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. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Indie games on Steam.

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Shakes and Fidget Shakes & Fidget is a hilarious fantasy role-playing satire and at the same time, an award-winning RPG! Sounds crazy? With over 50 million enthusiastic players, it ranks among the most celebrated online role-playing games worldwide!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 24 Feb 2016
Battlevoid: Harbinger Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles. You are a young commander venturing out into enemy territories, to unknown galaxies, never knowing what you will face as you jump out from hyperspace.

Price -96% 0.45€
Rating 7.6
Release 24 Feb 2016
Asteroid Bounty Hunter Asteroid Bounty Hunter is a space shooter mixed with interesting boss fights and breathtaking visuals, with a reward system to take your skill to another level.

Price -99% 0.27€
Rating 6.3
Release 24 Feb 2016
The Flame in the Flood A rogue-like river journey through the backwaters of a forgotten post-societal America. Forage, craft, evade predators.

Price -95% 0.89€
Rating 7.4
Release 24 Feb 2016
Gnomoria Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Price -11% 11.13€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Feb 2016
Aseprite Aseprite is a pixel-art tool to create 2D animations, sprites, and any kind of graphics for games.

Price 16.79€
Rating 9.7
Release 22 Feb 2016
OutDrive Put the pedal to the metal or your girl will die! Experience the atmosphere of the world inspired by 80s with their neon lights, VHS tapes and synth pop. Buckle up! Gaming experiment in genre of music runner - not a game, aesthetic concept.

Price -23% 2.31€
Rating 7.4
Release 22 Feb 2016
Pointless Pointless is a game about destroying Dots. Each Dot you destroy adds one point to your score. You can add your score to a global point pool, and see how many Dots have been destroyed globally. Rad!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.1
Release 22 Feb 2016
Pixel Puzzles 2: Space Pixel Puzzles 2: Space is a traditional style jigsaw puzzle game in a universal style, each piece uniquely shaped like no physical puzzle could be.

Price -91% 0.47€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Feb 2016
NEKOPARA Vol. 2 Business is booming for La Soleil, the patisserie run by Kashou Minaduki with his two catgirls, Chocola and Vanilla, his sister Shigure, and the Minaduki family's four catgirl sisters.

Price -38% 6.13€
Rating 9.4
Release 19 Feb 2016
The Quest The Quest is a beautifully hand-drawn open world role playing game with old school grid-based movement, turn based combat and intricate quests. Explore a huge world, full of challenging mysteries and dangerous monsters!

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Feb 2016
Risky Rescue Risky Rescue is a demanding arcade game with flat design graphics and innovative controls. Fly a helicopter and do dangerous missions rescuing people.

Price -72% 0.28€
Rating 7.3
Release 19 Feb 2016
Broken Dreams A darkly-enticing story about unrequited love; Broken Dreams is a casual platforming game featuring full voice-acting, beautiful hand-drawn environments and a twist on the original platforming mechanic!

Price -64% 0.72€
Rating 6.7
Release 19 Feb 2016
Prospekt Prospekt begins in the Nova Prospekt prison in the Half-Life universe. Gordon Freeman is slowly being overrun by soldiers in the prison, however unknown to him, his Vortigaunt allies manage to find some help from a forgotten hero.

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.1
Release 18 Feb 2016
Dungelot: Shattered Lands Dungelot: Shattered Lands takes you on an epic roguelike dungeon-crawler adventure to defeat zombie cows, splat giant evil mushrooms, and generally get back home in one piece. Deceptively simple, ever so addictive.

Price -91% 0.89€
Rating 7.2
Release 18 Feb 2016
Devil Daggers Devil Daggers is a fast-paced shooter that places you in an abyssal arena to face endless legions of demons. Armed with versatile magic daggers and a fluid movement system, fight to survive as long as you can.

Price -87% 1.06€
Rating 9.2
Release 18 Feb 2016
The Emerald Maiden: Symphony of Dreams Save your family from an ominous undersea facility!

Price -95% 0.83€
Rating 8.0
Release 18 Feb 2016
Mindless Running Mindless Running - it's a classic runner with story mode. Explore a randomly-generated world while listening to a unique soundtrack!

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.1
Release 18 Feb 2016
Bonsai Grow your tree, prune it, and watch over it as it matures into adulthood. The tree will become what you train it to be - you are the mastermind behind it's path in life.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Feb 2016
Plague Inc: Evolved Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.

Price -66% 5.16€
Rating 9.3
Release 18 Feb 2016
Californium Taking the form of a first-person experience of a bad trip, Californium pays homage to sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick by transporting you into the life of a writer searching for his own identity. Explore, solve the riddles and conduct your investigation. Will you find what’s behind the simulacra ?

Price -91% 0.59€
Rating 6.7
Release 17 Feb 2016
UBERMOSH:BLACK UBERMOSH:BLACK is the second volume of the arcade series UBERMOSH. Cut bullets with your sword, shoot with heavy guns and splatter enemies with a rage fueled psionic wave.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 17 Feb 2016
Toy Soldiers: Complete Bring your toys to life in this action-packed, Toy Soldiers game bundle which includes the original Toy Soldiers, Toy Soldiers: Cold War, and all four DLC’s – Kaiser’s Battle, Invasion, Napalm and Evil Empire.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.6
Release 17 Feb 2016
Dub Dash Dub Dash is a fast-paced rhythm based action game including music from Bossfight and the DJs of Geometry Dash. Spin your crazy wheel in harmony with the song and keep dodging left and right avoiding obstacles at high speed. Do you rock the funky roads of Dub Dash?

Price -88% 0.64€
Rating 6.7
Release 16 Feb 2016