2D Hidden Gems on Steam

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Songbird Symphony Musical Metroidvania, with pixel art to die for. Guide orphaned chick 'Birb', on a platform adventure, as he faces off against the denizens of the forest in rhythm-action boss battles. Acclaimed for its gorgeous animation, and heart-warming storytelling, as Birb strives to discover his true origins.

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 8.4
Release 25 Jul 2019
Nowhere Prophet Prepare your decks and go on a pilgrimage through the wasteland! Nowhere Prophet is a unique single-player card game. Travel across randomly generated maps and lead your followers in deep tactical combat. Discover new cards and build your deck as you explore this strange, broken world.

Price -98% 0.59€
Rating 6.9
Release 19 Jul 2019
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.7 Minagoroshi Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.

Price -35% 4.28€
Rating 9.0
Release 18 Jul 2019
Horace "The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!

Price -98% 0.44€
Rating 7.6
Release 18 Jul 2019
Summer Catchers Summer Catchers is an epic story that combines an endless runner with inventory management. Set your goals, complete tasks and stock up on gear to get as far as you can and advance this charming story full of strange and wonderful characters.

Price -90% 0.87€
Rating 7.6
Release 16 Jul 2019
Clea Clea is a jump scare free, skill-based survival horror adventure.

Price -23% 8.93€
Rating 9.0
Release 10 Jul 2019
The World is Your Weapon Wells, pitfalls, houses, villagers, monsters (!?), anything around you can be a weapon! An action RPG that you've never seen before, you can fight with all the objects you see in the game. There are more than 300 kinds of weapons.Aim to complete the weapon gallery!

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.0
Release 27 Jun 2019
Super Neptunia RPG Neptune, stricken with amnesia, awakes in a mysterious world where 2D reigns supreme. With a little help from her friends, Neptune embark on a journey to regain her memory, save the world, and 3D games as we know it.

Price -97% 0.92€
Rating 7.5
Release 20 Jun 2019
The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart Once upon a time, after his mother passed away, a boy called Nora felt all alone in the world. He spent every day with his unique and kind hearted friends until one fateful day, he had a chance encounter with a princess from the Netherworld.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.4
Release 17 Jun 2019
Blaster Master Zero Mutant scum never learn! Blaster Master Zero makes its Steam debut! Blaster Master Zero is a 8-bit style top-down & sideview 2D action-adventure game that hearkens back to the golden age of the NES. The game features new gameplay elements such as improved gameplay, and a more robust scenario.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 Jun 2019
Project Zero Deaths Project Zero Deaths is a hectic physics-based F2P online multiplayer platform shooter. Jump into frantic battles in dynamic maps, solo or with friends, to fight in varied wild game modes! Choose between different characters with unique skills and customize them and their weapons to your own playstyle!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 12 Jun 2019
Toki The return of the wacky monkey!Toki sets off on a new adventure! The cult action/platform game originally released on arcade machines in 1989 is back with a super-simian new version, featuring all-new hand-drawn graphics and re-orchestrated music!

Price -98% 0.45€
Rating 8.1
Release 07 Jun 2019
Sanator: Scarlet Scarf Scarlet Scarf is a visual novel inspired by the legend of Plague Maiden. Dive into the dark mysteries of a dying city with the fate of Sanator Richard Murdock in your hands. Perhaps it's not too late to stop the on-going calamity...

Price -67% 2.78€
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Jun 2019
Super Cane Magic ZERO - Legend of the Cane Cane Crash-land in the psychedelic world of Super Cane Magic ZERO, a local co-op Action RPG for 1 to 4 players! Immerse yourself in the mind-bending Story Mode or pummel your friends in 8 local Battle Arenas. Smash! Loot! Eat Rocks! Fight a really big fridge!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 30 May 2019
China: Mao's legacy Year 1976, the stormy Cultural revolution has died down, hard times of hongweibing and public critics are coming to an end. Old and sick Mao Zedong will soon leave China to his comrades from CPC. The Cold War is coming into a new phase...

Price -65% 2.48€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 May 2019
Blood Card This card game combines elements of roguelike and deckbuilding. During the game, you shall strive ahead, gathering cards to build a unique deck and use it to defeat the enemies getting in your way. You will have to choose between escaping or try to defeat Death, who is relentlessly pursuing you.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.7
Release 24 May 2019
Neptunia Shooter Armed to the teeth, players begin as Neptune in an unworldly 8-bit space dimension ravaged by creatures who burst endless waves of bullets. Shoot, dodge, and defeat the boss in six unique bullet-hell worlds.

Price -74% 1.07€
Rating 8.3
Release 21 May 2019
Hell is Other Demons Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.5
Release 20 May 2019
There's a Butcher Around There's a Butcher Around, a brutal hide & seek. Bill the butcher has escaped from the asylum and is looking for new victims. During the game you will have to find a place to hide, remembering that your friends are also trying to hide from the butcher. Every round, Bill the butcher chooses a spot to investigate, are you well hidden?

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 May 2019
Disney's Hercules Become a true hero in a battle of mythic proportions.

Price 42.67€
Rating 8.3
Release 17 May 2019
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love is a satirical point and click inspired by the classic adventure games. It smuggles you out of your comfort zone and throws you into the middle of a Cold War spy intrigue - where there’s an even bigger game being played …

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.2
Release 16 May 2019
Talk to Strangers Talk to Strangers is a game of everyday survival. Survive door to door conversations ranging from bizarre to mundane (in this order) while trying to sell products to strangers. But beware: nothing is what it seems in this neighborhood.

Price -94% 0.33€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 Apr 2019
God's Trigger Slay enemies with speed and precision in an over-the-top show of blood and explosions. Play solo or with others, make split-second decisions, dodge bullets, and use weapons and abilities to inflict violence in the most graphic way possible.

Price -95% 0.79€
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Apr 2019
Zup! XS Experimental minimal physical puzzle with explosions.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 17 Apr 2019
Bomb Chicken After a freak accident, a seemingly ordinary chicken becomes a bomb laying free range hero. Explore the versatile mechanic of laying bombs in this explosive exploration platformer.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 16 Apr 2019
The World Next Door An addictive mix of lightning-fast puzzle battles, powerful storytelling and immersive visual novel elements, The World Next Door follows Jun, a rebellious teen girl trapped in a parallel realm inhabited by magical creatures, who must find her way home before time runs out.

Price -78% 1.10€
Rating 7.6
Release 28 Mar 2019
Fight of Gods Your prayers have been answered! For the first time ever, gods, holy spirits and mythological characters from around the globe and throughout history will clash in an explosive 2D fighter where the entire world is at stake!

Price -77% 3.01€
Rating 8.0
Release 28 Mar 2019
Newfound Courage You're a young man named Alex who arrives in the cliffside town of Silverpine. Explore the town's many mysteries and meet its colourful townsfolk, while you grow closer to a kind-hearted local named Jake. Can the two of you save the town from the impending doom brewing inside the mysterious Vault?

Price -72% 2.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 22 Mar 2019
Skirmish Line Experience the brutality and randomness of war as an Allied tactical commander in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. Train, equip, and command a squad of soldiers as you fight against the fanatical Imperial Japanese Empire.

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 21 Mar 2019
Auf Abwegen Explore the beauty and dangers of nature in this narrative mini-puzzle-platformer - a one-man project from Kindman. Slip into the role of a red fox in its natural habitat - feed your family and survive the threats of the forest - and humans too!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 09 Mar 2019
Aurora Dusk: Steam Age An amazing mix of RPG, strategy, simulation, sandbox and survival game. Aurora Dusk looks like many other games, but instead of being alone, you live in a community. You can play one or more villagers and evolve from the Wood Age to the Steam Age.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 08 Mar 2019
HYPERFIGHT HYPERFIGHT is a fighting game where every hit is lethal, and every win counts. Lightning-fast 1-on-1 duels!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 07 Mar 2019
1 Screen Platformer This is a SHORT, 2D PLATFORMER with TIGHT CONTROLS about exploring a single level to get past a bunch of TRAPS. There is an EASY mode and a HARD mode depending on your skill level.

Price 2.39€
Rating 8.1
Release 06 Mar 2019
TAMASHII An ancient entity seeking help, a Witch, an unnamed soul and a Twisted Temple. A dark tale about inner discoveries set in a distorted and perverted world.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 05 Mar 2019
Flashback FLASHBACK™, the hit action-adventure game with over 2.2 million units sold, is back!

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Feb 2019
It Moves It Moves is a horror game that will try to scare you without too many of the typical "screamers", instead relying on atmosphere and suspense. You'll be solving puzzles along the way, and encountering all manner of not-so-friendly creatures.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 21 Feb 2019

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