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Pook's sleepers: 5 to 11 October 2026

6 small new games players love that hardly anyone is playing yet: Genome Guardian 2, Duckoleon, Cyberfrags '69 and more.

  1. No. 1

    Genome Guardian 2

    Alpherior · Action, RPG

    96% of 452 reviews positive peak 130 playing out 11 Oct

    A microscopic shooter with nanobot building, mutations and an optional vertical SHMUP mode, part action, part RPG. Out on 11 October and already sitting on 452 reviews at 96% positive, yet the peak was just 130 players: a lot of love, very few eyes.

  2. No. 2

    Duckoleon

    Pumancz · Action

    93% of 274 reviews positive peak 39 playing out 9 Oct

    Napoleonic line infantry, cavalry and artillery, played by ducks: a multiplayer FPS/TPS with strategic bits and historically minded uniforms. 274 reviews at 93% since 9 October, but only 39 players at peak, so the ranks could use filling.

  3. No. 3

    Cyberfrags '69

    D.A.S. Games · Action

    99% of 148 reviews positive peak 15 playing out 7 Oct

    Double jumping, wall running arena action with PvP, co-op and a Cyber-Frank campaign. Here is the odd bit: 99% of its 148 reviews are positive, and the peak since 7 October was 15 players.

  4. No. 4

    Forever Ago

    Third Shift · Adventure

    96% of 135 reviews positive peak 177 playing out 8 Oct

    Alfred heads north in a single-player road trip adventure, out 8 October. 135 reviews at 96% positive and a peak of 177 players suggests a quiet crowd that finished it and liked where it got them.

  5. No. 5

    Deleted Wiki: Clean Up the Lost Files

    Clique Games

    99% of 145 reviews positive peak 205 playing out 30 Sept

    Cozy incremental sorting: a vandal wiped all 10,324 items from a 2007 fan wiki and you drag them back into categories while unlocking userscripts. Since 30 September it has gathered 145 reviews at 99%, with 115 of those this week and 205 players at peak.

  6. No. 6

    Touhou Garden of the Yukkuri

    Bar Holographic Otaku · Simulation

    95% of 57 reviews positive peak 95 playing out 9 Oct

    Free-to-play Yukkuri raising sim with 3D environments and multiplayer, which is a sentence you do not read often. Out 9 October with 57 reviews at 95% positive and a peak of 95, so the garden is still a quiet one.

How they are picked: out in the 21 days to the end of the week, 25 to 600 Steam reviews with at least 90% positive, and never more than 300 people playing at once. Of those, the ones gaining reviews fastest that week. A game is picked once, ever. The notes are written by AI from each game's store description and these numbers; a note using anything else is thrown out.