I think I’ll be finally picking up Project Wingman and Black Mesa in this sale.
What’s on your list?
Superflight is 59¢, I cannot stop playing this shit
[Steam] Which lesser known games have you bought or are planning to buy in this sale?
Submitted 4 months ago by TheBat@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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dhcmrlchtdj__@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Came here to say Superflight and Whisker Squadron: Survivor.
dan1101@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I love that game, great for a short or long chill session.
mycus@kbin.social 4 months ago
ooo same folk that made thronefall.
thanks for the tip, def gonna pick this one up
freebee@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Cool game! Thanks for namedropping it here
idunnololz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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 It’s by the creators of Phoenix Wright and it was originally made for the DS. It was a commercial failure because Capcom didn’t advertise at all and since it’s released it’s been pretty obscure.
I think this is a game you should go in blind. I highly recommend this game.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
funnily enough I first found out about this game and started playing it literally days before the announcement of the remaster. I’ll stick with the DS version when I continue it cause I prefer the stylus for this kind of game but I’m very glad others will get to enjoy this game regardless of their ownership of a DS.
iheartneopets@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I think this one is also pretty well known as a beloved cult classic lol
mycus@kbin.social 4 months ago
- Shattered Pixel Dungeon
- Sunset Overdrive
- Your Only Move is Hustle
- Death's Door
- Super Woden GP 2
papabobolious@feddit.nu 4 months ago
Super Woden GP 2 looks really interesting and I never heard of it. Going on the wishlist.
Kraivo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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
NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Obra Dinn is one of my favorites of all time.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Never heard of it. Is it a story heavy game? My Steam account says it’s similar to Hollow Knight and Ace Attorney, which seems like two completely different games.
Kraivo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Dude, that last guy. It was such tricky thing
jrbaconcheese@yall.theatl.social 4 months ago
I just started it yesterday- got my first 9 completed!
Urist@kbin.social 4 months ago
I see Obra Dinn, I upvote. What an amazing game.
Kraivo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’d call it the best detective game if it wasn’t for the shadow of the doubt
Khrux@ttrpg.network 4 months ago
I picked up En Garde recently because I absolutely adore the tone, setting and swashbuckling duelist vibe.
It’s a little flat for me, I don’t feel like it has achieved the character fantasy of being a swashbuckler in the mechanics, instead I’m basically kicking boxes into people and stabbing them again and again.
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m not a fan of the bleakness of souls games but maybe I’d like En Garde better, it looks like a lot of fun
Kraivo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s really hard at the beginning
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Hypnospace is SOOOOO GOOOOD if you grew up in the 90s on the internet.
Kraivo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just bought, want to try
UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 4 months ago
I finally bought horizon zero dawn! I just hope to have some time to play it…
dopeshark@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Same :'), but i bought Titanfall 2
jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Highly recommend this launcher for Titanfall. The Northstar client allows mods and private servers.
dasgoat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Horizon Forbidden West is set to come to PC at some point as well!
metaStatic@kbin.social 4 months ago
it's hard to describe how good it is. you'll make time.
gerryflap@feddit.nl 4 months ago
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.
loanrangerofpeanuts@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I didn’t get it during the sale, but Cocoon. Such a fun little puzzle game with great art direction. It’s well worth its price tag despite being a fairly short game.
Tunic is on my list and I’ll probably pick it up later this week.
minyakcurry@monyet.cc 4 months ago
Tunic is amazing! Although the combat feels very clunky (maybe I’m spoiled by sekiro).
Thankfully, you can just turn on reduced difficulty, since the beauty of the game lies not in the slow combat, but the puzzles and puzzles within those puzzles. Also the main character is adorable.
BugleFingers@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m doing a play through with a friend (trying to get the good ending rn) such a fantastic game! Beautiful and the world layout puzzles are fantastic!
mondo_brondo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Warhammer 40k: Boltgun
Looking forward to playing it this week
skulblaka@kbin.social 4 months ago
Boltgun accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do. Great game. It gives me the same sort of power fantasy vibe that Space Hulk: Deathwing did but lets you actually move at the terrifying speed that a space marine should.
nowwhatnapster@kbin.social 4 months ago
Nothing here, but Black Mesa was outstanding. Could not put it down.
zenbhang@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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.
frogfruit@programming.dev 4 months ago
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.
CerineArkweaver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I picked up Forager. It’s kind of addictive…
MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I loved this game too but I was never able to finish it. The game kept getting incrementally slower as I progressed like it was having trouble processing everything. Happened on both my Switch and Xbox Series X. Hopefully the PC version is better.
wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
That still happened on PC, or on my OG steam deck at least, but it was somewhat remedied by some commands to adjust settings. Things like turning off visible bots, background settings, UI elements. That leaves most of the processing just being you walking around/gathering and whatever background machinery you have going, vs all of everything.
I imagine those were not present on Switch/Xbox since these were basically commands applied to the game .ini.
Also FWIW, may not really be worth picking up again unless you really want to endgame it. The developer was kind of a chud to the team from some of the stories I read which seemed to result in the endgame kind of teetering off into nothing. Like, once you find all the NPC’s you’re not playing for anything but to build and optimize, even though it feels like it’s leading you on with more to unlock somehow.
I’d double check of course, as with anything it could be a bunch of nonsense. But yeah I pretty much agree, it’s an ok game with some issues, they can be remedied on PC but even then it’s just kind of like you work to it, you did it, it’s done and what was the point. There’s nothing to take away from the game, I guess.
arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I already own the game so this is more of a reccomendation.
Civ6 is only £5 right now and all the dlc only costs £20 in the bundle. It’s an easy game to reccomend for anyone who is even a little interested in strategy games.
Pips@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
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.
rgalex@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ve bought a bunch of Wadjet Eye games; Unavowed, Gemini Rue, Primordia, Strangeland, Shardlight, Technobabylon and The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow.
And aside from that, Return of the Obra Dinn.
I’ve already played Gemini Rue, and I’m finishing Unavowed.
RaineV1@kbin.social 4 months ago
I played Primordia ages ago. It's such an interesting world, and the voice acting is top notch.
Chobbes@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I just want Logan Cunningham to whisper me to sleep every night.
LifeCoffeeGaming@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Heartbound - indie game in constant development
dinckelman@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Cruelty Squad is very often overlooked because of how it looks, but it’s genuinely one of the best roguelikes I have ever played
Anti_Face_Weapon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Definitely not a roguelike. This is the greatest stretching of “roguelike” that I’ve heard in my entire life.
But it is an excellent game
jedibob5@lemmy.world 4 months ago
…Who said anything about roguelikes?
Epzillon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I bought (the) Gnorp Apologue, really nice idler
BustinJiber@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think it might become big as this one is absolutely going places play-wise.
butterflyattack@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 months ago
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 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).
caut_R@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I‘m thinking about Aragami 2, but my coop mate and I still have a buncha games to chew through tbh. The first game was a blast.
I got Just Cause 3 and the Quake 2 Remaster.
NeryK@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Aragami 2 is more coop-friendly than the first game, but not as good overall.
zzzz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just Cause 3 is a great one.
metaStatic@kbin.social 4 months ago
Flower
BiggestBulb@kbin.social 4 months ago
Squad is definitely one of them! Also the Battlefield Collection is on 89% sale (only includes the ones since 2011 tho)
Alto@kbin.social 4 months ago
I've been a bit burnt out lately, but fully agree with Squad. My most played steam game by a fair bit. Love the ICO so much.
glitches_brew@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Necesse has been fun
slumberlust@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Picked up The Ascent and Dead Cells this time around.
Nacktmull@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Good for you! Dead Cells is one of the best games ever made if you ask me.
Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
I like The Ascent! That’s a fun game. I’ve heard of a lot of jank, but not experienced much myself. Other than some crashes when loading between areas.
hal_5700X@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Touhou Mystia’s Izakaya is the only lesser known game. I bought in this sale.
Haha@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Element TD2
yamanii@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Twilight Town, a cyberpunk boomer shooter about a guy wanting to give a body to his AI gf.
Iceblade02@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Gave this one as a gift - Opus Magnum.
Fun and satisfying production puzzler.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I don’t see people mention Cross Codes often and no one has mentioned here yet but that’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.
Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Cross code won awards and was featured several times on Linus Tech tips. IDK how lesser known it could be then. It did come out a while ago. I agree that the game is good, but it is one of the few games I quit because of performance issues.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Oh wow. I only learned of the game this year so I might just be living under a rock. I don’t watch LTT often, do they do game reviews now?
Osa-Eris-Xero512@kbin.social 4 months ago
In a similar vein i would add Unsighted to this list.