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openSpace adventure with a group of 4 Videogame
I remember seeing this in around the early 2010s, but I recall seeing some sort of space adventure game that has a group of 4 people. One of them could even get a randomized superpower. I think the last section of the game involved a parkour section
openMatch 3+ Magic Flow Puzzle Game Videogame
I vaguely remember playing a certain puzzle game on my grandma’s computer. You’d have a rather large level (like, multiple screens large I believe) on a square grid, where every tile had some colour of gem on it. Your task is to guide a flow of… mana energy? Towards some destination. Along the path, stone tiles would interrupt your progress, and you had to form links of gems above them to break them. Links would be formed by clicking on one gem, then dragging outwards (even diagonally) to other gems of the same colour. The longer the chain, the bigger and more powerful a bonus explosion at the chain’s tip would be, sometimes it could even fill the whole screen.
Collecting enough gems of the same colour would give you a single-use special ability that you would have to recharge, and in some sections you’d get grid chunks outside of the main path, so you had to collect powerups. Levels are also timed, and the only way to lose is to run out of time.
After every four levels, you’d get a mini-game of comparing two Tarot-like cards and spotting their differences, and every 16 levels you would have beaten one quarter of the game and got rewarded with a hidden objects sequence themed after the quarter you just played through.
You also got a fairy companion who would tutorialize you.
Once again, it’s been ages, so I might be misremembering stuff, but if anyone has a name, I’d be immensely grateful!
resolved Pollution Pirates Videogame
There was an Edutainment Game I vaguely remember playing at school in the late 90s (97-98?). I think there were like four missions but the only one I remember playing was called Pollution Pirates.
It had like a live-action video of these two guys on a boat one was older and the other was tall and skinny. They were dumping stuff in the water.
I don’t remember the gameplay but I remember at the end when you won they showed the two guys getting locked in a jail cell.
openBug game (< not THAT one) Videogame
1 2 3 that’s enough for me. Anyways this one is for a game, (on roblox) it’s a role play game I enjoyed back then, the story is that humanity got teleport (by a big comet) to some A.U. where bugs had minds and stuff. Ants hate humans, ladybugs accepted humans, I believe there were spiders and crickets too(probably just the spiders) there’re also human-bug hybrids.
openA point and click video game with a vampire girl with a curse and a monster best friend Videogame
Who gives his life to save her/turn her normal again.
Also its an old game. I mean literaly 90s or extremely early 00s at most.
Edited by AegisPopengame i used to play when i was younger Videogame
There was this app I played all the time on my grandma's iPad when I was younger, like 3 years old. I forget what it was called exactly, but it would teach about simple stuff, like living things and weather and numbers. There might have been numerous apps in one series, I don't remember exactly. Anyways, there were a group of characters who would teach you the stuff. There was a female voice over, so the characters were only there for show really. Most of them were children, but the only two characters I remember are this purple furry monster guy (fittingly named Purple), and this African-American girl named Mimi, who had her hair in buns if I recall correctly. I'm pretty sure the characters had like...beady eyes or something. When I tried to search for the app in my grandma's downloaded app history, I couldn't find it anywhere. I'm pretty sure it got taken down. But does anyone know what it was called?
openVillage game from late 2010s (deleted?) Videogame
Hello, I remember a village game that was probably on most phone and tablet app stores back in the late 2010s. It might have been deleted, I don’t know.
It is closest to the game Virtual Villagers in its gameplay. You would try to grow this community and see it progress. The villagers were cartoony humans.
The map had a river in the upper part and land everywhere else. There was a major quest where you had to save a child that was in a basket. The child was supposed to be in the river and you had to craft a thing to help them get out.
I’m pretty sure it existed.
openreverse angry birds Videogame
title says it all pretty much, it was like a reverse angry birds game where you had to build a structure with a set of given parts that would stand up to an attack, that attack being from cats and the structure being made of household objects
resolved Video game where villain turns people into wolfman minions (including the heroine in a Game Over) Videogame
The main villain blasts people with a transformation beam thing that turns them into wolf like creatures that are under his control. There's a Non-Standard Game Over where the if the heroine gets blasted in a particular fight (I think against her brother, who just got transformed as well) we see her transform and then get booted to the Game Over screen in a complete aversion of Heroic Willpower. I think the game was a pretty standard PS 2 era action game with a slightly cartoony art style.
resolved You play as a robot wearing a red cloak, with a golem as an ally Videogame
See title, but I remember the intro pretty well: the golem opens a vault containing your character, revealing that the world is covered in purple goo of some kind. After some basic tutorials, the goo attacks the PC, and the golem has to cut off their arm, replacing the robot's missing arm with one of their own. Additionally, your character has a sword, and it had some platforming elements, as well as an upgrade system.
resolved RPGMaker(?) Game set in a monster-filled office Videogame
I played it years ago and I can't remember the name, but I do recall a lot of details. I think all the characters were anthropomorphic animals, and you were a new office worker. The atmosphere was very bleak; it seemed like a satire for oppressive work culture. Early on in the game, you get a revolver in order to fight invisible monsters in your company. You had to listen for sounds, and then hit a key; the game would shift to a first-person perspective, and you had to listen closely for where the sound would be centered to hit the monster.
openStop Cats from Stealing Fish Videogame
A PC video game where the player holds down then releases their cursor to fling cats off the screen before they make off with all of the fish on the field. The title contains the word "frenzy" and the icon is a fish, making me mistake it for Feeding Frenzy at first.
Edited by seasaltcaramelcookieopenshort, deliberately "so bad its good" rpg maker game parodies video game tropes Videogame
I never directly played this, but I viewed either a Let's Play or a straight playthrough on youtube. The backstory was that the game was part of a "game jam" where participants were challenged to create an entertainingly bad game on the rpg maker engine in a short period of time. The main thing I remember is the very end being a parody of Suspicious Videogame Generosity: In The Very Definitely Final Dungeon, your party finds a ridiculously long corridor with no enemies and every step you take there's some power-up or weapon that's much stronger than anything you've previously encountered in the game - which also serves to make the Overly Long Gag of traversing the hallway even longer, as the gameplay pauses every few seconds to show you whatever new item you just got. Before you reach the end of the corridor, a message appears on screen saying that this is the end of the playable demo and you have to purchase the paid version to get any further (of course, there is no paid version and it's a free game).
resolved Dungeon crawler with fighting game random encounters? Videogame
I'm not sure if any of this will make sense but earlier today I was talking about Ehrgeiz: God Bless The Ring with some friends and how that game had a dungeon crawler mode. That conversation reminded me of a game I remember seeing / reading about that had 3D dungeon crawling but whenever you got into an enemy encounter the gameplay would switch to a 2D fighting game playstyle.
I'm not sure if the dungeon crawler thing was part of the "main" game or if it was simply a side mode in a game that's otherwise entirely fighting. I also think the game was for the PS1 or PS2 / had low-poly graphics? I don't remember anything else about it so I might've just thought it up, but any help would be appreciated!
Edited by Rex-Blanchimont-ZEROopencreepy puzzle game? Videogame
There was this game which may have been an escape room/puzzle game on mobile i played anywhere from 2014 - 2017 the game was in a painting-like art style where it was mostly still images as backgrounds. at the beginning there is a guy who talks to you before you enter the house sometimes when you entered the room with the stairs (right infront of the front door), the dog that sits by the stairs is missing its head? although most of the time it had a head. up the stairs there where a few rooms where maybe when you tried to unlock the door or enter the door (im not sure) there was this creepy lady who might have been a doll. that is all i really remember about the game as i was young when i played it.
openMobile game with floating islands Videogame
In this game, you control a small creature, I think it had spiky green hair and no arms. You would walk on floating islands (or oddly-shaped small planets?) and the gravity would change depending on which side you were on, so you could walk under the island, and jump to different islands and collect coins. There were enemies that were killed by jumping on them, and the final boss looks like a bigger version of the playable character. Along the way there are signs that tell you how to play. There's a level where you had to collect every coin on the level on a time limit, and another where you rescue creatures who look like the protagonist but smaller and with differently colored hair.
Edited by HqamiopenZombie apocalypse mobile game Videogame
I doubt this would have a page on here anyways, but maybe somebody will remember! There was this zombie apocalypse mobile game that I used to play, probably around 2012/2013. IIRC the premise was basically that you had this town (sort of like a compound) that you could slowly add people to, called survivors, and slowly the town would grow and expand while defending itself from the zombies. I feel like the survivors were also categorized into different categories of survivors, with different skills (maybe one was "warrior" and another was "dreamer"?). There was a front gate where one of your survivors would sit and protect the town and also sometimes new survivors would show up and I think you could choose whether or not you wanted to rescue them? There was also like a minigame with this blue pickup truck (I remember that color very specifically lol) where you would like ride out into the wildland and try to pick up other survivors and kill zombies for points/supplies or something. The art style was kind of like Scribblenauts, very cartoonish and characters with blocky heads. Basically I remember everything except the title :/ big thanks to anyone who might remember!
In the late 90s - early 00s, my family went to Wall Drug and there was a Light Gun arcade game there. It was Wild West themed. The Attract Mode had this big Fat Bastard type yelling, "They call me Nasty Ted!" and then it cut to a handsome guy who said, "I'm too good-looking for jail." I always wanted to play it or find a longplay of it but never found it again.