The assortment of material coming to Steam is absolutely monstrous. Only when their famous seasonal offers are thrown on us, the platform becomes a festival of compulsive buying of games that you only know by the title, or even more so, that remotely sound like you because someone told you they were good. Imagine if we expand the range of action to the full catalog of games available on Steam. We are all aware that there must necessarily be high-quality games that go under the radar.
Without the slightest intention of being complete, we are going to try to put a minimum, miniscule remedy to this situation. We have selected a few Steam games that we think are of great quality and that may have gone unnoticed.. Some of them will have had a certain echo among some sector of the public press, but they have not become bestsellers. Others are dark secrets shared by a few insiders. In any case, they have not been the success they deserve and we are going to try to remedy it, with this selection of 17 hidden gems from Steam.
Baba is You (2019)
This recent quirky indie marvel from Finn Arvi Teikari flirts with the idea of giving the player the ability to write the rules of the game, represented in words written on tiles. The elements of screens remotely inspired by the classic ‘Zelda’ dungeons, but with a more analog aroma, such as Baba himself, a flag to be found, or the walls and enemies, are mutating at the pace imposed by the player . A very complicated gem to describe and that shows that there is always room to find new ways to play.
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Dragon’s Dogma (2012)
In this selection there is room for all kinds of games. And while the category of “hidden gems” is often applied to indies and miniscule games that go under the radar, we cannot ignore ‘Dragon’s Dogma’, which some provocateur has called “the good Dark Souls. Its persistent and open world, impressive even today, is reminiscent of other titanic endeavors in creating fantasy settings. like ‘Oblivion’, while the combat system sometimes brings to mind the famous From Software saga, albeit with less accentuated masochistic overtones.
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DYO (2018)
This free-to-play can be played alone but its true meaning is with two people collaborating so that a pair of minotaurs find their way out to each of the Greco-Latin-inspired labyrinths that the game proposes. The screen is divided into two, and each of the players can either move around their sector or make the two screens join, opening routes, saving obstacles and helping others. Perfect for four-handed games. And free!
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Hidden Folks (2016)
A little wonder woven between indie programmer Adriaan de Jongh and micro-artist Sylvain Tegroeg. Together they throw at the player black and white scenarios overcrowded by tiny inhabitants, which must be located interacting with a myriad of details of the set. Relaxing as well as unnerving, it has had multiple incarnations in other formats, but the Steam version continues to receive updates, the last one just a few weeks ago and music-themed.
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Into the Breach (2018)
A delicious turn-based indie strategy title that majestically continues the proposals of the much more popular and also superb ‘FTL: Faster than Light’. It gives the impression that that highly acclaimed indie space overshadowed the reception of this game from its creators., Subset Games, but ‘Into the Breach’ has mechanics as precise as its precedent. The setting, in a future where mechs face off against colossal monsters, is familiar, but the pace of relentless turn-based combat is a real challenge.
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Lair of the Clockwork God (2020)
Can a game be both a great arcade platformer and a point-and-click adventure? ‘Lair of the Clockwork God’ achieves this by simply juxtaposing both genres without being artificial. The protagonists, Ben and Dan, each play with one of the styles, but what they accomplish in the old-school puzzles influences the frenetic platforming, and vice versa. A game that struggles to be unclassifiable and achieves it thanks to its mechanics and its splendid sense of humor, perhaps the most classic element in all of Macedonia.
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Lisa: The Painful (2014)
Another marvel brimming with bad slobber and ugly graphics programmed in RPGMaker and that Grab the best of both worlds (2D pseudo-platformer environments and turn-based RPG combat) to portray a post-apocalyptic world without compassion or hope. We will give life to a middle-aged and very bad-looking guy who goes out to the wasteland to look for his adopted daughter. The choices you make on your journey will permanently affect what happens, and you’ll have the chance to face enemies in turn-based combat that will delight the most hardened and experienced players.
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Maiden and Spell (2020)
Although it is camouflaged with magical girl aesthetics, in reality This game is a wild combat between pseudo-sailor moon warriors that finds its most perfect modality in one on one. Unleash a storm of amorous projectiles against your opponent, and if you have no one on hand, there is a CPU mode and even a story mode that is actually a crisp boss-rush. Excellent JRPG style soundtrack.
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The Void Rains Upon Her Heart (2018)
A bullet-h**l shooter with a boss chaining rhythm, but still, and Despite its infernal speed, it allows itself to anchor its aesthetics in the cuqui (our ship is a heart on its side) while spitting out some mutations that would not clash at the New Year’s Eve party in Neo-Tokyo. Luck has a lot to do with skill, because at each level, the power-ups released by monsters and even their own identity is completely random. A camouflaged love festival challenge.
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OneShot (2016)
A tiny game made with the RPGMaker editor, but that competes in wit and charisma with older brothers of the genre. Your secret: the player is one more character and interacts with the protagonist, a girl called to restore the light in a scorched land where there are robots and other dangers. The game smashes into the files on your PC, and when you exit and enter the game, it will break the fourth wall, among many other ingenious resources that make this title a true festival of metalanguage.
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Pony Island (2016)
A wonder from Canada that proposes a curious metafiction in the form of an old arcade game that must be played until it is discovered that it is possessed and wants the soul of the player. With a classic point-and-click format, but with elements of shooter, endless runner, puzzle and other immediate and fast sub-genres, things quickly get surreal, using the low-fidelity aesthetics and the esoteric component of every programming language to propose a dark adventure, with a twisted humor and a cute and fuzzy aesthetic.
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Return of the Obra Dinn (2018)
Lucas Pope, creator of one of the most impressive indie games of recent years, ‘Papers, Please’, jumps into the pool of graphical experimentation with a game that has to be seen to be believed: bringing to life an insurance impector for the East India Company in 1807, the player has to take care of Climb aboard a ghost ship and identify the sixty corpses of the crew with a gadget that allows you to spot the moment of death of the subject. Puzzles, exploration and atmosphere perfect for a game that mimics the graphic style of the first Macintosh, limited and perfect for a story like this.
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Tiranny (2016)
Obsidian’s true cult game, the undeserved failure ‘Alpha Protocol’, has been removed from Steam for a take away those soundtracks, but there are others from the studio that can do us well, such as the semi-unknown ‘Tiranny’. It is a standalone derivation of the acclaimed ‘Pillars of Eternity’, A hardline RPG in which a demigod has conquered the world and we bring one of his envoys to life to restore order and impose your will. Unique skill and spell-summoning systems make up the mechanics of an RPG with a decadent setting that deserves immediate vindication.
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Tormentor X Punisher (2017)
This frenetic zenith shooter in the wake of ‘Hotline Miami’, but with the setting of a cheap comic ‘DOOM’ (even more so) is a hyper bloody experience at full speed like few others. Classic two-stick mechanics, gargantuan final bosses, and a delicious sense of humor That looks like something out of the cover of a crusty thrash metal album. Sometimes perfection comes through the most obvious ways.
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Yuppie Psycho (2019)
Defined as ‘First Job Survival Horror’, this gem with a pixelated and pop aesthetic is the second work by the Spanish studio Baroque Decay, after the also great ‘El Conde Lucanor’. Based on exploration and puzzles, but also with a fair amount of stealth and combat, this horror dungeon crawler set in an office it has it all: meat horror, criticism of corporations, nods to Japanese pop culture, pixelated anime modeled … a true roller coaster of extravagance and bad slobber.
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Wuppo (2016)
A platform that can be deceiving due to its colorful aesthetic of simple characters and hand-drawn graphics, but that hides a huge world And that is explored in the style of the indie sensation ‘Guacamelée’: as powers and properties are acquired, it is possible to access corners of the levels that were inaccessible. Naïve storyline and look, but its challenging collisions with huge boss bosses add a distinctive touch.
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ZeroRanger (2018)
If we were to detail a collection of hidden gems on Steam that-are-also-martian-killers, we would get a list ten times longer than this one, so let’s stay with a single case as a representation: this old school ship stickers has a lovely color palette based on green and orange, a progress system that ends up giving you the chance to become a mecha, and some convoluted dialogue interludes that are the icing on the cake.
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