Had a great thread about this not too long ago, let's get another one going. Anon recommended Pic related to me last time, so now I am recommending it to you. Post your hidden gems.
I'll be the first post to bitch about a game having thousands of reviews on steam not being "hidden" anythingThat being said check out this immersive sim it's great https://store.steampowered.com/app/1571940/Ctrl_Alt_Ego/
>>739126018Looks cool. I don't know much about immersive sims.
>>739125851Fucking kill yourself you subhuman shillrat. Post fucking screenshots of a game instead of a phone photo of your fucking bloated drm botnet.
>>739125851I came here to backup OP's shilling.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1768650/Path_of_the_Abyss/DRPG with weirdness and cool art.>>739126247Sure, here you go.
>>739126247Now THIS is a quality melty. :^)
>>739125851Northern Journey was really fun game, and OST was the shit.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Naxt51rdk&list=PL1pgKtEsFl2eXALatr4XH_KmYNcO0BD8O&index=14
I will not post the game, though, because I don't want /v/eddit ruining it.
>>739126910>hidden>1300 reviews
Citadel and Beyond Citadel>inspired some autismo to compile a 180 page long lore book>people enjoy the mechanics so much they are actively trying to porn new content into the game
>>739126910You can pretty safely say it has already escaped velocity at that point. Sweet spot is sub 100 at the most if you don't want something to be ruined. Which is funny if you think about it because if the game is good you want the dev to profit from it
>>739125851hidden gem? hardly for people who are into kingshit-likes, but in the grand scheme of things kinda
This has under 300 reviews.
You guys never reply to my posts so now I will keep all my hidden gems to myself. You did this!
>>739127898Only 300? That is an excellent lil horror shooter and almost makes me feel bad for pirating it
>>739126382>that picSOVL unfiltered
>>739127971I have this in my followed games list. From reviews it's very very short but fun.
>>739126910>ruining it>>739127530>ruinedUnless it's receiving constant updates based on player feedback, I don't see how a game can be ruined by becoming more known.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1390070/Ad_Infernum/63 reviews. good survival horror/immersive sim
>>739128209Pardon the low resolution, I played the whole thing on the Steam Deck.
>>739125851Cepheus Protocol. Its an RTS along the lines of Men of War, but you have to contain a zombie outbreak on a real time overworld map where you have to make supply lines to rearm your guys, quarantine areas for checking civilians, your own checkpoints and outfit crews to send out to hunt down patient zero before zombies start to evolve.The UI is jank as fuck but its pretty great.
326 reviews. An easy but fun platforming type game with some nice environments. Very comfy all told.
I like shilling Dead hand. A fairly unique Turn Based Tactics / Roguelike hybrid about drones murderbotting each other in a nuclear silo.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1117480/Dead_Hand/
>>739128897This looks like an asset flip
That game really had some good water, was impressed
>>739129039Whats Steve up to these days, I wonder?
>>739129009>asset flipof what?you might like an store screenshot better
>>739125851Thoughts on spiders OP?
>>739129554Asset flip is a derogatory term for a game on steam that was quickly put together with default store assets
>>739128209>basically a less painful Pathologic set in the fjords>huge beautiful setpieces, dozens of characters, no recycled assets, no indie meme genres, no clumsy "retro" panderingdon't know why does /v/ shill garbage like that excavator fighter waifu game and not this
>>739129701I don't think it uses unreal or unity
>>739129884no waifus in nothern journey
>>739125851Good game. I will say it has the biggest and most varied amount of spiders I've ever seen in vidya, you've been warned.
>>739125851>Northern Journey>hiddenWe have dedicated threads for it multiple times a month, it's almost to 3000 reviews. Stop starting these threads with bait, we have plenty of games to discuss without doing so.I'll shill A Song of Sunlight. It's 80% depressing visual novel, 20% 2D souls-ish turn-based combat against BLAME!-inspired raptor machines exploring an oppressively large megastructure beneath your town.I said the combat is turn-based, but there's heavy real time elements and a positioning system. You've got maybe 2 seconds to decide your move or else you're forced to defend. All attacks from all parties have a timed element, basically a simple QTE with one or more optional inputs to alter stamina/health/position changes. It seems like an odd choice for combat at first, but it keeps growing and when it eventually starts to challenge you it feels like a real-time game where you're gasping for air and trying to pull off a protracted battle using only muscle memory.The story is the bulk of the content and while it appears slow at first, it's mostly gearing up to become a slow descent where everything becomes awful and everyone is miserable. It's only up to Chapter 2 so far, where 3 will probably be the climax and 4 will be falling action/epilogue.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2263250/A_Song_Of_Sunlight/
>>739131080>see pic>disregard the mucho texto and open steam link>visual novellol lmfao i hate this board
>>739131185Yeah if you can't read my post you'll be unable to read the game. There's like 6 hours of dialogue so far
>>739128315Nice try
>pseudo mmo boss rush where you control two guys. fine tuned and fun.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2166690/Savage_Ultimate_Boss_Fight/>Touhou the bazaar clone, fun but sadly easy and fast to beathttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3950050/Touhou_Witchs_Night_Market/>comfy space mining>Delta V if it was made in 1995https://store.steampowered.com/app/3656660/Deep_Space_Exploitation/
>>739131354The biggest diservice to games like this and Stolen Realm, Bloodlines and Tavern Keeper is that they are using store bought assets for the aesthetic. If they had their own assets and art direction they would go a lot farther. They just look cheap as fuck when you see its the exact same player models and armours used in a bunch of different games that have nothing to do with eachohter.
>>739126247DAYUMN the melty. estrogen in the tapweter do be real after all
>>739125851>Hidden gem thread>Average review count is over 1k
>>739125851why you do keep reposting the same OP with this style, dev-chan? i remember this exact thread from a few years ago, and we talked about Northern Journey at that time. since then many eceleb made shill videos about it. cool story cutie
>>739131869guy made like half a mil on it, why would he shill here to scrub 1 sale a thread? he gets more naturally daily doing nothing.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2423710/Eldritchvania/Free, short La Mulana-esque game. I wasn't crazy about the combat, but the puzzles were nice>>739126382Oh neat, I was waiting for this to leave Early Access. I guess it did so a while ago, but I must have forgotten after hearing that>>739131354>Synty assetsAbsolutely disgusting
>>739132121ok if you're not him, why keep the same ritualistic posting style? you do understand it's not a hidden gem anymore if even eceleb reviewers talked about it and shilled it
>>739125851
>>739131528That's why some hidden gaymes stay hidden, you need to dig through a layer of crusty lazy store bought asset/ASCII graphix/terrible user interface/no animations etc.
I miss Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 Cobi/Tara, Siralim was not close to the breeding autism I like, any game about actually raising generations of monster that is not a fucking gacha?
Neat MSX-styled coop metroidvania.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1966220/Pampas__Selene_The_Maze_of_Demons/
>>739133140Oh is this that Sonic-like game with busty choccy lady?>>739133037>>739132947>>739128897Looks fucking cool.
>>739131528>Stolen Realm>make a good game turn based tactics RPG>out of nowhere decide to try and make a fucking survivor like with Stolen Realms naming>its also using the store assetsI love SR, I really do, its a perfect "get some friends together for a night and play an RPG where you can make progress in one sitting" game, but the devs are fucking retarded and I hope they take the backlash from the 100 Stolen Realm players to heart. Do a sequel or do DLC, who the fuck wants to play a survivor like thats using store assets, thats fucking insane. They made something great and decided to try and move onto something that is a bygone fad, with STORE ASSETS. If they made a sequel that didnt have store assets it would probably do very well, its the kind of game I wish there was more of.
>>739129884>PathologicNot really. It's just a linear level-based exploration shooter, like if DOOM met Skyrim.Still waiting on his next game.
>>739132476>no name in file eehmm ok ?
>>739127652this is game is done and not in EA or expecting more updates, right? I should give it a go
>>739129691>when the flute player promises this batch will be the last living spiders we encounter>livingThat slimy fuck.
>>739133037Reminds me a lot of Star Wars Ep1 Racer
>The Bench (84 reviews)A comedy puzzle adventure game where as you play as an old guy who has been gifted the power to control pigeons.
>>739133819Is that even out yet? I thought they just said demo coming soon™?
The Adventures Of Sir KicksalotInspired by Dark Messiah
>>739134337Forgor linkhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2629230/The_Adventures_of_Sir_Kicksalot/
>>739134179Don't think so, NG+ seems to be the last update
>>739125851Any recs for games like NJ with characters that speak in riddles and such? Maybe some schizo shit like Pathologic does.
>>739126910I found it https://store.steampowered.com/app/3599690/Funi_Raccoon_Game/?curator_clanid=4777282
>>739134685Anthology Of The Killer?
>>739134685Vangersyou retarded wojak poster
>>739134835Thanks, wishlisted it :)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2340130/Ground_Zero/Resident evil 3 set in korea.
>>739134110Went and checked it's Kuiper Wanderer, not out yethttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4629700/Kuiper_Wanderer/Also>The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:>We employ AI-enhanced pipelines for the optimization of certain artistic resources.
>>739135437thx for the info
>>739130478There is that one very cute seer girl though
>>739127652I feel like they often end up very mediocre, but there's something I find very charming about these indie low poly dungeon crawlers/rpgs.
Why did it fail /v/? Why did it fail to jump off despite having everything going for it?>1.7 million views from a popular youtuber reggie for free advertisement>Over 30k copies sold or more>Unique artstyle and gameplay>Good concept with scalabilityWhy does a piece of garbage game like lethal company succeed yet this doesnt despite it being the objectively better game.Just goes to show you can have a very good concept, execute the artstyle and coding perfectly but will still die even IF tens of thousands of people buy it it can still fail.
>>739135864What?
>>739135864Because Aneurism is a jank-ass DarkRP type game, while Lethal Company is a "just download it and go be a dumbass and have fun" game you can just jump into with friends.Dummy.
>>739135913It failed long term despite objectively selling well at first and being a good game.It has 100 people max playing it. It failed in its long term objective of being a good multiplayer game.
>>739134810>catch they/them ass
>>739136229100 peeps is enough for what, 5 servers?That is fine for a low-maintenance game like this.Natural Selection 2 has been maintaining daily peeks between 150 and 200 for a decade and I would never say that game "failed."
>>739135864Your game doesn't really seem comparable to a friendslop type of game like Lethal Company. There's too many choices in the current year, if you want your MP game to have longevity you need to account for loss of interest from a big part of the community over time. Also this seems to be pretty much DarkRP: The Game, so I assume it also failed because of powertripping admins.
>>739135181I bought this a couple weeks ago. Pretty cool so far.
>>739134810nah I'm good, fuck wokeslop
>>739136883I've been working my way through on normal difficulty and the length is quite noticeable - it is significantly longer than you'd expect from an RE clone and while i'm enjoying it I think if one sat down to marathon it one would burn out.
How is thsi game ? New revs seem to be mixed and something about dif spikehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3133650/Gold_Gold_Adventure_Gold/
>>739137803This one popped up for me today too, no idea why.
>>739138754Cause it came out 3 days ago?
>>739138754Could be, no idea. Doesn't look like my kind of game.
>>739125851Are there indies with good and real pre rendered backgrounds?
>>739125851There's no such thing as hidden gemIf nobody played it then its was dogshit
>>739134835>>739135151AotK is fantastic (for a walking sim) but is not at all niche or hidden. It just got a Switch 2 port, for example.>>739135181I watched a RE streamer play it. The heavy defensive combo combat bullshit turned me off, but it's a really strong implementation. I'm hopeful Phase Zero, another RE-like, comes out soon.
>>73913951310k games come out a year on Steam, anon. The signal to noise ratio in gaming hasn't been this high since the 80s. Plenty of interesting games come and go because nobody knows about them.t. indiedev
>>739139594Which game in this thread is yours
>>739139594There's one guy who made a talk at GDC about a concept he called "Real Steam". Won't shill it because he has a product to sell but he has a point. There's basically the Steam where you can discover things easily and some gems with a little bit of digging (interactive recommender in Steam Labs for example) and then there's the Shadow Realm where people won't ever find your shit.
i guess this has had actual traction since i last played the demo in the haunted ps1 2020 compilation, but have you all played dread delusion? the full version seems to be compared to morrowind but i always thought it felt like an earlier fromsoftware game mixed with myst.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574240/Dread_Delusion/
>>739139768isnt this just itchio, twine, and gog? there are game ecommerce platforms other than steam that are also not origin
>>739139768I don't think I've ever found games by browsing Steam, except a few during Next Fest.
>>739139656I haven't posted it yet because it's mostly a VN and I try to read the thread's mood to see if anons are looking for a game like that.>>739139768Games need to hit a critical mass to get picked up into things like Steam offering your game as a Daily Deal or recommending it to people. The vast majority of games (70% or more) don't even make the $100 platform fee back. One of the big problems is the flood of people making the absolute lowest effort bottom of the barrel shit because they just want to roll dice in a casino at maybe their $1000 game gets picked up and makes $5k. Mobile games have had that problem for almost two decades now.
>>739140262Calling yourself a gamedev when you've made a visual novel is like someone calling themselves a chef after they microwaved a store-bought pizza
>>739140440Some of the low effort ones can certainly be like that, especially if you're using an out of the box engine like RenPy where you just plug in assets. I made mine in Unity with some of the backbone systems purchased from the Unity Asset Store, but it wasn't at all a simple or easy process to turn those pieces into a game.
>>739138931Guess not. People love it, yet no one uses it. Really makes you dink se tink.
>>739133819post the name
>>739125851I love this threads so much
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1932680/LunarLux/Playing this right now and it's really good.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2084000/Shogun_Showdown/Nearly 6k reviews isn't exactly hidden, but I've never seen anybody mention this one. 66 hours played so far and it's great.Fanatical bundles are a goldmine of hidden gems for really cheap. Seen a few already posted in this thread that I got from them recently.
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>>739140873Shogun is really great. Didn't expect to like it as much as I have. Only about ten hours so far, still unlocking characters.
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2325180/Mirage_7/
>>739125851>>739126302What's with the disembodied VR hands?
>>739141489The player is genetically related to rayman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogg2OxiCeOo
>>739142827
>>739142827>travel across the shire>travel across the frozen wastes>travel across world's edge mountains>travel across mordor>travel across swampy louisiana>all to attend a rave
>>739129451Still doing MRE reviews, as god intended
>>739141486If they're gonna do a Pejeeta MC, I'm glad they went all out on it instead of some ambiguous mystery meat like Unknown 9, but damn that review count makes me sad for the dev. Game looks nice.
Anybody tried Brutal Orchestra? Is it good?
>>739144525The pigment mechanic seemed a little weird at first, but I had fun once I got used to it. Apparently the dev added a lot of new stuff since I played.
>>739125851https://store.steampowered.com/app/2474430/TetherGeist/Good celeste clone with different mechanics
>>739144525I enjoyed it. Most of the replayability comes from what characters/items you get. Some enemies and bosses can use moves that either move a character left or right, which can result in either nothing happening or a party member getting killed. I only mention that as it can be a deal-breaker for some, but you can plan around it. Personally I would recommend it.
>>739145245>>739145514Cool, I'm gonna grab it (and get the game too, haha).
>>739143198How the FUCK did the village idiot get to marebogHow the FUCK does anything lives in the drowned veinsI wish the game had less combat at the end and more fallcrush/greenslit style zones, although the gash, wastes, haunted glacier, and diving sections were all still extremely cool
Games I've recently enjoyed, most of which don't feel hidden but they're under the 1k reviews these threads usually ask for.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2650350/Super_Puzzled_Cat/ (197 reviews)Silly and difficult puzzle platformer with lots of secrets. Allows save stating everywhere, which helps a ton with precise sequences but if you're a completionist, you'll need to learn to do the brutal bits without them eventuallyhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2302320/Poke_ALL_Toads/ (392 reviews)Cute sokoban. /agdg/ developed. Starts easy, ramps up around chapter 5.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3214530/Treasure_n_Trio/ (235 reviews)Cute sokoban. Not /agdg/ developed. Pretty consistently around the upper end of Poke ALL Toads's difficulty.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1381770/Fortune_Summoners_Secret_of_the_Elemental_Stone/ (58 + 879 reviews)I don't know how this is still under 1k, even adding in the delisted Carpe Fulgur version. Old 2D action RPG with surprisingly competent combat and enemy AI, expect spacing and antiairs. Dungeon exploration's pretty good too.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2585890/Demon_Tides/ (757 reviews)Bowser's Fury with better platforming and movement.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2663150/Valkyrie_Saga/ (236 reviews)Short, low budget 3D platformer with surprisingly good exploration and movement.
>>739125851Only thing I wished the game had more of was encounter with things that talk. The ferryman was great, but kind of the only time.
>>739147195Idiot savant. How else did he find such a cute pet worm?
>>739126382I love NJ sense of scale. Even if it isn't open per se, you can reach a lot of distant places you'd assume are unreachable at first glance.
>>739147196Poke All Toads was fantastic. I know the guy is from here and doesn't need my help shilling but I'll shill it all the same.
>>739148683same, game is phenomenal. Hope the dude makes some DLC with new fairies/toads
>>739139987gave me Lunacid feel more than anything
>>739148869He announced upcoming content updates and gave this little preview. So something is in the works.
>>739137803#1 rule of steam reviews:Never, ever, listen to the ones where people are whining about difficulty.
There are no hidden gems, anything actually good and not just "autist good" which is actually just shit, will be relatively well known and lauded to anyone who pays any attention to video games.
>>739149974pathetic little mainstreamer is seething. the only thing he's capable of is doing what he's told. He couldn't figure out what games are good on his own no matter how hard he tried and now he just seethes inside.
>>739149974FUCKING FREAK ALERT.
>>739125851unfortunately the game really shits the bed in the last 20%. really enjoyed it up until that point, even if it was mostly for atmosphere.
to be a true gemologist you have to be watching the steam new queue and trying out demos and new releases constantly.How do you ever expect to find anything if you're not even looking?
>>739151263The white chamber came to steam? Wild
>>739151263Liberty Belle looks cute. Might give it a whirl.
>>739151531I'll get around to it eventually. I have lots of games to play.
>>739149789Reviews whining about difficulty are pretty valuable. If I see them I know the game's actually challenging, easily makes me want to buy it more.
>>739151263My lazier method in recent years had been to filter to current year on backloggd and sort by rating. Has the added benefit of catching non-steam games and romhacks, too.Unfortunately they started displaying weighted ratings for low review count games and I don't know of a way to disable that, so you no longer get obscure games two people played padding out the top rows of 5 star games.
>>739128682i loved this one. super comfy time, really recommend it.
>>739152576Yeah, but that's not listening to them, that's ignoring them. You are doing the opposite of what they said.
>>739151263So how good is Vultures? The demo was fine but it needed some spice, too easy to ram zombie into walls and stunlock them
>10k reviews>Hidden gem.
>>739151263The book of Buja demo was an excellent zelda-like, starts off with you having this weird ability to see people's last moments before you die and you go back in time and see the Queen talking to no one before she is slain but she's obviously talking to you because she knows about your ability for some reason and she warns you of a danger and the danger is clearly the castle council and then you immediately get locked out of the castle and told to "figure it out and save me". It was good, insta-wishlist.
>>739153609It's decently long, but yeah they haven't challenged me so far I am pretty good at curbstomping them and not receiving hits at all. But maybe it will get harder? I'm only halfway through.
How's Sektori? Not a hidden gem anymore maybe, but first time I heard about it was today.
>>739153914So worth the price?
>>739154408I suppose so. It's not good enough that I would go around randomly bringing it up to people who haven't asked, but if someone does ask me specifically about it, I wouldn't tell them it was a bad game. Plenty of games are just average.
>>739134237Reminds me of Megarace except without Lance Boyle
>>739136894Is dat some Waverace??
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1716310/Awaken__Astral_Blade/Awaken: Astral Blade. I found this game recently looking for Metroidvanias. It has an interesting and satisfying combat system, beautiful artstyle and some cool boss designs. Overall solid 8/10.
