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Top Early Access Games

60+ early access games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Indie, Action, Multiplayer, Free to Play.

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  1. #1 Estranged: The Departure
    98% matchVery Positive86% of 2,323 reviews2020
    Developer: Alan Edwardes
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.0hMean: 9.0h≥1hr: 51%

    Estranged: The Departure follows the story of a fisherman, stranded on a mysterious island during a violent storm. Little does he know his adventure has just begun, and the island is home to more than it first seems.

  2. #2 Touhou Big Big Battle
    98% matchVery Positive80% of 4,023 reviews2018
    Developer: MyACG Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.9hMean: 22.1h≥1hr: 60%

    just a touhou rts game

  3. #3 The Archotek Project
    98% matchMixed55% of 1,039 reviews2017
    Developer: The Archotek Project TeamPublisher: The Archotek Project Team
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6mMean: 31.2h≥1hr: 27%

    The Archotek Project focuses on a multiplayer experience, giving you the chance to play with your friends or with new people on dedicated servers. Play as the dinosaur as you explore vibrant and exotic locations within the game, taking control of unique species from the fossil record.

  4. #4 Prismata
    98% matchVery Positive81% of 1,210 reviews2018
    Developer: Lunarch Studios
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 5.3hMean: 7.4h≥1hr: 94%

    A perfect-information strategy game inspired by RTS, deckbuilders, and board games. Choose from three distinct technology classes and outwit your foes by snowballing your starting resources into a powerful cybernetic army. ABSOLUTELY NO PAY-TO-WIN.

  5. #5 Terra Incognita Chapter One: The Descendant
    97% matchMixed63% of 1,054 reviews2015
    Developer: Back To Basics Gaming
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.1hMean: 4.0h≥1hr: 89%

    Terra Incognita is a classic role playing game. The world of Terra is slowly falling into chaos. A great war is coming and It's time to take up arms against a corrupt royal family. You must travel across this huge world and unite the nations of Terra, recruiting comrades along the way.

  6. #6 Quake Champions
    96% matchMostly Positive74% of 38,719 reviews2022
    Developer: id SoftwarePublisher: Bethesda Softworks
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.6hMean: 30.0h≥1hr: 60%

    Step into the Arena. Compete against players from around the world in this fast-paced shooter that combines the dark mythos of the original Quake with the skill-based competition of Quake III Arena. Become a Champion.

  7. #7 ARK: Survival Ascended
    95% matchMixed60% of 100,735 reviews2023
    Developer: Studio Wildcard
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 28.6hMean: 195.6h≥1hr: 92%

    ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

  8. #8 Dark and Darker
    94% matchMixed65% of 81,391 reviews2024
    Developer: IRONMACE
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.0hMean: 33.3h≥1hr: 74%

    An unforgiving hardcore fantasy FPS dungeon PvPvE adventure. Band together with your friends and use your courage, wits, and cunning to uncover mythical treasures, defeat gruesome monsters, while staying one step ahead of the other devious treasure-hunters.

  9. #9 Golf Galore
    93% matchVery Positive82% of 341 reviews2018
    Developer: Hough Studio
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 1.3hMean: 3.0h≥1hr: 57%

    Golf Galore is an online multiplayer Mini Golf game with crazy mechanics. You can teleport with portals, dodge saw blades, shoot out of cannons, and much more.

  10. #10 VRChat
    89% matchMostly Positive75% of 259,315 reviews2017
    Developer: VRChat Inc.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.9hMean: 163.2h≥1hr: 72%

    Join our growing community as you explore, play, and help craft the future of social VR. Create worlds and custom avatars. Welcome to VRChat.

  11. #11 Chinese Chess
    89% matchMostly Positive74% of 222 reviews2017
    Developer: Wang Wenxi
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 18mMean: 18.4h≥1hr: 30%

    The most popular Chinese board game.

  12. #12 Midnight Carnival
    89% matchMostly Negative39% of 425 reviews2016
    Developer: Delusional GamesPublisher: Back To Basics Gaming
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.1hMean: 3.4h≥1hr: 89%

    Midnight Carnival is a Visual Novel with a dark and disturbing story and theme.

  13. #13 DEUS VULT | Online VR sword fighting
    86% matchMixed62% of 149 reviews2017
    Developer: raptor lab
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 30mMean: 7.3h≥1hr: 36%

    Fight against other medieval warriors all around the world! Deus Vult is an online medieval fighting game which uses cutting-edge weapon physics to make you feel like a real knight. Discover a world full of mystery, customize your character and FIGHT FOR GLORY!

  14. #14 No Rest for the Wicked
    85% matchVery Positive80% of 74,907 reviews2024
    Developer: Moon Studios GmbH
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 9.7hMean: 21.8h≥1hr: 87%

    From Moon Studios, the award-winning creators of Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps, comes No Rest for the Wicked, a unique, visceral Action RPG set in a hand-crafted world with Souls-like combat. Featuring co-op for up to four players.

  15. #15 Head Shot
    85% matchMixed53% of 1,820 reviews2016
    Developer: Indie Game Group
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.5hMean: 20.3h≥1hr: 93%

    Head Shot is a Cartoon FPS Game. There are 5 perks of character and too many weapons ...

  16. #16 New kind of adventure
    85% matchMixed42% of 1,518 reviews2015
    Developer: Mint Age StudiosPublisher: Back To Basics Gaming
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.9hMean: 3.4h≥1hr: 90%

    New kind of adventure is a 3D adventure game with RPG elements. Mary hides in a wardrobe after her parents had a fight. She falls asleep. When Mary awakes, she discovers that she is in a beautiful, magical world with giant strawberries and magical druids!With her new friend Aquarius, Mary must find a way back to the real world!

  17. #17 Enigmoon
    84% matchMostly Positive73% of 757 reviews2015
    Developer: Tupã Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.4hMean: 5.4h≥1hr: 96%

    Metroidvania with challenging puzzles and free exploration as long as you have oxygen.

  18. #18 Big Ambitions
    82% matchVery Positive93% of 12,519 reviews2023
    Developer: Hovgaard Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 10.8hMean: 24.0h≥1hr: 88%

    Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.

  19. #19 Bodycam
    82% matchMostly Positive76% of 41,720 reviews2024
    Developer: Reissad Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.4hMean: 21.2h≥1hr: 78%

    Bodycam is the first tactical multiplayer FPS with a true body-camera view in Unreal Engine 5. Close-quarters combats feel raw and loud. Every angle, callout, and bullet matters. Play Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Body Bomb on photoreal maps where teamplay, tactics, and clutch skill are key.

  20. #20 Wild Warfare
    82% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,094 reviews2014
    Developer: Hyper Hippo Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 36mMean: 9.9h≥1hr: 35%

    Wild Warfare is a F2P, multiplayer FPS made for players that enjoy fun and/or being a bear. It's a mix of crazy game modes, balanced classes, simple controls and intense matches. Its got vehicle combat, because why not? You can even be a bunny that clubs people with a wrench, lucky you.

  21. #21 Sunkenland
    81% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
    Developer: Vector3 Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 8.5hMean: 17.9h≥1hr: 88%

    Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

  22. #22 Carnal Instinct
    81% matchVery Positive82% of 5,253 reviews2021
    Developer: Team Carnal Instinct
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.9hMean: 51.5h≥1hr: 83%

    Carnal Instinct is an Adult RPG with an emphasis on AAA quality visuals and compelling erotic interaction. You enter the world of Sabu a slave, but will forge your own destiny and shape the world itself in this realm of ancient gods, mythical creatures, and boundless lust.

  23. #23 POLYGON
    80% matchMostly Positive75% of 36,603 reviews2020
    Developer: Redaster Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 54mMean: 5.6h≥1hr: 48%

    POLYGON is a tactical multiplayer team 1st person shooter. Using various weapons, you will battle with up to 32 players on large-scale maps. Properly managing your arsenal and skills, you will lead your team to victory!

  24. #24 Black Squad
    80% matchMostly Positive76% of 81,527 reviews2019
    Developer: VALOFE
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.8hMean: 36.1h≥1hr: 62%

    Black Squad is a free-to-play military first-person-shooter. Players can master their skills and show off their strategies with a wide range of game maps, modes, and weapons to choose from. Join thousands of FPS players worldwide in one of the most played games on Steam!

  25. #25 Little Square Things
    80% matchVery Positive88% of 80 reviews2019
    Developer: G.Reed
    Platforms: Windows

    Forget the box. Think outside the entire warehouse!

  26. #26 Stay Out
    79% matchMixed68% of 29,668 reviews2019
    Developer: MOBITECH LLC
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 42mMean: 18.5h≥1hr: 36%

    Stay Out - is a MMORPG with shooter elements, based on spirit of “stalking” - an urban exploration, searching and exploring mysterious, abandoned and forgotten by humanity pieces of our planet.

  27. #27 Fields of Mistria
    78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 27,018 reviews2024
    Developer: NPC Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 8.2hMean: 23.7h≥1hr: 82%

    Start your new life! Build the farm of your dreams as you discover a world brimming with possibilities. Magic, romance, and adventure all await you in this nostalgic farming / life sim RPG!

  28. #28 TOGETHER BnB
    80% matchMixed59% of 9,277 reviews2021
    Developer: AURORA Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.1hMean: 7.0h≥1hr: 79%

    Through the development of the plot in the game, you will gradually cultivate feelings and trust with female tenants, and gradually develop a deeper and intimate romantic relationship, but the crisis behind will also emerge gradually...

  29. #29 The Scroll Of Taiwu
    79% matchMostly Positive70% of 62,126 reviews2018
    Developer: ConchShip Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 13.2hMean: 56.4h≥1hr: 88%

    "The Scroll of Taiwu" is an indie game themed around Chinese mythology and wuxia. Players assume the role of the mysterious "heir of the Taiwu clan" in an alternate ancient China, working through generations of heirs to defeat a powerful hereditary enemy and shape the fate of the human world.

  30. #30 Nobody - The Turnaround
    79% matchMixed60% of 14,289 reviews2022
    Developer: U.Ground Game StudioPublisher: Thermite Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 12.0hMean: 23.9h≥1hr: 91%

    Nobody – The Turnaround is a life simulator set in a parallel world that echoes modern society. Manage your time and resources carefully, strive to find a way through difficult times, and overcome the predicament you find yourself in.

  31. #31 Gunjitsu
    79% matchVery Positive81% of 840 reviews2015
    Developer: Decent MachinePublisher: Beatnik Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 5.6hMean: 5.7h≥1hr: 96%

    Gunjitsu is a fast-paced platform shooter with grappling hooks, rocket launchers, guns and grenades! Kill your opponents or race them for the fastest time. Inspirations from old platform shooters gives Gunjitsu a classic feel while modern tech takes it to a new level of frantic action!

  32. #32 Ravenfield
    78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 77,990 reviews2017
    Developer: SteelRaven7
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 11.2hMean: 61.9h≥1hr: 89%

    Fight upon the Ravenfield together with your Blue allies! Take down those pesky Reds using helicopters, tanks, guns, and active ragdoll physics!

  33. #33 The Isle
    77% matchVery Positive80% of 107,823 reviews2015
    Developer: Afterthought LLC
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 12.4hMean: 123.9h≥1hr: 90%

    Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.

  34. #34 Assetto Corsa EVO
    77% matchMixed59% of 19,007 reviews2025
    Developer: KUNOS SimulazioniPublisher: 505 Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.7hMean: 12.7h≥1hr: 79%

    Assetto Corsa EVO redefines the realism and features of one of the most popular multiplatform driving simulations ever developed. Featuring cars and tracks from different classes spanning across years of motoring history.

  35. #35 Infection Free Zone
    77% matchVery Positive80% of 17,172 reviews2024
    Developer: Jutsu GamesPublisher: Games Operators
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.8hMean: 17.3h≥1hr: 86%

    Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

  36. #36 Titan Quest II
    77% matchVery Positive84% of 15,961 reviews2025
    Developer: Grimlore GamesPublisher: THQ Nordic
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.6hMean: 12.7h≥1hr: 83%

    Nemesis, Goddess of Retribution, is out of control. She is corrupting the Threads of Fate and punishing all those who oppose her. Take up your weapon, fight alongside gods, and change fate itself in Titan Quest II, an action RPG inspired by Greek mythology.

  37. #37 Mad Island
    77% matchVery Positive92% of 4,269 reviews2024
    Developer: EmadePlus
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.4hMean: 20.0h≥1hr: 78%

    This survival game is packed with features including crafting, exploring, building, excavation, farming, fishing, capturing creatures, torture, battle, and a story with many forks along the way. The objective is to escape the island, but is that really your only choice?

  38. #38 Shot Shot Tactic
    78% matchMixed44% of 459 reviews2016
    Developer: Indie Game Group
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.8hMean: 7.9h≥1hr: 92%

    Shot Shot Tactic is a Realistic FPS Game. There are too many weapons ...

  39. #39 Mage Arena
    76% matchVery Positive91% of 19,978 reviews2025
    Developer: jrsjams
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.1hMean: 2.1h≥1hr: 56%

    A co-op PvP experience about using your voice to cast spells in the Mage Arena to settle an ages-old feud between sorcerers and warlocks.

  40. #40 The Forever Winter
    76% matchMixed69% of 23,078 reviews2024
    Developer: Fun Dog Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.0hMean: 19.8h≥1hr: 85%

    The Forever Winter is a tactical shooter where you and your squad must loot the dead to survive under the shadow of terrifying and gargantuan war machines locked in a never-ending conflict. Millions of deaths later the war continues with our latest update!

  41. #41 Feed and Grow: Fish
    77% matchMostly Positive78% of 20,772 reviews2016
    Developer: Old B1oodPublisher: Greens s.r.o.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.2hMean: 15.2h≥1hr: 81%

    Hunt and eat other fish - simply, grow into larger beasts!

  42. #42 Half Sword
    76% matchMixed68% of 21,716 reviews2026
    Developer: Half Sword GamesPublisher: Game Seer Publishing
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 8.4hMean: 11.7h≥1hr: 84%

    Half Sword is a physics-based medieval combat simulator featuring historically accurate XV-century arms and armor. We are not afraid to show the brutal nature of medieval combat with in-depth blood and gore features.

  43. #43 Marauders
    76% matchMixed68% of 21,287 reviews2022
    Developer: Small Impact Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 10.2hMean: 30.0h≥1hr: 89%

    Marauders is a tactical first-person multiplayer looter shooter set in a sci-fi universe. As a space pirate, work solo, or in a squad with up to 3 other players to navigate a hostile battleground, hunt for loot, craft new weapons and gear, and salvage what you’ll need to survive.

  44. #44 Cine Tracer
    76% matchMixed70% of 466 reviews2018
    Developer: Matt WorkmanPublisher: Cinematography Database
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    Cine Tracer is a realistic cinematography simulator. The player operates real world based cameras, sets up lights, and directs talent/actors in stunning next gen environments created in Unreal Engine 4.

  45. #45 Crab Champions
    74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 30,047 reviews2023
    Developer: Noisestorm
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 8.4hMean: 25.9h≥1hr: 88%

    Claw your way across exotic islands combining fluid movement with fast paced combat to become a Crab Champion in this third person roguelike shooter.

  46. #46 BIGFOOT
    75% matchVery Positive82% of 21,933 reviews2017
    Developer: CyberLight Game Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.0hMean: 7.7h≥1hr: 91%

    You are a Bigfoot hunter with an important mission: to put an end to rumours once and for all and prove to yourself that Bigfoot is not just a myth or an invention of the mind...

  47. #47 Zort
    74% matchVery Positive90% of 13,140 reviews2024
    Developer: Londer Software
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.7hMean: 3.6h≥1hr: 86%

    Zort is an action, adventure, and horror game that can be played with up to 4 people. Explore maps with your friends and have fun while escaping from various creatures. Experience a realistic horror experience with in-game voice chat with your friends!

  48. #48 Abiotic Factor
    73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 52,861 reviews2025
    Developer: Deep Field GamesPublisher: Playstack
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 19.3hMean: 42.7h≥1hr: 95%

    Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

  49. #49 Assetto Corsa Rally
    73% matchVery Positive88% of 8,524 reviews2025
    Developer: Supernova Games StudiosPublisher: 505 Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.9hMean: 8.9h≥1hr: 66%

    Assetto Corsa Rally is a high-fidelity rally sim built for precision and challenge. With 3D laser-scanned stages and cars, professional co-driver support, and dynamic conditions, it delivers a demanding, immersive experience where every second behind the wheel counts.

  50. #50 No More Room in Hell 2
    74% matchMixed48% of 17,994 reviews2024
    Developer: Torn Banner Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 9.8hMean: 25.6h≥1hr: 90%

    No More Room in Hell 2 is a terrifying 8 player co-op action horror experience. Find your friends in the dark and survive - in a dynamic, endlessly replayable zombie apocalypse.

  51. #51 Drunken Wrestlers 2
    73% matchVery Positive87% of 18,471 reviews2019
    Developer: Oleg SkuttePublisher: WAYONE GAMES
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.0hMean: 4.3h≥1hr: 51%

    Drunken Wrestlers 2 is a funny physics-based multiplayer fighting game. Features include character customization and a powerful mod editor integrated with Steam Workshop.

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