5 new Steam hits you can easily overlook

Here we are again, and so are you! Nice. So, you're not here for empty phrases, but rather for hand-picked, connoisseur-celebrated, ice-cold Steam insider tips of the very best. And you should get that too.

This time with a real role-playing highlight, futuristic factory construction in ancient China and a completely free audience favorite. Have fun with our Steam hits for the weekend!

Maybe you can also identify with Peter, who recently had to dust off his Steam account:

Quick to the game (table of contents):

1. Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
2. River City Factory
3. Sheepy: A Short Adventure
4. SpellRogue
5. Nidus

Banishers

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Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a real highlight for fantasy fans

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden barely slips into our list of insider tips on Steam. But it's fitting, because despite high-quality production, the new story adventure from Don't Nod only reaches 3,700 simultaneously active Steam players.

They are mostly happy for it. Well over 1,000 reviewers gave 86 percent a thumbs up. What is it about? Watch the video above or read our famous review of Banishers:

River City Factory

Okay, which one of you used the automatic translator for the game title? No matter, at least it describes pretty well what the game is about. You build a factory. In a city. On a river. It's also very lovingly designed and, not unimportantly, popular with players on Steam.

Stupid jokes aside: River Town Factory, as the game is called in English, was originally released with a Chinese title. What's the matter? You travel back in time to ancient China, build an automated factory and advance future technology. Later you build computers, use solar energy and even teleportation technology. So it's pretty crazy.

Sheepy

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People absolutely love Sheepy, a free game on Steam

Don't let the fluffy fur scare you, Sheepy: A Short Adventure sends users into real storms of celebration. 99 percent approval on Steam speaks for itself. The short 2D platformer is also completely free.

As Sheepy you cross a lost world. The soft, woolly creature is not a real sheep at all, but a discarded stuffed animal. That poor. Luckily, as you progress through the game you will gain special abilities that you can use to take on even dangerous bosses.

SpellRogue

Ah, a roguelike deck builder – one of those games that shares the genre with Slay the Spire and most recently Balatro. This also includes SpellRogue. In short: You fight against enemies on a turn-based basis and use cards and dice for attack, defense and special abilities.

In this way you progress further and further until you eventually die or win the game against ever stronger opponents. As is usual in roguelikes, deaths always bring you some form of progress, which means you have a better chance of starting a new run.

Nidus

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Nidus looks almost too crazy for our eyes

Very psychedelic look, almost too flashy, but worth a look: it comes without the consumption of illegal substances Nidus out of. In the style of a twin-stick shooter, you navigate a symbiotic wasp-flower pair through spheres that are slightly reminiscent of the art of the 60s. You know: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.