You know the drill. 999 reviews or lower. 250 is the sweet spot. 100 reviews and upto the single digits is the real freak shit.Let's add this too for recent releases:>open steam front page>click recommendation>click personal calendar>tweak accordinglyPost findings.
Eh, there are subreddits where you can your advertise games much more efficiently than this
>>724461085ESL...
>>724461085yeah, we all know /v/ is only for politics and e-celeb discussion
I only ever browse these threads to put stuff into my wishlist, and occasionally buy them.Bump.
That Touhou Robot Wars game.
>>724461085>OP doesn't post any games>Still gets called a shill
Next Fest just ended broChill
>See nice cover image>Jap language onlyForever dekinai...>>724464204What games were popular with vee this timeI haven't looked at next fest in a bit but I was just trying a demo because of OP called Thrasher since it reminded me of Thumper and it's neat
>Game released a week ago>5 reviews>Game released four days ago>2 reviews>Game released two weeks ago>7 reviewsI'm starting to think letting everything on Steam was a mistake.
from glory to goo. dumb name, but full rts/ tower defense/ base building/puzzler (can pause as much as you want, so its like a FTL style RTS)
>>724463648They kinda forgot somehow to have an options menu. Is that just how Japan makes ganes?
>>724464791I haven't posted a game because I haven't found shit worth sharing.
>>724464906I didn't make the thread? Anon it's not just me and you on /v/, holy shit.
>>724464546>Game released 14 months ago>7 reviews, 4 from people who got free keysThe next one will be better. 99% of gamblers quite before they hit the jackpot.
Valve is filled with lazy do nothings that refuse to manually do anything>Greenlight is being bottedModerate it? No just remove it>Now the front page is filled with garbageJust hide every game by default until a game has enough wishlists or reviews>Now slop devs are botting their wishlists and reviewsJust stop taking wishlists into account entirely and make it so reviews from game keys don't countCompletely fucked the market so now only streamerbait gets any traction but atleast valve, the multibillion dollar company, didn't have to do any actual work.
>>724460939>open recommendations>this absolute slop is in the top three recommended>click it out of morbid curiosity>overwhelmingly positive with 2271 reviewswhat in the actual fuckhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3191050/BRAZILIAN_DRUG_DEALER_3_I_OPENED_A_PORTAL_TO_HELL_IN_THE_FAVELA_TRYING_TO_REVIVE_MIT_AIA_I_NEED_TO_CLOSE_IT/
>>724464546steam store has been filled with absolute trash ever since that greenlight program a decade ago
>>724460939https://www.gematsu.com/2025/10/farnia-village-kickstarter-campaign-launched-life-simulation-game-by-rune-factory-4-directorhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4128600/Farnia_Village/About to be this game from former Rune Factory 3 Devs.
I found a game that's blatantly just the author's fetish.>Demon girls>Skull crushing via thighshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3594120/Brush_Burial_Gutter_World/
>>724464546When the platform gets thousands of games per year it's difficult for all of them to be discovered and played unfortunately
>>724465318>Former RF3 devsMite b cool
>>724465369Still, I feel like half the hits of the late 2000s/early 2010s wouldn't have become hits in today's market.I look at XCOM Enemy Unknown now and I don't think it would have survived a store like this.
>>724460939>999 reviews or lowerDoDonPachi ResurrectionCrimzon Clover World EXplosionDeathsmilesBlue Wish DesireGradius OriginsDarius Cozmic CollectionAkai KatanaBatsugunBlue Revolver Double ActionCotton Rock n RollG-Darius HDSisters RoyaleUnder Defeat
hidden gems can only be considered hidden wirh 500 reviews maximum. anything with 500+ reviews is not a hidden gem.pointless tranny thread
PLAY MY GAME!! It's procgen daggerfall:https://store.steampowered.com/app/3646460/Devil_Spire_Falls/It's EA, but I swear I'll finish it! I have made pacts to not fall for the same traps every otehr project like this fell to
>>724465327the poor man's project nortubel
>>724465473The original? probably not because it's niche and there's dozens of games that have more accessible gameplay and a cool aesthetic i just one release month on Steam.The floodgates are open and decent games are a dime-a-dozen now. You pretty much need that special sauce or a strong impact to break water and be noticed. I know people have their issues with this, but I'd rather take the ocean we have now rather than the ultra curated pond we had where you needed a publisher or connections to put your game in a store.Stuff still floats to the top, and the fact we have hidden gems makes this feel closer to gaming in the 90s, where cult games would get propped up by word-of-mouth.
>>724465473No shit?Fucking Braid would have been a complete flop lmao
>>724465734>where cult games would get propped up by word-of-mouthWord of mouth doesn't exist anymore, retard. The modern algorithmic-based web has completely killed word of mouth, and places like 4chan and reddit being so hostile to devs to the point that a dev can't even make people aware that his game exists. It's over.
>>724465717Looks very nice, anon. I might buy it later on this week because I loved Daggerfall and have the Wayward Realms on my wishlist. If there were one game with less than 400 reviews I'd recommend it's this onehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1082970/Archaelund/It's basically Baldur's Gate 3 and The Elder Scrolls Morrowind's baby. We're in a really blessed time for indie games.
these are the games that i thought looked cool on the calendar after hiding all wishlisted games.>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1435410/Shrines_Legacy/>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1386750/Spindle/>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2290770/The_Art_of_Reflection/>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1660960/Windswept/
>>724466187Word of mouth was how I found Mecha Knight Nightmares from a discord and how I've found dozens of cool indie games from these Steam recommend threads and the assorted subreddits.It fully exists and anyone that's too thin-skinned to take the "le shill/le woke" hostility on 4chan was ngmi in the indie sphere anyways. Algos only control most of the normie internet and faggy social media sites, they don't control discussions in niche communities.
>>724460939But OP, your image don't need the calendar be tweaked...
>>724465734>The original? probably not because it's niche and there's dozens of games that have more accessible gameplay and a cool aesthetic i just one release month on Steam.No, the reboot from 2012. The one that was a massive hit and pretty much revived squad based tactics, making it accessible to even normies.
>>724466471>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1435410/Shrines_Legacy/Looks cute, actually got a nostalgia flash from looking at the gameplay.
>>724466597>Word of mouth was how I found Mecha Knight Nightmares from a discord and how I've found dozens of cool indie games from these Steam recommend threads and the assorted subreddits.It fully existsAnd how do you think people in that discord or these threads found these games? Because they saw a stream/youtube video of it, even if it's a small one. Do you honestly think a game can become popular these days without a significant pre-launch marketing campaign? No, they don't. Nobody sifts through games with less than 10 reviews on Steam.
>>724460939Oh that calendar seems basedI might use it more often
>>724467034Have to admit the only reason I found Fumes was because I came across a random Twitter post while doom scrolling.
>>724467350There you go, and that post was already promoted by the algorithm. Unless you have godly luck with the modern satanic algorithms OR you bribe streamers and youtubers (essayists and reviewers or whatever) it's impossible.
>>724465717are you real? loved devil spire and didnt know you posted hereim poorfag ill buy for sure when it on sale brother
>>724466403Thanks! I'll check that out too.>>724467496Oh yeah! Thanks, I don't know if I'll make a sale during early access, as rhe price is already 5 bucks lower than release, but there's keys floating around in resellers that're probably cheaper. Better you than someone else!
>>724468056Post it.
New Dinn/Golden inspired adventure game dropped that I've been dug in to. Great mysteries and a thoughtful depiction of Irish folk tales and spookshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/The_Sance_of_Blake_Manor/Others like it:https://store.steampowered.com/app/3521490/Mystery_of_the_Malign/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/Mind_Diver/
>>724467986oh if itll get more expensive when release ill buy it on christmas thenthanks brother
The calendar is pretty good. It mostly recommended indieshit to me.Might become a mainstay that I browse every now and then.
>>724469257>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/Mind_Diver/I am not the kind of poster who calls everyone and everything a shill or shilled product, but isn't extremely suspicious that a game that got 123 Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam in the last month has ZERO people playing it right now according to SteamDB?
>>724464379this time next fest was shitnothing good
>>724469854It's a pretty short game. You can finish it in a couple hours. It's not very complex, but I enjoyed the narrative, and it scratches that abductive reasoning itch.
>>724469854Wow, actual steam charts brainrot.
>>724468087I can't.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3107360/Grooveyard/no idea how it is so low for this game
>>724470030This is why you have 4 reviews.
>>724470143but everyone on /v/ liked grooveyard when it was next fest
>>724470143This isn't true. Steam promotes publishers on the storefront if they are having a sale.
>>724470304Next Fest isn't a guaranteed win button. Even if you have a fair bit of wishlists and followers, if you don't get enough sales fast enough, your game is pretty much dead in the water. Any game that doesn't get more than 500 reviews in at least a week is fucked. There is a term called "wishlist decay", if you don't understand I can elaborate. And if you have a game on your wishlist that isn't out, you won't get notified of its release.>>724470343You don't know shit about how Steam or game development works.
>>724465235Pigface and Brazilian drug dealer are legit good fps games
>>724470435makes sense I guess, that's why all new popular games are coopsloop that streamers play
>>724465235That sounds like KINOE tho
>>724465327HOLY SHIT FUCK YES
>>724470050Its a fucking 2d puzzle platformer
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2416190/Ichimasan/3D stealth action game where you play as a doll sneaking through a Japanese house in order to regain your stolen body.
>>724464546Unfortunately its all luck. one of the best games ever made could be among them but no one bothered to play it.
>>724471184>what is marketing
>>724471262New World was heavily marketed yet its stopping development because it flopped.
>>724471262>what is Concord
>>724460939
>>724460939>OverlootingKek, I just bought that like 10 minutes ago. Hopefully I like it.
Please play Kemono Teatime
>>724471309>>724471342step 2 is to make something people would actually play
>>724471459Step 2 is moving the goalpost apparently.
Please play Dragonloop
>>724471498tell me I'm not correct
>>724471459Zuktard, is that you?
Please play Kindaichi Mystery Series꞉ The Honjin Murders
Please play Ninja Ming
>>724471548You obviously are not as proven by many games in the past, if marketing was the answer every company would have its own Minecraft or Skyrim in terms of sales.
Please play GIRLS MADE PUDDING
>>724471575probably not cause I don't know what that is
Please play All in Abyss: Judge the Fake
>>724470030Post it. We will laugh at it but someone will buy it.
Please play The Siege and the Sandfox
>>724471031are indie games are
Dodonpachi resurrection
>>724460939https://store.steampowered.com/app/1745170/Primitier/For the people who still play VR like me, this is a nice game where you can make anything by connecting materials, I saw videos of people making flying machines even.If this had multiplayer it would be awesome... Sadly a lot of VR games ignore that for some reason.
Please play Loco Motive
Please play AWAKEN - Astral Blade
>all of my favorite obscure games broke the review threshold and aren't hidden gems anymore
>>724471443I played most(?) of this and it was really comfy until I figured out the ending and it was just depressing
Play hirogami i'm not asking i'm telling
>>724472080It's kino
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1302530/Cairn_Mathairs_Curse/Decent mother 3 inspired jrpg.
>>724464668Nintendo has the patent, prease understandu.
Anyone who likes blobbers has probably already seen it. I bought it in EA but haven't gotten around to playing it since 1.0 dropped.
>>724472391I honestly hate the ATB gimmick even if it was pretty interesting at first but the soundtrack kicks enough ass that I put up with it
can anyone recommend a good classic metroidvania
>>724471798
Still looking for other people who gave this game a chanceIt's bit perfect by any means, lack of map is infuriating, but there's charm in there, and it's not TOO cutesy
>>724472546*not perfect
all i want is a dungeon meshi game
>>724467986>>724465717I just boughted your game, am generating the world.
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>>724472850n
>>724472912i
>>724472536That looks like pre-alpha with placeholders and everything. Not sure if puting it as early access is good idea.
>>724472928
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3124080/Cardaire/Singleplayer narrative-focused deckbuilder>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2059660/Cavern_of_Dreams/3D collectathon platformer>https://store.steampowered.com/app/256460/Cosmic_Star_Heroine/2D turn-based sci-fi RPG, you get to visit planets>https://store.steampowered.com/app/18040/DeathSpank/3D aRPG diablo-like loot collector>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1139160/Divided_Reigns/2D turn-based RPG, attack by targeting sections of an enemy (top/side/lower) and weapons determine where/how you can attack>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2382520/ErenshorSingleplayer MMO>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1830040/False_Skies/2D turn-based RPG with a heavy Job system and big sprawling dungeons>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1338940/Head_AS_Code/Sci-fi mystery visual novel ala older infinity and ZE titles>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2294160/Isle_of_Swaps/ (anon game?)'Table'top card trading/playing to give the feel of playing Pokemon with your buddies as a kid>https://store.steampowered.com/app/257690/JULIA_Among_the_Stars/2D sci-fi point-n-click>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2801620/Look_Inside/ (anon game)Small-town murder mystery visual novel>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1450650/Osteoblasts/2D turn-based RPG where you play as a skeleton>https://store.steampowered.com/app/506510/Shadows_of_Adam/2D turn-based RPG, good bit of post-game stuff>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1289810/Siralim_Ultimate/2D megaautistic 'mon collector/fighter>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1949960/Super_Kiwi_64/3D collectathon platformer
>>724473305I ran out of character space.I would like to take this moment to point out that one game on this list, Head AS Code, is part of a plot-focused mystery trilogy and the final entry in the series, Decide 4 God, came out a couple weeks ago after 4 years of development. This is the only thing similar to Zero Escape since ZE, which was a gigantic letdown. If you enjoy the niche-within-a-niche mystery VN genre and you were ever going to check out a visual novel or novels, this is the series. Both HASC and its sister game, Birth ME Code, can be played in any order before D4G.
>>724472546I’m waiting to play this. My backlog is too huge. Too many good games this year
>>724471965I did. I was pretty good even if I can't say I'm fan of the pixelated graphic. Dunno if I like Arthur or Herman more.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3436000/The_World_Ends_in_Ohio/World ends in Ohio Side scrolling RPG with lots of weapons and loot. Art is not super good but it’s charming. Exploration emphasized
>>724465717Your game is perfect for me, just what I was looking for! Way better than Kenshi. I really needed an Elder Scrolls-y sandbox.
>>724471747I played the demo during a previous next fest.Didn't really hook me.Though the absolute jarring jump between gruesome post match torture of your opponent to "let's have ice cream" got an audible chuckle out of me. Though mostly because of how bad it was.
>>724474273>he doesn't like the BLACK QWEEN girlboss
Bump, got nothing to contribute.
>>724471443Drama shitFuck off
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/The_Sance_of_Blake_Manor/Played the demo during the Steam Next Fest. Really liked it and it came out recently.
>>724472546Elaborate.
>>724460939Here are the three games I found from my personal calendar that I think are at least somewhat interesting:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1435410/Shrines_Legacy/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1386750/Spindle/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2428980/Bye_Sweet_Carole/
an anon made Mario World clonehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1834950/Salaryman_Shi/
>>724482361I'm playing it right now. It's neat so far but kind of shallow for mystery solving. The mind map basically solves all the mysteries for you since they're all so simple.
Just got releasedhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3273530/1998_The_Toll_Keeper_Story/
>>724470435>There is a term called "wishlist decay", if you don't understand I can elaborateNta but please do
ANyone here played pic related?Looks fun from the trailer.
>>724472124That's not true! Shut up!
>>724485883What's this? Pregnant Paper Please?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2602230/MotionRec/Puzzle platformer where you record your movement and play it to solve the puzzles. Its kinda cool that there were two very recent puzzle platformers made by Japanese devs, other being Öoo
>>724460939https://store.steampowered.com/app/1364760/COTTOn_RocknRoll_SUPERLATIVE_NIGHT_DREAMS/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1656820/COTTON_REBOOT/Please play Cotton's games!
I'm playing pic related right now. Nothing special but it's neat 2D platformer.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1056490/The_World_is_Your_Weapon/>pick up everything and use it as a weapon, literally
Where is the halloween spook sale general?I got these today. They are charming.
I'm going to bump this actual video game thread to push an off-topic shitposting and porn thread down that the mods refuse to do anything about.
>>724490857How dare you!!
>>724487313Played this too. It was fantastic. Hope to see more from the dev just like the Öoo dev.
>>724466187Steam still needs better discoveribility. Yeah it has tags but that is nowhere near enough. For example i dont wanna see those random asset flip porn games, ok great so filter nsfw or sexual content but that also filters actual games that happen to have sexual content. I dont like horror games where all you do is walk around and hide from stuff. But i do like other horror games and some walking sims. As of now the filtering is way too strict and not flexible enough.
>>724460939Withering Rooms>999 reviews or lower fuck....
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2026260/Ocnus_Theory/What if Katamari was a platformer? A cool navigational, 'platformer', with lots of exploration, secrets, and problems to solve as you try to progress.
Oh sweet a thread where fucking nobody devs advertise their garbage.
>>724497501isn't it great?play Copy Kittyhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/349250/Copy_Kitty/
>>724497501what does you being new to 4chan have to do with video games?
>>724483234if you need something comfy for those cold wet october evenings, it's a good choice.lack of proper map is annoying but i powered through
>>724497501Advertising, eh? Alright then I guess I can shill this demo that I worked on. Didn't get many plays so I figure it counts.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2980450/Cliax_Codec/
>>724471501Seconding Dragonloop-chan. Pretty neat and cheap as fuck metroidvania with a timeloop gimmick where you start at the same spot every loop but have to explore further within the same time frame (1 week). It's not a mindblowing execution of the concept, but cool enough spin on the standard metroidvania formula.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3054470/Rogue_Zodiacs/This one is a recc from one of these threads. Didn't play much as I found out I don't like RPG roguelites, but if you like build crafting, that's definitely something to keep on your radar.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1307960/Quartet/Neat JRPG inspired game in which you can swap your off-team members during battle, like Labyrinth of Touhou 2. An all-around solid game with good balance, but it's not without its fair share of flaws related to story and pacing and the bosses are a bit on the easy side, but definitely not braindead tier easy.
>>724471598I'm surprised I hadn't heard about this. I can't remember what manga it was, but I read something within the last few years where one of the characters really loved the book or the author. I saw it was one of the only books of his that'd been translated, but I've not gotten around to reading it yet. and now it's bugging me that I can't remember what manga it was. I know it had a family driving out to the countryside as the start, but that doesn't really narrow it down.
>>724499868Oh forgot to mention, but Quartet actually uses proper instruments for its music rather than chiptune, which I wasn't expecting. Granted the OST is mediocre for the most part, with just 3 tracks that caught my attention.
>>724472021I tried playing this one, but it felt painfully generic, like Crypt Custodian but not nearly as smooth of a gameplay.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1114650/HorrorVale/It's a game made for Halloween, which is basically tomorrow. Charming as fuck too.
>>724464379I feel like the biggest surprise hit with /v/ was kats trigger. it's pure distilled edgekino with really solid 2d combat with a fluid grappling hook for flying around and yanking enemies towards you.the big surprise for me personally was psycho sleuth. I saw a few other anons talking about it, but not as much as I expected. I hadn't heard about it before the fest, and it blew me away. extremely solid murder mystery vn that's overtly a game of werewolf, with a neat twist. extra surprised /v/ didn't latch onto it because the mc's sister is a huge brocon
