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openContra(-like?) with "good" ending involving the world blowing up (Found by myself) Videogame
I seem to remember reading somewhere about a port of Contra (or there being an old Contra-like game, I'm not sure) where the only ending involves the damage done to the alien base somehow causes the world (which, for reference, is Earth) to explode - I'm pretty sure I remember whoever was describing it saying it was a complete kick in the teeth, "THAT'S my reward???" kind of stuff.
Of course, now that it's actually crossed my mind again (both from a CTRL+F on the Contra page and a quick glance at some endings), I can't find the damn thing, so I figured I'd ask here to see if it actually exists or if I just dreamed the whole thing up.
Edited by Rex-Blanchimont-ZEROopenWeird game, need help Videogame
So, I'm looking for this one mobile game that I used to play a lot when I was little. Basically, it was a game where you moved into a shoddy, run-down house and a cute little ghost guy helped you renovate it and help your family flourish. You collected coins and purple gems. The art style was lineless and everyone had Black Bead Eyes, if I recall correctly. I remember soap operas being a thing on the old TV. It connected to Facebook, like a lot of the odd social games I played at the time. I have a pretty vivid memory of it, but I cannot for the life of me find it on the app store nowadays. Somebody help me?
open3D horror game with EXTREMELY gorey and graphic death screens and it's sequel? (Self-Completed) Videogame
So about a year and a half, two years ago, I remember there was... like, an extremely graphic horror game. Tv Tropes probably won't have a page on it, because JEEZ was this game gorey. I remember it involved a lady going to a house... possibly for her inheritance from her father?
The story was basically her trying to escape from the most horrible death traps. What I remember, however, were the insane number of death screens that she could suffer: One trap has her trying to avoid a mannequin with a cloth-covered cage on it's head, which it used to grasp her head if it caught her (It only moved when the lights would change to red, I think?) and then twisted her head off slowly.
Another death screen was... it sticks out in my head, because I remember there was an "artist" who wanted to turn her into some kind of art piece. One of them basically had a silent (thankfully) film reel of the woman waking up and finding her body... I guess pregnant, but completely nude. Then she was tortured because the... THING that came out of her (I can't call it a child, cuz it sure wasn't human) killed her as it was "birthed".
Then there's a death where there's some ghoul in a wheelchair who psychically bent her body into little more than a pretzel.
There were tons of other deaths, too, but I distinctly remember that the game got a sequel (of sorts) but I forget the name of both of them. The thing is: The first game was definitely a semi-side scroller (2d plane movement, that much I'm sure of) but the sequel was fully 3d, and in the demo they showed, the main character of the sequel climbs out of what appears to be a giant vagina.
Swear to god, I am not making this up.
Edited by DrSanjiZantopenonline PVP car "racing" game Videogame
In the mid-late oughties I remember playing an online gave with one on one car car racing against other players that I found from an ad or something. The "racing" is in scare quotes because there wasn't any real-time driving physics. Rather the game would simulate the race and show you the result as a series of blow by blow events e.g. "player 1 did an epic drift", "player 2 is having a bad time after crashing into a pile of rocks", that sort.
One particular thing I remember is that it has a premium currency called "Red Something" which was a very obvious Bland-Name Product Red Bull, but I can't remember what the second word was beyond it being some animal.
Edited by paradisedj32openTarot reading video game Videogame
A 80s-90s Nintendo (?) video game about tarot card reading. There are rumours that it could predict deaths. A character (?) from the game, Taboo gets in to Smash Bros as assist trophy if I can recall...
resolved Building for goblins??? Videogame
I remember about some months ago seeing a rather cute pixel art game where you play as a little white figure on a small island. You eventually get more stuff to build up and literally expand said island, bit by bit, and you also build shelter for tiny goblin-like creatures (green, pointy ears) and in return they may help you or something. I tried to find it again, and came across Forager, which looks very similar to what I remember seeing in terms of artstyle, but there doesn't seem to be any goblin inhabitant whatsoever, and you build stuff differently for different purposes. I'm just trying to make sure if I remembered correctly and that's a real game, or if I just misremembered what I saw and it was indeed Forager. Or if I just dreamt it all up.
Edited by Jason444open A Point and Click horror game Videogame
The game is similar to The House franchise by Sinthai Studio, a point and click with lots of jump scares, though I can only (vaguely) remember the first and last level.
The first level begin in a forest where you find a newspaper concerning about a murder victim, not long after that the victim's ghost appeared to scare you.
The last level presents you with two choices; going left or right. Choosing the left will make you ended up apparently crucified in hell, while the right will make return to the first level, now at daylight and the good ending.
resolved GBA tetris-like construction game. (Solved) Videogame
As the title implies it was a GBA game were you would build an structure by connecting tetrominoes. The goal was to deal as much damage to your opponents building as possible by creating weapons and protecting yourself with walls, you could also summon a powerful ally that would dealt heavy blows to the opponent. I can remember that it had, at minimum, 3 settings: An stone age setting that had a giant that would destroy things with a club, a middle ages setting that would summon a dragon and a moon setting that would summon an spaceship.
P.D.: It was Fortress (2001).
Edited by megagutsmanopenGame that accidentally skips a number for levels Videogame
I swear I remember this old game (around 1999-2000) that for some reason skips a level when numbering the levels i.e it would go straight from level seven to level nine or something like this. I remember the strategy guide even said something like "This isn't a mistake, there is no level eight in the game" (or whatever number was missing, I honestly can't remember.) Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Edited by BootlebatopenVideo game where you play as a lynx Videogame
So basically you play as a lynx and you have to take care of your baby lynxes. I remember there was this thing were you could jump really high if you charge your jump and you had to get up a small cliff using that during the tutorial.
And there was something about stars and constellations too but I don't remember exactly what.
And by the end, all the baby lynxes leave and you're just wandering around and I remember activating something like the Yandere Vision from Yandere Simulator and seeing a whole bunch of animals marked in the color used for hostiles and so I ran away and I came to this big tree stump and I used my super jump thing and then all of the hostiles got to me and I think they were like wolves or something but they couldn't get up to me and then the screen faded to black. I think that was the end of the game??
And I know this sounds a lot like Shelter 2 (and it could be) but I played this a while ago when I was a kid and I remember playing it on mobile and as far as I know Shelter 2 doesn't have a mobile port. If it is actually Shelter 2 and I'm just remembering something wrong, please let me know!
Edited by DragonRoar87resolved secret agent adventure game for kids Videogame
As the name says I'm looking for a secret agent adventure game for kids, that I'm pretty sure was from the 90's. It involved Guy Fawkes Night and I'm pretty sure the secret agent was some kind of anthropomorphic animal
resolved Like Frostpunk but at sea. Videogame
I saw a trailer for the game on youtube, all i remember is that its a postapocalyptic game where a new ice age wiped out mankind and the last survivors sail an iceberg filled ocean on ships.
openAmiga 500 RPG - SOLVED! Videogame
I remember very little about the game apart from being able to collect and combine various types of runes(? - I think, maybe gems??) and battles taking place on a grid, so you could eg combine fire with area effect to set fire to everything within the 8 spaces surrounding you.
There seemed to be a random element to which runes you encounter each game, maybe even the levels themselves. The way I remember it each run was procedurally generated, but I doubt that would have been possible back then.
Not much to go on there but if anyone can remember it I will be forever in your debt.
Edited by Ped78resolved Beat bad guys up, use the pile of bodies to get out of the hole Videogame
Does anyone know the name of an independent PC videogame, probably from around 2005-2015, with this mechanic?
The game's a Low-polygon 3D Beat 'em Up with no plot or real setting. Characters are composed of basic shapes like cubes and octahedrons. From what I remember, the only difference between the player character and the enemies was the character color. The player starts out in a hole a few cubes deep, and enemies keep jumping in. Once you beat an enemy, his body falls apart and becomes part of the terrain. Beat enough enemies and you'll have enough bodies to climb out of the hole. After beating a level, you move on to a wider, deeper hole. I never got to the end, and for all I know, new levels can keep generating randomly forever.
Edited by Mac_RopenGame were you play as a rogue AI Videogame
It was an older game where you controlled an AI that invaded computer systems around the world, but you had to manage suspicion levels and avoid detection. The world map was the main screen. I remember the page for Uplink leading me to it.
openInteresting concept Videogame
I just came up with an interesting concept for a game, and I'd like to know if something like that already exists:
The gist is a multiplayer game similar to "asymmetric" games like Natural Selection 2 or Nuclear Dawn, except that instead of placing and relocating assets like an RTS, the "leader" is a god who plays the game in a manner similar to Asgard's Wrath; interacting with the world by physically touching it with VR.
Edited by GofastmikeopenFear of Water? Videogame
Third-person action-adventure or RPG. One of the characters (a side character I believe, but possibly the protagonist) refuses to go through a waterfall because they’re afraid of water, other characters you are with are frustrated by this, and you have to climb the large cave and shoot/cast magic at parts of a large tree or tree-like structure in order to block the water. I feel like I played this somewhat recently (sometime in the last four years) and I can’t for the life of me remember what game it was.
openPuzzle game in video Videogame
So, I was watching a youtube video of a tournament where they competitors play random games. The last game for this particular video
has a puzzle game with colored mice that the commentators didn't seem to know. (Beginning at 1:06:42) Does anyone know what it's called?
resolved Game Design Software with Rocket: Robot on Wheels Videogame
In my high school programming class we were given access to a game creation tool, it wasn't part of the curriculum I think the company that made it was distributing it to classes like mine and there was some associated contest we were encouraged to submit games/levels to. I only ever played around with it for like one day so my only real memories are the sample levels all being 2.5d Mario-like platformers but believe it was capable of more, the stock assets were all generic rounded platforms floating in the skybox with a basic blue sky texture. Assuming it was new software at the time that puts it around 2011-2013.
But why it sticks out so much and I wanna find it again is, like the title says, the default character and a lot of the tutorials/help pop-up things were of Rocket: Robot on Wheels. There's an outside chance it was a similar red monowheel robot but I'm like 99.999% sure it was licensed because I remember my teacher and the software itself making a big deal about it, but no one in the class recognized the character so we were all confused.
Rocket was of course developed by Sucker Punch, published by Ubisoft, and a lot of that class was sponsored by Microsoft, I have no idea who actually holds the IP so I've been trying to research down those rabbit holes but no luck. Considering it's history I'll also bet a selling point of the software was a physics engine.
Edit: I kinda don't wanna believe it but it must've been Kodu Game Labs and I had added to it in my memory over the years. I found articles from the year my high school would've got it and Microsoft did in fact hold a contest for it that year with distribution to a bunch of schools, the demo levels I played must be ones that came with distribution that because they're for sure not the ones that come with it normally. Can't say I'm not a little disappointed but much more I'm just relieved I can stop thinking about it, thank you.
Edited by Squirtle802

...or something like that. He meets two other animals: a male anteater and a female whose species I've forgotten. They find a ring each: Toby's is blue, the FWSIF's is red, and the anteater's is green. The rings are magical, although I forgot exactly what they do, and there's a sequence where they trap some dude, who was previously riding around on a tornado, inside a bottle.
At the end, there's a music video called "Circle of Colors" which comes in three different languages.
The gameplay mostly resembles that of Visual Novels.
If anyone knows what this app is called, PLEASE tell me. I've been looking for it everywhere but cannot find it.
Edited by Reshpeckowiggle