Sergeek
Man I absolutely love the ship combat and dislike the travel/management part of the game(I only played 1 hour of the game on steam)

Art is absolute kino
though personally i wouldnt call it hidden gem considering sseth shilled it to 4,5mil people.
Not super well known but not hidden either.
have you seen mech engineer?
kinda looks like highfleet but mech to me
same publishers also

      4 days later

      1996FordMondeo I don't really know who that dude is, but I was a part of that game's Reddit and Discord (was banned there for "antisemitism", I shit you not), and those were quite small in numbers. It's also really obscure in where I come from, which is really odd.
      I didn't know about Mech Engineer, but it looks good, I love the "constructor" type of games. MicroProse also reminds me about original X-COM, which is always nice.

          Sergeek
          SSeth is a great game reviewer and he is the reason I found about highfleet.

          Sergeek banned there for "antisemitism

          what did you say there?

                18 days later

                The original Mount and Blade, most people play warband or bannerlord, but the original is just forgotten on time.

                  Jack-O I thought Warband was the original game to be honest.

                  1996FordMondeo I love Sseth, although he has to hide his power level quite a bit.

                        MrBanana Believe it or not, warband is actually the sequel for the original mount and blade, you are not missing much tho is essentially the same thing, but with better graphics, better balance in troops, more fluent combat (including kicks now), multiplayer and the inclusion of a new faction, which is the Sarranid Sultanate. I always feel nostalgia for the original mount and blade because that was the version i played first, even tho warband is just better, i still feels a bit sad that no one played the original or heard about it even, it was broken as hell.

                        Tho is not even as forgotten as fire and sword, that thing is like it doesn't exists at all.

                          Unsighted is a game I never heard anyone mention ever, I only came across it through gamepass. It's a top down action game with robot characters in a somewhat post apocalyptic setting and its pretty fun. I imagin it's let down by somewhat ugly character art that steers people away...
                          It has a certain mechanic that more npcs die the longer it takes you to complete the game.

                          Nvkie
                          Hannya Danmakuden「般若弾幕伝」is a rougelike bullet hell that is no longer available on android (it is available on mac). According to the leaderboards, less than 30 people have made it into the final stage, and only 2 have made it to the final boss, none beating him yet.
                          This game has an incredible assortment of intentional, and unintentional mechanics, and it is one of the best video games I have ever played. Its simplicity yet endless emergent gameplay, with strong risk reward mechanics creates an endlessly fun game. If you are a fan of simple, arcade style games, or bullet hells, please give it a shot.

                            14 days later

                            Realspace 3 is a shoot-em-up game I played I think around 2007-2008. Today it's abandonware, but back then it was $30. A bit pricy for a sequel to a flash game considering 30 dollars went a lot further back then, but it was fun. I played Realspace 1 and 2 a lot as well since they were hosted on Miniclip, especially Realspace 2. I was a kid so the idea that you could be the aliens in this game and actually blow up the Earth was insane to me.

                            Realspace 3 has you as the humans again, though. You play as an ace fighter piloting a custom ship called the Antaris and try to do your best to fight off the Katuri alien menace and protect the shattered remains of humanity after the destruction of the Earth. There were something like 60 levels, so a hell of a lot of gameplay, and it was pretty fun, except for that one level where you have to prevent the suicide bombers from getting past you, that one sucked cause the map was so big it was really hard and annoying to patrol everything properly.

                            The only really bad part of the game is the ending, it's so lame. The Antaris pilot just gets stranded in space, cut off from the rest of humanity, and it's ambiguous what the fate of mankind turned out to be. That might sound okay, but trust me, it's a very abrupt ending and not satisfying at all.

                            If you wanna check it out just hit up some abandonware sites, it's not too difficult a game and I think is well worth the time!




                            15 days later

                            I consider this a less known game
                            Turing complete
                            Its a game about computers and their work principles.
                            hell you could say this belongs to the family of spreadsheet disguised as a game of games.
                            but yeah its been filtering me hard.
                            Also dev didint need to go hard on the ost i love it.

                            21 days later

                            I don't think alot of people played this game. it was on the super nintendo, simple platformer with neat colors.

                            Emery101 I actually forgot about this game! crazy how a title like that can bring it up again.

                                frijole del alta Congo's Caper!!!
                                I hadnt heard of it until a few years back where i got a retrobit super retro trio plus which had that and the two Joe & Mac games.
                                I haven't played a ton of the joe and mac games but i really enjoyed Congo's.

                                    Lumeinshin yeah I've never played joe and mac. only reason I know congos caper was because growing up I had one of those 10 in 1 cartridges for the snes and congos caper was one of the games. it had other obscure games like top gear and especially choplifter III

                                      5 days later

                                      Gigachad I do. I was first exposed to this series through the stripped-down PS1 port. I've played the PC version of the first one and it has a lot of depth to it. There used to be a somewhat active but niche fan community for this series that was held together through fan sites, but I have no idea what state it's in these days.

                                      I think the biggest difficulty with finding info about this game is its name. The name is effective and catchy, but it's far too generic. Whenever I try to search it up, I usually get results for other games with "creature" in the title like "Nightmare Creatures 2".

                                        A couple of years ago I discovered the old gold box DOS D&D games from when SSI had permission from TSR to make games using their property. I started wit the easier ones like the 2 dark sun games and the 2 ravenloft games as well as the 3 eye of the beholder games. Now I’m just going through the dragonlance games and will eventually touch up on spelljammer and then deathkeep.

                                        So I recently purchased this game

                                        Honestly its a very good arcady mountain racing game.
                                        somewhat pricey but man i consider it to be one of the top drift + japan games on steam(not that i played a ton of em)

                                        Lethal League BLaze. I´m not sure it could be considered obscure but the users on it as of today are minimal, specially on switch. However it´s an absolute blast once you get the hang of it and start doing some cool, lasting plays. Totally recommended if you want to have genuine fun with such a simple concept

                                        P.S: OST goes so hard

                                        Ai Cho Aniki on the PC Engine CD, it's batshit insane and is what is considered an "idiot" game in Japan but that doesn't stop it from being absolutely brilliant and quite fun, rom for it ain't hard to find if you get the tinybestset off the internet archive but I didn't tell you that 😉

                                        23 days later

                                        Captain Claw. It's a pretty unpopular game but I think it's awesome. It's about a pirate cat that embarks on an adventure to find the amulet of nine lives and you collect treasure along the way. If you want to give it a try here is a link with the game, make sure the cutscenes are working, they play at the beginning: https://captainclaw.net/en/downloads.html

                                        10 days later

                                        YuGiOh Forbidden Memories is complete bullshit but I kind of love it. The NA version is basically unbeatable because it's balanced around having cards that were taken out of the NA version.

                                        It's really interesting to see an alternative take on a YuGiOh as this was in development before Konami started making the game. It's such a piece of painful grindy piece of shit but man, that didn't stop me from putting a decent chunk of my childhood into this game. Easily one of my favourite games on the PS1

                                        am1m1r
                                        Both this and it's sequel are criminally underrated cart racers. Went through a chunk of it recently and my only complaint are the Monkey Ball tracks in the first game can eat my ass.

                                        Sandro
                                        I actually found out about this game a month or two ago. I got it on my R4 ready to go. This game looks tight

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