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Games you think no one else knows about
| If not for the existence of this site, I would say VA-11 Hall-A
| >>384865 I've seen VA-11 a couple times around the internet (mostly KYM) and my teacher, who loves Cyberpunk and games, has heard about it.
Maybe I should convince him to play it...
| Yume Nikki isn't that obscure (I think) but nobody I know seems to have heard of it
| Battle Gear
| > The Way by Crestfallen Studios (PC)
> ICEY (PC/Mobile)
> Baroque (Saturn/Wii/PS2)
> Umihara Kawase (SNES/PS1/Vita/PC)
> Dustforce (PC/PSP)
> The Vagrant (PC)
> Superflight (PC)
> Spark the Electric Jester (PC)
> Steambot Chronicles (PS2)
> Red Eclipse (PC Linux)
> Environmental Station Alpha (PC)
There are people who know about the above, of course, but you will have to put some effort in to looking for them. You would likely get confused stares if you ask about these IRL.
| Wadanohara
| Space Funeral.
| There's this game called Hylics. It plays like a jrpg but the graphics are all acidy. Some of it is claymation and some are photographs. It's getting a sequel soon too.
| Lux—pain
| Mix Ore, or any other games by Charon. I love all his/her games
| >>385070
lmao I had someone gift me lux-pain years ago and I still can't figure out how to fucking play it properly
| >>384800
Interstellaria. Despite being a bit dated for it's time and generally disliked by steam for graphical and gameplay issues, I got a lot of enjoyment playing through the game a few times, and it has a bangin' soundtrack to go with it.
| Song of saya.
| Vagante, delver. Really cool rouge likes and I’ve never heard people talking about them
| Slain: Back From Hell
| Freedom Wars for PSVita
| Space Station Silicon Valley, I loved that game as a kid
| Titan soul
Cool game about bossfitings
| Siralim 2.
| Star Traders 2: Frontiers
| A... uh... rogue like, simulation, rpg, in space, where you're basically the crew from Firefly.
Very difficult but very rewarding.
| Hoplite.
| Mothlight, Middens, Close Your Eyes, Goblet Grotto
I fuckin love obscure rpgs
| >>385401
Isn't Middens by the same guy who made Gingiva? I started to play the latter and had to stop when I learned a bit more about the what kind of person the creator was...
| nvm I just dug up a tumblr account. Holy shit
| The Amber Throne. I think I made a thread about it like a year ago and no one replied :(
| >>385420
yeah. sometimes it's possible for me to separate a piece of work from the artist that did it, but...
| LovePlus
| Hello Charlott-jk
---Crypt worlds
---Piss on everything.
| G-Darius/Darius series itself(its playable characters arent even on Akinator) outside of Japan
| >>385498
http://clowdergate.tumblr.com
This blog details a lot of it. He's also known for... responding very, very poorly to criticism of his work:
https://indiehellzone.com/2017/09/29/how-not-to-handle-criticism-featuring-john-clowder/amp/
| Shantae
Gunvolt
| The Last Sovereign - one of the best RPGs ever
| LISA: The first and its sequel
| Brandish for the snes and psp. A damn good dungeon crawler
| the unlucky number station in cosmos
| >>385076
You put a baller tune on your phone and do stuff to spirits? , I honestly dont remember hahaha
| No Thing
| Flower, Sun, & Rain
Killer7
Twilight Syndrome
Obscure but yet equally great SUDA 51 games.
| Machines: Wired for War. The first game I ever played and I'll never forget it
| Blade the Dark Night. An old DOS game with awesome graphics for its time. Everything was shown in black siluette against a blue night sky.
| >>385411
Why do you care about author and not product itself? Dostoevsky was pedophile and gambler yet he's one of the most talanted authors.
| Well, for me I think things aren't always about the final product. That's what I think for many things, artwork, books, shows, games, etc. In a way, the history and person behind the work and what it took to create the work is part of the art itself. I like to think of Van Gogh. If not for his story, his personality, his passion, he wouldn't have been anywhere near as famous as he was.
| I can still appreciate and accept that a beautiful piece of art made by a shitty person is still beautiful, but depending on how bad the person was, I can't support it.
Not to say other perspectives aren't valid, but that's just how I see things.
| >>386317
Dostoevsky was pedophile do you still appreciate his works? He was worse than this dev you know he didn't ask for nudes on internet.
| The games seem fine to me, but just because I think so doesn't mean I need to support the developer.
Instead I'm watching a Let's Play.
| >>386333 true, but I think it's about if it sours the work for example the Made in Abyss author is pedophile, that only makes the manga more frightening so it works.
| Ninjatown, a tower defense DS game where the units were different ninjas. I forget the plot cause I played it like 10 years ago and I never played it cause I was a dumbass kid
| Skeleton book (or skelet book... or so...). Combo of TD and keyboard trainer.
| >>384984
I played ICEY a bit ago. It was really weird because I knew it was a meta game, but I tried to play it just following instructions, but then messed it up a lot, so the narrator kept getting angry and then not and then angry over and over again in a condescending loop until I said fuck it I'll just look for achievements
| The House in Fata Morgana, one of the best visual novels Ive ever experienced
| The legendary Starfy
| Senko no Ronde
| NAISSANCCE!!
| OneShot seems like it would fit here. I love the heck out of that game, but nobody seems to have heard of it.
| >>387072
One shot has actually become quit popular. At least in the YouTube gaming community. I believe Markiplier and some other big names played it. It never got super popular, but I believe the community for it is pretty big.
| Oh, I see. Kinda surprising to hear that tbh cause anyone I try to talk to about it has never even heard of it.
| 1bitheart
I love
The sequel is solid too, tho a bit short
| Baroque
| H.E.D.Z.
| >>387081
Most people I talk to irl haven't heard of Fez, but that game is one of the first huge indie hits. It all depends on if the ones you talk to are big indie game fans or not.
| Final boss. So far the game only has a demo released, but I'll be damned if that demo isn't one of the best shmups I've ever played.
| Bump
| Space Station 13! Still has a small community and a few servers to choose from, despite being Jank City: the video game.
| >>387749 Space Station 13 is awesome. It's just too bad that there aren't any European servers and that the netcode is so old it doesn't even have lag compensation. I wish we had more games like ss13.
There's this game called Bautorama that comes kinda close. It's free and in alpha right now and allows for up to 16 people to steer, build and maintain a huge submarine.
| Tales of Symphonia
| Just Cause 1, everyone seems to only know 2 and 3.
Also Crackdown 1 and 2, fun asf to play.
| Fucking 3DO's ARMY MEN, for the millenials it must look like a relic
| Future Tactics
A fairly odd, but rough hidden gem for GameCube, Xbox, and PS2. It's probably still really cheap if you find it around, and it's totally worth it.
| Analogue a hate story
| Fistful of Frags for silly cowboy shooting.
| >>386745 ICEY has a nice concept, the gameplay is fun, but the narrator and the voice acting for the narrator is off-putting. You could play some other meta games like Undertale or OneShot and have more fun.
| Crusaders of might and magic for the ps1 and pc
| I never hear anyone even mention this game
| Nightmare of Druaga Fushingo's Dungeon for ps2. Brutal and unforgiving rougelike rpg.
| >>388541 You either like it or you don't.That is my favourite game,the atmosphere in each map is different and music are quite nice too and characters are unique,you can just feel like there is a story in each place and there is not a single word to tell it,it's like exploring your own adventure and story,the ending just make you think too.
| Little indi game Signal Ops - good example why indi devs need your money. They tried to get funds on indigogo and failed, as a result we got very questionable game that has Commandos-like gameplay, interesting visual, silly spy humor and sometimes inque fun missions and yet it lacks optimisation and polish, sometimes its really hard to tell what exactly game want from you to do... most didnt even finish first level. I see the potential, if only they get enough moneys...
Oh well.
| Okage shadow king
| Fire Emblem
| N/N+/N++
| Ori ?
| >>389182
Nah dude. That game is pretty fucking popular. There's a shit ton of hype for the sequel, like, everywhere.
| Oh well then D:
| Tales of Maj'Eyal. I'm addicted to this game
| how about kao the kangaroo
| Momodora 2 - it's a free metroidvania type platformer with good music and was one of the prequels to the more well-known Reverie Under the Moonlight
| i havent heard anyone mention fossil fighters in so long
| Heat Signature
From the maker of Gunpoint, heat Signature is a top down game about sneaking onto spaceships. You can also pause to strategically plan your next move, making gameplay a mix of hotline miami and superhot.
| Airships: cts
| Racing Lagoon for the ps1.
A street racing RPG developed by squaresoft in hopes of cashing in on the Intial D craze in Japan.
It had a banger of an intro song:
https://youtu.be/aV7DWgjjTOQ
| Illusion of gaia for SNES. That was the game of my childhood
| Fantasy life - a great, diverse RPG by level 5
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