Best Indie Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated indie games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Indie games on Steam.

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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 -97% 0.15€
Rating 7.1
Release 14 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
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 -54% 7.85€
Rating 8.5
Release 14 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
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
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
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
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
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 2.99€
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 the long awaited scooter riding game that riders have been waiting years for. 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
Ratropolis A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Dec 2020
Idle Slayer Idle Slayer is an incremental game with idle and active playstyle mechanics, medieval pixel art visuals and retro 8-bit sounds and music.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 21 Dec 2020
Zup! Z Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 21 Dec 2020
100 hidden aliens Hidden object game in the cosmic setting. Black and white hand-drawn graphics in a cartoon style. Game for all ages.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Dec 2020
Wattam Wattam is a game about the joys of friendship and discovery, from the imagination of Keita Takahashi (creator of Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy) and developer Funomena.

Price -87% 2.50€
Rating 8.0
Release 18 Dec 2020
Founders' Fortune A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

Price -99% 0.24€
Rating 7.7
Release 18 Dec 2020
Fireworks Mania - An Explosive Simulator FIREWORKS MANIA is a small casual explosive simulator game where you play around with fireworks, create beautiful firework shows or just blow stuff up.

Price 14.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 17 Dec 2020
Don't Be Afraid Don't Be Afraid is an adventure horror game, that allows you to personate a boy, kidnapped by a psychopath. You have to survive, escape and find out how you were kidnapped. Exploring the gigantic, mysterious house of your torturer, you will soon reveal many secrets, hidden inside it’s walls…

Price -89% 1.09€
Rating 7.9
Release 17 Dec 2020
Geometric Sniper Immerse yourself in Andrew's story and feel the pressure of being a sniper. Find and eliminate the target in the crowd before he runs away.In living environments, designed exclusively for this fantastic game, you will not have a second chance, precision is everything!

Price -53% 0.95€
Rating 7.4
Release 17 Dec 2020