Steam churns through hundreds of new releases every week like a wood chipper with no off switch. Most vanish without a trace. This week, two small games landed in the pile that deserve better than the algorithm gave them — and they both dropped on April 3rd.

Dangerous Mountain Together comes from developers Çağatay Demir and Doğukan Şahin, published by SlugShot Games. It’s a 2-4 player co-op where you drive a car up a mountain, tethered together like a chain gang with a death wish. The physics are, in a player’s exact words, “funky.” At $4.24 during its launch discount (down from $4.99), it’s priced like a candy bar and delivers more laughs per dollar than most full-price releases.

The stats tell a humble story: 69 concurrent players at peak, sitting at #7 on Steam’s New Releases chart, with 7 out of 8 user reviews landing positive. Players warn that duos are the sweet spot — push past two players and “you are in for a ride,” which is code for total anarchy. One reviewer logged three hours and called it “amazing” but “very unforgiving.” Another simply wrote “goofy ahh challenging game gg,” and honestly that tells you everything.

Then there’s Unhinged Pet Store Simulator by BH Studios, and the title isn’t lying. You run a pet store, stock shelves, raise crabs, and fight off thieving seagulls. You also hire animals as employees. It’s $11.99, charted at #12 in New Releases, and has a perfect 3-for-3 positive review score despite showing zero concurrent players at time of writing.

The headline moment comes from a player with 0.1 hours on record: “i forgot to buy a cash register and couldn’t afford one, so my customers threw actual long dookie* logs into my store as protest 10/10.” That’s a game design choice. Someone coded that. A customer behavior tree that includes weaponized defecation as a protest mechanic when checkout infrastructure is lacking. Respect the vision.

Neither title cracked GameGrin’s curated list of 27 hidden gems launching the same week. Sometimes even the gem-hunters miss.

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