Remnants of Isolations This is more a proof of concept than a real RPG, but you can go with worse ways to spend a couple of hours.
Not mindblowing but fun for the few hours it lasts. Pale Echoes Standard JRPG with a twist, you have to sacrifice characters to progress. It's an absolute masterpiece, can't really say why without spoiling it but the characters will really grow on you. OneShot If you only play one game from my list PLAY THIS ONE. LISA A strange but very good mix of Earthbound and Fallout, both silly and depressing. Hylics It was made with RM and probably huge amounts of LSD, kinda similar to Space Funeral in its atmosphere.
Hello Charlotte Very disturbing dystopian game (it's pretty much trigger warning land, be wary), this is the second episode, there's a third one on Steam and the first one is free (not as good as the other 2 though). I could mention many more free RM games that are not on Steam, but if I start to do this I'll probably still be typing this comment tomorrow.Īra Fell One of the rare Final Fantasy clones done right.Ī Bird Story This is from Kan Gao, To the Moon's dev, it's not as good, but it's still good.Ĭherry Tree High Comedy Club Anime comedy VN, it doesn't look like it, but it was made with RM.Ĭity of Chains Decent SF RPG with some Deus Ex- like skills that affect your progression. Mothlight Weird setting, pretty similar to OFF (another great free RM classic).
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.How about I tell you about not one, but like 72 good RM games:Įternal Senia Surprisingly competent Action / RPG.įausts Alptraum Horror / Adventure game visibly influenced by classics such as Ib or The Witch's House (both free, both great).Hyperdimension Neptunia Re Birth3 V Generation.Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi.VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action.Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.3 Tatarigoroshi.Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat From Your Head To Your Feet.G-senjou no Maou - The Devil on G-String.Narcissu 10th Anniversary Anthology Project.Tomoyo After ~It's a Wonderful Life~ English Edition.Pajama Sam in No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside.The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC.Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.2 Watanagashi.Contradiction - the all-video murder mystery adventure.planetarian ~the reverie of a little planet~.Ranking of Steam games favoring hidden gems updated ranking, using data from June 30, a week after the Steam summer sales have started.
If you arrived here from a PC Gamer article, I suggest you check the Python source code and one of these rankings: Contradiction - the all-video murder mystery adventure (appID=373390).To reproduce the results, use data downloaded between June 19 and June 23 (found in my initial commit to Github), with alpha ~ 10^(6.45), which arises from an optimization with 1 example of "hidden gem": The Python source code can be found on Github. Finally, here is a reference to the NeoGAF post explaining the method, and the NeoGAF post explaining the idea behind the optimization of the only free parameter. The quality measure comes from SteamDB and the popularity measure comes from SteamSpy API. Therefore, the score of a game is defined as the product of a quality measure (its Wilson score) and a decreasing function of a popularity measure (its players total forever). A "hidden gem" is defined as a high-quality game (hence the "gem") which only got little attention (hence "hidden"). This post contains a ranking of Steam games, based on a score intended to favor "hidden gems".