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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ORION: Prelude Work together to survive the devastating Dinosaur horde in huge, endless environments.

Price -37% 0.63€
Rating 7.4
Release 16 Apr 2013
Sacred Citadel Sharpen your axe, string your bow, brew your potions! Ancaria needs heroes like you. Grab your friends to join the resistance!The once peaceful land of Ancaria is in grave danger. The evil Ashen empire has enslaved its population and is using the orc-like Grimmoc to wipe out the Seraphim, who swore to protect it.

Price -95% 0.52€
Rating 6.7
Release 16 Apr 2013
La-Mulana LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.

Price -46% 8.13€
Rating 7.7
Release 15 Apr 2013
Sang-Froid - Tales of Werewolves Combining action and strategy in a unique way, Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves transports you into an epic folktale co-written with best-selling Canadian author Bryan Perro (Amos Daragon, Wariwulf), in which two feuding brothers will have to put aside their differences to save their sister, who is pursued by the Devil himself!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 05 Apr 2013
Evoland Evoland is a journey through the history of action/adventure gaming, allowing you to unlock new technologies, gameplay systems and graphic upgrades as you progress through the game.

Price -90% 1.08€
Rating 8.0
Release 04 Apr 2013
Ms. Splosion Man You got a problem? Yo, she’ll splode it. At the Big Science after-party celebrating the capture of Splosion Man, a spill of champagne shorts out the safety protocols on the splosionatrix and from it emerges Ms. Splosion Man. The latest creation from Twisted Pixel Games, the creators of Splosion Man, The Maw, and Comic Jumper, Ms.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 03 Apr 2013
Kingdom Wars Kingdom Wars is a free to play 3D MMORTS with real-time siege combat, without the pay to win element so common in the genre. Kingdom Wars offers beautiful 3D online world, where players construct strongholds, direct citizens, complete quests and eventually manage a global empire.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 01 Apr 2013
Dungeon Hearts Dungeon Hearts fuses the strategy and pattern matching of puzzle games with the kinetic pace of action games. Align magical runes as they flow along the Fatestream to attack, defend, and conjure magic in frenetic battles against a bestiary of fantastic creatures out to use those same runes against you.

Price -80% 0.61€
Rating 6.1
Release 28 Mar 2013
Anodyne In this unique Zelda-lite game, explore and fight your way through surreal and creepy, nature, urban and abstract themed areas in the human Young's subconscious, evoked by a 16-bit-era visual style and a moody, dream-like soundtrack.

Price -77% 2.32€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Mar 2013
Retro/Grade Play a classic Shoot 'Em Up... in reverse!

Price -91% 0.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 20 Mar 2013
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is a hybrid roguelike game of space exploration, adventure and starship combat.

Price -82% 0.72€
Rating 6.3
Release 19 Mar 2013
Organ Trail: Director's Cut Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.

Price -81% 0.78€
Rating 8.5
Release 19 Mar 2013
Ultratron Experience the addictive gameplay of old-school arcade favourites, updated and improved for the 21st century! Unique retro-futuristic sound and graphics, player responsive difficulty, and a subtle system of tactics combined with classic gameplay make Ultratron a fun and hypnotic arcade blast.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Mar 2013
Monster Loves You! Live the life of a Monster, from birth to elderhood and beyond, making decisions that affect the world of Monsters and Humans. Solve problems. Meet animals and interesting people. Get to know them. Eat them. Make your own story!

Price -93% 0.75€
Rating 7.5
Release 18 Mar 2013
Incredipede Grow arms and legs to transform into a snake, spider, butterfly, or fifty-legged horror - anything you can imagine. Control your creations in a fumblecore dash to solve each puzzle. Learn to swing through the trees, climb sheer cliffs, or even fly.

Price -94% 0.68€
Rating 6.9
Release 18 Mar 2013
DLC Quest What happens when DLC practices go too far? An indie developer makes a game that mocks the industry and its foibles, that's what! Defeat the bad guy, save the world and get the girl! But first you'll need to find coins to buy DLC to enable animation, sound and even pausing.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 18 Mar 2013
Go Home Dinosaurs! Todd Rex wants steak. Todd Rex wants YOUR steak. Are you gonna let him take it? No way! Go Home, Dinosaurs!Prevent hordes of marauding Dinos from crashing your party in the world’s premier BBQ defense simulator! Unlock powerful towers that act like little weaponized puzzle pieces.

Price -97% 0.33€
Rating 8.2
Release 14 Mar 2013
Euro Truck Simulator The original Euro Truck Simulator - the game which has become the classic of the genre and is still relevant today. The first truck simulation game in a European setting, with European long haul trucks!

Price -80% 0.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 Mar 2013
Champions of Regnum Choose your Realm and engage in the most dynamic player driven battlefield available on any MMO. Fight for the Alsius Empire, protect the woods of Syrtis or avenge the Brotherhood of Ignis.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 27 Feb 2013
BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien Step into rhythmic bliss with Runner2! Best Indie Game winner, Guinness World Record holder, and narrated by Charles Martinet. Unleash vibrant moves and beats in 120 levels!

Price -96% 0.66€
Rating 8.8
Release 26 Feb 2013
The Bridge The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.

Price -97% 0.30€
Rating 8.4
Release 22 Feb 2013
Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway running through the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.

Price 22.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 22 Feb 2013
Super House of Dead Ninjas Super House of Dead Ninjas is an action arcade game with roguelite elements. Race against a 30 second timer as you descend floor after foe-filled floor and attempt to unlock the secrets of this deadly tower!Play as the fearsome Crimson Ninja, wielding an arsenal of deadly ninja weapons and attacks.

Price -39% 12.08€
Rating 9.1
Release 18 Feb 2013
Scribblenauts Unlimited The best-selling, award-winning franchise is back – on your home PC in gorgeous HD for the first time.

Price -98% 0.52€
Rating 9.1
Release 15 Feb 2013