10 Best Indie Games on Steam (2024)

If you want a great gaming experience but don't want to spend three figures on a new AAA title, you can always rely on indie games. For a fraction of the price, indie games tend to provide a more gripping narrative and immersive experience than the most refined AAA games. And where better to look for new indie games than on Steam? I mean, the store is practically a hotbed, with hundreds of new indie titles arriving every day. So, if you're not sure where to begin, take a look at our list of the best indie games on Steam this month to point you in the right direction.

10. Ale & Tale Tavern

Ale & Tale Tavern is a pretty amusing game to run your fantasy tavern. It's possible to play solo or with friends, since you can cook dishes, serve drinks, and carry out quests. There is much to do: fish, hunt, farm to stock up on food. While performing assignments, you'll communicate with other characters and receive rewards. You may also explore the world, fight enemies, and gather ingredients. This game is action-adventure where you manage the tavern and decide what's happening next.

9. UFO 50

UFO 50 is a package of 50 games across different genres, including platformers and puzzles and RPGs. Each game can be played straight from start to finish, and some will be quick, arcade-length games, while others are longer adventures. Many games have local multiplayer, so you can play together or compete. You can dive into any game right off the bat and explore freely; some games share characters or have sequels. The game balances the old with the new, so it is fresh and yet becomes all too familiar.

8. Mouthwashing

If you enjoy survival horror, then Mouthwashing is another game in which you play as one part of the stranded crew. Well, the captain of the ship, Curly, failed in sealing off any possibilities for ending things and leaving the remainder of the crew to starve and die slowly. You are there following their tales while exploring the abandoned ship and enduring isolation, with no hope for rescue and with supplies dwindling to almost nothing. The game forces you to pay attention to the environment. Psychological terror always keeps you in suspense, wondering what is true and what is not.

7. Don't Starve Together

Don't Starve Together is a co-op survival multiplayer game. In this game, players have to collaborate with each other in order to survive an unendearingly hostile world. Among other bizarre creatures and environmental hazards, your friends and you are left in a strange wilderness constantly on the lookout for resources. Survival is all about collecting food, shelter, and making tools during unforgiving nights and around lurking dangers.

6. WHAT THE CAR?

If you are looking for a completely insane racing experience, WHAT THE CAR? is more than what the title says. There's racing across hundreds of totally crazy levels in a car with legs. You jump, fly with jetpacks, climb buildings, and deliver packages besides just driving. Things are constantly surprising and funny. Besides racing, you can explore different islands, meet new friends, and solve quirky puzzles. Plus, you will be able to create your own crazy levels and share it with others or try other strange levels made by the rest of the community.

5. Ravenswatch

In Ravenswatch, you play as heroes from folk tales and myths fighting hordes of nightmare creatures. It's an action roguelike where you explore large maps and take on the toughest enemies. You can enjoy it alone or with your friends in online co-op. Your ultimate goal is to survive three in-game days and nights while getting more upgrades and new abilities that improve your hero. Each run is tougher than the one previous to it, with harder foes and skills that will assist you in the final battle of the boss of the chapter.

4. Nova Drift

Nova Drift is a game of fighting waves of enemies in space. There, you pilot a spaceship, continue killing more enemies, and get new abilities for that ship. You may pick all the available weapons, shields, and ship bodies in the course of the game-changing how your ship fights. The speed of the game is fast, and every time you play, you may try different strategies and combinations. The objective is to survive longer, kill enemies, and find new challenges by constantly keeping your ship upgraded.

3. Crypt Custodian

Crypt Custodian is a game in which you play as Pluto, an evil cat convicted to forever clean the afterlife. It features exploration with a big map full of enemies and puzzles. Unlocking new abilities helps you to access new parts of the map in order to spot hidden secrets. Of course, all of that is done while learning the stories of other banished ghosts whose tales fill all of that otherworldly place. You must defeat the bosses, complete the puzzles, collect upgrades, and find your way back into the palace from which you were expelled.

2. Crime Scene Cleaner

In Crime Scene Cleaner, you play as a man working for the mob, cleaning crime scenes to save his daughter's life. You will mop, sponge, and power wash through bloodstained floors, pack body parts into boxes, and work to get rid of smells as the clock ticks on and the police close in. Beyond the paycheck from jobs, you can scrounge up whatever valuables you can when opportunity allows. As you level up, you can upgrade tools that include a stronger flashlight or a power washer, which would help you clean faster.

1. Lost Castle 2

Lost Castle 2 is a 2D Beat'em up Rogue-Lite in which players explore dungeons full of treasures and items. On the outset, there are over 200 weapons and armors which masters as you go, all with different skills to defeat enemies. Moreover, you collect over 130 treasures with special effects and will become stronger throughout the game. More than that, levels place in different locations such as Black Forest and Crystal Mountain, and each time there's something new for you to overcome. That's not enough; more than 10 super bosses will be waiting for you!

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