My current phone game is ∞ Loop. Just a simple puzzle-type game.
I also like a variety of solitaire card games, but the app I used to like has become quite enshittified, and I haven't found a good replacement.
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Super dodgeball for the NES.
Deceptively simple, but much deeper than it seems on first glance. Each character has 2 different special abilities that change the way you throw. Especially if you can get a few buddies to huddle around the tv with you, will keep you all entertained for hours.
If its out of non-mentions it has to be Space Station 13. I hope 14 on Steam catches up soon, been thinking of lending a hand.
Sorry if you know this game, but I've met plenty of people who haven't and I've never seen it mentioned online until I searched for it today: Contact!
Airborne Kingdom
Probably havent player it in ten years but Kirby super star ultra. There is just SO MUCH content. I swear there are like a dozen minigamss and multiple "main games". All on the DS, it's crazy.
Other than that, megaman zero. Great music, tight controls and great story. Its fucking hard of course but super fun.
Cogmind! I found that game after I bought Caves Of Qud. Technically it wasn't recommended to me by anyone directly (just found it one day scrolling through Steam). Its an excellent RPG where you play as a self-assembling robot trying to escape from a massive robot colony thing. Haven't gotten super far into the game yet but I absolutely love the gameplay and sound design. Check it out!
Also, NES Open; the greatest golf game ever made in my opinion. I've had it since I was a kid and have never heard anyone talk about it online. Simple gameplay, high skill ceiling. Exactly what a golf game needs to be!
Labyrinth!
Each turn you first move one column or row of the gameboard over by one, then move as far as you like along any unobstructed path as you race against other players to collect magiffins in the ever-changing maze.
It's a game that rewards both creative thinking and sabotage. It helps develop strategy and spatial reasoning. It's simple enough for a kindergartner to learn but engaging enough for adults to enjoy even after dozens of games.
Reminds me ever so slightly of the Genesis game Fatal Labyrinth. It's a terrible video game, but if you're curious...
Action Quake 2 - AQ2
An online 90s FPS
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Card game - Simplicity and depth, exceptional gameplay. Best at 2P.
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All time biggest time sinks are probably Civilization 2 and Factorio.
Biggest time sink you’ve never heard of is Ancient Dungeons of Mystery, a one-man Roguelike dungeon delving passion project.
You have never seen Factorio being mentioned on the internet?
You never read comments you reply to till the end?
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Civ II was peak of the series imho... Immersive gameplay trumps graphics
I really like backgammon but no one ever wants to play with me
Board game: Sheriff of Nottingham, i just love social deception games.
Video game: BETON BRUTAL, 3D platformer with similar parkour like Minecraft, but more polished. Overall pretty chill to sink some time into.
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Jade cocoon 2 for the PS2.
A brilliant mix of tactics and Pokemon. You have a box composed of 8 slots surrounding you, 4 edges of different coolers, and 4 corners that combine 2 colors, you get to pick of 6 monsters to fill those 8 slots, each edge is a different style of move, red is attack, blue is defend, green is heal, yellow is cast, some monsters only have 1 color affiliated with them, some have 3, you select which side/color of box you want to attack your opponent with, if you don't have a monster in the middle of that color they can attach your hit point pool directly.
I rarely see it mentioned, and I think that's a shame, it was very creative for being in a very popular genre
Bounty Bob on the C64 was goood.
Two gamecube games that I never see discussed anywhere, and no equal sequel has ever released for:
Cubivore & Frolf
I am still so sad to not be an owner of either in a physical capacity :’(
Does making a list of all games not on any list count as a game? Also, what happens since that game is now on a list making the original list incorrect?
My actual answer would probably be the old SSI games on Amiga specifically for Death Knights of Krynn or similar, though I don't think they hold up super well (it's 1st ed D&D specifically in Dragonlance and adapted to PCs of the time).
Ok, any game that I've ever seen mentioned by someone online in my almost 30 years on the internet is going to strike most titles and leave only the ones that are really old, obscure, or both. So, here are a few that I like but can't recall seeing mentioned online other than when specifically looking them up:
- Stunt Island. Airplane sim-like game by Disney studios. Early 90's
- Rocking Cats. Awesome NES platformer that has a really fun take on the genre
- Armadillo Run. Physics puzzle that a friend of mine recommended in the mid 2000s.
- Sacrifice. Weird (the good kind of weird) first person strategy game I pirated once after finding it on an FTP. Fucking amazing game from somewhere in the early 2000s
- A.r.s.e.n.a.l. An RTS from the late 90s. Don't send an attack without fuel trucks!
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Castle of the winds.
I had this as a kid. From a shareware compilation CD.
For the Gen-Z kids in the audience, that's like a little snapshot of the internet that you bought at a computer show or flea market for $2, and was worse than the internet because it didn't have any boobies on it, except it was better than the internet because your parents wouldn't gripe at you constantly for always tying up the house's telephone line and you barely had to wait to play anything on it.
Where was I again?
Oh yeah. I got my ass kicked by that game. It was also cool that you could set any Windows .ico file as your player character, though. You could run around as Captain Notepad or Sir Calculator the Algebraic if you wanted to.
Herzog Zwei on the Sega Genesis was one of my favorites back in the day!
The boardgame Heat is one of my all time favorites. Thunder Road Vendetta is right up there too, and I am waiting to put them together for an all road race/rage saturday with my boardgame peeps.
Snake. There are many good versions of it, but I'd say my favourite is the one from coolmathgames.com .
Double Dare the videogame for the Nintendo Entertainment System
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I think I might've mentioned this once before, but The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] stood out to me for its stylized graphics and animation. Or if you're in the mood for a puzzle game, Temple of Snek might be good to try.
Thinking about it, reducing my entire game library to not suggested titles anywhere decreases its size drastically. It easily knocks like 20 games I would list normally.
With that said, Last Command was a nice bullet hell game. Would reccomend
I came across Blade Runner on GOG. I don’t remember when but I think it was on sale. I didn’t touch it for at least a year or two until two days ago. It is so amazing. It has the old school 90’s point and click vibe while being an amazing detective story (one I could imagine even being made into a movie itself).
I think I've got that but have never played it. Must get it running one day!
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Fragile allegiance. Desperately needs a redo with a first person mode and better ui
Favorite is a tough one to pick. There are many games that have genuinely shaped my life, some that I still play consistently, others that hold a dear place in my heart but I'll likely never pick back up for various reasons.
Games that I play all the time and get the most value out of are not necessarily my favorite games. I've been playing the crap out of satisfactory since it's 1.0 release, and it's definitely up there, but it doesn't evoke the same feelings I had when I played Skyrim for the first time, nor do I think it will create formative memories like the Halo, Sly Cooper, or Ratchet and Clank series did for me.
Well shit. I guess I don't have an answer. Sorry.