RULE: Between 2,000 and 6,000 reviews

For the games that aren't deeply underground, but still not quite mainstream yet

Don't care still pirating them

>>714958246 (OP)
Boggles my mind that One Way Heroics still has reviews in this range

https://store.steampowered.com/app/266210/One_Way_Heroics/

The best deckbuilder game in years.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2097570/StarVaders/

>>714958246 (OP)
>>714959187
Ys I+II Chronicles+ is worth the price of admission for the soundtrack alone. The spritework and waifus are a bonus. Hearkens to the good ol days when you were just a bad ass slaying legions of the dark lords armies to save maidens.

The first game on the hardest difficulty is a crazy fun challenge.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/223810/Ys_I__II_Chronicles/

>>714958246 (OP)
>>714959389
Afterimage is for those that want a Metroidvania as fuckhuge as Hollow Knight. The plot and world lore are hard to parse and it's told badly with what I suspect is shoddy translation, but the environs and characters are all beautiful and I can't emphasize enough how big this game is. It can easily take 40 hours to reach just one of its many endings and then there's an entire post-game segment with new areas to complete after that and THEN you switch back to the main game once its complete to unlock the true ending.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1701520/Afterimage/

Is scarlet nexus good? Anons were shilling it a few days ago.

>>714959839
I bought it on launch full price and hated it (never finished it) but the rest of /v/ loves it so dunno. Do what do you want.

>>714959993
What did you hate about it?

>>714958246 (OP)
>>714959692
Freedom Planet: Just imagine you took designs and edgy plot from SatAM and gave it Mega Man X and Sonic 2/3/K gameplay with 3 characters to play through the game with whose abilities vary more widely than Sonic/Tails/Knuckles. I actually saw another anon try to shill this two days ago or so and I agree that it should be way more well-known.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/248310/Freedom_Planet/

>>714959839
personally i quite liked it, the combat feels really shallow till a certain point when you get double the powers. the artstyle and music are superb, story is pretty basic.

if you play it play as yuito first, as the kasane route focuses on filling the gaps of the yuito route

>>714959358
>Touhou music in the trailer
lmao, wtf

>>714960105
Noted.

>>714959187
boughted, will play later

>>714960154
The composer they hired isn't really subtle about inspiration.

https://youtu.be/5vfpOvcXgVs

>>714960031
Does it even matter? If I hated it but the rest of /v/ loves it then you will probably like it too.

Has Manor Lords been improved on yet?

>>714960268
Well, it's catchy as fuck, so I'm not complaining.
That said, the game seems way overpriced for what it is.

>>714960321
I consider all opinions regardless of breadth

>>714958246 (OP)
>>714960048
Long Live the Queen is a VN/Simulation heavily inspired by the Princess Maker franchise. It is trial and error gameplay and an absolute nightmare to try to get to one of the good ends and keep all the death routes in mind and remember what dialogue choices to avoid and where to put your stats, but the death scenes are actually funny or appropriately tragic and you get achievements for seeing them all and it becomes weirdly addictive to brute force your way through the game. I've only played the first Princess Maker, but it's miles better than that since the main character isn't a blank slate.

I shilled this company's even lesser known game in the first of these threads we did and I'm taking the opportunity to shill A Little Lily Princess again in this thread even though it doesn't count for the thread requirements.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/251990/Long_Live_The_Queen/

I CAN'T WAIT TO BUY GAMES I'M NEVER GOING TO PLAY

>>714958246 (OP)
>>714960451
Underrail is supposedly a Fallout clone, but I didn't get far into the original Fallout games so I couldn't tell you. What I can tell you outside of namedropping classics is that it has a surprising amount of depth (heh) in its lore and gameplay and that might not be obvious in the first few hours. The first few hours involved me asking myself if I wanted to drop it and I'm glad I didn't because the game is crazy huge and very rewarding. It's just like Afterimage where I didn't realize what I was getting into. I put 140 hours into one character to kill the "last boss" and do both DLCs and apparently there's a major questline that I didn't do and a whole other almost easter egg questline for finishing the game as a mutant on top of hidden optional bosses on the harder difficulties. Leveling up is fun and there are is a lot of skill variety and it's just fun as hell exploring and finding new loot to accent your build. Me personally, I suck at builds and refuse to look shit up and take the fun out of it and just put my skills where I thought I would need them to overcome the next challenge and had fun save-scumming and getting roflstomped by a certain infamous endgame area.

And yeah, the lore and backstory go bonkers at some point and the game doesn't tip its hand about what's going on leading to some fun speculation in UR threads.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/250520/UnderRail/

All I got for today, hopefully OP's thread stays bumped.

>>714961012
Nothing you shared looked remotely interesting.

>>714961042
I literally JUST posted Underrail so you didn't even go to the store page and watch the game's trailer in the 30 seconds between our posts.

>>714961042
post a game or get out

>>714961103
I knew about it prior.

>>714961164
No and no.

how is the mass effect remake? I've been thinking of getting it after EDF 6, since it's dirt cheap
And are EDF 6 dlcs worth? Though, I've only been playing it alone, just dipped a bit my toes beyond hard

>>714961042
>ys1+2 doesn't look remotely interesting
you must be 18 years old to post here.

>>714961647
I'm 27
>inb4 underage b&

>>714961647
Honestly I get turned off by long running franchises like final fantasy, Ys, tales of, dragon quest, fire emblem, etc. What are the good Ys games?

>>714959358
>deckbuilder
I fucking despise this genre

>>714960343
Fuck no it was a scam

>>714958246 (OP)
I will shill Atomfall here in that case. I know it was on a showcase but it's still only got around 2.5k reviews. While admittedly a mid Far Cry-esque game, it's been fun having to find ways to uncover the various rumors.
The Druids can suck my ass though. I've been killed in their section so many times.

>>714961779
Start with Oath in Felghana. Then, if you liked that, go with Origin and/or VI: The Ark of Napishtim. Then you can try Ys I & II Chronicles(the original combat system is wildly different than the rest in the series, and probably not a good place to start out with. But the bump system is still fun). Then you can pretty much try the rest of them in any order.

>>714961779
I love all of them but start with VIII for a more modern 3d game or Oath in Felghana for an older style game
1+2 are great but I don't recommend starting with them. origin is arguably the best but 1+2 should be played first
they're all standalone (except 1+2) so you can play them in any order or even just play one if you want. play VIII

>>714961779
1+2, Dawn, Oath, Origins. You can make a case for Ark, 7, and 8.

>>714961647
I've been playing Ys 1 and FUCK THE FINAL BOSS
WHAT THE HELL IS THIS

>>714964778
are you playing on nightmare? he's a cocksucker for sure on any difficulty

>>714960048
I played this game years and years ago and remember liking it, but it's very short.

>>714964778
him and the bat boss, pure pain.

Captain of Industry its like factorio all over again

>>714958246 (OP)
2000 reviews is a hell of a lot, that's just a successful game.
What do you guys think counts as hidden gems?

>>714968647
There's a lot more people playing vidya and on steam than ever. 2000 is relatively few. Consider something like Noita, a quite niche indie game has over 70 000 reviews. That's still quite a small number in the grand scheme of things. Gta V right now has 1,8 million reviews on steam. Helldivers 2 has 750 000. 2000 is nothing really

Here's some good shit I like but doesn't get talked about often:
Battle Brothers
Endless Space 1-2
Fell Seal
Halls of Torment
King's Bounty The Legend + Crossworlds
Maneater (don't recommend the DLC)
Project Wingman
Shadowrun Dragonfall

>>714964778
What's your fps? Because I remember he's harder the higher the frame rate.

>>714969924
>Shadowrun Dragonfall
i tried returns and didn't like it, is dragonfall significantly better?

Is the ASTLIBRA DLC bundle worth getting or just the standard game?

>>714971073
Yes but don't play it until you beat the game. It has spoilers.

>>714971041
Yes.

Xanadu Next

>>714969924
Halls of Torment is so fucking good, it swipes VS

>>714969924
>Fell Seal
I liked that but have no idea how to compares to sRPG classics cause I never played any of them

>>714971531
The mechanics are just FFT straight up. Even the radial class menu is from that game. If you enjoyed the progression and the class system, you might want to give FFT a try. Or Tactics Ogre but that's a little different.

>>714971636
I did like the job system. I thought it was kinda silly that you have named characters but can also recruit dozens of mercenaries for no reason, I prefer RPGs where you party is only the "real" characters

>>714969351
70000 reviews is a shit load. That's not niche, that's an outright hit.

>>714961012
Personally I love Underrail but is it a partially hidden gem? Feels quite popular....
>>714961042
Get bent.

>>714971847
Sorry I'm straight.

Legionary's Life
Roguelite where you follow 3 campaigns of a legionary. I like it because of the setting and because on the first run, you can very easily die if you're overconfident, so you learn to keep your head down. But then on subsequent playthroughs, when you know the events and stuff, and get some upgrades from meta progression, you can be the big swinging dick who takes out an entire phalanx by yourself
There's some minor randomization in small events that happen as you rest, but all the battles are the same each run

>>714971701
You might enjoy Fire Emblem then. Although those games are a lot more simplistic in terms of tactical depth. I recommend the GBA games or the Radiant duology.

>>714972205
I'm not sure I would even call Fell Seal tactically deep. It doesn't even have attacks of opportunity, so you just constantly flank the enemy and they flank you back

>>714972281
>>714972205
Also forget to say, it was still great fun. I just didn't really care about the mercenaries and suspect it will be the same in other games

>>714972281
It doesn't matter what you personally consider deep, when compared to Fire Emblem, Fell Seal is an ocean.

>>714972459
kek, fair enough
I do like JRPGs so that's fine with me

>>714960031
Not that guy but I thought it was mediocre. Story wasn't interesting enough and the combat was lame

>>714972652
Ironic since other anons said that's what they liked about it.

>>714971073
The DLC adds nothing to the base game, it is purely bonus "endgame" style content. If you enjoy the main game's combat and want more of it once you are done, get the DLC.

>>714971847
The constraint of the OP was between 2k and 6k reviews. The entire community probably comes out all at once when there's a thread, most of its subforums around the net are slow; it's not a well-known game.

this is probably the most underrated game i’ve ever played. i know that survival/crafting have a bad reputation, but there’s an actual story you follow here and so far it kept me engaged and pushed me to “overbuild”. reminds me a lot of soma for some reason.
now imma go back to finishing comms array.

>>714958246 (OP)

Legend of Grimrock 2
https://store.steampowered.com/app/251730/Legend_of_Grimrock_2/

Satellite Reign
https://store.steampowered.com/app/268870/Satellite_Reign/

Invisible Inc
https://store.steampowered.com/app/243970/Invisible_Inc/

Gears Tactics
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1184050/Gears_Tactics/

Valdis Story Abyssal City
https://store.steampowered.com/app/252030/Valdis_Story_Abyssal_City/

>>714958246 (OP)
I stopped giving a damn about sales like 5 years ago.

>>714973507
>Gears Tactics
I like tactics games but the sheboon turned me off completely.

>>714958246 (OP)
>I expect you to die
A VR puzzle trilogy where you're a secret agent man, you sit down and the levels have you not move out of your seat (although in a few of them the seat might move slightly, not enough to make you sick though) you've got telekinesis to grab distant objects, leans comedic but not obnoxiously so, still if you want something super serious it's not for you
>Asterigos Curse of the Stars
soulslike of sorts where you enter a lost city, a word of advice there's a boss early on that might seem impossible to jump over a shockwave attack of his, it is indeed impossible you are meant to iframe dodge through it, the ability to jump at all was added after release so the fights weren't designed around it
>nebelous fleet command
a hardcore spaceship fleet combat command game
>mind over magic
A magic school building game, you build from a side on cross section perspective
>last train home
tactical war game about some people taking a train home through a country in the middle of a civil war after the end of the first world war
>hidden deep
delve into an ungerground bunker system deep under the ocean, they were saying they were going to add the co op it should have launched with but I think it ended up only local (although there is that steam remove play thing), technically still in early access and it seems abandoned
>Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
A sort of fallout like CRPG where you're stuck in a dome
>lost ruins
very slightly erotic metroidvania, can't turn it down to normal if you get filtered by hard, gotta restart the whole game
>Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery
operatan tactics game with supernatual elements, connected to the girls frontline gacha franchise
What the fuck how is world of goo under 6000 reviews
>Fate/Samurai Remnant
A musou of sorts but it's Fate
>succubus
action spinoff to that disaster Agony Game, make sure you get the free uncensored DLC
1/x

>>714959358
>$30 on sale for a deckbuilder
What are they smoking

>>714973652
Most of the characters are not really characters, they are just generic soldiers you can recruit like XCOM. There are only two actual main characters and she isn't one. And the gameplay is great for an XCOM clone, they really tried to adapt the GoW gameplay and mechanics to a turn based format.

>>714973808
what the fuck how does Sakuna of rice and ruin have less than 6000 reviews, I guess it probably did extra well on switch since Nintendo did shill it at the E3 treehouse, but then didn't bother to show it in the english version of the direct it was in the JP version of
>forewarned
Phasmophobia but delving into egyption tombs, what I would consider an early access success story it actually got decent updates at a decent pace, has VR support but the one time I tried it I had issues with being too tall and not being able to pick dropped tools off the ground
>the headliners
friendslop like lethal company or R.E.P.O, play as journalists trying to get good photos as shit hits the fan
EDF6 falls under 6000 I bet they really regret killing the PC release in its crib like they did with the epic stuff it's not there anymore though
>Long Live the Queen
Sort of like a raising sim but not quite the same thing, queen dies and the princess has gotta prepare to be queen in a year while trying not to die, has a far future sci fi sequel coming out soon
2/2

?

>>714971531
It is woke fantasy tactics. If you don't mind woke or can switch off brain when it comes to story then you can give it a try. I tried 2 times already and dropped it because of the characters.

>>714973507
>Valdis Story Abyssal City
Loved that game. Any other metroidvania with good combat system?

>Satellite Reign
Hard at the beginning, stomping in the end.

>>714973652
>I like tactics games but the sheboon turned me off completely.

the fuck are you talking about? there are hardly any women in the game, other than generic troops

>>714974908
>Loved that game. Any other metroidvania with good combat system?

well theres these:

the apex of Castlevania combat, if you want something similar to Symphony of the Night, doesnt get better than this
https://store.steampowered.com/app/692850/Bloodstained_Ritual_of_the_Night/

difficult but with lots of options and build opportunities
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1253920/Rogue_Legacy_2/

flashy but extremely easy, do yourself a favor and play it on hard, also furries
https://store.steampowered.com/app/236090/Dust_An_Elysian_Tail/

havent finished it but i like it so far, lots of parrying and dodging
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2751000/Prince_of_Persia_The_Lost_Crown/

>>714975258
>Dust an Elysian Tail
I remember playing that back when Xbox gave it out for free, was surprised by how much I enjoyed the story

>>714975258
>Prince of Persia the Lost Crown

Not really a hidden gem, but definitely a good game. Way better than that 2D Ninja Gaiden game coming out in a few weeks, the demo for that was so mediocre.

>>714971847
The SsethTzeentach review for Underrail Expedition has 5.9 million views

>>714975928
>Not really a hidden gem

well technically it fits OP criteria but you are right, i was just recommending games there regardless of whether they were "Partially exposed gems" or not

>>714976218
And how many of them actually played the game in earnest?

>>714973808
>Encased
This is one of those games I like and everyone else hates for some reason.

>>714977315
Because they put all of their budget into the intro THEN they scrapped and heavily edited the intro, including removing content. It gets discussed every so often on /vrpg/.

>>714959187
I played a couple rounds of this game and it didn't seem that good. Really easy.

>Out of Ore
You dig a mine, refine ores, process materials and sell them for money. Features dirt physics meaning your precious hole might cave in if you're not careful
>Dagger Directive
Actual spiritual successor to Delta Force series
>Easy Red 2
Mix up between BF1942 and Red Orchestra. The dev is an actual WW2 autist.
>Icaria
Desynced without combat
>Eden Crafter
Imagine Planet Crafter and Satisfactory mashed together
>Archean
Complex scripting/engineering autism simulator. Requres RT capable GPU.
>Motor Town: Behind the Wheel
Open world transport/car sim with simcady vehicle controls. Has neat features like supply chains affecting goods supply, demand and prices
>CEO
Like Capitalism Lab but not as vast but has a more modern UI

>>714977984
There's difficulty settings and modifiers. Try Maniac Mode or one of the harder difficulties like Inhumane Odyssey without using the Dimensional Vault. The game is all about replaying, there's endings that are more challenging to get like the Demon Lord's ending. I know how people feel about Achievement fags, but it's one of those cases where Steam Achievements are a good guide of things to aim for if you want to challenge yourself on replays.

>>714971475
That was such a satisfying game. It scratched itch I don't know how to identify and I can't find anything quite like it.

>>714975258
How's Rogue Legacy 2 compared to first one? I remember first one was "nice idea, meh implementation" for me.
I liked that Valdis Story combat is DMC-lite with different builds and styles.

>>714978918
>action RPG but without the loot autism

>>714979056
Sort of. It really just felt like a no nonsense video game where nothing was getting in the way of its gameplay.

>>714964778
The boss is not beatable above 60 fps.

>>714979967
Lots of games like that but they're all pixel art indie games

>>714959839
Not really. I preferred Astral Chain in the same niche but I guess if one of the characters makes your dick feel funny you might stick with it.

Insanely stimulating, high difficulty, arcade-style arena shooter. That might not sound very unique in the modern indie FPS market but Hyper Demon really is a one of a kind game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1743850/HYPER_DEMON/

>>714980425
https://youtu.be/IQGvPOa_pMw
The combat looks fun wtf you lied to me

>>714979017
>How's Rogue Legacy 2 compared to first one?

its one of the few games where i say:
>this makes the first game obsolete

the only other sequel i consider this improved is Legend of Grimrock 2

keep in mind, the combat is nothing like DMC, its closer to something like say, shovel knight, its more about platforming to evade blows, jumping on enemies, using the environment to block projectiles, that kinda thing

so for comparison, while a boss fight in VS might take place in a simple arena and test your dodge/block timing while waiting for the perfect chance to strike

a boss fight in RL2 is going to take place in an arena full of platforms where you will constantly be evading projectiles

but there IS a lot of oportunity for skill expression, theres lots of different classes, and with each of them you have "skill crits" meaning if you perform an sttack in a specific way, you deal more damage, testing positioning and timing

for instance, the knight deals a skill crit when he attacks while dashing, the samurai deals a skill crit when you hit someone with the very tip of your sword, the ranger deal a skill crit when you fire your charged arrow shot at a precise moment

its cool

>>714959839
It's okay, combat is kinda fun when you get more powers and abilities. Story is average at best and some interesting plot points were dropped either due to the rushed development or the writers forgot it.
There were a few free updates that added more contents so that's kinda nice, give it a try if it's cheap

>>714958246 (OP)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/329440/Sonic_Lost_World/

>>714958246 (OP)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2022670/SONIC_SUPERSTARS/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1794960/Sonic_Origins/

>>714972715
What's ironic about it, retard? Do you know what irony means?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/742300/Mega_Man_11/

>>714983932
>Ironic posting
Bananable.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1849000/SEX_with_HITLER/

>>714960606
>buy 10 games
>play 1 immediately
>play 1 in a few years

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1378990/Crash_Bandicoot_4_Its_About_Time/

Valfaris - I know a game is too good when it makes me play a genre I really don't like.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/600130/Valfaris/

>>714958246 (OP)
Got any one dollar games you'd suggest anons?

>>714959692
Sell me on it.
The game looks good, and it's cheap, but barely 80% positive makes me think there's an asterisk attached. Anything to say about exploration, combat and platforming?

>>714975258
>the fuck are you talking about?
Watch the trailer on the store page, dumbass.

>>714985364
Very good game. Slain was mediocre in comparison, hopefully Slain 2 will be better.

Lunistice, fast runner/platformer, feels great to control
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1701800/Lunistice/

>>714985984
Exploration is great. You'll notice a whole lot of the negative reviews on steam are midwits bitching that the game is too big and they got lost as if that isn't the entire point of a metroidvania. You have a ton of different areas and biomes, literal dozens of boss fights, loot, collectibles, bestiary and item volumes to fill out, NPCs to quest for, to explore to your hearts content.
For combat you have different weapons you can equip which will severely change your approach to enemies. There's a skill tree with new moves to learn for weapons, and you eventually learn magic which can be used as a combat type in and of itself. You have a definite reason to switch your weapon often whether it's situational or you find one that is OP.
The game's platforming is comparable to the rest of the genre. Meaning, it's there, you discover your double, triple jumps, your dash, your wall jump and utilize it all to go off the beaten path for treasure. If you're looking for segments like Hollow Knight's White Palace or Path of Pain, they're not here.

>>714987654
If you like "girl running very fast games then don't forget Haste which recently came out, there's a demo too

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1796470/Haste/

>>714987839
Eh, I'll give it a go then.
If all of that is true, it seems a bit underrated. I've played metroidvanias with more glaring flaws and higher score.
The only things i can think off that might tank the score are technical issues and bad game design, like say, bad or sparce bonfire placements, which would suck big time on a game this big.
Or maybe shit translation, given it's a chink game, but i don't much care about lore anyway

>>714988620
Thanks, I was going to wishlist it but it was already on there.
(I don't care about the gender, sexual identity, or set of fetishes of my platformer protagonists.)

always heaps of furry shit in these threads

>>714987654
I suck at this game.

>>714989191
Furry and trans.
Autistic people are good at making video games but they have sexual fetishes that they put into the games they're making so they never reach a normie audience.

>>714989648
makes sense

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1704730/Vacant_Kingdom/

Vacant Kingdom is fun if you like bullet hell stuff
That's all I'm gonna say about it