In the vast sea of games out there, it's hard to stand out. Everyone wants their time, and if a game isn't part of an established series or isn't doing something that a trailer or screenshot can anchor, they can go unnoticed.

These are the PC games that should have a much bigger presence than they already have, either because they are doing something that no one else has done before or because they simply do what they do well. Some of these games didn't come out at the right time, were overshadowed by something else, or took a while to get going.

Below is a list of good games from the past five years. Each of them is still workable today, so if you want to check them out for yourself, perhaps you can help them get the recognition they deserve.

Hunting: Showdown

Price: $39.99

Summary: a PvPvE extraction war game set in the bayou of the 19th century.

Hunt: Showdown is what comes after the battle royale. Twelve players fight their way across scattered maps, race to hunt down boss enemies, and fight over the rewards they leave behind. With three futuristic Crisis games under its belt, it's amazing that Crytek has created such a precise and rewarding shooter with weapons ripped straight from Civil War documentaries and Western movies. It is the most inventive, intense, and only competitive FPS game on Steam right now, and yet it attracts only about 17,000 daily players on PC.

We Were Here/ We were here

Price: free

Summary: An excellent cooperative campaign about escaping from a castle full of puzzles.

The entire We Were Here series is one of the best co-op games on the PC, and the first one is completely free. Castle Rock is full of escape room puzzles, and being forced to communicate by walkie-talkie to exchange clues while separated is a friendship-testing twist on the puzzle. You'll find We Were Here if you're really in the mood for co-op games, and they did well enough that Total Mayhem made four of them, but they're not as common as they deserve to be. Genuine co-op campaigns (not live service) are hard to come by lately, so if you played It Takes Two or Man of Medan, this should be next on your list to try with Bestie.

Escape Room Simulator

Price: $14.99

Summary: a first-person escape game full of complex puzzles.

Escape Simulator is not that old a game, but it seems that people have forgotten about it. This game is a satisfying way to avoid the mess in a real escape chamber right now. It is a first-person puzzle game that drops you into a chamber from which you have to solve your way out. The puzzles range from simple math problems to obtaining pictographic translations. In a way, it is designed so that you have some friends around you to give you ideas.

There is a demo available if you want to try it before you buy it. In it, you can see how interested the game is in forcing you to keep track of every little thing around you. The programmed levels can be a bit annoying, but once you get used to the language of its puzzles, it's not hard to figure out what you need to do before you have to start over.