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Weird 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?
Contra(-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-ZEROThere was a phone app with a lion called Toby... Videogame
...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 ReshpeckowiggleWeb game(s)/site about technological edutainment? Videogame
My memory on this game(s) or site is VERY hazy, but the gist of it that I recall is that I likely played it online, and it occurs in a world of personified technological concepts. I kinda remember spam-mail being represented as a rather ugly female caricature with heavy makeup and lipstickwd Gag Lips.
I lean towards at least some of it being in a not-that-refined 3D style (early 2000s stuff likely), but I recall more than one way that the gameplay panned out, all having a 3rd-person view, but it may be that they both existed.
- You explore your surroundings by clicking on adjacent sides of the screen (where a path starts/continues), the player character walks that way and the scene changes to that adjacent area. Not quite a birds-eye-view as the "board game" mode, but far enough to see most of the surrounding area and paths to take.
- A layout akin to a board game, where you walk on squares that join to perpendicular paths. Some squares are desirable to be/land on, some are not. I believe the "spam mail lady" that I mentioned earlier was here as an undesirable square. I vaguely recall the objective: to reach a computer lab, which was either at the middle of the map, the end of the "maze", or both.
An Indie Horror Game Involving An Animal Cult Videogame
The game is designed to look like an old ds/gameboy game (or similar handheld console); the main character is a delivery guy, I believe a pizza guy. It starts trying to deliver a pizza to a trailer park type area, but quickly spirals into horror after finding a girl who is clearly scared. I don't recall a lot, but I'm just going to list things:
- You get a gun, I think a shotgun.
- You go into a building farther back with a guy you met who is looking for someone (You have to shoot a padlock to progress)
- You can find notes talking about people being "ready" or not.
- IIRC it's a very muted color pallet, or possibly just in black and white.
- It is online only, was not a real game produced from the device its modeled to look like.
- The game at least implies that people in the cult are being turned into animals.
- After leaving the girl you find early on in your car, you come back and find your car trashed, possibly a door missing, and she's gone.
- Either Markiplier or Jacksepticeye played through it in a video with a few horror games. (It was definitely played in the past 5 years, but I don't know more accurate than that)
- One of the final lines was from a guy saying something similar to "Why can't you just leave us alone!?"
- A good few of the characters have slightly unsettling designs (not anything extreme, but I think stuff like their proportions were off)
- It was a very short game.
Trying to find a game from my childhood. Videogame
I'm trying to find a game from my childhood that I vaguely recall playing/seeing played. From what I recall, it was a 2D adventure game with point and click mechanics, possibly similar to Blackthorne, Prince of Persia, and Another World. It was science fiction by genre, with a human protagonist on possibly an alien world. The part that sticks out distinctly for me is a brief section moving through an open area outside of an alien base, I believe killing an alien was involved, beyond which you would come across a door with a hand scanner. I distinctly remember the hand scanner having three digits (two fingers and one thumb), and may have required a borrowed biometric bypass. Beyond these details, I can't remember much else.
a flash game platformer Videogame
a game about owen from total drama island on a bicycle cycling through an icy landscape. unsure if it was official or a fan creation. probably about a decade old at this point. i've looked and i can't find it ANYWHERE. someone with a better memory than me, help.
No Title Videogame
A flash game I came across several years ago, it was about a little white guy who (as I recall) had a leaf on his head or something like that. In the game, the main character lived in a kind of tree, the main objective of the game was to take care of the house and resources because otherwise, the main character would die in one or more ways, I remember that in one ending his house literally fell on top of him. It was a game that taught how to take care of the environment, but in a very weird way.
Secret of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge Videogame
Alright, maybe you guys can help me with this. I am recently playing the Secret of Monkey Island 2: Lechuck's Revenge, on Steam, with special editions, such as an audio commentary, and the three guys mentioned that the library has several references. A part in particular is one that one of the three found online, Guybrush and Lechuck turn out to be brothers and they had a fight over something trivial when they were kids. The media referenced is that two kids thought that they were kids when they were actually robots and did not realize that they were dead, and one kid sees dead people. I automatically thought 'o-k, the Sixth Sense', but that movie came out in 1999 and the game came out in 1991.
Does this seem familiar to anyone else? I am wrecking my mind over this, and I cannot find anything online. Please help, thank you.
Edited by thestormtrooperTruman show-esque indie game Videogame
I'm looking for a game where you watch out as somekind of special high school student (could be a god, an alien, idk) lives a seemingly normal life experiencing everiday things and growing up, but your job is to make sure they learn valuable things. To that end you hire extras for they to meet, among other things that reminded me of the first part of the anime Blood-C.
VN novel style,text based, min artwork (faceless characters, IIRR), Slice of life. Asian developer. That's all I can recall.
(SOLVED) Old pre-installed phone games, platformer and virtual pet Videogame
Suddenly remembered these pre-installed games I had on my first phone, a non-smartphone with a keyboard and color screen (think it was a Nokia but not 100% sure) and want to know what they were and what they were called. I got the phone in my early teens or possibly preteens, so mid-late 2000s.
One of the games was a platform game starring some mascot character who I think vaguely resembled Rayman, but without the floating limbs. The first world/level was a forest-based world where you'd jump across trees, or possibly a Green Hill Zone (pretty sure it was a green nature environment either way) - I don't remember other worlds because I never got very far in the game thanks to the bad controls. I think it also started with an intro with text and pictures, explaining how the main character had to save the world or save someone or some generic platformer story like that?
The other game was a virtual pet game where you'd care for a creature of the same species as the character from the game above (if not the platformer character himself) and the main gimmick was taking pictures of something of a certain color with your phone camera. For example, they would be hungry, show a blue box in a speech bubble, and you'd "feed" them by taking a photo of something blue. The game mainly took place in this character's house and you could switch between a few different screens.
(If it helps, the phone also had a third game unrelated to the characters and world of the other two - I don't even remember what it was since I barely played it but think it might have been some kind of puzzle game)
Edited by Zanreo18 Wheels of Steels gameplay video Videogame
Hey, i'm trying to find a certain two-part 18 Wheels of Steels (or probably other trucking simulator video game like it but I definitely doubt there were more) gamplay video. I think it might be deleted, but i'm not so sure. I can't remember much about those videos, but all I do know is that I first watch them somewhere around 2007 at least to 2010 at most, have no commentaries, and feature different songs with one of them (I think) being Eleven Fingers Paralyzer. Can someone help me with this?
myhouse.wad Videogame
the recent "house of leaves" inspired doom map by Veddge on the doomworld forum. has a ton of backstory stuff. I can't find a page for it here, and it should really be on tvtropes.
An old Edutainment game Videogame
Theres an old edutainment game I have faint memories of from the early 2000's, you play as the assistant to a green monster detective, playing language games (A horse racing arcade game where you had to create a word letter by letter in alternating turns, a game where you launch mice off of piano keys to put together word fragments, a game where you have to use a bank of letters to create the most unique words) to earn halves of clues you would use to find the culprit of a crime from a cast of monsters (E.G. An old time hollywood starlet mummy, a frankensteins monster esq coach ect)
Game about merging monsters Videogame
This was an online game about merging monsters. There was an arena which hosted the main plot, with another area for getting money
You could buy two monsters to start, a robot and a crawler. The robot was round and had a single eye that was blue and glassy. The crawler was made of blue flesh with bubbles or boils on its skin and just a tail and two arms as limbs
These could be merged into a zombie (two crawlers) which was a red eyed green humanoid with a regeneration power, another mechanical thing (two robots) that acted just like the robots, and another thing (a crawler and a robot) that had two energy swords and might have been called a berserker
These could be merged into a big green fat thing (two zombies) that had more regeneration, a bigger robot (two mechanical things) that also shot lasers and had a cylindrical head with a visor-type eyes and a jagged mouth, a healer (a zombie and a mechanical thing) which was like a zombie with a robotic mask and staff, a thing with swords (two berserker things) which was like the thing that used the two laser swords, a pyro (a mechanical thing and a berserker thing) which was like the zombie but mostly a machine that shot fire, and a cyclops (a zombie and a berserker thing) that was a zombie with a big hammer and a glassy eye like the robot
Horror game from 2014. Videogame
There was an advertisement for a horror game in early-to-mid 2014 that focused on a player in a dark room jumping at some unseen fright. It seemed to precede every video on Blip.
DOS game where you're chased by an evil knight Videogame
I'm trying to remember a game that I saw in my youth. I remember the main character being chased by a knight with an axe, and if he reached you you got killed in one hit. It was almost in a isometric perspective, but wasn't. More like those scrolling beat-em-ups where you can move up, down, left and right on a plane.
I tried asking a few years back and no-one could remember it.
Rabbit game (SOLVED) Videogame
I dont remember much of this game. Just that the main character is an anthropomorfic rabbit, I think he used a laser gun, and you fight against chameleons.
Edited by ElBuenCuate
3D 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 DrSanjiZant