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openPossible game Videogame
I'm looking for a game title. Part of it is "Entering a new chapter".
All I know is that it's rated E for Everyone.
openThe WW2 game about a POW Videogame
It's set in nazi germany and the player character is a maybe-american POW (the name was english, i think) who escapes. I think the goal was fighting your way out and there was a female ally, and sneaking was important.
resolved NSFW-ish shoot-'em-up Videogame
I tried Deep Space Waifu, but got a little confused, because I was thinking of this entirely different game where you fly a ship and shoot yellow blocks to reveal more of the background (which was of anime girls), and it seemed to control more like Asteroids than a normal scrolling shmup, so you had to carefully steer through the level. I think part of the description/premise was that you're trying to "liberate" the girls from aliens or something, and I swear Total Biscuit did a video on it years ago and that it was on Steam.
openBeat-Em-Up (SOLVED) Videogame
I remember playing a 16-bit (or maaaaybe 32-bit) Beat 'em Up where each level followed the previous one in a weird way - there was a amusement park level, then a whale eats the character, leading to a Womb Level. Afterwards, the character gets out of the whale and fights atop it, even using the blowhole strategically: if an enemy was on top of the blowhole when it shot water, the enemy would fly off.
I think it was some sort of fighting anime or manga license, too. Anyone knows what I'm talking about?
Edited by PisthetairosopenVillage prepare for monster Videogame
There was a limited amount of days/turns It was decision-based Multiplayer There were many different endings that could happen A medieval village? Relatively modern
Edited by Super_Troper404openGame from TF post Videogame
I'm looking for a game that's akin to (or at least remotely similar to) the scenario mentioned in this query from the Trope Finder.
open2000s Mystery-based Browser Game Videogame
Anyone know what Flash/Shockwave game this is? I remember playing it on Yahoo's Game page circa 2007-2009. It was a dark and drab looking mystery-murder game where you played a detective or surgeon. It either took place in medieval times or Victorian times. I remember it being relatively gorey.
openOld Windows Mini-Golf Game Videogame
I remember having a mini-golf game that I used to play quite a bit as a kid. This was back in the mid-2000's, but I'd imagine the game itself was quite old even at the time. The game in question was a 3D game with somewhere around ten different courses, each with a unique theme. The two courses I can remember are the nineth course (I think) which was a cloud world known as "Cloud 9", and some sort of factory or lab with a container the ball had to get into. The computer was either a Windows 95 or a Windows XP computer.
openWindows Ski Game Videogame
It was from either the late 90s or early 2000s. It was some kind of winter sports game from Windows. I remember it as "In Ski" but I don't think that's what it's actually called. You could do a few events like ski jump, toboggan, slalom, etc.
I remember that in the toboggan game you could see a man's face at the bottom of the screen and his eyes would bug out in terror if you were about to fall off the track. The weirdest bit was one of the ski events, where right at the start if you didn't hold a certain button down your skiier would literally hurl himself off the side of the mountain for no reason. There would be a kind of "biiirnt" sound as he did it.
Also on the slalom the flags would wiggle if you hit them.
openNaruto Game Videogame
I honestly don't remember much of the plot, aside from the overall game being set pre-Shippuuden. The main thing I remember was being able to take jobs from Ichiraku Ramen to deliver food around town; we'd rented it back when video stores were still a thing and I never finished it.
openCD-ROM Children's Encyclopedia (UNSOLVED) Videogame
When I was young, I had a children's encyclopedia on CD-ROM that had a host called Annie (short for Annuit Coeptis), a female, floating green pyramid who looked like "the weird pyramid thing on the back of the dollar bill," as she described it. She had a floating round eye where the Eye of Providence was, and introduced herself and explained the meaning of the Great Seal upon bootup. I think we sold the disc at a flea market. And yes, I'm asking mainly because Bill Cipher reminded me of her.
Edited by rjd1922open(SOLVED) Elephant app Videogame
I'm looking for the name of an iOS game I played quite some time ago. Basically the main character was an anthropomorphic elephant (or anteater? I think), and your mentor sent you to go around visiting different "planets" in order to solve the problems on them. The problems always had some sort of moral lesson to them.
Like there was one planet where you could eat cotton candy multiple times by getting it from a shop, but you could also choose to eat a bigger bag of cotton candy by taking it from the shop's supplier. Once you ate the big bag of cotton candy, you couldn't get any more smaller cotton candy sticks because there was nowhere to get them from, and I think the lesson was "don't be greedy" or something like that.
Once you finished all the planet levels, you could come back to earth, only to discover your mentor died in your absence. It was a kinda dark game to be honest. What I remember the most, though, is that the main menu music was playing Pachelbel's Canon. Help would be appreciated.
Edited by unfortunatezoruaopenA Retraux PC game I haven't played in almost a decade... (SOLVED!) Videogame
This is a very obscure game. I remember a surprising amount of it. It's a 2D platformer/Metroidvania with a world map, it stars a character who looks more or less like this[1]◊. He's a chancellor, I think. He can only do basic platforming initially, gaining the ability to wall jump/wall climb (I don't remember which) halfway through the game, and gaining the ability to double jump during the final level (and only the final level. You can't double jump outside of it).
The game features an 8-bit aesthetic during levels, 8-bit music with a side of MIDI stank (the music reminds me a lot of Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, actually, at least in terms of sound), and a main map with an oil painting look.
The first few levels happen at night, while the last few levels take place in space. The final level is called Far Far Star. The game has like 3 boss fights, one of which takes place in a stone bridge, the second one takes place in a tunnel, and has you go against a giant wooden contraption with wheels. I assume that there's a third boss fight against the big bad, but I was never able to finish the final level. Speaking of big bad, the big bad is a magician.
One of the optional levels has you use more than one character. It's an escort mission with a female character. You use her to do some jumps you wouldn't be able to normally, I think.
I bet a lot of these details are wrong, but then again, it's been almost a decade since I last played it, back when I still had a Windows XP PC. This has been bugging me for a long time. I really want to go back and finish that game! I'll be very disappointed if this game's been somehow lost to time.
Edited by LucasRCDopenTrying to find a game (Unsolved) Videogame
There was a human villain named after the Egyptian snake god Apophis or something like it, that doomed a entire race to hell since they didn't read the fine print of his 'demon' contract. I'm not sure if it's a Tabletop game or what, but I do remember the the last sentence of the description was something like "[...] his tongue unfurled revealing the contract, flies flying out of his mouth. 'Read the fine print.' He said."
openPirate-themed adventure game from the late 90's/early 00's (NOT Monkey Island) Videogame
Nearly 20 years ago, I found a video trailer for a cartoonish Monkey Island-style adventure game on a disc of demos for a computer game magazine. I can't remember the name, I think it was something along the lines of [main character's name]: the [object of power/search for said object of power].
It had a similar cartoony style to the Curse of Monkey Island, with a main character who even looked and sounded similar, though with brown hair instead of blonde. From what I remember from the trailer, it contained character like a genie-in-a-bottle with a stereotypical Middle-Eastern accent and an overly long name (one of which was Balthazar), a man in a WWII pilot uniform manning a cannon that was about to blow up a pirate ship off the coast, a shifty drug dealer in a dark coat and fedora and a Scottish blacksmith that the main character got into a long argument with about whether he could borrow his hammer. On the preliminary cover, it had the main character holding what I think was a giant white mushroom in his hands, presumably the [object of power] in the title.
The game honestly didn't look very good, not even to me when I was a kid who mostly dismissed it as a Monkey Island-ripoff. Nevertheless, I've thought about it occasionally since then, and when I've tried to look up a game like that from the time period, I have never found any sign of it or anything resembling it (apart from the actual Monkey Island games, of course). Hell, for all I know it was cancelled and never released at all. However, if my description does ring a bell, I would be grateful to receive a response, just to put an old mystery to rest.
openiOS game, endless runner with a protagonist who looked like Gomez from FEZ Videogame
I'm trying to find an iOS game (don't know if it was released on Android) featuring a character very similar to FEZ's protagonist. He could divide into multiple characters when he went through mirrors (it was part of the gameplay) and, AFAIK, it was an endless runner-like game.
openThat game played in the background of Youtube videos Videogame
alright, this should be easy for y'all, im just dumb. You know that game thats often played in the background of commentary channels? its first person, the character holds a knife, and they just kinda jump/ slide around on ramps though diffrent environments? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REnhhd1RGYE here's a video with it being played. I know it's really popular, but I don't play a lot of games lol. pls help. thanks
openCreepily Advertised Kid’s Online Virtual World (late 2000s) Videogame
So there’s this online virtual world that’s repressed in the deepest thoughts of my brain, and I’m having a hard time remembering the name of it. So here’s the sitch. Back in the late 2000s, Limited Too/Justice used to consistently advertise this online virtual world and I remember it was strangely creepy. The video advertisements came in the form of these post apocalyptic style found footages of teenagers trying to reach out for help. They mention something about some sort of darkness that is taking over the land that comes in the form of a black mist that overtakes everything in its path. It might be a pollution metaphor, idk, it might have a steampunk feel to some of the settings, idk. I’ve also seen print posters in the changing rooms of one of the cartoon teenagers in front of a foggy mirror with a message written on it for the same game. The big thing about the ads that might ring a bell for someone out there is that every ad ended with the same phrase: “We need your help.” Then at the end it would show the name of the game with an ominous jingle of sorts at the end. That’s the most distinct detail I have about this game. The game itself? I can only tell you very little about it, because I didn’t play it very long. You create your teenaged avatar, and you’re going left and right to different areas. I believe there is a sort of nature vs machine vibe to the place. I stumbled across some sort of matching game that I was doing alright in, until I clicked on this one card and the aforementioned dark mist just jumped out of the card and scared the living daylights out of elementary aged me! I closed the game and never touched it or my account again. Now, many years later, I’ve been dying to know what this anomaly of a kids online virtual world was. I’ve searched high and low on the internet to no avail. 99% sure that the game shut down many years ago. TLDR: Kids’ online virtual world advertised in Limited Too during the late 2000s with found footage cartoon videos and a black mist as the antagonist. “We need your help” the phrase said every ad. I need your help remembering what this is.
resolved A Retraux cyberpunk Shoot'em Up. Videogame
I recently saw a trailer for this game but i can't find it anymore. The protagonist is a bounty hunter in a 80s themed cyberpunk world and collects cyborg skulls from gang members he kills. The trailer had several gangs with different themes, one were punks with a leatherman Giant Mook, another was a biker gang, the third was a sports hooligan themed gang with sports shirts and hockey sticks as weapons and the last ones were martial artists/ breakdancers whose boss had a samurai armor and mirror shades. IIRC the biker gang were called The Heatseekers and the martial artists were The Repeat Offenders.
I have spent years looking for this one flash game I got obsessed with for like a week when I was small. I never completed it, but fortunately, the page I played it in was garbage and didn't save my progress, so I played the first few stages several times. The game was a side-scrolling platformer btw. On the first stage you play as some guy or girl climbing up a hill to meet with an old person (maybe their grandfather); everything is black and white, it's snowing, and there are a bunch of hedgehogs walking around that you can throw rocks at so they'll lower their spikes and not damage you. Then you reach the grandfather's house, and he tells the character of how when he was young everything was cool and colorful and such. This leads into the second level, where you play as the grandpa in the past; everything is colorful and cool and such, and then you reach the summit and you meet the phoenix, which gives him a magic power. Here are introduced the different spells you can use; the first two are yellow (which allows you to glide) and orange (double jump); the only other I remember is blue (a sort of water-skip). He ends up meeting a wizard and then the two, along with the wizard's other apprentice and the grandpa's youth love interest girl (I know I phrased it kinda weirdly, but it's the same girl) investigate why everything is getting shadowy and gray and spooky.
That's all I remember, if anyone knows what game it is I'd be grateful for the info.