Best Indie Steam Games on Sale

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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VVVVVV VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?

Price -87% 0.66€
Rating 9.3
Release 07 Sep 2010
Making History II: The War of the World What if Germany won the Battle of Britain? What if Moscow fell in 1942?You’re in charge. Anything can happen and history will never repeat itself in this classic WWII grand strategy game MAKING HISTORY II: The War of the World. Are you ready to battle for global dominance?

Price -73% 4.01€
Rating 7.5
Release 27 Aug 2010
Jolly Rover A comedic 2D point and click adventure, featuring a crazy cast of poxy pirate pooches.

Price -41% 5.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 07 Jun 2010
eversion The Princess of the Flower Kingdom has vanished! She was taken by the Ghulibas of the north, and it is up to brave Zee Tee to rescue her. On his quest, he - and you - will discover the hidden lands behind the peaceful kingdom, and come face to face with secrets that will set you on edge!

Price -71% 1.19€
Rating 8.7
Release 07 Jun 2010
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Month!

Price -86% 2.98€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 Apr 2010
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom Enter a macabre and comical silent world filled with mischief, time travel and delicious pie. Includes Steam Achievements, Cloud, and Leaderboards!

Price -7% 3.72€
Rating 8.2
Release 20 Apr 2010
Beat Hazard Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.

Price -96% 0.47€
Rating 9.2
Release 15 Apr 2010
Mount & Blade: Warband In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!

Price -71% 5.91€
Rating 9.7
Release 31 Mar 2010
Shatter Shatter is a retro-inspired brick-breaking game that merges familiar action with unique twists and a modern crafted production approach.

Price -80% 0.32€
Rating 8.9
Release 15 Mar 2010
Zero Gear Zero Gear is physically-fueled, online multiplayer kart combat madness. Deck out your kart and character before jumping into one of many different game modes. Outrageous kinematic gameplay and weapons make every round a blast. The potential for tiny vehicular mayhem has never been so humongous!

Price -73% 1.36€
Rating 7.5
Release 12 Jan 2010
Roogoo Roogoo is an innovative and unusual 3D puzzle game that has players guide and stack different shaped blocks through various platforms to not only save planet Roo, but the entire Roogoo race. Roogoo tasks players with guiding meteors in the form of shaped blocks through a series of rotating disks as a means of saving planet Roo and the...

Price -79% 0.84€
Rating 7.4
Release 17 Dec 2009
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake version of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS which was Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001 and which scored overall of 87% on Metacritic!

Price -85% 2.27€
Rating 9.1
Release 24 Nov 2009
Zombie Shooter 2 Just choose a character to the liking, get experience to develop skills, earn money and spend it at weapons, medications and useful devices. All of this will be used against thousands of enemies. The zombies fill the game screen, never letting you rest, even for a minute.

Price -75% 2.44€
Rating 7.5
Release 18 Nov 2009
Torchlight Adventure awaits in the award-winning Action RPG debut from Runic Games! Explore the randomized depths of this boom town, collect loot, and level up to save Torchlight - and possibly the world.

Price -95% 0.84€
Rating 8.8
Release 27 Oct 2009
AI War: Fleet Command "You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their...

Price -93% 0.77€
Rating 7.9
Release 21 Oct 2009
Machinarium Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!

Price -80% 4.15€
Rating 9.3
Release 16 Oct 2009
Windosill A short, surprising, toy-like puzzle game.

Price -35% 1.95€
Rating 8.7
Release 25 Sep 2009
Nation Red Nation Red is an ultra fast infinite play arena-based shooter providing an exceptional close-quarter battlefield experience. Fight thousands of zombie mutants and their bosses in frantic bloody gameplay while earning close to 100 perks. Fight in Barricade, Survival or Free Play mode.

Price -80% 0.58€
Rating 8.5
Release 03 Sep 2009
Osmos Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax - good things come to those who wait.

Price -97% 0.32€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 Aug 2009
Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge Bad Rats is a physics puzzle game where rats finally get their bloody revenge on their new prisoners: The cats. Come up with creative solutions for each puzzle using physics, functional objects, and your specially trained Rats. Try different ways of solving each puzzle to finish faster or earn higher scores.

Price -59% 0.82€
Rating 7.7
Release 20 Jul 2009
Trine Enchanted Edition Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world of great castles and strange machinery, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.

Price -93% 1.15€
Rating 9.3
Release 02 Jul 2009
Zombie Shooter The human race is in danger again. This time scientists could not cope the imminent threat and became monsters themselves. Crowds of zombie people filled the secret research base. The dreadful contagion is about to spread earth wide. Use the last chance to save the humanity from total annihilation!

Price -70% 1.51€
Rating 7.9
Release 27 May 2009
Restaurant Empire II Restaurant Empire 2 is the most realistic and comprehensive restaurant business simulation available, featuring 4 cuisines, 600 recipes, 4 huge cities, 2 campaigns with a total of 34 missions, 1400 interior objects, and a mix of business strategy and role-playing gameplay such as cooking contests.

Price -20% 15.72€
Rating 7.1
Release 27 May 2009
Crayon Physics Deluxe Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.

Price -94% 1.24€
Rating 8.2
Release 06 May 2009
Zeno Clash Zeno Clash is an action/fighting game set in a punk fantasy world. The game is played from a first person perspective and the combat is generally up close and brutal. Experience a deep storyline set in a fantastic world.

Price -91% 0.92€
Rating 8.3
Release 21 Apr 2009
Cogs Cogs is a puzzle game where players build machines from sliding tiles. Players can choose from 50 levels and 3 gameplay modes. New puzzles are unlocked by building contraptions quickly and efficiently. Inventor Mode: Starting with simple puzzles, players are introduced to the widgets that are used to build machines — gears, pipes,...

Price -90% 0.52€
Rating 8.4
Release 14 Apr 2009
Braid This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.

Price -81% 2.92€
Rating 9.1
Release 10 Apr 2009
And Yet It Moves And Yet It Moves is a puzzle-platformer, set in a unique world, made of ripped paper. Within the paper-collage you can jump, run and last but certainly not least: rotate the world. Learn how to apply the physical consequences of rotation to master the many tricky situations you may encounter.

Price -98% 0.25€
Rating 6.8
Release 02 Apr 2009
Penguins Arena: Sedna's World Penguins Arena is a thrilling and innovative First Penguin Shooter with quick, hectic rounds and where the magic of reincarnation, combined with the supernatural ability to return to the game as a ghost, ensures that your character has every chance to change your tribe's fate, even in the afterlife.

Price -35% 3.93€
Rating 8.5
Release 18 Dec 2008
Aquaria Aquaria is an award-winning action-adventure game set in a massive underwater world teeming with life and filled with ancient secrets. Join Naija, a lone underwater adventurer, as she travels from hidden caves shrouded in darkness, to beautiful, sunlit oases in search of her past.

Price -78% 2.27€
Rating 8.4
Release 15 Dec 2008
Defense Grid: The Awakening Defense Grid: The Awakening is a unique spin on tower defense gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. A horde of enemies is invading, and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building fortification towers around their base.

Price -34% 5.33€
Rating 9.3
Release 08 Dec 2008
Mount & Blade Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.

Price -77% 2.31€
Rating 8.9
Release 03 Nov 2008
World of Goo World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys.

Price -82% 2.31€
Rating 9.1
Release 13 Oct 2008
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® Selected by the fickle finger of fate, Abe™, floor-waxer first class for RuptureFarms, was catapulted into a life of adventure when he overheard plans by his boss, Molluck the Glukkon™, to turn Abe and his fellow Mudokons into Tasty Treats as part of a last-ditch effort to rescue Molluck's failing meat-packing empire.

Price -84% 0.49€
Rating 8.3
Release 28 Aug 2008
Dracula: Origin Dracula: Origin reveals the dark origins of the Dracula curse. Step into the shoes of the famous Professor Van Helsing and experience a thrilling journey that will take you from London to Egypt, Austria and through Carpathian Europe right into the terrifying lair of the Dark Prince.

Price -77% 2.33€
Rating 6.9
Release 07 Aug 2008
Insecticide Part 1 Enter the fast shooting world of INSECTICIDE as hot shot rookie Detective Chrys Liszt and help solve a crime of epic proportions. Lead your team on a bug hunt, collecting clues and solving puzzles. Use old-fashioned street smarts, unique insect abilities and an arsenal of ingenious bug weapons to confront your suspects.

Price -89% 0.47€
Rating 7.1
Release 01 Jul 2008

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