Best Indie Games on Steam

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Little Nightmares II Little Nightmares II is the second game in a series that has thrilled and captivated millions of players worldwide since 2017. Now it’s your turn to try to survive this critically acclaimed entry in the most charming horror series ever made.

Price -88% 3.79€
Rating 9.2
Release 10 Feb 2021
Aventura Copilului Albastru și Urât Pornește într-o aventură scurtă de uitat în maxim 30min după ce ai închis jocul! Ce mai aștepți? Aventura îl urmărește pe Copilul Albastru și Urât într-o lume bizară, seara. 2D Visual Novel, Choices Matter, Multiple Endings.

Price 1.59€
Rating 9.5
Release 08 Feb 2021
ChilloutVR ChilloutVR is a social sandbox game enabling players and content creators to create, share and explore content in a massive multiplayer metaverse alone, with friends or anyone around the world. Meet new people and explore virtual worlds together. Playable with and without a VR-Headset.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Feb 2021
Slay the Dragon! Maj must traverse a fantastical landscape and overcoming mighty foes, in order to rescue her younger brother from the clutches of an evil dragon. "Slay the Dragon!" is an isometric hack and slash game inspired by old school adventure games and the Swedish countryside.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 05 Feb 2021
Love in the distance A word adventure game based on a long-distance relationship. On high school and college campuses, pick up memories that belong only to that time. Ideal and reality, if we can chose it again, can we not have regrets?

Price 2.39€
Rating 6.3
Release 04 Feb 2021
MONOLISK Raid a gazillion handcrafted dungeons, collect loot and creature cards and build your own dungeons for others! MONOLISK is a fantasy ARPG, CCG and dungeon builder in a single package. Build dungeons, share them with your followers, gear up your heroes and clear levels built by your friends!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 04 Feb 2021
Blue Fire Explore the fallen world of Penumbra in this precision 3D metroidvania platformer. Slash fierce enemies, conquer deadly traps, uncover ancient temples, and master fast, fluid movement across challenging platforming gauntlets in your quest to restore a fallen kingdom.

Price -98% 0.43€
Rating 7.9
Release 04 Feb 2021
Battlecruisers A visually stunning RTS where players battle to build the ultimate automated floating Ultraweapon. Outsmart players or AIs by building a strategically superior Battlecruiser. Step aboard for unique, hand-drawn misadventure on Flooded Earth, explosive gameplay, and an addictive soundtrack. And nukes.

Price -65% 3.44€
Rating 8.0
Release 04 Feb 2021
Psycholonials While in communication with supernatural forces, two influencers launch a daring new social media brand.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 03 Feb 2021
Firework An accidental fire at a funeral forces the police to re-investigate a closed case of massacre. Lin Lixun participates the re-investigation by chances. As the investigation goes deeper, the past of the victims gradually emerges. However, the case becomes more bewildering.

Price -42% 4.78€
Rating 9.6
Release 03 Feb 2021
War on the Sea Command ships, submarines and aircraft in the South Pacific during WWII.

Price 33.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 02 Feb 2021
Cyber Manhunt Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.

Price -61% 3.51€
Rating 9.1
Release 02 Feb 2021
Valheim A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Price -54% 9.39€
Rating 9.4
Release 02 Feb 2021
Pumpkin Days Pumpkin Days is a traditional farming RPG. Pick one of three towns to start your farming adventure. Farm, fish, mine, catch bugs, raise animals, and more. Help fill out the museum to stop a factory from being built on the island. Unless you wish to side with the factory. The choice is yours.

Price 15.79€
Rating 7.8
Release 01 Feb 2021
Annalynn Annalynn is a 2D platformer made in the style of arcade games from the early '80s. Collect the coins, grab the bonus foods, and turn the tables with blinding rubies! Think you've got what it takes to go for the high score?

Price 3.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 29 Jan 2021
回门 Way Back Home "Way back home" is a 2D horizontal board horror puzzle game. It takes the Republic of China period from 1905 to 1926 as the background of the times. With a large number of exquisite original paintings, rich playing methods, excellent music and dubbing, delicate script and narrative game style, it creates a strong historical...

Price 6.89€
Rating 6.8
Release 29 Jan 2021
Ambrosia The apprentice priestess Flode is dedicated to serving the God of Light, Leight, but when she's suddenly wrapped up in a scandal, she's sent to a remote island to spread the faith. Little does everyone know, the island houses long-forgotten secrets of its own...

Price 12.49€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 Jan 2021
Hidden Lands - Spot the differences These lands are paused in time, split apart. Find their differences to to bring them back to life. Discover ancient civilizations through their lost treasures.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Jan 2021
Olija Olija is a game about Faraday's quest, a man shipwrecked then trapped in the mysterious country of Terraphage. Armed with a legendary harpoon, he and other castaways try to leave this hostile country to return to their homelands.

Price -93% 1.11€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 Jan 2021
The Medium Discover a dark mystery only a medium can solve. Travel to an abandoned communist resort and use your unique psychic abilities to uncover its deeply disturbing secrets, solve dual-reality puzzles, survive encounters with sinister spirits, and explore two realities at the same time.

Price -95% 2.95€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 Jan 2021
DEVOUR DEVOUR is a co-op horror survival game for 1-4 players. Stop possessed cultists before they drag you to hell. Run. Scream. Hide. Just don't get caught.

Price -72% 2.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 28 Jan 2021
Sword of the Necromancer Help Tama to save Koko using the powers of the forbidden Sword of the Necromancer. Turn your foes into allies and reach the depths of the Necromancer's dungeon. Defeat the guardians to gain enough soul power to bring Koko back from the dead, no matter the cost.

Price -98% 0.44€
Rating 6.4
Release 28 Jan 2021
TOHU Experience a brand new adventure game set amongst a world of weird and wonderful fish planets. Explore beautiful environments, solve intricate puzzles and discover the truth about a mysterious little girl and her mechanical alter-ego, Cubus.

Price -97% 0.43€
Rating 8.0
Release 28 Jan 2021
100 hidden mice Hidden object game in the laboratory setting. Black and white hand-drawn graphics in a cartoon style. Difficult and interesting! Very large location!

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 27 Jan 2021
Märchen Forest This is the story of a young girl and her magical adventure.

Price -75% 8.55€
Rating 7.6
Release 27 Jan 2021
Metal Unit Metal Unit is a sprawling side-scrolling platformer with roguelite features. Play as Joanna, a soldier on a mission to capture her treasonous sister. Wear the M-Unit 11 suit and battle against monsters and aliens while uncovering the truth about humanity.

Price -97% 0.43€
Rating 8.0
Release 27 Jan 2021
ENCODYA Neo Berlin 2062. Tina – a nine-year-old orphan – lives with SAM-53 – her big clumsy robot guardian –in a rooftop makeshift shelter in Neo-Berlin, a dark megalopolis controlled by corporations.

Price -97% 0.96€
Rating 7.2
Release 26 Jan 2021
Cyber Shadow The world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. A desperate plea for help sets Shadow, the sole survivor of his clan, on one last mission to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin.

Price -63% 7.50€
Rating 8.0
Release 26 Jan 2021
Zardy's Maze Zardy's Maze is an extremely challenging horror game where you must enter a corn maze in the dead of night. Your goal? Cut down the giant plants that have started to grow there. Equipped with a flashlight and an axe, you must brave the unknown... And avoid what lurks in the darkness.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 22 Jan 2021
Astronarch A fusion of roguelikes and auto-battlers like never before seen. Recruit a party of mysterious heroes, navigate deadly lands, collect an arsenal of magical items, and vanquish a new evil threatening the realm!

Price -96% 0.58€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Jan 2021
SuchArt: Creative Space Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.5
Release 21 Jan 2021
Phoenotopia: Awakening Embark on a grand adventure in Phoenotopia! An action-adventure puzzle platformer inspired by the great classics. Meet charming townsfolk, brave the dungeons, and thwart evil in your quest to save your family.

Price -62% 6.96€
Rating 8.0
Release 21 Jan 2021
Tiny Lands Take your perceptivity to a new dimension in a relaxing low-poly isometric puzzle game. Find the differences in the beautiful, fully rotatable, and zoomable 3D environments. Can you find them all?

Price -76% 1.74€
Rating 8.7
Release 21 Jan 2021
Who Needs a Hero? A stick and a dream: that's all you need in an RPG. Make choices that shape your destiny, build relationships, face epic monsters, and choose between being a feared villain or a legend.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 21 Jan 2021
Dyson Sphere Program Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Price 16.79€
Rating 9.6
Release 20 Jan 2021
Skul: The Hero Slayer Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.

Price -85% 2.55€
Rating 9.2
Release 20 Jan 2021

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