The Steam summer sale is an annual opportunity to add vast numbers to the teetering pile of games youāll get around to playing someday. With bonkers 90-percent-off deals, you can grab recent big-name games for under $5, all of which youāll definitely remember to load up someday. But itās not just the AAA blockbusters that are cheap right now; the sale also includes fantastic unknown indie games at far less risky prices.
Buying an unknown game, or one thatās barely had any reviews, is fraught. Of course, for such games, thatās a self-perpetuating problemāno giant buzz means no early sales, and no early sales fails to encourage others to take a chance. Fortunately, there are wonderful sites out there that root through the squillions of games to help you find the good stuff, like IndieGamesĀ and Alpha Beta Gamer, and YouTube channels like SplatterCatGaming. (And, if I may, my own Buried Treasure.) So thereās no better time than now to look through their recommendations, and then see if those games are cheaper in the Steam sale.
But, to make life even easier for you, Iāve gone back through some of my favorite hidden indie treasures of recent timesāgames that are completely brilliant but mostly unknownāto see which are discounted right now. Read on for a few suggestions of games you might otherwise entirely miss, now at even lower prices.
