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Steam review scores are noisy at the low end, but once a game clears several thousand reviews and still sits at 99% or above, something unusual is happening. These are the highest-rated indie games on Steam right now, each verified against the Steam 250 rankings.
1. Creature Kitchen — 100% positive (9,508 reviews)
A perfect score across nearly ten thousand reviews is close to unheard of. Creature Kitchen is a creepy-cozy cooking simulator where you befriend local wildlife and feed them their favourite snacks, set in a strange house with a forest to explore. Creaking footsteps and whispering trees, but also a radio playing tunes while you cook.
$7.99 · Full breakdown
2. Dreamcards — 99% positive
A roguelike deckbuilder about dreams where deckbuilding happens twice: before the match and during it. You buy cards from a shop mid-fight and manipulate your deck flow as you go.
$8.49 · Full breakdown
3. Shelldiver — 99% positive (17,300 reviews)
A cozy incremental about a senior turtle starting a jellyfish business. Naps are part of the loop. At $4.99 with 17,000 reviews at 99%, it is one of the best value propositions on Steam.
$4.99 · Full breakdown
4. Servant of the Lake — 99% positive
The newest premium point-and-click in the Rusty Lake series, from the creators of Cube Escape. You are a servant at the Vanderboom estate, solving puzzles as daily duties while the family pursues alchemical ambitions.
$5.99 · Full breakdown
5. Endacopia — 99% positive
A point-and-click adventure that looks like 90s edutainment software and is anything but. You guide a boy who has lost all his senses through abstract puzzles and things that lurk in the shadows.
$16.50 · Full breakdown
6. The Mermaid Mask — 99% positive
An impossible locked-room murder aboard the world strangest submarine, from SFB Games (Tangle Tower, Crow Country). Detective Grimoire returns to work out whether it was a curse, the crew, or something stranger.
$17.99 · Full breakdown
Why these scores matter
A 99% rating on 200 reviews means little. A 99% rating on 17,000 means the game is doing something almost nobody dislikes — usually a very clear promise, delivered exactly. Notice how many on this list are cheap, short, and focused rather than sprawling.
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