Fun videogames only you played

Nvkie · 2022-12-03T16:43:42+00:00

What it says on the tin. Share obscure videogames that seemingly nobody but you has played, but with the caveat that they can't be terrible or boring. First...

Aero

You've gotta play this. Short RPG, no grinding at all. Finish it in a day. Drunken baltic knight and his buddy get up to shenanigans. A good time to be had.

Fantasy

Bleak Faith Forsaken.
I played it on release, beat the entire thing in a weekend or so. It's a very strange janky game. It's like a souls game but also not. The world is like BLAME but not limited to a scifi sprawling mess of a mazelike structures there's also some forests and fantasy feeling areas.
It's such an odd game but the art and soundtrack is on point as well as the exploration. It has some of the best exploration of any game I've ever played.
They've made a lot of updates to remove jank and added new stuff too, I should revisit it someday.

Somnolence

Fantasy
Excellent game. The ocean may be some of the best level design I've seen in a souls-like game since the original Dark Souls.
What I really like about Bleak Faith is that there are very few invisible walls and the game has quite accurate collision. If it looks like you can stand there- by god, you can stand there. Often there isn't a lot to actually find way out in the stretches of who-knows-where, but the fact you can get there shows a lot of trust in the player.
Did you know about the Greater crystals? Most of them are in the main hub, and generally not worth the effort of finding them, but holy cow some of them are hidden so damn well. I love this shit.

Fantasy

Somnolence
I doubt I found any of them. I scoured the world over and over but there was still new stuff I found when I played part of it later on. I don't know what's new and old. On release there obviously weren't any guides or anything so it was a lot of experimentation. They've also added so much, and they're still updating the game too. Big props to those dudes.

kokikola

A very comfy RPG that regularly gets updates: Island of the Caliph. Inspired by retro RPGs like Wizardry, I have a lot of fun with this one and it calms me down quite a bit. Kinda gives me the same feeling as when playing old school runescape.

Ross_R

kokikola that regularly gets updates

I feel like I'm the last man on Earth who sees that as a minus rather than a plus.

kokikola

Ross_R Tbh I kinda get what you mean, it depends on the devs I guess. Sometimes a game is shit and unfinished if it gets updated too much

Ross_R

kokikola
That, and the fact that I have dozens of games I want to try. I cannot come back to one game again and again after every update.
I want a finished thing. One I can get into, go through, and move onto the next one. Akin to any other medium of art, like a book or a movie.
Such an approach was the norm back when Steam wasn't a thing. When you bought a CD - you bought a finished game, with couple patches on the way at best. I want that game design approach to return.

The Great Macaroni Man

The whole Suikoden series is considered obsecure by now. It's an JRPG series inspired by some old chinese book called The Water Margin. First releasing on the Playstation back when discs were considered new tech. There's 5 mainline games and a few side games. My most fave is Suikoden Tierkreis which released on the Nintendo DS. I'm going to be honest and say I might be blinded by nostalgia. There's recently been a Suikoden 1 and 2 remaster and a fan game called Eiyuden Chronicles. The series has always had a massive collection of playable, fleshed out characters (108 to be exact). Every JRPG has some sort of meaning or opinion it wants to give out to the player and tierkreis succeeded in teaching me red pill shit like how i have my faith in my own hands and that future isn't decided.
thx for reading lel

WalkTheEarth

Fast As ~~fuck~~ Duck and Gray-box testing. both have intentional bugs that makes them way more fun to play

Ross_R

Well absolutely shamelessly post it in this thread too.
Far Away From Home, which I found to be the best game since Bioshock when it comes to relationships between the character and the player. If that sounds interesting to you and you do not mind spoilers, details are at 51:02 of the following video:

Otherwise - just go and play the darn game. Just, you know, use a PC for heaven's sake. According to those Steam reviews, the game is not optimized for anything else, and it looks like the dev abandoned it pretty much soon after the release. Cannot really blame him: the game didn't get any traction at all, which is a crying shame, if not outright a crime, really. Because I found it kind of great.

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