Adventure Hidden Gems on Steam

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Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands Farm, cook, craft and decorate in this casual open world farming adventure! Set up camp with your crew after being shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago. Your quest is to survive, explore and uncover the secrets of the Cursed Islands. Take care of your crew to build relationships and earn rewards!

Price -98% 0.55€
Rating 7.2
Release 17 Oct 2019
Felix The Reaper Felix The Reaper is a challenging and strict 3D puzzle game about bringing humans into deadly situations. You are Felix, the ever-dancing bringer of death, who just so happens to be dangerously in love with Life.

Price -98% 0.27€
Rating 6.9
Release 17 Oct 2019
CATGIRL LOVER 2 An incredible continuation of a vibrant and interesting history of learning in the Golden Shower Order! Flashy and juicy anime girls are waiting for you! A simple but fascinating game with a mixture of Visual Novel and Match3.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 16 Oct 2019
Fallback Lead the rebellion in an epic rogue-like adventure. Guide your jet-pack equipped post-apocalyptic volunteers through a labyrinthine underground complex by jumping, dodging, and battling against robot minions (and masters) to get to the surface — and bring life back to the scorched Earth.

Price -96% 0.45€
Rating 8.0
Release 11 Oct 2019
Dragon Star Varnir Fight in 3-tiered battles, devour your enemies, and customize your characters in this epic RPG to end the dragon's curse!

Price -93% 3.04€
Rating 7.4
Release 08 Oct 2019
PAGUI打鬼 Major update coming July 29, 2022"Ten national languages。PAGUI is based on a true story from Taiwan's history. One day, by chance, an orphan raised at a temple learned of his family background. From then, he decided to set out on a journey to uncover the secrets of his family and identity...

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Oct 2019
Zelle Zelle is a occult adventure game. You can explore the inside and outside of the castle using adventure game mechanics and battle demons with strategic mouse clicks. Your goal in this game is to bring the protagonist home.

Price 9.57€
Rating 8.7
Release 04 Oct 2019
Rain of Reflections: Set Free Rain of Reflections is an atmospheric, dystopian adventure game with exploration and deep character interactions. Its turn-based strategic confrontations are uniquely centered around a motivation mechanic.

Price -91% 0.94€
Rating 7.2
Release 04 Oct 2019
Ciconia When They Cry - Phase 1: For You, the Replaceable Ones This is the first chapter in newest entry When They Cry visual novel series produced by Ryuukishi07. It features HD graphics, more detailed animations, and newly created songs by many of the composers from Umineko, as well as several new additions.

Price -64% 12.47€
Rating 8.7
Release 03 Oct 2019
YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world Takuya Arima receives a package from his supposedly deceased father. It contains the mysterious Reflector Device which allows the user to travel between parallel worlds. Takuya must unearth the mystery of his father's legacy to prevent a calamity threatening to envelop reality itself.

Price 49.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 01 Oct 2019
3rd eye A 2D exploration/horror game starring the Touhou Project's Koishi Komeiji. Use her Third Eye to explore a mental world entirely unlike reality.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.1
Release 30 Sep 2019
Nobodies: Murder Cleaner Nobodies is a puzzle-filled point-and-click adventure in which you must cover up government-sanctioned assassinations. Hide the bodies, destroy the evidence, and leave no trace you were ever there. They do the dirty work. You clean it up.

Price -92% 0.59€
Rating 8.5
Release 30 Sep 2019
Home Sweet Home EP2 Terror and mystery meet in Home Sweet Home Sweet Home Episode 2, the sequel to last year’s cult-hit first-person horror game, Home Sweet Home. Immerse yourself in a world where evil hides behind every corner, in a world inspired by Thai folklore and mythology.

Price -49% 10.37€
Rating 7.0
Release 24 Sep 2019
Palmyra Orphanage Paranormal first-person horror, which takes place in an abandoned orphanage. Walk through the corridors of your childhood, but do remember that you're not only one here.

Price -21% 3.94€
Rating 8.4
Release 24 Sep 2019
[Chilla's Art] Aka Manto | 赤マント Aka Manto (赤マント Red Cloak), aka Red Cape or Red Mantle, is a Japanese urban legend about a masked spirit who wears a red cloak, and who appears to people using public or school restrooms.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Sep 2019
Aeon's End Deck building with a twist! Lead a team of mages against the Nameless in this magic-based card battle game and save the city of Gravehold!

Price -79% 3.12€
Rating 7.7
Release 17 Sep 2019
Nauticrawl A stolen, enigmatic machine is your only way out. It's likely to kill you, but so will the hostile planet you're escaping. Pull levers, hack devices, and puzzle out how to pilot the Nauticrawl to freedom in this unusual atmospheric adventure... or die trying.

Price -92% 1.32€
Rating 8.5
Release 16 Sep 2019
Queen's Wish: The Conqueror At last, the Queen has given you power and freedom! The cost? You must rebuild her Empire. Will you? In this epic, indie fantasy adventure, you are free to explore, fight for fame and power, and shape the world as you choose. Escape into an unpredictable open-ended story and cunning tactical combat.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.8
Release 11 Sep 2019
A Street Cat's Tale A Tale of a street cat left alone

Price -59% 1.65€
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Sep 2019
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Price 3.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 05 Sep 2019
Minotaur An adventure game with visual novel-style narrative, Minotaur tells a dark mystery story set in a newly created science fantasy world of synthets, magic-wielding androids and cybernetically enhanced penguins… God, what a (bloody) mess.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.8
Release 05 Sep 2019
Something for Someone Else Something for Someone Else is a short atypical experience, a brief journey into the mind of a distressed game developer that feels haunted by a game he made. All in the form of a poorly hand drawn narrative platformer accompanied by the beautiful musics of Celluloid Jam.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 03 Sep 2019
Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk Uncover the secret – Unite the clans In a town ruled by opposing clans and overshadowed by superstition and legend, a child is born with the dreaded mark of a witch. She conceals her identity until the theft of a mysterious relic brings to light a series of staggering revelations.

Price -97% 0.96€
Rating 8.1
Release 30 Aug 2019
Wilmot's Warehouse Wilmot's Warehouse is a puzzle game about keeping a warehouse running in tip-top shape. Just remember where you put everything, because when the service hatch opens, you'll need to find the things people want quickly, in order to earn the coveted Performance Stars.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 Aug 2019
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut is the triumphant return of one of the most iconic RPG series of all-time. Delve into a tactically rich combat system that rewards creativity, solve puzzles to gain treasure and advantages, and discover a beautifully crafted world.

Price -99% 0.56€
Rating 7.4
Release 27 Aug 2019
Knights And Bikes Saddle up for a bike-riding, frisbee-throwing, goose-petting, friendship-building, treasure-hunting, story-driven adventure for 1 or 2 players!

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 26 Aug 2019
Great Toilet Simulator Great Toilet Simulator is a first-person indie horror telling you the story of a man who has his car broken on his way home, in the middle of a thick forest. What makes the situation even worse is that the main character is really in need of a toilet.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 23 Aug 2019
Winds of Change Lead The Rebellion, build your army, and shape the world with your choices. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options, and non-linear storytelling. A vast fantasy world waiting to be explored. Inspired by Dragon Age, and Mass Effect. Fully voice acted by a stellar cast!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 21 Aug 2019
Westworld Awakening “Westworld Awakening” is a narrative-driven experience played from the perspective of Kate – a host who has attained self-awareness. To survive a dangerous underworld where no one and nothing is what it seems, you must overcome an entire world designed to destroy and enslave you.

Price 24.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 20 Aug 2019
Project 5: Sightseer Open world multiplayer sandbox/RPG game. Explore, gather, build, research, and fight to protect what's yours -- by yourself or together with your friends.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 16 Aug 2019
ARIDA: Backland's Awakening ARIDA: Backland's Awakening. A story of survival and adventure in the brazilian backlands. Face the drought to explore the more arid regions, gather resources and discover clues about the fate of the young Cícera.

Price -83% 0.59€
Rating 8.2
Release 15 Aug 2019
The Great Perhaps The Great Perhaps is a time travel puzzle game about an astronaut returning to Earth destroyed by natural cataclysms. There, among the ruins he finds an unusual artifact — an old lantern, in the light of which you can see glimpses of another time and travel to the past.

Price -96% 0.42€
Rating 7.6
Release 14 Aug 2019
Ballex In Ver.1.1 update, Ballex has added a new chapter: Chapter3, including new levels(13 to 17), with difficulty and challenges. We have optimized a lot of problems, added new screen Settings and so on. Go ahead and update it! Come and experience this difficult game! XD

Price 3.29€
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Aug 2019
Anodyne 2: Return to Dust A 3D-2D adventure where you travel a 3D world and explore 2D dungeons inside of its characters' bodies and minds! In an unforgettable, surreal story, travel the world, meet whimsical denizens, and save the world from the dangerous Nano Dust.

Price -96% 0.87€
Rating 8.9
Release 12 Aug 2019
Under What? “Under what?” is a short but very capacious story-tale about an old fisherman who suddenly faced the surface of the water. In this story there will be no dragons, the battle of good and evil, and other boring nonsense. But there will be some bad jokes and extraordinary characters.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 05 Aug 2019
Dry Drowning Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.

Price -97% 0.54€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Aug 2019

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