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Best Early Access games
Top early access games, ranked by review score and popularity — drawn from 6,618 titles in our index.

PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
59% · 1,520,457 reviews
LAND Drop into an ever-growing and changing selection of maps to keep you challenged. Will you choose the safer outskirts and risk not getting enough loot or hot drop into the dense cities and fig

Rust
87% · 1,071,135 reviews
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night. Rust now e

Wallpaper Engine
98% · 876,898 reviews
Wallpaper Engine enables you to use live wallpapers on your Windows desktop. Various types of animated wallpapers are supported, including 3D and 2D animations, websites, videos and even certain appli

Phasmophobia
96% · 736,611 reviews
Phasmophobia is a 4-player, online co-op, psychological horror game. You and your team of paranormal investigators will enter haunted locations filled with paranormal activity and try to gather as muc

ARK: Survival Evolved
84% · 612,177 reviews
As a man or woman stranded naked, freezing and starving on the shores of a mysterious island called ARK, you must hunt, harvest resources, craft items, grow crops, research technologies, and build she

The Forest
96% · 599,805 reviews
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying fi

Lethal Company
97% · 473,422 reviews
You are a contracted worker for the Company. Your job is to collect scrap from abandoned, industrialized moons to meet the Company's profit quota. You can use the cash you earn to travel to new moons

Valheim
94% · 471,451 reviews
Valheim is a brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players set in a procedurally-generated world inspired by Norse mythology. Craft powerful weapons, construct longhouses, and slay mighty foes

Palworld
94% · 358,266 reviews
Q. What kind of game is this? A. In this game, you can peacefully live alongside mysterious creatures known as Pals or risk your life to drive off a ruthless poaching syndicate. Pals can be used to fi

Project Zomboid
94% · 355,171 reviews
Project Zomboid is an open-ended zombie-infested sandbox. It asks one simple question – how will you die? In the towns of Muldraugh and West Point, survivors must loot houses, build defences and do t

Raft
93% · 323,198 reviews
By yourself or with friends, your mission is to survive an epic oceanic adventure across a perilous sea! Gather debris to survive, expand your raft and set sail towards forgotten and dangerous islands

BeamNG.drive
97% · 313,873 reviews
BeamNG. drive is an incredibly realistic driving game with near-limitless possibilities. Our soft-body physics engine simulates every component of a vehicle in real time, resulting in true-to-life beh

Risk of Rain 2
93% · 293,127 reviews
SURVIVE AN ALIEN PLANET Over a dozen handcrafted locales await, each packed with challenging monsters and enormous bosses that oppose your continued existence. Fight your way to the final boss and esc

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
88% · 232,360 reviews
The horns sound, the ravens gather. An empire is torn by civil war. Beyond its borders, new kingdoms rise. Gird on your sword, don your armour, summon your followers and ride forth to win glory on the

Satisfactory
97% · 225,479 reviews
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conv

Sons Of The Forest
88% · 222,495 reviews
An entirely new experience from the makers of the ‘The Forest’ Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to

Schedule I
98% · 200,803 reviews
Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. - The Drug Enforcement Administration You're a small-time drug de

VRChat
76% · 181,623 reviews
Imagine a space filled with limitless possibilities. Spend your afternoon dogfighting in fighter jets, before winding down in a treehouse that exists floating in a nebula. Make a new best friend while

R.E.P.O.
97% · 179,154 reviews
R.E.P.O. is an online co-op horror game featuring physics, proximity voice chat and scary monsters. You and up to 5 friends can venture into terrifying environments to extract valuable objects using y

ULTRAKILL
98% · 165,867 reviews
ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultraviolent old school FPS that fuses together classic shooters like Quake , modern shooters like Doom (2016) and character action games like Devil May Cry . Mankind has gon

Slime Rancher
98% · 135,271 reviews
Welcome to the Far, Far Range! Slime Rancher is a charming, first-person, sandbox experience. Play as Beatrix LeBeau: a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from E

Black Mesa
95% · 121,562 reviews
Relive Half-Life Black Mesa is the fan-made reimagining of Valve Software’s Half-Life . Black Mesa: Definitive Edition Update 1.5 brings together all the improvements to graphics and gameplay across 1

BattleBit Remastered
84% · 120,458 reviews
Reviews ”…even in its current state, it’s already one of the more captivating multiplayer shooters on Steam right now.” IGN “BattleBit has echoes of what Eric Barone did with Stardew Valley: a small g

Path of Exile 2
70% · 118,511 reviews
Path of Exile 2 is a next generation Action RPG from Grinding Gear Games, featuring co-op for up to six players. Path of Exile 2 takes place in the land of Wraeclast, a dark continent populated by uni

Space Engineers
89% · 117,204 reviews
Space Engineers is an open world sandbox game about designing, building and testing your own space machines. Construct ships, stations and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment, then exp

Z1 Battle Royale
56% · 113,729 reviews
Z1 Battle Royale is a Free to Play, fast-paced, action arcade, competitive Battle Royale. Staying true to its 'King of the Kill' roots, the game has been revamped and restored to the classic feel, loo

Scrap Mechanic
92% · 104,512 reviews
PLEASE NOTE: We’re still hard at work on Scrap Mechanic! New content is being added and optimizations being made regularly. Get started right away in Survival Mode, Creative Mode and Challenge Mode! P

The Long Dark
90% · 101,846 reviews
Bright lights flare across the night sky. The wind rages outside the thin walls of your wooden cabin. A wolf howls in the distance. You look at the meager supplies in your pack, and wish for the days

Escape the Backrooms
91% · 93,330 reviews
Explore the seemingly infinite expanse of eerily familiar levels in backrooms based on the popular creepypasta lore. Each level features different ways to escape with dangers along the way. Realistic

Gunfire Reborn
93% · 92,655 reviews
About This Game: Gunfire Reborn is an adventure level-based game featuring FPS, roguelite, and RPG elements. Players can control unique heroes—each with different abilities—as they adventure through p

Fallout 76
73% · 89,334 reviews
Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Skyrim and Fallout 4, welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fell, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers—chosen from the nation’

My Summer Car
95% · 86,445 reviews
MY SUMMER CAR is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine

SCUM
75% · 83,704 reviews
Welcome prisoners to SCUM Island! Where participation is non voluntary, the environment is cruel and inhabitants even crueler. You will work off your crimes and debt to society by attempting to surviv

Dyson Sphere Program
98% · 83,095 reviews
Dyson Sphere Program is a sci-fi sandbox construction game with space, adventure, exploration and factory automation elements. In the future, humanity creates a supercomputer known as the 'CentreBrain

Aimlabs
94% · 79,517 reviews
Aimlabs is the #1 aim trainer, trusted by over 40 million players! Are you ready to upgrade your aiming skills? Aimlabs is a training platform to help sharpen up your core FPS aiming skills. Aimlabs o

The Isle
81% · 77,185 reviews
The Isle: A World Designed to Kill You The Isle is intended to be a gritty, open-world survival horror game. Explore vast landscapes of dense forest and open plains, traverse treacherous mountains and

Grounded
89% · 75,482 reviews
The world is a vast, beautiful, and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Explore, build and survive together in this first-person, multiplayer, survival advent

Ravenfield
97% · 71,341 reviews
Fight upon the Ravenfield together with your Blue allies! Take down those pesky Reds using helicopters, tanks, guns, and active ragdoll physics! Ravenfield is a singleplayer game in the vein of older

Beat Saber
96% · 71,341 reviews
Beat Saber is an immersive rhythm experience you have never seen before! Enjoy tons of handcrafted levels and swing your way through the pulsing music beats, surrounded by a futuristic world. Use your

Barotrauma
94% · 70,694 reviews
'Work together to explore and survive, and/or sabotage one another and let the ship go down in fire and flood.' - Rock Paper Shotgun WELCOME TO EUROPA Barotrauma is a 2D co-op survival horror submarin

Enshrouded
86% · 67,486 reviews
SURVIVAL IN THE SHROUD Scavenge the ruins, battle the wilds, and grow strong enough to face the horrors within the Shroud. BEST IN CLASS BUILDING SYSTEM Bring life back to the land with powerful voxel

Gorilla Tag
91% · 64,966 reviews
Reject Humanity. Run, climb, and jump in VR using a unique locomotion method that only needs the movement of your hands and arms. No buttons, no sticks, no teleportation. Push off of surfaces to jump

Supermarket Simulator
94% · 64,104 reviews
'Supermarket Simulator' is a chill first-person simulation where every detail of running a supermarket comes alive. Design your store, optimizing for efficiency and aesthetics. Determine where product

EA SPORTS FC™ 24
58% · 63,281 reviews
This game includes optional in-game purchases of virtual currency that can be used to acquire virtual in-game items, including a random selection of virtual in-game items. FC Points not available in B

Manor Lords
86% · 62,224 reviews
Manor Lords is a strategy game that allows you to experience the life of a medieval lord. Grow your starting village into a bustling city, manage resources and production chains, and expand your lands

Black Squad
76% · 62,042 reviews
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 thous

Hades II
95% · 60,844 reviews
The first-ever sequel from Supergiant Games builds on the best aspects of the original god-like rogue-like dungeon crawler in an all-new, action-packed, endlessly replayable experience rooted in the U

Golf With Your Friends
88% · 59,105 reviews
Why have friends if not to play Golf... With Your Friends! Nothing is out of bounds as you take on courses filled with fast paced, exciting, simultaneous mini golf for up to 12 players! Key Features:

Blade and Sorcery
97% · 55,566 reviews
Blade & Sorcery is a medieval fantasy like no other, focusing on melee, ranged and magic combat that fully utilizes a unique and realistic physics driven interaction and combat system. Built exclu

Plague Inc: Evolved
94% · 52,571 reviews
Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of human history by evolvi

Battlerite
85% · 50,196 reviews
Battlerite is a PvP arena brawler and the spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed Bloodline Champions. Experience the unique combination of a top-down

Brick Rigs
95% · 47,391 reviews
Brick Rigs is a physics sandbox game that allows you to build, drive and destroy almost any type of vehicle imaginable. Whether it's a dragster, fire engine, forklift, helicopter, plane, train, ship o

ARK: Survival Ascended
59% · 44,880 reviews
Respawn into a new dinosaur survival experience beyond your wildest dreams… as ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of videogame technology with Unreal Engine 5! You awake on

Liar's Bar
91% · 44,341 reviews
Welcome to Liar's Bar: The Ultimate Deception Playground! Step into Liar's Bar, the most twisted and thrilling hangout in town. This isn't your average pub – it's a den of lies, deception, and mind ga

The Long Drive
90% · 42,761 reviews
This is a road trip game in an almost infinite random generated desert . The focus is on freedom , driving , exploration and immersion . It has minimal car maintenance and survival elements. Infinite

The Scroll Of Taiwu
70% · 42,350 reviews
Note: English translation is not official yet, but you can find mods on our Discord. Overview In the world of 'The Scroll of Taiwu', you will not only play the mysterious 'heir of the Taiwu clan,' but

WorldBox - God Simulator
95% · 41,874 reviews
WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game! Create your own world or destroy it using different powers: God Simulator. There are a lot of powers in your toolbox that can be used without m

Gray Zone Warfare
68% · 40,235 reviews
Gray Zone Warfare is a hardcore tactical FPS extraction shooter set on a quarantined Southeast Asian island. Following a mysterious event, the UN evacuates civilians while three rival Private Military

No Rest for the Wicked
78% · 39,563 reviews
From Moon Studios, the award-winning developers of Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps comes No Rest for the Wicked, a visceral, precision Action RPG set in a stunning, hand-cra

Cities: Skylines II
53% · 38,697 reviews
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into the thriving metropolis only you can imagine. You've never experienced building on this scale. With deep simulation and a living economy, Cities: