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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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 -60% 3.92€
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 -92% 1.27€
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 -95% 0.74€
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 -24% 25.25€
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% 0.45€
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 -98% 0.71€
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 -50% 10.09€
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 -7% 16.76€
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 -90% 0.74€
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 -77% 3.89€
Rating 9.2
Release 20 Jan 2021
The Adventure of NAYU Nayu is a fox who lives in a strangely cozy world.Go on a little adventure with Nayu ♪ in this adorable clicker-like game for everyone to enjoy.

Price -80% 0.60€
Rating 9.1
Release 19 Jan 2021
Trikaya Trikaya is an atmospheric first-person puzzle game where the player explores a long-forgotten temple and pieces together a mighty and mysterious artifact to master Wind, Earth, and Fire magic to solve puzzles and uncover the intriguing history of the extraordinary artifact.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 18 Jan 2021
Fujiwara Bittersweet Girl protag heartwarming slice of life with bittersweet twists!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 16 Jan 2021
hexceed A relaxing, hexagon based, puzzle game. An exciting new twist on a classic game without the element of guesswork! Use your critical thinking and our stimulating game mechanics to progress through hundreds of levels!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 15 Jan 2021
Wizards Artillery tactics games are back! Grab some friends and get ready for an all out Wizard war! Create your own way of play with tons of unique spells to choose from. With randomly generated terrain and unlimited combinations, you'll never know what will happen next. Completely free to play.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Jan 2021
Word Game: Episode 0 Word game is literally a game of words. Player controls "I" to find clues between lines, delete words to change the meaning of sentences, or shift words to rewrite facts. “I” must be wise and brave enough complete the mission of words. May the best "I” win!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.5
Release 14 Jan 2021
Sunlight Traverse a harmonious hand painted forest in this first person hike. ☀️The trees guide you with gentle whispers, as you explore a philosophical story.

Price -94% 0.25€
Rating 7.1
Release 14 Jan 2021
Down in Bermuda An unnatural storm leaves an adventurous aviator stranded for decades within the infamous Bermuda. Overcome creatures of the deep and unravel the islands secrets in search of a way back home.

Price -60% 6.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 14 Jan 2021
Object N A classic-style hardcore dynamic shooter which takes place in a science underground center.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 13 Jan 2021
Undead Development How long would you survive in this unrealistic representation of the zombie apocalypse? Scavenge for supplies, find a base, and construct your defenses. Break down furniture and board up your home. Set bear traps, nail your axe to a gun, or find your own ways to fight off the undead. VR required.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 13 Jan 2021
Grow Defense Upgrade your Castle and Unlock new tiers of Skills and Weapons to Defend vs Monsters and Bosses across VARIOUS ZONES! Find Rare ITEMS dropped from monsters and bosses and upgrade them to their full potential! Defeat RAID Mega-Bosses to find LEGENDARY items!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 10 Jan 2021
Shokuo Shoujo Huntress Yuki and her brother Yuu depend on each other, living in a remote village.

Price 10.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 07 Jan 2021
Press Any Button This video game realized how boring it had been and now is trying its best to fix that.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 07 Jan 2021
SCP: Escape Together In the midst of a site-wide containment breach, you must team up with other Class-D personnel to escape the underground, isolated facility while evading the dangerous anomalies that have breached containment.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 06 Jan 2021
Soulestination "Soulestination" is a magic tower (fixed-value strategy RPG) game that incorporates meta elements. Players need to control Rovia as the savior, fight the enemy in the process of exploring the world, and gradually see the essence of the world.

Price -13% 2.63€
Rating 8.6
Release 05 Jan 2021
NERTS! Online NERTS! Online is a fast-paced competitive solitaire game for you and up to five of your friends, played the same way we play it at the Zachtronics office!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 05 Jan 2021
Desktop+ Desktop+ is a utility application for SteamVR enabling you advanced access to your desktops and windows from within VR. Pull your screen into the VR world, attach windows to your controllers, view 3D content, and more.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 01 Jan 2021
Scoot Scoot is an open world scooter riding game. Enter this physics based game and perform over 40 different tricks, customise your scooter and rider, build your dream park, film clips, or play online with friends!

Price 12.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 28 Dec 2020
OMORI Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.

Price 16.79€
Rating 9.6
Release 25 Dec 2020
Hello Guest: Hello Neighbor 2 pre-alpha Hello Guest, beloved Hello Neighbor 2 pre-alpha, a stealth horror thriller with an advanced, self-learning AI. You take the night shift as a security guard at an abandoned Golden Apple Amusement Park where a creature is hiding in the shadows. What can go wrong?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 22 Dec 2020

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