Singleplayer 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 singleplayer games.

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Spirits of Xanadu At the farthest edge of the explored universe, the research ship Xanadu slumbers in orbit around a mysterious planet. Her systems remain active but there has been no message from her crew for months. Now a lone operative has been sent to wake the Xanadu and bring her home to Earth.

Price -72% 1.46€
Rating 7.4
Release 26 Mar 2015
Dyscourse Dyscourse is an interactive choice-based narrative adventure game where you journey through a stylized world of choice and consequence. Choose wisely.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 25 Mar 2015
Vietnam ‘65 It is 1965 and the US ground war in Vietnam is in full swing. As a US Army commander, wage a counter-insurgency (COIN) war to secure the Ia Drang valley, on the border with Cambodia.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 05 Mar 2015
Steel Armor: Blaze of War Steel Armor: Blaze of War is realistic tank simulator with tactical elements. The game models Soviet T-62 tank and US M60A1 tank in detail. Each tank has interactive cockpit with crew. Player controls a tank, and commands a tank platoon and attached forces in 4 large scale dynamic campaigns.

Price 27.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 05 Mar 2015
Tallowmere Raise your shield. Indulge Lady Tallowmere and her lovingly violent dungeons. New rooms are created every time you play. How deep can you delve?

Price -83% 0.49€
Rating 8.5
Release 03 Mar 2015
White Night The dark will reveal all!Explore the macabre past of an old mansion in the 1930's and solve puzzles of light and shadows in this fully black & white survival horror! Players are trapped in this nightmare where darkness is a constant threat!

Price -97% 0.44€
Rating 7.0
Release 03 Mar 2015
Belladonna Belladonna is a gothic adventure game, twisted and dark. Take the role of a corpse girl rising from the dead in an abandoned laboratory, and unravel the mysteries concerning your own death and reanimation.

Price -93% 0.43€
Rating 6.9
Release 27 Feb 2015
Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun Dive into an epic story of honor and courage and help a Geisha and a Samurai save the day.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.7
Release 27 Feb 2015
Republique Help a woman named Hope escape in a thrilling and topical stealth-action game that explores the perils of government surveillance in the Internet Age.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 25 Feb 2015
Disney•Pixar Cars Mater-National Championship Mater is holding a national race festival allowing racers from all around the world to challenge Lightning McQueen. Along with racing against the new characters, players can explore the world of Radiator Springs and Lightning McQueen's racing headquarters.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.5
Release 24 Feb 2015
There Came an Echo There Came an Echo is a real-time strategy game in which the player assumes command of a small squadron, using an advanced voice recognition system to issue orders. It features a character-driven sci-fi narrative that stars Wil Wheaton, Ashly Burch, Laura Bailey, Yuri Lowenthal, and more!

Price -95% 0.80€
Rating 7.0
Release 24 Feb 2015
The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 Every world needs its heroes. However unlikely they may seem. Join Wilbur, Ivo, Nate and Critter in another classic point-and-click adventure in the wicked world of Aventásia. Help them fulfill their destiny. A destiny as yet unwritten.

Price -91% 2.89€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 Feb 2015
Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock Crash-landed on a desolate, alien planet, what should've been a routine work-for-hire job for Powell has become a deadly mission to save the merchant vessel Morningstar and her crew.

Price -86% 1.40€
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Feb 2015
David. You play David, an awfully small abstracted chosen hero tossed into a blissfully simple world overrun by giant culminations of evil physics-beasts. As David, you are given a slingshot-esque gift that you will have to use to conquer your colossus foes. Be there AND be square.

Price -55% 0.90€
Rating 7.5
Release 16 Feb 2015
Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition The great action-crazed, guns blazing, shoot ‘em up game comes back straight out of the ‘90s. Raptor: Call of the Shadows and its futuristic world are ready to challenge your flying skills.

Price -9% 4.56€
Rating 6.9
Release 13 Feb 2015
Tokyo School Life "Tokyo School Life" is the story of your trip as an exchange student in Tokyo and the three girls you meet there. Live the everyday life you love from anime and manga! Vocal opening song/Japanese voices/English text

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 12 Feb 2015
Tasty Blue Tasty Blue is an underwater side-scrolling eat 'em up game. You start as a small goldfish with an insatiable appetite. After being overfed by your owner, you'll escape into the ocean and eat everything that you encounter. The more you eat, the bigger you get!

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.4
Release 10 Feb 2015
Plazma Being Take control of Zeb in this puzzle/platformer. He is a small energy based life form from space, known as a Plazma Being. While journeying through space to his home, Zeb was surprised to find that he was being kidnapped by aliens. They took him back to their planet and unceremoniously threw him into captivity.

Price -81% 0.38€
Rating 7.2
Release 09 Feb 2015
Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic Enter the world of PIXEL HEROES and prepare yourself for a thrilling RPG/Roguelike experience like you have never seen before!

Price -96% 0.46€
Rating 7.2
Release 06 Feb 2015
Castle In The Darkness Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 05 Feb 2015
Seven Kingdoms 2 HD Get ready for an exciting real-time strategy game experience like no other with Seven Kingdoms 2! Say goodbye to the monotony of resource gathering and army building, its unique gameplay offers a thrilling blend of city management, trade, industry, espionage, diplomacy, and conquest!

Price -79% 2.13€
Rating 7.6
Release 04 Feb 2015
Ancient Planet Tower Defense Ancient Planet is classic tower defense game. The stronghold of an ancient civilization has been invaded by hordes of alien raiders. Use powerful technologies of the Ancient and repel the attack of the enemy's armies!

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 03 Feb 2015
Pix the Cat Pix the Cat is a critically acclaimed intense arcade game that will challenge your reflexes and your wits, pitting you against your friends and the world in a race to the highest score!

Price -78% 1.14€
Rating 7.6
Release 29 Jan 2015
Making History: The Great War The Great War is a turn-based grand strategy game based on the epic struggles of the WWI era. Experience the battles of attrition and punishing artillery barrages. Play as any nation of the period as the modern world of industrialized warfare replaces an age of kings with a struggle of ideologies.

Price -62% 11.11€
Rating 7.2
Release 29 Jan 2015
Gravity Ghost Gravity Ghost is a physics game with a twist. Run, jump, and soar around planets, using gravity to glide through the air. Explore a shattered galaxy and rescue its survivors, armed with powerups and mysterious terraforming powers. Meet the 7 magical guardians and best their challenges. There's no killing, no dying, and no way to fail.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.8
Release 26 Jan 2015
Super Galaxy Squadron EX Turbo Super Galaxy Squadron is a fast-paced vertical shooter designed for human beings as well as SHMUP veterans. Featuring multiple game modes, a challenging but merciful difficulty curve, forgiving health system, and SEVENTEEN playable ships.

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 7.9
Release 23 Jan 2015
Venetica - Gold Edition In a fantastical Venice, The Corpus are deceived by a cunning necromancer. Transformed into an undead fiend, the conniving imposter is hell-bent on destroying the reinstated Death and the council of Corpus. Only Scarlett, the daughter of Death, can stand in his way.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 23 Jan 2015
Echoes+ Echoes+ is an intense retro action space shooter that will test your reaction and concentration levels to the max!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Jan 2015
Avernum 2: Crystal Souls Huge indie fantasy role-playing adventure in a massive, underground land. Packed with over 100 towns and dungeons and an epic story. Fight to complete up to three distinct game-winning quests. Master over 60 spells and abilities. Hunt for hundreds of magical artifacts. Over 50 hours of gameplay.

Price -80% 4.01€
Rating 8.3
Release 14 Jan 2015
Unhack The 5K Worm is on a rampage across cyberspace. As the top unhacker in Smash Security, it is your mission to bring an end to this virus. Join forces with AI companion Weedy and become an unstoppable duo!

Price -87% 0.54€
Rating 8.0
Release 09 Jan 2015
Sword of Asumi Take on the role of Asumi, a new warrior for the people of Edo. As Asumi you must root out a rebel from within a prestigious samurai academy. Now the assassin must walk in the light for all to see.

Price -65% 3.45€
Rating 6.9
Release 08 Jan 2015
Alchemy Mysteries: Prague Legends Follow orphan Eva on a trip to mystical Prague in Alchemy Mysteries: Prague Legends.

Price -71% 0.59€
Rating 7.6
Release 22 Dec 2014
Pilot Brothers The case of the stolen elephant! Elephant... Rare... Striped. ...has been kept for many years by an animal trader named Karbophos. Being unable to overcome abuse, it escaped and found a home at the zoo in our city. This is definitely Karbophos's work. To the zoo!

Price -84% 0.83€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 Dec 2014
Outcast 1.1 Outcast 1.1 is an enhanced version of the critically acclaimed action-adventure game developed in 1999 by Appeal for the PC.

Price -74% 1.39€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Dec 2014
Strife: Veteran Edition Hailed as the original FPS-RPG game that spawned countless imitators, Strife: Veteran Edition is a love letter to the classic from 1996.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 Dec 2014
About Love, Hate and the other ones About Love, Hate and the other ones is a puzzle game, in which you influence your surroundings by the force of Hate and the power of Love. Find a way through caves and ice, castles and factories, all by the might of your puzzling!

Price -78% 1.76€
Rating 8.5
Release 12 Dec 2014

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