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I don't see people mention Cross Codes often and no one has mentioned here yet so I think it's "lesser known".
It'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.
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.
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?
In a similar vein i would add Unsighted to this list.
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 It's by the creators of Phoenix Wright and it was originally made for the DS back in 2010. It was a commercial failure because Capcom didn't advertise it at all and since it's released it's been pretty obscure. It was only ported to PC this year.
I think this is a game you should go in blind. I highly recommend this game.
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
Mosa lina
Hypnospace is SOOOOO GOOOOD if you grew up in the 90s on the internet.
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.
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.
I finally bought horizon zero dawn! I just hope to have some time to play it...
Same :'), but i bought Titanfall 2
https://github.com/0neGal/viper
Highly recommend this launcher for Titanfall. The Northstar client allows mods and private servers.
Horizon Forbidden West is set to come to PC at some point as well!
it's hard to describe how good it is. you'll make time.
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.
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.
Warhammer 40k: Boltgun
Looking forward to playing it this week
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.
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.
Nothing here, but Black Mesa was outstanding. Could not put it down.
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.
I played Primordia ages ago. It's such an interesting world, and the voice acting is top notch.
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.
It's a new release so maybe this doesn't count but against the storm is excellent
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.
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.
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.
Heartbound - indie game in constant development
Squad is definitely one of them! Also the Battlefield Collection is on 89% sale (only includes the ones since 2011 tho)
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.
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.
Flower
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 missing 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).
Cruelty Squad is very often overlooked because of how it looks, but it’s genuinely one of the best indie games I have ever played
Shadow of Doubt has just recently come under my radar. Its a procedurally generated voxel noir game.
Void Stranger
i picked up SPRAWL this sale. really fun retro-style shooter so far, the sense of movement is especially satisfying.