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Mega Knockdown a turn-based fighting game that successfully adapts the best part of fighting games: throwing rock four times in a row because you've gotten in their head well enough to know they're gonna throw scissors four times in a row.
(note the above is an old clip, the placeholder frames have since been filled in)
WORMHOLE (51 Steam reviews)
WORMHOLE is next-level Snake. I've written about it before! There are powerups, wormholes (obviously), and increasingly complex and cramped levels. The game's graphics and music get more intense over time and it becomes an oddly hypnotic action game.
I'm glad to see these threads again! They're fun.
Ash & Adam’s GOBSMACKED (37 Steam reviews)
This is a single-player arcade FPS. You battle robots in a series of arenas with a set of wacky weapons, with shops in between. At the start of each run, you have to buy yourself a starting loadout using the money you got from previous runs, but you can’t choose the same items as your last run. Buying an item for the first time at a shop unlocks it so you can choose it as a starter in a future run.
Reassembly, a fantastic and beautiful simple shipbuilder with a great modding scene. My go-to game when I'm high and just want to chill with some pretty particle explosions....
(should we be upvoting the games we haven't heard of? Or just downvote only?)
Elder Scrolls Skyrim, really niche indie game. Just kidding!
Nikoderiko - really fun platformer that's kind of a mix of Donkey Kong and Crash. Currently on sale on gog (linked) and steam
Eh, I don't know how well the game is known, but I'll throw out A Robot Named Fight, since looking at Metacritic it seems like it never got much mainstream attention. It's also (unsurprisingly) on sale right now, only $3.24 in the US.
Anyway, the game is a metroidvainia roguelite mashup. The gameplay is more the Metroid side of "metroidvania" being very obviously inspired by Super Metroid. You traverse a randomly generated map, getting unlocks for future runs by accomplishing various things though out that run, think Binding of Issac's item progression.
This is probably a bit cheating since it just came out, but we had A Fox Tale on our wishlist since 2021 and it apparently actually came out a couple months ago and we completely missed it!! I immediately went and grabbed it and yeah, it is good. Fox platforming, great story, really good level design and gosh the ART is just so good!
-- Frost
A game that holds a fantastically emotional spot in my heart is Jason Oda’s CONTINUE?9876543210. It has a mixed rating by the general public, but holds the very core of my faith.
At the start, a video game character dies, and is scheduled for deletion. Eventually, the garbage collector that filters through the computer’s RAM, deleting levels that have served their purpose, characters of memory damage and mangled speech, and reflections on what it it is to be dying, all deleted. The goal of the game is to find peace in the milliseconds of afterlife, however that happens.
we all fear deletion
those who were deleted
i took with me
their lightning, their prayer
https://store.steampowered.com/app/263340/Continue9876543210/
(yes! I got a downvote! Someone else knows this game!)
A point and click in the same vein as There Is No Game by the same studio, that came out recently and that I haven't seen people talk about at all, unfortunately already past its introductory offer
Wintermoor Tactics Club, part tactical rpg part VN. Very cute and lots of fun
EDIT: https://store.steampowered.com/app/917840/Wintermoor_Tactics_Club/
Ed-0: Zombie Uprising - A japanese 3rd Person Zombie Action Roguelike. It's silly, it's fun, it's pretty hard sometimes!
A large scale, sci-fi, squad based FPS that’s been in development for about 10 years. Battles scale from individual soldiers all the way to pilotable battleships that can be boarded and sabotaged from within, and everything in between.
Total labour of love by the developers. It will soon be leaving early access.
F2P (not gacha) but pretty good imo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/802930/The_Rainsdowne_Players/
King of kings: the early years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Kings:_The_Early_Years
A mediocre set of platformers interspersed with bible trivia. I played the crap out of them because it was the only thing other that super Mario we had.
Later we got Joshua and the battle of Jericho. A bomberman clone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_&_the_Battle_of_Jericho
What a great post idea, thanks OP!
My contribution is NeonXSZ, a 6DOF open-world ARPG by a solo dev. It's been a decade since it released, but IIRC, the dev cited Quake and Diablo as primary inspirations and the game has a native Linux version.
An Airport for Aliens Currently Run By Dogs
This is a delightful little indie game where you have to talk to stock photos of dogs and complete little unhinged quests. It's been on gdq in the awful block with the dev before, but only 221 reviews as of now
No More Mages is a very short (for now) but also very inexpensive (for now) beat-em-up platformer in early access that was made by a fellow lemming. He made it known to me in a comment a few months back, I picked it up, finished it quickly, but definitely felt it had been worth tossing a couple of dollars at a fellow Fediverse user for! I’m looking forward to what happens with it in the future.
Sword of the Necromancer : Resurrection.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2782880/Sword_of_the_Necromancer_Resurrection/
Best played co-op. Wonderful story with a great ending. Truly beautiful and solid game play. Short 12hr game to 100% complete.
Only like 150 reviews.
As a separate comment: Iji
Freeware game and an awesome gem. Great soundtrack, too
I've been playing Idols of Ash and Echo Point Nova.
Both are pretty nifty, don't usually see much conversation about either.
A short little puzzle platformer: Leap Year. To complete the game, collect all of the calendar pages scattered throughout the level. But beware, there’s fall damage. While your jump is two blocks high, you can only survive a one block fall. There’s more to it, but spoilers…
ODDCORE (939 Steam reviews, Early Access)
Roguish boomer FPS where you travel to liminal spaces to shoot all the monsters. They're not scary if they're dead! Instead of having a map of encounters, you get 5 minutes to do as much as possible. Once you've cleaned out a space, you jump to the next world... unless your teleport gun glitches out and takes you someplace very weird. At any time, even during combat, you can jump to your home base to buy upgrades or extra time credit.
It's a fast-paced fps game where your goal is to speedrun through each level. The main mechanic is that you switch weapons by flipping fingers up and down to change hand gestures. The movement and shooting are very smooth, and the soundtrack is incredible.
They're jrpgs that are very surreal and trippy. They both have amazing style and presentation, and the second game has one of my all-time favorite soundtracks
Overload
Spiritual successor to Decent 1, 2, and 3. Made by the same devs.
Esports Godfather is one hell of a genre soup: deckbuilder/autobattler/management game/single player MOBA? But trust me, it play way better than it sounds - at least if you're into deckbuilders and management games. My only criticism was that it is a little too easy, but even given that it was easy to sink a lot of hours into it. It's just fun making combos between heroes in battle, setting up the perfect deck through your players or engaging with all the million subsystems in the management mode side.
They did use AI art (supposedly trained on their own work) for the player portraits, so do with that what you will.
Just bought Cleared Hot, it's a fun little indie helicopter game ala the old Strike games.
zero-k is very nice, opensource too. I think it started as mod for total annihilation or supreme commander and developed into its own thing.
Voin is a first person hack and slash with very satisfying combat and movement. It has some nice build variety and huge, detailed levels. The game is still in early access, but as it's being made by a solo developer, that's the only way to make a project like this feasible.
Maybe Ten Bells
Solo dev who was pretty sad that it had slow traction on release because he put so much work into the game. I can see it now has over 500 reviews, so perhaps he got the reaction he wanted!
Bound by Flame is an old, rather difficult, action RPG with an interesting premise: you’re transforming into a demon and the player’s actions determine how much you change.
Edit: messed up the name, it’s flame not blood.
Plain Sight - These flying ninja robots fight each other in small maps you can kind of orbit around. Fast paced and fun.
I'll throw in another one, why not. Withering Rooms is one of my absolute favorite games I've played this year. It's an action/light horror roguelike that ends up being a very unique experience despite clear inspiration from games like Silent Hill and Dark Souls. For a solo developer game (who even wrote the wonderful music himself) it's a seriously impressive game, especially with the amount of small QOL touches. I thought the puzzles were intuitive personally, but I loved and appreciated that there is both an in-game "Puzzle Oracle" consumable if you are stuck, and a tiered hint section on the website if you need a nudge.
There's a ton of builds you can do, from various magic builds to melee and ranged and traps and more. The story is also very interesting, the world building is excellent and I enjoyed the writing. It really nails a certain vibe that very few games get right. For me, exploring this unique and interesting but dangerous world filled with a cast of weird and strange characters gave me similar emotions as playing Dark Souls 1 the first time. And it's hard to give higher marks than that.
Amazing game.
And my last post since I could recommend games for days xD.
Demonstar: Original Missions (1999 re-released in 2024 with some fine upgrades) not on sale but only 3 euros.
Qbeh-1 The Atlas Cube: If you like puzzels, chill floating islands and minecraft (-90%).
The Council: An episodic narrative adventure in 18th century high society. (-90%)
Curse Crackers: For Who the Bell Toils is a GBC-styled platformer based around a throwable partner, fun movement tech, and a lite story around an acrobat in a mask.
Yellow Taxi goes Vroom is a 3D Mario collectathon platformer...where you can't jump. It manages an energetic atmosphere where many objects are bouncing in place, so even at its small filesize it has a lot of visual appeal to it.
I realize I didn't set a rule for if you've only heard of one game in someone's list; I guess use your judgment. If you'd like, forgive one if another presented an interesting suggestion.
I discovered totally by accident Proverbs.
Proverbs is a picross/minesweeper hybrid featuring a single ENORMOUS puzzle, inspired by Bruegel the Elder's 1559 painting "Netherlandish Proverbs".
In short, it's minesweeper with a twist. It's pretty relaxing, you can do it while listening to podcasts or YouTube. Also, what I like is that you never have to make hypotheses. Everything is solvable just by looking.
Message Quest - a silly little medieval PnC adventure with a stained-glass art style and a lazy squire as protagonist
Nantucket. You're Ishmael and you're finishing the job, no matter how many whales you need to butcher. With cards and dice. And sea shanties.
Oh, thought of another one to list here: Micro Mages. It's not just NES styled game, but an actual NES game with a emulation wrapper around it for Steam. You actually get a NES ROM when you buy the game that's playable in all the emulators I've thrown it into. I've actually got a copy of the rom on my 3DS.
The real interesting thing that the devs put out a video about the challenges of fitting their game onto a NES cart (which is actually how I found out about the game). While the game is kinda small, (I think... I haven't actually beaten it) it's well worth the current sale price 99 cents.
I hope I get downvoted because it means this game got more attention than I thought, which it greatly deserves. I used to play it on iOS many years ago now. I haven’t played it in several years and probably still have all the puzzles memorized. It’s not filled with super obscure puzzles, but it’s the right amount of challenge with a fantastic atmosphere and vibe. Seriously, if you don’t completely hate point and clicks, give it a shot. It’s truly an excellent game.