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openIncorrectly Rated Game Videogame
What was that one game about anime girls that was rated E but still had a bunch of stuff about nudity listed?
openhorror-ish puzzle point and click flash game, about 2010s Videogame
just gonna copy from my website lookin for it bc im too lazy (again... i did the same thing when i first posted this on reddit)
This one part just stuck in my mind for so many years. There was a man standing in an all-dirt field. You had to dig out a corpse of an animal, I think it was a rabbit or dog, and you had to stick your hand in there and dig out a key. It just had a black screen and squelching sounds the entire time, and the only other thing onscreen was a text box at the top. Literally all I remember aside from this was that Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy was playing over the entire game, aside from the black screen part.
resolved Mega Man PS1 Game? Videogame
I remember watching my cousin play this Mega Man game, but I don't remember its title. It had Mega Man himself running around in a 3D world disabling electric fences inside a gray building, and then venturing to the outside world and exploring a mall in its Hub Level. There were also four save files, all represented by the floppy disk icon.
openUnidentified RPG Maker game Videogame
The Ludd Was Right trope page contains the following video game example. It's for some game made in RPG Maker, but without any title given. Can someone identify what game this is?
"RPG Maker: Appears as a possible outcome in a certain game. While all aspects of society become automatized, this makes the majority of the population "superfluous" and without employment (everyone except the owners of the machines, presumably, and even those are hinted to have been "terminated" by their automatons at some point). The masses of former workers and employees are forced to re-create a new parallel society on a much more primitive technological level, contending for resources with the machines. Depending on the actions of the player, the machines could either be convinced to provide their production to humanity for free (which is the "good" ending), or else, they can be convinced that their existence is no longer "required", as their entire point was to perfect the efficient production for consumption and in their own perfection they have defeated their own purpose as nobody benefits from their production. This will convince the machines to shut down (the "bad ending"), allowing humanity (as is implied in the ending) to rebuild on the remnants of the terminated machine civilization and eventually re-create a primitive society."
open3D online base defence game with humans vs aliens/monsters Videogame
I remember my brother and me playing this a lot probably around 10 years ago, ish? It was online multiplayer, no voice chat, just text.
The setting was a generic grassy/rocky hill environment. The teams were humans ( I think vaguely scifi-knight ish?) vs monster-alien sorts with a bug/reptilian vibe? Nothing super unique. The classes were the standard soldier, stealth, healer, magic and I remember the monsters' big tank class being the "Behemoth": A slow moving, giant ogre with a club - tended to be used to smash buildings. I think the humans had a tank. The bases had different buildings supplying health, upgrades, weapons, classes and there was a top down build mode for one lucky player.
I think you could also play it with NP Cs and just build your base and have the computer control the enemy, whilst sending out your own units. Might have been labelled a "practice mode".
We probably would have downloaded from a website like kongregate or similar; it was it's own client, not part of website.
I don't think it was related to War Hammer but was likely trying to mimic that sort of game.
openA strategy video game about girls at war Videogame
The tagline of the game's article was something similar to "Your enemy is the one trying to get you killed! Take the grenade and throw!" or possibly "Your enemy is anyone trying to kill you"
This was used later and specifically called out as a heel/face turn in the article when the story involved attacking the group forcing the playable characters to fight.
openTeam Fortress 2 custom game mode where each team has a "boss" that helps. (Solved) Videogame
Similar to VS Saxton Hale Mode or Freak Fortress, except both teams had multiple members and each team had a "boss" character, and I remember seemingly being CTF rather than arena (The only maps I remember playing it on are 2Fort and Double Cross).
I specifically remember it being run on a few of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic-centric servers that existed back in the day, all of the "bosses" were MLP characters.
Edit: I think's it's "MLP Heroes" and was, from it's title, specifically MLP themed.
Edited by datadoggieeinopenEarly Era Flip Phone 2000s/2010s Vampire Game Videogame
This has been wracking me for a solid minute now. Nokia/Motorola/LG fl era late 2000s early 2010s flip phone game. Vampires in New Orleans, you play as one. You build a city simulator where you'd buy stores like sub shops, etc and they would generate money for you. Think it was Gameloft who developed it but I remember the logo as being an old orange phone keypad. Woman in the thumbnail was a red or brown haired vampiress to the left side looking at you with a New Orleans street in the background behind her. My brain won't let this go, help please >.<
openThis one line on a Deltarune trope page Videogame
Maybe this doesn't count for the purposes of this forum, but there's this one line on some page or other about Sans' Medium Awareness in Deltarune about how addressing him as an old friend has him react in a way "that implies that you just set off massive alarm bells in his head". I can't remember exactly what page that's from, I can't find it, and it's driving me completely nuts. Please help.
resolved A Multiplayer Hack and Slash game with an 80's aesthetic Videogame
I saw a trailer for it on youtube a couple of months ago, i remember the artstyle resembled cartoons like He Man or Thundercats or the "Night Begins to Shine" episodes from Teen Titans go
openA CD-ROM point and click game with fairies and emeralds Videogame
I played this game on my computer (windows 95/98/XP) when I was a child in the early 2000's. I may have got this game as a freebie in a cereal box or something similar, but I can't confirm that. The CD-ROM is long lost, but I never had a proper game case for it, which is why I suspect that.
I remember a fairy in a pink(?) dress led you through the game, and you had to save the forest by finding emeralds. You went through a series of places that were drawings of rooms or fictional places and you had to click all over the picture and sometimes you'd get an emerald. It would sound like a really typical coin dropping in a bag sound each time you found one.
You got about 30 seconds to a minute to find as many emeralds as you could. I vaguely remember a tense "10 seconds!", and then madly clicking as fast as I could all over the screen. I imagine it gave you an emerald randomly for some percentage of clicks, but to my child-mind it felt like they were hidden in particular places, if only I could figure it out.
At the end of the game depending on how many emeralds you found, the forest would grow back, the more emeralds you got over the course of the game the more it would grow.
openNinja/shinobi ps2 game Videogame
So this has been bugging me awhile for the past couple of months. When i was a kid we had this ninja game about the son of some clan that got wiped out by the villain of the story. I never got past the tutorial because i was very bad at games...still am now that i think on it.
Anywho the main piece of contention in searching this game down is that i keep confusing its name with Kameo. I can vaguely remember the cover of the game having a persons eyes over the title, then below the title 5 spheres holding the symbols for fire, wind, water, earth, and soul. The instructions basically said that the soul ability has never been used in the backstory to my bad memory.
I don't know why i keep confusing it with Kameo and the elements but i do and that is seriously getting me angry at myself for the confusion. I think the name of the game is some five letter and then some subtitle. But not sure on the subtitle bit.
If i could please get this figured out so i can actually find and play said game that would be great.
Sorry for the trouble.
opensuperhero themed game from the 8 bit era (solved) Videogame
The two things I can remember for certain: 1) the game revolved around superheroes, but had its own original characters and wasn't a licensed game based on actual comics, 2) I don't think it was a multiplayer game, but there was a character select screen with multiple heroes to pick from. I think the idea was you recruited more heroes to your team as you got further through the game, and they had certain powers that would be useful in certain levels / against enemies. I'm pretty sure it was for the NES, I would guess release date would have been the late 80s or early 90s as it had relatively good graphics.
Edited by MikeKopenGame where you fix a broken mirror/glass? Videogame
I think this was a Big Fish or Wild Tangent game? All I remember is a white haired girl and trying to fix a broken mirror/glass where you had to move rope where they didn’t cross over each other? The girl was like cursed or something? It may have had an anime style.
Edited by SteampunkeropenObscure edutainment game with space pandas and static man Videogame
So, I just remembered this old game I used to play with my brother: it was some kind of educational web game, likely about protecting the environment. I think it was set in space on a planet of space pandas called something like 'bambuu'. I don't recall the main villain's name, but I know that he had a ball of static for a head. I'm pretty sure the game had a custom character maker, but I'm not completely sure about that. I think the main villain got redeemed at the end? It was a fairly short game, probably no more than an hour. Those are all the details I can remember at this time, but I hope someone else knows about this.
Edited by ThatDerpyFoxopen(FOUND) Mid-90s DOS game: First-person maze combat (1v1, mech-themed) Videogame
I remember an MS-DOS game from early-mid 90s that was a first-person perspective combat game where you'd seek out your rival in a maze and fight to the death firing green and orange blobs. The game used PC speaker sounds and had EGA or VGA graphics. You fought in mech-style robots (mostly visual theming than actually feeling like you were piloting a mech); not sure if this was a demo or had a full version with additional robots, but I remember a "Cobra" and "Jackal" model you could choose from at the very least. Primitive 3d-model-turned-into-sprites were used as a 'select your robot' screen as they rotated.
Once you found each other, simply spamming green and orange fireball globs would often win the match, at least on the difficulty I played on as a kid. The keys were Numpad 7 and Numpad 9 for each weapon/attack type. It's odd I can remember the mech codenames or even the keys for attacking, but nothing comes to me on the game's name.
Edited by CeekuropenCar brand kids' game/visual novel? Videogame
For years now I've had this distinct memory of playing this one (I'm assuming Flash or Shockwave) game as a kid, but I've never been able to track down anything even remotely similar. Maybe someone on here can help or at least back up my memories.
I remember a visual novel-style game where you play as either a player-friend of the main character or the main character herself. The main character was a kid with really androgynous vibes (still not sure if it was a boy or a girl, but I'm going to go with girl for now), blonde hair that was straight and shoulder-length, and a short name. I'm guessing it was like that so kids of any gender would be more likely to play the game.
I didn't understand much English back then, but I distinctly remember the game being tied to a car brand. For a long time, I was convinced that the brand was Mercedes Benz, but again, nothing comes up when I look for "Mercedes Benz kids game from the 2000s". I also remember the backgrounds for scenes being almost like photos, if not actual photos. Very gray, very real looking, with no fantasy aspect whatsoever. I think it might have taken place in Germany. There might have been a sort of global travel thing going on where you and/or the main character met with kids from different countries, but I might be totally wrong on that note.
I understood virtually nothing of what was going on, but I think I was intrigued by the fact that it was a game made by a car brand, yet had no racing aspect (none that I remember) and the main character was quite girly-looking.
If anyone has any clue what I'm talking about, please let me know!!!
openEarly acces game about managing a young girl social interactions in a truman show situation Videogame
I think is a korean game. From what I remember it wasn't fully translanted, but the gameplay was akind to a management sim where you have to decide where to locate your paid actors so this girl will run in to them (under the pretense of a normal life) and you will get to raise her according to some agenda.

I'm trying to find a game that I know is on this site, but for the life of me I can't remember the name. It's a story following Norse Mythology, where Ragnarok happened and the world is basically on the brink of collapse. The basic plot involves a cult sacrificing kids regularly to stave off the end of everything, otherwise Fenrir will eat the Sun (he's also disguised as a mountain in-game). I remember it came out in I think the last five years or so, but the name completely escapes me.
Edited by hunter139