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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Painters Guild Painters Guild is a management sim where you control an art academy in the Italian Renaissance. Paint artwork as beautiful as the Mona Lisa. Hire painters like Leonardo da Vinci and millions of randomly generated ones. Expand and customize your guild with furniture and more.

Price -96% 0.48€
Rating 6.5
Release 01 Sep 2015
Tinboy Tinboy is a puzzle-platformer, with a massive difficulty level.

Price -84% 0.66€
Rating 6.0
Release 31 Aug 2015
STASIS STASIS The isometric, point-and-click, sci-fi horror adventure game! In the distant future aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft, John Maracheck awakes from stasis. He must push himself to new physical and emotional limits and unravel the mysteries around him.

Price -76% 1.90€
Rating 7.9
Release 31 Aug 2015
Labyronia RPG 2 You return to the land of Labyronia, now in the cold grip of an evil force. Roam the wartorn lands. You are the only one who can save the planet from destruction. The epic sequel to the critically-acclaimed Labyronia.

Price -62% 0.77€
Rating 7.2
Release 28 Aug 2015
Azure Striker Gunvolt A 2D action game featuring a young man with the power of lightning who stands for freedom against the evil ambitions of a massive organization. When lightning strikes, a new legend is born.

Price -65% 5.24€
Rating 8.1
Release 28 Aug 2015
Stray Cat Crossing Stray Cat Crossing is an indie pixel horror game about an encounter with a mysterious little girl named Cat. Explore a surreal world filled with colorful characters, challenging riddles, and dark secrets.

Price 2.39€
Rating 8.7
Release 28 Aug 2015
Port of Call Imagine waking up on a small dock with no recollection of who you are or how you got there. The first person you find is a grumpy, old man who enlists you to work on his ferry boat which seems to have materialized behind you.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 28 Aug 2015
Razenroth Razenroth is an action shooter with a dark atmosphere, enriched with the elements of roguelike and RPG. All the levels, weather conditions, distribution and quantity of key elements are generated randomly. Thanks to this fact, a single game is different each time.

Price -66% 1.74€
Rating 7.6
Release 28 Aug 2015
Mountain Crime: Requital Solve the mystery at the heart of this chilling thriller!

Price -74% 0.78€
Rating 8.1
Release 27 Aug 2015
Dead In Bermuda DEAD IN BERMUDA is a survival management game with RPG and adventure elements. Lead a team of 8 survivors from a plane crash. Assign them to tasks, gain experience, develop your survival skills, research and craft new items, explore the island and solve its mysteries.

Price -97% 0.45€
Rating 7.0
Release 27 Aug 2015
Fran Bow Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.

Price -12% 13.31€
Rating 9.5
Release 27 Aug 2015
The Black Watchmen Become a Secret Agent and investigate paranormal activities in this dark Lovecraftian universe. This Alternate Reality Game will have you explore complex puzzles in-game but also in real-life; interacting with real websites, companies, and NPCs that we created as part of our universe.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.4
Release 27 Aug 2015
Big Pharma What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?

Price -54% 11.46€
Rating 7.5
Release 27 Aug 2015
Calvino Noir The film noir stealth game. Calvino Noir is the exploratory, sneaking adventure through the 1930s European criminal underworld. Architecture meets Noir as you become unwillingly entangled in a revolutionist plot.

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 27 Aug 2015
Satellite Reign Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open-world cyberpunk city. You command a group of 4 agents through rain-soaked, neon-lit streets, where the law is the will of mega-corporations.

Price -92% 2.01€
Rating 7.0
Release 27 Aug 2015
Evoland 2 Evoland 2 is an unique RPG, with its graphic style and gameplay changing as you progress through a deep storyline based on time travel.

Price -95% 1.14€
Rating 8.4
Release 25 Aug 2015
Party Hard It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.

Price -85% 1.48€
Rating 8.8
Release 25 Aug 2015
Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients Command armies, manage resources, and build an empire in this real-time strategy wargame from Longbow Games. Will Rome fulfil its destiny to rule the ancient world or will history be rewritten to forge a new Etruscan, Gallic, or Greek hegemony!

Price -92% 2.29€
Rating 7.7
Release 25 Aug 2015
Teeworlds Teeworlds is a free online multiplayer game, available for all major operating systems. Battle with up to 16 players in a variety of game modes, including Team Deathmatch and Capture The Flag. You can even design your own maps!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 24 Aug 2015
Planet of the Eyes An atmospheric narrative-platformer about a service robot stranded on a mysterious planet, Planet of the Eyes features a stunning visual mix of puzzle and platforming challenges, an original musical score, and fully voiced audio logs left by another survivor. Explore the mystery of an unknown world.

Price -92% 0.84€
Rating 7.9
Release 24 Aug 2015
Flywrench Flywrench is a frenetic action game from the makers of Nidhogg about piloting an aerobatic ship through the depths of space.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Aug 2015
Universe Sandbox Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.

Price -65% 10.26€
Rating 9.4
Release 24 Aug 2015
Farm Frenzy Collection Enjoy the farmhouse gems with this solid set of 12 Farm Frenzy titles! Join Scarlett throughout all of her adventures in hundreds of farming challenges. Raise chickens, ostriches, and dolphins. Bake cakes, grow crops, and sell items at markets. It's an all-out farming assault with one of the most enjoyed series ever!

Price -63% 7.49€
Rating 8.9
Release 21 Aug 2015
In Between In Between is set inside the mind of a man hit by a cruel twist of fate. Together you are on a journey through the protagonist's head, a world that doesn’t obey the laws of physics.

Price -97% 0.42€
Rating 7.9
Release 21 Aug 2015

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