Surprisingly awesome games?

Ascension to the throne. I thought it would be a cheap under budget game from the start of the game, but it turned out to be a cool game. The turned based fights with the ability to recruit several different unit types was great. It was done kind of like that in the Playstation 2 heroes of might and magic game, so if you liked that, then this has a similar style.

awesomenauts ^^

Orion: Dino Horde, and fat bottomed girls.

Metro 2033.

Botanicula, Zen Bound 2, Cargo Commander, Shoot Many Robots, Pinball FX2, Pid, Madballs.....lots of games are like that...

theres a shitload of games that generally people have a low opinion of them, without even playing them, or because of the metacritic score, and they got it all wrong because theyre badass...

don't know about years, but Ultratron is epic!

Spec Ops: The Line, Awesomenauts, Primal Carnge (for some reason I can't stop my self from playing it once I launch it), Fortix!!!

Just Cause 2. I even went ahead and said it was pretty average after playing about an hour. It drew me in afterwards, so I got an extra copy and gave it away as atonement.

mass effect games, one steam friend told me to play them but i was sceptic because i am not that fan of space games. Now they're my favorites.

I liked a lot also bioshock & metro 2033.

The Arma series.

Get DICE to do the animations and voice work, and dear God, we could have a FPS masterpiece on our hands.

Vessel.
It looked like just another platform game with a few puzzles thrown in, but it's actually an awesome puzzle game with unique puzzles I had not seen in other games .. with some platforming thrown in.

Staying with the deads :

dead pixels ! very strategic and arcade at the same time ^ ^

• Little Inferno
• Multiwinia
• Super Hexagon
• Okamiden
• Sonic Rush

Psychonauts, Vessel

King's Bounty: Crossworlds. Despite being seen in a ton of bundles that some consider to be of poor quality, the King's Bounty games are absolutely stellar.

Fire Emblem: Awakening.

Medal of Honor, it's such a darn good game.

No, Steam game, but whatever: Smite
Thought I would hate it, because I don't like MOBA in general, so my friends forced me to play it.
I'm glad they did.

League of Legends

Anachronox, Solar 2 and Obscure on the PS2. If you're looking for games that noone seems to care about, yet they're awesome, that is.

Skyrim.
first, i thought "what's with all the hype about that game?", then i tried it was like "holy moly! it's saturday already!?".

The Saboteur and The Last Remnant. Almost forgotten games but very interesting and still good looking.

-Recettear's item shop
-Terraria
-Unepic
-X3
-Hammerfight

Ion Assault - turned it on just because there were cards in it, otherwise
it would probably be still uninstalled in my library

Well it turned out to be a great short game.

oh and the first game like that was FFVII, which got me hooked totally
for the whole series (at least till X-2)