Combat Hidden Gems on Steam
Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated combat games.
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Elemental: Reforged
A 4X strategy game in a fantasy RPG world. Create your own sovereign hero, build a dynasty, design custom units, and wage turn-based war across a world that's different every time you play. Every unit is an individual with their own name, gear, and story.
Solateria
Solateria is a hand-drawn action Metroidvania with parry-focused combat. A small fire warrior journeys to find the Primordial Flame, the world’s last hope against the Shadow Plague. Defeat foes with stylish parries and explore mysterious realms to uncover the world’s secrets.
Machine Mind
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
They Killed Your Cat
A short but relentless first-person shooter featuring manual reloading, walking, and blinking, with settings that let you customize your experience.
Territory: Farming and Warfare
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
The Last Starship
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Don't Stop, Girlypop!
Spread the love! Don’t Stop, Girlypop! is a Y2K arena movement shooter where standing still is not an option. ❤ Just ❤ Don’t ❤ Stop ❤ Moving! ❤
Wicked Seed
A modern-day horror RPG with tactical combat and survival horror roots. Customize your loadout, manage limited resources, and exploit enemy weaknesses in tense, strategic encounters.
Weird RPG 2
An innovative third-person action RPG where you can choose traditional weapons to fight monsters fairly, or activate cheats like godly powers. The unique voice-controlled gear system lets you summon spells or enhance yourself. This is definitely an adventure you've never experienced before!
Out of Action
A fast-paced PvP FPS built around skill-based movement and deep build crafting, with cinematic, high-intensity combat set in a brutal cyberpunk world inspired by 90s anime.
Blightstone
A challenging, turn-based strategy with a roguelike edge. Lead a team of adventurers to destroy the Blightstone and free the world from corruption. Use free movement, dynamic environments and collectable skills to save the crystal, and save the world.
Better Days
This is a new type of PVE combat game that combines elements such as shooting, skill-based battles, exploration, search-and-destroy missions, PVE combat, survival in a free-roaming environment, vehicle control, and character customization.
Drifter Star: Evolution
From stardust to cosmic sovereign! In this unique space game, evolve by devouring everything. Grow from a tiny rock into a massive galaxy. Each swallow brings growth, each evolution brings victory. Unlock the universe's ultimate secrets!
Netherworld Covenant
In the abyss where the mortal realm and netherworld intertwine, become a warrior wielding the power of the Nether Lantern to fight along with the fallen souls. With hardcore, soulslike action and intriguing roguelike builds, shatter the cursed barriers and unveil the truth woven from blood and soul.
Yakuza 0 Director's Cut
Discover the decadence and danger of 1980's Japan as you fight like hell through its neon-lit entertainment districts in the definitive edition of the action-adventure crime drama that created yakuza legends.
Angeline Era
Explore a secret-filled land in this 3D Action-Adventure, where every level is hidden in plain sight! Travel and fight through a vast, unmarked overworld. The next surprise is only a single search away!
Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow
Step into the shadows in Thief VR. You are Magpie, a cunning thief orphaned by Baron Northcrest and shaped by the streets. Use VR mechanics to steal, evade, and outsmart the City's forces. Your goal? A relic in Northcrest's vault, which uncovers a far greater artifact with a powerful legacy.
Power Fantasy
Survive hordes of blood hungry enemies and hope for the best upgrades while you level up! Power Fantasy is a fresh rogue-survivors-like with unique heroes and tons of customization.
Winds of Valen
Winds of Valen is a free fantasy sandbox MMORPG. Experience old-school progression where every level, skill, and drop is earned through effort. Train your combat, mining, and smithing skills, and hunt for rare and unique items in a seamless open world filled with danger and discovery.
Smack Talk
Say your moves out loud, trash-talk your friends, and fight to win. Smack Talk is a 1–4 player online PvP platform fighter where your voice controls your attacks. Call moves, land one-liners, and finish foes with wild ultimates.
Captain Wayne - Vacation Desperation
Captain Wayne is an intense, fast-action Retro Shooter about a sailor with a SHOTGUN for an ARM!! With a cartoony, hand-drawn art style and gory gameplay, you'll have to mow down enemies through 8 action-packed locales to take back what's yours. ARE YOU READY TO RAISE ANCHOR?
Maktala: Slime Lootfest
An incremental game where you kill hordes of slimes and use their loot to become stronger and farm them. Collect powerful loot, master skills, and uncover tons of content.
Marisa!ReturnTheBook!
Gensoukyo is a 2D top-down game set up for the stage. In the peaceful and tranquil Gensoukyo, a little girl with yellow hair who likes to borrow books everywhere has aroused Alice's anger. Therefore, she calls on everyone in Gensoukyo to gather in front of Marisa's house for a battle!!!!
Fallen Priestess: My Sister's Demonic Bloodline
Embark on a thrilling quest to defeat the Demon King and save Trina from the curse of her demon blood. Protect her from those who seek to corrupt and steal her from you. Conquer dungeons, battle dangerous foes, and master unique Synthesis skills in this intense adventure!
Ultimate Zombie Defense 2
4-player co-op, zombie slaying, base building, boss battling mayhem! Cleanse the infected wave by wave and upgrade your base with traps & defenses in Ultimate Zombie Defense 2!
Crusaders Quest : Mini
Meet Little Friends on the PC with Crusaders Quest : Mini (CQ:Mini)! You can work and study During the game, Crusader Quest's warriors fought hard and saved the Hasla continent You're leaving. You can collect the original warriors and costumes just for this game, too. Let go of your boredom
Forestrike
Forestrike is a martial arts roguelite where every death brings you closer to winning the fight before it begins. Use your ‘Foresight’ ability to experiment without consequences before fighting for real until earning the ultimate reward - victory without ‘Foresight’.
Possessor(s)
Possessor(s) is a fast-paced action side scroller with combat inspired by platform fighters, a story told through dangerous characters, set in a deep interconnected world ready for exploration.
Shard Squad
Form a squad of elemental creatures and face hordes of challenging enemies! Choose your Shards according to their synergies to gain new abilities, and equip relics that will make the winds blow in your favor! Survive through different environments and save your lands!
It Takes a War
Graphics! Guns! Glory! Get ready to drop into a devastatingly real depiction of the battlefield as you and your team take on a relentless foe. It Takes a War presents a new vision for the team-based tactical shooter genre.
GODBREAKERS
Fast, Fluid, Frenetic! Break gods, steal powers, and chain abilities in a hectic combat loop. This 1-4 player co-op action roguelite is built for fast pick-up sessions and endlessly replayable chaos. Experience tough battles and maximum expression where every run feels rewarding!
Days Without Incident
It has been -̷̯͙̔̈́-̴̱̽̓͝-̷̍̊̕͠ days without incident. Your investigation has brought you to an old metalworks factory, abandoned after a series of mysterious deaths. But something’s been growing in the quiet. A short first-person survival horror experience.