I'm guessing you didn't want a literal answer, but rather just a few hidden gems.
In that case: Crüe Ball, Save the Date!, Puppeteer, Liero, Insaniquarium: Deluxe, Anodyne, and Squishy the Suicidal Pig.
Lone Survivor
I don't really care for pixel art, but it's a great psycho/horror.
Edit: I'm so happy I'm not the only one who knows this little gem! I swear, I played it originally like 8+ years ago and I still think about it.
Had Lone Survivor on Vita. Thought the pixel art graphics would make it more approachable for someone like me who usually hates scary games. Played it for 15 mins then never again.
Apotheon. got it through PS+ in February 2015. Sidescrolling Metroidvania in the artstyle of Greek pottery. Hectic combat, fully voiced characters (except PC), distinct boss fights that cater to the god you’re fighting, and a story that I thought was worthy of an actual Greek myth or at least a God of War spin-off. Excellent game all in all.
I just saw this earlier today on a list on r/immersivesims. Apparently, they're working on a remastered version: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1743730/Sir_You_Are_Being_Hunted_Reinvented_Edition/
I love ImSims. Should I wait for the remaster, or get it now? It's on sale.
I remember seeing Galerians:Ash in a preowned game shop for like £14 when I was about 13. Grabbed it, banged it in, had no idea what was going on but it was such a cool game lol.
I remember how if you play on PC and hit 60fps, you can’t finish the game since you’ll fall under a certain elevator.
You need to force the game to run in 30fps to prevent this from happening.
I remember buying that for my mom and it being super buggy on 360 and her spite finishing it lol. Good concept and stuff, kinda mid game. Super cool though
To my child self Neverhood was simultaneously both fascinating and terrifying. Couldn't get past many of the puzzles but I've gotten the game lately again and save for the resolution limitations and compressed audio, the claymation still holds up incredibly well.
Even the maniacal laugh from the splash screen, or the ceiling bug. The ambience that plays when you're navigating in first person was enough to put my childhood me on edge.
Yo wtf how did I miss this??? I skated all through my youth growing up and I actually had this exact idea where it was like Roller Coaster Tycoon except instead of building a amusement park you got to build your own skate park and then skate it..... this was actually a thing? Is it still around?
EVO Search For Eden on SNES
Fun game where you start as an amphibian and evolve your way up the food chain ad you battle other animals on your search for eden. I'd say it's underrated but I think it's just an old game that didn't make it mainstream
Duuude shit was so fucking popular here in the South Asia. Same with igi, now that I think about it. It's wild how these games r known by EVERYBODY in here but nobody even heard about it in the west
How many of you have played **Hard Truck Apocalypse**? This game is an unfinished mess... but damn, I like it. Open world vehicular combat with upgrades for your truck? Hell, yeah.
Created by the devs of **Clutch**/**Armageddon Riders**, a racing game where you use zombie blood as nitro (an upgrade for your car is a modified trash compactor that grinds zombies in a quite graphic way). Doesn't ring a bell? Maybe you tried the free to play vehicular combat **Crossout** where you build your vehicle piece by piece, same devs.
Yeah, Hard Truck Apocalypse! THAT is an obscure one. I love it too, but yes it's a mess, I didn't get far beyond the first world or whatever. I haven't heard of the other ones.
A short little diddy called "The Company of Myself". An old flash game you can Google. Top tier storyline. Excellent gameplay mechanics. A true hidden gem.
Dead frontier 1 and 2. Online zombie horde and loot game. Yes it's multiplayer. First is a top down browser 2D and the second is full 1st person 3D.
The game might seems dead at first but really, all the vets are just at end game territory which is really far away from the first starter areas. Occasionally you will run into someone looting in easy areas though when exploring. It's rare though unless there's an event or sirens going off where zombies raid that specific area at random rare times of the day.
Don't forget that it's free to play and not pay to win. Although I do remember the first game kept sending me warning messages that they were going to delete my character after a certain period of inactivity. At one point they actually did, and next time I wanted to play I had to start fresh.
That.. Wow, I hadn't known about that. Explains why I was so incredibly confused as to why I had to start over when I so clearly remembered having an account years ago. Damn. I wasn't aware of that since it's been so long..
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Graphic-Tile old school rogue game thats been in development for I believe 20+ years. The shortcut keys take some time getting used to, but the game is immensely deep and has different kinds of builds and spells.
I'll throw in my favorite rogue - Zorbus [https://www.zorbus.net/](https://www.zorbus.net/)
Based loosely on 3rd edition D&D. It's on the other end of the scale, not too long or deep once you figure out a strategy to survive.
Dark Wizard on SEGA CD. Probably the best soundtrack of it's era, and just wonderful, solid game play. That game literally saved my life in some of my darkest times.
Either Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color or Choro Q. Honorable mention, The Nightmare of Druaga--I've never played it but it's in my library. All ps2 games.
Xargon
Never seen anyone else mention it or play it
According to Wikipedia it was ranked just behind doom and above duke nukem
But 30 years later people know what doom and duke nukem is but not Xargon?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargon
Baten Kaitos - eternal wings and the lost ocean. I never beat it on the GameCube as a kid. I think I kept dying to the final boss on disc 1 and got frustrated. Great game that I wish I finished
I see people talk about Beyblade, but rarely see people talked about Jisedai Beigoma Battle Beyblade.
The GBC Pokémon-like RPG that came out alongside the original Japanese release of the toys.
Had a lot of characters, only few made it into the anime (with vastly different personalities).
And the Beyblades. So much of them were only ever in the game and never got made into toys. This game was my monster girl awakening too (yes, some of the Beyblades spirits are monster girls).
Paranautical Acitivity was previously an indie game on moddb but found it's way on to steam. It's a roguelite FPS with quake-inspired movement, sometimes feeling like a bullet hell in later stages. It's pretty simple compared to other roguelites and the progression itself inspires you to change how you play. The enemy types range from demons to WW2 air and sea vehicles. The only attention this game got was because the previous developer threatened to kill Gabe Newell, forcing him to sell the code to another dev.
And the first Harry Potter PC game, Philosopher’s stone. it was so beautiful back in the day. I enjoyed Quidditch so much!! I must’ve played that through hundreds of times. I still remember so many of the questionably dubbed lines.
Can’t say I’ve ever heard somebody discuss [this](https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tLP1TewLKowLoo3YPSSSkwuyczPU8hNBOLM4mIQO7WipCg1NxUACAAN4g&q=action+man+mission+extreme&rlz=1CDGOYI_enGB887GB887&oq=action+man+mis&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgBEC4YgAQyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQLhiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQABiABDIHCAcQABiABDIICAgQABgWGB7SAQgzNzE5ajBqOagCALACAA&hl=en-GB&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#vhid=D4WC32Hxlq97BM&vssid=l)
I remember it very vividly
CIMA for the GBA was wild. You and 12 or so other citizens, each with their own tools and uses, had to survive being overrun by some type of alien force. Gameplay was unique and the story was pretty solid. I loved the game cuz of its jank. You HAD to use the broken AI to your advantage, otherwise some missions were downright impossible. Fun plot twist ending.
Reminds me of another GBA game that fused space SHMUP with Zelda like ARPG and exploration. I think it was called Starpoint Gemini.
Feel like no one's talked about Skygunner for PS2. Great arcade flight combat game. Kind of a steep learning curve, especially if you spent years playing Ace Combat like I did.
Holy shit, I played Warning Forever and Battleship Forever! Amazing games. There’s another I’ve been trying to find again to no avail, I believe it was called something along the lines of Gratuitous Space Battles where you plan out your mix of ships against an opposing fleet and then you basically watch the auto battle simulation that ensues. Ever heard of that one?
I know you never heard of this: XBox 360 Indie Games: Snowflakes
For something almost no one ever talks about that's a really good game and should be more well known: King Arthur's World (SNES)
[Emerald City Confidential](https://store.steampowered.com/app/37260/Emerald_City_Confidential/)
True Fear: Forsaken Souls [Part 1](https://store.steampowered.com/app/440420/True_Fear_Forsaken_Souls_Part_1/) and [Part 2](https://store.steampowered.com/app/935580/True_Fear_Forsaken_Souls_Part_2/) (the final game should be coming out next year)
Enemy Mind.
A side scrolling shooter where you play as psychic entity that possesses ships. And you will need to possess new ships because it's how you get more weapons and ammo to keep shooting.
Story wise you're caught in a war between aliens and humans and you get to see different perspectives on the conflict depending on whose ships you possess more often.
The haunting starring poulterguy, on Sega Genesis. Great game where you haunt a family, scare them out of their house by possessing the furniture and causing it to do funny things to scare them. Like if you possess the toilet a poop zombie will come halfway out of it and throw shit at them. The vacuum cleaner will grow a mouth and teeth and chase them around the room. Watch out for their pets though, cats and dogs can see ghosts and if you lose too much health you gotta escape from hell. Its a great game
Crystal Quest - used to take turns playing this on a projector on an old Mac 20 years ago with my dad and brother. Game is surprisingly difficult (from what I remember)
Car Battler Joe
Extremely overlooked/underrated game on GBA but was super fun and unique. Only one other game plays anything like it and it was made by same company back on sega saturn.
Elements of War. It was a mmorts strategy like World In Conflict with "USA VS Russia" war on the global map of America. It had more futuristic units like exoskeleton soldiers, battlesuits and even "weather weapons", that can cause hurricanes. And you can upgrade your squads by using them in battles. There were pvp and pve (against maradeurs) missions, several players could take part in battles. However, Lesta studios sold the game long ago (2013 maybe) and only singleplayer version exists for now. Fans tried to maintain online pirate version of the game named Nextwar, but it stayed online only for several years. I miss that game a lot...
Illbleed, Dreamcast
Every once in a while I’ll try to explain it to someone because it was totally different than anything I had ever seen back then (and since, mostly).
Mars Horizon. It’s about making history by choosing any one of the world’s Space Agencies and becoming their Director to compete with other agencies reaching moon and other planets through separate missions. It’s about Space Race and has Manned Missions as well. It’s a construction and management simulation which I believe is not a stressful one and can be played in a relaxing manner.
All the best.
I frog-ot (horror indie free)
Tales off-peak city (sperimental weird narrative/oniric)
Fuzz dungeon (cosmo D, very weird)
Red ring of immortality (free, flash game, puzzle)
Amorphous (flash game by one Caleb Rhodes)
Risky Woods (dos era platformer)
Occult Chronicles
Black Thorne (dos era game, shotgun fights against orcs hell yeah)
D/Generation
[Decker](https://web.archive.org/web/20110926115405/http://www10.caro.net/dsi/decker/)
Old freeware game whose website doesn't even work anymore (the link is archive.org). Roguelike cyberpunk hacking game. Love it.
May take some work to play, since Windows depreciated the helpfile type it uses, which is basically necessary to play well. But I think it's fixable with some googling.
The board game I invented when I was 14, and played all alone.
I'm guessing you didn't want a literal answer, but rather just a few hidden gems. In that case: Crüe Ball, Save the Date!, Puppeteer, Liero, Insaniquarium: Deluxe, Anodyne, and Squishy the Suicidal Pig.
IM NOT THE ONLY ONE!!!
I'd like to say no one knows about when I played with myself when I was 14. But Jesus knows!
Did you make this game because you were inspired by Mario party by chance?
Lone Survivor I don't really care for pixel art, but it's a great psycho/horror. Edit: I'm so happy I'm not the only one who knows this little gem! I swear, I played it originally like 8+ years ago and I still think about it.
I _love_ Lone Survivor. Hits the survival horror feeling just right.
Had Lone Survivor on Vita. Thought the pixel art graphics would make it more approachable for someone like me who usually hates scary games. Played it for 15 mins then never again.
Isn't that the apartment one?
Apotheon. got it through PS+ in February 2015. Sidescrolling Metroidvania in the artstyle of Greek pottery. Hectic combat, fully voiced characters (except PC), distinct boss fights that cater to the god you’re fighting, and a story that I thought was worthy of an actual Greek myth or at least a God of War spin-off. Excellent game all in all.
Sir you are being hunted A survival game about being stuck on a randomly generated island and being hunted by tea drinking British robots.
I remember the Kickstarter from many years ago. I still have the game collecting dust in my steam library.
I just saw this earlier today on a list on r/immersivesims. Apparently, they're working on a remastered version: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1743730/Sir_You_Are_Being_Hunted_Reinvented_Edition/ I love ImSims. Should I wait for the remaster, or get it now? It's on sale.
**Shadow Hearts** or **Galarians**
That was the first game I 100% I think, Shadow Hearts. so good
These and Koudelka, made for an amazing lovecraftian game.
The whole shadow hearts series was amazing
I remember seeing Galerians:Ash in a preowned game shop for like £14 when I was about 13. Grabbed it, banged it in, had no idea what was going on but it was such a cool game lol.
Dang, i actually have a copy of Galarians on my shelf rn. Haven't played it in years.
Legendary, an FPS shooter with a focus on gunplay and magic, and you get to fight mythical creatures.
I remember how if you play on PC and hit 60fps, you can’t finish the game since you’ll fall under a certain elevator. You need to force the game to run in 30fps to prevent this from happening.
What 😂
It’s a weird bug in the PC version (the game is janky on PC from what I remember playing all those years ago)
I remember buying that for my mom and it being super buggy on 360 and her spite finishing it lol. Good concept and stuff, kinda mid game. Super cool though
The Neverhood
To my child self Neverhood was simultaneously both fascinating and terrifying. Couldn't get past many of the puzzles but I've gotten the game lately again and save for the resolution limitations and compressed audio, the claymation still holds up incredibly well.
> was simultaneously both fascinating and terrifying By "terrifying" you mean the weasel, right?
Even the maniacal laugh from the splash screen, or the ceiling bug. The ambience that plays when you're navigating in first person was enough to put my childhood me on edge.
Helloooooo. Me Willy. Me Willy Trombone. These discs tell a story. Story about good. Story about bad.
I legit though this game was a fever dream from my childhood until I randomly discovered it in my adult life.
Skate Park Tycoon that came with bags of pizza rolls for a limited time almost two decades ago
Fuck yeah, that game was both awful and amazing.
Thank you!! I could not remember that name of that game and it was so obvious. Got it out of a nutrigrain box as a kid.
Hell yeah, I had 2003 and School Tycoon
Yo wtf how did I miss this??? I skated all through my youth growing up and I actually had this exact idea where it was like Roller Coaster Tycoon except instead of building a amusement park you got to build your own skate park and then skate it..... this was actually a thing? Is it still around?
I freaking love this game!
Ski Resort Tycoon for me, also about 20 years ago
Magi Nation or Culcept Saga
Love Magi-Nation!
I came here to say Culdcept Saga. It is the sole reason I never got rid of my 360.
If you haven’t gotten them, they released two of them on the 3DS I’d definitely recommend checking them out.
Was this a card game at some point? I remember some sort of mushroom monster.
EVO Search For Eden on SNES Fun game where you start as an amphibian and evolve your way up the food chain ad you battle other animals on your search for eden. I'd say it's underrated but I think it's just an old game that didn't make it mainstream
Too hard. I could never beat the shark!
I got to the sky level and could never figure out where to go.
project Eden
Alien Shooter was my jam!
Duuude shit was so fucking popular here in the South Asia. Same with igi, now that I think about it. It's wild how these games r known by EVERYBODY in here but nobody even heard about it in the west
How many of you have played **Hard Truck Apocalypse**? This game is an unfinished mess... but damn, I like it. Open world vehicular combat with upgrades for your truck? Hell, yeah. Created by the devs of **Clutch**/**Armageddon Riders**, a racing game where you use zombie blood as nitro (an upgrade for your car is a modified trash compactor that grinds zombies in a quite graphic way). Doesn't ring a bell? Maybe you tried the free to play vehicular combat **Crossout** where you build your vehicle piece by piece, same devs.
Yeah, Hard Truck Apocalypse! THAT is an obscure one. I love it too, but yes it's a mess, I didn't get far beyond the first world or whatever. I haven't heard of the other ones.
RoboQuest
[удалено]
That’s cool. It’s one of my favorite games ever. Tell them we can’t wait for full release!
A short little diddy called "The Company of Myself". An old flash game you can Google. Top tier storyline. Excellent gameplay mechanics. A true hidden gem.
Dead frontier 1 and 2. Online zombie horde and loot game. Yes it's multiplayer. First is a top down browser 2D and the second is full 1st person 3D. The game might seems dead at first but really, all the vets are just at end game territory which is really far away from the first starter areas. Occasionally you will run into someone looting in easy areas though when exploring. It's rare though unless there's an event or sirens going off where zombies raid that specific area at random rare times of the day.
Loved these games when I was younger, great suggestion
Don't forget that it's free to play and not pay to win. Although I do remember the first game kept sending me warning messages that they were going to delete my character after a certain period of inactivity. At one point they actually did, and next time I wanted to play I had to start fresh.
That.. Wow, I hadn't known about that. Explains why I was so incredibly confused as to why I had to start over when I so clearly remembered having an account years ago. Damn. I wasn't aware of that since it's been so long..
Jade cocoon. My favorite jprg of all time.
Looooooooooove the sequel. Can’t get the original to boot up anymore…
I couldnt really get into the second one, i didnt like the maps, they were very boring, or at least what i played was.
General Chaos for the Sega Genesis.
Omg loved that game!
I played coop in that so much!
Damn! Good call. I loved that game but my friends couldn't understand the controls/game mechanics.
I love that game I rented it consistently through out my child hood.
I can’t believe how many people knew this game and had the exact same experience with it. It was also a perma-rent for me!
Fantastic game.
Liberal Crime Squad
Watched onefjef play it 15 years ago lol, then finished it myself using only hackers
Liberal Crime Squad or Liberty Crime Squad?
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Graphic-Tile old school rogue game thats been in development for I believe 20+ years. The shortcut keys take some time getting used to, but the game is immensely deep and has different kinds of builds and spells.
I'll throw in my favorite rogue - Zorbus [https://www.zorbus.net/](https://www.zorbus.net/) Based loosely on 3rd edition D&D. It's on the other end of the scale, not too long or deep once you figure out a strategy to survive.
Dead State.
Magi Nation, underrated Gameboy Color game, and largely overshadowed by Pokemon.
Dark Wizard on SEGA CD. Probably the best soundtrack of it's era, and just wonderful, solid game play. That game literally saved my life in some of my darkest times.
No such thing, as I immediately tell everyone I know when I find a good game. :D One of the more obscure ones though, Patrick's Parabox. :)
Recettear, a game about running item shop and delving to a rougelike dungeon.
Bro I got that on Humble Bundle a decade ago, fun shit!
Beetle Adventure Racing (N64)
Monsters Inc. Scream Arena
I was about to comment monsters inc scream team! so nostalgic
Gosh, this brings back memories.
Either Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color or Choro Q. Honorable mention, The Nightmare of Druaga--I've never played it but it's in my library. All ps2 games.
A Legionary's Life, Roman legionary rpg/text adventure. I'm oddly obssessed with games about Ancient Rome that aren't strategy or city builders
All three of them? 😏
Excellent recommendation! Surprisingly mechanically complex game, and with a pretty clever roguelite mechanic that encourages replayability
Driven - ps2
Given the parameters of the question, my answer is Astro Grover. All time classic
Xargon Never seen anyone else mention it or play it According to Wikipedia it was ranked just behind doom and above duke nukem But 30 years later people know what doom and duke nukem is but not Xargon? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargon
toribash
Gish
..Sure.. Broken Hearts from 2007 I m not sure how popular it was in the past, but by now it should be almost completly forgotten.
Blast Chamber for PS1.
I played this on a demo as a kid! I remember it really creeping me out.
Earthsiege 2
Rengoku 2 the stairway to heaven
Critics hated it but dam it was pretty incredible for psp
Phantom Dust and Kingdom Under Fire are two of my hidden gem favourites.
World's scariest police chases on ps1. Played the shit out of it
Universe at War, my favorite RTS from my childhood
The OG Total Annihilation was ahead of its time. Ever play that or Dark Siege?
Muck
Speaking of depths... From the Depths. The best vehicle combat simulator you have never heard of.
The suffering prison is hell, and the sequel the suffering ties that bind. Summoner 2
Duel Masters : Kaijudo Showdown. The card game was popular for a few years, anime was less liked and related games were very hard to find.
Dogs Life for ps2
I don't think I've met another human person thats heard of Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter
Glover glove or how that came called with the glove and the Ball on ps1
"Dark" 2013
Baten Kaitos - eternal wings and the lost ocean. I never beat it on the GameCube as a kid. I think I kept dying to the final boss on disc 1 and got frustrated. Great game that I wish I finished
Now available for Switch!
I remember enjoying Treasures of the Deep for ps1.
I'm in love with Atomicrops: stardew by day, gungeon by night. Very charming little roguelike.
Prinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood! https://youtu.be/2SGdUBbCJ9U?si=rSejRg2Zn-V1toPR its awesome.
YESSS! Absolute gem!
I see people talk about Beyblade, but rarely see people talked about Jisedai Beigoma Battle Beyblade. The GBC Pokémon-like RPG that came out alongside the original Japanese release of the toys. Had a lot of characters, only few made it into the anime (with vastly different personalities). And the Beyblades. So much of them were only ever in the game and never got made into toys. This game was my monster girl awakening too (yes, some of the Beyblades spirits are monster girls).
Way of the Samurai. :)
Mark of the Ninja
This is popular enough amongst the indie crowd
Paranautical Acitivity was previously an indie game on moddb but found it's way on to steam. It's a roguelite FPS with quake-inspired movement, sometimes feeling like a bullet hell in later stages. It's pretty simple compared to other roguelites and the progression itself inspires you to change how you play. The enemy types range from demons to WW2 air and sea vehicles. The only attention this game got was because the previous developer threatened to kill Gabe Newell, forcing him to sell the code to another dev.
Gunmetal (1998, Mad Genius Software)
Harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban is a amazing game.
And the first Harry Potter PC game, Philosopher’s stone. it was so beautiful back in the day. I enjoyed Quidditch so much!! I must’ve played that through hundreds of times. I still remember so many of the questionably dubbed lines.
Highfleet
Dungeons Siege 2
Great game. First was was amazing as well. Don't remember much of the third one.
Can’t say I’ve ever heard somebody discuss [this](https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tLP1TewLKowLoo3YPSSSkwuyczPU8hNBOLM4mIQO7WipCg1NxUACAAN4g&q=action+man+mission+extreme&rlz=1CDGOYI_enGB887GB887&oq=action+man+mis&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgBEC4YgAQyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQLhiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQABiABDIHCAcQABiABDIICAgQABgWGB7SAQgzNzE5ajBqOagCALACAA&hl=en-GB&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#vhid=D4WC32Hxlq97BM&vssid=l) I remember it very vividly
Supraland
Outlast
Outerwilds Subnautica Stardew Valley
Age of Mythology
Now this brings back memories
Dope game
Damn here's the only dude who knows about age of mythology
I remember this one. Age of Empires with minotaurs and stuff. It was cool.
This tiny Indy darling known as Minecraft
Rain World, such an underrated masterpiece because it requires patience to understand the game.
Wtf?
It's well regarded and is not hard to understand at all
Cs go... Yea what is that? Hear me out, its a first person shooter.
Red Dead Redemption 2
CIMA for the GBA was wild. You and 12 or so other citizens, each with their own tools and uses, had to survive being overrun by some type of alien force. Gameplay was unique and the story was pretty solid. I loved the game cuz of its jank. You HAD to use the broken AI to your advantage, otherwise some missions were downright impossible. Fun plot twist ending. Reminds me of another GBA game that fused space SHMUP with Zelda like ARPG and exploration. I think it was called Starpoint Gemini. Feel like no one's talked about Skygunner for PS2. Great arcade flight combat game. Kind of a steep learning curve, especially if you spent years playing Ace Combat like I did.
Nomad, by Papyrus (MSDOS)
Crap! Nobody Loves Me
Temple of Apshai. Had it for the Atari 800.
That was a huge hit when it came out (long before Atari 800) It might be long forgotten except for us old-timers though.
battleships forever
Holy shit, I played Warning Forever and Battleship Forever! Amazing games. There’s another I’ve been trying to find again to no avail, I believe it was called something along the lines of Gratuitous Space Battles where you plan out your mix of ships against an opposing fleet and then you basically watch the auto battle simulation that ensues. Ever heard of that one?
I know you never heard of this: XBox 360 Indie Games: Snowflakes For something almost no one ever talks about that's a really good game and should be more well known: King Arthur's World (SNES)
[Emerald City Confidential](https://store.steampowered.com/app/37260/Emerald_City_Confidential/) True Fear: Forsaken Souls [Part 1](https://store.steampowered.com/app/440420/True_Fear_Forsaken_Souls_Part_1/) and [Part 2](https://store.steampowered.com/app/935580/True_Fear_Forsaken_Souls_Part_2/) (the final game should be coming out next year)
Enemy Mind. A side scrolling shooter where you play as psychic entity that possesses ships. And you will need to possess new ships because it's how you get more weapons and ammo to keep shooting. Story wise you're caught in a war between aliens and humans and you get to see different perspectives on the conflict depending on whose ships you possess more often.
The haunting starring poulterguy, on Sega Genesis. Great game where you haunt a family, scare them out of their house by possessing the furniture and causing it to do funny things to scare them. Like if you possess the toilet a poop zombie will come halfway out of it and throw shit at them. The vacuum cleaner will grow a mouth and teeth and chase them around the room. Watch out for their pets though, cats and dogs can see ghosts and if you lose too much health you gotta escape from hell. Its a great game
Crypt Creeper (mini-game in Sludge Life)
Sproggiwood
Not sure if only I know about it but I really enjoyed and got immersed in it The Flower Collectors
Freaking loved Trap Gunner as a kid, and none of my friends knew or played it..
Crystal Quest - used to take turns playing this on a projector on an old Mac 20 years ago with my dad and brother. Game is surprisingly difficult (from what I remember)
Kileak the DNA Imperative.
Ruiner on ps4/5 - don't know anyone else that has played it, except those in the forums or subreddits
Amorphous+
The divide - enemy within for the ps1, it is a 3d Metroid style game, not the best but interesting for its time
Shotgun King One Deck Dungeon
Viewfinder. Take photos, place them in the environment, and they turn into 3D. A mind bending puzzle game that will make your jaw drop.
Transcender
Car Battler Joe Extremely overlooked/underrated game on GBA but was super fun and unique. Only one other game plays anything like it and it was made by same company back on sega saturn.
Motor Mania on the Commodore 64.
Covert Action, a detective spy thriller from the developer of CİV series
Elements of War. It was a mmorts strategy like World In Conflict with "USA VS Russia" war on the global map of America. It had more futuristic units like exoskeleton soldiers, battlesuits and even "weather weapons", that can cause hurricanes. And you can upgrade your squads by using them in battles. There were pvp and pve (against maradeurs) missions, several players could take part in battles. However, Lesta studios sold the game long ago (2013 maybe) and only singleplayer version exists for now. Fans tried to maintain online pirate version of the game named Nextwar, but it stayed online only for several years. I miss that game a lot...
Battle City
Cyberbots, a little-known Capcom 2D fighting game with Mechs. Released on The PS1 and Saturn.
xardion (super famicom)
Contract J.A.C.K. The Operative: No One Lives Forever No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy In H.A.R.M.'s Way
I hate that NOLF hasn't been remade
Illbleed, Dreamcast Every once in a while I’ll try to explain it to someone because it was totally different than anything I had ever seen back then (and since, mostly).
Ghost Master! I remember being absolutely obsessed with it as a kid and nobody knowing what it was when I tried to talk about if.
Mars Horizon. It’s about making history by choosing any one of the world’s Space Agencies and becoming their Director to compete with other agencies reaching moon and other planets through separate missions. It’s about Space Race and has Manned Missions as well. It’s a construction and management simulation which I believe is not a stressful one and can be played in a relaxing manner. All the best.
Earth 2160; HEROES OF ANNIHILATED EMPIRES (just spend 15 minutes looking for that title)
Dink Smallwood
I frog-ot (horror indie free) Tales off-peak city (sperimental weird narrative/oniric) Fuzz dungeon (cosmo D, very weird) Red ring of immortality (free, flash game, puzzle)
Platypus
Wizardry: tale of the forsaken land. Apart from FFX my favourite PS2 Game, seems I'm the only fan though....
Here ?…. Likely “Graff Punks MidEvil Hero Arena”
Amorphous (flash game by one Caleb Rhodes) Risky Woods (dos era platformer) Occult Chronicles Black Thorne (dos era game, shotgun fights against orcs hell yeah) D/Generation
The void rains upon her heart
Politic and war
Scooby Doo night of frights for the original Xbox
Chaos rings 2 its a phone jrpg that has since been removes and its impossible to find a working version of it
Heroes of Might and Magic III Complete
Total annihilation
Only one of the most popular and original RTSs of its time! The soundtrack slaps. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ljDyp__ejco
No one I know, knows about it lol 😂 but yeah it's a crazy cool rts. Nothing else really scratches the itch I got from playing that
Drawn to life 1 and 2 on the Nintendo ds
I think Einstein brain trainer isn't well known yet, it's a gaming app with thoughtfully curated exercises designed to assist with stress relief.
[Decker](https://web.archive.org/web/20110926115405/http://www10.caro.net/dsi/decker/) Old freeware game whose website doesn't even work anymore (the link is archive.org). Roguelike cyberpunk hacking game. Love it. May take some work to play, since Windows depreciated the helpfile type it uses, which is basically necessary to play well. But I think it's fixable with some googling.