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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Meltdown Meltdown is a tactical arcade shooter featuring both singleplayer and intense online multiplayer. Become the most skilled soldier, choose your weapons, get the best upgrades, buckle up and start your mission. Be careful, each enemy has it’s own combat style, special AI and gear. Adapt to them to survive!

Price -80% 1.44€
Rating 8.0
Release 05 Jun 2014
Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood Enter Ravenwood Park and discover the secrets hidden in the mists…

Price -94% 0.91€
Rating 9.2
Release 05 Jun 2014
Splatter - Zombiecalypse Now You like top-down-shooter with a film-noir singleplayer campaign, challenging fights against zombies and monsters, gory splatter effects and destructible level environments? Fight your way through an apocalyptic city in the single player story mode, and test your skills in the survival mode.

Price -85% 0.94€
Rating 8.6
Release 04 Jun 2014
Trucks & Trailers Put your truck driving skills to the test in Trucks & Trailers! Complete basic training and set on the way to master the wide variety of challenges that lie ahead.

Price -80% 0.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 04 Jun 2014
1001 Spikes Discover the lost treasures of Ukampa in South America as Aban Hawkins searches for his estranged father, world-famous archeaologist, Jim Hawkins. Aban Hawkins races into the frozen tundra of the antarctic, undiscovered temple ruins and the vast caverns of South America in search of his father and the legendary treasure rumored to lie...

Price -78% 2.24€
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Jun 2014
Bus Driver In Bus Driver, your job is to transport passengers around an attractive and realistic city. You must drive to a timetable on a planned route, whilst obeying traffic rules, and taking care not to upset or injure your passengers.

Price -80% 0.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 03 Jun 2014
Astebreed: Definitive Edition Climb into the cockpit of an otherworldly war machine and fly into battle against a horrifying alien race bent on eradicating humanity to preserve their own civilization.

Price -63% 7.40€
Rating 8.4
Release 30 May 2014
Ampu-Tea The surgeon-simulator inspired Tea-making game is now available on Steam! Using the latest KS-001 Robo-Arm, you must practise making various types of tea.

Price -75% 1.27€
Rating 6.1
Release 30 May 2014
The Fall Take the role of ARID, the artificial intelligence within a high-tech combat suit. The Fall is a unique combination of adventure-game puzzle solving and side-scroller action, all set within a dark and atmospheric story. Get ready for a disturbing journey as you explore the world of The Fall.

Price -93% 0.77€
Rating 8.5
Release 30 May 2014
The Floor is Jelly The Floor is Jelly is a game that answers the question: what if everything you touched was made of jello?

Price -48% 5.24€
Rating 7.8
Release 30 May 2014
Battlepaths Battlepaths is a minimalist, loot-driven old-school 2D RPG featuring neat monster hacking, an excellent loot system, and great variety in character development.

Price -59% 0.82€
Rating 6.7
Release 30 May 2014
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.

Price 16.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 29 May 2014
Strata Simple. Elegant. Challenging.

Price -89% 0.73€
Rating 8.1
Release 29 May 2014
Anomaly Defenders Anomaly Defenders is the closing installment of the Anomaly series. The original incarnation of the Tower Offense sub-genre had players controlling humans fighting alien invaders. Now, the tables have turned. The human counterattack is underway and the alien homeworld is under threat.

Price -96% 0.49€
Rating 7.3
Release 29 May 2014
Monochroma Monochroma is a cinematic puzzle platformer. It’s a game about being a kid, growing up with a little brother that needs your help, facing obstacles and solving unique puzzles in a dystopian 1950's setting.

Price -95% 1.13€
Rating 7.1
Release 28 May 2014
A Story About My Uncle A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement is a crucial part of the games core gameplay – focusing on swinging through the world with a grappling hook that gives the player a wonderful sense of speed and...

Price -95% 0.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 28 May 2014
ibb & obb ibb & obb is a two player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together. Find a friend for some true local co-op couch fun or match up online.

Price -16% 8.46€
Rating 8.7
Release 26 May 2014
Distant Worlds: Universe Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.

Price -98% 0.70€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 May 2014
They Breathe They Breathe is a short journey into the depths of a forest filled with water. As you swim deeper, it's up to you to figure out the rules of an insidious ecosystem where nothing is as it first seems, and where everyone is after the same precious resource – oxygen!

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 23 May 2014
Frederic: Evil Strikes Back Frederic - Evil Strikes Back - The Bigger, Better, More Awesome sequel. Great new tracks. Great new locations. Great new features. Great new story.

Price -96% 0.38€
Rating 8.1
Release 23 May 2014
Blade Kitten In Blade Kitten, join Kit Ballard as she explores the mysterious world of Hollow Wish to hunt down rogue mechs and soft targets.

Price 2.49€
Rating 7.9
Release 22 May 2014
White Noise Online A fully cooperative horror experience like never before! On White Noise Online, a team of up to 4 investigators has to explore an area looking for clues, while avoiding being devoured by a supernatural creature. Will you be able to uncover the truth behind the mysterious events?

Price -91% 0.46€
Rating 6.4
Release 22 May 2014
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly World of Guns: Gun Disassembly lets you delve into the inner workings of guns from the largest gears to the smallest screws

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 21 May 2014
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is a cinematic adventure filled with action-packed platforming and creative puzzle-solving. Armed with only a Magic Marker, Max must confront evil at every turn in a hostile and fantastical world in order to save his kid brother, Felix. Join Max on his great adventure!

Price 14.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 21 May 2014