bd99d8 No.14182864
It seems like there's a lot if you're willing to sift through the garbage pile. I don't want to buy anything from Valve or give them money, but I do want to give these fags money in some way if they've made a good product. For now I suppose I'm just looking to pirate
Are there any that you've found that were worth your time? Be they shmups, JRPGs, VNs (I expect a lot of them), Bullet Hells, or something else entirely. It'd be nice to know everything worthwhile on this shitheap of a platform.
since GoG's (and other storefronts) jap selection is far from the best it might be worth asking them to sell games that were only exclusive to Steam on their platforms. What do you think?
I don't know how "obscure" it would have to be to count but here's an example of the types of shit I'm looking for
http://store.steampowered.com/app/450950/Danmaku_Unlimited_3/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/537110/Angels_of_Death/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/440540/Ara_Fell/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/441280/Pharaoh_Rebirth/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/283820/KAMUI/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/550080/VALKYRIE_DRIVE_BHIKKHUNI/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/524850/Alicemare/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/680320/The_Heiress/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/370460/Arcana_Heart_3_LOVE_MAX/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/323450/Alphadia_Genesis/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/445430/Seinarukana_The_Spirit_of_Eternity_Sword_2/
Some of these you can argue aren't really "obscure" but hearing about them vs the amount of people who've actually played them and can say whether they're good or bad are two entirely different things
There were some on this list I had to delete because I did find them on GoG like crimzon and astebreed, but I'd still never really heard of them
076dc5 No.14182879
bd99d8 No.14182907
I guess I'll just post more as I find them and
'nother shmup
http://store.steampowered.com/app/407380/Strania__The_Stella_Machina/
some of the webMs for the ones in OP because they couldn't fit, filesize limit and all
c59a5c No.14182908
>Ask GoG to put more japanese games
>"n-no those are too niche!"
>GoG ends up to being subpar Steam
Thanks for nothing Poland.
bd99d8 No.14182922
>>14182879
I could guess what its about but what do you do in it?
>>14182908
They're getting better slowly, but you're right. Its pretty fucking annoying.
>>14182907
didn't mean to repost that one, embarrassing
076dc5 No.14182943
>>14182922
>what do you do in it?
Raise your adopted daughteru from age 10 to 18 and see what career she ends up in.
bd99d8 No.14182948
http://store.steampowered.com/app/448160/WOLFLAME/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/349690/ARMED_SEVEN/
there sure are a fuckton of shmups on Steam
http://store.steampowered.com/app/636960/Wo_Yao_Da/
This one is just fucking weird, but it looks like it might be fun
>>14182943
Sounds pretty cute and comfy anon, got any caps of how your daughteru turned out?
bd99d8 No.14183110
http://store.steampowered.com/app/250660/Bunny_Must_Die_Chelsea_and_the_7_Devils/
Interesting looking metroidvania but the concept art is a bit weird
http://store.steampowered.com/app/389870/Mugen_Souls/
>Idea factory
Ehh…
http://store.steampowered.com/app/316840/The_Sacred_Tears_TRUE/
I think that's all I'll post for now
Really any obscure nip games would be nice, doesn't even have to be from Steam if that's too restrictive but I'd like to get these away from this cancerous storefront
bd99d8 No.14183144
some of the webMs were too big, rip
a0517a No.14183153
>>14182983
I kinda found that game annoying, but not as much as "Long Live the Queen"
My daughterfu grew up to be a warrior Queen
40438b No.14183413
>>14183153
>long live the queen
>annoying
You're pathetic. I played that game nonstop for an entire day trying to max it out and beat that fucking faggot from overseas, eventually, I destroyed him with the magic shit but everyone was scared of me
076dc5 No.14183419
>>14183413
LLtQ sucks because it's not actually a sim, it's just masquerading as one. It's completely trial and error.
40438b No.14183428
>>14183419
Yeah, it is. I found it quite fun though.
076dc5 No.14183462
>>14183444
You think you'd get the point that cuckchanners are not welcome here by now.
23c965 No.14183485
>>14183462
>imblying cuckchanners are capable of reason
dcc14d No.14183577
>>14183110
Mugen Souls was butchered by NISA. Remember to never post anything handled by NISA.
bd99d8 No.14183602
>>14183577
Ah, didn't notice that, good catch anon. Thank you
272470 No.14183613
I'm a degenerate weeb who went off the deep end years ago and even I don't recognise most of the crap that ends up on Steam.
Steam is for ironic weebs and learning the difference can save your life.
62ac54 No.14183760
Some of them are not obscure but since they haven't been mentioned :
-Fortune Summoners (2D Action-platformer)
-One way Heroics (the only rogue-lite I've liked besides FTL)
-Gurumin (3D Action-platformer)
-Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon (2D platformer with kirby-like gimmick. The last worlds get batshit insane in terms of difficulty)
-Rabi-Ribi (Metroid-like with emphasis on combat/bosses. I think it's by chinks, not nips, but very good regardless)
-Fairy Bloom Freesia (Beat-them-all)
-Phantom Breaker Battlegrounds (Beat-them-all. It's a spinoff of a versus fighting game and has more fighting game mechanics than your average beat-them-all)
-Ether Vapor Remaster (Shoot-them-up)
-Trapper Knight Sharpshooter Princess (TRPG heavily inspired by Fire Emblem, but with level design and balance that blows anything IntSys made in the last decade out of the water)
-War of the Human Tanks (Semi-realtime TRPG. Very interesting battle system, but the barebones aesthetics and somewhat long cutscenes can be a turnoff for some)
-Bunny Must Die (Since you mentioned it in >>14183110, I very much recommend it, it's an excellent metroid-like, but the rather unorthodox controls can be bothersome)
9f6f5d No.14183789
>>14183613
Because most of these are doujin titles, the type of stuff you'd encounter at Comiket, not actual published releases.
b697b2 No.14183835
>>14183613
Wow anon, you really showed all those weeb poseurs.
e6a690 No.14183903
>>14183760
>having such good taste
My nigga.
Gurumin is a Falcom game, right? Its weird that I've seen it get so little attention and discussion when its likely good as hell.
>
Trapper Knight Sharpshooter Princess (TRPG heavily inspired by Fire Emblem, but with level design and balance that blows anything IntSys made in the last decade out of the water)
Is there any Fire Emblem game you could compare it to in terms of quality? It sounds like it'd be fun. Do the characters and story hold up and is there permadeath?
>War of the Human Tanks (Semi-realtime TRPG. Very interesting battle system, but the barebones aesthetics and somewhat long cutscenes can be a turnoff for some)
Sounds sort of like Valkyria Chronicles, or am I completely off the mark?
>One way Heroics (the only rogue-lite I've liked besides FTL)
Care to explain why? It sounds like it might be worth checking out for me.
076dc5 No.14183918
>>14183903
>Sounds sort of like Valkyria Chronicles
No, it is like real time minesweeper.
deb4bf No.14184396
>>14183903
Not really, the game's a 2D grid of squares where you don't know what's in most of them but there's enemy tanks somewhere, so you have to work a lot with supressive fire, radars, educated guesses based on where the enemy last shot at, and (hopefully) disposable scouts. Similarily you don't want to leave units in enemy vision range because they'll most likely just get shot. Has ATB system that ticks in real time, and you can order units to take a turn as soon as their gauge fills up or hold their action indefinitely. More like Battleship if anything, but with more suicide bombers. Pretty fun but with somewhat limited replay value. Has a funky OST.
076dc5 No.14184429
>>14184396
>Battleship
Oh yeah that's what I meant, not Minesweeper.
94e52b No.14185501
>>14183760
>-War of the Human Tanks (Semi-realtime TRPG. Very interesting battle system, but the barebones aesthetics and somewhat long cutscenes can be a turnoff for some)
The first one bad part of the game for me is how it starts by playing like battleship with fog of war and ends up playing like battleship where you can see everything and have a nuclear arsenal ready.
The first one also has some grinding if you want to play all the content, AlteR fixes a few issues with the gameplay by escalating the arms race even further but the endgame ends up being monotone too but for different reasons although it does have a few good battle you actually have to think about along the way, also basically no grind if you're smart about it.
9de832 No.14185570
playism-games.com
nyumedia.com
dlsite.com/eng/
58ca64 No.14185600
>>14183760
>Fortune Summoners
Was that the one Carpe Fulgar censored, or am I thinking of some other game they brought over?
076dc5 No.14185603
>>14185600
That's the one.
58ca64 No.14185674
>>14185667
Might sound a bit dumb, but has there been any attempt to rip and port the English script for the 3rd to the PSP version that wasn't cleared for the west? Just something I've been a bit curious about.
479286 No.14185693
>>14185674
No idea. I'm only just starting chapter two in SC as it is. The anons in the nihon-falcom thread could probably tell you though
58ca64 No.14185712
>>14185693
Think I've asked before and gotten no answer. I would assume the "implied" answer is to just play the Steam version. Considering that at least both FC and SC PSP saw undub patches ported over, it's made me wonder if there's been enough interest in the western Falcom fanbase to do the alternate (as 3rd PSP wouldn't need to be undubbed with the audio natively Japanese), or if maybe because it's not a "main entry" (being that I've heard it's mostly extras to the main plot) there hasn't been interest.
e6a690 No.14185743
>>14185667
I suppose you can argue it as obscure, though it exists on GoG already.
They have all Falcom games there
479286 No.14185774
>>14185743
>I suppose you can argue it as obscure
eh it's relatively obscure. Trails in the Sky has been gaining some real recognition over the past few years, but it's not a mainstream RPG series by any means like Final Fantasy, SMT, Persona, etc.
>>14185712
> it's made me wonder if there's been enough interest in the western Falcom fanbase to do the alternate
eh i suppose there hasn't been. I don't exactly see people pining for it in the first place.
270eb0 No.14185780
>>14183164
>that art
You mother fucker, why did you post that? My eyes are bleeding.
62ac54 No.14186373
>>14183903
>Is there any Fire Emblem game you could compare it to in terms of quality? It sounds like it'd be fun. Do the characters and story hold up and is there permadeath?
9 and 10. There are several mechanics that word exactly like them and the overall feel of the game is really reminiscent of these two. If you are a little bit experienced with the genre, I recommend starting on hard mode. I did so and had a blast all the way, the game does not play nice in the slightest and really encourages you to use every tool at your disposal (i.e. the eponymous "trap" gimmick, helping you control and earn time against overpowered enemies).
There isn't exactly permadeath, but a dead unit will be unable to be drafted for the next map, which can have severe consequences considering most maps in the game allow you to draft your whole army.
The story and characters are… not the best part of the game let's say. They get the job done, it's cute but that's about it. still better than awakening and fates
There is a path of radiance-like support system as well.
62ac54 No.14186383
>>14183903
>Care to explain why? It sounds like it might be worth checking out for me.
I forgot to respond to this, basically it's Shiren/Mystery Dungeon gameplay with a long sidescrolling, randomly-generated map. I compared it to FTL because there is an important part of resource management and deciding to be greedy or not will have a big impact for the rest of your run. It's also dirt cheap (2$ IIRC?) so I really recommend trying it out and see if that's your thing.
863210 No.14186925
>>14183760
>Trapper Knight Sharpshooter Princess
This game sounds great. I'll jus-
>Sekai Project
I'll play it anon. But I can't support Sekai Project. They're pretty damn bad.
fbd8e2 No.14187111
>>14182864
>Obscure nip games
More than half of what you posted is western RPGMaker trash.
62ac54 No.14187233
5b4ec6 No.14187262
>Arcana Heart 3
One of the best fighters I've played with a great variety of unique characters and mechanics combined with a great deal of customization to support many playstyles. The cast of cute girls does push people away though.
a37a2c No.14187721
>>14187262
I found Nitro+ Blasterz much better. Heart is in the game but she's shit.
5a3047 No.14188242
>>14182975
Steam has so many games on it that it's very easy for many of them to become obscure.
23c965 No.14188351
>>14187262
>push people away
I think you mean normalfags, anon
076dc5 No.14188481
>>14188351
>normalfags
>people
863210 No.14188763
I would add Trouble Witches Origin and Gundemonium.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/460630/Trouble_Witches_Origin__Episode1_Daughters_of_Amalgam/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/92200/Gundemonium_Recollection/
Both of these games are horizontal shmup games which share a few mechanics. TWO has you constantly buying power ups from a store to destroy waves of enemies while using your barrier to slow down bullets. Killing the enemy when bullets are on the screen will score you a ton of money. Killing enemies with powers you purchased nets you a ton of points assuming many bullets are on the screen. The catch is that purchasing the same power-up increases the price every time. If you're not careful, this can really screw you over in the final stages where you really need some of the more useful power-ups. Power-ups also have a timer instead of ammo. So waiting to slow down many bullets can actually cause you to get less points if you mismanage your power-up. It's pretty good and worth a pirate. It recently came out with more characters too. I believe there's 9 total.
Gundemonium is pretty great. The stages are full of phases that can change on the fly. If you've ever played God Hand, then it's similar to that. Graze bullets to full your meter faster to use your powerful sub weapons more which kills more enemies which upgrades the difficulty. Bombs lower the difficulty but there are many types of them. Instead of choosing a ship, you choose your powers that you can mix and match to make something to the playstyle you want. Each power also increases/decreases your weight. You need to be careful on doing so well though. Increasing the difficulty for a boss during the fight could case a move that doesn't home in on you to suddenly start aiming toward you with the next volley of fire. It's dirt cheap now.
>>14187233
I'll pirate and see if it's worth a buy. I don't mind supporting doujin devs. I recently got Rock Maiden 3 and can't get past the title screen.
>>14187721
>Heart is shit
No way man. She has plenty of great tools. The triple homing love balls, piercing laser, heartful kick, and homing that makes it so no one can run away from her and she can easily play aggressive. She can easily put people in the corner and has decent mixup options to boot. If anything, I think Muramasa has some terrible match ups in this game. Especially against Ein who shuts down her web attacks with uzi sprays.
>>14188351
I don't think AH has the best character designs but they're not bad at all. Normalfags will see "moeshit" and walk away. It also doesn't help that the game is pretty damn complex compared to many fighters. Especially modern ones which are simplifying everything.
>>14188613
Kirino a shit.
076dc5 No.14188802
>>14188763
Kuroneko a shit
5a3047 No.14188819
So is there any good site for doujin games and other smaller Japanese games?
>>14188802
>>14188763
Ironic weebs please go.
076dc5 No.14188954
>>14188933
>1 dimensional cocksleeves
Take that back.
5a3047 No.14188965
>>14188933
Yes, characters must all be "one dimensional" if they don't have some edgy backstory involving rape or some shit.
cd4c28 No.14188970
>>14188954
>>14188965
>Oreimo niggers
Go watch Eromanga sensei you queers
076dc5 No.14188987
>>14188970
>implying I haven't
posting best girl
5a3047 No.14188988
>>14188970
I have watched it. What about it?
5a3047 No.14189002
>>14188996
What the fuck are you trying to say?
d8b58b No.14190281
>>14188965
>>14188970
both oreimo and eromanga were absolute trash
076dc5 No.14190981
>>14190281
Why do you hate fun anon?
cd4c28 No.14192282
>>14190981
>Eating shit is fun
No, only good thing thing about those is the porn that's made
863210 No.14192939
>Pick hard mode as I'm pretty good at these type of games
>2nd map in the tutorial
>Holy fuck that's a ton of units
>Set up choke point with bear traps and recruit the titty monster mage
>Have a tough battle in said choke point and MC dies and one character is low on health. With this I should be able to finish the map.
>Enemies are not moving so that must mean an event is about to trigger if I go past something. Move one unit up slightly and send another back down alone to heal
>"There are ruffians approaching. You two handle this. I'm going inside.
ENEMY REINFORCEMENTS HAVE APPEARED
>The guy alone gets gangbanged. I send everyone south to meet the enemies down there and save my guy.
>Men from the north are coming down south too. I'm surrounded. Mage dies and I lose.
Pretty good so far. I like how weapons have low durability but recharges every stage. They brought back the shove mechanic too. And now there's a guard command which is really damn helpful.
dee94f No.14193159
>>14188242
the platform is such that anything that ends up there stops being obscure by default,it's like claiming to be an underground indie rock band when you're signed with a label like Universal or Warner
863210 No.14193486
>>14193159
Even then, who knows about most of these games unless presented to them? Barely anyone even knows about some of the games in this thread. It doesn't need to be a JP only Comiket game to be obscure.
1d8993 No.14193502
>>14185603
>implying that post isn't right
e5d35e No.14193539
this was the newest PC game I bought on Steam, as the platform has nothing to interest me outside of comiket releases and other releases from circles. Anything with my daughteru Cotton in it I'd like to check out and was happy to have such a positive experience with this game. I quite liked the shop/cash mechanic where you stop firing to absorb money. You're constantly using new powers for tough situations and it's a lot of fun timing those careful dodges and shots to break a chain of enemy fire. It's not very hard but it's worth playing if you want a fun, easy STG.
cf473a No.14193829
> Zwei released
>Still no dual audio
Thanks Xseed good job. At least they made it easy to put in and its an old game so the contracts are likely FUBAR.
cf473a No.14193855
>>14185603
Goddammit Burgers and Muslims. Normal cultures are naked in a hotspring or public bath.
>BUT ITS HOMO IF ANOTHER BOY SEES MY PENIS
I hate migration.
dcc14d No.14193873
>>14193829
>muh dual audio
Fuck off faggot.
cf473a No.14193874
>>14187111
>More than half of what you posted is western RPGMaker trash
Implying the Steam audience can tell the difference. I don't even understand why anyone would buy JPN games or VNs off Steam.
5f1a8f No.14194154
>>14187111
>western
but that's not true at all, did you even look at the developer pages?
I think maybe 1 or 2 of them might've been western at most
cd4c28 No.14194169
>>14194154
>did you even look at the developer pages?
>Implying
5a3047 No.14194702
>>14190281
Well meme'd. You are very good at repeating what you are told.
>>14193159
So how many people know of Miko Gakkou Monogatari Kaede Episode? I have never seen anyone mention it anywhere and it has 5 user reviews.
076dc5 No.14194714
>>14193159
That may be the case 5 years ago, but these days anyone can put stuff on Steam.
863210 No.14194834
>>14194169
>>14194154
Looks like he was a (1) and done.
>>14194702
>Well meme'd. You are very good at repeating what you are told.
Honestly what makes Oriemo good? I've only read the manga but I don't remember myself particularly caring about it. It was very average. Most of the problem they discussed over otakus comes down to "Of course people who watch anime and play video games aren't fucking serial killers you stupid fuck. That's like thinking because an accountant gassed a station, that means everyone who is an accountant must be like them. People knows the news exaggerates shit for views and otakus were just the latest craze so they were to blame. You would have to be a retard to dump a good friend over such petty shit that doesn't even effect how you two converse." And they kind of handwaved the whole "incest" thing by it not being blood related so it's not even a problem if they fucked.
Never seen Eromanga but I heard it was essentially another take at Oriemo with a few differences here and there. So I can't judge it. That aside, Kuroneko and Saori are best girls. Ayese is normalfag trash.
076dc5 No.14194911
>>14194834
>And they kind of handwaved the whole "incest" thing by it not being blood related so it's not even a problem if they fucked.
Kirino and Kyousuke are blood related.
5a3047 No.14194927
>>14194834
>It was very average.
The claim was that both are "absolute trash."
>Never seen Eromanga but I heard it was essentially another take at Oriemo with a few differences here and there.
It is its own story.
>Ayese is normalfag trash.
You think Oreimo is a normalfag series? Really?
863210 No.14195462
>>14194911
I thought it was discovered that she was adopted at an early age.
>>14194927
>You think Oreimo is a normalfag series? Really?
No. It's Ayese who's the normalfag. Not that she's for normalfags. Breaking a good friendship because someone is into eroges and a part of anime otaku culture is retarded. Kirino didn't tell her about that side of her because she thought she would over react. Which she did.
cd4c28 No.14200664
bd4f3d No.14200674
this is my fate. shoul've worked harder
8407b6 No.14201085
>>14187262
AH3 is the pinnacle of Anime fighting mechanics at the moment. There's so many options for any given scenario it's pretty mind blowing. The game rewards every element of fighting game play. It's impressive I can think so highly of a game where a character has a 1frame active low command normal that knocks down and can be mashed during blockstrings (4C)
863210 No.14201123
>>14201085
Makes me wonder how the game will change when the balance patch releases along with the new character. And what in the world will the new Parace arcana do? Maybe you get 4 elements but you permanently have punishment style glass cannon damage received modifier.
238d05 No.14201364
>>14185603
There is a patch to fix that, for people that don't want the girls to be dumb using towels inside the bath.
118287 No.14201567
>>14193486
I have heard of almost all of them and even own physical copies of some of them. Just because the majority of /v/ consists of casuals who have to be spoonfed video games doesn't mean all of us are.
2a99c1 No.14201580
>>14182864
Why do you dislike Valve?