20 Oct 2014
Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition Paranautical Activity combines the classic FPS action of games like Doom and Quake, with the randomness and difficulty of modern roguelikes like Binding of Isaac and Spelunky.

Price 6.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 20 Oct 2014
Door Kickers Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.

Price -88% 2.31€
Rating 9.2
Release 20 Oct 2014
DeadCore DeadCore is a Platformer-FPS blending exploration and speedrun. Become immersed in a futuristic and dreamlike adventure which will see you climb a huge Tower born from the void and truly put your capabilities to the test. Will you be able to reveal the secrets that lie beneath this fog-ridden world?

Price -68% 3.25€
Rating 8.2
Release 17 Oct 2014
Perpetuum Perpetuum is a persistent, sandbox, single server, massively multiplayer sci-fi rpg (MMORPG). Control huge robots and mechs to gain access to an alien planet's resources and knowledge, amass huge wealth, or even claim part of the world for yourself using terraforming and complex infrastructure.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 17 Oct 2014
The Treasures of Montezuma 3 Match tokens to unlock incredible riches in The Treasures of Montezuma 3! With Casual and Timed modes to enjoy, 160 levels to beat, and dozens of mind-bending mini-puzzles to solve, you could be in the jungle for months!

Price -66% 1.37€
Rating 6.3
Release 16 Oct 2014
Ultimate General: Gettysburg A Tactical Battle Simulator that allows you to command thousands of soldiers as a Union or Confederate General. The game features the most accurately created map, a non-linear battle campaign, complex morale, innovative control mechanics and smart AI.

Price -87% 2.57€
Rating 7.8
Release 16 Oct 2014
Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek Let one of the most thrilling adventures of your life begin!

Price -86% 2.18€
Rating 8.1
Release 16 Oct 2014
Legend of Grimrock 2 Legend of Grimrock 2 is a dungeon crawling role playing game with a modern execution but an oldschool heart. A group of four prisoners have shipwrecked on the secluded Isle of Nex. The island is filled with ancient crumbled ruins, mysterious shrines and a vast underground network of dungeons.

Price -90% 2.57€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Oct 2014
Pox Nora Delve into classic turn-based strategy gaming with elements of table top miniatures, fantasy RPG and TCG style gameplay all wrapped into one.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 15 Oct 2014
Deep Dungeons of Doom This game is only for the brave. Dungeons await, each one deeper, each one more perilous and each one more challenging than the last.

Price -92% 0.43€
Rating 7.4
Release 14 Oct 2014
Eufloria HD Experience the celebrated strategy gameplay of Eufloria HD. Conquer asteroids in space and use their resources to grow floral creatures that do your bidding. Expand your empire and fight against several teams of AI opponents that all vie for the same resources and can offer fierce opposition.

Price -85% 2.35€
Rating 8.4
Release 14 Oct 2014
Sigils of Elohim Sigils of Elohim is a free mini-game prelude to Croteam’s upcoming first-person puzzler The Talos Principle that challenges players to solve dozens of challenging sigil puzzles under the watchful eye of Elohim.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 13 Oct 2014
A Golden Wake The rise and fall story of a real estate agent in 1920s Miami. Based on historical events. From Francisco González, creator of the Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator series, Shardlight, and Lamplight City.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.0
Release 09 Oct 2014
TRI: Of Friendship and Madness Find a way through the towers and dungeons of TRI by solving puzzles, climbing impossible ascents and reflecting light-rays. The mystical TRI will let you create your own paths in this strange world – just try not to lose your mind when you're falling upside down!

Price -93% 1.05€
Rating 8.0
Release 09 Oct 2014
Costume Quest 2 A sequel to the popular Halloween adventure from Double Fine Productions!

Price -72% 4.15€
Rating 8.4
Release 07 Oct 2014
Styx: Master of Shadows Styx: Master of Shadows is an infiltration game with RPG elements taking place in a dark fantasy universe, where you sneak, steal and assassinate your way through as Styx, a Goblin two-centuries of age.

Price -98% 0.57€
Rating 8.1
Release 07 Oct 2014
Metal Dead A hilariously terrifying adventure filled with laughs, blood, insanity, and of course... hordes of the undead.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 06 Oct 2014
Damned Damned is a randomized online horror game for up to 5 players (4 survivors and 1 monster). You’ll be able to play as one of four people trapped in different haunted places (hotels, hospitals, etc).

Price -2% 8.61€
Rating 6.9
Release 06 Oct 2014
Qora A mysterious trip to gorgeous and surreal lands, players explore the unknown and harness mystical powers which have been hidden in the valley for centuries.

Price -94% 0.63€
Rating 6.5
Release 02 Oct 2014
Left in the Dark: No One on Board Discover what connects a lost ship’s disappearance with Devil’s Island and a local family’s unsolved murder.

Price -88% 1.78€
Rating 7.9
Release 02 Oct 2014
Silence of the Sleep You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.

Price -92% 0.43€
Rating 7.1
Release 01 Oct 2014
Wrack Wrack is all about action - spectacular action! The addictive kill chain system encourages you to mow down as many enemies in a short period of time as possible. No hiding - keep your chain going by getting out there and kicking some alien ass!

Price -89% 1.14€
Rating 6.7
Release 30 Sep 2014
TinyKeep TinyKeep, a top-down procedurally generated dungeon escape game with permadeath - you die and it's game over. Master the frantic physics-based combat, lure enemies into traps or make them fight each other for dominance. There are many ways to survive in TinyKeep!

Price -96% 0.43€
Rating 6.3
Release 29 Sep 2014
STARWHAL The local multi-player space narwhal fighting game that has rocked the internet is finally ready for its big debut in a fully loaded release! Flop it out with 1-4 players in a retro, epic narwhal battle in space! The heart-piercing action is furious and unrelenting. STARWHAL will change your life.

Price -89% 1.18€
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Sep 2014
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.

Price -99% 0.44€
Rating 8.7
Release 29 Sep 2014
Kraven Manor Turn out the lights, take a deep breath, and prepare yourself. Explore the depths of the immersive, atmospheric world of Kraven Manor. Uncover its secrets, solve its mystical puzzles, and face its growing threat. Face your fears and see if you have what it takes...the doors of Kraven Manor await you.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 26 Sep 2014
Neverending Nightmares Experience true psychological horror as you explore nightmares inspired by the creator's struggles with depression and OCD. The defenseless protagonist must avoid monstrous manifestations of what haunts his subconscious in his quest to wake up into reality.

Price -84% 2.54€
Rating 7.4
Release 26 Sep 2014
Starpoint Gemini 2 Captain your own space ship and roam the galaxy in 3D in this tactical space simulator with tons of RPG depth ! Space has never looked so inviting - but images can betray...It has been two years since the end of the second Gemini war, the situation in the wartorn system is further from resolution than ever.

Price -95% 1.86€
Rating 6.8
Release 26 Sep 2014
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.

Price -96% 0.96€
Rating 8.6
Release 25 Sep 2014
Beyond Gravity Beyond Gravity is procedurally generated "platformer" where you jump in-between planets and try to collect as many pickups as you can. This gets progressively harder the further you jump. No need to worry tho as you can upgrade your character with loads of upgrades and power-ups!

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Sep 2014
DG2: Defense Grid 2 Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.

Price -97% 0.34€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Sep 2014
Magicmaker Ever wanted to shoot poisonous lightning lasers? Freezing fireballs? Turrets that fire waves of miniature suns? How about lasers that shoot exploding black holes that suck out your enemies' life force? You can do that all in Magicmaker, the spellcrafting-focused platformer dungeon-crawler!

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 22 Sep 2014

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