Violent Hidden Gems on Steam

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Yomawari: Midnight Shadows The dark is no place to be alone. After a beautiful show of summer fireworks, two young girls begin to make their way home. However, a mysterious attacker separates them, and both must brave the haunting night filled with unspeakable terrors and survive the darkness.

Price -88% 2.51€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Oct 2017
Organ Quarter Organ Quarter is a VR survival horror game built from the ground-up for hand-tracked virtual reality. Explore labyrinthine environments, engage in tense combat, carefully manage your resources and solve horrifying puzzles in this homage to the slow, methodical survival horror experiences of the '90s

Price 24.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 19 Oct 2017
Rogue Trooper Redux A pioneering tactical shooter and landmark comic book adaptation, Rogue Trooper is back, remastered and revitalised in true high definition. Experience acclaimed third-person action in this BAFTA-nominated tale of betrayal and revenge at the far reaches of the galaxy!

Price -98% 0.52€
Rating 7.3
Release 17 Oct 2017
Metropolis: Lux Obscura A unique game with a film noir atmosphere, seductive wanton women, and dirty dangerous secrets. Gameplay is based on a motion comic with a non-linear plot mixed with MATCH3 puzzle fights.

Price 7.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 11 Oct 2017
Cinderella Escape 2 Revenge Cinderella is back with a new goddess power. Ready to fight for her innocence and reveal the secret plan of the Prince. Will she get her revenge? Will she accept her destiny?

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 06 Oct 2017
HEADLINER Short, thought-provoking adventure where you are a News Editor and decide what stories get published, set in a fictional city where most people are genetically modified. Multiple unique endings let you share your story and see what the Headliner before you did.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 03 Oct 2017
Dead Effect 2 VR Dead Effect 2 is the newest addition to the acclaimed Dead Effect franchise. This action sci-fi shooter is looking to push the boundaries of first-person shooters to new levels with slick graphics, rich narrative and RPG elements.

Price 22.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 03 Oct 2017
ARMORED KITTEN Awesome side scroll action about Cute and Deadly Kitten with a double shotgun!

Price -92% 0.43€
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Sep 2017
Eternity Warriors VR Packed with classical action game essences, high-definition visual, and real-time multiplayer features.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 17 Sep 2017
A Robot Named Fight! A Robot Named Fight is a Metroidvania roguelike focused on exploration and item collection. Explore a different, procedurally-generated labyrinth each time you play and discover randomized power-ups to traverse obstacles, find secrets and explode meat beasts.

Price -68% 4.15€
Rating 8.3
Release 07 Sep 2017
Don't Knock Twice Don't Knock Twice is a first-person horror game based on a psychologically terrifying urban legend. One knock to wake her from her bed, twice to raise her from the dead. Supports VR on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift for the ultimate horror experience!

Price -84% 3.39€
Rating 6.9
Release 05 Sep 2017
Mothlight In a world corrupted by Eldritch abominations, Enzo must climb out of the hellish depths of the universe. From the Black Sea to the Planes of Neethan, it is your job to make your pilgrimage back to the Worlds above. In the black hell of this world, only Moths and demons await you.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 25 Aug 2017
Hard Time The toughest prison sim in the yard has been locked back up to serve another sentence in 2D!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 16 Aug 2017
Nidhogg 2 The rules are simple. Reach the other side and kill anyone that stands in your way. Deftly parry and rend their throats, riddle their bowels with arrows, or squish their brains between your toes. The wurm cares not for chivalry.

Price -98% 0.38€
Rating 7.8
Release 15 Aug 2017
Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul AVAILABLE TO PLAY IN NON-VR (KEYBOARD/MOUSE AND CONTROLLER) VR HEADSET NO LONGER REQUIRED.“PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE LOST SOUL” immerses you in a terrifying realistic environment with haunting atmosphere, and the need to survive.

Price 19.50€
Rating 6.8
Release 15 Aug 2017
ICY: Frostbite Edition ICY: Frostbite Edition is a narrative-driven post-apocalyptic survival RPG set in a new Ice Age. Create your character, lead your family, make difficult choices, and try to survive in a frozen world.

Price -89% 1.45€
Rating 8.0
Release 11 Aug 2017
Operation Warcade VR Relive the experience of playing the classic war arcade in a totally amazing way, thanks to virtual reality and the innovative immersion system that will make it possible for you to travel inside the video game.

Price -80% 4.03€
Rating 8.7
Release 04 Aug 2017
The Ranger: Lost Tribe The story happens on the mainland of Roland. As a ranger, you have witnessed a series of anomalies recently: the blood moon, mad animals... Now the elder chief of NaBaer expects you to suppress the mobs who plundered their tribe. Perhaps you can find some clues in the tribe seized by the mobs.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 01 Aug 2017
Wrestling Revolution 3D The original 3D wrestling sim takes you either side of the curtain in one epic shared universe - where you can either take shots in the ring as a wrestler or call the shots backstage as a booker!

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 20 Jul 2017
This Strange Realm Of Mine This Strange Realm Of Mine is a First Person Shooter mixed with poetry and psychological horror. Graphic style is 3D mixed with pixel art.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 7.8
Release 19 Jul 2017
Crimson Gray John is a young man suffering from severe depression. As he loses his sense of purpose in life, he begins to see the world in unfocused gray. Just when he begins to lose all hope, John meets a girl... a very special girl.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 14 Jul 2017
√Letter - Root Letter - When a letter is delivered 15 years late - you discover an old pen-friend was involved in a murder, before she disappeared. Travelling to her hometown, you must investigate the murder, using her past letters as clues to uncover the disturbing truth.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 07 Jul 2017
Serious Sam's Bogus Detour Serious Sam’s Bogus Detour is an all-new action-adventure in the legendary Serious Sam saga from Hammerwatch developer Crackshell.

Price -96% 0.41€
Rating 7.6
Release 20 Jun 2017
Dies irae ~Amantes amentes~ Night after night, the same dream of a guillotine. A headhunting serial killer. And the "knights" in black who follow soon after. Irrationality that defies the realm of common sense begins to assault and devour the city.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 02 Jun 2017
Tormentor❌Punisher Everything in Tormentor❌Punisher can be killed in one hit, from bosses to yourself. Bosses conjure traps to make the arena hellish. Demons adjust to your play style and punish you. Perform combos on enemies and gain cool upgrades. Reload your machine gun by firing your shotgun. Let's do this!

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Jun 2017
Constructor You can’t rise to the top without taking a few others down. If that means engaging in a workplace accidents, dodgy deals, and a shifty trick or two then so be it! You're going to need every trick in the book if you want to go from small-time slumlord to property tycoon!

Price 29.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 26 May 2017
Battle Bruise Stay atop a mountain of corpses! Fight numerous swarms of enemies, while dealing with the changing terrain.This game isn't messy. It's MESS ITSELF!

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 03 May 2017
Graviteam Tactics: Tunisia 1943 Graviteam Tactics: Tunisia 1943 - tactical battalion level combat simulation. During the Tunisian Campaign in winter 1943 German Panzer battlegroups launch a counteroffensive against the Allied forces to drive them out of Eastern Dorsal.

Price 28.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 01 May 2017
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.5 Meakashi Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.

Price -35% 5.19€
Rating 9.1
Release 28 Apr 2017
Just Ignore Them One night can feel like a lifetime of pain, suffering and horror to a child...do you have what it takes to survive the night? Play as an 8 year old child who is tormented by monsters in his house. Your choices make his future which lives can be saved or ended.

Price -85% 0.62€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Apr 2017
Grisaia Phantom Trigger Vol.1 "Grisaia: Phantom Trigger" is a visual novel, specifically a kinetic novel (without branching routes). Returning character artist Akio Watanabe and writer Ryuta Fujisaki bring you the latest installment in the acclaimed Grisaia series.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 27 Apr 2017
Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption Inhabiting the World of Darkness, you must face a series of brutal confrontations with your nemesis Vukodlak, a powerful vampire lord.

Price 5.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Apr 2017
Nightshade/百花百狼 A romance visual novel game made in collaboration with D3P and Red Entertainment.Character design and illustrations are by the popular illustrator Teita. The romance revolves around Ninjas who have lived through the Sengoku Period. This game has published in 2016 as PS Vita in Japan.

Price -24% 24.60€
Rating 9.0
Release 11 Apr 2017
State of Anarchy: Master of Mayhem Prepare for bullet hell action and crazy driving! Your town is on fire, anarchy reigns the streets, aliens rampage in the sky! Grab your gun and join the fun!

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 31 Mar 2017
Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is a frantic arcade action FPS, featuring singleplay and co-op campaign, various multiplayer modes, all presented in glorious VR and with different locomotion movements.

Price -95% 1.09€
Rating 8.2
Release 30 Mar 2017
Belko VR: An Escape Room Experiment Exploring the themes in THE BELKO EXPERIMENT, the Belko VR – Escape Room Experiment provokes the question: “What does it take to survive at work?” Players are prompted to solve a series of challenging puzzles in order to escape from their office before a microchip in their head explodes.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 02 Mar 2017

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