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Simple, but surprisingly addictive stickman fighting game. Although the title is a lie because you probably need two fingers to play it. I think this was the first game I went for 100% achievements.
Apparently it has a sequel which I didn't know about. Both are on sale for pretty much pocket change now too.
A few that are favs for me that no one ever talks about:
Forgotten worlds on Genesis Wild arms on playstation Tokyo extreme racer zero on playstation 2
World in Conflict is mine. One of the best tactical RTSs that existed with stunning visuals. A nuke going off was one thing, but when your team decides to spend their support points at the same time on artillery, carpet bombing, and cluster bombs, it was a sight to behold.
Way back when "addictinggames.com" was relevant, there was a game called Avalanche. The background music (dreams of above) was an absolute banger that still gets stuck in my head sometimes. Just a simple platformer, but for some reason it stuck with me, and I absolutely need to get on a computer and see if there is a playable version somewhere.
Starsector. It's been in development for so many years, and they are not on Steam. But man, I love that game.
Has anyone heard of "A Flame in the Flood?" It's not the deepest game, but I think it deserves a bit more recognition
This is kind of obscure but I used to love this MMO rhythm game called Audition Online, published by Nexon in 2007. It's completely deserted now, hasn't been updated in years, and only runs on Windows OS, but sometimes I'll revisit it and play for hours despite only like 10 people being online lol
I've never played DQ: Slime. I think I'll make an effort to. For me it's possibly Fallout, the original. To me it seems for a lot of people Fallout starts with 3 and ends with 4 or 76. The original Fallout was a wonderful turn-based tactical RPG.
Future Cop L.A.P.D.
I've seen like, maybe a singular youtube video essay on it (And I think it was by by a very small channel).
EDIT: Also WASTED: A Post Apocalyptic Pub Crawler.
I really loved a game called Guns of Icarus (the original one). Fun little airship defense game, where you had to manage fighting air pirates, repairing your ship, and saving your cargo. Extremely simple, basically a tech demo, but the aesthetic, music, and general feel were perfect. Very melancholy world that I still revisit sometimes.
Star Wars Republic Commando! Every now and then people talk about it, but it is a shame it isn't mentioned more. I actually just replayed it, I'd almost say it holds up today with the remaster mod and the rc patch. There is also a very cool mod called "slightly remastered" which adds stuff like 3rd person scripted animations and scripted kill cams, it makes you feel like a badass! Aside from that, I'm also surprised nobody in the boomer shooter enjoyer crowd talks about Cube 2: Sauerbraten, which is a very fast paced arena shooter. The only server that is consistently active uses one shot rifles that have enough recoil to do trick jumps, very fun to hop on for a few hours
Ogre Battle 64 is mine. The n64 wasn't exactly known for rpgs but this had so many characters, a ton of depth and an intense story that I wish it was brought up more. This was my intro to a tactical rpgs and I felt like I went right into the deep end.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone else talk about Rocket Slime. I've never even played any mainline Dragon Quest game, and Rocket Slime is absolutely one of my favorite DS games of all time. I love everything about that game, from the team building to the way you steal items and enemies on the carts, to the hilarious slimes you gotta save. And boy, fighting other people in your tank was so much fun, although the cannon play was always kinda lackluster. Still, having an NPC man the cannons while you hop in your (incredibly overpowered) golem suit and walk over to the enemy tank, break in, destroy everything. Your NPC is wailing away on the cannons while you're distracting their gunmen, whittling away the tank's health, only for you to break into the heart and smash it to pieces.
I could go on, what a s(ub)lime game. Thanks for uncovering an old memory I had long forgotten, OP.
Easy Red 2.
WWII fps/tps made by a small team. Did you like BF1942 maps and bots back in the day?
This is the first ‘bot game’ which is actually very good and wwii focused. Others like ravenfield were too spread out, scope wise, or too twee like Brass Brigade.
It’s just had Normandy come out and first person animations tweaked and it’s in a really good place.
Custom maps and soon to have custom assets on the workshop so workshop maps are about to blow up big style!
Would love to see more wwii game fans try it out, even off sale it’s FILTHY cheap. Can highly advise the recent Normandy DLC too, the quality of the maps are leaps and bounds over the base campaigns, Stalingrad is also very good too if you're an eastern front kinda boi.
Terranigma - Came out at the end of the SNES era, and was never released in the US. Gameplay wise it's kind of similar to 2D Zelda but with RPG level mechanics, spells, and jump/attacks. Where it really shines is the story though. In that area I think it holds its own against the giants of JRPGs from that era like FFVI and Chrono Trigger.
The journeyman project series (1, 2 and 3) had a major impact on my childhood
Haha, SimTower for classic MacOS. I've always wanted to put together a clone of it.
Alter Ego, a 1986 DOS game that's still one of the best life-sim type games ever made. You start out as a baby and work your way through life by making choices. They can lead to a wide variety of outcomes, including dying tragically as a child, etc... You can play it free online or they've made updated versions.
Mmh.. I'd say King of Dragon Pass but the truth is that every half a year I see someone talking about. In niche circles but still. Let me check my Playnite list (only the ones I rated 5/5)...
Ok. At first I thought these ones would qualify: The Lion's Song, one night hot springs, Tacoma, missed messages. But I'm pretty sure I just haven't read in the right places, they are pretty big game in narrative indie circles I think.
Oh, I got it. These are my highly rated games that I don't think I have ever heard (much less read) someone talk about:
Now that I think of it, small RPG Maker games would also qualify. I really liked Dhux's Scar back in the day.
By the way, if you want to discover lots of small games that no one knows daily there's YT channels like Wanderbots and Splattercatgaming that dedicate themselves to try certain genres of indies. It really makes cognizant of how many games come out every week.
Invisible, Inc. Klei has created other great games so probably Invisible is not that unknown, but it seems that this game is forgotten both by gamers and developers. The subreddit was dead (when reddit was relevant), nobody streams it, and Klei continued to add content or sequels to other games like Don’t Starve but nothing to Invisible.
For me it's gotta be Secret of Evermore for the SNES. Kinda old game but I absolutely loved the gameplay and story when I first played it as a kid. Have been replaying the game many times and it's always a great experience.
The Legacy of Kain series. Very much slept on. And to make things worse, instead of making a finale game to wrap the story up, they worked on two different projects in the same IP that did not drive the story forward and ended up being scrapped anyway.
I like the series so much that once upon a time I decided I would start playing through it again if I ever became terminally ill.
Phantasy Star Online (PSO). I have thousands of hours in that game across Dreamcast, GameCube and PC over the decades and I'm still not tired of it. It absolutely nailed the loot system and you're always looking to get another rare box drop. BlueBurst on PC still has multiple active and populated servers, but I feel like it doesn't get much discussion in gaming communities in general despite being one of the pioneers of online gaming on consoles.
Gunz: the duel
Its a fast paced 3rd person shooter.
There were a lot of unique glitches you could manipulate for advanced movement. This inadvertently made the skill floor and ceiling very high.
The game was super fast paced and played like nothing I will ever play again.
Sayonara Wild hearts. It's such an underrated original and stylish game. It oozes charm, and surprised me again and again. The music alone is something I listen to still.
Snowboard Kids 2 for the N64. One of my top 3 favorite Mario Karts.
I really liked Rumble Roses back on PS2
Women's Wrestling with good graphics and interesting features.
People bring up Journey a lot but another game by that same company called Flower. It's a short, simple game that I will never forget, a beautiful masterpiece.
Iji, a free indie platformer shooter, almost like a 2D immersive sim about a girl who trying to fight off an alien invasion using alien tech that got implanted on her. It's very cool! And it's free free, not freemium microtransaction nonsense.
Solar Jetman for the NES. A really unique game that was well ahead of it's time, featuring exploration, problem solving, cut-scenes, great music, and multiple planets to explore with different gravities. Your mission is to repair your spacecraft by finding missing parts, and you can use a small craft or leave the vehicle and boost around with a jetpack with your spacesuit.
Archon, it's a chess game with monsters instead of typical pieces, and they fight when you take a space. I played it on a Commodore 64.
My favourite games are NoX, Morrowind and Populous the beginning. Only Morrowind is still really talked about, sadly.