Oh thats in my steam library! Haven't played it but I'll keep that in mind.
This one videogame I made as a hobby project. It sorta ties to my real identity, so I can't exactly name it.
God damn Sacrifice, it was an RTS-esque third-person wizard game from 2000 or so. I remember the story and voice acting being quite good, and everything in that game being extremely weird looking. You could pick your god (thunder, fire, stone, life, and death IIRC) and they all had different spells and minions. You needed souls to summon minions, and you could get more souls by battling the other wizards' minions and stealing their souls, by having some strange dudes with giant syringes take the souls and perform a ritual at one of your altars. The highest level spells were fucking awesome too, if you played as a fire wizard you could summon a giant god damn volcano on the battlefield. The goal was to sacrifice one of your minions at an enemy wizards main altar, and banish them from the realm (i.e. eliminate them from the game).
And holy fuck I've also just been informed that this game is available on Steam, brb
Egypt: Old Kingdom
ancient egypt simulator. 4x strategy game where you start as a couple guys on the banks of the nile river and soon create the Egyptian Old Kingdom and all of the various monument that came with it, featuring some very in depth history lessons on the side
But will I be able to build historically accurate communism in ancient egypt?
Oh! I forgot my other one. Threads of Fate for the PS1! Very fun little Action RPG by Square. Didn't make much of a splash. God I miss when big companies made small games like that :(
Oh hey I have access to that on Switch online (not that I couldnt just emulate it if i didnt lol) I'll keep in mind to check that out.
It's a fun little look at a non-Pokemon game from Gamefreak. Note, it suffers from Sega anti-rental difficultly at some points towards the end so save states and rewind is advised.
It also has the most voice clips I've ever heard from a Mega Drive game. They're so crunchy and the good kind of cheesy (IMO)
Metal Warriors is a fantastic SNES mecha side scroller where you pilot various types of mechs which you get hop in and out of (some parts of levels can only be accessed with your little jetpack guy) and it has split screen multiplayer pvp which I used to play on an emulator over an ip connection with my friend on dial up like 20+ years ago.
iirc it also has a dope albeit bare bones storyline that is very anti-war and vaguely anti-capitalist.
I always used to confuse that game with Cybernator/Assault Suits Valken, it's weird that they're so similar, especially since Metal Warriors is a Western developed game.
Wild that looks like it could have been developed by the same people.
Blackwake. Super fun and unique team gameplay if you're lucky enough to join a server that isnt overrun with toxic gamers. or if you're lucky enough to play at all, since the game has been abandoned for a few years now and it's pretty much dead in terms of playercount. In my opinion though, it could've grown to become a truly incredible and timeless game if it weren't abandoned by the developer and left proprietary in an unfinished state so fans can't pick up development.
Third time the game has already been in my steam library I have a problem.
It’s a shame that blackwake didn’t manage to retain a decent player base, it was very fun :(
Bombe is a game where instead of playing Minesweeper you program a Minesweeper-solving AI.
Space Trains is a nice puzzle/strategy thing about trains in space (probably costs more than it should though).
Bumbler Bee-luxe is a fantastic arcade style action game, but it was for Mac OS 8 and the emulators for that suck to set up.
Bumbler Bee-luxe
I have (very vague) memories of playing this one on my IMac. Very much a memory unlocked moment.
I'll wishlist the other two. Thanks!
Also owls are very good at answering this thread.
LAND SHARK GUN
Also this lol: https://youtu.be/lW2a15l2VWA
The game is so dated now though unfortunately. A remake or sequel could be good.
Oh that brings me back! I only have vague memories of playing it when I was little. You could shoot boulders that would roll down a hill and squish your enemies, and there was also a cool jetpack I think.
The game isn't THAT dated. It's got smooth controls and good combat. I don't think there will ever be a remake/sequel though, sadly.
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I can only think of games only I remember. The Last Eden. ZZT. Stormworks. These are all the same
cosmic jam
but thats because its a game I'm making and its not done
There's absolutely no way anyone except me has played Gearheads, but it was pretty fun. These days, if something like this was made by one person on Steam, it'd probably be much more successful. As a retail release in 1996, on the shelves next to Quake and Mechwarrior 2? lol, nope.
SuperKarts was also fun (you know it's obscure nowadays when you have to specify ”superkarts game”, otherwise you just get videos of real karts), and there was a real dearth of arcade-style racers at the time on PC. IIRC this used the Wolfenstein 3D engine.
Nope, I had Gearheads on my old Windows 95 PC, absolutely loved it. Used to keep spamming the laser robot and bombs.
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Original War (it's on Gog and Steam btw)
It's an RTS that had a pleasant spin on the genre. Your dudes and dudettes are all people with their own voices, characters and skillpoints (in theory, if you get a lot of them they kinda become samey but anyway). You have three character classes; soldiers who shoot shit, engineers who build shit and scientists who science shit and turn neanderthals into pack animals by taming them, they also heal people. You can freely send a soldier into the science lab, but their skills in science are probably so low that they wont help at all.
The "hook" of the game is that you only so many troops, you cant train them from a barracks, and you also have limited supplies which pop out every once in a while somewhere into the hostile wilderness. So every times you hear the noise of a supply drop, you have to scramble some dudes to go check it out, and because soldiers cant carry the boxes you need to have engineers there with em. You COULD send the engineers (or neanderthals) to fetch those alone, but if there's a saber-toothed tiger or an enemy soldier they're absolutely fucked.
You can have tanks and vehicles, but gas is also a limited resource that pops up every once in a while. That's why we have solar baby! The feeling of putting your heavy tank outfitted with solar panels into combat only for it to run out of power and everyone in the group is fucking erased sure is something. Nothing dies instantly though, everyone is injured first and lose consciousness, you have a few minutes to heal them to rescue them. All of the vehicles also break down just before exploding and you can send your engineers to repair them.
The story is pretty interesting too, the premise is that you're playing as an amerikkkan soldier being sent back in time because the soviet union invented time travel, but the only resource capable of powering them is all in Siberia. So the United Snakes sends your platoon over to mine the "Siberite" and take it over to Alaska. The time machine isnt very precise though, so that's why your dudes and dudettes and supplies just appear out of thin air randomly. Now the funny thing is that when you get to the past it's filled with soviet troops, who are there to mine the "Alaskite" and bring it over to Siberia.
There's some decent characters and the amerikkkan campaign atleast has three endings depending on your choices. The soviets are portrayed in a sussy light though, so proceed with caution.
I played a demo of this game back in 2003 maybe and found it later in a bargain bin. I never see anyone talking about it, so I must assume that I'm the only one to have played it.
I apparently already own this on steam (I'm one of those morons who buys tons of games on steam without actually playing them, ive playedl ike 5% of my library) so Ill keep in mind to check this out thanks.
Definitely i'm not the only one who played them, but few niche ones from the top of my head:
- Yao Guai Hunter - Chinese version of Slay the Spire in supernatural Wuxia climates, imo better than StS.
- Omensight - It's unusual for me to recomment action game, but this one is exceptional
- Shortest Trip to Earth - like FTL but better in all aspects
- Tale of Immortal - a full fledged Chinese xianxia webnovel experience. No shitting, if you ever read one of them and got the itch it's were you go to scratch it.
