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[fatty]

Now is a great time to pick up some current gen games at a great price before they are hard to find. What are some games that maybe are under the radar that you would recommend to others?

I'll post more as I think of them but three that come to mind for me are Dead Cells, Into The Breach and Steamworld Dig 2:

Dead Cells:

I've touched on this more in this thread: LTTP: Dead Cells (aka my 2019 Game of the Year), but I've put more time into this game than any other this generation.

Into The Breach: Into the breach - From the makers of FTL



SteamWorld Dig 2: SteamWorld Dig 2 |OT| New Digs


Many of these games can be picked up for a cheap price, and that's what I'm hoping for with this thread so please post your favorites.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

I'll second all 3 of these, but I don't feel like Dead Cells was a hidden gem. Into the Breach is fantastic, though. Anyone who enjoys a good puzzle game owes it to themselves to take a look at it.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Sine Mora EX

The Evil Within 2

Tearaway Unfolded

Gravity Rush 2

 

[CatLady]

One of the first Indie games I played when I first got Game Pass. It convinced me that not all indie games are shovelware and I'm now quite a fan of Indie games.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Nice idea for a thread OP! Thanks.

For me, it would be Hyper Light Drifter, and adventure game with lots of exploration, action packed combat system and an incredible pixel art.

Also Furi. A boss rush game that's pretty, hard, and with a banger OST.

 

[Vick]

Mad Max.

 

[Danjin44]

Currently 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim is my personal GOTG which is getting completely overlooked.

 

[reforen]

The Surge 1 and 2

 

[N0S]

Mad Max.

 

[MrS]

Nex Machina
N++
Cat Quest 1 & 2
Null Drifter

 

[Birdo]

Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap.

It's on PSN sale quite often, you should try it, if you haven't.

 

[Evil Calvin]

Sine Mora EX

The Evil Within 2

Tearaway Unfolded

Gravity Rush 2

Sine Mora is soooo under the radar. Cool game!

 

[Explosive Zombie]

Hidden must mean i'm bombarded by people telling me how good it is all the time

 

[Evil Calvin]

Currently 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim is my personal GOTG which is getting completely overlooked.

I bought it and was bored after a couple hours. I need to give it one more go.

 

[Clear]

One of the first Indie games I played when I first got Game Pass. It convinced me that not all indie games are shovelware and I'm now quite a fan of Indie games.

Rime is fantastic, really shockingly good.
Days Gone was criminally underrated.
Nioh 2 though... man its combat simply takes the Souls' style to a whole level above. It is the absolute best there is. The sheer breadth and depth of the systems is unparalleled. Its a tragedy that it seems to be selling less than its excellent predecessor, because its even bigger and better.

 

[AV]

I think OP - and others - are confusing "hidden gem" with "smaller game" but I appreciate any effort to push Into the Breach and Dead Cells.

I'll put forward Yoku's Island Express. Cute, fun little adventure pinball game where you play as a dung beetle postmaster.

 

[Danjin44]

I bought it and was bored after a couple hours. I need to give it one more go.

The game starts with prologue which linear but once you pass through that you can basically choose how you want to approach the story and combat section.

 

[cireza]

Outer Wilds

Sci-fi/story-telling master-piece

 

[Ceelic21]

Hollow Knight? Although that one is pretty popular.

I'd also say Danganronpa V3

 

[ComputerBlue]

Trine 4



Strange Brigade



Unepic



Rogue Legacy

 

[Slings and Arrows]

The three that caught off guard were:

Battlechasers:

RPG, TB combat, old school 'left side of screen vs right side of screen'. Cool concept, interesting game

Mutant: Year zero, road to Eden
Mutant was the best 'strategy' xcom game i've played since xbox. It worked amazingly well. Thoroughly looking forward to a sequel

Operencia: the stolen sun
A first person game where you could only walk in 'grid' fashion, using simple but effective battles. It really came in to it's own with the puzzles, which were beautiful, frustrating and so old school that it would make George Stobbart and Guybrush Threepwood smile.

Operencia saved the generation for me. It was just that diamond in the rough, the perfect little gem that I enjoyed from start to finish.

And the best part? All three of those games were on Gamepass.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

 

[Sentenza]

Battle Brothers.

Mix Mount & Blade "mercenary party management" with XCOM turn-based battles and the fact that any soldier can die permanently, add countless different enemies (humans and monsters) and here's an overlooked cult classic.

 

[Edgelord79]

Some of that platforming gets pretty intense

 

[digoutyoursoul]

ICEY

Thought it was a decent scrolling action game with a funny AI narrator

 

[Mobile Suit Gooch]

Cross code.

 

[Pidull]

No matter how many LttP's I see, I still think Prey has been ignored and forgotten (along with TEW2 which feels like RE4 IMO).

Prey is one of the best immersive sims I've ever played, the only thing that holds it back is the latter portion of the game and the nuisance of dealing with a constant barrage of enemies.

 

[crozier]

Dragon’s Crown Pro

 

[Red Rackham's Revenge]

Duke Nukem 20th Anniversary

 

[PooBone]

>Observer_
Rime
Mutant Year Zero
Soma
Terminator Resistance

These were all fantastic and some of my favorites of the generation.

 

[SinDelta]

Grim Dawn. Graphics are dated, but its an amazing ARPG like Diablo, but with mechanics more based off Titan Quest. Instead of Diablos "Heaven vs Hell," its "Lovecraftian beings have come to eat you and the remnants of humanity."

 

[SEGA_2012]

Many Indie games: Distraint 1 and 2, What Remains of Edith Finch, Coffee Talk, Sagebrush, Beyond Eyes, Storm Boy, Back in 1995, Breeder Homegrown, Bouncy Bullets, Fullblast, Just Ignore Them, Planet RIX-13, Need a packet? , Red Bow, Without Escape.

 

[KàIRóS]

It took a while but I finally finished my list, It has games from 2013 to 2020.

Natural Doctrine
Crimson Dragon
Fantasy Life
Valkyria Revolution
Bladestorm Nightmare
Rune Factory 4
Tokyo Xanadu eX+
D4 dark dreams don't die
Mad Max
Fatal Frame Maiden of Black Water
Trails of Cold Steel III & IV
Battleborn
Grand Kingdom
Toukiden 2
Utawerumono Trilogy
Shadow Warrior 2
Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky
Post Scriptum
SaGa: Scarlet Grace
Blue Reflection
Cosmic Star Heroine
Blaster Master Zero 1 & 2
ReCore
The Alliance Alive
Shining Resonance Refrain
Vampyr
The Lost Child
The Caligula Effect Overdose
CrossCode
Metal Max Xeno
Starlink: Battle for Atlas
Dragon Marked For Death
Legrand Legacy
Outward
Judgment
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana
GreedFall
John Wick Hex
Hell Let Loose
Disaster Report 4
Hero Must Die Again.
Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris
Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia
Trials of Mana

 

[ksdixon]

The Last Of Us Remastered's Factions Multiplayer.

BroForce

 

[Kssio_Aug]

 

[dorkimoe]

Strange Brigade was fun

All time has to be Plagues Tale, normally I dont play indie games and would have glossed over it, but what a fun game.

 

[jigglet]

Inertial Drift. Just came out recently, what a game.

 

[fatty]

The Evil Within 2

Saw this today at Walmart on clearance for $11 and picked it up, thanks. I’ll be going into this game cold so it’ll be interesting to see what it is about.

 

[quest]

A few mentioned already like mad max. Others like the ruiner I really loved. While a gears game it did not get the love it deserved. I am half way into it and freaking love gears tactics.

 

[Zadom]

A Ghost of a Tale was great. Except the huge difficulty jump for last encounter.

Also really liked Observation

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

.

 

[Sander Cohen]

SOMA

No, really, you owe yourself to play this beauty. I, like most people, don’t trust indie games too much but this one, wow, doesn’t get much better at that budget. Yea, maybe it’s not that long but worth every penny. Just terrific story.

 

[fatty]

I’m thinking about purchasing Risk of Rain 1/2. Seems it is well liked even though I didn’t see a lot of talk about it.

Risk of Rain 2 || somehow they topped the first one O_o

I played the first game to death, unlocking all the characters, beating the game with (nearly) all of them, looping the game multiple times, and generally getting my enjoyment out of it. My favorite aspect of it was the uncompromising difficulty -- which quickly ramps up -- paired to the...

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I will also be checking over this thread to see what is on sale with all of the Black Friday deals going on.

 

[dwish]

Guacamelee 1 and 2.
Rogue legacy.

 

[Amiga]

 

[JoeyWestSide]

A plague tale innocence. Except for a few nods or mentions I never heard anyone really talking about how good it is just that they were playing it and enjoying it (but made sure to warn you about being queesy from sight of rats). Except they should've been saying how it's better than TLOU or GoW!

 

[Desudzer10]

Pneuma: Breath of Life. Only complaint is it's too short. But i loved the puzzles and the narration.

 

[fatty]

Horizon Chase Turbo on the Nintendo Switch is on sale for $5 through December 3rd:

Horizon Chase Turbo for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy Horizon Chase Turbo and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

If you love the SNES game Top Gear (one of my all time favorite racing games), you will also enjoy this. Even has the same composer.

One of the few games I Double dipped and bought both on PS4 and Switch.

 

[mikefrails]

I still don’t feel like enough people have played Vanquish. It came out on PC last gen so I count it.

 

[JLB]

OP, second you with Steamworld 2. First time on the series, i think i got it from gamepass or gold, dont know, but really loved it.
Right now im playing the touryst, which was added recently, and its a nice little surprise.
Finally, I really enjoyed The Barda Tale IV.