What games do you love that you feel are lesser known/less popular?

Freedom Planet is awesome, I know that feel!

Maybe the Bit.Trip saga, although nowhere near perfect I love the games. Most probably only heard of the Runner games but the rest of them are pretty fun too.

Bump.

There should be many, but the peggle series comes to my mind right now :)
Also, Quest for Infamy!

Xenoblade Chronicles for Wii. You should figure out a way to play it if you haven't got a Wii.

Looks like no one wrote it so far....
so I will go with Bloodsports.tv
less than 100 reviews on steam.
The game is made by Fatshark, thus abandoned after first free dlc they gave it.
It's a Co-op Hero Line Defense type of game, with above character type of look, something like PvE MOBA? Idk how to describe it properly.

Two Worlds 2, you can even read my "review" here.

If only i would remeber how to name links.. Ohhh well!

Maize: Super fun comedy puzzle/adventure game. Never liked being called an idiot as much as i did in this game :P !
http://store.steampowered.com/app/284240/

Dreadout/Dreadout Keeper of darkness: Remeber the fatal frame games? This is a indie version and most important.. It is on PC! It has a few things that aren't great but i liked em quite a lot.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/269790/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/418950/

The Cat lady + Downfall: Great story driven adventure game with some really dark parts. A friend suggested the first game to me and i didn't look it up for a year or so but when i instantly got it and once i was done i bought the second one right off the bat.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/253110/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/364390/

Day of Infamy: A mix between Day of defeat and red orchestra made by the devs behind Insurgency. Really fun WW2 shooter that should really be more popular.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/447820/

Singularity: I was expecting a crappy console shooter but it was actually really fun! The onlu negative things i can say is that you will know it was made for console and at first you think you will be low on ammo just to have more ammo than you could ever use. Still fun tho!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/42670/

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning™

A Story About My Uncle

Brawlhalla
[Playing it since the Beta - It's my most played game with 888h playtime. But unfortunately the community is getting more and more toxic...]

EDIT:
I totally forgot AQUARIA !
I love this game ^^

I don't really pay much attention to which games are "lesser known" and stuff, but Critter Crunch doesn't have many reviews on Steam (Maybe because it was originally for other platforms) and it's an awesome game, imo.

Blood 2.

• The Cat Lady
• Downfall
• Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller
• KNIGHTS
• Tormentum - Dark Sorrow
• Betrayer

State of War
Krush Kill N Destroy Xtreme
Pursuit Force
Pursuit Force Extreme Justice
Twisted Metal Head On
Patapon
Killzone:Liberation
Resistance: Retribution
Delta Force Land Warrior's m
SOCCOM
Ghost Recon Warfighter
Star Hawk
Act of Aggression
Battleforge
Sonny
Sonny 2
Sift Heads: World
Crimecraft
Defiance
Arcanum
Burnout Legends
Silent Hill Origins
The Sabouter
Thrill Kill
Sunset Riders
Doom Troopers
Mega-Lo-Mania
Flashback
Zero Tolerance
The Lost World: Jurrasic Park
Quack shot Duck
The Flintstones
Bonker
Desert\Jungle\Urban Strike
The Typing of the Dead: Overkill
The Haunted: Hell's Reach
Death Skid Marks
The Godfather
The Godfather 2
Scarface: The World is Yours
GTA Liberty City Stories
GTA Vice City Stories
Arctic Combat
District 187
Battlefield Heroes
Crush The Castle
Colony
Daytraders of the Dead
Toxie Radd
Infectonator: Survivors
RAGE
Breach
Larry and the Gnomes
ECHOES: Operation Stranglehold
Streets of Rage Remake
Red Faction Guerrilla
Def Jam Fight for NY
Carmaggedon: Max Damage
Street Riders
Ghostbusters
Blur
King of Fighters 14
Warfare Online
Crossout
Eternal Champions

Can't think of any more...

I find it funny how many are picking "overwhelmingly positive" games in this thread :P

I think Morphblade is woefully underrated. When it came around in last month's Monthly, there were a lot people giving it away and dismissing it as cheap 'shovelware'. 181 reviews?

I won the game on SG and I'm totally addicted! Very simple to learn, to pick up, but very hard to get good at. Amazing little strategy game which I will be giving away myself to spread the joy.

The Cat Lady

I'm a REALLY big loser so in my spare time I actually made a big huge spreadsheet (I love spreadsheets) detailing all the games in my steam library that I've played, and different stats about them - like, my rating, number of achievements, genre, etc.

One of the metrics I included was number of owners on steam. I was really interested in charting not just popularity of genres but of individual titles. These numbers are from SteamSpy, and are probably out of date considering I did most of this data searching about two months ago.

Here are games that I really enjoyed that have less than 21k owners:

Gravity Ghost is a really fun, unique physics puzzle game that isn't based on 'normal' gravity, but orbital gravity. You are, literally, a ghost in space swirling around planets and trying to send other ghosts home. It's adorable and fun and I loved it.

Sunset was mentioned before, but I want to mention it again, if only as a diamond in the rough. While the game could have been FAR better optimized, I do think fans of atmospheric storytelling and 'walking sims' have something to pull from this experience.

Higurashi When They Cry is a multi-chaptered slice of life/horror murder mystery VN where the culprits are either the curse of an enraged, demonic local god, a conspiracy of brainwashed rural townsfolk, or.... your best friends. Heartwarming, somehow, all the same. I personally don't really like the mangagamer sprites for this release, but there are patches that let you change the sprites.

Forget Me Not: My Organic Garden is "an avant-garde clicking game" where you grow and harvest human organs on trees. It is gorgeous and stylish and actually has some interesting little stories in it and you're playing a fucking clicker game where you grow hearts and kidneys for witchcraft and junk, it's good.

To Be or Not To Be is Hamlet as a choose-your-own adventure story, as written by Ryan North. You also can play as Hamlet Sr. and Ophelia. A bunch of people die, the writing is hysterical, and the piss is taken out of Hamlet for literally 99% of the book. While the humor MAY come off as twee, it works for me and I happily spent a few afternoons killing people - er, I mean, saving Denmark.

Amphora is a gorgeous little puzzle game where you play as magical smoke coming from an, you guessed it, amphora, and you help a family throughout different scenes of their lives. Incredibly stylish with good physics, this is a true overlooked gem.

My two would be In Celebration of Violence and CrossCode.

Both of them are indie games in early access that show exceptional promise. In Celebration of Violence is the top down Dark Souls and Rogue crossbreed that takes the strengths of both and combines it with a bleak, immersive, enthralling world with deep, reaction based gameplay. CrossCode is also great, but I've actually written a review, so I'll let it do the talking. It's for an older version of the game, and the developers have been adding content since; I've been putting off playing it so I can take it on in one sitting, but for a while I would rush all the content whenever there was a new patch and I was always impressed. I'd expect the full release this summer or fall.

Both of these games suffered from being bundled, so a lot of people own them, but not many have played; there are only 23 reviews for In Celebration of Violence, and while there are substantially more for CrossCode (about a thousand) both of these are treasures that I would rate with AAA games in my library.

The Deed. It's a short murder mystery with a twist - you're the murderer, and you need to hide the evidence and set things up well enough that someone else takes the fall. It's also one of the rare RPG Maker games that doesn't include any combat. It's got enough variety in the options that I enjoyed playing it through several times, and I rarely see anyone talk about it despite its "Very Positive" average review score.

ibb & obb for a super fun puzzley local co op game that relies on working together.
Flat Heroes SUCH a fun local co op game. Single player was fun enough too, but less intense. Co op was an absolute blast that had everyone crying with laughter and getting really into it.
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood I'm over halfway through playing it atm, but it's already one of my favourites. A really enjoyable puzzle platformer that looks like a Pixar film.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/384110/
Pathologic - Very unique and creative, some years old, survival game about a mysterious village afflicted by a mysterious plague. The game does not take players at hand and gives only vague hints what to do, which makes it very difficult to access for beginners. That combined with a slow gameplay, lots of text to read and some technical flaws have been the reason why the game got lot of negative ratings around 30-50% when it was released. Fortunately people realized that behind the surface there is a fantastic setting, awesome dark and surreal atmosphere and a great story with surprising twists, so that the game got some better reviews and even a remake in the meanwhile. I've played through it several times, there are different storylines for the three characters and I absolutely love it. It's my sleeper hit number one.

Space Run- it's a really fun sort-of-tower-defense-but-with-a-twist game with some, in my opinion, nice humor in it. Barely anyone knows about it. :/

Rabi-Ribi- ok, ok, so it's a bullet hell/platformer/metroidvania hybrid which I'm pretty sure squeezes down it's potential fanbase... a lot. But it's a great game! And more people should try it out! (Even if it will brutally kick their ass!)

Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal (and, actually, the entire Creeper World series)- another interesting take on the tower defense genre in the sense that this is more of a tower offense with some interesting mechanics. Also the 3-rd game in particular has something along the lines of thousands of optional levels to do (and this is not including the potential for more community made ones since it has a level creator) so it has essentially infinite content.

Dustforce- a rather challenging but amazingly made platformer with emphasis on speed and a very... interesting premise to say the least. It has a small community but they've created a ton of extra content for it.

Orcs Must Die! series- it might be old but it's still super fun to slaughter a ton of dumb orcs with your maze of traps... huh, again a game with tower defense elements but with a lot of twists. Starting to see a pattern here...

Cargo Commander- I'm... not sure how to describe this one. It's sort of a platformer... but... arcade-y? I guess my best description would be "check the trailer". It also has some nice humor. Needs more attention.

SpaceChem- another one for the brutally difficult pile- this time a puzzle game with the goal being to design a pipeline for manipulating molecules. Also it has a really neat Lovecraftian style story in the campaign which is told through nothing but text and the occasional simple image between levels but still manages to be awesome.

EDGE- this one kinda speaks for itself...

Fairy Bloom Freesia- a very adorable brawler. Simple but fun and cute. ^_^

Every single other Bullet Hell game I've ever played... In particular this series.

And I think I'll just stop there before I start listing 90%+ of the indie games I've played. XD

Message Quest
It only has about 450 reviews but wow, short beautiful game with really great humor. I really loved every secong I played of it even though it was quick to beat.

Supercharged robot vulkaiser,i just love the god damn opening music

It's actually very nice RPG game. :3

Bump.