I highly recommend CrossCode, currently only costs $6 (It also has a free demo if you want to try it first). It’s a really well polished game with a great story, and the action is amazing too. It also includes difficulty settings you can change if you feel yourself getting too frustrated (as I did sometimes). This video also sums it up pretty well. Hope you enjoy!
I don't understand how it's not a classic. The music and art is amazing, the story and characters are charming, the battle system is fun, it's full of side quests and places to explore. Maybe it's because the dungeons are literally 2 hours of non-stop puzzles (they went a bit hard on the puzzles), but if you can get past that, it's definitely worth your time!
Hidden Gem you say? (obligatory)
EXAPUNK - 50% - 96% Positive
If you like old time puzzle games, and have a pinch for programming, then you will love this. In this game you control bots by creating algorithms to extract data and other challenges. The cool part is you must study the game language and learn the lore from manuals and magazines that the game provides.
SHENZHEN I/O - 50% - 93% Positive
From the same creator of EXAPUNK, only the thematic here is electronics.
Road 96 - 50% 91% Positive
Summer 1996, Today is the day! You hit the road. Adventure. Freedom. Escape. Run. Flee the Regime. Try to survive.
On this risky road trip to the border, you’ll meet incredible characters, and discover their intertwined stories and secrets in an ever-evolving adventure. But every mile opens up a choice to make. Your decisions will change your adventure, change the people you meet, maybe even change the world.
just grabbed god of war, disco elysium, and hellblade senuas sacrifice...
as far as recommendations go, Mass Effect legendary edition and dragon age are very enjoyable if you like RPG with a focus on lore, story and characters. Red Dead Redemption 2 is a wonder and a steal at $20. Witcher 3 for $12. Horizon Zero Dawn for $16.50
So many hidden gems.
This comment made me sharply exhale cocaine chunks
Red dead 2 is available for less elsewhere.
IRC Witcher 3 is available for the same price on GOG, DRM free. Same goes for Disco Elysium.
TLDR: do your research. Other stores do offers during the steam summer sale
I love GOG and their anti-DRM stance but I just can't bring myself to buy games there when they don't even have a native Linux launcher. Steam, on the other hand, just works.
ITT: not hidden gems
Have you guys heard of SKYRIM?
Needs more celeste
Dude, you were quick to forget about the reddit threads of "hidden gems", where the top voted answers were Skyrim, Witcher 3 and RDR2.
This is a gold mine in comparison...
There's this sweet rarely known game where you punch trees and build stuff but you've probably never heard of it
Ark?
Roadwarden($7.36) - A text based RPG wherein you play as a roadwarden and influence the future of the land with a 40 day time limit. Good story
Fear and Hunger 1 & 2($5.59 & $9.59) -The dark souls of rpgmaker games. Loot is randomized for each playthrough. There's a dismemberment system that also applies to you. You lose your legs, it's gone for good the entire playthrough.
Frostpunk($5.99) - You manage the last city on earth in the middle of the eternal frost.
FTL: Faster than light($2.49) - 2d Spaceship simulation rougelike with randomized map. Your goal is to reach the last star sector and defeat the mother ship.
Fran Bow ($3.74) - 2d Point and click psychological horror where you play a young girl with an unfair destiny
From the same people as FTL, Into The Breach is one of the only games I consider a "perfect game" — there is almost nothing about it that could be improved without it just being a different game. I 100%'ed that game 1.5 times and it's absolutely amazing.
It's a turn-based tactics game with absolutely perfect interface (the way they went about its design is a whole interesting thing in itself); like chess but you only need to think 1.5 moves into the future.
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