With the Christmas Sale upon us, lets share some hidden gems worth picking up.
I'll start.
 It's All Fucked Shirt $22.14 |
 Ape Out Shirt $21.68 |
It's All Fucked Shirt $22.14 |
Steam Hidden Gems
With the Christmas Sale upon us, lets share some hidden gems worth picking up.
I'll start.
It's All Fucked Shirt $22.14 |
Ape Out Shirt $21.68 |
It's All Fucked Shirt $22.14 |
Not a hidden gem but the entire mass effect trilogy is $6
>requires ea play/origin
6 dollars too much
yeah bro, that great hidden gem, mass effect, no one has heard of it
frick you
nah, frick you leather man
yeah, smartass
>Hidden gems thread
>Not a hidden gem but
i finished it for the first time yesterday and want other anons who haven’t played it to experience it
Shido would never do that to Tohka
Rude
>remake/remaster
Frick off
frick off
You need an EA account for this shit and EA already gave it to me for free, why would I buy it on styeam?
Bioware needs to pay me to play this slop
1 was good. 2 and 3 were just mass appeal garbage
I don't say this nearly enough but 'tis the season. FRICKING have a nice day.
>ME
>hidden
>gem
it's free on goypass
stop it with the shilling already, you pathetic moron
did someone say hidden gems
That ones a fun time. Weird default keybinds, but a nice island vacation that's also a light-Diablo arpg.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1704730/Vacant_Kingdom/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/657060/Himegimi_Detective/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1822230/Kokoro_Clover_Season1/
>kokoro clover
muh homie
play the Spark series
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1629530/Spark_the_Electric_Jester_3/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1079210/Spark_the_Electric_Jester_2/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/601810/Spark_the_Electric_Jester/
I played 3 but I got filtered by the shitty boss fights.
I played 2 or 3 on the Steam Deck a while ago. Liked the game but was very confused by the story (not that it really matters), looked it up, turns out the steam deck didn't play most of the cutscenes kek
Honestly these lack the polish they need to be great. Not bad if you can get the trilogy for $5, but that's the limit of its value.
If its over 1000 reviews, its not fricking hidden
ah shit, I'm sorry anon, here's a good puzzle game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1076070/Alice_and_You_in_the_planet_of_numbers/
I think the 1000-3000 range is fine personally.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1056490/The_World_is_Your_Weapon/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/263400/War_of_the_Human_Tanks/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1056490/The_World_is_Your_Weapon/
Is this actually good beyond the gimmick?
It's not 10/10, but it's a decent sandbox/collectathon sort of game. Kinda similar to One Way Heroics for lack of a better comparison, but not as good probably.
>Is this actually good
You're in a "hidden gems" thread, anon.
The answer is "not really, but you're here because you've played all the 10/10 games and are just after something interesting now".
Sequel to Demon's Tilt, been having a blast with this. Not sure why it's still in early access, the game is feature complete as far as I can tell.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2008980/XENOTILT_HOSTILE_PINBALL_ACTION/
>only one table
Ace Attorney in revolutionary France with talking animals in suits
https://store.steampowered.com/app/384630/Aviary_Attorney/
sounds lolrandom but actually also just a good game. its the only detective game i know of where you can unwittingly help the killer get away and the game just continues. theres real consequences later too.
This game almost never goes on sale and when it does it's still too much.
Seconding on the reccomendation, had fun with the bad endings on cases that let theh game continue and the music placed despite being classical pieces really shines the game up. It's a more janky and simplistic Ace Attorney but has it's own merits. Also the dialogue and inflections of the characters are really neat when i last played it.
for dungeon crawler fans
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1308700/Wizardry_The_Five_Ordeals/
has entire games as dlc and a beta (online only) scenario maker
the discount is not much though
Was looking at these two, anyone tried em?
Sprawl is decent, but I couldn't stand some of the vertical level design. You might have a different experience.
The Blaster Master Zero series is mostly known for Kanna (watermelon tiddy girl), but the games themselves are really fun, the first is a pretty straight remake of the original NES game but 2 and 3 are really cool action platformers
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1034900/Blaster_Master_Zero/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1034910/Blaster_Master_Zero_2/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1588380/Blaster_Master_Zero_3/
>1 sucked
>Keep hearing that 2 is a lot better
>Consider getting it in the sale
>See that there are three DLCs that aren't on sale
>Don't get it
the dlcs are completely irrelevant, two of them are just characters, and one is a minigame that has no relevance on the rest of the game.
>shilling it in a thread specifically for that purpose
>not linking it
I'm not even going to give it the time of day without a link, anon.
I still can't believe this series canonized the unauthorized novel adaptation
I remember that book. I also recall the PS1 game did it first in terms of utilizing book lore. (ps1 game you play as the offspring of the characters from the book)
it's a massive shame they never did the audio version as dlc for the games. I would've paid for that.
A very pleasant surprise.
Does it have levep scaling?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2171630/Return_from_Core/
Core Keeper clone but with cute monster girls
>Advertises monster girls
>Exactly one monster girl hidden near the end of the trailer and that's it
>Early access
What do I drop? Budget is ~25$, but I can push it to $30
Return From Core since the actual sale price is only 10% off. So, if you go back to buy it later the marginal cost of waiting is low.
Hmm, didn't even look at the %, very good point. It is also Early Access too, which makes it a pretty obvious decision. Thanks!
Path of the Abyss is only MTL right now.
read reviews for black skylands, anon. seems like they butchered the game before 1.0 and the screenshots are outdated
2000 char limit is killing me anon. let me finish typing something up
basedanon saving the thread
i highly recommend tametsi, then if you want more 14 minesweeper variants. maybe even duks
aliensrock enjoyer detected
>aliensrock enjoyer detected
good read considering he only played 2 of the games on my list, but yeah I find most of my games through that guy these days
>read reviews for black skylands, anon. seems like they butchered the game before 1.0
Why do devs do this? Reading through the Steam forums, everyone is upset and didn't want these changes to be made, even the discord dick-suckers.
Kirby mixed with Mega Man X
https://store.steampowered.com/app/349250/Copy_Kitty/
looks cool, graphics reminds me of bn transmission, thx for the recc anon
Valkyrie Profile sort of game with a neat story and lots of weird character building, it's also less than a dollar
https://store.steampowered.com/app/575940/The_Tenth_Line/
Nice one, anon.
Why is this kind of gameplay so fricking rare?
Alrite I'll buy it without thinking lol
based
looks cool anon. ill try the demo later
oh that. i tried the demo and it was ok
like aviary attorney was cool for letting you frick up and having that frick up have consequences. tyrion seems to be just an aa homage with ok art, no animations, an admittedly banging ost, but very by the (spell)book cases. its not bad, but at the price its at i cant recommend it. i just bought four good indie/retro games for the price of tyrion at 40% off.
>aa homage with ok art
the art is great
how many games actually have attractive characters in the current year?
if your standard is AAA western shit, maybe. you are in the hidden gems thread.
This was a far better game then I was expecting.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1143810/Black_Skylands/
Could go for some obscure puzzle games if anyone has recommendations
https://store.steampowered.com/app/413580/Reverse_x_Reverse/
www.lorenzostanco.com/lab/steam/u/
you can sort by review count (descending). lets see those libraries anons
>understand, can of wormholes, tametsi, english country tune, recursed, toki tori 2, puzzle agent 1/2, bots are stupid, chessformer, mosa lina
>2000 to 1 a space felony, within a deep forest
>draknek games, zachtronics solitaire collection, the witness + the looker, patricks parabox
>mosa lina
This looks interesting as hell, and I'd never heard of it. Thanks bud.
>Platinum's free game to people who actually buy the original
>9 reviews
Rough.
I found out recently it was on my library, I didnt even know it existed until this week when I bought a game and checked my uncategorized list lol
these are the ones <3k that i actually liked
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1937720/Kamifuda/
>ygo style card game with a campaign and 20 card limit and no roguelite bullshit. gets pretty hard, eventually you have to model your decks around the specific fight. there's an in-universe explanation for this and many other card game bs
https://store.steampowered.com/app/411000/Sorcery_Parts_1_and_2/
possibly the best digital implementation of those CYOA books you had as a child.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/621220/Nantucket/
sid meiers pirates style retelling of moby dick with dice/card based combat and ship upgrades. its a bunch of timers and meters and resources with the occasional story post and combat. the systems arent actually that deep but ok for one run
https://store.steampowered.com/app/709920/Tametsi/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/503400/Four_Last_Things/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/381780/80_Days/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/774201/Heavens_Vault/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1424980/The_Solitaire_Conspiracy/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/251430/The_Inner_World/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/659190/Sorry_James/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/600370/Paradigm/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1131620/Dominion/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/31270/Puzzle_Agent/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/871530/Radio_Commander/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/792100/7_Billion_Humans/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2171690/Handshakes/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/61700/Might__Magic_Clash_of_Heroes/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1265850/Chatventures/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/229810/A_Fistful_of_Gun/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1393820/Prodigal/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/536890/Glittermitten_Grove/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/431940/Wildfire/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1142080/Pawnbarian/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/497780/Recursed/
I can vouch for Prodigal. 2D LoZ style game. But also has relationships. And post-game content.
If you get married before the final boss your wife shows up in spirit to help you beat the shit out of 'em.
Oakley is best girl, but Medusa would take that place if you could romance her...
Based Prodigal gays. Very enjoyable Zeldalike with tons of charm. Dev's other game, Curse Crackers, is also very enjoyable although not a Zelda and is of the platformer genre. Can't wait for their Prodigal dungeon crawler sequel.
The last update made the wives do more things. Get different perks depending on who you bang now.
I have Curse Crackers, didn't realize it was the same dev, huh.
>Last update made the wives do more things. Get different perks depending on who you bang now.
Oh cool, sweet.
I'm also excited for the sequel, but I hope I can marry monster girls this time, too....
>but I hope I can marry monster girls this time, too....
Vorelord in Prodigal was meant to be a romance option but got dropped due to everyone's favorite time constraints.
The sequel is likely not going to have any romance since you're playing Oran who conically definitely married someone, which is probably Keaton. Several options get confirmed dropped due to Curse Crackers lore and all. Plus it has no romance / dating sim tag like the first game did.
>The sequel is likely not going to have any romance
Thats a shame. I'll probably still get it, tho.
>possibly the best digital implementation of those CYOA books you had as a child.
I thought the same way about Roadwarden
>kamifuda
wishlisted
I'll check some ohthers, thanks
roadwarden is pretty great. im a bit sad dev is pivoting into shitty western vns with bad art
but i was talking about adaptations of literal books
>digital implementation of those CYOA books you had as a child.
pretty much roadwarden except instead of set choices you make up your schedule with more freedom which elevates the genre
NOW you said based on actual books, I couldn't guess(and didn't have those in my ESL library as a kid).
I normally don't really get into sokoban-type games but Handshakes is really good. Pretty short but free. Looking forward to the next one.
cheers bro
what have you played anon? which ones did you like
picrel is my takeaway from the thread. thanks to all anons for the good recs
Obra dinn, golden idol, both detective grimoire games, unheard and outer wilds. I couldn't finish paradise killers, I just found it tedious
>paradise killer
aint that the fricking truth. that game was a ubislop-tier open world collectathon but for some reason people think its a detective game
if you dont mind weebshit, you can try
>ace attorney trilogy
>ace attorney investigations 1/2
>999
if you do hate japanese people,
>aviary attorney
>orient express
if you want more cinematic games.
>la noire
>sherlock holmes crime and punishment
>a case of distrust
if you liked the exploration and worldbuilding aspects of outer wilds, maybe try
>heavens vault
>sunless seas
>sunless skies
if you want the more weird ones,
>interrogation
>her story
>immortality
>contradiction
>2000 to 1 a space felony
these are shit, but people bring them up especially on the weeb side of things. they are aggressively bad as opposed to mildly mediocre like most games i didnt mention.
>danganronpa
>higurashi
>utawaetcetera
>pentiment
>disco elysium (good game, bad detective mechanics)
all that said you've already played the top 3 detective games of the past decade, so temper your expectations. obra dinn and golden idol are just peak mechanics and execution
Wow thanks for the indepth list anon. I will definitely check most of these out
Same with Paradise Killer
90% of time is spent traversing the incredibly empty and pointlessly oversized map.
Nice tower defense/city builder animu game. I will continue to shill it in hopes the player count gets high enough the devs fix the achievements not working.
Wasn't this dub only?
Dub and sub on steam
I can't get this game to run on my computer.
buy it on gog
Does anyone remember a puzzle game about rabbits that's like the farfetch'd minigame in hgss? I've been looking for it but I can't find it
finally found it
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1628610/?snr=1_5_9__205
>oh that looks kind of interesting
>let me take a look at the deve-
>troon
Didn't need to look them up to see this red flag
thanks, now I don't have to bother picking up this garbage
Trueee. I've got a good rec for you though. Alex Jones released a real based and redpilled flash game. It's pretty cheap too. Been getting high on ivermectine and owning the libs by playing that 24/7 this past month.
Thanks, buying it for myself and my entire group
Consider the libs owned
STASIS Bone Totem,only 12 euros,hurry babes!!
genuinely good game.
They are really small team of two brothers,one is artist the other programmer + one writer/composer.
They tend to response to every post on steam lol.
I gave them suggestion for new game in terms of setting: Ocultism/Vampires/Conspiracies and they responded with "vampires hm"
That looks pretty cool.
I already played Lulu Farea.
I didn't bother with Lulu or the sequel because I wasn't sure how much game it actually was since it's technically a porn game. Is it actually worth playing for the gameplay?
They're both solid as puzzle games, though the first game's true ending is extremely unforgiving, you basically need a perfect run to get it without cheating.
The story in the second game fricking sucks though, it's a really disappointing sequel in that regard. Also don't get the official English release, it's massively cut down both in general content and in removing H-scenes, you need to get the fan TL.
Good info. I'd say give this one a shot, it took about 50 hours for a full run and the story wound up being more interesting than I'd ever give a 3 dollar game credit for.
Trailer looks cool as frick, thanks for putting this out.
Any Disgaea-Likes you gents can recommend?
Maybe some Dorf Fort/Rimworld games with an active modding community?
>Disgaea-Likes
Siralim Ultimate if you can stomach the graphics.
Anon is so far down the grindan hole that he can't even differentiate between games that look and play nothing like each other anymore.
Songs of Syx is by far my favorite colony game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1477330/Soulestination/
It's weird. It's Engrish. It's sort of a puzzle game. It's a little bit of meta puzzles. Play it.
Fate Samurai Remnant or Wo Long?
Most likely Wo Long for gameplay, not sure about the other one.
honestly wo long is dogshit. either get fate or just replay nioh 2
OR get jack garland's game
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2059660/Cavern_of_Dreams/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2575900/Corn_Kidz_64/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/269650/Dex/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1139160/Divided_Reigns/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1830040/False_Skies/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1338940/Head_AS_Code/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/257690/JULIA_Among_the_Stars/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/506510/Shadows_of_Adam/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1289810/Siralim_Ultimate/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/336140/Unavowed/
No one is going to go through your dumps of a dozen games with zero explanation, morons
why not make a separate posts for each?
Why are you just dumping this garbage here? The goal is the discussion
You're the first to ever complain about such a specific issue. I'll keep on as I've been doing.
Not exactly complaining but stating the fact, that's just low-effort shit
Frick you I like his post
I need anime detective games, or mystery
Tyrion Cuthbert?
Yea that works, anything more traditional japanese horror?
some of these might be obvious but here goes
>Astalon: Tears of the Earth
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1046400/Astalon_Tears_of_the_Earth/
Charming metroidvania with character swapping gimmick. I don't know if I would put it at the top of the genre but it's pretty good overall.
>Endoparasitic
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2124780/Endoparasitic/
You play as a dude who has three of his limbs cut off and you have to crawl around with one arm. You do everything with one hand - move, grab items, shoot guns, reload bullets, etc. Really unique game, sometimes frustrating.
>Heaven Dust 1 and 2
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1032590/Heaven_Dust/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1515900/Heaven_Dust_2/
What would otherwise be a shameless Chinese Resident Evil clone is made a lot more interesting because it's top-down. Solid level design and puzzles, repetitive combat (somewhat improved in 2).
>Hexcells, Hexcells Plus, Hexcells Infinite
https://store.steampowered.com/sub/50074/
A much better version of Minesweeper IMO. Zero guessing required, and a lot more mechanics. The first game is straightforward, Plus is where it gets hard, and Infinite has a random puzzle generator. Make sure to play them in order. You can get all three for $2.69.
>Kero Blaster
https://store.steampowered.com/app/292500/Kero_Blaster/
Somehow has less than 1k reviews despite having the same dev as Cave Story. It's a fun sidescroller shooter with all the charm and polish you'd expect from Studio Pixel. Play this shit!
>Lucah: Born of a Dream
https://store.steampowered.com/app/896460/Lucah_Born_of_a_Dream/
Probably my most controversial recommendation. The graphics are literal scribbles and the underlying themes would piss off a lot of people here. However I recommend it to anyone who's interested in strong experiences. While the presentation is crude, it often works to the game's advantage. The action combat is simple but pretty satisfying. The story is ambiguous and often very dark.
>the underlying themes would piss off a lot of people here
So it has trannies?
It's never outright stated by the game but yes, it's about LGBT people and dealing with repression and all the feelings involved. The story is told in such a way that you have to connect the dots but it becomes very obvious if you're paying attention at all. It's very dark and brings up suicide, abuse, self-harm, etc.
Aside from the themes, the way it's structured is pretty close to NieR. There's lots of visual novel segments mixed in with action gameplay, and you replay the game multiple times.
Oh no it's definitely what I'm saying, the dev has been open about it. That's not to say it's not also about what you're saying though.
Also I didn't say I didn't like the artstyle, it works for what it's trying to do. Honestly impressive that a dev with no art experience was able to use the presentation so effectively.
Thank you anon.
>Oh no it's definitely what I'm saying, the dev has been open about it.
I know what ideas and themes the Dev was building it around. But that doesn't mean that's what all players will get from the game personally. If you didn't tell anyone it's specifically about that and they just played it like I did, it wouldn't be an in your face situation that would instantly click. It's broad enough that you could just take it as say only being about religion and anxiety for example.
All I'm saying is that your framing it in such a bad light here.
That might be a fair criticism, it was obvious to me personally. Ganker just has so many schizos lately that I just assume they'd immediately jump to that and hyperfocus on it.
It's not like you lied or anything, it's just a very subjective game that many different types of people can derive their own meaning from. Like it's not a game specifically about those people, just the feelings behind it so to speak.
Where are the games for lonely hetero men dealing with suicide, abuse, self-harm, etc.?
I'm sure there's a visual novel out there for you.
I haven't played it but apparently that "Snoot game" about dating female dinosaurs makes people feel feelings.
I'm curious what are your top 10 considering you were able to look very deep into this game with a bunch of scribbles apparently being the background of it..
Honestly I'm not a good person to ask about games that deal with straight male loneliness/self-harm/etc. I'm not even joking that there is surely a VN out there for you, I just don't know which one it is. I'm sure someone out there knows.
Hello Charlotte is for you, anon. The demo on steam is just the first game for free.
Narcissus too will make you feel things.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/322290/Gurumin_A_Monstrous_Adventure/
I was going to say Yume Miru Kusuri but honestly even though it brings up those themes its handling of them is juvenile.
S&S is good but I wouldn't say it's good at being a metroidvania when it only has four brands and only two of them are actual mobility upgrades.
Death's Gambit was decent after the major overhaul update but your taste is still all kinds of moronic; The Last Faith was pathetic.
The Last Faith is mid, but it's not straight up bad and UGLY like S&S
Nice, you won't regret it. It's a surprisingly really well-made game. It's a huge shame that English speaking players are probably in the single digit.
Actual Sunlight. I recall this game was completely neglected by the dipshits who whiteknighted Depression Quest.
It's a theme in Disco Elysium, but admittedly one which gets put in the backburner by all the shitload of other heady themes.
Boku no Pico
One last one:
>Who's Lila
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1697700/Whos_Lila/
Game where you play as a psychopath and have to manually arrange his face to show the appropriate emotions. Got some attention at NextFest. Very interesting game, not too long but has multiple endings.
STOP MENTIONING HER YOU FOOL, IT ONLY MAKES HER STRONGER
Can you just spoil the underlying themes of Lucah for me?
The concept seems cool but did they have to make the view range so small? It's like a fricking GBA game.
The view range is probably intentional because it's meant to be claustrophobic, the whole game is about making moment-to-moment decisions.
The dev is making/made a game in the same style that is slightly better, but uses the same style of movement/combat system, called Neural Rot, its shorter and a collab game, but I think its free? On itch
Yeah, but at the same time its got a great sense of style, good music in the trailer too. I can deal with mtl in porn, if its too much I'll go back to Duolingo to learn jap.
PotA being MTL is kind of a big deal because the game doesn't explain jack shit about how it works.
Let me give you a brief explanation:
Basically, you have MP and Morale, which is MP but for physical attacks. You need to assign your party's active abilities (including regular attacks) to a 3x3 grid. Each ability has a morale/mana cost, meaning if you go over your limit in the grid, they will all become unusable. It's actually a bit deeper than that, but you can figure it out from there.
Some skills, like buffs, don't have a real cost, but a percentage one, so for example, attack formation gives +30ish% attack to the entire party, but it costs 35% of your total morale, it's very steep and it will remain steep the entire game through.
Now, each morale/mana pool is shared for the entire party, but they're individual to each other. What this means is that you want a balanced party, because otherwise everyone will depend on mana/morale and the other pool will go unused.
In combat, your pools will start at whatever amount you have left So if you have 120 morale but slotted 80 points worth of skills onto the 3x3, you'd start with 40, and each attack will cost it's actual cost to use, but these pools regen relatively fast, so as long as you didn't go 119/120 you should be fine.
As for progression, there's barely any, but I'd recommend you don't waste any time on the sewers beyond the bare minimum because it gives shit exp and money, and you will need all the cash you can get to ID and sleep.
>and the underlying themes would piss off a lot of people here.
The themes are kind of different for everyone because they're vague enough to be interpreted different ways and it has multiple ways the events can go iirc, so it's more of just a story that only appeals to people who generally experience stuff like anxiety or mental disorders. Anyone who typically likes stuff such as Yume Nikki, Milk Outside a bag of Milk, Hello Charlotte or similar titles would probably like it. The thing you're mentioning wasn't really the focus if I am recalling correctly and just a way to hammer in the other themes, but I could be wrong.
Also frick you the artstyle is great.
Cosigning my homie anon on Heaven Dust. It's RE but cute and it works. I've got 2 in my cart now, been waiting for a sale to grab it, hope it's larger in scale.
I'm interested in that Kowloon High-School Chronicle game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/399640/Flamebreak/
This is one of my favourite rogueslops. It kinda looks like shit but the gameplay/mechanics are great.
>kinda looks like shit
To be honest, this game already looked like shit back in 2016.
I still can't believe Falcom put this much effort into a game for the N-gage.
Okay puzzle fans
Pretty good programmer puzzler
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1952740/Infinite_Turtles/
Very creative sokoban game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1492620/Jelly_Is_Sticky/
Good solitaire variants (even if you own all the zachtronics game this is worth it for the one new hardcore variant)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1988540/The_Zachtronics_Solitaire_Collection/
A mouse walks through a platformer level, you place obstacles to get him through
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1717570/Pompom/
The witness, but just the line puzzles
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1299400/Understand/
Also here's some nearly next year with godlike demos
Sokoban-ish with big variety of mechanics and sleek GBC artstyle
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1233070/Isles_of_Sea_and_Sky/
Design a level that takes as long as possible for a bot with pathfinding to beat
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2402170/Veggie_Quest_The_Puzzle_Game/
>veggie quest
cool concept but dear lord these graphics
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2121980/Void_Stranger/
From the devs who made ZeroRanger. Sokoban with autism heavy secrets.
ive been looking for someone to scratch my 'Reassembly' itch, anyone played any of these? are they good?
Starmancer is great but devs are slow
cosmoteer feels a bit barebones to me
https://store.steampowered.com/app/767930/Assault_Spy/
low budget, janky but charming DMC/Bayonetta clone
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1272160/The_Life_and_Suffering_of_Sir_Brante/
if you ever played that classic life sim Alter Ego, this is basically that in a dark fantasy setting
based
also pretty based
we dont know the home situation anon. it is sad that they gave up but they probably felt like they didnt have a choice. they were getting good numbers too.
ive seen a few games rip off luftrausers but none of them hit. vlambeer simply too strong
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1601970/Tunguska_The_Visitation/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/368340/CrossCode/
CrossCode for $6 is an insanely good deal
I wouldn't call this a hidden gem but it is a good game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/204450/Call_of_Juarez_Gunslinger/
Classic cowboy shooter that goes all-in on the pulpy shootouts and saturated colors. The other Calls of Juarez were not as good.
I don't really care about FPS games but I remember playing the shit out of this. The skill tree can make your character broken as frick it's so fun. Also love the storytelling in this game, a bit on the wacky side but not overbearingly so.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/913060/Jet_Lancer/
High speed action game with aerial tank controls. The writing is fricking horrible but the gameplay is tight the presentation is great.
What the actual FRICK happened to Peaks of Yore between the demo and the final release? Demo was 10/10 but now I feel like my hands are constantly fricking phasing through rocks, and I can slide them around all over the goddamn place and they just refuse to grab handholds if they'd contacted a surface.
Super fricking disappointed with the level gimmicks in some of the final levels too.
RPG with multiple endings and a banger of a soundtrack. The protagonist is unashamedly an abrasive butthole. The art gave me a bad first impression but it's animated really well which makes the battles extra satisfying and it has a number of cool setpieces. The story has multiple endings based on choices and hits the emotional notes well.
There are a few points where it veers into kind of obnoxious quirky writing but at the same time it delivers the serious dialogue really well and has a lot of charm to that; overall it's solid and the world has a lot of autistic detail to it.
Whoops, forgot the link
https://store.steampowered.com/app/920320/Virgo_Versus_The_Zodiac/
I played it on Switch. It's pretty decent but the gameplay gets REALLY repetitive, especially after you've gotten the "best" setup. nice plot twist thougheverbeit.
Can second Virgo's game. Does not hesitate to go all-out from moment one. The OST has no business being that good.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/203510/Fortune_Summoners/
Obligatory Fortune Summoners mention at 80% off.
It's a cute 2D RPG platformer that's quite challenging due to its AI. Good animations, consistent graphical style, responsive combat, etc.; it's clearly a work of love worth a try at least.
>recommending game that doesn't work properly
why
>he doesn't know
Oh I do know, I tried playing this game several times over years and every attempt ended up in failure.
There is a japanese version updated on Steam, the translated version is fricking DEAD and there is no reason to shill it here.
I didn't actually know, I just wanted to bait someone into posting a fix if one exists.
Don't buy censored games published by people who hate you
Also the enemy input reading is cancerous
are the other games on steam (Recettear and Chantelise) also broken and censored?
recettear is ok and chantelise just sucks.
Fortune summoners is their biggest game, sadly its stuck in this state forever.
are either of them censored on steam?
also is the jp version of fortune summoner worth picking up?
I have no idea about censorship.
>jp version
Well do you know japanese? FS has plenty of text
The Japanese version with the Deluxe Edition patch from their website is the best way to play the game since it adds widescreen support and voice acting and a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting. There's no such patch for the English version. The patch link doesn't seem to work anymore though and the patch on archive.org is 1.4 when the latest was 1.6. An anon's re-uploaded it here:
https://mega.nz/folder/kA4iQY6K#eURBSM0JLxu_CH6telTSVw
Anyway, hope you know Japanese. It's a fantastic game. Just don't play on Hard.
>widescreen support
Scratch that. Just higher 4:3 resolutions. It doesn't add widescreen. Still, more resolution is better.
Don't sexualize little girls. It's pretty easy if you're not a literal pedophile
This level of censorship is just asanine. Those girls aren't even being sexualized and their chests are blank to start with. It's the people that felt the need to put towels around them that are viewing them sexually.
Ty for warning us
Can you uncensor the game or something? This is just sad.
>still no Kiritan update
it's over
Umineko has the best story I've ever read
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/5465/Umineko_When_They_Cry_Complete_Collection/
>I have read one story
kek
999 will blow your mind anon
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1937720/Kamifuda/
>ygo style card game with a campaign and 20 card limit and no roguelite bullshit. gets pretty hard, eventually you have to model your decks around the specific fight. there's an in-universe explanation for this and many other card game bs
https://store.steampowered.com/app/411000/Sorcery_Parts_1_and_2/
possibly the best digital implementation of those CYOA books you had as a child.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/621220/Nantucket/
sid meiers pirates style retelling of moby dick with dice/card based combat and ship upgrades. its a bunch of timers and meters and resources with the occasional story post and combat. the systems arent actually that deep but ok for one run
https://store.steampowered.com/app/503400/Four_Last_Things/
quirky point and click whose artstyle is a literal pastiche of renaissance art. pokes fun at christian beliefs but im one and i didnt feel overly offended. actually funny besides
https://store.steampowered.com/app/381780/80_Days/
steampunk 80 days. streamlined resource management. reading heavy game. theres lots of routes you can take and stuff you can do in each location
https://store.steampowered.com/app/774201/Heavens_Vault/
closest game to outer wilds, in terms of free exploration, fleshed out locations, and deeply interconnected world that makes sense. 90% brown people tho if that matters to you
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1424980/The_Solitaire_Conspiracy/
solitaire+ with some new rules. a campaign, great art and presentation. almost too much. should be pretty cheap too
https://store.steampowered.com/app/251430/The_Inner_World/
comfy well animated logical point and click.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/600370/Paradigm/
quirky point and click. contains the undisputable best freestyle beatbox solo in all of gaming. you should probably look it up on youtube and if the art and humor clicks for you maybe get the game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1131620/Dominion/
free online digital adaptation of classic card game. this game is known for basically inventing the concept of deckbuilding in tabletop games. everything runs smooth, base game is free and you can buy expansions
https://store.steampowered.com/app/31270/Puzzle_Agent/
layton for people who dont know/want to emulate. always very cheap too. funny unapologetically canadian voice acting
https://store.steampowered.com/app/871530/Radio_Commander/
you have a map, some models, and a radio. you use these and voice commands to issue orders to boots on the ground and receive sitreps. bought this game to practice my english speaking skills but realized im still too shy to shout shit into a mic lmao
https://store.steampowered.com/app/61700/Might__Magic_Clash_of_Heroes/
my 'frick you i liked it' entry. its match 3 rpg with a campaign and upgradable units, puzzle fights, funnily enough my only exposure to HoMM
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1265850/Chatventures/
the input parsing method of early MUDs and zork in a wow-based mmo. surprisingly compelling
https://store.steampowered.com/app/229810/A_Fistful_of_Gun/
arcadey dual stick shooter. every character handles differently. you can play with or against your homies, but online multiplayer seems unstable. theres campaign, arcade, and endless mode.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1393820/Prodigal/
zelda with no fights. romance that feels shoehorned in because art guy wanted to draw the girls in wedding dresses. if that sounds based you'll probably like this
https://store.steampowered.com/app/536890/Glittermitten_Grove/
lenny face
https://store.steampowered.com/app/431940/Wildfire/
2d stealth game with elemental powers and upgrades. you can hide in tall grass or burn it, douse torches, eventually straight up burn guards to death.
now for the puzzle ghetto
https://store.steampowered.com/app/709920/Tametsi/
minesweeper/nonograms. weirdly well paced difficulty curve for a puzzle game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/792100/7_Billion_Humans/
assembly programming game. its all visual and tactile so it actually shouldnt be too hard to get into for non-programmers. decent art style, good difficulty curve.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2171690/Handshakes/
free puzzle game about giving and receiving handshakes. makes for a good couple hours
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1142080/Pawnbarian/
puzzle roguelite game based on chess pieces. imo better than the other one which gives zero shits about balance
https://store.steampowered.com/app/497780/Recursed/
recursive puzzle game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/207570/English_Country_Tune/
3d puzzle game where you move cubes like in EDGE. very very hard.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/659190/Sorry_James/
puzzle game with a meta-story that gets completely derailed by the shitty translation. decent puzzles
https://store.steampowered.com/app/220780/Thomas_Was_Alone/
this has ~4k reviews but i feel like most of that was journo hype in the early 2010s. people dont know about it nowadays. its a well polished comfy puzzle game with a decent story, good music, and a british narrator. thats all you needed back in those days
its one of those heavily rules based magic systems anon. every mage has a rulebook explaining how every spell works and they cant deviate from that. the conceit of the game is still wordplay, clever use of common tools, and a heavy dose of AA bullshit
>thomas was alone
it's been literally over a decade since i played this, and the only things i remember from it are beating it in under an hour and it being fairly pretentious.
i don't even know if reviews were a thing back then, but if they weren't it would've been a thumbs down from me.
honestly fair. it wasnt particularly hard, long or subtle. it might be funny now with the vastly changed perception of AI
>Notice: Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes is no longer available on the Steam store.
thanks a lot Ubisoft, you c**ts
they made a remaster
Does this version have the PS3 sprites as an option?
moron chuunigay
Any underrated RPG with a good sense of exploration?
Ys8
>b-b-but it's not underra-
every japanese game is underrated
Undertale
https://store.steampowered.com/app/705280/Hakoniwa_Explorer_Plus/
unironically, the exploration is the best part of it
or of course https://store.steampowered.com/app/650670/Grimoire__Heralds_of_the_Winged_Exemplar_V2/
Chained Echoes
>Chained Echoes
>good exploration
lol, lmao
that's before you get a flying ship and robots
It still does the exact same shit after you get those, you literally can't go anywhere the game doesn't want you to yet. Even if you were to grind the frick out of the robots to beat the beasts in Perpetua to get past them into the bonus forest area you aren't allowed in until you complete a different side quest much later in the game.
Chained Echoes is one of the most linear "J"RPGs I've ever played.
What does good exploration even mean
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1830040/False_Skies/
End of dyeus is the first fantasy game since Oblivion that I enjoyed exploring. it's like 2D Zelda mixed with Elder Scrolls. it's not on sale though so pirate it. Make sure to grab the bow from a chest guarded by a pack of enemies near to the starting point though because the game is a tad too difficult without a range weapon. it's within a 30 second walk of the starting point in the woods in a gilded chest.
Voidspire Tactics
https://store.steampowered.com/app/415920/Voidspire_Tactics/
and
Horizons Gate
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1224290/Horizons_Gate/
same dev, games are exploration focused
hg if you want pirates, vt if you dont
also one of my favorites last year. so if you like space
Starcom Nexus
https://store.steampowered.com/app/863590/Starcom_Nexus/
there's also a sequel but it's early access
I pirated this game a long time ago and enjoyed it up until I reached a boss that did an instant death spell. I got filtered and just stopped playing. That boss was pretty nuts. Maybe I should pick it up again.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1116880/The_Heroic_Legend_of_Eagarlnia/
Grand strategy game that's just Nobunaga's Ambition in 2D but you can also send your heroes to adventures along with usual town management.
Full Bore is a nice non-linear puzzle-platformer with a surprisingly interesting backstory.
Ittle Dew is a 2D Zelda clone and fairly funny to boot. There's a sequel but I haven't played it.
Card City Nights is a casual card game from the same devs as Ittle Dew, among others. Also has a sequel I haven't played yet.
La-Mulana might not be really hidden but should always be recommended.
Echo of the Wilds is a survival adventure from the age before roguelite-mania.
Nom Nom Galaxy is fun as frick, a casual but extremely polished and whimsical Terraria.
If you like Ace Attorney / Lawyer game this game is a must play
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1590230/Tyrion_Cuthbert_Attorney_of_the_Arcane/
Sequel's also coming soonTM
>Ace Attorney but with magic
I can't see such a premise having satisfying mysteries unless it goes to great lengths to define the rules of magic in advance.
Every AA has magic hehe.
?
AceAttorney is full of magical bullshit
5 cases with a conclusive story
You have my interest. How many cases does this first entry go?
Ancient esoteric JRPG. There's an english patch in the community hub
https://store.steampowered.com/app/335420/_/
I wish there was a way to actually search the steam store for games limited by language; I love digging up random Japanese-only shit no one's heard of and has no translation.
Problem with Steam is searching by "Japanese" for example will also get you any game that has both English and Japanese, with no way to exclude the English part. Makes finding hidden gems, or just hidden garbage, that much harder.
Oregon Trail but pirates
https://store.steampowered.com/app/657690/The_Caribbean_Sail/
Xanadu Next is great. Anons, all of you, check out Dragon Slayer II: Xanadu/Revival Xanadu too. I played it before Next and there were some details I appreciated about Next that I wouldn't have otherwise.
Play Affogato
fun reverse tower defense with cool girls
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1983970/Affogato/
>15% only
https://store.steampowered.com/app/564150/Rosenkreuzstilette/
If you like Mega Man, this game and its sequel are ~2 bucks a pop. Pretty high quality doujinsoft clone games
Freudia best girl
Play vengeful guardian moonrider
Sekiro but 2D sidescrolling
very fun and fast paced action
2 unique playable characters with their own story
50% Discount
well worth the cheap price
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1120810/Eastern_Exorcist/
anyone got any retro-style platformer recs?
Is Dave the Diver actually good?
Disclaimed: I hate Dredge
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868140/DAVE_THE_DIVER/
Bat Boy
For 2D / Gameboy style, Curse Crackers.
If you like classic Castlevania:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/319480/Odallus_The_Dark_Call/
gravity circuit
rusted moss is really good. challenging but not in a bullshit way and it is paced incredibly well
Metroidvania with aimable gun(s). Works incredibly well with KBM. Decent selection of weapon types and upgrades. Grappling hook mechanics and momentum. Lots of fairy lore.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1772830/Rusted_Moss/
The demo was cool but then I got the full game and found out that by the end of the demo I'd already experienced everything the game had to offer.
I don't like the grappling hook aspect, like SANABI.
also she looks so cute in the promo art but her pixel sprite looks nothing like that.
The lab was one of the most cancerous areas I've ever had to deal with in a game.
Got proper tilted with that area, and not just because of the absolute brutality. It was before a patch or two and regularly crashed as I was starting to git gud at fleeing the jizz monster firing rebar.
I need hidden gems that are full of action from start to finish, now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/792120/FIGHT_KNIGHT/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2353040/Lethal_Application/
Both of these have some of the best final bosses in video games. Also Lethal Application is free.
>Lethal Application is free
Sold. 100% down to launch myself around with heavy weaponry.
Fight Knight is fricking God tier and deserves success. It's good, buy it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2081310/TOBOR/
Bizarre mystery game based around watching a group of creatures living in a complex and reporting information about them to your unknown superior. All about piecing together what's going on.
>10% off
I'll see you again in the summer sale thread.
Hey man, it's a hidden gems thread, not a christmas sale thread.
FRICK, already blew my money earlier after I was warned about the airship game. Welp, its on the list.
Vouching for Fight Knight, absolute shame about what happened with the dev's schizo ex crashing and ruining his games launch
>Sicking psychic birds on her to brainwash her and her family
And Twitter went along with it, lol.
You know, somehow funding AJ's crack addiction actually sounds like a better choice than funding a troon's chub chopping
>somehow funding AJ's crack addiction actually sounds like a better choice than funding a troon's chub chopping
Now whats this crack addiction stuff about?
The source is that I made it the frick up
You should have said his shemale porn addiction
Whoops, wrong reply. My b
Yeah that shit about Fight Knight was absolutely fricking insane. They literally had people going around tweeting the entire "abuse" shit to all the youtubers that were interested in the game and most of them dropped it. It would've easily sold like 10x what it did without people literally slandering the dude. There's no justice in this world.
Anything I should remove?
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is overrated as frick. Aragami is extremely jank. Lone Survivor is just bad. That's about it.
alright then
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
I don't know how that garbage went viral, but that shit is garbage.
Beacon Pines, like 60% of the game is its demo, and branches in story shrink drastically after the point where you pick up from the demos end. Good story game, but not really worth it tbh.
If you're into escape horror game, then you should get this
I was looking into that but I wasn't sure since the first game was badly rated
I have no idea if you can play this without knowing the story
>game with sexy anime girls and tons of fanservice
>badly rated
What did you expect?
westoids must virtue signal. they aren't allowed to like games like that.
>game with sexy anime girls and tons of fanservice
>badly rated
It's usually the opposite on Steam.
gibbous has good art and ok music but the story, the voice acting, and the puzzles are all pretty meh
lone survivor overuses chromatic aberration to hide scripted events and shitty survival mechanics.
Any 3D games with cool exploration?
I hear Northern Journey is good
Anything that isn't indieshit? Like trails in the sky? Catherine?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/889600/The_Caligula_Effect_Overdose/
Anon this is the Steam hidden gems thread, it's gonna be all indies.
If you want Steam games that aren't "indie" yet somehow went completely under the radar there's The Wonderful 101.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1190400/The_Wonderful_101_Remastered/
The toy-like character designs and unconventional/gimmicky gameplay aren't to everyone's tastes but I legit think it's a great game. And it's not a Pikmin clone or anything, it's very much an action game, it just rethinks some of the fundamentals.
Wonderful 101 is a lot of fun especially once you know what you're doing but I've never played a game before that felt so strongly like the dev was wrestling for the controller and saying "no, not like that, like this!". Especially all the little setpieces and gimmicks, I felt like I got wrong and died on them the first time, every single time.
If you want Wonderful 101 for PC, the Silent Patch is mandatory: https://cookieplmonster.github.io/mods/w101/
The game had framerate issues from the get-go due to some bad coding and this is an easy fix.
A hidden gem I never hear mentioned is Nowhere Patrol. If you like side-scrolling boss rush shooters in a similar vein to Cuphead, Nowhere Patrol is a criminally neglected game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/961660/Nowhere_Patrol/
The weapons aren't well balanced and the soundtrack doesn't have many tracks, but the visuals are great and the gameplay is on point. Most notably, bosses have additional and much harder phases if you beat them the first time without getting hit and these bonus phases are pretty fun. It gives the game a lot of longevity if perfectionism is your thing.
The guy who made this is making a new game called Aromahertz that looks pretty good, so check that out too when it comes out sometime next year.
I don't think Catherine is hidden but I loved it. It had style for days and the climbing exposed me as a moron. It felt like I only survived the puzzles rather than defeating them.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/410670/Suits_A_Business_RPG/?curator_clanid=33017472
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1210230/Suits_Absolute_Power/?curator_clanid=33017472
These are a couple of fun little rpgs that are very cheap.
can someone give me good non-sex games with big boobs?
Omega labyrinth life.
It's pretty fun too, if you're into mystery dungeon games.
any game made by Qureate
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34134139-qureate/
too small
Isometric 2d sp Tarkov with quests and shit a la Stalker , EA but with a lot of content - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1782120/ZERO_Sievert/
the Hammerwatch series has a few entries now, 1&2 play like gauntlet games with leveling skills and killing hordes of enemies, Heroes a tad like a nu-roguelike. - https://store.steampowered.com/app/677120/Heroes_of_Hammerwatch/
a Metroidvania that was released before the genre became "mainstream" in the indie scene, so nobody has played it, it's more about bossfighting and executing combos than surviring and exploring, cool scenery and lovely music. - https://store.steampowered.com/app/252030/Valdis_Story_Abyssal_City/
A janky but surprisingly competent classic rpg reminiscent of the old classics, it has a standalone expansion now.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/552620/ATOM_RPG_Postapocalyptic_indie_game/
a Roguelike in a DnDesque setting.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2125420/Zorbus/
a Spellforce entry that plays like a 4x game, you play as a wizard and you're specialized in either alchemy, enchanting or necromancy, or you can mix and match the perks of the tree and make your own class, i poured around 200 hrs into this.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1581770/SpellForce_Conquest_of_Eo/
HoF is a deck building game, you play, unlock encounters, gears, monsters and bosses, make your deck and progress the story, the combat is eh, but it has a charming atmosphere, i'd recommend this if you like reading and/or enjoyed the old ass rpg gamebooks.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/456670/Hand_of_Fate_2/
or the ninja saviours
Any cool tactics RPGs/ RTS you'd recommend?
I really liked Saint Kotar, this little Croatian point and click horror game. Really spooky atmosphere
ima give it a shot then
I really liked serious sam and I been wanting spooky p&cs without the death from clicking or not fast enough on older games
dude it's crazy, I've never seen anyone talk about it but I beat the game and it's genuinely really great, and I don't remember many places where it was difficult to figure out what to do
theres tons of point and click games almost no one talks about
it's absurd
yea but I mean, EVEN IN the point and click threads
I have never seen anyone mention Agent A: A puzzle in disguise in any point and click thread
everything on this list has less than 50 reviews
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2306380/Sally_Cant_Sleep/
26 reviews - first person collectathon platformer. janky and kinda low fidelity, but packs a lot of content. great sense of humour, super creative visuals and level design, lots of different movement-based powerups that you unlock over the course of the game, and a whole bunch of secret levels tucked away in tricky places
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2004670/Frebbventure/
26 reviews - arcadey 2D platformer with a frickload of content. lots of levels, multiple different playable characters with multiple variants each, nice pixel art visuals, and an unironically great narrative
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2119100/Faraway_Proximity/
8 reviews - short 3D puzzle game. neat visuals and plot, based around figuring out the mechanics of each individual puzzle "level"
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2536120/Mousey/
10 reviews - 3D collectathon platformer, cheap even at full price, controls kinda like sly cooper but collecting stuff in open-ended levels
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2325040/DETUNED/
6 reviews - "anti-rhythm hidden-object roguelike". very unique game where you switch between paper cutout dioramas trying to collect hidden pearls and avoid damage. hard to explain, also cheap
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2380810/INTERNULL/
15 reviews - first person exploration game based around exploring an abandoned office and a parallel virtual world using an (in-game) roomscale VR headset. not actually a VR game
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/691240/Going_Nowhere_The_Dream/
29 reviews - unique first person exploration platformer. visuals are kinda shitty and the "main game" is short, but you're meant to boundary break and explore where other games would have invisible walls, which is where most of the playtime is
>Interull
>release in May
>No sale despite winter sale
Huh.
more
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/304850/Worlds/
57 reviews - 3D narrative stealth-adventure game. another game with a lot of content, feels older than it actually is. has a bunch of varied sometimes open-ended sometimes linear worlds to explore, with secrets that unlock new areas and affect the narrative
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2284460/TraumaCore_Violence/
22 reviews - satisfying and fast-paced 2D spectacle fighter with a harsh, abrasive aesthetic
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1005450/Vision_Soft_Reset/
89 reviews - 2D time loop metroidvania with a 20 minute (i think, i don't remember) time limit. you create a "tree" of timelines that you can jump between at any checkpoint, with some powerups transferring between time lines and some only applying to the time line where you found it
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2368860/Paws_of_Coal/
46 reviews - 2D branching narrative game about a kingdom of anthro animals undergoing an industrial revolution and its sociopolitical repercussions. short and janky and buggy as frick it's actually a prelude to another game called "trip the ark fantastic". writing and visuals are good, as are the detective mechanics
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2411590/SWOLLEN_TO_BURSTING_UNTIL_I_AM_DISAPPEARING_ON_PURPOSE/
70 reviews - eerie comedy exploration game satirising life in a small british town. doesn't have any combat, progress is gated by puzzles and narrative
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2158900/Automaton_Lung/
63 reviews - surreal open-ended 3D platformer, apparently one of the last games released for the nintendo DS. looks unusual on a high resolution display, giving it an uncanny "i shouldn't be here" feel as though you were exploring deep out of bounds in a PS2 game
I will not buy your game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1262350/SIGNALIS/
Extremely atmospheric top-down survival horror with tight resource and inventory management. Has a great mindfrick story that's interesting to put together.
>hidden gem
moron
>over 5 years of development
>3 user reviews
lmao
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491660/Nefastos_Misadventure_Meeting_Noeroze/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1251850/Inferno__Beyond_the_7th_Circle/
horror themed wizardry style dungeon crawler
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1717020/Ed0_Zombie_Uprising/
samurai vs zombie action roguelike, janky but fun
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1570510/Undernauts_Labyrinth_of_Yomi/
another wizardry style game, but modern day mercs exploring the underworld
>store.steampowered.com/app/1717020/Ed0_Zombie_Uprising/
Reading about how this game was a massive flop was interesting, I remember the dev/publisher doing everything wrong with the marketing by trying to get youtubers/streamers to shill the game.
I want to get into dungeon crawlers, what ones should I get on sale?
Grimrock 2 is basically the pinnacle of the genre. Not exactly a hidden gem, but it's probably the best starting place.
Grimrock 1 and 2 are shit. Boring square dancing games.
Yeah, that's a big part of dungeon crawlers.
You know what's an even bigger part? Puzzles and secrets, and it does both of those the best.
Might & Magic X - Legacy if you're ok using Ubishit launcher
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2248430/Touhou_Artificial_Dream_in_Arcadia/
Legit good SMT-like
>>>>>>>
anon pls
At least post the Darius or Cave dungeon crawler
Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society
>NISA
no way gay
ok
I might check this out if it goes lower, thanks anon.
Paper Sorcerer
Grimrock 1 for a real time game, or Etrian Odyssey 4 for a turn-based one.
is moronic, Grimrock 2 sucks compared to 1, and you'd want to start with 1 anyway since 2 expands on it.
Barony
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1053390/Kowloon_HighSchool_Chronicle/
u want pray obscure PS2 japanese dungeon crawler VN???
FRICK YES
why does it have like 6 different artstyles
Are the Etrians any good?
Yes, get them now.
I'm finishing up EO1's post game and I'd say if 2 and 3 improve on 1 at all, then absolutely. I had a blast with 1, although I will warn you now the post game stratum is tedious and I don't think I'll be doing that part again myself.
yes, and they're piss easy to pirate. Definitely seek out that method to play them if you don't want to break your bank with the absurd cost of the HD versions. Plus you can add custom character sprites
NTA and also not a pirate but yeah I'm not giving money to companies like Atlus and Square Enix, they are crazy with their prices.
I'd like games with lots of "out of the box" puzzling like the La Mulana games. Yes I've played 2 and the DOS version, yes I've played Tunic and Void Stranger.
Not hidden gems at all, but The Witness and Baba is You is all about that.
Prodigal also has a little bit of it, but it's definitely not " a lot" like you want.
Zachtronics
Riven
The Talos Principle
https://store.steampowered.com/app/350070/Environmental_Station_Alpha/
ESA comes closest to scratching that particular itch. It's obviously not on the same level of quality, but that style of cryptic puzzle solving which depends on intimate map knowledge and paying very careful attention to environmental details to find secrets is almost certainly what you're looking for.
Xanthiom Zero is the best indie pixel-art metroid style game. It has so many different guns to try. And it's only $1
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2324610/Xanthiom_Zero/
I will play your game even though it isn't what the guy I was replying to was asking for.
I just bought it too, I had it pirated but now I can get the basic updates that probably do some good bug fixes. I just like how it has a ton of different guns to unlock and you can merge them all kinda like copy kitty
Worldless is my favorite from the year. The combat's super fun.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1898500/Worldless/
looks like style over substance cranked to max
Huh, I've just made a thread today.
Summum would have been fantastic even with the orb attacks if the requirements for breaking through his guard wasn't so strict. You need to be constantly on the move at the start of the turn which is cool to mix up the fight but it leaves you little time to actually do anything. The water parts were not fun to backtrack through if you missed something in those areas, yeah. But overall, I found the combat so fun that the game wasn't downgraded to okay to me and was still great.
I played the demo of that in a next fest and it was fricking awful.
Zero punctuation shat on it. It's over for your game.
Buy Touhou Mystia's Izakaya, it's unironically one of the most fun and comfy games I've played.
>touhou
Frick off normalgay
buy?
you're surely kidding right?
paying for a game is optional after I beat it
>Touhou Mystia's Izakaya
>hidden
I played it for 8 hours but it's both way too easy and way too grindy at the same time. Would've been better if each time period was half as long as it was.
Any other games like Xanadu Next? I love how comfy it is
trails in the sky games, Zwei, non-party Ys games.
pretty barebones atm, but still goofy fun. the ragdolls add a lot and im surprised ive never played a wrestling game that used them before. i wouldnt recommend buying it right now, but wishlist it and wait.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1478160/Nyaruru_Fishy_Fight/
anyone played this?
looks spastic as frick
>the horribly broken English describing the game in the store page
soul
>made in china
every time
why can't japanese make their own anime games nowadays?
anime games are always made in china or korea nowadays.
japs are either making gacha or westoid slops
Because the jap market only cares about gacha and vtubers.
If you wanna know how fricked it is, they don't even have a Steam Sale thread up right now on 2chan in the middle of the fricking afternoon on a Saturday.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1464500/Ruvato_Original_Complex/
this game has 38 reviews and im pretty sure most people would think its kind of shit, but I enjoyed it. Its like an alternate take on the core idea of Shinobi for the PS2 - your attacks get more powerful after you kill an enemy or do a parry. Levels are bite sized gauntlets where you work to execute a perfect sequence of kills. There's a good bit of jank to it, but I liked it enough to 100% it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1066430/Kwaidan_Azuma_manor_story/
oh, and this one too. 42 reviews. Its a cute little action adventure, very reminiscent of the survival horror formula. A little frustrating at parts. Simple rock-paper-scissors combat.
If I were to get one game from this cart which game should it be?
From the games I have played I would say either pizza tower or hades, pseudoregalia is fun but it's pretty short.
psudoregalia
Pizza Tower, easily.
Why are you asking this in the hidden gems thread?
Anno Mutationem
really fun game with great and sexy characters
pizza tower
Any good monster rising/pokeclone games?
please recommend me low budget games made by japs in their garage
porn games
why is the purchase button gone
works on my machine
I guess they just hate Australians
Doesn't your country ban flat women in media?
no
A few years ago there was a price update thing, devs had to manually update the price of their games for Australia at that time or they became unpurchasable. If the dev's still around you can ask them to update it but if they've gone AWOL you're shit out of luck.
Japanese indies only make RPGslops for Kemco
current year japs are creatively bankrupt
don't worry bro I gotchu
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874080/phantom_Zone_Talon_Fictions/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2402560/_/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2348880/_/
Hope you ddin't want them in English because garage japs can't afford English translations.
Black Mesa is 80% off 3-4 bucks
looks like I'm done downloading vidya for the week
also I had no idea how playnite had so much customization to it
>custom icons
>custom themes
I thought it was a basic launcher with just color options
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a pretty good movie with nice bad ending
I like bad endings sometimes
makes it more memorable
all I gotta do now is just beat batman and I can move onto other games
Based Playnite enjoyed but man that is one ugly theme
This looks amazing not gonna lie
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2135150/Elin/
not out but add it to your wishlist
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1913690/Cleopatra_Fortune_STribute/
Holy soul.
Holy frick! I have this game for the ps1. Next, you're going to tell me puchi carat is available on Steam too.
These devs seem to have a history of making bad ports. I'd research some more before getting this one.
I wanna recommend this, but most of are dekinai so...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2095090/_/
>ウーマンコミュニケーション
is this jap incel kino?
Is that gal gun meets danganronpa?
no you listen to girls talk and try to spot hidden dirty words. really fun and expand your vocab
You shoot text like Danganronpa. I'm aware it's a game about pointing out 穴 and マンコ anon.
>Sorry, this game is not yet translated into English.
>If you would like to play the English version, please add it to your wishlist and wait.
>We will let you know when it is translated!
They want to translate a wordplay game? Oh dear god.
>Akinator
Didn't realize he was a thing in Japan too.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1677770/The_Case_of_the_Golden_Idol/
I will never stop shilling this game. If you need something that can scratch the obra dinn itch, this is the game to play. Only criticism is that the game is too short and the dlc,while great, is over priced
Also available on gog if you don't want to buy but I think this dev deserves to be paid
thanks to anon who shilled picrel. plateup wasnt hitting quite the same so this was cool. trying it later
based but at some point we gotta stop shilling him in hidden gem threads
thanks itch anon
you probably already know about 2000 to 1 a space felony but its another murder mystery in space
>you probably already know about 2000 to 1 a space felony
i did not
I have never seen anyone mention nomnom galaxy in all these years, it's a criminally underrated game.
I'm amazed that the sequel got Netflix funding. I guess its popularity has been growing through word of mouth.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3900/Sid_Meiers_Civilization_IV/
CIV IV is 6$ bundle right now.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/551620/Approaching_Infinity/
If you rougelike autist (but this time in space) Made by some math teacher
Any Ys-like games?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1053390/Kowloon_HighSchool_Chronicle/
Alternates between story phases and dungeon crawler phases. The story phases have the player interacting a lot with a kind of bizarre emotion cross, 8 options arranged in four directions. It takes a while to get a handle on it but the story is interesting and the character writing is pretty good.
The dungeon crawling is highly unique and for how old the game is I'm amazed it didn't inspire other dungeon crawlers. You have to solve lots of riddles to progress and to fulfil requests you get back at base, and this involves lots of examining the environment and using items to progress. The combat is based on each action using up AP and your turn ending manually, so you have to be conscious of positioning and not overextend yourself and leaving yourself open to enemy attacks on their turn. Enemies all also have weak points that you can hit for massive damage with your ranged weapons, on top of damage resistances and ailments actually being useful.
It's crazy that I don't see people talk about it more, it's genuinely one of the shining israeliteels of the genre.
Do the turok games follow a story?
Yes
https://lssc.itch.io/vessels
you're in a time loop and in a body that's not your own. also you can possess people
use the time loop to masquerade as the body you're inhabiting and find out what's going on.
it's also free
Checkout Bzzzt
very short fast paced platformer game (<1h), but it has tons of stages (50 ish) and very fun.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1293170/Bzzzt/
and since it's a low-sized game, the game is very light and the performance is great, movement is super fluid. even more than Gravity Circuit
The music's boppin' and the levels are so far well designed, thanks for the rec.
>short and fast paced
thanks fampai, i feel like my ADHD ass is going to love this
indies liked: return of the obra dinn
super hot (kind of)
disco elysium
kenshi (tolerated)
slay the spire
didnt like at all:
project zomboid
outer wilds
the finals (nice concepts though)
Doesnt look like papers please or return of the golden idol are my thing. also wouldnt mind a fps if theres a decent one to get into
Guess this is as good thread to ask, since people are actually talking about video games.
Any recommendations for games like XCOM? In particular, ones where I'm using faceless soldiers who slowly get better and more valuable with experience and better equipment, instead of snowflake heroes whose deaths instantly fail the missions. Also, with random missions instead of a string of linear story missions.
"This is the Police 2" sounds promising despite its criticism, but wondering if there's anything else worth trying.
Xenonauts, i guess, it's the closest thing to an original X-Com, the second is still in early access and hopefully, it won't be stuck in development forever
>Xenonauts
Played it, imho great modern take on classic Xcom formula.
Cheeky frick. Still, Into The Breach is some of my favourite games ever, even if I wouldn't put it in the same category as Xcom. Invisible Inc is good, though still not in the same category. Phantom Doctrine is pretty meh, the missions overstay their welcome, stealth is the only good approach and there's plenty of jank and questionable design decisions. Might consider Phoenix Point, even if it was a dead game for me after the scummy practices of the devs.
>Frozen Synapse 2?
I guess. Frozen Synapse 1 was kind of a hit-or-miss for me.
Well, shit. I assume that the "Rebel Cops" spin-off is even worse?
>Well, shit. I assume that the "Rebel Cops" spin-off is even worse?
Can't say. I wrote off the developer after Police 2. A standalone game that focuses on the combat sounds like it should be better but going by the reviews it seems that's not the case.
lamplight league, phantom doctrine, phoenix point, invisible inc, halfway, pathway
have fun bro! 🙂
into the breach sounds exactly like what you're asking for but its more puzzle than strategy. wartales is exactly like that but in medieval times, so greater focus on melee.
Half of those use special hero soldiers, gj reading.
Thanks for Halfway though, looks neat.
the joke is that everything outside the spoiler is either trash or not what you're asking for kek
i am glad my failed attempt at humor helped you tho
not the same but speedrunners is probably the closest thing.
I feel bad for liking Lamplighter's League considering how it might have killed Hare Brained Schemes.
Also, if you like Into The Breach then Overland might scratch a similar itch. Less "I'm from Buenos Aires and I say kill em all", but more about maneuvering the enemies and environment to your advantage.
Frozen Synapse 2?
Definitely do not get This Is The Police 2. The combat's awful and I cannot overstate how terribly paced the cutscenes are. Try watching a cutscene on Youtube without getting bored.
anon what the frick is this
A complete fricking waste of time, that's what it is.
Can anyone recommend any good detective/mystery games?
BRO??????????
Looking for a single player type spy game kind of like "The Ship" or "Deceive Inc" these were both great games but they're dead now.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1601970/Tunguska_The_Visitation/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1022980/Ostranauts/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1114220/Gedonia/
Little known very cheap somewhat janky games Ive had at least 40hrs of fun with
Gimme them dustforce dx clones I never heard about since the dustforce devs imploded and died.
Fire that graphic designer holy shit I read that as XANAX next like what the frick
>Xanadu
It's in my wishlist is it really good?
Yes especially if you like ys (the more classic ones)
no, it's like the worst aspect of Ys + Trails combined
>Ganker actually has an actually good thread about underappreciated video games
Unreal.
Yes but people like to compare it to ys for some reason and it's nothing like that. It has much slower combat and optional grinding. As I typed this I remembered that ys origin also had optional grinding.
>bUy aN aD!!!1!
i liked xanadu next way more than the ys games honestly, it felt more like an actual rpg
yes, it's like the best aspect of Ys + Trails combined
Witcher 3 complete edition 13€
https://store.steampowered.com/sub/124923/
moron
?
wow thanks anon, never heard of this but it looks sick moron
>AAA slopeater is moronic
of course
read the thread moron
such a hecking indie hidden gem!
Pretty good game until I got the point where an enemy pirated my level. I uninstalled the game right there and then and never looked back.
My favorite hidden gem!
Dunno how hidden it is, but everyone should play this
https://store.steampowered.com/app/262260/JetsnGuns_Gold/
Two great JRPG-type games I never see mentioned
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1083790/Deathbulge_Battle_of_the_Bands/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1099640/Jack_Move/
Those two games look pretty cool, anon.
I will never not recommend INFRA, though it's relatively known by now at least in the Ganker circles.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/251110/INFRA/
This is a puzzle game, it's really fun. Not a lot of people know about it. 75% off right now at 3,74
This is a pretty good but short action platformer with light metroidvania elements made by a group that eventually joined up with Team Ladybug.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/441280/Pharaoh_Rebirth/
Was a nice shill thread.
moron
Seethe.
Path of the Abyss just came out and seems pretty neat. Instead of just having a menu of everyone's attacks you put all the ones you want on a 3x3 grid and works on an ATB like system. English is apparently machine translated but haven't noticed anything weird.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1768650/Path_of_the_Abyss/
These threads are so cringe, I had no idea there were so many corpo shills on this site.
Now you know.
i need a gud nsfw game
Eiyuu Senki
flipwitch
Fort Zombie sucks, objectively it's a crap game and not optimized at all, but it's still one of my favourite games of all time, the jumping through windows part and the scavenging feels good, but all of the end game is line up people and hope your computer doesn't fry
https://store.steampowered.com/app/415180/Fort_Zombie/
someone thoughts on this?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1748620/FlipWitch__Forbidden_Sex_Hex/
Dipped into it a little last night. Surprisingly it plays pretty well and didn't take long to get a chub.
had this wishlisted, but ended up refunding. Doesn't feel smooth at all to play, super clunky overall
https://store.steampowered.com/app/427520/Factorio/
Never goes on sale, but will last you 1000+ hrs if it's your genre.
Which computes out to 30/1000 = 0.03 USD or your regional equivalent per hour of entertainment.
I'd call that pretty fricking good.
Hidden gems thread
More than 100k reviews XD
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1141290/Tactical_Nexus/
Ultra-autistic "Tower of the Sorcerer"-like.
Has the most insane pricing scheme i've ever seen, thus is actually don't recommend buying it
damn, I like autistic tower defense but 115 is insane
ABG is a great channel to find some great and niche games.
If you like logic/puzzle games check out Bombe. It's minesweeper, but instead of solving the puzzles yourself, you add rules to solve situations and the computer automatically applies them. There are different grid types and the clues get more complicated as you go. Fair warning: the UI is super unintuitive and poorly explained in my opinion, but it's easy to work with once you've played around with it a bit.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2262930/Bombe/
Lingo is a game about guessing the word based on the clue (or clues). It's similar to The Witness in some ways, you have to find the puzzles in an open world, and you have to figure out the rules themselves for each puzzles type. The world itself is mazelike and has this weird teleporting all over the place, apparently inspired by antechamber but I haven't played that.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1814170/Lingo/
>the UI is super unintuitive
now that's the understatement of the century lol
kek, I get what you mean but that's not what I'm talking about.
That is info dense, but it will make sense when you reach it after playing for a couple of hours. This is what it looks like at the start of the game, if you know minesweeper you prob understand exactly what the lines mean.
Defunct is a really neat 3D platformer for just 1€.
If you're looking for some Run&Gun action, this game is amazing, it's got this awesome Kirby64 copy/fusing mechanic and the levels get more and more crazy, some truly amazing stuff, absolute hidden gem right here
https://store.steampowered.com/app/349250/Copy_Kitty/
Ctrl Alt Ego has been one of the best immersive sims recently and I never see it mentioned here.
The British humour can be a bit weird and it's a little janky, but it's a great game.
>Toki Tori 2
https://store.steampowered.com/app/201420/Toki_Tori_2/
A metroidvania with an ingenious twist - you're blocked off from progressing not because you're lacking some power-up, but because you lack knowledge of the game's mechanics. Once the game teaches them to you (in a pretty non-intrusive, organic way) you can backtrack to specific areas and explore further. Another interesting feature is that you have only two moves, both of which are used to manipulate your environment (e.g. make a creature move towards you). The puzzles are fun, at times pretty challenging.
tl;dr a heavily puzzle-oriented metroidvania with an accent on minimalism (only two moves, almost no in-game text etc.)
>RIVE
https://store.steampowered.com/app/278100/RIVE_Wreck_Hack_Die_Retry/
A 2d shoot-em-up that's short and sweet. It's switching things up constantly and that coupled with the fast pace of the game means you'll never be bored. The one flaw of the game is how many "survive an enemy wave in a room" segments there are (a la serious sam), it would have been better if we had more actual platforming, but the game is obviously focused on combat.
>Spark series
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/10933/Spark_it_up_Fark_it_up/
1 is a 2D platformer that's definitely a mixed bag (some levels are excellent and some suck), but it's worth playing, Fark mode especially (which you unlock after beating Spark mode).
2 is a nice little 3D platformer without much complexity. 2's stages are in 3 as DLC, but its story and the bosses aren't.
3 is one of the best 3D platformers ever made, it's an absolute must-play thanks to its phenomenal level design, variety, soundtrack, controls... hell, everything in this game rocks, even the story, which goes full End of Evangelion mode in the finale, with a top tier plot twist. Also, the game has flashback cutscenes that recontextualize things from Spark 1 and 2 in such a great way that it makes 1 and 2 worth playing just for this aspect of 3.
cont.
>Death to Spies series
https://store.steampowered.com/sub/2821/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/406720/Alekhines_Gun/
To my knowledge (please correct me if I'm wrong, I desperately wish I am) these are the only social stealth games alongside the ones from the Hitman series. This is basically like Hitman with a WW2 coat of paint, but it's also much harder (and more rewarding because of this, I'd say). 2 is more refined than 1 (with some of its missions easily standing toe to toe with some of the greats in the Hitman series) and is a definitive must-play), but it has less variety in the environments and objectives, plus its final two missions are very mediocre.
Alekhin's Gun is basically Death to Spies 3. Two or three of its missions are very empty and 2 missions are rehashed versions of two missions from Death to Spies 1 (and they're worse than those two missions since they are more streamlined). What this game has over 1 and 2 is the surprisingly decent story and a great final mission (1 and 2's final missions don't even feel like they are final missions). Don't listen to people shitting on this game, it's actually pretty decent.
>Corn Kidz 64
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2575900/Corn_Kidz_64/
A great 3D platformer with excellent level design. The game is basically made up of 1 smaller sandbox stage, 1 fully developed sandbox (that's fun to explore and is as good as the best stages from the classic collectathons like Banjo-Kazooie), 1 tower stage and two extra areas - another tower (which is much, much harder than the other one) and a hidden area that you can't finish unless you collect basically everything in the game.
>>Toki Tori 2
wtf, it's a metroidvania? I though it was a puzzle game, I was holding off on it until I go back and beat the first one.
it's much more of a puzzle game than a metroidvania, but yes, you do have an open-ended world with numerous branches and some parts of it are blocked off by your lack of knowledge of the game's mechanics (which the game teaches you while you're going through the main path that's intended for first-time players)
will the PrayDog Unreal injector be any good, what are some first person hidden gem unreal engine games to grab
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pass: wherearethetorrents
gonna need some help here, senpai
2nd is fear and hunger