Software hidden gems on Steam

Every game here is tagged Software on Steam, sits between 1,000 and 5,000 reviews, is rated at least 80% positive, and carries a catch drawn from its own negative reviews. All 21 of them. How these pages are made.

EVGA Precision X1

81% positive from 4,826 reviews2014Deck Unsupported

This is a PC utility software for overclocking and monitoring EVGA graphics cards. It offers real-time performance tuning and visual customization for gamers.

The catchThe software has been abandoned for years and breaks with current drivers and Windows.

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VRoid Studio

95% positive from 4,685 reviews2020Deck Unsupported

VRoid Studio is a 3D character creation tool. Users easily design and customize original 3D avatars with intuitive drawing and editing features.

What players likedPlayers praise VRoid Studio as an easy-to-use tool for creating custom VTuber and VRChat avatars, especially for beginners.

The catchCustomization sliders are too limited to build bodies outside the default anime look.

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Borderless Gaming

81% positive from 4,616 reviews2015Deck Unsupported

A utility that forces any game into borderless fullscreen with saved per-game profiles, adds a GPU effect and upscaling pipeline, and rewindows old titles that only run fullscreen.

What players likedPlayers praise it as an intuitive app that makes unplayable games, like Ultra Street Fighter 4 and EA Sports PGA Tour, work flawlessly in borderless mode.

The catchThe UI rework buried the basic borderless toggle and broke what used to work.

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Dungeon Alchemist

95% positive from 3,845 reviews2022Deck Playable

Dungeon Alchemist is a mapmaking application for tabletop RPGs. It automatically generates detailed maps based on user-selected themes, allowing for quick creation and customization.

What players likedPlayers say it's like Talespire and other VTTs, praising its intuitive map building, vast prop variety, and time-saving features.

The catchCrashes often and autosave frequently fails, wiping out hours of map work.

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OVR Toolkit - Desktop Overlay

87% positive from 3,352 reviews2019Deck Unsupported

This is a VR utility that lets you view and interact with your desktop within virtual reality. It features window management and a virtual keyboard for seamless desktop use in VR.

What players likedPlayers praise its helpfulness, responsiveness to feedback, and useful watch interface, despite some features being available in SteamVR.

The catchRecent updates left a clunky UI where windows freeze, fail to open or reset themselves.

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Bigscreen Beta

85% positive from 3,238 reviews2016

Virtual reality social platform for watching media and playing games together. It offers shared desktop screens, a video player, and customizable virtual screens for immersive experiences.

What players likedPlayers praise Bigscreen Beta as a virtual watch party experience akin to a cinema or home setting.

The catchCrashes or refuses to launch through SteamVR often enough to be unusable.

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SAO Utils: Beta

88% positive from 3,032 reviews20183% finish itDeck Unsupported

This is a customizable 3D app launcher with a slide-to-launch mechanic. It offers desktop widgets and stereo web browsing for a virtual desktop experience.

What players likedPlayers say it's like a highly customizable desktop overlay, praised for its immersive anime interface and functional widgets.

The catchLarge parts of the interface stay untranslated, leaving English users guessing.

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YoloMouse - Cursor Changer

92% positive from 2,905 reviews2020Deck Unsupported

YoloMouse is a utility that lets you customize your computer cursor with various effects and designs. It's useful for gaming, productivity, and presentations, offering a personalized and enhanced visual experience.

What players likedPlayers praise it as an essential tool for ARPGs and other games, making the cursor visible and customizable to prevent in-game deaths.

The catchSupport is patchy, failing outright or glitching the display in plenty of games.

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Dungeon Painter Studio

83% positive from 2,774 reviews2017Deck Unsupported

This is a map design tool for creating tabletop RPG encounters. It features editable objects, layer management, and art import for a flexible creation process.

What players likedPlayers praise it as a versatile mapmaking tool for both dungeons and outdoor areas, used for long campaigns.

The catchAbandoned with no updates in years, so its bugs and clunky controls stay unfixed.

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Controller Companion

90% positive from 2,644 reviews2015Deck Unsupported

Controller Companion is a PC utility that lets you control your desktop and media with a gamepad. It offers mouse, keyboard, and media playback control from the couch.

What players likedPlayers praise it as a perfect tool for couch gaming, offering customizable controller functions for non-Steam games and mouse replacement.

The catchAbandoned by the developer, so it breaks with Windows updates and support never comes.

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Discord Bot Maker

86% positive from 2,412 reviews201726% finish itDeck Unsupported

This is a visual programming tool for creating Discord bots. It uses a drag-and-drop interface to build bots based on commands and events.

The catchOfficial Discord support staff mock and belittle beginners who ask for help.

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fpsVR

97% positive from 2,338 reviews2018Deck Unsupported

This is a SteamVR utility that displays performance metrics in-game. It allows users to adjust SteamVR settings and track headset cable twist.

What players likedPlayers say fpsVR is like "ovr toolkit" and "ovr advanced settings" combined, praising its performance monitoring and post-game results.

The catchThe overlay refuses to appear in a lot of games, especially Oculus API titles.

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FPS Monitor – hardware in-game & desktop overlays

83% positive from 2,264 reviews2018Deck Unsupported

This is a PC utility that displays hardware performance data as an in-game overlay. It provides real-time monitoring of system components and alerts for critical conditions.

What players likedPlayers praise FPS Monitor as a comprehensive hardware overlay, similar to MSI Afterburner and GPU-Z, for displaying in-game stats.

The catchThe overlay often fails to appear in games or crashes them when it does.

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Satisfactory Modeler

98% positive from 2,064 reviews2024

Satisfactory Modeler is a simulation and planning tool. It calculates factory layouts and resource flow, allowing for complex build organization.

What players likedPlayers praise "Satisfactory Modeler" as an indispensable planning tool, far superior to spreadsheets or other online solvers for complex factory builds.

The catchCalculations hang or zero out once a build grows past a handful of buildings.

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Clickteam Fusion 2.5

88% positive from 2,022 reviews2013Deck Unsupported

This is a game development tool that uses a drag-and-drop event editor for rapid prototyping. It allows users to create games and apps without traditional coding, offering a user-friendly and flexible creative experience.

What players likedPlayers praise Clickteam Fusion 2.5 as a simple, easy-to-use engine, comparable to the one used for "Five Nights at Freddy's," allowing them to build their game ideas.

The catchBadly outdated for the price, with core features locked behind expensive paid add-ons.

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RPG Maker XP

93% positive from 1,945 reviews2013Deck Unsupported

This is a game development tool for creating role-playing games. It allows users to build games using a visual editor and optional scripting for customization.

What players likedPlayers compare it to "Ao Oni" and "OFF" style games, praising its accessibility for creating unique RPGs despite an older format.

The catchThe engine is dated and limited, with newer RPG Makers or free engines doing more.

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Standable: Full Body Estimation

80% positive from 1,685 reviews2023

This is a VR software that uses headset data to estimate full body tracking. It enhances existing 3-point tracking for more natural movement and versatile poses.

What players likedPlayers praise Standable as a great, affordable full-body tracking alternative, especially for VRChat, making avatar movements more natural and smooth.

The catchThe leg and body estimation is jittery and inaccurate rather than smooth.

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XSOverlay

86% positive from 1,584 reviews2020Deck Unsupported

Desktop overlay application for VR. Access and interact with your desktop or apps within VR.

The catchIt breaks itself every few months, needing restarts or config deletion to work again.

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VEGAS Pro 14 Edit Steam Edition

80% positive from 1,503 reviews2016Deck Unsupported

This is a professional video and audio editing software. It features drag-and-drop editing, hover scrub, and advanced compositing for creative projects.

The catchIt works fine for years then stops launching with licensing or missing file errors.

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ScreenPlay

80% positive from 1,458 reviews2021

An open source desktop app rather than a game, running video, web or QML wallpapers and widgets. It pulls content from the Steam Workshop and supports 4K, HDR and ultra-widescreen displays.

The catchIt crashes constantly and often fails to set the wallpaper at all.

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FlowScape

84% positive from 1,324 reviews2019Deck Playable

FlowScape is a 3D landscape creation tool. Users paint environments with pre-made assets and customizable brushes for a relaxing experience.

The catchDevelopment was abandoned years ago and the promised updates never arrived.

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