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TetherGeist TetherGeist is a challenging precision platformer that rewards practice and perseverance. Guide Mae and her axolotl spirit, Bao, on a wholesome coming-of-age pilgrimage while mastering Astral Projection, a tether that links Mae to her spirit and is the source of her strength.
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Price -70% 4.91€
Rating 9.0
Release 07 May 2026
Blood Vial BLOOD VIAL is a retro-inspired micro-FPS with a leaking health bar. Swim through the spilled blood of your fallen enemies to keep your vial full. Grow increasingly powerful with new upgrades and weapons. Navigate an ever-shifting labyrinth of crypts, catacombs and cathedrals.
Hidden gem
Price 5.19€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 May 2026
BAZOOKA: Rhythm Game Hear that thunder? Neither do I 'cause it's THE SUNNIEST DAY OF THEM ALL! Romania's most chaotic and unpredictable hip-hop duo has FINALLY released their passion project. Master the rhythm, unlock medals, and crush the leaderboards across 29+ (and more incoming) tracks. GET IN THERE ALREADY!
Hidden gem
Price 7.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 27 Apr 2026
Dunjungle A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!
Hidden gem
Price 14.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 10 Dec 2025
Chronigma Master time in this time-bending sokoban-like puzzle game with a story. You travel back in time to be in two places at once, to solve puzzles impossible to complete alone. Your success hinges on your ability to collaborate with yourself. Can you learn to manipulate time to save humanity?
Hidden gem
Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 25 Nov 2025
Momoka (wo) Wasshoi Safely escort the intoxicated person to her couch at home.
Hidden gem
Price 3.50€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Sep 2025
Logic Bombs Welcome to a realm of pure logic, where rules are rules and the next step can always be deduced.
Hidden gem
Price 4.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 21 Jul 2025
Fingerdance The game that simply confuses your fingers.
Hidden gem
Price -67% 1.04€
Rating 8.9
Release 20 Jun 2025
Gnomes Gnomes is a turn-based tower defense with deep roguelike progression, set in ever-expanding, procedurally generated biomes. Build, farm and defend your village as you push deeper into goblin-infested territory. Unlock powerful upgrades and craft your environment to survive the endless goblin horde
Hidden gem
Price -30% 6.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 04 Apr 2025
The Chef's Shift The Chef’s Shift is a fast-paced typing game in a restaurant setting, where you’ll both cook & serve food to hungry customers, all done by TYPING.
Hidden gem
Price -77% 2.98€
Rating 9.0
Release 31 Mar 2025
SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding SNØ is a minimalistic freeriding game. Push your limits for the high score, or simply enjoy the unforgiving procedural wilderness.
Hidden gem
Price -50% 5.89€
Rating 8.9
Release 17 Feb 2025
The Chef's Shift: First Course A fast-paced typing game in a restaurant setting, where you’ll both cook & serve food to hungry customers, all done by TYPING. Play through the Italian restaurant and get a taste of The Chef's Shift!
Hidden gem
Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 07 Feb 2025
XENOTILT: HOSTILE PINBALL ACTION LIGHTNING STRIKES AGAIN!! XENOTILT, the sequel to the cult hit, DEMON'S TILT. Get ready for another PINBALL FANTASY. XENOTILT shreds the envelope with face-melting gameplay & graphics.
Hidden gem
Price 19.50€
Rating 9.0
Release 12 Nov 2024
Kitsune Tails Run, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology and untangle the love triangle between three young women on a journey of self discovery. Explore the complicated relationships between kitsune and humans through classic platforming action.
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Price 19.50€
Rating 9.0
Release 01 Aug 2024
14 Minesweeper Variants 2 Minesweeper but the rules are changing, again.
Hidden gem
Price 7.19€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 Jun 2024
Press Any Key Just press any key.
Hidden gem
Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 17 Apr 2024
Alien Hominid HD The 2D side-scrolling shooter from The Behemoth is back! With your mighty blaster and a group of mysterious kids by your side, destroy the agency and reclaim your spaceship!
Hidden gem
Price 11.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 01 Nov 2023
BIT.TRIP RERUNNER The classic rhythm platformer is back as BIT.TRIP RERUNNER + RUNNER MAKER! The fun of the original now sports fresh mechanics, art, and soundtrack – plus RUNNER MAKER, which allows you to create custom levels. A must-play for rhythm newbies, experts, and everyone in between.
Hidden gem
Price 19.50€
Rating 8.9
Release 19 Sep 2023
KILLBUG KILLBUG is a fast-paced, first-person movement shooter set in an endless arena. Slash and shoot your way through hordes of ravenous insects, mastering fluid aerial movement mechanics as you fight for glory on the leaderboards.
Hidden gem
Price -57% 2.82€
Rating 9.0
Release 03 May 2023
Yoiyami Dancers: Twilight Danmaku Dancers Dodge bullets to the rhythm and take down everything that moves! A rhythmical danmaku action game.
Hidden gem
Price 8.19€
Rating 9.1
Release 28 Sep 2022
Open Hexagon Four buttons, one goal: survive. Are you ready for a real challenge? -- Become the best and climb the leaderboards in Open Hexagon, a fast-paced adrenalinic arcade game that's easy to learn but hard to master!
Hidden gem
Price 3.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 02 Nov 2021
The Doors of Trithius The Doors of Trithius is an open-world RPG roguelike. Engage in tactical turn-based combat in a living world of warring factions, wandering behemoths, and ancient magic. Level your skills, cook, craft, and explore dungeons. Will you follow the story, or let adventure be your guide?
Hidden gem
Price 14.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 Aug 2021
Toodee and Topdee A cosmic turbulence caused the 2D Platformer and the Top-Down Puzzler dimensions to merge! Switch between Toodee and Topdee and their unique perspectives to overcome hard-as-nails challenges, solve mind-melting puzzles and defeat huge bosses.
Hidden gem
Price -89% 2.25€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Aug 2021
CATch the Stars CATch the Stars is a minimalist puzzle with a pleasant and original soundtrack. Click on the right star, solve the puzzles and form constellations with a beautiful and relaxing environment. No score, no timer and no pressure.
Hidden gem
Price 1.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 18 Nov 2020
Angry Video Game Nerd I & II Deluxe Control "The Nerd" in a retro-inspired action platformer! It's two games in one, remixed and rebalanced to bring you the ultimate experience of Nerd Rage. Featuring stylized pixel art inspired by classic games, a highly energetic soundtrack, and challenging levels -- plus a special NEW chapter!
Hidden gem
Price -20% 5.72€
Rating 8.9
Release 29 Oct 2020
Spirits Abyss Spirits Abyss is a roguelite platformer with destructible terrain. Cast into the Abysm you must explore its diverse depths battling phantasmic meanies and plundering its useful treasures to find a way home... but does something nestle beyond the realmic veil of death?
Hidden gem
Price 7.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 27 Aug 2020
Vibrant Venture Vibrant Venture is a singleplayer 2D adventure platformer game featuring a quirky cast of characters! The game features four playable characters with multiple unique abilities that can be combined for extremely versatile, fluid and fun movement!
Hidden gem
Price -86% 2.24€
Rating 9.1
Release 24 Jul 2020
Ato A world of Beauty and Mystery, Emotive Animations, Atmospheric Environments, Visually Driven Story, Metroidvania Exploration and Memorable Sword Duels.
Hidden gem
Price -78% 2.85€
Rating 9.0
Release 08 May 2020
Voxelgram Voxelgram is a 3D nonograms game where solving puzzles feels like sculpting in three dimensions. Reveal voxel models as you complete each challenge.
Hidden gem
Price 9.75€
Rating 9.1
Release 07 Nov 2019
Micro Mages Micro Mages is a platformer developed for the original 8-bit NES console. Now on Steam! ROM included. Play solo or with up to 4 players simultaneously. Compete over score or cooperate to overcome challenging levels.
Hidden gem
Price 8.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 01 May 2019
Duck Souls Duck Souls is a fast-paced, action platformer about a little duck with an incredible skill to dash and a mission: find all the lost eggs in order to save his species.
Hidden gem
Price 1.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 06 Sep 2018
SiNKR SiNKR is a minimalist puzzler using various contraptions to sink pucks. Responsive ambient music. No holes left behind.
Hidden gem
Price 3.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 12 Oct 2017
Brigand: Oaxaca Brigand: Oaxaca is a highly difficult post-apocalyptic RPG/FPS set in Mexico. Emphasis is on challenge, a branching story with multiple endings, and total freedom of action (kill friendly characters, rob stores, jump across roofs, etc.).
Hidden gem
Price 9.75€
Rating 8.9
Release 11 Jul 2017
VOI Do you think 1 + 1 = 0 is correct? So what do you think about "black + black = white" statement?
Hidden gem
Price 0.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 07 Nov 2016
BLUE REVOLVER Fight, fly, flourish! BLUE REVOLVER is a manic arcade-style shoot-em-up built for newcomers and psychos alike. Powerful special weapons cut through tough areas, while an adaptive difficulty system tailors the game to your skill level as you evade and counter a maniac environmental force!
Hidden gem
Price 14.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 11 Oct 2016
Recursed A puzzle game where the rooms are items and the items are rooms. Get to the goal by moving, rearranging and duplicating rooms and altering the structure of the world.
Hidden gem
Price 7.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 Sep 2016

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