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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All the repeat-idea devs are chasing down sorting inventory or finding a needle in a haystack, yet the big indie release this week is a femme-coded cozy game that's (shocking!) an original idea

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Trying to make a game that spreads on social media but not wildly enough that a dozen clones release before you can finish the game.

A screenshot from stream showing various unreleased games with the theme of finding a needle in a haystack

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm always looking for weird and interesting upcoming games. I hoard lists of things that catch my eye. Here's a set of upcoming indie titles that I think you should check out if you're burned out on bland walls of clones, remakes, vibe-made slop. (thread)

A collection of Steam capsule images for upcoming indie games

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I think this game is conceptually quite interesting in the same way Pico Park is. You're working with limited mobility in a cooperative environment where you need to rely on or coordinate with teammates to strategically solve problems as a group, mitigating your limitations by positioning for tasks

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Two games from Next Fest with the same core idea, implemented entirely differently 1. Keep It Up! store.steampowered.com/app/4374530/... Join your friends in a group of 3 to juggle a balloon through obstacle courses. Friendslop-coded with a nice, gentle descent to your balloon to set up shots.

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Keep It Up! on Steam

Keep It Up! is a co-op slapstick physics game about keeping a balloon from touching the ground. You and up to three Facility test subjects scramble through chaotic obstacle rooms while slapping, jumpi...

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 02/06/2026

Hey #GameDev folks, it's almost time for #SteamNextFest Summer and I want to play YOUR demos! I'm putting together our usual video coverage with @noclipvideo.bsky.social to highlight some of our favourites, so if you've got a demo in the event, feel free to reply HERE or E-MAIL me (check my bio)!

Steam Next Fest - June 15th - June 22nd @ 10 AM Pacific

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Ryan Langley 🎮 Game Designer @ryan.makesvideogames.com · 27/05/2026

My good mate Luke Muscat (Who made Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride) just launched the demo for Normal Golf Game on Steam. Looks very fun. store.steampowered.com/app/3510740/...

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Justcamh - Nonolith @justcamh.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

wowow world, the Nonolith demo is out now! A mysterious metroid-BRAIN-ia with hundreds of surprising 'aha' moments that will redefine what is and always has been possible. There are secrets everywhere, even this little demo has so much to discover!

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

SEO if fun because you'll come up with a name you think is distinct for users and then find out that the only way for people to find your game is to exclude the word that your name is close to. (Try the demo! It's a charming and deep open ended puzzle store.steampowered.com/app/3203340/...)

youtube search box with the words "nonolith -monolith" written

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I'm going to need y'all to check out some ✨Underrepresented Steam Games✨! Games struggle to find audiences on Steam. Try some new titles, pass suggestions around, and find something new that hasn't hit as many folks as Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II or Lego Batman

A collage of Steam capsule art including CD Rom, Feling Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery, Handmancers, Roadout, Mysteries of Old Tokyo, Mesmirch, Chart Weaver, Bandit Trap, and GladiEATers

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Let's see some of the reviews of these games that are often 90%-100% positive, but you likely haven't heard of them! What's up with that?!? bsky.app/profile/steg...

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

As a game developer there's always at least two ideas in your mental buffer fighting for attention. This is especially true if you haven't started coding either of them yet.

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Let's see what hidden gems there are to uncover with some ✨Underrepresented Steam Games✨. So many titles come out and amazing games are NOT getting the attention they need to thrive in the Steam ecosystem! Try some mystery titles and share the love to support these devs.

A collage of art from various steam games including Dosa Divas, Cascadou, LUCKROT, WizardWare, Gloamroot, Deckbane, and Snap & Grab

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

If you have any questions or comments about silksong for their forums... uhh... good luck with that

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ThirtyThree Games @thirtythreegames.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Rebounder is announced! Wishlist it on steam, or play the shareware version right now: reboundergame.com/shareware

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I wrote up a postmortem for Grapple Snacks, so now I get to apologize for being a guy who posts a screenshot of a text document because I wrote too much for a reasonable thread! 👅🍪

A large screenshot of a text document outlining the lessons of developing the game Grapple Snacks. Unfortunately too long to include the contents within alt text.

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Not a full game experience, but I did do a game jam last week so if you want a silly physics-y grappling hook psuedo-puzzler check out Grapple Snacks and give me some feedback! stegersaurus.itch.io/grapple-snacks

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Grapple Snacks by Stegersaurus

Your tongue is a grappling hook. Delicious!

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Indies over the past year have loved making Balatro-likes, Roguelikes connected to various gambling and parlour game systems, but with the upcoming release of Silksong indies are going to have to change their next "dream project" direction So I propose a new genre: Balatro-vanias

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I'm not at Gamescom but if you're showing something quirky and indie, or find out about something quirky and indie at the event I'd love to hear about it! I need the weird! Here's the trailer for Denshattack! to get the ball rolling www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1hN...

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Denshattack! - Announce Trailer

YouTube video by Gematsu

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

This is a link to Valve's current statement about PayPal availability in certain countries. Funnily enough AUD (australian dollars) are still an accessible currency, but this is all probably a mess of various regional rules intersecting w/ Steam content help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view...

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Steam Support :: Purchasing Issues

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I do underrepresented steam games both because I like seeing and sharing more obscure titles, but also because I think it keeps me grounded on how high a bar you need to hit to have financial success as a game developer today.

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Let's go through what's come out recently and have a new ✨Underrepresented Steam Games✨. These are Steam games recently released with less than 50 reviews that deserve some attention.

A collage of recent Steam Games with less than 50 reviews as of writing. These games include Rhythm Storm, Super 10 Pin, Black Pieces Move First, Y2Roll, Resonant Blade, and A Bottled Up Island

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Let's go through what's come out recently and have a new ✨Underrepresented Steam Games✨. These are Steam games recently released with less than 50 reviews that deserve some attention.

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

A good day for a new ✨Underrepresented Steam Games✨list! These are Steam games I've found recently with less than 50 reviews that deserve some attention.

A collage of recent Steam Games with less than 50 reviews as of writing. These games include Math Climber, Rogue Shapes, Ostrich Farm, Spritz the Happy Onion, Kickback: Shoot to Move , Roguematch: The Extraplanar Invasion, POGO Stadium, and Loophole

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Aesthetically I'd say Logic Bombs is the kind of game that, regardless of the gameplay, would struggle to get over 10 reviews if it wasn't made by Matthewmatosis. It's cool that it can succeed, but so many great games do not have a face to champion them. store.steampowered.com/app/3816700/

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Logic Bombs on Steam

Welcome to a realm of pure logic, where rules are rules and the next step can always be deduced.

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

A good day for a new ✨Underrepresented Steam Games✨list! These are Steam games I've found recently with less than 50 reviews that deserve some attention.

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/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Want something interesting to play this summer? An indie gem you may not have heard of? @jesseguarascia.com has you sorted with his latest roundup of games you should probably play. WATCH HERE: youtu.be/6ZVLKokfsgo

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5 Fantastic Indie Games Ideal for Summer 2025

YouTube video by Noclip Crew (for now)

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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Here's the July edition of Thinky Third Thursday, the monthly roundup of thinky puzzle games that have caught our eye: thinkythirdthursday.com/july-2025

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Thinky Third Thursday - July 2025

Monthly game recommendations from the puzzle experts at Draknek & Friends

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

So.... followup to say I'm stupid and @steamdb.info DOES have this feature I so desperately wanted. Under tags you can exclude games that have AI disclosures which is amazing for me and anyone. searching for niche titles!

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I ran across a game that was described as a "rule-discovery puzzle game" which is a phrase I just love. We have a lot of traditional structured puzzles but there's fun in figuring out the rules of a fictionalized world to take advantage of them without being tutorialized or aggressively breadcrumbed

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I've been using SteamDB to search for games recently because of their filtering options, but I'd LOVE if they added a filtering option to filter out games with AI disclosures. It would let me examine a lot more games since right now I'm filtering <10 review games because too many of them are AI slop

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Releases got a bit slow with Next Fest and the Summer Sale but I'm back with a ✨Underrepresented Steam Games✨ list today of games that have less than 50 reviews that deserve attention. Feel free to spread the list and share if you know someone who covers hidden gem games.

A collage of screenshots from underrepresented Steam games including Eyes on the Exam, Seafrog, Golf Gambit, BloodRush: Undying Wish, Overdrawn, Disaster Blaster, and Augmented Empire

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Riad Djemili @riad.de · 07/07/2025

As game dev I often wonder if my intuition about the Steam market matches reality. So I did a small game to test it: Guess how many reviews a random game has. You can now play it too on steamle.com

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Eyepatch Wolf @eyepatchwolf.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

looking for youtubers who cover weird and niche indie games. bonus points if they are a cool person

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

You know you’re at the hard part of your game’s development when you’re coming up with twenty new game ideas you’d rather be working on

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

A new @noodleawesome.bsky.social vid from his Instant Noodle account that is, of course, close to my heart. Not every game I present is necessarily a game I'd play, but what I share comes from an appreciation that I hope it will be SOMEONE's jam www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1lk...

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is it ok to enjoy slop?

YouTube video by Instant Noodle

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I'd missed out on @cabr0wn.bsky.social's channel. They cover underrated steam games! Love finding more people digging through niche Steam entries to find games that deserve more attention and audience! We need more games succeeding and that means they need ✨exposure✨ www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-OU...

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The Underrated Games Steam Isn't Showing You

YouTube video by C.A. Brown

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 27/06/2025

I'll be spamming up your Bluesky timelines with regular sales recommendations, but if you just want to BINGE on cool indie picks, check out my Steam Curator page below! If you want the real sicko's choices, either check out stuff like my Underdogs list, or just go to Discounts and scroll DEEP down.

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Steam Curator: Dominic Tarason's Opinionation Station

Info-tags aside (for listing stuff) this is 100% personal recommendations on games I've played. Expect a lot of weird, indie, undersold or otherwise mysterious stuff, plus the occasional mainstream fa...

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Let's try something ✨old✨ for this Steam Summer Sale. For years I've been making lists of ✨Underrepresented Steam Games✨ that didn't get much exposure when they released, and now some of them are on sale! Let's see if we can find some deals in the archives for this thread!

A grid of 18 Steam games that are on sale during the Steam Summer Sale, whose names and links to their store pages are in the thread of replies.

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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Daniel Stegersaurus @stegersaurus.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I can’t decide if my next game’s genre is friendslop or streamerslop. Ah, the nuances of genre

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