Steam Summer Sale 2024: Hidden gems

kfwyre
Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:48:53 +0000

Inspired by the recurring topic every Steam sale over at /r/GameDealsMeta:

What are some lesser-known Steam games that you recommend?

Are there any genres you’d like hidden gem recommendations for?

If you're interested in previous Hidden Gem topics, you can find them here.

For popular recommendations and general purpose sale discussion, please use the main Steam Sale topic.

An update for this topic: I've always used the number of Steam reviews for a game as a rough proxy for the game's audience size. It's not perfect, but it works well enough. Steam effectively made this canon in one of their recent sales. They had a Hidden Gems category and then broke the game list out into different tiers based the number of reviews each one had. I saved their taxonomy so I could use it here.

Feel free to tag or group your recommendations based on these if you like:

Category | Maximum Review Count
Shockingly Overlooked | 20
Under the Radar | 50
Buried Treasure | 150
Underrated Great | 500
Cult Classic | 1000
Gem Graduate | 1000+

All the categories above, except for the last one, are how Steam defined their different tiers. I have some qualms with them using "Cult Classic" there, but I'm going to follow suit for consistency's sake.

I myself added the last category, because I think there are plenty of games worth mentioning with more than 1000 reviews that still have a solid Hidden Gem vibe but have since found bigger audiences and "graduated" from the label.

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