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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Warlord: Britannia Lead a Roman expeditionary force into the heart of Ancient Britain! Recruit, promote, and upgrade your legionaries while constructing a series of fortified marching camps. Use Roman tactics and strategies to conquer the entire island and become Warlord!

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 24 May 2022
Fly Dangerous Extremely high skill-ceiling 6dof flight racing in a variety of environments with leaderboards, multiplayer and VR support

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 24 May 2022
Floppy Knights Meet the Floppy Knights: tangible projections summoned from floppy disks! Tactics fuse with card game mechanics as Phoebe and Carlton, a brilliant young inventor & her robot-arm bestie, square off in turn-based battles. Select your Knights, hone your deck, and execute your strategy for victory!

Price -93% 0.62€
Rating 7.5
Release 24 May 2022
Magic Rampage Magic Rampage is a fast-paced action RPG platformer with a massive single-player campaign, deep character customization, and challenging dungeons. Master powerful gear, uncover secrets, and test your skills in competitive and PvP modes.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 24 May 2022
RUKIMIN's Disappointing Adventure! Action game suitable for live game play and streaming, which looks cute but full of unreasonable traps! "RUKIMIN's Disappointing Adventure!" series is a 2D side-scrolling action game in which you control Shobomi, a cute cat character, and aim for the goal!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 23 May 2022
Keplerth Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!

Price -80% 2.50€
Rating 8.2
Release 23 May 2022
DRAINUS This is a side-scrolling shooting game in which you take control of the "Drainus", the Kharlal Empire's most cutting-edge fighter with the ability to absorb energy bullets, and take down the enemy ships zipping through space.

Price 12.49€
Rating 9.0
Release 22 May 2022
The Sushi Spinnery Revolutionize the revolving sushi bar in this fresh new sim!

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 May 2022
Mists of Noyah Hunt during the day, be hunted during the NIGHT! Mists of Noyah is a co-op survival game with many RPG elements. Fight factions that evolve over the days and bizarre monsters that will terrify you at night! Strengthen your base by rescuing survivors from around the world.

Price -88% 2.03€
Rating 6.4
Release 22 May 2022
APICO APICO is a laid-back beekeeping sim game about breeding, collecting, & conserving bees! Set in a series of lush environments, APICO uniquely combines resource gathering, biology, and beekeeping minigames, taking ideas from a mix of real-life and fantasy apiculture & floriculture.

Price -95% 0.96€
Rating 8.7
Release 20 May 2022
Barro GT Barro's new gen!

Price -90% 0.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 19 May 2022
Smilemo A new side-scrolling platformer where you go flying out of control at the slightest touch! In this virus-infected world, it is your job to collect the scattered pieces of vaccine code and exterminate the virus!

Price -70% 2.45€
Rating 7.2
Release 19 May 2022
Linelith Solve puzzles embedded in rocks and crystals as you explore a colorful, serene alien asteroid. Discover a few clever twists as you progress in this short and sweet puzzle experience.

Price 2.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 19 May 2022
Prognostic An orphan returns to the house of the deceased fortune-teller to uncover the secret of his family's death. He must accept his legacy and become a prognostic before supernatural madness engulfs people of his town.

Price 5.69€
Rating 8.7
Release 19 May 2022
Occult Occult is a dynamic cooperative game with elements of horror and quest. You are waiting for a variety of opponents, puzzles and endings!

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 19 May 2022
Decision: Red Daze Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 19 May 2022
Golf Gang Golf Gang is a racing game. It’s a party game. It’s the fastest game of minigolf you'll ever play! Blend precision with speed to dominate in 8-player online mayhem or your solo speed runs.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 May 2022
The Lost Dachshund Your granddaughter is coming over on the ferry from the mainland. You have promised her a puppy for her birthday– a dachshund named “Peanut”. But Peanut has escaped her pen and is free on the island. You must traverse the island and rescue the mischievous puppy, before your granddaughter arrives.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 17 May 2022
I'm on Observation Duty 5 As an employee of a mysterious organization your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb into paranoia?

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.0
Release 13 May 2022
Tin Can You've barely managed to escape your exploding spaceship. Now in an old escape pod, you hurtle through space at the mercy of the cosmos. With no knowledge of the pod’s complex systems, your life depends on a technical manual and your own wits. How long can you survive?

Price -98% 0.49€
Rating 8.1
Release 12 May 2022
Lost Nova Your spaceship crashed on an alien planet. Explore, salvage, craft, trade, manage and upgrade your way back home!

Price -85% 2.30€
Rating 8.6
Release 11 May 2022
Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising is an action RPG set in the same world as Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. Features town-upgrading mechanics, fast-paced combat. A prequel to the world of the Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes.

Price -93% 1.10€
Rating 8.3
Release 10 May 2022
Sneak Thief Sneak Thief is a first person, shooter, strategy, stealth and puzzle game that lets you choose how you want to play. Use your wits and expertise to setup and perform heists whether that be by using brute force to smash your way through or by getting away without making a sound.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.2
Release 07 May 2022
Is Simon There? A few months have passed since the death of my son, Simon. Ever since that tragic day, I find myself falling into the darkest emotions I could ever imagine. I am haunted everyday with what I have done; But sometimes, I am haunted by more than just my emotions...

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 06 May 2022
Magical Girl Celesphonia Amane has always lived for herself, choosing to focus on her studies and happiness. But what will she do when given magical powers beyond human comprehension to face a horde of terrible monsters? It's time for her to become Magical Girl Celesphonia!

Price 16.79€
Rating 9.2
Release 06 May 2022
Retrowave Neon lights, palm trees, synthwave, '80s supercars speeding down an endless highway... Welcome to the world of Retrowave!

Price -86% 0.44€
Rating 9.3
Release 06 May 2022
Citizen Sleeper Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

Price -98% 0.51€
Rating 9.0
Release 05 May 2022
Pickle Clicker Click pickle, get pickle, spend pickle, get more pickle, and most importantly... Protect pickle from sneaky Poglins!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 03 May 2022
Nightmare of Decay A first-person action horror game set in a nightmarish manor infested with zombies, psychotic cultists, and a horde of other horrors. Utilize an assortment of different weapons in a brutal fight for survival as you try to escape from the Nightmare of Decay.

Price 3.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 03 May 2022
Bakery Simulator Get up before dawn and see what it's like to be a baker! Learn to bake several dozen types of bread. Use realistic bakery machines. Deliver orders to stores, earn, and invest. Use original recipes or experiment with ingredients.

Price -98% 0.38€
Rating 6.6
Release 03 May 2022
Acquitted Piss bottles. Bats. Bike locks. Face the media-manufactured outrage of braindead mobs in a fully destructible, randomly generated riot zone as you try to get home from court alive after each self-defense trial. Shoot, hack, blast & build walls & turrets vs tricky AI in this brutally intense shooter!

Price -85% 1.21€
Rating 9.1
Release 02 May 2022
Trimps A text-based incremental idle game with a ridiculous amount of unique content. Automate old stuff as you unlock new stuff to keep things interesting for hours and hours, no spam clicking necessary! Trimps is everything you love about your favorite games, distilled to their purest form.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 02 May 2022
Banana Shooter Dave is the banana man who is keep shooting enemies and get their banana,and use some cool mechanic such as dash,double jump,grapple hook and rocket jump.If you are finding fast paced shooter game,this is what you need

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 01 May 2022
Idle Spiral This is a beautiful "Idle", "Incremental" game based on spirals and mathematics. Your goal is to make the spiral grow farther and farther from the origin. The game is very simple, but it is very deep and can be enjoyed for a long time!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Apr 2022
Check it Out! Ever dreamt of working a cash register with no pay or real-life customer interaction? Look no further! This simulation game brings a fresh-take to the notoriously dull tasks of customer service, introducing you to a cast of wacky characters and the baggage they carry.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 29 Apr 2022
Save Room - Organization Puzzle When you enter a save room you know you are safe, no danger can come to you, you can relax. Take advantage of this short period of time to organize your inventory, heal your wounds and reload your weapons. Can you make all the items fit in your inventory?

Price -1% 2.98€
Rating 9.3
Release 28 Apr 2022

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