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opencrossover game Videogame
I'm looking for a video game that showed off a trailer depicting what looks like Kasumi Miwa from Jujutsu Kaisen (assuming it isn't actually her). I believe she was on the thumbnail for the official trailer.
Edited by 227someguyopengame i used to play when i was younger Videogame
There was this app I played all the time on my grandma's iPad when I was younger, like 3 years old. I forget what it was called exactly, but it would teach about simple stuff, like living things and weather and numbers. There might have been numerous apps in one series, I don't remember exactly. Anyways, there were a group of characters who would teach you the stuff. There was a female voice over, so the characters were only there for show really. Most of them were children, but the only two characters I remember are this purple furry monster guy (fittingly named Purple), and this African-American girl named Mimi, who had her hair in buns if I recall correctly. I'm pretty sure the characters had like...beady eyes or something. When I tried to search for the app in my grandma's downloaded app history, I couldn't find it anywhere. I'm pretty sure it got taken down. But does anyone know what it was called?
opencreepy puzzle game? Videogame
There was this game which may have been an escape room/puzzle game on mobile i played anywhere from 2014 - 2017 the game was in a painting-like art style where it was mostly still images as backgrounds. at the beginning there is a guy who talks to you before you enter the house sometimes when you entered the room with the stairs (right infront of the front door), the dog that sits by the stairs is missing its head? although most of the time it had a head. up the stairs there where a few rooms where maybe when you tried to unlock the door or enter the door (im not sure) there was this creepy lady who might have been a doll. that is all i really remember about the game as i was young when i played it.
openComputer game with frog and fairy tales? Videogame
I remember playing a computer game when I was in elementary school during the early 2000s. (Around 2000-2002) Since it was in school, it may have been an educational game. I has a frog as the main character and there are cutscenes parodying fairy tales. (Ex. Wizard Of Oz, the frog appears as the Scarecrow and the wizard makes his brain big and at the end, the frog states he landed on his head, or Aladdin where the frog appears as the title character.)
openCebeebies Maze game? Videogame
So I remember playing a game on the Cebeebies websites years ago where you had to go through several mazes to deliver things to people? There was a polar bear maze, and others I can't remember. In one maze, you have to get to a picnic. It's not longer on the site and I don't remember what show it is associated with.
openTech demo-esque marble game Videogame
I've been trying to remember some weird demo-type games I played in my childhood, and one of them was this marble-themed game. Now, this wasn't really a marble-rolling game like Marble Blast or the like, it was almost like some sort of weird tech demo. I remember it was almost like an arena game, and you rolled your marble around the bottom of a deep, cylindrical sink, complete with a stream of water from a faucet. I think the goal was to knock other marbles into the drain.
I seem to remember that this was part of a pack of games used for demonstrating some sort of 3D glasses technology from the early-ish 2000's, along with a golf game and another 3D game called Axysnake (which I did find on its own).
openGame with an intro where a dinosaur kills someone Videogame
I'm posting this on behalf of a friend. Here is what he said:
"It was a very simple memory really, it's a friend I used to visit in the 90s, I'm fairly sure this was on the N64 though I have looked into other consoles of the time since. He was showing the games he had and he had one in particular that his parents didn't let him play until he was older, I assume he got it on like a thrift sale and they didn't check, but then later when he booted it up and they saw him they figured he couldn't play it yet
Anyways
I was so curious and I asked him to boot it up anyways because I wanted to see, he was reluctant at first because he said that it scared him on top of his parents not letting him playing it, but I eventually convinced him to just let me peek, he didn't have to see
He turned it on, it may have gone through the usual company logo or whatever. What I remember next was some sorta dark room, looked kinda like a damp cave
It was not very well illuminated, kinda poor textures that seem a lot like something from PS 1 or N64 age
And the camera was on one of the corners of the room, facing against one of the walls
You could see the shadow of what looked like some sorta monster, but it really looked like a dinosaur and what I believe was a person
And the camera was just panning around the room, though you couldnt really see the person. It showed the wall shadows a bit and then it looked like the "dinosaur" suddenly attacked the person while he screamed
I watched that a bit and then he shut off the console suddenly being all like "See? I told you it was too scary" and I just kinda nodded and agreed even though I didn't think it was THAT violent, just a bit disturbing
There may have been some blood. Then we went on to eat some food or whatever lol"
He said he thought for sure it was Turok, but he can't find the intro anywhere. Since then, he said he's looked up the intros for tons of games from the n64, PS 1 and other but can't find it. He said he thinks it might have been a dream, but that it's so vivid he could recreate it on a 3d program if given the chance.
openVisual Novel With Sentient Appliances Videogame
So, I was browsing the Web when I noticed this comment: "This was a few years ago, but I know that there is a visual novel about a guy who falls in love with his sentient home electronics. It didn't have an English translation at the time tho so I haven't played it myself." Does anyone know what they are referring to?
openNo Title Videogame
I have a list of several video games from various genres and generations that I'm trying to remember. Here are my descriptions in rough chronological order of how old they are, starting with the most recent:
1) An online Flash game in the puzzle genre with an isometric view. Each level spawns a single-file line of small creatures (I can't remember if they're robots, aliens, or whatever) that must be guided to an exit. Your main tools are placing a limited number of arrows on the ground to redirect the minions, and in some levels they have to hop on springs to get over gaps or collect keys to open doors. I'm not positive on this, but the arrows might also be color-coded so that only certain minions will follow them, which adds an extra dimension of thinking to later levels. I played this game sometime within the last decade, so while it's at least from 2000 I doubt it's newer than around 2008. (Found: it's called Light Brigade)
2) Another browser-based PC game that I played sometime between 2002-2004. The gameplay is similar to Geometry Wars in that the entities are abstract shapes in an open 2D arena. It's actually a multiplayer game in that each player is in their own arena, but their performance makes enemies spawn for the other players. I think you get power-ups like weapons, shields, and such as pickups from destroyed enemies, and I also think the enemies spawn from wormhole-like areas. The last player alive wins the round.
3) A point-and-click adventure game for the PC which I saw sometime in the mid-1990s. As I recall it was near-future or cyberpunk with dark and realistic visuals. The one memory that sticks out in my mind is that the line for I Can't Use These Things Together would be a somewhat deep male voice saying "Hmm, that doesn't work" and the cursor would be a slowly spinning hourglass. I checked the examples on that trope page but nothing particularly sticks out. The closest thematic match I've found so far is Beneath A Steel Sky, but that's a little too alien and not quite as dark as I recall.
4) A sci-fi space exploration game. The graphics are similar to the Atari 2600, maybe a little more advanced. I don't actually know what platform it's on because I only saw it in a video embedded on someone's website, but it could have been an older home computer like the Commodore 64. In any case, the player flies over planets in 2D scrolling segments much like Defender but can also fly through space between planets (I don't remember what that part looked like). Throughout the game the player encounters alien ships that are either red or blue; one type is friendly while the other is hostile. Shooting hostile aliens gives you money from bounties, while shooting friendly aliens causes you to get fined. However, the change in money only applies when you dock at spaceports. If you accrue enough fines that you don't have enough money to pay, you're imprisoned and lose the game.
5) An ASCII-based train simulator game from no later than around 1992. Because of the limited graphics it's simply white characters on a black screen, and there's no screen scrolling so the whole track is confined to one screen. The one gameplay feature I remember is that you can build rail junctions and control the switches with the keyboard keys, and each junction is marked with the key that controls it. (Edit: This was almost certainly a DOS game.)
Edited by UltramarineAlizarinopenTop down computer RPG Videogame
When I was way younger, this could very easily be 10 years ago by now, we had this top down 2D RPG on our old computer. Unfortunately, all I remember about it today is that there was a green snake/lizard character who I thought was the coolest thing, so I used the game editor we had to turn the entire party into clones of this one character. I never got far enough into the game to get any of the plot because I was dreadful at playing it. I know it isn't much to go on, but any help would be appreciated!
openSuper Robot Wars series where Tifa Adill channels many spirits? Videogame
Hello! I remember seeing this certain Super Robot Wars game or manga where Tiffa Adill gets possessed by many spirits, most of them are male. Also, while being possessed her expressions changes and even her tone of voice as well, albeit more deeper.
Unfortunately, I could not remember which specific Super Robot Wars series/game/manga was that.
Edited by Billie1994openSpace adventure with a group of 4 Videogame
I remember seeing this in around the early 2010s, but I recall seeing some sort of space adventure game that has a group of 4 people. One of them could even get a randomized superpower. I think the last section of the game involved a parkour section
openMatch 3+ Magic Flow Puzzle Game Videogame
I vaguely remember playing a certain puzzle game on my grandma’s computer. You’d have a rather large level (like, multiple screens large I believe) on a square grid, where every tile had some colour of gem on it. Your task is to guide a flow of… mana energy? Towards some destination. Along the path, stone tiles would interrupt your progress, and you had to form links of gems above them to break them. Links would be formed by clicking on one gem, then dragging outwards (even diagonally) to other gems of the same colour. The longer the chain, the bigger and more powerful a bonus explosion at the chain’s tip would be, sometimes it could even fill the whole screen.
Collecting enough gems of the same colour would give you a single-use special ability that you would have to recharge, and in some sections you’d get grid chunks outside of the main path, so you had to collect powerups. Levels are also timed, and the only way to lose is to run out of time.
After every four levels, you’d get a mini-game of comparing two Tarot-like cards and spotting their differences, and every 16 levels you would have beaten one quarter of the game and got rewarded with a hidden objects sequence themed after the quarter you just played through.
You also got a fairy companion who would tutorialize you.
Once again, it’s been ages, so I might be misremembering stuff, but if anyone has a name, I’d be immensely grateful!
openBug game (< not THAT one) Videogame
1 2 3 that’s enough for me. Anyways this one is for a game, (on roblox) it’s a role play game I enjoyed back then, the story is that humanity got teleport (by a big comet) to some A.U. where bugs had minds and stuff. Ants hate humans, ladybugs accepted humans, I believe there were spiders and crickets too(probably just the spiders) there’re also human-bug hybrids.
openA point and click video game with a vampire girl with a curse and a monster best friend Videogame
Who gives his life to save her/turn her normal again.
Also its an old game. I mean literaly 90s or extremely early 00s at most.
Edited by AegisPopenVillage game from late 2010s (deleted?) Videogame
Hello, I remember a village game that was probably on most phone and tablet app stores back in the late 2010s. It might have been deleted, I don’t know.
It is closest to the game Virtual Villagers in its gameplay. You would try to grow this community and see it progress. The villagers were cartoony humans.
The map had a river in the upper part and land everywhere else. There was a major quest where you had to save a child that was in a basket. The child was supposed to be in the river and you had to craft a thing to help them get out.
I’m pretty sure it existed.
openshort, deliberately "so bad its good" rpg maker game parodies video game tropes Videogame
I never directly played this, but I viewed either a Let's Play or a straight playthrough on youtube. The backstory was that the game was part of a "game jam" where participants were challenged to create an entertainingly bad game on the rpg maker engine in a short period of time. The main thing I remember is the very end being a parody of Suspicious Video-Game Generosity: In The Very Definitely Final Dungeon, your party finds a ridiculously long corridor with no enemies and every step you take there's some power-up or weapon that's much stronger than anything you've previously encountered in the game - which also serves to make the Overly Long Gag of traversing the hallway even longer, as the gameplay pauses every few seconds to show you whatever new item you just got. Before you reach the end of the corridor, a message appears on screen saying that this is the end of the playable demo and you have to purchase the paid version to get any further (of course, there is no paid version and it's a free game).

I saw a puzzle game with a gameplay akin to Bejeweled, but you had to connect the colorful trinkets by drawing a single line over them, which couldn't go twice through the same trinket. Said trinkets were then given to one of 5 wacky friendly creatures which in turn attacked a slug that blocked your way. Some of the creatures you could take on your quest a green worm, a chameleon or some cross between a toad and a fly. The whole feel was somehow akin to Rayman:Origins / Legend
Rings any bells?
Edited by sohibil