Best Indie Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our 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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Force Reboot Force Reboot is a fast-paced FPS with rogue-lite elements. Force Reboot is entirely focused on nonstop gameplay. You need to get past all of the rooms as fast as you can.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 25 Aug 2022
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.

Price -92% 2.15€
Rating 9.3
Release 25 Aug 2022
My Sticker Book "I can't sleep." A cute and possibly just a little bit scary puzzle platformer game. Move stickers to the right positions in order to get rid of the monsters and complete the sticker book.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 24 Aug 2022
HAAK HAAK is a Metroidvania-Platformer. As the mysterious wanderer Haak, you embarked on an epic expedition across the vast cyber-wasteland to find your lost brother. Explore deserted cities and metro, refine your weapons and hack skills, and uncover the secrets behind metal and dust.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 Aug 2022
Desktop Girlfriend Desktop Girlfriend is a desktop interactive girlfriend game that allows users to interact with their virtual girlfriend in various ways, such as interactive games, customizing her hairstyle, hair color, and more.

Price 1.59€
Rating 6.9
Release 23 Aug 2022
Lighthouse Keeper You are tasked with taking care of the old Lighthouse in a small island. Repair its broken parts, hunt for food to get by, gather materials to craft stuff to help you along your journey through 11 islands.

Price -94% 0.63€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Aug 2022
Midnight Fight Express A former member of the criminal underworld is lured back into “the life” by a mysterious drone claiming they have until sunrise to prevent a citywide criminal takeover together.

Price -95% 1.18€
Rating 8.5
Release 23 Aug 2022
Tribal Hunter An action platformer with size-changing mechanics. Be quick and nimble or large and in-charge!

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.2
Release 21 Aug 2022
Tales from Toyotoki: Arrival of the Witch (The witch of the Ihanashi) The English version of the heartwarming story that was highly acclaimed in Japan. Enjoy the meticulously crafted narrative. Set in Okinawa, Japan, it is also a story that unravels the mysteries hidden within its history and fantasy.

Price 24.50€
Rating 9.0
Release 19 Aug 2022
Legioncraft Loslan needs you! The Legion is waiting for your call! Gather your strength, prepare your food, contribute your love, and pull out your gold coin!

Price 11.59€
Rating 7.6
Release 19 Aug 2022
Quaver Quaver is a community-driven and open-source competitive rhythm game with two game modes and online leaderboards. Create your own maps, or challenge the world in online multiplayer matches.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 19 Aug 2022
Kalinur Defeat the mage Kalinur and bring peace back to the kingdom in this mini metroidvania with a lot of action.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 18 Aug 2022
Red Matter 2 Red Matter 2 is an immersive, puzzle-adventure game that will transport you to the far reaches of space. Step into the shoes of Sasha, an agent awakened in a lunar base by an undercover operative and tasked with uncovering the secrets of the mysterious Red Matter.

Price -46% 16.20€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Aug 2022
The Complex: Found Footage Experience the liminal world of the backrooms through a VHS camera, immersing into a mysterious story and wandering the dream-like structures... Might there be something following you?

Price 5.19€
Rating 9.0
Release 18 Aug 2022
Sir Whoopass™: Immortal Death WARNING: This game contains puns, dad jokes, flappy-bird-like-arcade-minigames, breaking of the 4th wall and jabs directed at tryhard-overly-serious-RPGS. Do not play if you hate FUN or would not like to strap in for a Hilarious quest for The Legendary Villain-Beating Artifact™.

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 8.0
Release 18 Aug 2022
World of Talesworth: Idle MMO Simulator Explore new lands, slay monsters, gather loot and level up in this idle MMO simulation experience. Packed with unique and meaningful upgrades, moments of discovery, and gaming nostalgia, World of Talesworth is an homage to all our favorite RPGs.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 18 Aug 2022
natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer ── In the summer of the world that has ended, the girl travels aimlessly. "natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer" is a text adventure game that depicts girls traveling in apocalypse. Through talking to the girls, we get to know them and approach the mysteries of the world ──

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 17 Aug 2022
Spirit of the Island A beautiful Life Sim Sandbox RPG with Cross-Platform Online COOP set on a tropical Archipelago. Build your farm, grow crops and animals, craft various items, cook dishes, gather resources, build shops and museum to attract visitors, and turn a desolate Island into a prosperous tourist destination!

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 6.5
Release 17 Aug 2022
Neodash Drift at full speed across gaps, traps, and neon-drenched environments that react to a captivating soundtrack. Build and play community-made tracks, or dive straight into a spectacular campaign.

Price 15.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 17 Aug 2022
Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend Welcome to Eientei, combine multiple colors of mana to build your ideal deck, duel with gensokyo girls, and chase back the mysterious moon treasure. Also, enjoy the unpredictable Roguelike with fantasy Danmaku!

Price 24.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 17 Aug 2022
Catto Pew Pew! CLASSIC Catto Pew Pew! CLASSIC is a chaotic physics-based arena shooter where your shots cause your opponent to fly backward. Join the chaos for free!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 16 Aug 2022
Rollerdrome Rollerdrome is a BAFTA award-winning third person action shooter that seamlessly blends high octane, visceral combat with fluid movement and tricking mechanics into one complementary and challenging whole, to create an original adrenaline-pumping shooter experience like no other.

Price -99% 0.42€
Rating 8.7
Release 16 Aug 2022
Regiments Regiments is a Real-Time Tactics game set in Germany 1989. The Cold War has gone hot, and the inferno is raging. Lead your Regiment through the fires of conflict and the fog of war. Break through the lines, call in artillery, maneuver, feign retreats, stage defenses, counter-attack. Do not relent.

Price -38% 15.52€
Rating 8.4
Release 16 Aug 2022
SCP: Ground Zero Infiltrate a secret facility to recover an anomalous object.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 15 Aug 2022
Spark the Electric Jester 3 High speed 3D action platformer! Join Spark on his latest adventure.

Price 20.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 14 Aug 2022
MONSTER CARDS Bring your original deck of cards and play against everyone!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 12 Aug 2022
Noelle Does Her Best! After an unfulfilling childhood in the countryside, Noelle jumps at the first opportunity to move out and live on her own. Little does she know, her new home comes with the world's worst housewarming gift: a debt to the tune of a million gold, which she only has 10 days to repay! It's time for Noelle to do her best!

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Aug 2022
My Therapy A visual novel about cute melancholic girls!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 11 Aug 2022
Axiom Verge 2 Explore a sprawling, alien world in the sequel to the award winning Axiom Verge.

Price -88% 2.02€
Rating 7.7
Release 11 Aug 2022
Lost in Play Solve puzzles, riddles, and embark on an exciting journey of discovery! Join Toto and Gal as they explore dreamscapes and befriend magical creatures. Lost in their imagination, the brother and sister must stick together and solve puzzles to find their way home.

Price -84% 2.33€
Rating 9.5
Release 10 Aug 2022
Stranded Deep Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Price -59% 6.71€
Rating 7.4
Release 10 Aug 2022
Two Point Campus Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.

Price -91% 2.74€
Rating 8.5
Release 09 Aug 2022
Tiny Tactics Tiny Tactics is a Tower Defense game with a heavy focus on mazing, with mechanics inspired by the Auto Chess genre.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.9
Release 05 Aug 2022
Real estate tycoon "Illusory life: urban real estate tycoon" is a simulated business role-playing game with urban theme. We try to restore the game world like a novel of urban face slapping, and give the players a "capitalist" identity.(We are a very poor studio, so English translation will be launched in the future)

Price 8.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 05 Aug 2022
Breeze Breeze, a point&click PC game with heart-warming story, lovely art style, and healing experience.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 04 Aug 2022
Star Valor Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.

Price -32% 16.09€
Rating 8.6
Release 03 Aug 2022

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