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currently playing this
absolute S-tier game in terms of exploration, power curve and progression. dont even like shooters but this is enjoyable af. and you can make a melee build as well.

>>737133664
the only thing thats pissing me off is that im in the final area but i cant find the damn map. since it wasnt at the traders i have access to...

Rebel Galaxy (the 1st one, not the shitty sexual)
Pour sovl

>>737133805
isnt that the ps2 jrpg where you only spam potions from inventroy ?

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Visage
the most stressful horror game I've ever played, with puzzles that are actually difficult.

>>737133851
No

>>737133664
Have that on my list.
>>737133573
Hard west is fun, part 2 coming
Mortal shell is a decent concept game for 2 bucks or so, lone survivor is great, too.

>>737133881
Are there other walking sims that are fun/spooky?

>>737134010
Layers of Fear 2023
Home Sweet Home 2
Madison
ParanormalHK

>>737133573
Spark in the Dark seems pretty decent so far from what I've played, fun dungeon crawler similar to Examina but without the physics based combat.

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>>737133573
overgrowth. amazing melee combat that puts AAA games to shame. Fromsoft this is how its done

>>737133573
digital devil saga
god hand
ninja gaiden 4

>>737134160
>Layers of Fear 2023
All others layers of fear arent worth a play?

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>>737134393
HE WHO CONSORTS WITH BEASTS

>>737133881
I liked the Easter egg at the end of the demo. It was an appropriate and satisfying tone shift

>Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
Pretty much cyberpunk stealth-focused Xcom, with freeformed movement, hacking that happens in fractions of your turns, punishing but fair alert system thats more of a gradual thing than an automatic bust. Characters are ugly and base management stuff is a bit confusing thanks to an obsessive amount of cyber-jargon, but essentially works like Xcom 2's
>Approaching Infinity
Just a nice comfy Star Trek-ish space adventure roguelike about continuous progress through the galaxy, upgrading your ship and officers, trading, visiting planets and other ships along the way.
>Withering Rooms
Sidescrolling survival horror with a pretty interesting plot about a nightmare asylum inhabited by dreamers. Exploration is fun, magic system is simple and fun but also requires smart management. Punishing, and visually kinda jank.

I bought Grimshire a bit ago, I'll probably give that a go this week. I love indie games.

>>737133573
WOah, a Chaos Emerald!

>>737134491
they are, but layers of fear 2023 is all three combined

>>737134515
was that PT related?

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Troubleshooters is one of the most fun SRPGs I've ever played. The fun is in how much control you are given over how characters are played. The game has ~1k masteries which give new abilities, stat boosts, enhance current abilities, etc. And those can combine into an addition 800 or so mastery sets which give even more stuff to experiment with. If you like games where you can tweak your own custom creations to be as close to the perfect build as possible the game is mega fun.

>>737133573
Survivalist The Invisible Strain. It's like a survival colony (optional) manager zombie game with dynamic factions and The Thing like gimmick where there's one zombie strain that shows almost no signs and they can infiltrate your group and fuck shit up. It's pretty neat for a cheap game.

>>737134841
It was the disco dance

I really liked vital shell. games is pretty easy compared to most other vampiresurvivor like games but I like the ps1 vibe and the music

>>737135009
Lucy, kek. it made the full game too

Vampyre was actually pretty good, combat was jank as hell but still fun.

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>>737133573
far better than i was expecting

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>>737134869
I came here to post this.

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>>737133664
did the fov fixes start working again?
i tried it ages ago, and apparently they got fucked up due to updates so I never bothered playing it

>>737133961
hard west 2 has been out forever
it plays better than 1 in a way but I enjoyed 1 more in terms of atmosphere

>>737135017
it was ok, but I kinda lost interest quickly once I beat all the levels
also the red robot was massively OP (in a fun way)
I recently beat Felvidek, and even though I dont really like rpgs that much I was unexpectedly really into it. Very soulful little adventure game more than anything. Doesn't waste your time. I liked almost all the characters.

INCISION was an all round decent if a bit highly strung ogfps where you have limited lives per level. There were 2 or such bossfights that were a little bullshit but overall, really solid really complete game.

>>737134010
I find the Tsugunohi series fun and spooky, but all you do is hold forward and enjoy to the story

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>>737133573
Endling is underrated.

You play as mama fox looking for her kidnapped cub in post-apocalyptic world

>>737134393
i have known about this game for well over a decade now.
is it actually a game now, or is it still a tech demo for the guy's engine?

>>737133759
The mountains? The undead cowboy at the very beginning sells the map.

>>737135658
its not in his inventory.
i saved the mask chick in chapter 2 and she was around once as well but her inventory didnt have it either.

>>737135704
Check again. I replayed it about a month ago and he had it.

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>>737133573
The Guardian Legend
One of the best NES games of all time

>>737135791
lul its there now. thx.
was apparently a loading bug. closing game and starting it up again fixed it. nicu

>>737133664
Agreed!
Difficulty was a bit high for me in the beginning, till I realized I couldn't just run-and-gun everything and had to stealth a bit, but once past that it was kino shit.
The pseudo-sequel is on my Wishlist.

>>737135919
Cool.

>>737135923
>The pseudo-seque
?

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>>737136240
Sorry, DLC
Follows the voodoo guy on his own adventure

>>737134570
>>Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
Did they unfuck secAI and how it directs guards yet?

>>737136512
Oh, that. Yeah, give it a whirl, it's really good.

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>>737133573
If you like SRPGs/Tactics games then this is unquestionably the best in the entire genre.

>Better than every single FE
>Better than every single TO
>Better than every single FFT
>Better than every single X-Com
>Better than Banner of Maid
>Better than Triangle Strategy

If you like these kinds of games, you're crazy to overlook it.

>>737136553
What thing? Dunno off the top of my head, I got the game a couple months ago. It has apparently seen a fuckton of updates since fall though.

>>737134465
Carmageddon was one of the biggest games of its release, it's not an unknown gem. Everyone knew Carmageddon back in the 90s

>>737137052
>better than X-com
bold claim chud. it doesnt even give the "protect the earth against an encrouching enemy" feel
which was the best part of X-com enemy unknown and why x-com sucked

>>737134393
Yiffe!

>>737134716
Right, got it. Playing line survivor just now. Apparently part 2 is coming. The developer makes music for other titles, even for romeo is dead or whatever the game is called. Bought conscript, too. Plenty say it's better than alisa. Conscript is done via government money, usually a red flag.

>>737134869
It's the modern srpg. Modern both setting and recently released. Nothing comes close, neither menace nor Mars tactics.

>>737135408
Wth, it's true. 2022? I feared as much that the atmosphere will suffer. 1 has an unique flair, love it.

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This game is fucking sick. Easily the best auto-battler out there.

>>737133573
Thief the dark project

>>737137052
Didn't know it's out. Again only pc.
>Better than Triangle Strategy
No generics, no buy. Nearly skipped Jeanne bc of it. Fun game though, Jeanne I mean.
>codename bakery
Is it that good? Have you played othercide?
>>737136553
Is this rather like shadowrun or rather shogun tactics?

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I had a lot of fun with this game, it's a little jank but fun. It's basically fire emblem/xcom.

>>737137137
Big words ngl. Personally I see tactics ogre as best trpg, but I haven't played any xcom, yet.

>>737137052
Man I really like SRPGs/tactics games but I just could not get into this game. I think I put 10 hours into it and kept bouncing off it. Game just felt super swingy due to how strong items are so when you have items the game is fun but when you run out of them you stop having fun. I'm also pretty sure you are supposed to replay missions to farm items as well which might explain why I was so starved of resources.

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I didn't feel like lockpicking the door

>>737133573
>post games that went under the radar
>>737133664
5476 steam reviews
>>737133881
8518 steam reviews
>>737134393
6133 steam reviews
>>737134869
9273 steam reviews
>>737135258
Fucking 73,351 steam reviews.

This isn't cherry-picked, these are the first replies with images in the thread, and the only one I skipped was fucking Carmageddon.
Hidden gem thread NEED to make fun of people posting popular games, or you get this shit.

>>737137594
>Is this rather like shadowrun or rather shogun tactics?
Turn-based like Shadowrun but with Shogun Tactics' vision cones and no tile-based movement, everything is done using action points, including calculated movement distance and all that.

>>737138139
I've barely heard of the games posted itt so by the OP they have definitely gone under the radar. Go be a cocksucking faggot elsewhere.

>>737138139
>my yardstick is Steam and I provide detailed statistics.
*cringe*
holy fucking dork alert

>>737133573
Project Ignis EDOPro

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>>737138259
I've actually never heard of Green Hell either. But it sold more than fucking Super Metroid.
Speaking of, here's the hidden gem I recommend. Best metroidvania I've ever played.

>>737138139
I find it a bit unfair to judge so harshly if a game has over a X amount of review
There's a space game I've been playing that has 2k reviews. It's also sub 10 bucks so very accessible and yet you look up the stats for it on sites like gamalytics and it's barely 70k sales total.
It's still very obscure and considering that out of all the userbase on steam and there's like a sub 1% of people that even seek out indie shit to play in the first place.

>>737133664
I played it recently, it was alright but that's it. It's marketed as
>an immersive stealth FPS
but the stealth mechanics are a joke.
It's a solid 3/5. Not bad but also nothing special.

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>>737133573
More games should do enemy morphing.

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>>737139678
And Horrorvale is honestly one of my favourite games of all time.
But I think that mostly stems from me loving Halloween aesthetics as I come from a country where it has never really been a thing.

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Mmmm gems

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>>737138139
Since you want to grab numbers like a faggot, keep in mind that Terraria has around 600,000 reviews. Between the large review count and how many people actually use Steam, yeah, you can argue those games are under the radar.

Stop bitching just because nobody is reading off the New Releases section

Particle Fleet: Emergence. Great music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmDHZ4CMBE0&list=PLI-2mpp8Me2xSCqFkszfXnMP6UdX1mE29&index=1

>>737137618
There's another game in that universe. Worth a play, too?

>>737135258
Are the survival mechanics fun or even innovative?

>>737140862
Interesting ost. Composer?
>>737133573
Waiting for
>the pines
>tactics returners
>a good crpg or trpg (can't find one)

>>737134869
Are the costume set dlcs just visual or do they have stats? I got that game a while ago, but never played it.

>>737141792
The costumes are just visual and a lot of them suck lol. They only exist because fans wanted some way to donate to the devs so they made some random skins to sell.

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>>737133573
I always shill Gunlok on hidden gems.
Gunlok is an RTS in which you control 4 characters with different charateristics.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/254900/Gunlok/

Gunlok is a non-mediocre jack of all trades, with higher damage. He can also perform a special attack that oneshots most of the enemies in exchange of a bit of HP.

Elint moves slowly, but places mines fast, and has access to special abilities, such the possibility to disable things or to repair allies.

Hark is fast and tiny. He can go in places other can't reach, but he is slow at placing mines, has less HP, and has bad accuracy especially when moving. Good for scouting and distracting the enemy.

Frend can wield the heaviest weapons, and has more HP, but moves slowly.

Horizons Gate
Great little fft clone mixed with sid meyers pirates.

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This was fun

>>737142715
I got to the point I saw that hideous literal faggot in the opening cutscene and was honestly so disgusted by its appearance I turned the game off.

It genuinely looked like some of the trannies I see around here.

>>737142564
I've had my eye on that for a while but how bare bones is it? Like is the sandbox stuff even satisfying the way Pirates! was in building a name and rep for yourself?

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>>737137460
yeah i found it funny that the most common criticism was that you can't "make a epic dnd party" and that is more what the sequel is

What the original did wel is tell you a bit about the world, make you feel like something really bad is just about to happen but you can't oversee it enough to truly understand, then you switch characters
eventually you get to link between otherwise nonconsequential characters to get a better understanding but it does well like a good horrormovie to not show you too much

also really fucking good music, bought it on a whim around christmas when i was with senpai and my mom kept telling me nervously it creeped her out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Vxjs-KUss

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zenonia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwNJwdLf3nQ

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>>737133573
Worldless was pretty cool.

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Got this thing for free on Steam last year. Was expecting some low effort shovelware, but this one is kind of a decent action RPG. Don't expect a roguelike because this thing is not one, despite the @ being the player character. This one plays more like classic Gauntlet than anything. It also has a really funny gimmick where most of the game's text is unreadable and you have to rescue letters of the alphabet to understand what's going on.

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>>737133851
That's Rogue Galaxy, and it's amazing that to this day, people are still mindbroken about actually needing to stock & use healing items. The game has a massive list of things to have a problem with, and yet you choose THAT to be the dealbreaker for you.

>>737141330
not the original poster but
innovative mechanics? yes
fun? hell no

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>>737133573
Mildly disappointed this wasn't a gems in vidya thread. I'm very magpie-brained and love looking at gems, crystals and jewels.

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>>737146563
Last one for me.

>>737143421
Are you recc'ing Zenonia the series or a particular entry? I've played some of them but it always seemed after a point like the grind was artificially inflated by a lot to encourage you to paypig for exp boosters and such. It was fun for most of the time I played though. Couldn't really get into the HD ones, since the monetization felt really bad.

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Northern Journey was a true gem, hopefully he learns to code so the next game is less jank.

>>737146563
weird cover for such a soulfull game

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What if Dungeon Keeper was a roguelike?

>>737142908
Its pretty indepth.
Reputation, noble titles you get to conquer port cities for your kingdom of choice.
You just cant create your iwn kingdom

>>737147049
This game was distilled comfy kino.

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This is worth keeping an eye on. The dev updates it every now and then.
From what I understand, there was a bit of drama where troons got assdamaged over the family legacy mechanics. tl;Dr if your character dies but married and had a child, you can choose to continue the family legacy as that child. Marriage is only through opposite sexes and that was of course problematic, but the dev told the troons to fuck off so they tried review bombing the game.

Anyway, it's already really fun and there are some great mods for it, but it leaves me wishing there was a bit more to do since right now, the only real goal is to establish a settlement. Some sort of story quest chain or something would be welcome but doesn't exist yet. For a roguelike sandbox, it's pretty decent.

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>>737133573
Remnant From the Ashes and Remnant II. The two best (((Souls))) games on the market by a immeasurable degree.

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>>737133573
If you know ball you already know is the only down side. Not a lot of the deck builder market is unaware of chrono ark's absolute supremacy at this point.