The Steam Winter Sale 2025 is now live and has slashed prices up to 90% across countless titles, and there are some sweet Indie game deals as well to steal the spotlight.
This year, indies like Hades 2 garnered Game of the Year nods for its fluid roguelike combat, branching narratives, and even winning the Best Action Game award at TGA 2025, while Slay the Spire holds a 98% positive rating from 400,000+ reviews as the deckbuilding pioneer that spawned a genre.
Indie games are also generally Steam Deck Verified, which means you can even enjoy them on the go, and now that discounts are hitting all-time lows, grabbing the best indie deals is a must. Here are the best Indie games you can buy in the Steam Winter Sale 2025.
Best Indie game deals in Steam Winter Sale 2025
Hades 2
- Discount: 25% off
- Price: $22.49
Playing Hades 2 feels like catching up with an old friend who’s leveled up massively. You play as Melinoë, Princess of the Underworld, wielding witchy incantations alongside familiar boons from Zeus’s lightning to Poseidon’s tidal waves.
Each run randomizes weapons like the Sister Blades or Moonstone Axe for fresh strategies. Combat includes a ballet of dodges, casts, and omega attacks that chain into godlike combos. The story peels back layers of family drama and cosmic threats through vivid voice acting and hand-painted art.
Beyond 50 hours, arcana cards and keepsakes let you tweak builds for speedruns or tanky setups. Grab it if roguelikes are your choice. You may even get the full Hades bundle for $36.41 for the full saga, and thank me later when you’re still playing come New Year’s.
Sea of Stars
- Discount: 40% off
- Price: $20.99
Sea of Stars cooks up a feast if pixel art RPGs from the SNES era are your nostalgia fuel. Here, you follow Valere and Zale, solstice warriors mastering sun or moon eclipses for light or dark combat locks. You have to time your hits perfectly to build MP for dazzling specials like Valor Hits that lock enemy turns.
Exploration shines in handcrafted zones from bustling docks to curse-ridden moors, stuffed with relics for double jumps, fishing rods, and co-op live combos if a friend joins. The 30-hour story weaves party banter, block-pushing puzzles, and restaurant mini-games without filler grind.
Nine Sols
- Discount: 40% off
- Price: $17.99
Hollow Knight met Sekiro in a cyberpunk temple, and Nine Sols was born, which is filled with pure adrenaline for precision fiends. As Yi, taopunk fox exile, you parry bullet-hell patterns from robo-monks and chimeric guardians, chaining into counters that heal and combo into talisman finishers.
The Kunlun hub unlocks dash upgrades, wind gliders, and lock-on shots, gating progression behind 12 brutal Sols bosses whose phases demand muscle memory, like dodging laser webs while perfect-parrying glaive throws. Expect to play for around 20 to 30 hours to 100%, but mastery runs under an hour.
Cult of the Lamb
- Discount: 50% off
- Price: $12.49
Ever wanted to run a cult without the FBI knocking? Here, you’re a possessed lamb building an army of woodland weirdos through roguelike crusades, where you slay heretics with a touch-upgradable arsenal from flaming swords to poison shivs, then indoctrinate survivors back at base.
In Cult of the Lamb, days cycle between dungeon runs for resources, sermons boosting zeal, and quirky rituals like weddings or dark baptisms that risk dissent; manage happiness via farms, mines, and janitors to unlock goat-headed gods for powers.
The art style is deceptively cute, where chibi followers dance around sacrifices amid blood splatters, with a soundtrack of choral dread. You can expect more than 40 hours of base game, plus Unholy Alliance DLC and mods that add new biomes.
Slay the Spire
- Discount: 90% off
- Price: $2.49
Slay the Spire is the game that has ruined the sleep schedules of many, and its hook is still unmatched. Here, you ascend a treacherous spire as one of four characters: the Ironclad’s raw power, Silent’s poison swarms, Defect’s orbs, or Viewer’s esoteric relics, drafting from over 300 cards like Footwork for dex draws or Chemical X for wild upgrades.
Elites and bosses demand meta mastery. Synergize Plasma Orbs with Thunderbolts or exhaust loops with Feel No Pain, but RNG keeps it spicy: lose to a bad floor 3 draw, adapt next time. Mods via Steam Workshop add endless classes and events, pushing playtime past 200 hours for completionists. At 90% off, it’s criminal not to own.
Most of us have been burned by buggy AAA launches that demand full price for half-baked experiences. Indies, on the other hand, flip the script as these are passion projects from comparatively smaller teams that is full of heart and pack big fun without the mess.
In the meantime, do check the full list of nominees and categories at the Steam Awards 2025.
