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The 16 best indie RPGs on Steam in 2026

Among indie RPGs on Steam, Hades leads right now, then Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Hades II.

Ordered by fit with the genre, Steam review score, number of reviews and how each game plays. Steam figures checked 26 Sept 2026. How the order works

The 16 best indie RPGs, ranked

01
98% positive · 308,453 reviews · USD 24.99
Hades
Hades is Supergiant's isometric action roguelike: escape the Underworld, talk to everyone, keep the meta.
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95.3% positive · 275,848 reviews · EUR 49.99
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is an authored turn-based RPG with spectacle combat. A painted campaign. The party walks a France that is already fading, and a parry is a brushstroke.
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03
95.7% positive · 123,247 reviews · USD 29.99
Hades II
Hades II is a roguelite game built around action combat.
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04
93.5% positive · 109,006 reviews · EUR 25.99
Grim Dawn
Grim Dawn is an isometric ARPG: classes, loot, a world that stays. Death is a corpse run. The character is the save, and the next rare is a name on the ground.
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05
94% positive · 11,108 reviews · USD 19.99
Cassette Beasts
Cassette Beasts is a creature-collector RPG where monsters are recorded, not imprisoned in balls.
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06
96.5% positive · 162,246 reviews · USD 19.99
DAVE THE DIVER
Dave the Diver is a day-night hybrid: dive for fish, run a sushi bar at night. The adventure carries a restaurant you plate when you surface.
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07
86% positive · 105,536 reviews · USD 39.99
Enshrouded
Building and shroud exploration sit on the same save.
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08
97.1% positive · 88,148 reviews · EUR 16.79
OMORI
OMORI is a psychological RPG whose battle commands sit on top of a story you cannot unsee. The map is a head you keep walking, then a house you already knew.
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09
98.5% positive · 1,038,081 reviews · USD 14.99
Stardew Valley
Stardew Valley is the Steam definition of a cozy farm RPG: seasons, villagers, mines, and a farm you actually keep. Multiplayer exists; the soul is still a solo day-night loop.
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10
93.8% positive · 45,511 reviews · EUR 9.99
ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights
ENDER LILIES is a grim 2D metroidvania: you send a chorus of bound knights through a ruin, then you walk the map you already paid for.
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11
95% positive · 48,086 reviews · EUR 19.99
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is a hostile Zone: factions, anomalies, a gun that jams. A sandbox that can ignore your main quest while you loot a corpse.
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12
95% positive · 487,243 reviews · USD 29.99
Palworld
Palworld mixes creature collection with guns and base craft.
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13
94.5% positive · 44,499 reviews · EUR 24.99
Library Of Ruina
Library of Ruina is a story deckbuilder where receptions are fights and the library is the campaign map you keep walking. A guest list is a chapter, and the next book is a fight you already feared.
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14
96.9% positive · 8,889 reviews · EUR 19.5
In Stars And Time
A party of five is two floors from the end of their quest, and the day keeps resetting on Siffrin alone.
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15
95.9% positive · 13,705 reviews · EUR 24.99
The Forgotten City
A Roman city where one person's sin turns everyone to gold. The Forgotten City resets the day when that happens, and you keep the conversations. The loop is an interrogation you return to.
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91.7% positive · 162,727 reviews · EUR 22.99
Darkest Dungeon®
Darkest Dungeon is a gothic turn-based RPG: you send a party of four heroes into dungeons, watch their stress as closely as their health, and lose them for good when they die.
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Keeps indie games whose Steam tags or Shypiard profile say RPG, creature collectors, isometric action and farm dungeons included. A hundred-hour JRPG port stays out.

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The 16 best indie RPGs, ranked

Hades

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Hades II

Grim Dawn

Cassette Beasts

DAVE THE DIVER

Enshrouded

OMORI

Stardew Valley

ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

Palworld

Library Of Ruina

In Stars And Time

The Forgotten City

Darkest Dungeon®

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