Rank 01Best Indie games on Steam
- 50 games
- Indie
- Mostly Positive+
- Updated Nov 11, 2026
Top 10
- Rank 01
Rank 02About: Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
- $9.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
- Deck Playable
- Indie
- 2006
Rank 03About: You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
- $14.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
- Deck Verified
- Indie
- 2016
Rank 04About: Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
- $19.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
- Deck Playable
- Action
- 2020
Rank 05About: A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
- $9.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
- Deck Playable
- Action
- 2023
Rank 06About: From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
- $19.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
- Deck Playable
- Action
- 2025
Rank 07About: Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
- $29.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
- Deck Verified
- Indie
- 2018
Rank 08About: Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
- $14.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
- Deck Verified
- Action
- 2017
Rank 09About: As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
- $19.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
- Deck Playable
- Action
- 2018
Rank 10About: Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
- $9.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
- Deck Playable
- Action
- 2019
Ranked 11 to 50
Rank 11 
Risk of Rain 2
About: Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Rank 12 
Undertale
About: UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
Rank 13 
ULTRAKILL
About: ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultra-violent retro FPS that combines the skill-based style scoring of character action games with the unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the '90s. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weaponry and shower in their blood to regain your health.
Rank 14 
Euro Truck Simulator 2
About: Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
Rank 15 
Hades
About: Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Rank 16 
Satisfactory
About: Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Rank 17 
Doki Doki Literature Club!
About: The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Rank 18 
Vampire Survivors
About: Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Rank 19 
PEAK
About: PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Rank 20 
RimWorld
About: A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Rank 21 
Factorio
About: Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Rank 22 
Dispatch
About: Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
Rank 23 
Balatro
About: The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Rank 24 
American Truck Simulator
About: Experience legendary American trucks and deliver various cargoes across sunny California, sandy Nevada, and the Grand Canyon State of Arizona. American Truck Simulator takes you on a journey through the breathtaking landscapes and widely recognized landmarks around the States.
Rank 25 
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
About: Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
Rank 26 
Don't Starve Together
About: Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Rank 27 
Kerbal Space Program
About: In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Rank 28 
Stray
About: Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.
Rank 29 
Slay the Spire
About: We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Rank 30 
Inscryption
About: Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Rank 31 
Teardown
About: Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
Rank 32 
How to Fish
About: A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Rank 33 
Slime Rancher
About: Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
Rank 34 
DELTARUNE
About: Dive into the parallel story to UNDERTALE! Fight or spare your way through action-packed battles as you explore a mysterious world alongside an endearing cast of new and familiar characters. Chapters 1-4 will be available on launch, with more planned as free updates!
Rank 35 
Hades II
About: Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.
Rank 36 
Cuphead
About: Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
Rank 37 
Celeste
About: Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Rank 38 
Cult of the Lamb
About: Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.
Rank 39 
Helltaker
About: Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.
Rank 40 
OMORI
About: 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.
Rank 41 
Beat Saber
About: Beat Saber is a VR rhythm game where you slash the beats of adrenaline-pumping music as they fly towards you, surrounded by a futuristic world.
Rank 42 
Cookie Clicker
About: An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Rank 43 
WEBFISHING
About: WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Rank 44 
Blade and Sorcery
About: Blade & Sorcery is a built-for-VR medieval fantasy with full physics driven melee, ranged and magic combat. Become a powerful warrior, ranger or sorcerer and devastate your enemies.
Rank 45 
Oxygen Not Included
About: Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Rank 46 
Kenshi
About: A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Rank 47 
Noita
About: Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Rank 48 
FTL: Faster Than Light
About: This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Rank 49 
Ravenfield
About: Fight upon the Ravenfield together with your Blue allies! Take down those pesky Reds using helicopters, tanks, guns, and active ragdoll physics!
Rank 50 
Castle Crashers®
About: Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
About this list
Browse 50+ Indie games on Steam ranked daily by review consensus (2026). Steam's indie catalogue: small-team releases ranked by review consensus and audience size. Every pick has cleared a quality bar of Mostly Positive or better, based on Steam's public review counts with a minimum of 100 verdicts to rule out statistical noise — enough data to trust the signal, not so much that only blockbusters qualify. Ranking is by review score first, total review volume second, so an acclaimed 300-review title sits above a franchise entry at mediocre scores. Unlike Steam's storefront Indie tab, which weights new releases, sponsored placements, and sales rank, imho.run ranks purely by review consensus — older beloved titles compete alongside this year's launches on equal footing. The list refreshes daily as new releases land and review counts settle; newly qualifying titles appear the morning after they cross the threshold.
Frequently asked
What's the best Indie game on Steam right now?
The top of this list is whichever Indie title has the strongest review score on Steam among games with enough reviews to trust the signal — at least 100 reviews at Mostly Positive or better. The order refreshes daily as new releases land and review counts settle, so the #1 slot moves with the catalogue rather than staying frozen on a franchise heavyweight.
Do these Indie games run on Steam Deck?
Each tile shows the Steam Deck status when Valve has rated the game — Deck Verified means it runs out of the box with full controller support, Deck Playable means it works with some manual setup. To browse only Deck-friendly picks across every genre, the Steam Deck and Steam Deck Playable hubs filter to those titles.
How is this list different from Steam's "Indie" tab?
Steam's storefront sorts Indie by a mix of new releases, top sellers, and sponsored slots. This list ignores all of that — only review consensus and audience size decide ranking, so older quiet hits sit alongside this month's launches without paid placement pushing anything up the order.
How often is the Indie list updated?
Once per day. New Indie releases enter the candidate pool the day after they cross the review threshold; titles whose score drops below it fall off the same way. The catalogue imho.run reads from is refreshed daily by a scraper running over the public Steam Web and Store APIs.
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