Another sale, another cheap little hidden gems hunting post!! (been a while...)

Good games under (Or around) one buck, - ver. Summer Sale 2024

I reset my old tables, you can access them here and here (and maybe also here), and decided to put offers that caught my attention, or cheap games that I personally recommend.

As always, the rules are:

  • Games around 1 buck (please no more than 1.99)
  • They have to be worth buying (no game of the year or anything, obviously, but good in some aspect - This are all rated Positive and Up)
  • Don't matter if isn't an all time low.
STEAM PRICE GENRE
REFUNCT $0.89 3D Puzzle platformer
SUPERFLIGHT $0.59 casual Flying Squirrel-suit simulator
HYPER SENTINEL $0.87 Shmup spiritual successor of Uridium
Orwell's Animal Farm $0.99 Text-based game
Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery $0.99 Detective game
The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature $1.59 Adventure game
Death Crown $0.99 Strategy - Tower Defense
1993:Space_Machine $0.99 Shmup
Anacronox $0.97 Cult classic RPG
Pony Island+Soundtrack $0.89 Amazing game. Play it without knowing ANYTHING.
Dropsy $0.99 Wholesome point and click
Zuma Deluxe $0.99 Classic puzzle game. Almost all popcap games are at $0.99
Nation Red $1.01 Very fast top down arena shooter against hordes of zombies. Recommended
The Other Half $0.49 Dark fantasy adventure
Chips Challenge 2 $0.99 Puzzle game
Fenimore Fillmore:3 Skulls of the Toltecs $0.99 Point and click adventure
Alice_Madness_Returns $1.49 Action adventure. Great game.
VVVVVV $1.24 Awesome platformer, with an excellent soundtrack
Supercharged_Robot_VULKAISER $1.99 Shmup from the creators of Satazius
Super House of Dead Ninjas $1.39 Fast paced action platformer with rogue-lite elements. SOON TO BE DELISTED

Also look here for games under $1
https://gg.deals/deals/?drm=1&maxPrice=1&onlyBestDeal=1&onlyHistoricalLow=1

And here for under $2
https://gg.deals/deals/?drm=1&maxPrice=2&onlyBestDeal=1&onlyHistoricalLow=1


Your recommendations for 2024!

STEAM PRICE GENRE
LEGIE $ 0.79 Adventure - RPG
Prodigal $1.49 Zelda-like RPG
UNDEMON $1.49 2D Platformer
Iggle Pop Deluxe $0.99 puzzle-casual
The_Sacred_Tears_TRUE $0.53 JRPG
Gedonia $1.49 Open World RPG
Gato Roboto $1.99 Very charming and fun Metroidvania
Subsurface Circular $1.19 Short conversational game
Orbox_C/ $0.49 Puzzle
Celeste $1.99 One of the best tough (but fair) platformers of all time.
Cleo: a Pirate's tale $1.49 Point and click adventure (it looks very good)
LIMBO $0.99 Absolute classic cinematic platformer. Pretty cheap even bundled with INSIDE, another absolute masterpiece.
Reigns $0.99 kind of a tinder simulator Visual Novel. It's way better than it sounds.
Timeloop:Sink Again Beach $1.19 A non-linear first-person action adventure
The_Vagrant $0.79 2D RPG
LOCKED $1.29 Survival Horror. Kind of.
Marvins_Mittens $0.99 Cute casual platformer.
MUSE DASH $0.53 Rhythm runner (looks a little NSFW)
Murasaki $0.99 Puzzle explosion game
Suzy Cube $0.69 3D Platformer
AllStar_Fruit_Racing $1.49 Arcade Racer
The Tenth Line $0.79 Console style RPG
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3 months ago*

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Khimera: Puzzle Island is $1.49 and I can recommend is actually a good nonogram game https://store.steampowered.com/app/1217830/Khimera_Puzzle_Island/
The dev also has some FREE not nonogram games (which I haven't played) and one features the same characters from Khimera https://store.steampowered.com/franchise/suitgames

The classic PopCap games are all $0.99 for the sale, but you can get a few of them EVEN CHEAPER if you already own Plants vs. Zombies with this bundle https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/1662/PopCap_Party_Pack/

2 months ago
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This is great! Finished it before.

2 months ago
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Isolomus

There is also a free game from the same developer. Short, but amazing!

2 months ago
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I dunno about hidden gems, but I can recommend:

Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition - classic immersive sim, 1st person rpg/stealth or whatever genre you want to call it game
with the latest version of the Community Update (I last played it having Transcended, Confix & DX10 options checked on)
& New Vision 2.0a textures

(Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided are also solid and cheap but not cheap enough for this thread)

Deathtrap - action tower defense game

2 months ago
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Deathtrap is pretty alright

2 months ago
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Would love a modern sequel, with more
don't really see other tower defense games like it

2 months ago
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Yeah

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Considering Pony Island. Since it is deck verified and has great ratings. May be my last purchase this sale?

2 months ago
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Grotto
A game where you play as a shaman for a village. The people of the village come to you to ask for help with their problems.
The unique thing about this game is that you do not tell the villagers what to do directly. Instead, you give them constellations, which they then interpret in their own way as an answer (not always the way you wanted).
This game is heavily affected by your choices, making every playthrough distinct.

The Cat Lady
has pretty old-looking graphics, but a very nice story and extremely well written characters. It's permanently dark and creepy without being stressful or having jumpscares. Takes about 8hours and is pretty cheap

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The Cat Lady is dark as hell, with topics like depression and suicide,violence and other dark themes, but it's a superbly made game nevertheless. Playing it twice? for the true (good) ending is cathartic

2 months ago
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As usual ...Summer Catchers ! ;)

And I would like to add :

2 months ago
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On the "Summer Catchers" page, I will always see an elderly woman, with a sack on her back, looking towards the left with her little round head on top, holding some bent twig or something in her left hand!
Can you unsee now?.. heheh..

2 months ago
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Don't Escape Trilogy, "reverse room escape point and click games" for 1.24€ / $1.24
First one is short, but then they get depth and replayability for different endings / achievements, and consistently getting better and better.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1070550/Dont_Escape_Trilogy/

2 months ago
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This is officially a hidden gem. 😉

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