The niche and obscure games thread

[Rubbereon]

I remember watching a streamer who played a game where you climbed a tower (No, it's not Jump King), the dude decided to exclude the game's name from the stream so I had now ay to learn what it was and I still ponder about it all this time later. Also I remember seeing a video post on bluesky making fun of a dork by using his post as a copypasta for a boss fight in their own game. I have not heard from them since.

I'm hoping by making this thread I'm learning of games I have never heard of ever.

Rules:
1. No recent games, recent games still get somewhat promoted by platforms and oftentimes their own developers/creators too, so there's a very good chance you and I'll still encounter them by mere luck.
2. No game jam games. These are glorified prototypes and not full experiences like released games. Exception is made if the game jam game has a release version, example: Sacrifices must be made > Inscryption
3. Obviously, no games that range from somewhat popular to very popular, if you can easily get videos about it recommended to you it's disqualified. I'm not going off raw steam numbers (although that can be useful), but I'm going off by how likely I am gonna hear about the game anywhere, be it steam itself, youtube, twitch or anywhere else.

Note: It doesnt matter if it's AAA or indie, all that matters is that it's so rare I barely if ever heard anything about it online. If it's an edge case because it has an active fanbase, that's fine just bring it on anyway, just don't name any games that are renowned even if they lost their initial popularity.

I'LL START!

Ninjin: Clash of Carrots (On sale 90% off until October 19th btw)
Peppered
Crosscode
Cat Alley (This is a very old game for PC), and they remade it.
Knytt Stories

[ThunderPerfectWitchcraft]

Judero is a great game about a person who searches for a way to the glass mountain. It is a parable on life, and realized with claymation and a smashing OST.

The Sea will claim everything is a whimsical point and click adventure. Every mushroom has an individual text. It was written by the guy responsible for the lore of the Serious Sam games - this was rather surprising for me, as I hadn't booked them as story intense; and the story of The Sea will claim everything is damn great. I also recently played "The Strange and Somewhat
Sinister Tale of the House at Desert Bridge", and it is also great - you get it bundled when you get the Sea will claim Everything, among with many other games of the series. They are among my favorite games of all time.

Hyper Rogue is one of the games I had the most fun with since reaching adulthood. It is a somewhat strange rogue like, where euclidean logic is disbanded. You start in a icy world, but your way might carry you through swamps, Lagoons where pirates rob each others treasures, alchemist towers, and so on. A good run is a strange, little story.

I wrote blog posts about Messages from the Universal Graveyard and Agentia. Both games are ingenious.

And, no niche and obscure game post from me without mentioning Siege!:

I still have a copy on my drive, in case anybody needs one :D