We’ve already covered the best deals in the 2022 Steam Autumn Sale, with all the discounts on big games from this year as well as bargains on classics you don’t want to miss. What about the deep cuts though—the games that aren’t already on your wishlist and probably aren’t even on your radar?

Steam sales are a great time to try something different without having to fork out too much cash. Before this year’s Steam Autumn Sale ends on November 29, have a look at these overlooked and under-rated games. One of them might be your next favorite.

Based on Ryan North’s book based on William Shakespeare’s play, To Be or Not To Be is Hamlet transformed into a choose-your-own-tragedy that’s actually a comedy. In this version of the story the further you diverge from actual events the funnier it gets, and considering you can end up traveling through time or fighting secret ghost wars, it gets pretty far from your English teacher’s version. 

Objects in Space (opens in new tab) | $4.99/£3.89 (80% off) 

Promising new colony sim Dawn Apart was announced this week, a sci-fi game drawing from the legacy of Rimworld (opens in new tab) and Factorio (opens in new tab) to create a game that simulates an expedition arriving to build automated factories on an alien world. The native aliens, of course, aren’t thrilled about that—and your colonists might not be either, after they see how spoiled their new home is becoming.

“In DAWN APART you have been sent to the distant planet Aurora to mine resources, maintain a growing settlement of fortune hunters and defend it against the fierce native population. Fulfill the demanding quotas dictated by your contractor – or flip the script and start a rebellion against the greedy corporation exploiting your new home,” says a release from developer Industrial Technology and Witchcraft.

Tamriel Rebuilt (opens in new tab) is an ambitious mod project that aims to add the full mainland of Morrowind to The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, which was set on the large island of Vvardenfell. It’s been in development for a whopping 20 years now. The last we heard from the team was via an updated development roadmap in late 2021, but today the developers released a new update (opens in new tab) that adds two major new regions to the game world: Dominions of Dust, and Embers of Empire.

Dominions of Dust is centered on the House Hlaalhu trade port of Andothren, which sits southwest of Vvardenfell on the Inner Sea. The sparsely populated but dangerous borderlands to the west of Andothren are contested by Hlaalu and their rival, House Redoran. The region is also home to the peaks and valleys of the Velothi Mountains, once a stronghold of the long-lost Dwemer, while Clan Ishanuran continues its nomadic ways in the Armun Ashlands to the south, an area devastated by the eruption of Red Mountain.

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Hawked (opens in new tab) is a new PvPvE extraction shooter that sends players off on a quest for treasure and mysterious artifacts on a strange, remote island, where they’ll also have to battle aggressive monsters—and each other—in order to get away in one piece, naturally. An early access release is expected in 2023, but if you’d like to get a taste of what it’s all about right now, or if you’re just looking for something new to play this weekend, you can sign up for the closed alpha test that kicked off today on Steam.

The premise is pretty straightforward—X-Isle (Exile—get it?) is a repository of powerful artifacts from a lost civilization, but the current inhabitants don’t want to give them up. It thus falls to the treasure-hunting mercenaries known as Renegades to get the job done. It’s not the most coherent narrative ever, but action is the focus, and to that end you’ll be able to customize your characters with unique weapons, equipment, and abilities in order to solve puzzles, dodge traps, and do lots of shooting “in an ever-evolving world filled with mountains, jungles, and ancient temples.”