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

Going back to the Commodore Vic-20 era, my father's favourite game was probably Garden Wars, which I've seen described as a Berzerk-clone (although with much gaudier graphics than any version of Berzerk I've ever seen). He'd play it in his bedroom for hours. On the other hand, I couldn't even look at this game for more than a minute without getting a headache, and I still can't.


There were Vic-20 games I enjoyed like Lunar Leaper, Rat Hotel, Cannonball Blitz (a Donkey Kong clone), River Rescue and Jaw Breaker, but they didn't have the violently clashing colour schemes and random flashing objects of Garden Wars.
 
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there's an old windows game
I have forgotten it's name, but i remember it's tagline
"The thinking man's driving game"
basically the track was made of clickable squares, and you had to get from start to finish in the least amount of turns/clicks
you always started at 0 speed, and you can then move forward 1 square to move at 1 speed. next move you could either stop, speed up to 2, or stay at 1.
you could speed up as much and little as you want. but turning was harder at higher speed (duh). so you had to figure out the line bit by bit.

i can find nothing on this game. it's like i was the only one who played it.
 
I really really like the GBA/NDS versions of Urbz: Sims in the City but I have yet to find anyone that's played it to sperg about it with. I want to play it again but I can't find a secondhand copy near me, my old Acekard won't work on my 3DS and it just won't be the same on an emulator. *sigh* It has one of my fave soundtracks though - particularly the carnival song that was a remix of the Old Town music from The Sims.


There was another really obscure DS game I had called Treasure World where you'd close the DS and it would scan for nearby wi-fi points, each of which were represented as a star. Then the debris covered "star" you found would get cleaned up and you'd get stardust, which you needed lots of to be able to restart your crashed spaceship and leave Earth. So in order to win you had to travel a lot to find as many wi-fi spots as possible.
 
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Been playing Rouge State, a sorta mix between those old geopolitical simulation games from the DOS era, and a CYOA type game. You are president of an interim government following an Arab Spring revolution in a fictional middle eastern country, and need to keep everything running smoothly untill a new constitution can be drafted. Internal and external pressures complicate matters, especially radical islamists, the USA (Who is either you BFF or worst enemy depending on how you play), disloyal military juntaists, and your brother who seeks to establish himself as the new autocrat. It's pretty nifty if rough around the edges. My biggest problem right now are my lackwit brother whose been siphoning our countries money to his own accounts, and the liberals who want reforms with the money I NO LONGER HAVE BECAUSE FAROK IS A USELESS PIECE OF SHIT. Oh and the fundamentalists are angry about something, but I swear they're never NOT angry, so fuck them.

Graphics are terrifying though. Like someone decided 2d portraits wasn't enough and tried 3d and it... really didn't work.

Also Basenji is a tolerant and modern country and not at all a backwater filled with Islamic Rednecks.

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Edit: 50 weeks in (60 is when you win) Farouk overthrew my government. Fuck you Farouk.
 
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I thought I mentioned it here but search says no.
Terrifying 9/11
My copy is in English but either way it's a surprisingly good port of Metal Slug 1 for the GBC, with guest stars Osama Bin Laden and GWB.
 
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Soulsborne series. Played the shit out of Dark Souls 1 and 3 as well as Bloodborne, and they use to be my favorite games ever. After I beat 3 however, I lost interest in the entire formula. Probably played like 400 hours of that series total

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hey kiwis, so i found this thread and though that it´s where i will get the answer for my 15+ quest lol, anyone can tell me the name of a really shitty snes fight game, the to main protagonists looked alike but one wears blue and have black hair and the other wears red and have blonde hair (or vice-versa), also have some sort of a slimy caracter whit some sort of ball in the middle. (sorry for my bad english)

EDIT: was all space themed
 
Bluezao said:
hey kiwis, so i found this thread and though that it´s where i will get the answer for my 15+ quest lol, anyone can tell me the name of a really shitty snes fight game, the to main protagonists looked alike but one wears blue and have black hair and the other wears red and have blonde hair (or vice-versa), also have some sort of a slimy caracter whit some sort of ball in the middle. (sorry for my bad english)

EDIT: was all space themed
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I'd check out this list if you haven't already, or make a thread here, but as an aside, I don't really think this is the right thread for this
 
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Shores of Hazeron. You make an alien race and you colonize on a home planet and you build societies and cities on the planet. You can explore the galaxy and you can colonize on other planets. Think of it as kind of like No Man's Sky only it looks a lot uglier but has more to do and it has a set goal; to explore the galaxy and create a thriving empire.

 
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King of Dragon Pass, one of the most unique games ever made, with aspects of RPG, stragety, and adventure genres. You guide a quasi-Celtic/Germanic clan in exile from their homeland in settling a previously uninhabited (by humans) region in a fantasy world where magic is ubiquitous, and staying faithful to your people's traditions is essential to success.
 
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Troglodyte.35 said:
Shores of Hazeron. You make an alien race and you colonize on a home planet and you build societies and cities on the planet. You can explore the galaxy and you can colonize on other planets. Think of it as kind of like No Man's Sky only it looks a lot uglier but has more to do and it has a set goal; to explore the galaxy and create a thriving empire.

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I played this game once, it was awesome and weird as fuck. I hated the pirates though. :( That and they reset the world every year since the infinite nature of the game causes their servers to lag all to hell eventually.
 
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I played this game once, it was awesome and weird as fuck. I hated the pirates though. :( That and they reset the world every year since the infinite nature of the game causes their servers to lag all to hell eventually.
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Isn't it also developed by one guy or is it a very small crew?
 
Pirates, Vikings, and Knights 2 is a game that no one sadly knows about because of stuff like Chivalry and the new For Honor game despite the fact that it's way older than both of them. Because of it it has a really nice, strongly knit community in addition to the gameplay that I prefer over something like Chivalry's. Admittedly it has a vast and steep learning curve, especially if you have auto-parry removed (if you know how to use parries, you are automatically better than like 50% of the player-base that plays it lol).

This is an outdated video since there have been some updates but other than that you get a good idea of what it is like.

It's free to play, source so it runs good (though there is a character that farts for an area effect which lowers the enemy's speed and also creates criticals and before I got a new graphics card [I had some pre-made graphics card that could fit in ur hand] it slowed me somewhat though the programmers of the game tried to fix that. Have no idea if it worked or not cause of my new graphic card), fun combat, and people that you get to regularly play with (which can either be a good thing or a bad thing).

Also I've played Odell's Down Under (An education game where you play as a fish and eat other fishes) that would count as obscure

Edit: Oh I've played Space Empires [A 4x Space game] from 3 to 5. I liked Space Empires 3 the most but you can only play that with a VMware Window XP since 16 Bit isn't supported on new computers.
 
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Evolution Worlds (port of Evolution + Evolution 2 from the Dreamcast) for the Gamecube was interesting. It's not a very good game, pretty shallow, but it's decent fun if you like ultra weeby turn-based RPGs. I thought it was the coolest thing ever when I was a little kid but it's aged pretty poorly.

Skies of Arcadia: Legends and Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean are great too. Both have great soundtracks, Baten Kaitos has a hilariousy bad dub.
 
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Bluezao said:
hey kiwis, so i found this thread and though that it´s where i will get the answer for my 15+ quest lol, anyone can tell me the name of a really shitty snes fight game, the to main protagonists looked alike but one wears blue and have black hair and the other wears red and have blonde hair (or vice-versa), also have some sort of a slimy caracter whit some sort of ball in the middle. (sorry for my bad english)

EDIT: was all space themed
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It's probably Doomsday Warrior.

 
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