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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Not sure if this qualifies for the thread but on my phone, I’ve been playing Afterplace. It’s a Zelda-like designed for portrait playing. Great little time sink.
And my last post since I could recommend games for days xD.
Demonstar: Original Missions (1999 re-released in 2024 with some fine upgrades) not on sale but only 3 euros.
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
You play as a poverty-level janitor at a bustling space port. Scrounge by while longing for a better life, seeing wonderous things that are beyond your class/wage level to experience! It sounds depressing, but this is a very charming game.
Cozy 3D platformer with no combat and tons of chill little dudes to talk to and help out.
Nonogram RPG. The story is nonexistent and the dialogue is laughably bad, but this is one of the better picross games I’ve played because the puzzles do actually look like stuff, and the completed puzzles even have animation! Plus the added elememt of combat gives puzzle solving a fresh twist.
Supercow originally released in 2005 or something.
Re released: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1883570/Supercow/
Try out Distance, a race game where you have to dodge objects. It also features a great soundtrack.
What a great post idea, thanks OP!
My contribution is NeonXSZ, a 6DOF open-world ARPG by a solo dev. It’s been a decade since it released, but IIRC, the dev cited Quake and Diablo as primary inspirations and the game has a native Linux version.
I discovered totally by accident Proverbs.
Proverbs is a picross/minesweeper hybrid featuring a single ENORMOUS puzzle, inspired by Bruegel the Elder’s 1559 painting “Netherlandish Proverbs”.
In short, it’s minesweeper with a twist. It’s pretty relaxing, you can do it while listening to podcasts or YouTube. Also, what I like is that you never have to make hypotheses. Everything is solvable just by looking.
Okay, my last post, I promise!
A must-have: Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition goes on sale for 3 euros (normally 20 euros)
IYKYK: A man who downvotes this is never a whole man ;)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/307690/Sleeping_Dogs_Definitive_Edition/
Gunz: The Duel is planning a comeback some time this year; tl;dr extremely niche 2005 korean team/solo shooter famous for the playerbase essentially creating a hyper-mobile fighting game but with guns out of the incredibly glitchy but consistently glitchy movement and animation system. If you’ve never played it it has a huge skill barrier to entry (that I’m sure will be tutorialized in this modern reboot) but is incredibly fun and satisfying with a huge skill ceiling.
Tricky technicality. I knew of the old game, but did not know someone was planning a remake.
A game I like and I never see mentioned anywhere is Out of Space it’s similar to Overcooked except a lot less chaotic.
Downvoting per the rules but this game is great
Holy shit. so many i never heard of! I can only offer this old underrated gem: https://store.steampowered.com/app/243970/Invisible_Inc/ Invisible inc. very good stealth/strategy game in a cyberpunk setting.
Nantucket. You’re Ishmael and you’re finishing the job, no matter how many whales you need to butcher. With cards and dice. And sea shanties.
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Please Fix The Road is a colorful, minimalistic, laid-back and casual puzzle game in which it’s probably not hard to guess… you’re fixing roads!
I’m recommending it solely for level transitions. 🤷♂️
I think the only really obscure game I’ve played where I have significant playing time is: Nation Red.
It’s an enjoyable little zombie twin-stick shooter / bullet hell game.
Another decent one is Deathtrap. It’s a tower defense game with a gothic/dark soulsy aesthetic.
