Among other things, the Steam secret tips are on Mars.
January 2025 again has a lot of surprises. In addition to the big blockbusters, some insider tips have also positioned themselves in the starting blocks – games that go down easily, but definitely deserve your attention.
We looked around on Steam and discovered 10 titles for you, who convince with their unique game mechanics, their atmosphere and simply with their charm – and guarantees you forgot the cold winter.
Beyond Citadel
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If Duke Nukem meets anime, the shooter Beyond Citadel comes out
- Genre: Action / Shooter
- Developer: Doekuramori
- Release: January 2, 2025
- Platforms: PC (Steam)
- Steam classification: 96 % positive (1,477 reviews)
- Europe translation: No
Inspired by the classic ego shooters of the 90s, Beyond Citadel not only provides you with a decent touch of nostalgia, but also extremely bloody action. You fight through a dark, mechanized fortress, in which tons of weapons-from black-powdered old school shooting iron to futuristic energy beams-are used.
My Summer Car
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Drinking, grilling, chilling with grandma: In my Summer car, cars almost only play a supporting role
- Genre: Simulation / Survival
- Developer/publisher: Amistech Games
- Release: January 8, 2025
- Platform: PC (Steam)
- Steam rating: 91 % positive (79,575 ratings)
- Europe translation: No
My Summer Car has been considered an infamous hardcore-car-SIM since his early access, in which she builds, maintains and improves your own mobile unique-the Satsuma AMP in the late 90s. In addition to the meticulous screws, you also have to master your survival in the chaotic open world by manage hunger, (beer) thirst, tiredness and other needs.
The Inn-Sanity
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The Inn-Sanity: The Hotel, in which even Stephen King would not check in
- Genre: Adventure / Horror
- Developer/publisher: Steppe Hare Studio
- Release: January 9, 2025
- Platforms: PC (Steam)
- Steam classification: 97 % positive (622 reviews)
- Europe translation: No
In The Inn-Sanity you enter a luxurious hotel that was originally only to serve as a shelter for one night-but soon this apparently secure refuge will become a terrible nightmare.
While you are lingering in the hotel, the city turns all around into a dark kingdom of deformed monsters, and the other guests in the hotel also become creepy figures. In this desperate end -time atmosphere, you not only have to find out who you can still trust in the middle of all of the chaos, but also preserve your own humanity.
CRUEL
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The shooter cruel sends you with shotgun and chainsaw on cultic hunting
- Genre: Shooter
- Developer/publisher: James Dornan
- Release: January 9, 2025
- Platforms: PC (Steam)
- Steam classification: 95 % positive (665 reviews)
- Europe translation: No
Cruel is a rapid ego shooter in which you fight for survival in a nightmare hotel. Your ten constantly changing levels full of enemies crosses, collects upgrades and unleashes devastating attacks with shotgun, chainsaw and Co. A pulsating electric soundtrack is relentless.
Threefold Recital
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Puzzles, conspiracies and animal heroes: ThreeFold Recital wants to convince in the trailer story fans
- Genre: Adventure
- Developer: Everscape Games
- Release: January 13, 2025
- Platforms: PC (Steam)
- Steam classification: 99 % positive (370 reviews)
- Europe translation: No
With ThreeFold Recital, you immerse yourself in an oriental fantasy world, in which the pulsating metropolis of bluescales falls into turbulent times after a long golden era. Magic, modern technology and ancient miracles mix into a fascinating melting pot, in which the boundaries between humans, animals and mythical dragons are increasingly blurred.
A subliminal crisis is bubbling under the surface, which can only be averted by three extraordinary heroes, the unique skills of which you have to master in order to turn the fate of the metropolis to the good.
The Roottrees are Dead
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Detective work and internet nostalgia: The RootTrees Are Dead demands your senses
- Genre: Detective Adventure
- Developer: Robin Ward
- Release: January 15, 2025
- Platforms: PC (Steam)
- Steam classification: 97 % positive (897 reviews)
- Europe translation: No
In The RootTrees Are Dead you take on the role of an idiosyncratic detective who, with the help of his old-fashioned dial-up modem, rummages in the depths of the early Internet. Your mission: to struggle the mysterious family network of the notorious Roottree Corporation.
In a crashed private jet, the RootTree sisters and their parents-once billionaires-left their last secret. Now you have to find out from photos, articles and old documents who is actually blood -related and who only a swindler who has crept into the family.
ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist
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Ender Magnolia: Metroidvania shows in the trailer how Ori fans want to enchant it
- Genre: Metroidvania
- Developer: Adglobe, Live Wire
- Release: January 22, 2025
- Platforms: PC (Steam)
- Steam classification: 95 % positive (8,375 reviews)
- Europe translation: Yes (surface, texts)
In this atmospheric metroidvania you slip into the role of Lilac, a powerful Atturner
that holds the fate of the last surviving people in their hands.
On your way through abandoned laboratories, ancient factories and mysterious academies, your precise combat moves combines with magical elements-the combat system has already made its predecessor Ender Lilies an indie hit.
FlyKnight
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In Flyknight you go to witch hunt as a fly in knight armor
- Genre: Dungeon Crawler
- Developer: Wabbaboy
- Release: 31 January 2025
- Platforms: PC (Steam)
- Steam classification: 97 % positive (1,640 reviews)
- Europe translation: No
In Flyknight you will experience an old school dungeon crawling adventure from a first person perspective. As the prospective knight of the legendary fly knights, she faces the task of defeating the dark witch Lunamoth and breaking her curse – a spell that denies the residents of the empire to fly.
Exploring labyrinth -like dungeons, tactically demanding fighting and collecting a variety of weapons and equipment in order to be able to offer the forehead and stronger opponents – optionally also in the online coop with up to three friends.
And if you need a breather in between, you can recover at special fishing places to get Buffs that give you the decisive advantage in the next battle.
SCP: Fragmented Minds
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Film reveric horror in the SCP universe: In fragmented minds you fight for survival on Mars
- Genre: Survival Horror
- Developer: Foundation Games
- Release: January 27, 2025
- Platforms: PC (Steam)
- Steam classification: 93 % positive (423 reviews)
- Europe translation: No
SCP: fragmented minds takes you into the popular sci-fi horror universe of the SCP Foundation-a place where anomalies and inexplicable creatures determine everyday life.
In this film-ready survival horror game, you slip into the role of an employee of the foundation, who, after a catastrophe on earth, has to fight through the labyrinth-like corridors of a mysterious Mars facility. It is important to collect hidden clues, decipher puzzling security protocols and uncover the origin of the threatening anomalies.
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
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Citizen Sleeper 2: The successor to the cyberpunk role-playing game reveals his release date
- Genre: Role -playing game
- Developer: Jump Over The Age
- Release: 31 January 2025
- Platforms: PC (Steam)
- Steam classification: 94 % positive (350 reviews)
- Europe translation: No
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector takes you back into the fascinating universe of Citizen Sleeper, but with a fresh, interstellar twist.
As an escaped Android, which is in a faulty body and has to face a dark past, you navigate through the infamous Starward Belt
– An accumulation of dilapidated room stations in an asteroid field full of secrets.
Driven by a dice-based RPG system, it is important to upgrade your outdated ship, put together a colorful crew and complete risky contracts in order to take your fate into your own hands. Every litter of the cubes can decide on victory or defeat and demands tactical skill and clever resource use.
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