I think I’d have to say La-Mulana.
Right at this moment it’s Civilization 7. I’ve never seen it mentioned here, just on CivFanatics forums and mostly negatively on Reddit. It had a botched/way too early release. My personal theory is that 2K knew that GTA was getting delayed so they said no delay for Civ.
New giant patch inbound any day! I swear it’s fun. Best combat in Civ so far, and I have played every mainline game for the past roughly 30 years.
Wiz n’Liz
Flashback.
I played it on SNES, but it was on a few consoles. I heard they are making a sequel so that’s cool. It’s science fiction with flavours of total recall, they live, and running man. I just really enjoyed the prince of Persia style gameplay but cyberpunk.Parasite Eve
More specifically number 2, because the first one never officially came to pal regions. It’s like resident evil but SciFi/body horror. The third game was shit because they lost the rights to the novel it was originally based on. If there’s any game sequel that I wish for it would be a proper PE3.flashback is one of my favorite games, after prince of persia and ahead of blackthorne.
i just hate the fact that 3d games fucking flooded the market just as cinematic platformers were getting really good.
instead of even more refined games with better graphics and animations, we got shit like fade to black and pop3d.
Didn’t expect to see Blackthorne mentioned here. One of my wife’s favorites on SNES. It’s pretty fun, but too easy I think. I need to see if I can get Flashback, I’ve never even heard of it.
the graphics and animations still good up imo. just make sure it’s not Ubisoft’s disgraceful remake.
One of my favorite games is a hidden gem that I never see people mention. It’s called Out of Space and it’s a couch co-op game similar to Overcooked with two major differences, it’s less frenetic so you can play it to chill out, and it’s procedurally generated so you have lots of replayability. For me and my wife it’s the perfect game of “let’s play a round of something”, yet I never see it mentioned anywhere.
The Fatal Frame series (maybe the second one here and there) and Kunitsu-Gami. The second one surprised me since it’s relatively new, but I thought it was a great surprise. I loved the hell out of that game.
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!
I randomly came across this game back when it came out on ps2 and I loved it. They set it up for a sequal and im still waiting 2 decades later.
Freedom Fighters
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1347780/Freedom_Fighters/
That 94% score doesn’t surprise me at all. Ugh, I wish I had more time to dedicate to gaming.
Back in the day I really enjoyed ONI.
_edit: _ some gameplay footage.
Oni had such a cool combat system! There aren’t enough single-player action games with this type of combat depth IMO. This video (YouTube link) does a great job explaining it in detail.
Board games or video games?
Why not both?
Slay the Spire - the video game based on board game mechanics
Slay the Spire the Board Game - based on the video game based on board game mechanics but in board game form!
Or The Game?
hey f$#@ you buddy I haven’t lost the game through the internet in awhile, that was a low swipe
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You can’t even label these fuckers as “I lost the game because of that idiot”, because then you lose every time you see them
hide the sausage?
I don’t see people talk about the Katamari Damacy games very much which is a shame because I think they’re delightful! I also wish more people talked about Cattails (especially the sequel, Cattails: Wildwood Story), these games deserve more love imo haha
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.
Cat Quest series
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
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/634160/Cattails__Become_a_Cat/
All four games are also on Switch!! That’s where I played them!
The Katamari remasters are very well done as these things go. Just the right amount of graphical and compatibility boosting while not screwing with the gameplay, audiovisuals, or quirky vibes which made the originals so great.
I feel it. I feel the cosmos!
This is what me and my partner say to each other when we drink good coffee.
One of the greatest games of all time from a design and gameplay perspective. There’s a reason it’s in the MoMA. The soundtrack is an all-timer as well.
Lah, la-la-la-la-la-la-laaah lah la la la-la lah!
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!
The Adventures of Lolo - a puzzle game on the NES. There were 1 or 2 sequels depending on how you count and they were fun too.
It’s a puzzle game with fairly simple mechanics but surprising complexity and difficulty. I beat both US versions and designed levels for a knockoff but have never met anyone in person that has heard of it.
Revenge of the Mutant Camels - highlight 1: “Ninety-foot high, neutronium shielded, laser-spitting, death camels”. Hightlight 2: Almost 40 years after its first release, in 2021 Jeff Minter fixed a bug on collision detection in the Commodore 64 version.
Impossible Mission - highlight: “Another visitor. Stay a while… stay forever!”
Deuteros - highlight: the way the game world unfolded and opened up
Syndicate - highlight: abusing the Persuadertron
Shadow Hearts - highlight: the Judgement RingStar Tropics for the NES.
Didn’t see Receiver 2 mentioned, so I’ll give it a shoutout! Really interesting game, and as far as I know the only one with such deep shooting mechanics. Unfortunately the sale had ended a couple days ago, so it’s back to its normal price, but even then I’d heavily recommend it!
I rarely see any Ys game referenced. It’s gotten a bit bigger, but still a super underrated series.
The Saboteur by Pandemic as well.
Field Commander on PSP.
The original Overlord game (with the minions).
