With the Steam sale running, this seems like a good time to try this thread again. We don’t often use the downvote button much in Lemmy, but the idea is this: Do your best to present game suggestions that no one has heard of before. If, in reading other people’s suggestions, you spot one that you’re familiar with, then put a downvote on it. Ideally, if the game is past a year old, it may have a discounted price during the Steam sale, and others will be able to check it out.
I’ve made this thread once before and it generated some good suggestions, but the rate of indie publishing on Steam has only accelerated with time, so it seems to be worth trying again.
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Can I suggest a game that isnt even on steam?
Overload Spiritual successor to Decent 1, 2, and 3. Made by the same devs.
Another one I feel bad downvoting! It’s not got the same gritty technopunk feeling as the Descent games, but gameplay and visuals are just as good if not better.
Hyperrogue
I do not like downvoting you, because Hyperrogue is awesome, but them’s the rules I guess!
It’s also open source, and actually open source enough that it’s in the Debian repos!
Great game, too.
– Frost
F2P (not gacha) but pretty good imo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/802930/The_Rainsdowne_Players/
This looks like a good time, gonna download it now
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3392510/Zexion/
A neat metroidvania with a built in randomizer.
WORMHOLE (51 Steam reviews)
WORMHOLE is next-level Snake. I’ve written about it before! There are powerups, wormholes (obviously), and increasingly complex and cramped levels. The game’s graphics and music get more intense over time and it becomes an oddly hypnotic action game.
Voin is a first person hack and slash with very satisfying combat and movement. It has some nice build variety and huge, detailed levels. The game is still in early access, but as it’s being made by a solo developer, that’s the only way to make a project like this feasible.
Bionic dues
As a separate comment: Iji
Freeware game and an awesome gem. Great soundtrack, too
I’m quite torn because I have played through Iji before, but even as the rulemaker it’s hard to bring myself to downvote it. The final boss theme, Tor, still sits with me.
I always find myself wishing Iji got half as much recognition as Cave Story. It deserves it.
Hero Core by the same author is also excellent.
It isn’t unknown and almost 10 years old but it’s mostly overlooked. A great card game >> Faeria
Couldn’t find another game like this.
Tales of Maj’Eyal is a roguelike with a lot of classes and races, which in my opinion offers a lot of replay value, even with no DLCs.
It’s actually free and open source.
I had the impression that buying it on steam and linking your account in the official website to steam gives you enough points in the official website to purchase the Ashes of Urh’Rok DLC but I am not sure about that anymore. Direct link to FAQ for more info if anyone is interested.
Enthusiastically seconded
I love TOME! I have all the DLC on Steam so I’m not sure about the website linking thing. The Doombringer class from Ashes of Urh’Rok is my favorite.
Guess I need a down vote then!
And also, I need to return to the game.
I sucked at it when I played so now I need to relearn everything… 😅
My favorite classes were Arcane Blade and Temporal Warden. Which from what I remember, at least the second, was quite easier to play than many others.
Makes me happy to see this so downvoted. I didn’t expect that.
Curse Crackers: For Who the Bell Toils is a GBC-styled platformer based around a throwable partner, fun movement tech, and a lite story around an acrobat in a mask.
Yellow Taxi goes Vroom is a 3D Mario collectathon platformer…where you can’t jump. It manages an energetic atmosphere where many objects are bouncing in place, so even at its small filesize it has a lot of visual appeal to it.
I realize I didn’t set a rule for if you’ve only heard of one game in someone’s list; I guess use your judgment. If you’d like, forgive one if another presented an interesting suggestion.
I’ve heard of the latter but not the former. No vote for you.
Plain Sight
This game is a fantastic time with friends. It’s always well loved when I host a LAN night.
Not For Broadcast. Take control of editing live news (i.e. managing the broadcast) while withstanding your unscheduled rapid promotion from janitor, certainly one of the casts of characters of all time, and the devs’ great Britishness (and humor!). And maybe it’ll get political, who knows.
Spoiler
It does.
You’ll eventually find yourself in something a little similar to “Papers, Please”.It could be interpreted as anti-communist but that’s not how I take it.
There’s a ton of very impactful choices, both in the visual novel sections and the advertised FMV sections. Devs botched the ending and first DLC but I highly recommend the rest of it, especially the other DLC.
Not nearly as niche as the other responses but I love this game.
Reluctantly downvoted - it is indeed a fantastic game.
Very unique game
This one isn’t really niche, but I enjoyed playing Prey (2017).
Great game, and sold well below what it should have. Still, it’s published by Bethesda and made by Arkane. It didn’t do as well as it needed to, but everyone who’s remotely interested in the ImSim genre knows about it.
If you want more ImSims though, check out Charlatan Wonder on YouTube. That’s his big thing. He recently did a video on Retro Space, and their demo is great!
Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll check him out when I’m able to.
I do love this game and IMO it’s the best of the -shock games (system & bio), at least for gameplay.
