I've recently finished the whole Xenosaga series and was impressed by it. Even more than by FF 16 (which was... cutscenes and a few good boss fights). This got me thinking: what else are old games that don't get enough recognition? I'm not talking about the Oceanhorns (which was boring tbh) or Hollow Knifhts, which everyone knows about. More like hidden gems you picked up "because" and liked it. In my case this was Blue Fire, a platformer that mixes Celeste's movement and 3D space. Other games I really enjoyed were

Valiant Hearts (WWI point and click)

Light Matter (3D puzzle game)

Cloudbuilt (a fast mirrors edge)

I'm more than happy to read some of your recommendations!

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[–] caut_R@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Recettear had me glued to my screen out of nowhere, very interesting genre mix

[–] shani66@ani.social 3 points 9 months ago

Capitalism ho!

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh shit! I loved Recettear! I think it'd be a perfect steam deck game but I highly doubt they'll do the work to make it functional

[–] GreenAlex@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

ProtonDB claims that it works with proton-ge. I may have to give it a try sometime soon. It was my 2nd game on Steam (after Terraria).