#ObscureGames #HiddenGems #GameRecommendations
Hey, fellow gamers! 👾 Have you ever stumbled upon a hidden gem of a game that very few people have played, but turned out to be a total masterpiece? 🎮 I’m on the hunt for those diamonds in the rough – you know, the kind of games that only have a handful of reviews on Steam but are absolute game-changers.
I want to uncover those underrated treasures that are waiting to be discovered by more players like us. So, if you have any recommendations for obscure games that deserve more recognition, please share them with me! Let’s dive into the world of hidden gems together and uncover some gaming gold. 💎
Have you played any obscure games that blew your mind? Comment below and let’s start a conversation about our favorite hidden gems in the gaming world! 🔍💬 #GamingCommunity #HiddenGems #ShareYourFavorites
Fashion Squad Police
Pathologic 2, despite it being wildly popular to discuss, is still pretty obscure.
I never see anyone talk about Alchemist Simulator
Intravenous
JUICE GALAXY
Freespace 2 is the best combat space sim out there. And had shittons of mods making the experience even better. Pathologic 2 is a hard but unique ‘rpg’, if you can call it an rpg. And lastly, rainworld is absolutely a hidden gem with rich lore and systems/ai that are utterly unique.
Exanima
I would say Unsighted falls into this list.
Alisa
Starsector! It got a little traction after a certain youtuber reviewed it, but I hardly speak to anyone who has played it. Seriously fantastic game and a lot of great mods available to make it more in depth and customizable.
Spiderheck
Fun as ~~hell~~ heck party game
Void Bastards
Ratropolis is a fantastic game i can’t believe isn’t more popular.
Withering Rooms
Harvestella was briefly fairly popular but has basically fallen into obscurity after average reviews.
Which is a shame, since it seems to be the victim of Square Enix not knowing how to market it more than anything.
It’s not really a farming sim. It’s more like a jrpg dungeon crawler with farming sim elements that tie into your progression.
If that sounds interesting give it a shot. It has a good narrative tucked away if you give it time.
Obscure
That’s a pretty obscure game, and it’s good.
Pentiment. I know it got reviews upon release in game pass, but may turn off players due to setting, sidescroller and artstyle. But its a phenomenal game from Obsidian that everyone should experience, like doing it with a nun in habit
If you enjoy classic Legend of Zelda style games, try out Ittle Dew 2+.
It’s like an “A Link Between Worlds” style game, in that you have the freedom to do the dungeons in any order you like. And it has some hidden secret extra stuff that goes maybe a little bit deeper than you might expect.
It depends on what kind of games you like to play.
20XX and it’s sequel 30XX are some of the best homage to Mega Man X I have ever played while still doing their own thing.
Just going through my steam library.
Ape Out
Bombslinger
Critter Crunch
The deadly Tower of monsters
Gato Robo
I hope you enjoy some of these, I know I did.
I didnt finish this game, but Tchia is about a girl who can “spirit jump” into any animal or object. You run and sail around islands meeting people who help you on your quest to rescue your dad from an evil monster who takes over the islands. Its based on a real place: New Caledonia.
Fly as a bird, swim as a fish, roll as a rock, sail on a raft, the soundtrack is great, and you learn a little about the culture too. Theres loving family stuff, theres comedy, drama, a tinge of horror (that evil guy eats a kid) and its open world.
Quern – Undying Thoughts. Very much a spiritual successor to Myst. I really enjoyed it.
Pseudoregalia is a good 3d metroidvania, mostly because it has amazing schmoovement, but the level design is good and it finally got its map update (but wasn’t so confusing to be hard to beat before the update)
I mean that hard…any game that is good is going to spread by word of mouth . Any “good” game is going to reach 10s of thousands of people. The smallest Niche games i know that are good are Riftbreaker ( RTS / Tower defense 3rp person action combo )
and Dungeons series those are in the thousands .
Here’s a pretty obscure racing game that’s reminiscent of the old Wipeout games: *Ballistic NG*.
Not to everyone’s taste but if you like Bullet Hell style games and Rogue-lite mechanics then The Void Rains Upon Her Heart is a great game with a ton of content and replay value
It’s not as obscure but absolutely unique – Papers Please
Hylics
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim. I’m not sure if it’s too well-known for the premise, but it feels pretty obscure to me, maybe because it was originally a PS exclusive. It’s a wonderful mishmash of every sci-fi plot you can think of, and it somehow works.
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I just got reminded of it and have to play again.
King of dragon pass
A clan sim in a strange world but wonderfully full with lore and charm.
Approaching Infinity
A roguelike space sim
Endless dungeon
A dungeon delving co op tower defense game
Lunacid
A love letter to fromsofts kings field. Rpg dungeon delver.
Buckshot Roulette
A 20ish minute game. Its good just try it.
Under rail
If there’s anything I fucking love, it’s obscure as shit games. I’m just going to go down my steam list and pick some recommendations out:
**Picayune dreams**: A vampire survivors style game game with an emphasis on its surreal, horror themed atmosphere. It’s got a very early 2000s 3d aesthetic and a pretty great soundtrack.
**Dungeons of Sundaria**: This game feels like a fake videogame. Like, if an episode of CSI wanted to show that someone was a gamer, they’d show footage of a non-existent game that’d look identical to this one. That being said, it’s not a bad game. It feels like a small team of people got together and said “Hey, you know what’s the best part of WoW? Exploring and fighting through a big raid. You know what’s the worst part of WoW? The entire rest of the game. What if we made a game that’s just exploring and fighting through raids”
**Iconoclasts**: This game isn’t a metroidvania but I’m struggling to think of a good genre descriptor for it. I guess it’s like, a sidescrolling action adventure game with a heavy emphasis on puzzle solving and boss fights. It’s also got a really fucking good narrative that includes one of my favorite villain speeches ever.
**The dishwasher: vampire smile**: A sidescrolling beat’em up that feels like something pulled out of newground’s glory days. It’s edgy and violent to the point of being silly, and for me, that makes it endearing. It’s like looking into the scribbles of some goth kid’s diary. For what it’s worth, it also plays pretty well.
**Critters for Sale**: An incredibly surreal point and click adventure game that has you jumping from character to character across a bunch of different time periods as you follow the story of a satanic cult and see how the people in the cult came to power and the impact that they’ve had on the world.
Anything and everything by ACE team, that includes **zeno clash 1&2**, **the deadly tower of monsters**, **the eternal cylinder**, **rock of ages 1&2**, **abyss odyssey** and **clash artifacts of power**: I’m just a big fan of these devs. The games they make are all very unique, play well, and have surreal aesthetic that’s unlike pretty much everything out there.
Anything by Project Moon: That includes **Lobotomy corporation**, **The library of Ruina** and **Limbus Company**: Their games are a very acquired taste. They’re all very different from one another with lob corp being an SCP management sim, LoR being a deck building RPG and Limbus company being a gacha game (before you run off, it’s also the least scummy gacha game by virtue of the fact that you can realistically get every character in the game without gambling). Their games are also hard as fuck and full of obfuscated (whether intentionally or as a result of poor tutorialization) mechanics. Getting into these games is tough, but the pay off is that these games collectively have one of the best stories in videogames. I cannot stress enough how absolutely fucking fantastic the stories of these games are.
**Soulstice**: These devs thought “Hey man, what if we made a berserk game that was also devil may cry 3?” The game is very jank, but man, when it comes together, the combat feels great, and the story’s pretty solid too.
**Anglerfish**: What if groundhog day was a dark comedy horror movie? That’s as much as I’ll say. The less you know going into that game the better.
**Lost in vivo**: Your dog is lost in the sewers. Go find them. It’s a really fucking good horror game, and again, I won’t say much more than that.
**Paratopic**: A very short narrative horror game where you switch between a few characters, A hitwoman, and a guy who has to deliver some VHS tapes and a photographer. Like the last two games, the less you know about it going in, the better.
**Save Room – Organization Puzzle**: What if RE4’s inventory system was an entire game. It’s great.
**Galactic mining corp**: Do you like it when number goes up? GMC is a game about making number go up by breaking blocks. The blocks feel good to break and the number goes up real high.
I can keep going forever. There are so many great games out there that haven’t gotten anywhere near as much attention as they deserve.
– The Wonderful 101: Remastered
– One Step From Eden
– Duelists of Eden
– Lethal League Blaze
– Scarlet Nexus
– Nidhogg
– FOOTSIES
– Receiver
– Party Animals
– Strider
While the above list may have more reviews than specified, I hear very little people talking about these games.
Nova Drift is pretty good. It’s like if Asteroids was a Roguelike