An example of what I mean would be Infernax which answers the age old question; what if Zelda II and Castlevania II had a baby and that baby got all of the good qualities and none of the bad?
https://youtu.be/oeWqzYmfOu4?si=WwfWH8yag9HZaMYR
Include a trailer of your pick.
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Vigor – it’s a little rough around the edges but it’s a fantastic extraction shooter with extremely intense gameplay. TTK is almost instant.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SBr1J_IKqc&t=539s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SBr1J_IKqc&t=539s)
Tenchu: Wrath Of Heaven. I don’t really hear it brought up too much nowadays, but it was pretty fun.
https://youtu.be/tVm-_kmH7b0?si=qW-wa0qQyeyNIuDC
Slipways – really fun little puzzle game designed for space strategy players with no time
Ape escape pumped and primed and Ape escape million monkeys.
Honestly both of these games are in my top 10 favorite games of all time.
Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters
Fantastic game that inspired greats like mass effect, Stellaris, subnautica and more.
https://youtu.be/XDe8v6pDPP8?si=pxSVH6t14lcARYRU
Void Bastards
[Warzone 2100](https://youtu.be/MUIpXE6SIzQ?si=G-a1uTqdhTkE56cp)
Lamentum was a solid, pixel art old school survival horror with a 19th century Lovecraftian setting.
It deserves more attention than it got. Any fan of the original Resident Evils would enjoy it I’d expect.
Greedfall… it’s fairly decently reviewed and sold decently, but underrated IMO
The Short Snow – (trailer is coming in 1-2 days for Steam)
The Mageseeker, absolutely beautiful game and very fun to play
https://youtu.be/-KHMMMHvDdM?si=rZQeNHe64D-jjY5p
Furi
Mischief Makers
Grapple Dog
Great core mechanics and level design. Charming characters. Classic gaming ethos.
[TUNIC ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5XpgTO7YN0)is fantastic and I wish more people who were clamoring for top down zelda games would check it out.
Rhythm doctor is an amazing rhythm game where you have to fix people’s heart problems using rhythm. It has great original music, fun gameplay, a really good story.
[https://youtu.be/cZrZ3vhsDPk?si=B8vy1Hk6j7rdQqzR](https://youtu.be/cZrZ3vhsDPk?si=B8vy1Hk6j7rdQqzR)
Dark Envoy.
Capitalism Lab. It’s a pretty intense sim builder centered around building your own economy and business. There are a ton of mod packages and the experimental ones are free. They keep adding a lot of features as time goes on. Check out the website: [https://www.capitalismlab.com/](https://www.capitalismlab.com/)
My two picks would be:
1. Monster sanctuary, a stream game that is a creature collector that is simple to get into but has so many levels of depth and optimization to make the ultimate team. Run status teams? Charge focused? Monster type synergies like Goblins? What food do you want to give them? Day shift or night shift? What skills do you take and do prioritize stats or skill levels? What equipment do you give? Just so many potential optimizations that is based around a Pokémon style 3v3 fights
https://youtu.be/PEgToyBxKZo?si=JL005gxwHZPMRbd8
2. 7th Dragon III Code: VFD. It’s a 3DS party based JRPG centered around building a team to travel through time beating the 6 true dragons to create the Dragon Cronicle to stop the 7th dragon from ending the world. Combat is interesting as you build a party of 3 with a bunch of unique classes like the Rune Knight, Banisher, Fortuner, Duelist, God-Hand, etc. they all have skills that allow them to fill 2 potential roles so there is a lot of flexibility and testing. They also have stat grinding through reclassing(basically locked to postgame unless you love grinding) and a DLC that is like a super boss rush for those who love a challenge. Unfortunately it is the third or fourth in a series that was only in Japan and had to compete with other big RPGs on the 3DS like Bravely Default, SMT4, and Fire Emblem Awakening to name a few
https://youtu.be/IoAOTExX1uE?si=Ya9RJ5ggpAKEaNtR
Edit: links to trailers since most seem to be posting them
Broken Sword. Good voice acting too.
Risk of Rain 2
Endless Dungeon
Palia
Wonder Boy 3 – The Dragon’s Trap. Great early Metroidvania, and the remake is solid too. Can be found on e-stores very cheap.
Nights, Journey of Dreams. Just the ost is worth listening to.
Mad Max and The Saboteur. Mad Max had no right to be as good as it was, and Saboteur was just a very fun game. Can’t go wrong killing Nazi’s!
Jet Force Gemini
The original Xbox had a gem that sort of faded with time.
“Blood Wake”
https://youtu.be/9j-x2ucZMGU?si=t3S6EpXuLgwRUhxu
[Crawl](https://youtu.be/IAqjWpK6IO8?si=PJGJEJ-4SxJbgZ5_)
Honestly I’d hope most people know of this one but to this day it’s one of the most fun co-ops I’ve ever played. I long for the day someone makes similar with some online play. It’s an absolute blast.
both risk of rain parts, infernax (as you said), enter the gungeon, subnautica lost it’s hype and now people don’t care about it, osu!.
immortals of aveum – fun magic shooter game with a great story!
Nobody Saves the World
The Iron Oath
Secrets of Grindea.
Dragon Warrior monsters. Really old game yet ironically it’s Pokemon done right. You won’t always know when you’ll be attacked and when you have the opportunity to ambush an enemy. Catching is a challenge, you need to know when to try and when to fight instead.
The Orcs Must Die series
I’m not quite sure why it’s never really caught on very well, it seems to be a type of game that you either love or hate I guess? Despite videos of the game reaching, seemingly, quite many through creators like TotalBiscuit, SpiffingBrit, Markiplier, Sips and some vtubers, the number of reviews would suggest none of the titles were really anywhere near the popularities of something like darkest dungeon, dave the diver, loop hero (idk what would even be comparable tbh)