The Steam sea is full of big fish. But many small games are also worth a dive! Here come our insider tips.
If you like to swim against the tide, you’ve come to the right place. As usual, we introduce you to five new, relatively unknown games on Steam that have been well to super received by early players. If you have a heart for indies, maybe there’s a candidate for your new favorite game among them.
This time with almost limitless destruction, a dive of horror and a very rare kind of hardcore role-playing game Let’s go
Demolition
(Genre: Physics tinkering – Release: Sep 5, 2023 – Price: 14,99 Euro)
Admittedly, we’ve been on your case with the German game ABRISS for a while now. In our defense: It’s just so infinitely satisfying to watch our airy constructions collapse into fire and dust.
Meanwhile, ABRISS is done with Early Access and released as a full version. The gameplay is simple on one side, tricky on the other: you build buildings in different ways so that they destroy certain level elements when you press start. Then gravity does its uncompromising work – and you watch in disbelief.
Trine 5
(Genre: Jump&Run – Release: Aug 31, 2023 – Price: 29,99 Euro)
Long-lived, dreamy, graphically sophisticated: Especially the latter is rather an exception in the genre of platformers, which tend to rely on retro pixel looks to a large extent. Not that those can’t be beautiful, but Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy just goes the extra mile visually.
You take turns jumping and puzzling your way through creative levels with three very different characters to keep order in the magical world. When you use which hero best for which task is up to you. The series challenges skill and brains alike.
Under the Waves
(Genre: Under the Sea Adventure – Release: Aug 29, 2023 – Price: 29.99 Euro)
No, this is not a new Subnautica, although Under the Waves is definitely in the same wet groove. You’ll explore the North Sea in a diving suit or submarine, encounter majestic underwater creatures, but also struggle with your own psyche.
Stan has a lot of ballast to carry around, not only in the literal sense. So the journey drives you first deep down into the cold sea, and then also into the shallows of your own mind.
By the way, after two successful series parts, the developers of Subnautica venture into completely different realms
The Matchless KungFu
(Genre: Sandbox RPG – Release: August 30, 2023 (Early Access) – Price: 14,79 Euro)
Something really hefty for hardcore roleplayers and sandbox fans: The Matchless KungFu is a single-player game inspired by Kenshi . Doesn’t ring a bell? Ouch. This is really an extremely complex hardcore role-playing game that offers a tremendous amount of gameplay freedom, yet looks rather … special.
The Matchless KungFu relies on much more inviting graphics, but remains the same in premise: Here you go, you’ve got a huge open world full of moving gears, now do with it what you will! Colony building à la RimWorld included. The combat system is also based on freedom and lets you master every imaginable martial art
Looper Tactics
(Genre: Roguelike deckbuilder – Release: Aug 28, 2023 – Price: 10.79 Euro)
Funny, somehow these lists can’t get by without roguelike or deckbuilder. Or both. Looper Tactics is both, mixes it all up with Teamfight Tactics-style autobattler battles, and presents itself on Steam in a gaudy, fun graphic style.
You apply cards from your deck, which you improve and expand over the course of the game. Finally, the monsters that the cards represent fight each other in automatically executed battles. If you hit your opponent often enough, you’ll win the match.
So, did you find a possible new game for you in the list? If so, which one is it? Feel free to post it in the comments!
