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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Stellar Warfare Space RTS with base building and ship customization. Personal passion project. More than 200 available ships, weapons and modules to design your fleet with. Contains a small campaign, several single and multiplayer game modes and a coop game mode. Also contains Wave defense!

Price -67% 6.69€
Rating 8.0
Release 04 Aug 2021
The Ramp A digital toy for skateboard loving people. Pure flow, no extra fluff.

Price -64% 1.82€
Rating 8.8
Release 03 Aug 2021
Here Comes Niko! Here Comes Niko! is the cozy 3D platformer for tired people! You play as Niko traveling across scenic islands. Make new friends, catch fish, solve puzzles, snag bugs, and more! Oh, Did I mention your boss is a frog?

Price -97% 0.88€
Rating 8.7
Release 03 Aug 2021
Creatures of Aether Creatures of Aether is a free-to-play card battler set in the Rivals of Aether universe. Play PvP ladder matches or PvE dungeons as you construct a deck with powerful elemental abilities.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 02 Aug 2021
Doggone Hungry Doggone Hungry is a delicious game about eating food, getting fat, and being a dog. Your favorite toy, Quackerjack, is always getting stolen, and superior dog logic has determined that you must get fat to save him!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 02 Aug 2021
GRIME Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.

Price -98% 0.56€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Aug 2021
inbento A cooking puzzle game about arranging beautiful bento lunches! Solve 120+ recipes, play with food, think inside the box and enjoy a heartwarming story in this culinary brain-teaser!

Price -85% 0.77€
Rating 9.2
Release 30 Jul 2021
Coloring Game 4 The fourth game of the Coloring Game franchise (coloring by numbers). The game’s fans are going to enjoy the improved functionality and a multitude of new images.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 30 Jul 2021
Vomitoreum Vomitoreum is an FPS Metroidvania with a focus on atmosphere and horror, inspired by the paintings of Zdzisław Beksiński.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.6
Release 30 Jul 2021
Atopes Your future is vaster than the cosmos.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 30 Jul 2021
HORROR TALES: The Wine Explore a post-pandemic fictional Mediterranean island and confront your fears! Immerse yourself in a seemingly abandoned city and struggle to find a precious Banydebosc red wine bottle to cure your loved ones. But be aware; your Nemesis is hunting you. Indie Jumpscares included! :D

Price 11.79€
Rating 7.4
Release 30 Jul 2021
No Longer Home No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary.

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 6.3
Release 30 Jul 2021
Alpaca Stacka A 3D adventure platformer where you play as a kind alpaca dedicated to helping their animal friends.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.4
Release 29 Jul 2021
Blaster Master Zero 3 The Pinnacle of Mutant Blasting Action Is Here! — Blaster Master Zero 3's hybrid of sidescrolling and top-down action is back for its 3rd chapter, and more intense than ever before!

Price -50% 7.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 29 Jul 2021
Eldest Souls Fast-paced and brutally challenging, Eldest Souls is a unique Soulslike experience. In a final act of vengeance, the Old Gods have unleashed a great Desolation upon the world. Mankind's only hope lies with a lone warrior… and his greatsword of pure Obsydian.

Price -98% 0.56€
Rating 7.1
Release 29 Jul 2021
The Ascent The Ascent is a solo and co-op Action-shooter RPG set in a cyberpunk world. The mega corporation that owns you and everyone, The Ascent Group, has just collapsed. Can you survive without it?

Price -98% 0.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 29 Jul 2021
Paint the Town Red Paint the Town Red is a chaotic first person melee combat game set in different locations and time periods. The voxel-based enemies can be punched, bashed, kicked, stabbed and sliced completely dynamically using almost anything that isn't nailed down.

Price -75% 4.95€
Rating 9.4
Release 29 Jul 2021
Gomoku Let's Go Gomoku: One of the most popular classic board games for all ages. Experience Zen style visuals, various levels of AI, seamless online multiplayer and Endgame challenges!

Price 2.39€
Rating 8.3
Release 28 Jul 2021
Chernobylite Complete Edition Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.

Price -97% 0.92€
Rating 8.0
Release 28 Jul 2021
Omno A single-player journey of discovery through an ancient world of wonders, created by solo developer Jonas Manke.

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 8.9
Release 28 Jul 2021
The Forgotten City The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.

Price -98% 0.53€
Rating 9.3
Release 28 Jul 2021
Unbound: Worlds Apart Summon portals to overcome vicious beasts, devious puzzles and fiendish platforming challenges. Master the unique powers of each portal to stop the collapse of reality, while exploring lush, hand-drawn worlds and unraveling a deep narrative full of mysteries.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 28 Jul 2021
HighFleet Battle for survival in the skies of a mysterious future Earth in this unique action-strategy game mixing arcade combat, exploration, management and diplomacy. As giant flying ships wage spectacular aerial warfare, a prophecy tells of one who will save the world – could it be you?

Price -20% 20.17€
Rating 8.6
Release 27 Jul 2021
Blightbound Blightbound is a multiplayer dungeon crawler that tasks three heroes to venture down from their mountain refuge to face the abominations of the Blight - a mysterious and corrupting fog that enshrouds the land.

Price -85% 3.09€
Rating 6.2
Release 27 Jul 2021
Tribes of Midgard A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!

Price -98% 0.53€
Rating 7.5
Release 27 Jul 2021
Hell Let Loose Join the ever expanding experience of Hell Let Loose - a hardcore World War Two first person shooter with epic battles of 100 players with infantry, tanks, artillery, a dynamically shifting front line and a unique resource based RTS-inspired meta-game.

Price -83% 8.96€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Jul 2021
Clone Drone in the Danger Zone Clone Drone in the Danger Zone is a robot voxel slice-em-up where any part of your body can be sliced off. With your mind downloaded into a robot gladiator, you must survive the sinister trials of the arena.

Price -71% 4.91€
Rating 9.5
Release 27 Jul 2021
Vermillion - VR Painting It’s time to discover your inner artist! With Vermillion, you get a fully equipped oil painting studio in your home, without any of the mess. Ready for the unrivaled sense of accomplishment from creating your first painting?

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 26 Jul 2021
Intravenous Teeth-clenching stealth, followed by tactical hardcore gunplay for those not looking for a quiet way in. Intravenous redefines challenging stealth-action and will keep you on the edge of your seat!

Price -96% 0.88€
Rating 8.7
Release 26 Jul 2021
Idol Manager Idol Manager is a business sim about conquering the entertainment industry using any means you deem necessary.

Price -50% 8.39€
Rating 8.5
Release 26 Jul 2021
Sheepy Cute and bouncy platformer with big, relaxing levels! Explore and enjoy!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 24 Jul 2021
Shades of Sakura Shades of Sakura is a casual physics-based puzzle game. Challenge yourself to get 10 animated scenes with Live2D. Go on a fascinating journey through ancient Japan and our Samurai girls. Connect the balls by drawing lines to win!

Price -61% 0.62€
Rating 6.8
Release 22 Jul 2021
Fresh Body Defeat your enemies , take their body parts to replace yours and become another strong boss yourself.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 22 Jul 2021
Summer of '58 In the summer of 2008. The main character, at the request of followers, goes to Russia to explore the abandoned camp "Yunost". Locals say that this place is inhabited by restless souls. This will need to be checked.

Price -53% 3.47€
Rating 8.7
Release 21 Jul 2021
Song of Farca Hack into crime scenes, look for evidence, analyze data, interrogate criminals, track suspects and deal with the consequences of your decisions. This is a dark and brutal detective story with a Black Mirror-esque atmosphere of digital dominance and the narrative structure of a US crime procedural.

Price -98% 0.52€
Rating 7.8
Release 21 Jul 2021
蛊婆 Lady in Tomb Gu Lady is a cartoon style third person action game. In the game, you'll have an adventure of nightmares and there are also puzzles for you to solve. You'll act Gu JiuXun, a Miao girl, to explore the grave filled with monsters,puzzles and traps,to save her younger sister!

Price 18.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 21 Jul 2021

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