Criminally Underrated Games?

[DrBloodmoney]

Looks like I added some before, but screw it, I'm doing some more, because some more games need love!

 

 here's a few more that need some attention, dammit! ?

 

 

Hardspace Shipbreaker

A zen Space-based destruction simulator, with a good story, great visuals, and one of the most fantastic soundtracks ever!

 

 

NORCO

Brilliant writing, brilliant world-building, and killer pixel-art - probably my favourite modern Adventure game 

 

 

The Entropy Centre

Way, WAAAAAY underplayed Portal-like 3D Puzzle game, with a good story, good puzzles, and a cool premise.

 

 

Treasures of the Aegean

Totally under-played platform puzzle time-loop game, with amazing Tintin-style Euro-comic art, and super-smooth movement.

 

 

 

Griftlands

The most underrated game on this site - a deck builder that rivals Slay the Spire, yet no-one seems to have played it, despite it coming from world-class dev Klei.

 

 

Backbone

Wildly underplayed Detective Noire game, that turns into a batshit-noire-horror. Totally weird, and totally cool.

 

 

Curse of the Dead Gods

A rogue like that is actually even better than Hades, but managed not to get the recognition it deserved, because it came out too close to Hades. (Hades is fantastic. CotDG is also fantastic!) 

 

 

Statik: Institute of Retention

The best VR game I've played, and a great puzzle game from Tarsir (creators of the Little Nightmares games)

 

 

The Touryst

Another wildly underplayed game - this one looks absolutely fantastic, is super fun and silly, and flips genres constantly.

 

 

The Pedestrian

A super cool, really smart puzzle game with a really surprising ending, which seems to get ignored in lists of great recent puzzle games.

 

 

Observation

A really cool premise, where you play as the computer on a space station, and do all the things the CPU usually does in games, and the CPU does all the stuff you usually do!

 

 

 

[Dark_Overlord]

4 hours ago, Deadly_Ha_Ha said:

Wuppo

 

Probably one of the best games I ever played and it's sad to me that it goes on sale so often for $1 when that almost implies its quality is poor. It's funny, it's charming, it's a difficult plat, it really deserves more attention

 

I held off on Wuppo due to it never receiving the balancing patch.  I contacted the devs and they said they were interested in re-making the game at a later date (think a diff company ported it)

[Deadly_Ha_Ha]

25 minutes ago, Dark_Overlord said:

 

I held off on Wuppo due to it never receiving the balancing patch.  I contacted the devs and they said they were interested in re-making the game at a later date (think a diff company ported it)

Remake it... I know some parts of the game weren't balanced or didn't work 100% but if they do ever remake it I hope they don't change too much

[Dark_Overlord]

20 minutes ago, Deadly_Ha_Ha said:

Remake it... I know some parts of the game weren't balanced or didn't work 100% but if they do ever remake it I hope they don't change too much

 

I think they meant it as in they'd be doing the port with all the balances added in

[PotrikBerger]

I don’t think the ones I’m about to list are underrated by those that play them, but I feel the ones I’m about to list just aren’t played enough by enough people. They are all great games and I for one feel they deserve more exposure

 

- I was a teenage exocolonist

- nobody saves the world

- in sound mind

- cardpocalypse

- arcade paradise

- inscryption

[StraightVege]

Figment! Nobody seems to care about this poor little game for some reason, but despite some flaws, it's outstanding! ?

 

 

A sequel was recently released, too.

[poker_1987]

The last of us pt2

God of war