Best Indie Games on Steam

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The Last Campfire The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.

Price -96% 0.72€
Rating 9.5
Release 07 Oct 2021
Bear's Restaurant The award-winning indie adventure game finally arrives on Steam—now with more content than ever before! A story of love, loss, and fine dining that’s sure to warm even the most jaded of hearts.

Price -40% 6.49€
Rating 8.9
Release 06 Oct 2021
Goose Goose Duck Goose Goose Duck is a game of social deduction for up to 16 players. Players are separated into different groups that are each assigned a different objective. Complete your team’s objective to win!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 03 Oct 2021
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a Metroidvania action game featuring exploration, intense combat and challenging platforming.

Price -84% 2.59€
Rating 8.5
Release 02 Oct 2021
Yacht Dice Yacht Dice is a classic dice game popular around the world, each player by throwing dice statistics score to carry on the game, the player with the highest score wins. Invite friends to play online, or compete against players from around the world.

Price -40% 0.59€
Rating 7.6
Release 30 Sep 2021
Wife Quest A retro platform, side-scrolling game with gorgeous pixel art. Help Mia rescue Fernando, her husband, who has been kidnapped by a Dark Elf named Morganna and her pack of Monster Girls.

Price -89% 0.65€
Rating 7.6
Release 30 Sep 2021
Rebirth:Beware of Mr.Wang This is a plot-oriented interactive puzzle game. The gameplay uses mouse clicks or drag-and-drop methods to promote the development of the plot. The game tells the story of an ordinary young man who pursues love, grows up in the process of hard work, and finally reaps friendship and love.

Price 7.39€
Rating 6.5
Release 30 Sep 2021
INDUSTRIA Embark on a gripping journey in INDUSTRIA, an atmospheric FPS set in Cold War-era East Berlin. Unravel the secrets of a mysterious parallel dimension while searching for a missing colleague. Explore a haunting reality where the truth awaits. Discover the dark past that lies beyond.

Price -97% 0.74€
Rating 6.9
Release 30 Sep 2021
UNSIGHTED EXPLORE YOUR WAY. Awoken to a world ruined by war, Alma must traverse the vast city of Arcadia before the life force of her friends and herself withers away. Time is ticking, and every moment matters. Who will you save, and who will you leave to turn UNSIGHTED?

Price -65% 7.19€
Rating 8.9
Release 30 Sep 2021
A Juggler's Tale Lead Abby the string puppet through a bruised, but beautiful fairy tale world in this cinematic adventure. Solve riddles, evade traps and shake off pursuers on the way to find freedom. Can Abby take control of her fate with all the strings attached?

Price -96% 0.67€
Rating 8.8
Release 29 Sep 2021
Project Nightmares Case 36: Henrietta Kedward Project Nightmares is a survival horror game with a procedural structure, creating unique scares every time you play. A machine will induce you into a dream state, throwing you into a living nightmare firsthand in order to discover the story of Henrietta Kedward, an old woman with a dark past.

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.2
Release 29 Sep 2021
Steel Assault Punch, whip, and zipline your way through a post-apocalyptic America in this 16-bit retro-style action platformer! Play as Taro Takahashi, a resistance soldier on a revenge mission against the dictator who lords over the ashes.

Price 12.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Sep 2021
UnMetal UnMetal is a 2D stealth action-adventure that pays homage to the classics with a healthy dose of humor and satire. You play as Jesse Fox, who is definitely NOT an elite commando, under arrest for a crime he didn't commit, and must escape a covert military base using his wits and fists.

Price -96% 0.72€
Rating 9.0
Release 28 Sep 2021
In Sound Mind In Sound Mind is an imaginative first-person psychological horror with frenetic puzzles, unique boss fights, and original music by The Living Tombstone. Journey within the inner workings of the one place you can’t seem to escape—your own mind.

Price -99% 0.51€
Rating 9.2
Release 28 Sep 2021
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 24 Sep 2021
Dungeon Town When a cave connected to the demon world yawns open, an experienced adventurer sets out to smite the evil. But when both his powers and memories are drained, he has to start from the bottom to save the village and regain his strength.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.5
Release 24 Sep 2021
SUPER CHICKEN JUMPER A spy-chicken tries to save the world from doom in this runner/shooter game that has a little bit of everything with a touch of chicken and anime girls on top. Run for your life in 6 different worlds and shoot your way through tons of enemies until you become a legend.

Price -65% 1.40€
Rating 9.3
Release 24 Sep 2021
The Signal State Set in a post-apocalyptic future, The Signal State puts your logic skills to the test with complex puzzles inspired by modular synthesizers. Repair machines, rebuild an abandoned farm, and be part of a revolution that will change the fate of agriculture once and for all.

Price -33% 11.46€
Rating 8.1
Release 23 Sep 2021
Teacup Teacup is a short and wholesome narrative adventure game with a focus on exploration and non-linear progression. Help a small and shy frog on her journey to find the ingredients she needs for her tea party!

Price -94% 0.52€
Rating 9.0
Release 23 Sep 2021
Embr Fight fires for fun and profit in this unpredictable and frantic multiplayer game. Team up with friends, take on daily challenges and climb to the top of the corporate firefighting ladder. More than one way to become a hero!

Price -97% 0.60€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Sep 2021
Listen to the Wind "Listen to the Wind" is a side-scrolling hack-and-slash game with counter attacks as the game's core mechanic. It takes pace during the Ming dynasty Jiajing era where you'll be battling Japanese pirates. It features unique martial art heroes and a story branching gameplay.

Price -74% 2.68€
Rating 7.1
Release 22 Sep 2021
Souls of Blades Famous sword, spiritual realm after the death of the awakening. Where is the owner? How did Gorgeous architecture and The Mysterious Island become a ruin? What happened before the destruction?

Price 15.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 22 Sep 2021
Get In The Car, Loser! A lesbian road trip RPG by the co-creator of Ladykiller in a Bind about fighting for love and justice in the face of indifference, inspired by choice-driven visual novels, and a battle system influenced by classic and modern JRPGs. WILL YOU STAND AND FIGHT IN THE FACE OF EVIL?

Price -97% 0.74€
Rating 7.8
Release 21 Sep 2021
Accident Become a journalist who researches old car accident cases. Help victims and perform first aid, obtain evidence and reconstruct the events to discover what really happened.

Price -94% 0.81€
Rating 7.4
Release 21 Sep 2021
Trap Genesis Finally, a new universe is here! The great finale of the ten years history of the "Trap" series. This is the creation myth of the birth of a blessed world where Gods, men, and crossdressers can love each other freely!

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.8
Release 17 Sep 2021
MECHANICA: A Ballad of the Rabbit and Mercury 5029 AD, "Guillotine", the Japanese territory on Mercury, a city full of neon signs and drunks. You will explore the beautiful cyberpunk-style 2D world, play music to the residents of Mercury to gather intelligence, and finally achieve the goal of saving the world.

Price 16.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 17 Sep 2021
Severed Steel An intense single-player FPS featuring a stylish movement system, completely destructible levels, and an acclaimed OST.

Price -86% 3.05€
Rating 9.2
Release 17 Sep 2021
Find Love or Die Trying Welcome to the only killer dating show where ending up single means ending up dead! Date or die, it's up to your choices!

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 16 Sep 2021
Eastward Welcome to the charming world of Eastward - population declining! Journey through a society on the brink of collapse. Discover delightful towns, strange creatures and even stranger people! Wield a trusty frying pan and mystic powers on an adventure into the unknown…

Price -92% 2.13€
Rating 8.2
Release 16 Sep 2021
METALLIC CHILD “Grab, hurl, and eliminate” Rogue-lite Core-Action!! A large-scale rebellion erupts within the spacecraft “Life Stream.” With the help of you, Rona, an android known as “Metallic Child,” stands up against a fleet of massive robots to stop the plot devised by her own creator, Doctor Irene.

Price -40% 14.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Sep 2021
Scrapnaut Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Price -96% 0.55€
Rating 6.8
Release 15 Sep 2021
Flynn: Son of Crimson Our valiant hero Flynn possesses the ability to influence a mysterious energy and modify his style of combat, transforming him into a force to be reckoned with. Inspired by the golden age of the SNES, Flynn: Son of Crimson is the 2D action adventure that’ll take you right back to the 90s!

Price -97% 0.68€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Sep 2021
Bright Lights of Svetlov Bright Lights of Svetlov is a short, story-focused first person quest about a Soviet family facing harsh trials. Set in a fictional provincial town, it carefuly recreates the atmosphere and vibe of mid 1980s.

Price -85% 0.60€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 Sep 2021
Loading Story A short story about loading, I guess. Play as Memu@ as she explores the cyberpunk(ish) little town and interacts with its inhabitants.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 10 Sep 2021
Lost in Random™ Play the odds in Lost in Random™, a gothic-fairy-tale-inspired action-adventure where every citizen’s fate is determined by a roll of the dice.

Price -80% 5.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 10 Sep 2021
Kraken Academy!! Make friends, free spirits and make sure that the world doesn’t end! Welcome to Kraken Academy, a technicolor fever dream that for legal reasons can only be described as "technically a school." Join forces with a magical kraken to save the world!

Price -97% 0.69€
Rating 8.5
Release 10 Sep 2021

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