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.
Recommended Early Access Games

Estranged: The Departure
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.

Touhou Big Big Battle
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- #1 Estranged: The Departure98% matchVery Positive86% of 2,323 reviews2020Developer: Alan EdwardesPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 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 Touhou Big Big Battle98% matchVery Positive80% of 4,023 reviews2018Developer: MyACG StudioPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 1.9hMean: 22.1h≥1hr: 60%
just a touhou rts game
- #3 The Archotek Project98% matchMixed55% of 1,039 reviews2017Developer: The Archotek Project TeamPublisher: The Archotek Project TeamPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Prismata98% matchVery Positive81% of 1,210 reviews2018Developer: Lunarch StudiosPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 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 Terra Incognita Chapter One: The Descendant97% matchMixed63% of 1,054 reviews2015Developer: Back To Basics GamingPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Quake Champions96% matchMostly Positive74% of 38,719 reviews2022Developer: id SoftwarePublisher: Bethesda SoftworksPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 ARK: Survival Ascended95% matchMixed60% of 100,735 reviews2023Developer: Studio WildcardPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Dark and Darker94% matchMixed65% of 81,391 reviews2024Developer: IRONMACEPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Golf Galore93% matchVery Positive82% of 341 reviews2018Developer: Hough StudioPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 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 VRChat89% matchMostly Positive75% of 259,315 reviews2017Developer: VRChat Inc.Platforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Chinese Chess89% matchMostly Positive74% of 222 reviews2017Developer: Wang WenxiPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 18mMean: 18.4h≥1hr: 30%
The most popular Chinese board game.
- #12 Midnight Carnival89% matchMostly Negative39% of 425 reviews2016Developer: Delusional GamesPublisher: Back To Basics GamingPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 3.1hMean: 3.4h≥1hr: 89%
Midnight Carnival is a Visual Novel with a dark and disturbing story and theme.
- #13 DEUS VULT | Online VR sword fighting86% matchMixed62% of 149 reviews2017Developer: raptor labPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 No Rest for the Wicked85% matchVery Positive80% of 74,907 reviews2024Developer: Moon Studios GmbHPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Head Shot85% matchMixed53% of 1,820 reviews2016Developer: Indie Game GroupPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 3.5hMean: 20.3h≥1hr: 93%
Head Shot is a Cartoon FPS Game. There are 5 perks of character and too many weapons ...
- #16 New kind of adventure85% matchMixed42% of 1,518 reviews2015Developer: Mint Age StudiosPublisher: Back To Basics GamingPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Enigmoon84% matchMostly Positive73% of 757 reviews2015Developer: Tupã GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 4.4hMean: 5.4h≥1hr: 96%
Metroidvania with challenging puzzles and free exploration as long as you have oxygen.
- #18 Big Ambitions82% matchVery Positive93% of 12,519 reviews2023Developer: Hovgaard GamesPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 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 Bodycam82% matchMostly Positive76% of 41,720 reviews2024Developer: Reissad StudioPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Wild Warfare82% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,094 reviews2014Developer: Hyper Hippo GamesPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 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 Sunkenland81% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023Developer: Vector3 StudioPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Carnal Instinct81% matchVery Positive82% of 5,253 reviews2021Developer: Team Carnal InstinctPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 POLYGON80% matchMostly Positive75% of 36,603 reviews2020Developer: Redaster StudioPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Black Squad80% matchMostly Positive76% of 81,527 reviews2019Developer: VALOFEPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Little Square Things80% matchVery Positive88% of 80 reviews2019Developer: G.ReedPlatforms: Windows
Forget the box. Think outside the entire warehouse!
- #26 Stay Out79% matchMixed68% of 29,668 reviews2019Developer: MOBITECH LLCPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Fields of Mistria78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 27,018 reviews2024Developer: NPC StudioPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 TOGETHER BnB80% matchMixed59% of 9,277 reviews2021Developer: AURORA GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 The Scroll Of Taiwu79% matchMostly Positive70% of 62,126 reviews2018Developer: ConchShip GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Nobody - The Turnaround79% matchMixed60% of 14,289 reviews2022Developer: U.Ground Game StudioPublisher: Thermite GamesPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 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 Gunjitsu79% matchVery Positive81% of 840 reviews2015Developer: Decent MachinePublisher: Beatnik GamesPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 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 Ravenfield78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 77,990 reviews2017Developer: SteelRaven7Platforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 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 The Isle77% matchVery Positive80% of 107,823 reviews2015Developer: Afterthought LLCPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Assetto Corsa EVO77% matchMixed59% of 19,007 reviews2025Developer: KUNOS SimulazioniPublisher: 505 GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Infection Free Zone77% matchVery Positive80% of 17,172 reviews2024Developer: Jutsu GamesPublisher: Games OperatorsPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Titan Quest II77% matchVery Positive84% of 15,961 reviews2025Developer: Grimlore GamesPublisher: THQ NordicPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Mad Island77% matchVery Positive92% of 4,269 reviews2024Developer: EmadePlusPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Shot Shot Tactic78% matchMixed44% of 459 reviews2016Developer: Indie Game GroupPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 2.8hMean: 7.9h≥1hr: 92%
Shot Shot Tactic is a Realistic FPS Game. There are too many weapons ...
- #39 Mage Arena76% matchVery Positive91% of 19,978 reviews2025Developer: jrsjamsPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 The Forever Winter76% matchMixed69% of 23,078 reviews2024Developer: Fun Dog StudiosPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Feed and Grow: Fish77% matchMostly Positive78% of 20,772 reviews2016Developer: Old B1oodPublisher: Greens s.r.o.Platforms: WindowsMedian: 5.2hMean: 15.2h≥1hr: 81%
Hunt and eat other fish - simply, grow into larger beasts!
- #42 Half Sword76% matchMixed68% of 21,716 reviews2026Developer: Half Sword GamesPublisher: Game Seer PublishingPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Marauders76% matchMixed68% of 21,287 reviews2022Developer: Small Impact GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Cine Tracer76% matchMixed70% of 466 reviews2018Developer: Matt WorkmanPublisher: Cinematography DatabasePlatforms: 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 Crab Champions74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 30,047 reviews2023Developer: NoisestormPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 BIGFOOT75% matchVery Positive82% of 21,933 reviews2017Developer: CyberLight Game StudioPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Zort74% matchVery Positive90% of 13,140 reviews2024Developer: Londer SoftwarePlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Abiotic Factor73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 52,861 reviews2025Developer: Deep Field GamesPublisher: PlaystackPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Assetto Corsa Rally73% matchVery Positive88% of 8,524 reviews2025Developer: Supernova Games StudiosPublisher: 505 GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 No More Room in Hell 274% matchMixed48% of 17,994 reviews2024Developer: Torn Banner StudiosPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Drunken Wrestlers 273% matchVery Positive87% of 18,471 reviews2019Developer: Oleg SkuttePublisher: WAYONE GAMESPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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.
