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openIndie IOS Puzzle Game Videogame
I think this game was released two year or three years ago. The English translation (originally a Japanese puzzler) was pretty bad, but the concept was super cute.
Basically, you move around two characters, a boy and a girl whose names aren't mentioned, and you help them overcome obstacles such as locked doors, rain, and road blocks in order to meet. At the end of each level (when they finally meet) they do this "after-school dance" thing.
Does anyone know this game? Thanks!
openWIndows Detective Game Videogame
So in this game, you play as an old detective. As always, you're trying to solve a murder. I kinda forgot the gameplay but roughly, in each room, there's some sort of clue, and you click the wrong clues to make it disappear. You can listen to the characters' testimony to determine the right answer. If you click on the wrong answer, there's a thunder sound. Oh, and also, after you finish the stage, there's a footstep representing the murderer's actions.
Thanks in advance.
resolved What Sonic game is this? Videogame
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open90's Educational PC Game? Videogame
There was this point-and-click educational PC game I remember playing in grade school back in the 90's. I can't remember the title, but I remember the plot: there were these little round aliens called 'Bumps' who were basically a bunch of multicolored round blobs with googly eyes and mouths. They were flying in a spaceship and crashlanded on earth, and their spaceship got taken by this young girl who dragged it back to her shed. The Bumps meet up with this little nerdy rat character who tells them that their spaceship is inside the shed, and the girl was an artist who would probably turn it into a sculpture or something, so he helps the Bumps get inside the shed through various physics-based puzzles- using different-sized Bumps to move and lift objects, weigh different things down, and balance platforms to get across to their goal. It was all done in cartoony 2-D graphics, with (I think) pre-rendered 3D backgrounds, like some of the Jumpstart games.
I remember the Bumps being featured in at least one other, similar game too, one that was themed around an alien carnival where you played different games with the Bumps and some other aliens too- the only ones I remember are this one "villain" who looked like a purple anteater who sucked up Bumps through his snout, and a yellow dragon-like Ringmaster character.
openIndie game: talking animal fantasy, "Watership Down" vibes, main character was a mouse Videogame
It was still in relatively early development and only had a trailer to show last time I saw it. It was a 3rd-person, 3D action adventure game along the lines of Zelda or Dark Souls. The main character was a mouse, who I think was carrying a lute. It showed him running around realistic rocky beach landscapes and fighting what I think were rat skeletons. It had a Watership Down or Redwall sort of "dark fantasy with critters" vibe, and rather nice graphics IIRC. This was at least a couple of years ago. Anyone know what I'm talking about and what ever happened to it?
resolved DS Zombie Game Videogame
I remember a DS game I used to play. It was a side scroller where you were a zombie hunter attacking zombies with weapons that had limited ammo/uses, like a shotgun or a whip. Other than that, it camd out in or before 2009, it was rated E10+, it had a cartoonish but dark art style, and the first boss was supposed to be a zombified version of Whispy Woods from Kirby. Any ideas?
Edited by SwiftSeraphopenSonic-like Cyborg Warbot Mech Game Videogame
Platformer-like game of non-typical type. It's different from typical "Sonic-like" platformers to same degree, to which "Wario-like" platformers are different from "Mario-like" platformers.
Plot is: Mad Scientist roboticist is fighting against local anthropomorphic animals, and you are one of his special robots/cyborgs/mechs.
Game has side-view, as in platformer. The player character is stout, heavily armored mech - about the size and complexion of Cyberstanian Hulk or Imperium Dreadnought - heavily armored and armed with variety of weapons. He slowly and purposefully goes through the level, fighting through hordes of organic enemies; he doesn't dodge, instead relying on heavy armor, massive physical shield, energy shields, lots of spikes and huge HP to tank or deflect hits.
Player character robot/cyborg/mech is equipped with astonishing number of weapons; including "flamethrowers what don't suck", autocannons, plasmaguns, lasers, tesla-cannons, missiles, and other weapons. He can fire all that simultaneously.
One level simultaneously parodies Sonic.exe, Warhammer 40,000 (especially Space Hulk) and The Furry Crusades. Massive "flying cathedral"-like battleship full of heavily malformed Khornite mobians tries to assault the Space Station controlled by our Mad Scientist, in order to spill blood. Our massive robot/cyborg/mech goes to boarding action on enemy's demon-infested ship. Eventually, because player character just turned everyone into robots during previous levels, cultists realize what the entire planet is populated entirely by robots, who have no blood to spill; so cultists start killing each other in honor of Dark Gods, and accidentally blow up their own ship.
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opensome maze related color related symbols tattoos related webcomic or game Videogame
Le †humbnail I saw on †his websi†e; black, wi†h abou† 9 colored symbols divided by whi†e lines forming a †ic †ac †oe grid. I†'s a work abou† people assigned wi†h colors, symbols of †ha† color †a††ooed on †hem, and powers of †heir own. Firs† i†'s some webcomic(?) and †hen I saw some Roblox game similar †o i†. Tha† Roblox game has a mons†er played by a randomly chosen player, le rest will survive. On le websi†e, le guy assigned wi†h pink/magen†a has mind con†rol/†elekine†is/psychokinesis thing, some girl assigened wi†h green has some healing powers, maybe?
Edited by x-i-v-iopenGame about writing book to score with women Videogame
I vaguely remember this game about a man who goes to a house and sacrifices his limbs just so he can become popular with women. I also recall it had Bucket in its title.
I vaguely remember Kubz Scouts playing this game back in the day but I can't remember it.
openEnglish dating sim/romance visual novel about instruments turning human Videogame
Getting to the point:
- English-language
- In development around September 2017
- Either a romantic visual novel or a dating simulator
- At least six romanceable characters
- Characters were musical instruments who could turn or ended up turned into humans
- One character was a red guitar or bass who was either never shown as human or simply did not turn human
Edited by jellygelly13resolved Single-word title Videogame
There was this semi-recent game that I'm trying to see again because I've all but forgotten about it, and the title completely eludes me.
The title of the game was some synonym for the word "hurting" or "suffering", I'm pretty sure it was a verb or noun of some sort that refers to pain and agony. You're in a world of fleshy suffering mutants and you control one of them, I think yours was a pair of heads with arms and nothing else. The game is a 2D platformer so you need to overcome various terrain and puzzles. One of the things you can encounter early on is a big "mole-like" mutant that charges at you, and you have to back off or it kills you. The first "boss" is a singing one that's also suffering, but you help them by destroying nearby pustules; once they're all gone, they smile in gratitude and open a path in the bottom allowing the player to progress. I think there was also a section involving rats.
openOld Edutainment Game that Took Place in a Circus Videogame
I'm trying to remember this one computer game I used to play on Windows 7 when I was little. All I remember is that:
- It took place in a circus
- The circus served as the main menu, showing a list of all available minigames
- The "leave game" button was represented by a clown icon
- The only minigame I remember was when you control a mouse with a mouse (get it?) to navigate a maze to get cheese
- It's not Math Circus or JumpStart 3 Ring Circus. Nor is it Putt Putt Joins The Circus
Sidenote: I think the game was a sequel to another edutainment game that was animal-themed and both games (I think?) shared the same credits music.
I know this is awfully specific but I hope it's not lost media or something I made up back in the day.
Edited by SleepingStarAikunoresolvedAPP I Found This From A Video Game I Don’t Know The Name BUT I Know The Trope for This Videogame
resolved Trying to find a Pokémon spin-off. Videogame
I vaguely remember hearing about a Pokémon spin-off that was apparently a Programming Game, yet I cannot find any information about it. The only other detail I can recall about it is that the protagonists had an Orange/Blue Contrast (boy wore blue, girl wore orange). Anybody willing to help me find it?
resolved "What a weak and miserable boss you are!" Videogame
Another from my dad. He says he and his brother played this NES game a lot during the 80's or around that era. He describes it as a Kung Fu fighting game with a translation he explicitly compares to Zero Wing in the sense of being done in an overly literal way. The thing he mainly remembers was that you had a servant, and when you get a Game Over, you get a screen of your servant saying "What a weak and miserable boss you are! I'm leaving!", though he fully admits that he might be remembering this line wrong; he says his brother used to quote this line at work.
Given my last question had a bit of a Mandela Effect to it, this may also have one, which, again, he fully admits can be the case.
openVideo and Arcade Top 10 Videogame
In the 90s, there was a show called Video and Arcade Top 10. Among other things, it featured kids playing video games in competition. This is the show's first intro.
I can make out four games, but am having trouble identifying them. The first one I know is Ski or Die. The second looks like a fight from Base Wars, because the characters line up, but the background looks weird. A third game is about a guy on roller skates, and the fourth is some type of flight sim, but not Captain Skyhawk or Top Gun. They all seem to be for the NES. Can anyone help ID'ing them all?
openBlob Monster Decontamination Videogame
A heavily armed human (survivor? soldier?) in NBC suit goes on to clean the lab full of disgusting Blob Monsters (think "puddles of blood") and techno-undead. Also includes looting and finding notes - going from raid to home shelter and back. Maybe, there's multiple facilities - or parts of facility - to raid.
If character's bare body contacts with enemy, you get killed/assimilated quickly or even instantly - but in practice, you can survive contact as long as hazmat suit is sufficiently intact.
Player character uses all sorts of weapons - including shotgun, machinegun, flamethrower (World Wars-like makeshift one, and modern thermobaric launcher), various types of grenade/rocket/missile launchers, chemical weapons, explosives of all kinds.
Player can also change suits. He starts with standard civilian hazmat suit - but can later find more protective outfits. Some have special properties - such as bunker gear being fire-proof. That goes on to some rather ridiculous models - such as hazmat EOD bombsuit, and Power Armor.
open(Solved) Children's PC game in factory Videogame
I have extremely vague memories of a PC game I played as a kid, but I barely remember anything about it. All I remember is that the game begins with an outside shot of a factory while music plays, the game contained difficulty buttons that sung a barbershop quartet "Hello..." "Hello..." "Hello..." when you started a mini game, and that it might have had some kind of cartoon gorilla as a mascot character.
Does anyone have any idea what this game is?
Edited by JankyKongopenMr Pencil and Mrs Brush Videogame
I remember playing a game with two characters named Mr Pencil and Mrs Brush. It had different minivans and one of them was about Mr Pencil hurting himself trying to make a circle and Mrs brush says “you better go put some ice on that.” Does anyone know the game?

A top down motorcycle game released for arcade in the late 80s or early 90s. There are about a dozen other motorcycles on screen at once, and the sprites are rather small. It's top down, but there aren't really any turns in the course, you just move left and right to dodge around the other racers. It's definitely based on track based motorcycle racing because it takes place on a race track, as opposed to being based on motocross and being set on a dirt track. Similar in appearance to Rally Bike,
but it's not Rally Bike. The game I' thinking of is zoomed further out, and has more bikes on screen at a time.
Edited by WillKeaton