Best Touch-Friendly indie games under $20

These are the best touch-friendly indie games you can buy for under $20. indielist lists 12 paid touch-friendly games with a list price at or below $20, ranked by Steam review count so the most-validated picks lead. The average list price here is $10.99, and the cheapest is Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition at $4.99. The most reviewed is Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition with 141,936 Steam reviews. Beyond the budget end, this wider list adds 5 mid-price picks between $10 and $20 that a stricter under-$10 list leaves out. Every price is the tracked Steam list price, not an estimate, and each game links to a white-box sales estimate you can open and audit rather than a black-box number. This is a value list: a sensible price crossed with real player validation, so you can find a touch-friendly game that is actually good, not just affordable. Free-to-play titles are excluded here; this is about paid games that punch above their price.

• P

  Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

  2009 · Strategy

  $4.99 141,936 reviews · 98% positive

• C

  Cookie Clicker

  2021 · Casual

  $4.99 93,033 reviews · 96% positive

• G

  Game Dev Tycoon

  2013 · Casual

  $9.99 45,091 reviews · 95% positive

• T

  The Room

  2014 · Adventure

  $4.99 30,396 reviews · 98% positive

• M

  Machinarium

  2009 · Adventure

  $19.99 17,509 reviews · 95% positive

• M

  Mini Metro

  2015 · Indie

  $9.99 12,780 reviews · 96% positive

• L

  Little Inferno

  2012 · Adventure

  $14.99 9,103 reviews · 95% positive

• H

  Hidden Folks

  2017 · Adventure

  $14.99 7,608 reviews · 97% positive

• T

  Talisman: Digital Classic Edition

  2014 · Indie

  $6.99 5,550 reviews · 78% positive

• R

  Root

  2020 · Indie

  $14.99 5,037 reviews · 90% positive

• W

  World of Goo

  2008 · Indie

  $14.99 4,835 reviews · 94% positive

• S

  SpaceChem

  2011 · Indie

  $9.99 2,624 reviews · 92% positive