What are your favorite games that you never see mentioned anywhere?
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Kenshi. Ive only ever seen 1 person mention it in the year I've been on Lemmy.
It's like depressed RuneScape.
Kenshi has so much scale and depth it's hard to explain what you "do" in the game I love it
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Kenshi. Ive only ever seen 1 person mention it in the year I've been on Lemmy.
It's like depressed RuneScape.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Kenshi
https://store.steampowered.com/app/233860/Kenshi/
Ive only ever seen 1 person mention it in the year I’ve been on Lemmy.
I've brought it up a bunch as an example of a game that I like that's really a "one-game genre" -- it didn't really get cloned, like most good games do. Kind of a bummer, because if you've played all of Kenshi, there's not much more to do if you want more short of waiting for Kenshi 2 to be finished.
kagis
https://lemmy.world/post/5593904/3755382
https://lemmy.world/post/2703109/2113199
https://lemmy.world/post/7471136/4950578
https://lemmy.world/post/25365592/14990415
https://lemmy.world/post/10421126
There's also a community here for it, [email protected]. Not much activity, though.
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“Whiplash!” Was an old racing sim that had crazy tracks. It had collision damage and in single player mode you could give your teammate commands.
It supported 8 players on a lan in multiplayer. All of this while running from DOS. Looking back it seemed a little ahead of its time. I’ve never encountered anyone in person that knew of this game.
“Whiplash!”
Apparently this was known as Fatal Racing outside North America.
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DayZ seems like a game that people either love or hate/have never heard of.
I'd almost claim it's up there with GTA series as the best games ever made.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Griffon_VF-9
Wildly fun game, with a bit more than a few terrifying moments thrown in due to the PS limitations at the time. They turned it into a feature instead of a limitation, and it made the whole game more horrifying.
It was also a cool voice acted anime storyline with giant mechs on the moon as an adventure/run and gun game.
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Freedom Fighters. Some mechanics were clunky but most were great and I really can't think of any other games with such a good mix of strategy and quick-thinking/reaction gameplay. I've played it through at least 3 times!
Freedom Fighters
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1347780/Freedom_Fighters/
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DayZ seems like a game that people either love or hate/have never heard of.
I'd almost claim it's up there with GTA series as the best games ever made.
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The entire Pang series.
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Back in the day I really enjoyed ONI.
_edit: _ some gameplay footage.
wrote last edited by [email protected]ONI
Yeah, was one of a few such games for the Mac, which had a limited game library. I remember playing it there, had fun.
The game's title isn't capitalized, though, just Oni; "ONI" is commonly used to refer to Oxygen Not Included.
Looks like it's not available on Steam, but if you do get a copy, Steam's Proton can run it on the Steam Deck.
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Outlaws. An early Spaghetti Western themed FPS from LucasArts. After Dark Forces (Retconned by Rogue One) and before DF2:Jedi Knight (the one with the amazibad FMV cut scenes and the best expansion pack ever), it leveraged the 2.5d engine for all it was worth and did a hand-animated slightly Don-Bluth-esque aesthetic that worked perfectly.
Level design was good. Multiplayer was fun, even though if you tried to LAN with an unswitched hub (it was 1998!) player 3 would lag like motherfucker and be relegated to throwing dynamite and praying. Story was straight out of a Tropes-R-Us, but well executed and with good voice acting (including John de Lancie IIRC). The coup de grace was the soundtrack, Clint Bajakian seemed to inhabit Ennio Morricone’s soul, but with leitmotifs to make John Williams proud. It absolutely elevated the game.
Outlaws
https://store.steampowered.com/app/559620/Outlaws__A_Handful_of_Missions/
Looks like it's currently 65% off on GOG:
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Katamari Damacy
These are apparently the remasters of the first two games for PC:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/848350/Katamari_Damacy_REROLL/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1730700/We_Love_Katamari_REROLL_Royal_Reverie/
From looking at Wikipedia and Steam, I don't think that there's a PC version of Me & My Katamari.
Cattails (especially the sequel, Cattails: Wildwood Story)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/634160/Cattails__Become_a_Cat/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1882500/Cattails_Wildwood_Story/
All four games are also on Switch!! That's where I played them!
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- Hacknet, it's almost like a detective game in a way
- The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, weird gary told me to add this but it's good in it's own right
- Flight (flash game), fly a paper airplane, buy upgrades, it's kinda like the Learn To Fly series
wrote last edited by [email protected]Hacknet
https://store.steampowered.com/app/365450/Hacknet/
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1703340/The_Stanley_Parable_Ultra_Deluxe/
Flight (flash game)
Flash is pretty dead, but it looks like Kongregate is doing something to port stuff to newer Web-based platforms, and they have this running again, and it's free-to-play in a browser.
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Full Throttle.
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Beyond Good and Evil
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it's a first person shooter dungeon crawler, the levels and enemies are procedurally generated, sometimes you can get a room with enemies that are one hit kills, then walk into a connecting room with 3 different over powers enemy types coming at you from all directions.
its face paced and fun as fuck to run around killing shit with magic wands and magical guns.
no playthrough is the same.
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Cattails series mentioned! I’ve replayed those two multiple times they’re so cute and the gameplay loop is so soothing and fun.
Cat Quest series (which is more dungeon-crawler, not cat sim) is also adorable and accessible but doesn’t seem to be mentioned too often.
Man I keep meaning to replay Wildwood Story but I know once I start again that's all I'm doing for the next few day lol... I love the colony layout editor so much, spent so many hours fine-tuning my colony to make it exactly the way I wanted it
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I'm currently playing to a T, by the Katamari creator.
Not remotely similar, and hard to recommend to most people tbh... but it has the same joyful silliness that just makes me smile, somehow.
I saw an article about it!! I really want to play it but alas don't have anything that can run it, but once I can get a PS5 it's totally going on my shopping list!
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Dark messiah of might and magic
Might and Magic anything beyond Heros of Might and Magic 3 is rarely if ever talked about. Although it was an awesome series.
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Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds.
Basically AoE2 with a Star Wars skin and a few new unit/building types. I must have put thousands of hours into this game in my lifetime and I still play it occasionally.
You know what is deservedly never talked about? Star Wars Force Commander. Another RTS but this time it sucked ass.
Had a killer soundtrack though. https://youtu.be/yCU_6IFc9t0
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Hmm. I don't know if they'd stand the test of time, but a few older games I enjoyed a lot back in the day that aren't going to show up much of anywhere due to age:
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Loony Labyrinth, a 2D video pinball game for the Mac and Windows by Little Wing Software. I've played huge numbers of tables on newer and more sophisticated engines, but that table kept me coming back for more hours of gameplay than any later ones. Not on GOG or Steam, though Little Wing sells copies directly.
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Flying Nightmares, or AV-8B Harrier Assault. Untextured polygon flight sim where you're operating off a US amphibious assault force; probably one of the few games kind of like Carrier Command 2 that I can think of in that you can also control other of your forces (though Flying Nightmares focuses on operating the Harriers, and Carrier Command 2 the amphibious assault ship). Doesn't look like GOG or Steam have them.
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Eufloria. Steam link for an HD re-release. One of those "real-time 4X" games, but using plants and seeds and minimalistic graphics.
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Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising. A spiritual successor to Carrier Command. One has an amphibious assault ship, can construct autonomous vehicles and move your ship around. Unlike Carrier Command 2, this is a single-player game. Wish that someone would make a more single-player-oriented Carrier Command 2. The graphics haven't really kept up with the time, and it tends to encourage exploiting the AI's weaknesses, but I've had a lot of fun with it.
It's not exactly unknown within its niche, but because it is niche, Rule the Waves 3, a game that simulates naval fleet command and development.
EDIT: Oh, here's an oddball, not quite as old game: Ghost Master. One acquires and upgrades different types of ghosts, then places them and uses their abilities to scare humans away from a location. Nothing else very similar to it out there that I'm aware of.
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