Choices Matter Hidden Gems on Steam

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Purrfect Apawcalypse: Purrgatory Furever One thousand zombies from the massacre of Hachiko High are crashing Olive's birthday party! Trapped in the Grimalkin Estate they'll have to unravel the mystery behind the zombies, all while making sure their friends are having the Purrfect Apawcalypse!

Price 5.89€
Rating 9.1
Release 01 Apr 2021
GolfTopia DESIGN, BUILD and MANAGE your own futuristic golf course. Keep 200 persistent visitors fed, hydrated, and happy. Defend your creation from a growing infestation of weeds with robotic workers and defensive turrets. Evolve your course into a mega resort where nobody wants to go home, EVER!

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 30 Mar 2021
Size Matters You play as a scientist who is shrinking every second in a race against time! Find all the ingredients and formulas scattered around the laboratory, which are necessary for producing the life-saving antidote. But beware, your time is very precious.

Price -98% 0.23€
Rating 8.1
Release 12 Mar 2021
Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG The successful indie survival RPG "Dead Age" is back with a vengeance! No other game offers this mix of role-playing, rogue-like, fast-paced turn-based combat and survival all in one. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 1+2, This War of Mine and The Walking Dead.

Price 17.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 12 Mar 2021
Introvert: A Teenager Simulator One of the new guys in school tells you he’s going to shoot up the school if he doesn’t make friends in 5 days. Discover the decisions, people, situations you will encounter while playing and trying to make friends of your own and living your own life.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 02 Mar 2021
ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos A sci-fi adventure full of robot battles, pop music, and emotion. Featuring one of the largest branching storylines ever in a VR game with 15-20 hours of gameplay, Altdeus will place you in the shoes of Chloe, a pilot in humanity's forces fighting massive hostile organisms known as the Meteora.

Price 24.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 18 Feb 2021
Purrfect Apawcalypse: Love at Furst Bite Olive is trapped in school in the midst of the apocalypse! With demons slaughtering every dog in sight there's only so many left to spend time with! Will their special someone be Brownie the snack-loving corgi, Sparky the sporty husky or Patches the dalmatian bookworm? You decide!

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 16 Feb 2021
Kyvir: Rebirth Kyvir: Rebirth is a single player card game that combines elements of RPG, deck building, and roguelike gameplay. This game features an original dual deck mechanism, hundreds of distinctive items, skills, and cards for you to experiment with.

Price 6.59€
Rating 7.5
Release 31 Jan 2021
Angel Wings Upon answering a mysterious phone call, you awaken in an unfamiliar place filled with new faces… Through intricate relationships and thoughtful introspection, will you be able to unravel the reason you are here?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 29 Jan 2021
Chroma: Bloom And Blight Chroma: Bloom and Blight is a truly free-to-play competitive card game set in the story-rich lands of Arholt. Every card and game mode in Chroma is free, including all future expansions. Find your hero, build your deck and tell your story...without worrying about the cost of cards.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Jan 2021
Yaga Play as Ivan, a one-handed blacksmith with incredibly bad luck, who must take on the impossible tasks given to him by the tzar. All the while the mysterious witch, Baba Yaga, watches over Ivan's fate.

Price -97% 0.96€
Rating 7.7
Release 12 Jan 2021
Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues Choose a side, master your moves, and embrace your destiny in an epic beat 'em up adventure inspired by the hit show. Take control of 8 playable characters with deep movesets, combos, progression, real-time character swaps, ultimate attacks, and much more!

Price -98% 0.43€
Rating 7.8
Release 05 Jan 2021
Caravaneer 2 A post-apocalyptic trade simulation game with turn based isometric combats. The game features detailed economics simulation and a rich branching story where your choices actually matter.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 30 Dec 2020
Pumping Simulator Pumping Simulator As an active member of a gas station in a major city around the world, you can play with up to 10 friends in a multiplayer co-op mode or single player mode to help you understand what the pumpers are going through, and maybe will make you rich.

Price 5.19€
Rating 6.9
Release 20 Dec 2020
Escape to Moscow A story about a guy, a girl he met, and their adventure. Freelance IT specialist Semyon meet a girl from Dagestan on the Internet. However, their relationship quickly grow over the regular chatting - he decides to help her run away from home. That is how their amazing adventure begins.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Dec 2020
Cyber Crush 2069 You, as a ripperdoc (self-proclaimed), have started your new clinic in a corner of Little China. With your cyberware fixing skill, will it help you to impress the girl?

Price -70% 0.59€
Rating 7.2
Release 11 Dec 2020
Self-Isolation This game is a simulation of self-isolation. You need to support your family, not to lose your job and finally not to go crazy.

Price -70% 1.49€
Rating 8.0
Release 02 Dec 2020
80's OVERDRIVE 80's OVERDRIVE is a 2D pixelart racing game, designed to take you back in time to when 8 and 16 bit consoles and arcade games ruled the world. Compete against opponents in career mode to unlock new races, buy new cars and upgrade them with state-of-the-art technologies!

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 19 Nov 2020
Car Trader Simulator Do you know how to profit from trading cars while maintaining a good reputation? Car Trader Simulator lets you play the role of an American car dealer. Your goal is to get rich. How you do it depends entirely on you.

Price -77% 2.31€
Rating 6.9
Release 04 Nov 2020
Siren Head: Awakening Siren Head: Awakening is a first-person horror game based on Trevor Henderson's artwork. You're stuck with your car in the middle of a dark forest with nothing but your flashlight. Seek escape by finding items necessary to survive while a terrifying monster lurks the shadows.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 30 Oct 2020
I am an Air Traffic Controller 4 Since its release in 1998, I am an Air Traffic Controller 4 has established itself as a long seller, strongly supported by numerous users both inside and outside of aviation fandom.

Price 49.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 15 Oct 2020
The Signifier Director's Cut This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.

Price -98% 0.57€
Rating 7.5
Release 15 Oct 2020
ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE Thanks to the rising popularity of the PhoneDroid—a device which features augmented reality (A.R.)—the age of advanced technology has finally reached Tanegashima. On that island, Central Tanegashima High's "Robot Research Club" is about to have their club disbanded.

Price 34.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 13 Oct 2020
Your amazing T-Gotchi! A cute game where you care about a green anime girl!

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 08 Oct 2020
Cooking Companions: Appetizer Edition Cabbage and the Chompettes want to play hide and seek! Can you find all five of them?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 06 Oct 2020
Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road The elders have entrusted you, an elite vampire courier, to deliver their secrets. Can you outrun the hunters, the other drivers, and the rising sun?

Price -10% 10.71€
Rating 8.5
Release 24 Sep 2020
Sense - 不祥的预感: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story A 2.5D horror game inspired by Clock Tower and Fatal Frame, mixing cyberpunk with traditional Cantonese folklore. With careful attention to pacing, atmosphere and storytelling, Sense hopes to return the horror genre to its roots by celebrating visceral horror and the slow, fearful creep of dread.

Price -90% 1.72€
Rating 7.5
Release 25 Aug 2020
The Horrorscope: Fatal Awakening You will answer a series of questions that will reveal your potential fate. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Horrorscope, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Aug 2020
Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star A visual novel about an abusive relationship, idealization, and intimacy. Live a summer of dysfunctional love through branching storylines, twists, sudden changes, and an innovative mechanic where you choose which senses to use with your boyfriend.

Price -95% 0.82€
Rating 7.4
Release 13 Aug 2020
Rising Star 2 Start a band, and take on the world in this music industry simulation/role-playing game. Success doesn't come without hard work, and making connections in your local music scene is the only path to stardom.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.8
Release 12 Aug 2020
Popup Dungeon A tactical roguelike RPG inspired by our favorite tabletop games that lets you create any ability, item, villain, hero, and game imaginable.

Price -99% 0.20€
Rating 7.3
Release 12 Aug 2020
Sword Rogue A simple rogue like action game. Use WASD to move, use the mouse to control the player character's direction, use the left mouse button to attack and right mouse button to use skill. Also supports keyboard only mode, see details in the ingame guide.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 05 Aug 2020
Flicker of Hope Flicker of Hope is a suspense thriller where you play as a small candle in the ruins of a dark cathedral. Though the halls are littered with victims of a mysterious plague, you are not the only soul left. Use the properties of a candle, and a trusty douter to prevent yourself from being discovered.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 02 Aug 2020
Core Defense A roguelike tower defense game with a dash of deckbuilding. Choose a reward, improve your build, survive the next wave, repeat. Highly replayable, difficult, and addictive. You'll want just one more wave, just one more run!

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.5
Release 30 Jul 2020
Venge Get ready to explore a movie studio that vanished into thin air, only to find yourself trapped in a twisted, alternate dimension where creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to ensure you never see the light of day again...

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 Jul 2020
Synergia Synergia is a yuri thriller visual novel that takes place in a cyberpunk future, wrapped up in a beautifully unique, vibrant neon aesthetic. At the end of the world, sometimes love is the ultimate crime.

Price -94% 0.60€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Jul 2020

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