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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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.
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.
Yes your grace!
Great short kings court sim /
family drama
Man how do you expect me to give half a downvote.
I’ve never heard of Synthetik, so imagine my suprise when it’s already in my library. lol
I had a few of those in this thread too, plus a ton on my wishlist that I had no recollection of 😅
Bob should have stuck to farming.
I’ve been playing Idols of Ash and Echo Point Nova.
Both are pretty nifty, don’t usually see much conversation about either.
Echo point Nova is great. Like what I imagined future FPS would games would be in 2010 before they all just became military sims
Ooooh this looks fun as hell. I saw “released 2024” and expected online-only PvP nonsense, but no, it’s singleplayer + coop? and the movement looks SO GOOD.
And it has a demo! This recent trend of games having demos is pretty awesome. Would be nice if the store page didn’t hide it in the sidebar, though. Wonder why it did that (I saw reference to a demo in the reviews and assumed the demo had been delisted at first).
– Frost
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.
Wintermoor Tactics Club, part tactical rpg part VN. Very cute and lots of fun
EDIT: https://store.steampowered.com/app/917840/Wintermoor_Tactics_Club/
thanks, looks great :)
Rakuen was a great game I bought on a whim last year and it was a great random purchase. Kind of similar to old school Zelda but without the fighting, just trying to collect items to progress the story.
Reminds me a lot of To the Moon which is another fantastic game but I think that one is a lot more well known.
Definitely recommend both of the of you prefer games that focus on shirts rather than action!
I feel bad about down voting this one, but that’s the thread… Rakuen is great! I’ve watched a bunch of the developer’s twitch streams, too… She’s fantastic.
All good. Downvotes don’t mean it’s a bad game, just that it’s more popular than I thought which is actually a good thing haha
A large scale, sci-fi, squad based FPS that’s been in development for about 10 years. Battles scale from individual soldiers all the way to pilotable battleships that can be boarded and sabotaged from within, and everything in between.
Total labour of love by the developers. It will soon be leaving early access.
Great game, honestly such a pity that nobody plays it.
I remember when it was a UT3 mod
Good game, the closest thing I can describe it as is Battlefront 2(2005)+Planetside with some Battlefield 4 mixed in.
Bionic dues
Crosscode.
Fantastic RPG with an amazing story.
Take pride in the fact that this good game is well-loved, and is in my top three. It needs to be at the bottom of this list though.
It is such a good game, and I figured it would be fairly well known, but it needed to be here for those who have not heard of it.
Love this game so much, truly painful to have to downvote it
I knew it would be way more well known, but I had to include it for those who have not heard of it.
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.
Too bad for you, I’m a fan of DoshDoshington.
This is a great one! I’m terrible at it but I love trying out all the different equipment.
Unfortunately I can’t downvote and upvote at the same time, but this is rally a good game and a work of love.
Plain Sight
This game is a fantastic time with friends. It’s always well loved when I host a LAN night.
