[Steam] Which lesser known games have you bought or are planning to buy in this sale?
[Steam] Which lesser known games have you bought or are planning to buy in this sale?
I think I'll be finally picking up Project Wingman and Black Mesa in this sale.
What's on your list?
I don't see people mention Cross Codes often and no one has mentioned here yet so I think it's "lesser known".
It's one of the games I got. I'm 20 hours in and the game is amazing so far.
The game can be pretty challenging sometimes so I'm not sure if it's for everyone. I'd describe the game as a MMORPG but without the MMO. It has a lot less grinding than a MMO and a lot more puzzles.
I saw some people compare it to Zelda but I feel like that's only accurate for some aspects.
Oh one game I forgot to include is Ghost Trick. It's so lesser known I forgot about it.
This game is amazing. It's by the creators of Phoenix Wright and it was originally made for the DS back in 2010. It was a commercial failure because Capcom didn't advertise it at all and since it's released it's been pretty obscure. It was only ported to PC this year.
I think this is a game you should go in blind. I highly recommend this game.
Shadow of the doubt
Return of the obra dinn
Hypnospace outlaw (haven't played yet)
Lucifer among us (criminally short)
Into the breach
Curse of the dead gods
Sea of survivors
God of weapons
Tanuki sunset
En garde
Human fall flat
Later alligator
Dredge
Hades
Party hard 2
Abandon ship
Passpartout
Cloadpunk
Lil gator game
Mosa lina
Not sure how well known it is, but on a friend's recommendation I bought Cassette Beasts. I just got a second hand Steam Deck and it's a fun combination. It's basically a Pokemon-like game, but with its own charm. Instead of pokeballs you record monsters with cassette tapes. It's quite a goofy game and I'm enjoying it so far.
If you do get it for the Steam Deck, you should play it with compatibility mode set to Proton 8, because then it somehow uses 40% less battery or something.
Not related, but OP, if you get the chance I recommend at least trying out Project Wingman in VR with joysticks.
Holy shit, was it a transcendent experience.
I beat the campaign with a controller on a monitor my first time around, but on my second playthrough I played it in VR and I found there is nothing like looking for bogeys and tracking them by peeking around your cockpit.
More related to the prompt, but if anyone wants a recommend:
I just beat both Pentiment and Return of the Obra Dinn and both were truly the historical detective / mystery games that I've waited so long for.
Go into both completely blind and report back. I guarantee you, that you will not be disappointed.
Nothing here, but Black Mesa was outstanding. Could not put it down.
I bought Nuclear Blaze and have been having fun with it.
I already own the game so this is more of a reccomendation.
Civ6 is only Ā£5 right now and all the dlc only costs Ā£20 in the bundle. It's an easy game to reccomend for anyone who is even a little interested in strategy games.
Someone mentioned SpaceBourne 2 in another thread the other day, so I checked the reviews which made it sound like a pretty good game and it was on sale so I bought it.
Mechanically, it's awesome. Polish wise... It needs work. Text-to-speech voice overs (which I hope are placeholders because they are jarring as fuck), kind of a mishmash of aesthetic design that makes me think the assets are merely freebies on the Unreal store, just missing that general pizazz that shows off the quality.
Not that it takes away from the fun, which is the most important part. The best way to even describe the game is "Mount & Blade in space." It combines some of the best aspects of Elite Dangerous, X3/X4, NMS, and Stellaris into its own thing, and it is super cool to play if not look at (though the crazy set piece things in the MQ are super fucking cool; like being eaten by a space kraken and then escaping in a smaller ship while avoiding thousands of little squiddy things, and they're actually there not like some BS particle effect or optical illusion).
Touhou Mystia's Izakaya is the only lesser known game. I bought in this sale.
It's a new release so maybe this doesn't count but against the storm is excellent
I got This is the Police a while back but finally installed it. Surprisingly engaging given how it forces you to be a corrupt and shitty cop to survive. Feels like copaganda, but thankfully I can separate fiction from reality.
Cattails. It's like Stardew Valley but with cats. I played the first game on Switch and just picked up the sequel to play on Deck.
Flower
Heartbound - indie game in constant development
I bought the old homeworld games. I remember really enjoying them way back when, and the third game finally comes out in 24 so I thought I'd give them a play through to catch up. Still good.
i picked up SPRAWL this sale. really fun retro-style shooter so far, the sense of movement is especially satisfying.
Void Stranger
An Airport For Aliens Currently Run By Dogs
Viewfinder
Manifold Garden
Shadow of Doubt has just recently come under my radar. Its a procedurally generated voxel noir game.
Only buy a couple or so games a year these days, been really enjoying an arena fighting game I came across a little while ago. Only just started putting a few hours into it but always appreciate a game that makes you have to work on skill to progress.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/973230/We_Who_Are_About_To_Die/
Gave this one as a gift - Opus Magnum.
Fun and satisfying production puzzler.
Twilight Town, a cyberpunk boomer shooter about a guy wanting to give a body to his AI gf.
Necesse has been fun
Caves of Qud
Songs of conquest and street of rogue
I bought Touhou Artificial Dreams In Arcadia during the October sale and it is a bit of a hidden gem for fans of the old SMT JRPG games on SNES. I also picked up Lunacid but have not got that far in it, but it seems like a strong revival of the classic Kings Field games.
Eidolon
For less than $5 CAD, I picked up Maiden & Spell, an excessively cute sidescrolling shooter a la R-Type, except it's a levelless boss rush with Story and Versus modes. It's got a very Touhou aesthetic (i.e. rather than spaceships or dragons or something, everyone is cute girls).
Story mode is basically a Touhou boss rush, where your character fights 4 monster girls and 2 out of the other 3 human girls, with no level in-between, it's just bosses. There's a threadbare but acceptable story linking them, with each playable character giving a different perspective on the same story, and then there being an epilogue chapter and a bonus extra boss. Story mode has 4 difficulties, the easiest of which is called Cute Mode and is basically unloseable, so even if you've never played a game like this, you can give it a go.
Versus mode is basically a 1v1 fighting game. You and one friend each pick one of the 8 girls and do bullet hells at each other until you see who wins. It's not complex, but it is kind of tactically deep.
The same author is currently working on a sequel, Rabbit & Steel, a very similar game except rather than a versus battler, it's a coop roguelike inspired by MMO raid mechanics. A sneak-peek demo with online multiplayer is available, and it's really fun!
Probably not much this time. I don't think Dredge really falls under lesser known, but I might pick that up. I'll probably get House Flipper 2 - the first one was one of my go-tos for destressing, so I'm hoping the sequel will fill the same niche. Otherwise, I've either bought most of what I've been looking at in previous sales or played it on gamepass/ea play.
Element TD2
I didn't buy them this year but
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Software Inc, management game
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Ostriv, 18th century city building game
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Off-road Mania, 4x4 trials game
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Can someone help me remember the name of a certain game? I heard about it in an LTT video. Apparently it's a really cheap 8(+?)-player Steam game that is a sort of magic/wizard free-for-all game that's lots of fun with little strategy. I've been racking my brain trying to remember the name of it.
I bought The Making of Karateka. Not exactly a game, more like a playable documentary (akin with Atari 50 anniversary collection).
If it were on sale, I'd say Fling To The Finish. But for now, I'll have to probably just wait and see what else is on sale that catches my eye.
I have shitload of indie games with a fun ideas that I have never really played, but wanted to support.
Purchased Ready Or Not. I am having a BLAST with this game! It's niche game and I am really into it.
Unforgettable voyage. Looks like a cute little puzzle game.
I'm not sure if it's on sale but I'll just keep talking about Revita because it's such a succinct rogue like that blends hollow knight and TBOI very well.
UBoat - itās a u boat game / simulator of sorts. Complex, slow game play as you stalk convoys, set up for the ambush, then escape the destroyers hunting your uboat.
I picked up Sociable Soccer 24 for the steam deck as I just wanted a simple football game and FIFA doesnāt really work. Pretty good game, the controls can be a bit weird at times but enjoying it for the easy pickup and play style.
I already owned it, but Banished is on sale for $6.50. I have played so many hours of this game and can't get enough! Once I get bored of my existing setup, I just start over with a new village.
Not sure whether it's "lesser known", but it's old: Rise of Nations
Black Mesa is so fucking good.
Isn't Black Mesa called Half Life?