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[Jubenhimer]

Relic Hunters Zero

It's a Free-to-play top-down twinstick shooter with rouge-like elements. You pick a character than use a variety of weapons to fight a gauntlet of enemies as you hunt for treasure. What makes this game unique is that it's open source, meaning anyone with Game Maker can mod the game, as well as use it's code as a base for other games. I haven't been able to take advantage of this yet since I don't have Game Maker, but even without messing around with the guts, the game is still a blast to play. It's fast, challenging, and surprisingly robust for a F2P game of it's genre.

 

[Phreakuency]

Rochard.

Can't link right now, on mobile, but this game is well worth checking out.

Came in to post just this. Great game and currently 90% off too.

 

[Schrödinger's cat]

Obviously the best puzzle game on Steam:




The former has DLC packs for DROD 1-3 and 12 official level packs

Seconded!

I love this game. It looks like a nightmare but plays like a dream.

 

[Crayon]

I see on the Steam page that it has controller support. Is this a twin-stick shooter?

More or less but the controls are a little more complicated than your average twin stick shooter. It takes some dexterity. The game has a speed slider tho and at default it runs at s pretty fast tick so you can slow it down while you get the hang of things.

 

[Ascheroth]

No question, Tales of Maj'Eyal. An incredible roguelike that is often overlooked due to graphics. Don't do yourself the disservice of not checking it out. Hell, the whole game is free from the website, but DarkGod definitely deserves your beer or twelve.

Seconded.

The House in Fata Morgana - Great characters and gripping story with an unique artstyle and outstanding soundtrack. My favorite Visual Novel by far.

Fata Morgana is a must read.

I'll add Evoland 2, which while being a western game captures a lot of that 'experimental old-school JRPG' flair. (No, you don't need to play 1). It's core feature is changing genre all the time, you'll have turn-based strategy section, SHMUP, Match-3, Rythm Game, beat-em-up, etc. And all of them are well-done and don't overstay their welcome.

It's a fantastic game.

Astebreed: Recently played this and it's just an action-packed, incredibly stylish SHMUP.

Xanadu Next: If I had to sum it up with one sentence, I'd say it's a Falcom game Xanadu Next is an incredibly fun and incredibly satisfying game, that just feels right on every level.
It's like a slightly slower and more RPG-heavy Ys game with an interconnected world and lots of secrets to find. Combat is fast, but heavily emphasizes positioning and the feedback is incredibly satisfying.
The story is very interesting as well, and while it may seem unimportant and perfunctory at most in the beginning, it builds up to a stunning conclusion.

Infinifactory is a real cool 'Sandbox puzzle game'. In each stage the goal is to produce something predefined. You're totally free in how to produce that. The game gives you the tools (and you get more and more new stuff as it goes on) and let's you use them how you want. There's not one solution you have to find, there are a myriad of possible solutions you can create yourself. It's also fun to compare yourself to friends and that gif-creation feature it has is amazing.

 

[gondwana]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/35800/BRAINPIPE_A_Plunge_to_Unhumanity/

This is kind of a stripped down Minteresque tube arcade game. Mechanically, the game itself is a pretty austere obstacle avoider. No shooting. You just pick up runes between dodging stuff and try to progressively shed your humanity or some such. The sound design is absolutely phenomenal and noteworthy...and deservedly award winning. Each of the obstacles has a specific and distinct sound. The further you are in the game the more congested the tube gets, creating a forest like effect with all the sounds whizzing to and from and panning left to right in stereo. Sitting in the background there's a musical soundscape that's reminiscent of the experiments composers made using primitive tape technology in the 50's and 60's, like Stockhausen, Tod Dockstader, Pauline Oliveros, etc. Electroacoustics, synthesis, vocal samples -- it all makes for a completely unpredictable soundfield that's constantly changing. Crucially, the game speeds up each level. i find myself getting into the "flow" deep in the game, eyes watering up and shit, after it gets barely comprehensible. As an audiovisual experience, it really just all comes together and sings.

FREE. Send a couple bucks Digital Eel's way on itch.io if you dig the game. Great little independent studio. We need this in VR.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/527740/YANKAIS_TRIANGLE/

This one is an endless puzzle game i'm still obsessing over after all these months after release. I play it just about everyday. Basically, you flip a lot of fucking triangles. You keep flipping triangles into bigger triangles and create what looks like demented buddhist triangle mandalas upon completion. The game is more of an atmospheric toy that occasionally puzzles you than a brain buster like Space Chem or w/e. It, very cryptically, introduces new mechanics to the triangle-flipping process here and there. Really though, there's not much linear difficulty progression, so you can have a set that you solve in ten seconds and next round have one that takes a few minutes. I think that's great. Like Brainpipe, this takes the abstract approach to sound. You won't hear much resembling formal music but instead a lot of, sometimes manipulated, field recordings of our beautiful little world, everything from coyotes to busy cafes.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/513360/Mu_Cartographer/

I actually haven't gotten too deep in this one, but I'll throw it out here since (1) it's interesting and (2) it's dirt cheap and you should probably buy this instead of your next loot box or overpriced coffee if you want to go off the beaten path. It's kind of an ambient map exploration game/toy/thing where you twist a lot of knobs and feel pretty relaxed and cool.

 

[KDR_11k]

Revolver 360 Re:Actor. Here, this GIF should explain the unique concept:

The triggers rotate the playfield and collision happens in 2D.

 

[KainXVIII]

Very creepy Yume Nikki/Zelda clone with haunting OST that will stay on your playlist for a long time 😬

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

Northgard is a little RTS that takes you back to base building in Warcraft 2/3. It is similar to the excellent lifestock village RTS, Banished, but it is more forgiving than Banished.

Northgard does have combat, but it's focused on expanding your viking village and surviving the winters. So for those of you who are more defensive, it's great.

Mrs Splosion Man is really funny. Unfortunately it's the only Twisted Pixel title on Steam (no Comic Jumper ). It's an addicting platformer that takes pop culture level memes to untold absurdities.

One of the first-non Valve games on Steam that was truly good. I think this was one of the first games I bought back in 2005 or 2006. It's a classic "wargames" style game about nuclear war.
Aesthetically minimalist and crisp.

 

[OverdriveOtaku]

More or less but the controls are a little more complicated than your average twin stick shooter. It tacks some dexterity. The game has a speed slider tho and at default it runs at s pretty fast tick so you can slow it down whole you get the hang of things.

Sweet, thanks for the info

 

[Hambulance]

No question, Tales of Maj'Eyal. An incredible roguelike that is often overlooked due to graphics. Don't do yourself the disservice of not checking it out. Hell, the whole game is free from the website, but DarkGod definitely deserves your beer or twelve.

Brigador.

It's an outrageously good game for how little attention it gets. Fills a niche that I really needed filled. Spectacular stuff. Please take a look. Don't let this dev studio go under!

Awesome OST too
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I guess I could add Echoes+

It's sorta like Geometry Wars, or Asteroids on crack, and completely free!
Here's a low quality gif!

 

[Joyful]

this reminded me to look up consortium the tower and I see it snuck unto steam early access a week ago

 

[Zojirushi]

Adr1ft let's you float through fucking space which is like the coolest thing ever and I don't understand how people got the "it's only good for VR" notion.

 

[iJack]

Road Redemption.

 

[BlazeHedgehog]

If a game received a GiantBomb quicklook, I don't really know if I'd personally classify it as "unknown" (Rochard, Evoland, Brigador).

Hmmm... somebody brought up Super Hydorah earlier, and I'd say all of Locomalito's games are worth checking out (he has two on Steam now, and a sizable free catalog on his website).

My pick would be... Super Fancy Pants Adventure.



When I tweeted about this on the game's release day, a lot of my followers were confused because they while they knew of Fancy Pants Adventures, they didn't know there was a new game. The short history is this: FPA started as a flash game on Newgrounds and Kongregate, it had something like 3 or 4 worlds. It plays like a looser, more parkour-focused Sonic the Hedgehog and it feels really good, with extremely fluid animation, big sweeping hills, lots of speed, and robust traversal abilities. Quite fun.

The developer behind FPA caught the eye of Electronic Arts, who contracted him to develop the Mirror's Edge 2D flash game using a modified version of the Fancy Pants Adventures engine. Even years after Mirror's Edge was out, I believe he continued to work on and improve Mirror's Edge 2D, adding new abilities, new levels, and fixing bugs.

That gave him an in with EA, and when they announced an effort to help publish indie developers (called "EA2D"?), one of the very first projects they did that with was a console release of "The Fancy Pants Adventures" for Xbox Live Arcade and PSN. It was a sequel-slash-pseudo-remake of the flash game, and as I recall it seemed to drop like a lead weight. I guess I don't know sales figures, but it really seemed like the world at large paid zero attention to the console version of FPA. To my fuzzy memories, it was one of the only, if not the only "EA2D" game ever released.

Fancy Pants surfaced and languished on mobile after that. Again, no attention paid. I didn't even know they released FPA on mobile until a year after they announced this Steam game -- Super Fancy Pants Adventure, a sequel to the XBLA/PSN game.

Super keeps everything that made FPA so fun but adds unlockable cosmetics and a bunch of new abilities all centered around the hero ("Fancy Pants Man") finding a fountain pen that fell out of the real world. The pen gives you all kinds of fun melee combat options in addition to new traversal abilities (some of which are kinda-sorta borrowed from Mirror's Edge 2D). It's definitely worth checking out if you like games about flow.

 

[Farmboy]

Turmoil is a very fun and addictive sim game. It combines the distinctive vibe of a 1990s MicroProse PC game (complete with quaint but cool graphical style) with a neat 'There Will Be Blood'-esque setting: you're a late 19th century oil baron, setting up rigs in search of black gold.

The main part takes place on the oil field where you drill for wells, then use horses to ship the oil to factories who buy it off you. Afterwards you can use your profits to buy upgrades in the town, as well as bid on a new stretch of land.

The campaign is great fun, and afterwards you can play single games against friends or participate in the weekly online challenges. DLC is also coming.

Full disclosure: the developers are friends of mine and I've done some work for them in the past. But I didn't work on Turmoil other than playing it lots and lots and lots (still do the weekly challenges, too!).

 

[me0wish]

The cat lady, the closest a title made me feel to Silent Hill.

Zeno Clash 1 and 2, one of the best worlds in video games, with an epic story, and one of the most satisfying endings.

 

[KDR_11k]

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[IMG]http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/603530/ss_79e96d9f6fe4e0be94c7c60577bd7337ae28f909.jpg?t=1506388291[/IMG]
[IMG]http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/603530/ss_2e0c8ef64e45694c724f16eb31120a9aff0c16b9.jpg?t=1506388291[/IMG]

A Robot Named Fight, a roguelite that's very much like Super Metroid. Since the pacing and balancing is also similar to SM it's not remotely as punishing as other roguelites (or Samus Returns, for that matter). Most of the time you can practically ignore the permadeath aspect, especially since there are extra lives so even deadly mistakes aren't immediate run enders.

 

[thesonovabeach]

Lots of very cool stuff here guys. Love these kinds of threads!

I would also add A Normal Lost Phone, which is best played on mobile but also available on Steam.

You find a Smartphone and have to understand who it belongs to and what happens to that person.

 

[jptuo]

Company of Heroes 2

 

[MurkyZebra2417]

Ubermosch Collection, very cool action packed arcade games:
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/95016/

You just have to survive waves of enemies for 90 seconds, but it gets really hectic and action packed. During sales it is often -90%, so really cheap for 6 games which each offer 1-2 hours gameplay (if you go for all challenges). The soundtrack also is really cool.

Trailer

 

[Englebert3rd]

Brigador.

It's an outrageously good game for how little attention it gets. Fills a niche that I really needed filled. Spectacular stuff. Please take a look. Don't let this dev studio go under!

Great mention! Make sure to get it, it's a fantastic experience.

 

[CecilRousso]

Duke Grabowski

A P&C adventure, from Bill Tiller, who was lead artist on The Dig, Lead Background Artist on Curse of Monkey Island, and then created A Vampyre Story.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/472420/Duke_Grabowski_Mighty_Swashbuckler/

 

[Stoze]

Quadrilateral Cowboy. It's a heist/puzzle game with some strong, old-school immersive sim influences. There's a ton of ideas and interesting design crammed into it, but the core gameplay usually has you going into a small but dense level that you complete by entering commands into your deck (a computer with a text-based terminal you can just drop at your feet) to unlock doors, disable alarms, control a quadrupedal robot, etc.. It's hard to describe and there's a lot more to it, but it's one of the coolest games I've ever played, certainly one of my favorites from last year.

Steamspy says about 20k owners, deserves way more.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

From the devs of Titan Quest. It's my favorite diablo-clone currently.

 

[Mikke]

Someone in one of those Steam sale threads recommended this and I'm glad they did.
Infested Planet is a (very light) RTS with some Tower Defense elements, except you're not really on the defense but on the offense.

You usually start out swarmed by thousands of alien creatures and have to take the map back.The aliens react to what you're doing by changing up their movement and taking on new abilities by mutating, forcing you to adapt. Really addictive. And it's currently on sale.

 

[Aztechnology]

From the devs of Titan Quest. It's my favorite diablo-clone currently.

Better than POE!?

 

[Ruruja]

They're kind of like hidden object games where you find specific items around the world map to complete quests for NPCs, the story is like a traditional RPG setting.

There's not much challenge to them other than finding the objects. Quite addictive and relaxing. You can get them on the cheap in sales often and there's a third in development.

 

[IrishNinja]

everyone knows about Audiosurf

but more folks should know about Audiosurf

 

[NoblesseOblige]

Better than POE!?

Not going to argue which is better. They're both great in different ways. Grim Dawn is more reminiscent of Diablo 2 age of the genre. POE is a more modern one.

 

[TheRedSnifit]

Sunless Sea is fantastic. It's easily the greatest bunch of words ever put in a game, and it also comes with a fantastic soundtrack and art. If you're into Lovecraftian horror, humor, or just good reading in general, it's definitely worth checking out.

 

[Dueck]

I enjoyed Sanitarium. I played it like 20 years ago at my buddy's house and then noticed it in a Steam sale last year and picked it up. It's a puzzle-heavy adventure game that's a great example of "it's about the journey not the destination." The stages are all very diverse and the game has this underlying creepiness about it.

 

[More_Badass]

If a game received a GiantBomb quicklook, I don't really know if I'd personally classify it as "unknown" (Rochard, Evoland, Brigador).

Hmmm... somebody brought up Super Hydorah earlier, and I'd say all of Locomalito's games are worth checking out (he has two on Steam now, and a sizable free catalog on his website).

My pick would be... Super Fancy Pants Adventure.



When I tweeted about this on the game's release day, a lot of my followers were confused because they while they knew of Fancy Pants Adventures, they didn't know there was a new game. The short history is this: FPA started as a flash game on Newgrounds and Kongregate, it had something like 3 or 4 worlds. It plays like a looser, more parkour-focused Sonic the Hedgehog and it feels really good, with extremely fluid animation, big sweeping hills, lots of speed, and robust traversal abilities. Quite fun.

The developer behind FPA caught the eye of Electronic Arts, who contracted him to develop the Mirror's Edge 2D flash game using a modified version of the Fancy Pants Adventures engine. Even years after Mirror's Edge was out, I believe he continued to work on and improve Mirror's Edge 2D, adding new abilities, new levels, and fixing bugs.

That gave him an in with EA, and when they announced an effort to help publish indie developers (called "EA2D"?), one of the very first projects they did that with was a console release of "The Fancy Pants Adventures" for Xbox Live Arcade and PSN. It was a sequel-slash-pseudo-remake of the flash game, and as I recall it seemed to drop like a lead weight. I guess I don't know sales figures, but it really seemed like the world at large paid zero attention to the console version of FPA. To my fuzzy memories, it was one of the only, if not the only "EA2D" game ever released.

Fancy Pants surfaced and languished on mobile after that. Again, no attention paid. I didn't even know they released FPA on mobile until a year after they announced this Steam game -- Super Fancy Pants Adventure, a sequel to the XBLA/PSN game.

Super keeps everything that made FPA so fun but adds unlockable cosmetics and a bunch of new abilities all centered around the hero ("Fancy Pants Man") finding a fountain pen that fell out of the real world. The pen gives you all kinds of fun melee combat options in addition to new traversal abilities (some of which are kinda-sorta borrowed from Mirror's Edge 2D). It's definitely worth checking out if you like games about flow.

N and Fancy Pants are like my Mario; they're the platformers I grew up with and played as a young teen. Nothing else has come close to matching the silky smooth flow and momentum-driving movement of those two. N is of course pure precision platformer, but Fancy Pants is all about style and experimentation and exploration.

 

[Sulik2]

Gridiron Solitaire. I've put hundreds of hours into. It's a surprising well made conversion of American Football strategy into an easy card game.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/266270/Gridiron_Solitaire/

Sunless Sea is fantastic. It's easily the greatest bunch of words ever put in a game, and it also comes with a fantastic soundtrack and art. If you're into Lovecraftian horror, humor, or just good reading in general, it's definitely worth checking out.

Seconding just be sure to install the GAF made mod that increases movement speed to reduce some of the tedium of playing.

 

[admiraltaftbar]

Wadjet Eye point'n click games!

Gemini Rue, Technobabylon, Blackwell series, Resonance, Shardlight, Primordia, etc.
All really cool games with awesome art.

Love wadget eye games. Gemini Rue is a good game to play for people who are considering playing The Last Night because it looks like Blade Runner. The Shivah is also worth playing even if it is short.

 

[afternoon delight]

Odallus The Dark Call

If you need a Castelvania / Shinobi fix, I got you.

 

[sheaaaa]

If a game received a GiantBomb quicklook, I don't really know if I'd personally classify it as "unknown" (Rochard, Evoland, Brigador).

Hmmm... somebody brought up Super Hydorah earlier, and I'd say all of Locomalito's games are worth checking out (he has two on Steam now, and a sizable free catalog on his website).

My pick would be... Super Fancy Pants Adventure.



When I tweeted about this on the game's release day, a lot of my followers were confused because they while they knew of Fancy Pants Adventures, they didn't know there was a new game. The short history is this: FPA started as a flash game on Newgrounds and Kongregate, it had something like 3 or 4 worlds. It plays like a looser, more parkour-focused Sonic the Hedgehog and it feels really good, with extremely fluid animation, big sweeping hills, lots of speed, and robust traversal abilities. Quite fun.

The developer behind FPA caught the eye of Electronic Arts, who contracted him to develop the Mirror's Edge 2D flash game using a modified version of the Fancy Pants Adventures engine. Even years after Mirror's Edge was out, I believe he continued to work on and improve Mirror's Edge 2D, adding new abilities, new levels, and fixing bugs.

That gave him an in with EA, and when they announced an effort to help publish indie developers (called "EA2D"?), one of the very first projects they did that with was a console release of "The Fancy Pants Adventures" for Xbox Live Arcade and PSN. It was a sequel-slash-pseudo-remake of the flash game, and as I recall it seemed to drop like a lead weight. I guess I don't know sales figures, but it really seemed like the world at large paid zero attention to the console version of FPA. To my fuzzy memories, it was one of the only, if not the only "EA2D" game ever released.

Fancy Pants surfaced and languished on mobile after that. Again, no attention paid. I didn't even know they released FPA on mobile until a year after they announced this Steam game -- Super Fancy Pants Adventure, a sequel to the XBLA/PSN game.

Super keeps everything that made FPA so fun but adds unlockable cosmetics and a bunch of new abilities all centered around the hero ("Fancy Pants Man") finding a fountain pen that fell out of the real world. The pen gives you all kinds of fun melee combat options in addition to new traversal abilities (some of which are kinda-sorta borrowed from Mirror's Edge 2D). It's definitely worth checking out if you like games about flow.

Great post! This is one of the games that inspired this actually. I heard about it somewhere and saw it release on Steam to not much fanfare. It's fascinating to see how a free Flash game progresses into an expanded, commercial product, and to compare this with N/N+/N++.

 

[More_Badass]

Gridiron Solitaire. I've put hundreds of hours into. It's a surprising well made conversion of American Football strategy into an easy card game.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/266270/Gridiron_Solitaire/


Seconding just be sure to install the GAF made mod that increases movement speed to reduce some of the tedium of playing.

I feel like increasing movement speed kind of ruins some of the atmosphere; you're in a slow steamboat undertaking grueling voyages into the unknown. It should be kind of tedious. Making the travel faster diminishes some of that tension of waiting and travel, watching your fuel diminish and supplies diminish as you try to reach to a port, maybe cutting out the lights to make the fuel last that little bit more

 

[Apathy]

One of the best games published by Adult Swim, yet also one of their most underrated. Never quite understood why it didn't take off in the same way a lot of their other games did.

That's my pick too. It's so good and I never hear anyone talk about it

 

[LordRaptor]

A bit long in the tooth now, but that just means you can find it for peanuts in steam sales regularly.

Its a good Space 4X game, for starters. For some people thats a sale right there.
For those wondering why buy another 4X game when theres a sea of 4X games, already available, let me tell you.

This game has an actual plot, and the narrative carries through to pretty much every aspect of the gameplay - the various races have very different means of traversing the galaxy, and those methods extend into their playstyles. If you like hard sci-fi, and some logical justifications for technology, instead of just hand waved space magic, you'll really appreciate this game.

One race can use 'warp tunnels' to move around; this makes some planets effectively inaccessible, and it makes some planets a huge round trip to get to, despite being physically in close proximity.
It also means that to this race, certain 'junction' planets become incredibly vital strategic positions, as they link entire sections of their territory together.

Another race 'digs' its own warp tunnels - they tear their own holes through warpspace, meaning ships can move through those tunnels faster and faster as they get more and more use - until the day the tunnel collapses, and that route is permanently inaccessible.
It means that this race are constantly moving forwards, because they literally hit a point where they can no longer go back.

Another race has no FTL transport at all. But it has warp gates. So it might take them decades to send a builder ship to a nearby solar system, but if it gets there and builds a gate, their entire fleet can take that solar system at a moments notice, before the owners of that system have any possibility of rerouting fleets to defend it.

There are also Things In Space that you encounter that are unrelated to the space opera style grand conflict.

e: LOOKING AT THE STEAM PAGE IT SEEMS YOU SHOULD NOT BUY THIS FROM STEAM
Heres a GOG link

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Renowed Explorers

Its a frealking great roguelike game with a tactics style fighting gameplay about being an explorer looking for tresures and being the most famous. Great characters and a lot of charm.

Chroma Squad

An amazing tactics RPG inspired on TV shows like the Power Rangers (as a tv show, not only as heroes).

Absolutely amazing stealth/tactics game. Spiritual successor to the Commandos series.

From what ive heard is more similar to Desperados: Wanted dead or Alive (an incredible game btw) than Commandos.

The pixelartist and animator of that game is a good friend mine and is working with us now making this game, Sitcom Valley, if you want to take a look:
https://twitter.com/SitcomValley

 

[What did he mean by this?]

Grand Class Melee 2
Streets of Fury
Hidden in Plain Sight

Rip xbox indies

 

[sheaaaa]

A couple more from another developer I first noticed on XBLIG, Mommy's Best Games. Its games belatedly ended up on Steam, and deserve another shot

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Weapon Of Choice

It's a run-and-gun with an aesthetic that borders on ugly, but falls on the right side of grotesque. I remember this being a little bit rough around the edges, but had a lot of good ideas like the ability to scale walls with a spider backpack thing and 'death brushing', which is not a Kojima game but causes the game to slow down when you're about to die, giving you time to manoeuvre away.

It's a strange game but very singular in its vision, and a pretty good time.

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Shoot 1UP

This one has a pretty strong gimmick - a shmup in which every extra life you get manifests on screen as another ship, up to 30 ships, which you control all at once. You can throw them around the screen in formation and all that.

 

[Galang]

The pixelartist and animator of that game is a good friend mine and is working with us now making this game, Sitcom Valley, if you want to take a look:
https://twitter.com/SitcomValley

Wow this is a really cool concept! And the pixel art is great too! Definitely a Day 1 purchase from me

 

[Prurient]

The game that immediately spring to mind for me is Streets Of Rogue. It has three keywords that will probably make people turn their noses up: Early Access, Pixel-Art, and Roguelike, but it is one of the most enjoyable games I've played.

It doesn't have much in the way of story or overall motivation yet, but it's just really fun to play through. You have three or so missions to complete on each level, and complete freedom to complete these tasks how you want. You can even fail them if you want and still progress. The number of ways you can achieve each objective is pretty impressive and I'm still finding new and interesting ways of doing stuff.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/512900/Streets_of_Rogue/

 

[Rygar 8 Bit]

a fun action rpg platformer with deep customization and has online coop as well

a really good successor to myth

 

[LordRaptor]

It has three keywords that will probably make people turn their noses up: Early Access, Pixel-Art, and Roguelike

I honestly don't think the type of GAFfer that sneers at those words would come into a topic about under-the-radar games only available on Steam in the first place tbh.

I'm sure there's an angry youtube man being angry or a new hype trailer for an upcoming hyped game to keep them busy.

 

[Djostikk]

Darkwood is amazing top-down survival horror with rich world and unique lore. There's a story with quests and every choice somehow affects your game. It's really addicting, scary and solid game overall.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/274520/Darkwood/

 

[Prurient]

I honestly don't think the type of GAFfer that sneers at those words would come into a topic about under-the-radar games only available on Steam in the first place tbh.

I'm sure there's an angry youtube man being angry or a new hype trailer for an upcoming hyped game to keep them busy.

Yeah that's fair enough, I just think it's an easy sort of game to not pay much attention to because it's so common. It can be hard to parse what's worth checking out; precisely why I'm glad this thread has been made

 

[ShemhazaiX]

I know card games aren't for everyone, but I can't recommend Eternal TCG enough to people. Much deeper than Hearthstone and is one of the most generous examples of f2p TCGs I've encountered.