Oh God: This Week’s Steam Oddities (Week 17)
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Oh God: This Week’s Steam Oddities (Week 17)
In This Week’s Steam Oddities, Alex doesn’t just showcase games that make you question Valve’s quality control on Steam. No, this is also where we look at game ideas that were probably born either after a major brain meltdown or one hell of an LSD trip. With that in mind: happy gawking!
Steam has more games for sale than shopping channels have knife sets. That does show in the quality of those games, but there’s an upside too: some new releases are so weird they somehow loop back around to brilliant. Here are the strangest Steam oddities from calendar week 17 of 2026.
Astro Hop
- Genre: Platformer
- Developer: Rawi Studio
- Platforms: PC
- Release date: April 25, 2026
- Price: $200
Remember ancient 2D platformers like Super Mario Bros. 3, Sonic the Hedgehog, or Mega Man? Sure, they looked good—great, even—for their time. But when a "modern" PC platformer in 2026 can’t even keep up visually with its ancestors, that’s a pretty spectacular own goal.
Unlike those old clunkers, today’s platformers don’t have to fight against any real technical limits. And yet Astro Hop somehow manages to look simpler than most 40-year-old jump-’n’-runs. Also: from the looks of it, the game’s hero, a tiny astronaut, does nothing but hop.
Is that the weird part about Astro Hop, then? Nope. The weird part is the price of this game, which does at least come with 30 levels: $200—or €204.99, as you can see in the screenshot. Well, maybe Astro Hop only runs on some special homebrew console that’s included in the price?
Runway
- Genre: Dress-up, Beat ’em Up
- Developer: Unsame
- Platforms: PC
- Release date: April 25, 2026
- Price: $3
Seriously: Runway has one of the wildest game concepts I’ve ever seen on Steam. According to the developer, it’s a "dress-up game" where you style a model and send them down the runway.
Your "model," by the way, is a robot with what looks like a tube TV for a head. Real-world Paris runway fashion would probably suit that pretty well, though the game’s 30-plus clothing items are rather tame by comparison. So what’s actually nuts about Runway? Well, the moment you send your model onto the catwalk, the game turns into a punchy beat ’em up in the vein of Tekken.
Yes, really. 🙂
Meaning: you kick the other models clean off the runway. There can be only one, and all that. You can even use combos to clear the stage. Sometimes they send several models flying straight into orbit. Sounds fun, right? I’m honestly tempted to grab this one on Steam.
77p egg: Cubicle 77
- Genre: Adventure, Comedy
- Developer: 77p Studios
- Platforms: PC
- Release date: April 24, 2026
- Price: $2
"You are trapped in the endless toilet dimension or something." That wonderfully offhand sentence opens the description of 77p egg: Cubicle 77, a feces-focused comedy adventure—or something. You play a man sitting in a cafeteria with his wife who just wants to pop to the bathroom. He does, only to suddenly find himself trapped in an "endless loop of mall bathrooms." Shit happens.
Yes, yes: 77p egg: Cubicle 77 is, of course, one of the now criminally overpopulated anomaly games. The rules are simple: if you don’t see an anomaly, you have to use a toilet (the developer puts it a bit more bluntly). If you do see an anomaly, you have to move on to the next bathroom. Mistakes are bad because after one wrong decision, you’re quite literally deep in the sh...
During your stay in this bizarre toilet dimension, expect all kinds of gross-out scenes and jump scares. For example, a disco suddenly breaks out in the loo—and a man you catch by surprise misses the target by a long, long way. 🤢 It’s all very... well, odd.
Your Daddy
- Genre: -
- Developer: nordska
- Platforms: PC
- Release date: April 24, 2026
- Price: $1
Your father left you and your mother? Don’t panic, because Your Daddy gives your desktop a fully fledged replacement dad. Well, not quite. But Desktop Daddy follows your mouse cursor, dances for you on request (complete with glorious butt wiggling), and is simply there for you—meaning he offers emotional support in the form of supportive text messages.
You can also customize your new daddy to your liking (size, clothes, poses) and interact with him via right-click. He even takes into account whether you’re his son or daughter. Kind of cool, right? I think I may be getting a new daddy soon too.
Banana Blood
- Genre: Horror, Adventure
- Developer: Vidas Salavejus
- Platforms: PC
- Release date: April 23, 2026
- Price: $3
Can bananas bleed? Well, in Banana Blood they can at least scare you. Yes, everything in this first-person horror game really is bananas. Even the cows you run into are somehow banana-coded. That’s why they’re banana cows.
The fact that Banana Blood has cows is probably the only thing about this game that isn’t absurd. Your job is to investigate the disappearance of several people—and the trail leads to a mysterious banana farm. Naturally, you’re hunted by bananas there; your pursuers include the brutal banana demon, the dancing pink banana, creepy banana children, and many other bananas.
What the game description doesn’t tell us is whether the hero can fight back against the banana invasion, perhaps by strategically placing banana peels on the floor. I hope so—because what could be cooler than bananas slipping on banana peels?
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