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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10 Second Ninja Ninjas are cool, this is an established fact of the universe. Nazi Robots from space are not cool, they are the complete opposite of cool, and Robot Hitler is out to get you, the world's first ninja. You have 10 seconds to destroy all Nazi Robots in your vicinity. IT. IS. ON.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 05 Mar 2014
EvilQuest Why save the world when you can conquer it? In EvilQuest, take on the role of Galvis — a dark knight obsessed with ultimate power. Set out on a quest of revenge,destruction and conquest in this exciting retro Action RPG title.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 20 Feb 2014
Drox Operative Drox Operative is a starship action RPG with warring alien races, fierce space battles, a dynamic, evolving galaxy, and co-op multiplayer for Windows and Mac.Eons ago the Drox ruled the galaxy through their mighty Operatives. These elite starship captains were trained to accomplish the impossible at whatever cost necessary.

Price -93% 1.40€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Feb 2014
Journal Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.3
Release 17 Feb 2014
Home Sheep Home: Farmageddon Party Edition Join Shaun the Sheep and his friends Timmy and Shirley on this epic adventure journeying through caverns, the busy streets of London and through outer space all in search of the green grass of home. Now with new multiplayer modes, controller support, widescreen graphics and much, much more!

Price -85% 1.49€
Rating 9.0
Release 17 Feb 2014
Card City Nights Card City Nights is not a traditional card-trading game. It's an adventure game with zany characters to meet and weird locations to explore. In the center is our new card battle system that breaks away from the fantasy TCG mold with connecting cards to form combos.

Price -92% 0.87€
Rating 8.4
Release 14 Feb 2014
LocoCycle Newly self-aware, I.R.I.S. the martial-arts wielding assassin motorcycle, has begun a cross-continent escape to freedom. I.R.I.S.’s only ally is her engineer Pablo, who gets conscripted into the quest after his pant leg gets caught in her chassis. Hunted by the psychopathic motorcycle S.P.I.K.E. and a multinational weapons cartel, I.R.I.

Price 8.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 14 Feb 2014
Graviteam Tactics: Operation Star Graviteam Tactics: Operation Star is a sequel to Achtung Panzer: Kharkov 1943. It’s an Eastern Front war game with solid graphics and sprawling battlefields that really emphasizes the scope of WWII tank combat.Want to step into the role of a commander in the very heart of Kharkov’s defense?

Price 27.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 11 Feb 2014
Descent Welcome to Descent™ - 27 levels of the most mind-bending, stomach-churning action game ever. Featuring true 3-Dimensional worlds and six degrees of freedom.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 11 Feb 2014
Dead Man's Draw Dead Man’s Draw is a simple and strategic game of luck and skill that boils down strategy gameplay into a single, tense decision.

Price -82% 1.33€
Rating 7.9
Release 06 Feb 2014
Oniken: Unstoppable Edition When a global war nearly decimated humankind, an evil military organization called Oniken takes advantage of the situation to dominate and oppress the few remaining survivors. Even though any resistance to this organization seemed hopeless, a small rebel movement organizes strikes against Oniken.

Price -65% 1.77€
Rating 7.6
Release 05 Feb 2014
Ski Region Simulator - Gold Edition The "Ski Region Simulator Gold Edition" contains plenty of features and possibilities: In the career mode you enter a unique and large winter landscape and experience the workaday life in the swiss alps in a completely adapted and freely accessible world.

Price 7.17€
Rating 7.2
Release 31 Jan 2014
Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising In 2032 an Earth that knows only peace is forced to relearn the art of war. Twenty years have passed since the population of Earth did a fine job of destroying nearly everything in one final struggle for power by the politicians and military leaders.

Price -91% 0.28€
Rating 7.2
Release 30 Jan 2014
Saturday Morning RPG Saturday Morning RPG is an episodic JRPG set in world heavily inspired by 1980s Saturday morning cartoons and pop culture.

Price -95% 0.37€
Rating 7.3
Release 29 Jan 2014
Our Darker Purpose Journey to the dark heart of the Edgewood Home for Lost Children in this fiendishly difficult action RPG!When her teacher stepped out of the classroom a month ago, Cordy never imagined he would be gone for good. Now her fellow students have turned on each other as the school descends into chaos.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 29 Jan 2014
Signs of Life Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.3
Release 27 Jan 2014
Paper Sorcerer Paper Sorcerer is a stylish single player turn based RPG focused on strategy, party-building, and environmental puzzles. Fight with the skills and spells you've learned in a battle system that emphasizes strategy over grinding. Assemble a party of monsters and dark creatures to fight alongside you.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 22 Jan 2014
Gun Metal Gun Metal is a futuristic action-packed experience where you take control of the fully transformable prototype combat vehicle known as the Havoc Suit.The Havoc Suit, a prototype combat vehicle, remains the only hope to save civilization from a tireless enemy.

Price -75% 0.74€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Jan 2014
War of the Human Tanks War of the Human Tanks is a story driven strategy game with a gameplay reminiscent of Battleship and Chess, featuring a story of war, loyalty, sacrifice and human shaped tanks.

Price -93% 0.69€
Rating 8.1
Release 10 Jan 2014
Freedom Fall Freedom Fall is a diabolical down-scrolling platformer set in a prison tower so tall it touches the clouds. Presented with hand painted art, its old school vibe mixes with fast-paced free falling action and a story with both dark wit and heart.

Price -83% 1.53€
Rating 8.5
Release 10 Jan 2014
Gunman Clive In the year of 18XX, the west is overrun by thugs and outlaws. A group of bandits have kidnapped Mayor Johnsons daughter and are spreading havok across the land. Only Gunman Clive can bring order to the west and save the girl!Jump and shoot your way across 16 diverse and challenging levels and fight massive bosses.

Price -50% 1.01€
Rating 8.3
Release 03 Jan 2014
Ballpoint Universe - Infinite Ballpoint Universe Infinite is a shoot-em-up adventure game featuring artwork entirely drawn in ballpoint pen. Explore immaculate worlds, discover the secrets of the doodles, and customize your Ink-Ship for battle! Press"Ballpoint Universe Infinite is too exuberant to ignore.

Price -89% 0.34€
Rating 7.4
Release 17 Dec 2013
Stick it to The Man! Hard hat tester, Ray, has a bizarre accident and wakes up with a giant pink spaghetti arm sticking out of his brain! With his awesome new powers he can read minds and change the world with stickers but he’s on the run for a crime he didn’t commit. Can you help Ray out of this sticky situation?

Price -76% 1.81€
Rating 8.9
Release 13 Dec 2013
Not The Robots You are a robot in an office building. You have to eat furniture and not get caught. A mysterious story unfolds.Not The Robots is this year’s most exciting Roguelike Stealth Furniture Eating Simulator. It’s a game with random levels, permadeath, and the goal of eating furniture - which is also your stealth cover.

Price -96% 0.43€
Rating 7.5
Release 12 Dec 2013
The Novelist The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be.

Price -88% 0.63€
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Dec 2013
Samurai GUNN Samurai GUNN is a lightning-fast Bushido brawler for 2 to 4 players. Each samurai is armed with a sword and gunn, with only 3 bullets to a life. Strategy and quick reflexes are the key to deflecting bullets and sending your opponents’ heads rolling.

Price -10% 4.50€
Rating 8.6
Release 10 Dec 2013
MURI MURI is a DOS-style shooter from Remar Games and Ludosity. Features PC Speaker sound and 16-color EGA graphics.

Price -89% 1.16€
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Dec 2013
Nimble Quest Nimble Quest! Lead a conga line of heroes to glory against hordes of enemies across an endless number of stages. How many enemies can you defeat? Steer your unstoppable (seriously, you can’t stop) party as they cut a path of destruction through levels filled with different enemies and power-ups.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 06 Dec 2013
Oozi: Earth Adventure Oozi: Earth Adventure is a classic 2D platformer with old school gameplay - no puzzles, no punishment, just 100% pure classic platforming fun! Its most prominent features are HD visuals and beautiful hand-drawn art, but despite its visual style, it’s a good fit for all kinds of gamers!

Price -95% 0.50€
Rating 8.2
Release 05 Dec 2013
Finding Teddy We are currently working on Finding Teddy 2 !!Stay tuned, we are currently sending confidential preview versions to journalistsSpecial Offer : Buy Finding Teddy and get Free OST !In BriefThe revival of Point'n-Click.Graphics completely handmade, realized pixel by pixel.

Price -96% 0.28€
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Dec 2013
Elder Sign: Omens Elder Sign: Omens is a digital version of the popular board game by Fantasy Flight Games. Build a team of unique investigators and fight to keep an all-powerful Ancient One from invading our world! Explore museums, oceans, deserts and more for the arcane Elder Signs that will help seal the Ancient One away.

Price 5.89€
Rating 7.3
Release 27 Nov 2013
The Last Express Gold Edition Step aboard the 1914 Orient Express in this award-winning mystery adventure from Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner. Described as one of the best adventure games of all time, The Last Express is an intrigue-filled adventure set aboard the luxurious Orient Express.

Price -85% 1.07€
Rating 7.6
Release 21 Nov 2013
The Shivah Russell Stone is a Jewish Rabbi at a poor synagogue in New York City. He is a devout man with a problem. Membership is way down and he lacks the funds to keep his synagogue open. Things are looking very bleak, and he has grown progressively more cynical and bitter with the passage of time.

Price -92% 0.41€
Rating 7.7
Release 21 Nov 2013
Mutant Mudds Deluxe Love pixels? Fond of platformers? Is there a special place in your heart for the 8-bit and 16-bit era? Want to have fun? Yes!? Well, you’ve come to the right place, my friend. Mutant Mudds Deluxe is a “12-bit” action platformer full of pixels and platforming fun!

Price -76% 2.36€
Rating 7.1
Release 21 Nov 2013
9.03m The media is quick to put figures to death tolls in such disasters, and 9.03m tries to remind people of the individuals behind those figures. 9.03m is set on Baker Beach in San Francisco, where debris from the tsunami has washed ashore in the years following the tsunami. To play, you must find the butterflies.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 20 Nov 2013
PixelJunk™ Shooter In PixelJunk™ Shooter, you must pilot your spacecraft through a range of cavernous environments in a bid to save the scientists trapped underground. Making your way through the game will rely on your keen sense of observation and the ability to manipulate your surroundings.

Price -89% 0.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 11 Nov 2013

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