Obscure game you have played - What have you played that you think, maybe, nobody else here has played?

[Timaeus Testified]

You play as a tiny robot that Mr. Sanderson just bought his daughter Jenny for her birthday. You explore the house, clean up trash and stains, and interact with the household by day and the toys at night, who come to life Toy Story style. It gets surprisingly dark at points, hence the E 10+. Absolutely love this game; it's so weird and I'm a huge Toy Story fan. Nintendo criminally drove this potential IP into an abyssal trench. Don't play anything outside of the direct sequel Chibi-Robo: Clean Sweep, which has an English fan translation.

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

I’m currently playing through the sixth gen FPS xiii. Apparently its also based on some french comic (as an aside is the comic worth reading?) so its an example of how to make a good liscensed game.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Lost Eden

It's a PC Adventure game with Dinosaurs. It's in the same vein as Riven or Myst where you point and click in first person view and head around the map to solve rather involved puzzles. You go around on a journey and meet different tribes of humans, demi-humans, dinosaurs, wizards, kings, and other weird beings. It's got a story that holds up and the music is also well done. If you like stuff like Dinotopia or Dune it's going to be right up your alley.

It's also known for it's Soundtrack made by Stephane Picq, probably one of the only video games that uses New Age type music throughout the whole game.

you can get it on GOG for 10 bucks

https://www.gog.com/game/lost_eden

 

[Jace E. Denton]

I’m currently playing through the sixth gen FPS xiii. Apparently its also based on some french comic (as an aside is the comic worth reading?) so its an example of how to make a good liscensed game.

I guess that game is pretty obscure to the mainstream, but it has a cult following similar to the original Deus Ex and VTMB. It's definitely a great game and is one of those titles I strongly recommend to anyone younger, it holds up pretty damn well because they went with cel shading. Another good early 2000s game is No One Lives Forever, as well as its sequel.

 

[Billy_Sama]

Quite possibly one of the worst Mortal Kombat clones I played is Time Killers on the Genesis. It was supposed to be released in 1993 but got cancelled even though review copies sent to magazines. Despite being dated and swamped in a market of 2D and 3D fighters, it managed to released in 1996, making it a equilivent Food Fight of video games.

 

[NarutoYaoi]

Rule of Rose.
You play as a girl who essentially uncovers her past, at a fucked up Orphanage in the 1920's. A personal favorite of mine, and my most prized possession. The gameplay isnt the best and the story can be confusing, but it managed to win me over somehow.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

You play as a tiny robot that Mr. Sanderson just bought his daughter Jenny for her birthday. You explore the house, clean up trash and stains, and interact with the household by day and the toys at night, who come to life Toy Story style. It gets surprisingly dark at points, hence the E 10+. Absolutely love this game; it's so weird and I'm a huge Toy Story fan. Nintendo criminally drove this potential IP into an abyssal trench. Don't play anything outside of the direct sequel Chibi-Robo: Clean Sweep, which has an English fan translation.

I never played that but thought "wait, wasn't that originally a 64DD game or a cancelled 64DD game?" - a lot of oddball things(Animal Crossing) spun out of that system. But I was completely wrong.

It made me remember this 64DD game, Doshin the Giant, later ported to Gamecube. Pretty obscure when it comes to people that actually played it back when it came out, partially because it was only released in Japan and Europe(no one imports games from Europe or mods their console to play PAL releases). It was not well received either and it looked like a N64 game. Over the years people have started to check it out I think.

I wouldn't call it a fun game, it's even hard to call it anything. My memory is hazy and the only thing I remember is trying to figure out how to play the game in the way games are usually played(how do I win? what's the min-max strategy?) - I strongly suspect that wasn't the point with Doshin.
Reading Wikipedia just now I learned the designer was the guy behind Aquanaut's Holiday and Tail of the Sun which explains a lot.

Cubivore was decent enough if I remember it right, started on the 64DD and then came out on Gamecube. In the current era it would have been a cheaper downloadable game not a full priced release, it would have suited it better.

 

[PL 001]

I got this as a birthday present one year. It was basically a platformer than took a lot of cues from Mario. The game was strange though, it played like a fever dream of Mario.

 

[Lone MacReady]

Last Window
the JPN/EU-only sequel to Hotel Dusk; A game about a man who says he doesn't care about people, but ends up solving everyone's problems by the end.

 

[Billy_Sama]

Last Window
the JPN/EU-only sequel to Hotel Dusk; A game about a man who says he doesn't care about people, but ends up solving everyone's problems by the end.
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I played Hotel Dusk and enjoyed it, I was bummed that the sequel wasn't released in the US.

 

[The Great Citracett]

I played Hotel Dusk and enjoyed it, I was bummed that the sequel wasn't released in the US.

Same. I ended up giving in and just buying an Australian copy of Last Window online. Pretty great, but it's localized for the UK so there's some UK slang and terms for items that feel weird coming from a guy who's a New York detective.

 

[TheRedRanger]

Rule of Rose.
You play as a girl who essentially uncovers her past, at a fucked up Orphanage in the 1920's. A personal favorite of mine, and my most prized possession. The gameplay isnt the best and the story can be confusing, but it managed to win me over somehow.

Man, I'm jealous. That game was the subject of a moral panic in the UK, lead by the Daily Mail (because of course it was). As such, I don't recall ever seeing a copy on sale.

 

[NarutoYaoi]

Man, I'm jealous. That game was the subject of a moral panic in the UK, lead by the Daily Mail (because of course it was). As such, I don't recall ever seeing a copy on sale.

I got it off Ebay, trust me it wasnt cheap. 104 dollars, and no booklet (which I've heard smells like crayons). Its my favorite video game though, so I'm still happy with this purchase
I'm a big fan of the ps2 era of horror, the next game on my agenda to get is Haunting Ground.

 

[deeman]

Never got the jist of it as a kid and a too easy as an adult, but still love it.

 

[Casshern]

Uplink, a game created by Introversion Software. The same people who made Prison Architect, if the name rings any bells. You play as an elite h@xx0r tasked with uncovering the secrets of some organization, I think. I'll probably boot the game up in a few hours, its been years.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Here's a game that I'm pretty certain no one has played.

Alien Earth by Beam Software. It's sort of the spiritual successor to Shadowrun on the SNES, they were the developer of that as well.
Remember how in Shadowrun you aimed with a cursor controlled with a d-pad? Wouldn't it be better with a mouse? And wouldn't melee weapons be more fun than guns...

It's a post-apocalyptic game released in 1998, exclusively on the south pole with a seven game print run by my estimation, because this is impossible to find. It was tough to even figure out if it was actually released and where it was released is still a mystery(just look at the publishers on that box art). There's more information on the game now but this was my white whale for many years.

It has pre-rendered graphics/maps in the style of Baldur's Gate instead of the tiled environments of Shadowrun or Fallout.

It's not great, I had hoped it would be a gem that just didn't get a wider release, I would have been happy with a Donkey Kong-themed Shadowrun.
I don't like the graphics but it isn't just brown and green jungle, there's also brown and green cities covered in jungle. I have never played that far into it, the start with only melee weapons suck, to hit/kill an enemy it is required to get very close and click the right spot. The enemies also poisons you if you get close, which is required, then you have to run back to a dude to cure the poison. Rinse and repeat.

Uplink, a game created by Introversion Software. The same people who made Prison Architect, if the name rings any bells. You play as an elite h@xx0r tasked with uncovering the secrets of some organization, I think. I'll probably boot the game up in a few hours, its been years.

That one was pretty popular at the time, it made a big splash. Good game.
Uplink and Crimson Land were the two huge indie successes before the indie scene and $20 games as we know it existed, they even came out before Steam existed.

 

[GenociderSyo]

I got it off Ebay, trust me it wasnt cheap. 104 dollars, and no booklet (which I've heard smells like crayons). Its my favorite video game though, so I'm still happy with this purchase
I'm a big fan of the ps2 era of horror, the next game on my agenda to get is Haunting Ground.

Wow! I lucked out and got this when it first got released it's a unique game.

 

[PL 001]

Anyone ever play this? I remember picking it up pretty cheap at a used game store. It's very much a Myst clone, but the story was really good. Nobody I've ever talked with seems to have heard of it.

 

[The Penultimate Warrior]

Wow! I lucked out and got this when it first got released it's a unique game.

Even $104 is cheap compared to what it goes for nowadays - there's one PAL English copy on ebay up for £1600! The French version is a comparative bargain at £250

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I never played that but thought "wait, wasn't that originally a 64DD game or a cancelled 64DD game?" - a lot of oddball things(Animal Crossing) spun out of that system. But I was completely wrong.

It made me remember this 64DD game, Doshin the Giant, later ported to Gamecube. Pretty obscure when it comes to people that actually played it back when it came out, partially because it was only released in Japan and Europe(no one imports games from Europe or mods their console to play PAL releases). It was not well received either and it looked like a N64 game. Over the years people have started to check it out I think.

I wouldn't call it a fun game, it's even hard to call it anything. My memory is hazy and the only thing I remember is trying to figure out how to play the game in the way games are usually played(how do I win? what's the min-max strategy?) - I strongly suspect that wasn't the point with Doshin.
Reading Wikipedia just now I learned the designer was the guy behind Aquanaut's Holiday and Tail of the Sun which explains a lot.

Cubivore was decent enough if I remember it right, started on the 64DD and then came out on Gamecube. In the current era it would have been a cheaper downloadable game not a full priced release, it would have suited it better.

Doshin was a trophy in Smash bros melee


Legend of the Mystical Ninja for N64. I wish it would be rereleased