5 new Steam favorites off the beaten path

Dear people, welcome to the weekend! Take off your robes, grab a grilled sausage and join us in indulging in the little-known gems on Steam, which have been extremely well received despite the small audience.

This time with an MMO without hostilities, a building game without full-screen mode and a crab with big ambitions. Have fun with our Steam insider tips for the weekend!

Table of contents:

1. Sky: Children of the Light
2. Nordic Ashes
3. Rusty's Retirement
4. Another Crab's Treasure
5. pools

Sky: Children of the Light

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Sky is an extremely unusual MMO – because it is peaceful

The MMO Sky: Children of the Light wants to get by without any fights. Instead of picking on each other, you should in a meaningful way Interact with each other as you explore an open world, complete quests and solve all sorts of puzzles.

The concept of Sky is very well received by those in the know on Steam. 84 percent Around 3,500 players voted positively. The early access game relies on a Free2Play model, so you can just take a look without any risk.

Nordic Ashes

There's a lot going on on screen in Nordic Ashes.

Hordes of Nordic horrors and your little Viking in the middle: Nordic Ashes relies on the action roguelite gameplay of a vampire survivor. So you have to defeat ever larger numbers of opponents by using increasingly powerful skills.

The mix of tapping and leveling is very popular with Steam users. Whole 87 percent around 4,000 reviewers voted positively.

Rusty's Retirement

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A farming sim directly on the desktop: This is how the Steam hit Rusty's Retirement works

Passionate procrastinators don't have it easy: After all, you always want to find new things to do for which you can put off work. A new option is called Rusty's Retirement and it conveniently runs in the bottom half of your screen.

At least this way you can pretend you're doing something incredibly important while all you're really doing is tending to your little farm and complaining that there aren't enough hours in the day. Steam users have their say 97 percent approval absolutely thrilled.

Another Crab's Treasure

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Another Crab's Treasure: The underwater souls-like sends you to the ocean floor in the trailer

Soulslikes also come in colorful and cute versions, as Another Crab's Treasure proves. As a hermit crab, you explore an underwater kingdom, chew nasty sea cucumbers and enjoy a charmingly absurd plot.

Your task: You have to find treasure in order to redeem your confiscated shell. With 93 percent Another Crab's Treasure is currently one of the absolute user favorites on Steam.

pools

Sometimes it doesn't take a monster to make us feel extremely uncomfortable.

Do so-called liminal spaces make you uncomfortable? So these often cold-tiled, always uncomfortable places that seem a bit like a waiting room between two dimensions. We mean swimming pools, subway shafts, David Lynch film sets.

The game Pools is dedicated to the phenomenon and lets you wander through abandoned, mysterious swimming pools. The mix of running simulation and psychological horror resonates 94 percent Much appreciated by Steam users.

It recently became clear on Steam that sometimes even the small names manage to achieve really big miracles. You can find out more about this in the article above.

Did we hit a direct hit with your recommendations this week? Which game do you really want to take a closer look at now? Feel free to write it to us in the comments!