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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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 -86% 0.97€
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% 6.89€
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 -99% 0.19€
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 -88% 2.37€
Rating 8.8
Release 09 Jul 2015
Battle for Blood - Epic battles within 30 seconds! Constant fun and excitement! Bloody fighting from the start. Epic battles within 30 seconds. An all-new game type is coming!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 08 Jul 2015
Super Cyborg Super Cyborg is an old school non-stop hardcore run'n'gun action game! You are an elite battle cyborg who is sent in to investigate a series of anomalies on a mysterious island. The merciless alien known as the 'Xirxul life form' has been awakened by unwitting scientists and now: all humanity is in danger!

Price -19% 4.05€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 Jul 2015
Coffin Dodgers Pimp up your mobility scooter and take on the Grim Reaper and his Zombie army in a race for your soul. Armed with a variety of homemade weapons and gadgets, battle your way through 13 unique & exhilarating tracks. Can you survive the retirement village?

Price -95% 0.50€
Rating 6.6
Release 08 Jul 2015
Marble Mayhem: Fragile Ball Devilishly difficult but insanely rewarding physics puzzler. Play through 85 levels of diverse and ingenious physics-based challenges.

Price -70% 0.60€
Rating 6.5
Release 07 Jul 2015
Ame no Marginal -Rain Marginal- The latest visual novel by Tomo Kataoka, the author of Narcissu 1st & 2nd, has arrived! An empty world with endless rain and only one person. Here there is no hunger, sickness or even death. Just what story does this world's one occupant have?

Price 12.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 07 Jul 2015
TIMEframe Time is relative. Sometimes 10 seconds can feel like an eternity... In TIMEframe you will discover a world in slow motion. Explore the remnants of a mysterious civilization on the brink of destruction.

Price -87% 0.82€
Rating 6.4
Release 07 Jul 2015

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