With dozens of games released on Steam every day, it's nearly impossible to keep track of all the releases to find hidden gems. PC Gamer Portal make up A collection of five worthwhile games you might have missed.
Roadside research
Roadside Research is a co-op game in which four players work at a gas station. They will need to arrange goods on store shelves, refuel customers' cars and prepare food… But there is a nuance: all gas station employees are secretly aliens, and at the same time they need to collect information about humanity without revealing themselves.
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Polyarmory: Love of a high caliber
According to the developers themselves, Polyarmory is “the world's only dating simulator for conspiracy theorists and gun enthusiasts.” On top of that, it's also a first-person shooter where you need to fend off waves of enemies while building relationships with humanoid weapons.
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Prison: Fletcher's Quest
A small, short metroidvania that could easily be overlooked if you weren't paying attention to the developer's portfolio: studio Elden Pixels previously released the excellent pixel adventures Alwa's Legacy and Alwa's Awakening. But The Prisoning tells a more realistic story: a game developer, exhausted by deadlines, finds himself trapped in a maze of his own mind, and only the player can help him find the path to freedom.
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BrebeMan
A rhythm game about a superhero and a DJ, which will especially appeal to fans of breakbeat music. BrebeMan also introduces elements of on-rails shooters into the gameplay: the player needs to attack opponents with plates, while also using them to block enemy attacks. And each hit gradually accumulates bits – and the hit will destroy all enemies.
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The darkness of the afterlife
Shadows of the Afterland is a 1990s-inspired point-and-click adventure set in 1960s Madrid and its otherworldly version. During an accident at the zoo, the soul of the deceased is no longer in the afterlife but in the memory of a Madrid police officer… Who at the time was not even born.
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