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Good underground RPGs
| Obligatory Undertale even if it doesn't fit criteria.
| Vagrant Story. If you can get over the learning curve, it's a unique gem.
| Epic Battle Fantasy has a really good battle system and nice animation. The story/writing is pretty juvenile though, which you might find it either charming or grating.
EBF 1-3 are free. 4-5 are solid improvements and under $20.
| Gothic 1 & 2.
A bit clunky and buggy but the writing is excellent.
The world is lovely, it's characters unique, the music great, the options to do things are plenty.
It's quite hard at the beginning though, so be carfeful.
| >>658362
Looks pretty cool! I might check it out on an emulator.
>>658375
Doesn't really look like my thing, sorry.
| >>658386
Ah whoops are you looking for western RPG? EBF is JRPG-inspired with a turn-based battle system.
| >>658407
I love JRPGs, so no. I was just curious. The name made me think about TRPGs, and that's not necessarily what I want.
| Persona 1 and Persona 2
Ever since Persona 3 came out it seems like Atlus and most people completely forgot about the existence of those games and that's why I'm counting them as underground rpg, though I totally understand if people don't agree with me
| >>658409
Fair enough. I love P5 and know some stuff about 3 and 4, but I don't know shit about 1 and 2 though.
| Underrail. Can't recommend the experience enough - and it's pretty much as underground as it gets.
| >>658784
Proton is developed by Valve and based on a fork of Wine. It includes several patches and libraries to improve performance and compatibility with Windows games. Proton is designed for integration into the Steam client as "Steam Play".
| >>658801
I'm very saddened to read that ;_;
It did help me a lot so I can't relate but definitely look forward to proton !
| Muramasa Rebirth, Odin Sphere Leifthrasir, Xenoblade X, Tokyo Xanadu eX+, or Demon Gaze
| Alundra for the ps1.
| And it's sequel
| Does Underrail count? It's quiet literally underground.
| >>659290
Very original.
>>659279
Xenoblade Chronicles X is great, and I've considered replaying it. I know little to nothing about the other ones though. Thanks :)
| Arx Fatalis
It's so underground it literally happens underground
| Although I guess it's more of a golden classic
| >>661726
+2
Also Ultima Underworld. Arx Fatalis was supposed to be a sequel to the Underworld. The deal between developers and Origin Systems fell through.
| The Yo-Kai Watch series if you have a 3Ds. They are generally good, but simple monster collecting RPG. The North American ads basically killed it here. The two latest games thag got released are pretty expensive, but YW3 is one of the best 3Ds RPGs i my mind.
| >>662932
Ah, true. I forgot about that series. I do have a 3DS and I'm pretty sure I've watched a few episodes of the anime. The games look alright, but, aren't they full price Nintendo games? Because those cunts never lower their prices.
| >>662987 The first game is hella cheap nowadays. You can find it for around five dollars at like a five below. While it sequels is gonna be around be 20. They have gone down in price recently.
| >>663055
Ah, okay. That's nice. Nintendo usually sell their games really expensive even after many, many years, but I guess Yo-Kai Watch didn't do that well.
| >>663060 Yeah. Any third party nintendo games just get cheap after awhile and after a big flop it goes for cheap. I recommend it if you want something different fron the standard pokemon format.
| >>663420
I might get it, yeah. Something like that on DS (that isn't just Pokémon) could be nice. I still have yet to finish S&S though, and there are a lot of cool suggestions here, so I'll put it on the back burner for now. Thanks though :)
| summon night but most of its game were never translated
| >>663469
Is Summon Night 5 good? I got it years ago on a bargain price but never really got the chance to play it.
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| What are some good, preferably cheap, RPGs that aren't well known? I don't have a lot of money, and I want to play RPGs that'll pleasantly surprise me and that hasn't been completely spoiled because, well, they're not very well known.
Could be old games that people don't really remember, could be indie games, could be AAA games that went under the radar and dropped in price.