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openMobile game with floating islands Videogame
In this game, you control a small creature, I think it had spiky green hair and no arms. You would walk on floating islands (or oddly-shaped small planets?) and the gravity would change depending on which side you were on, so you could walk under the island, and jump to different islands and collect coins. There were enemies that were killed by jumping on them, and the final boss looks like a bigger version of the playable character. Along the way there are signs that tell you how to play. There's a level where you had to collect every coin on the level on a time limit, and another where you rescue creatures who look like the protagonist but smaller and with differently colored hair.
Edited by HqamiopenZombie apocalypse mobile game Videogame
I doubt this would have a page on here anyways, but maybe somebody will remember! There was this zombie apocalypse mobile game that I used to play, probably around 2012/2013. IIRC the premise was basically that you had this town (sort of like a compound) that you could slowly add people to, called survivors, and slowly the town would grow and expand while defending itself from the zombies. I feel like the survivors were also categorized into different categories of survivors, with different skills (maybe one was "warrior" and another was "dreamer"?). There was a front gate where one of your survivors would sit and protect the town and also sometimes new survivors would show up and I think you could choose whether or not you wanted to rescue them? There was also like a minigame with this blue pickup truck (I remember that color very specifically lol) where you would like ride out into the wildland and try to pick up other survivors and kill zombies for points/supplies or something. The art style was kind of like Scribblenauts, very cartoonish and characters with blocky heads. Basically I remember everything except the title :/ big thanks to anyone who might remember!
openFree-2-Play Top Down Game with Character Classes and... some other stuff? Videogame
This is going to sound horribly vague, horribly ramble-y as I try to stitch together memories of over ten years ago when I was still in junior high, if not ever earlier, so apologies if this sounds insane.
I vaguely remember a couple of then-friends convinced me to give this game a shot. I don't remember if it had its own launcher or if it was browser-based. I DO remember it being free-to-play, mostly because that was all I could afford at the time.
It was a multiplayer game with classes, where each class had distinctive costumes (male and female), weapons and abilities. It was something akin to a very simple fighting game, or perhaps a weird arena brawler hybrid, as knocking people off the stage or emptying their life bars would score you points. Whenever someone was knocked out, you could pick up their weapons/parts of their costume.
The perspective/camera was top down with a slight tilt. The art style... well, the in-game models looked chibi-esque, but actual art didn't.
Out of all classes, I remember one by name — Desperado — and another one looked like an astronaut.
I am definitely sure this existed and isn't some Mandela Effect thing or fabricated memory.
I can only say which games this one was not — it was not Spiral Knights as it is completely different and, well, I played it a couple of months ago, and it was not Nos Tale.
openBeen plauging me for days. Videogame
There's this one flash game where you played as a cube rolling around on a tower, and you unlocked different emotions for the cube's faces. Does anyone else remember this?
Edited by NessTheTroperopenPC game from around 2010 where you’re part of a team escaping from monsters Videogame
I saw just a brief clip of this on YT about a year ago. All I remember is that you’re part of a team (archeological??) and you either fell down a hole or become trapped somehow, only to discover monsters down there that can’t be killed.
I seem to recall the setting taking place in a sandy location (Egypt??), was mainly dark (set at night??), you could open wooden doors where the monsters might be lurking and it was First Person.
Please can somebody help me…?
Edited by The10thGeekopenMonkey Handheld Game Videogame
I can barely remember from when I was a kid (like 2005-2010).
"Handheld game" doesn't mean like a DS title. It means a relatively inexpensive toy with a small selection of themed electronic minigames. I remember it being cylinder shaped and mostly blue.
The visuals were monochrome black. sprites were maybe 4 or 8 bit? we're talking like $20-$30 level of quality/content for the time, not $3 quality.
I remember one of the mini-games or events being Bonanza (or Bananza?), and another had "Hazard" in the name.
It's possible I'm misremembering things, which sucks to say given how scant my memory is anyway.
openFlash(?) game about zombie school students Videogame
It was an online game. I remember it being mostly black and white, but I could be wrong. The story was that you and others had been attending a magical school, but it had been destroyed by arson, with the kindly headmaster dying with it. The ensuing chaos divided the students. You played as kind of a jerk.
The particular kind of magic seemed to be necromancy, seeing as both you and your opponent for each level reanimated corpses to send at each other. Sort of a strategy game. You could only send undead out at night, though; they'd burn in the day. (I didn't get far, but the game juked you about it by making the opponent send out a wall of Action Bomb foes just before dawn broke.)
Unfortunately the title eludes me, but surely it would be on Flashpoint?
openhorror web browser game series Videogame
I remember the games but not the name, it was heavily centered around darkness and the antagonist was something like an onryo, the first game was about escaping a house much like the "you are trapped on a room" and was first person perspective, the second was on an abandoned hospital and picked up directly from the end of the first game this time from a sidescrolling visual like an adventure game, I was told that there were other 2 games but i didnt play them and is one of the reasons I want to find the series before flash stops being supported. I also remember that it was on english but it seemed translated, so it could have be made from a non english speaking country.
openEducational math game involving two frogs. Videogame
So sometime between 2000 and 2006, there was a game or computer software we had to use in Computer Lab while at school. I don't remember a whole lot about it, but there were two frog characters that served as "hosts" for the game - a tall, female frog with red coloring and a shorter, blue or purple (not so sure on this one) male frog. They both may have had spots, as well, and I don't think they wore any clothes. You had to solve math problems to progress through the game, but I don't really recall how the levels looked (or if they WERE any levels in the traditional sense of the word). Been hunting this thing for years and have had no luck despite looking pretty much everywhere.
Very confident that it was not a Jump Start game or anything related to Leap Frog, but I'm open to any suggestions. All help is appreciated!
openDisney browser/flash game featuring blue bear (SOLVED!!!) Videogame
I played this as a kid sometime in the late 2000s (2008-2009 for a more exact guess) on the official Disney website. You played as a short blue bear (drawn in a vaguely Rodney Greenblat-esque style) walking around an isometric board collecting honey and avoiding traps/enemies. I think it was an original property not otherwise connected to Disney, and if memory serves it wasn't hosted on Disney's main game site but somewhere else (again still an official Disney website - some sort of experimental game platform? Abandoned branding?)
Edited by CosmicCatopenChildren's Online Game? Videogame
So, this is a really random thing from childhood that popped into my head. I vaguely remember a series of online mini-games from the 2000s featuring commercial mascots. I do not remember all of them, but I just barely remember one where one of the mascots was a girl with I think blonde hair that had a spring for legs. You know, like those spring riders from children you see at the park. I think the goal of her game was to launch riders into the sky. I think the whole point of these mascots was they were naughty children turned transformed into ridiculous things.
I think there was a total of five mascots and I want to say they were for a juice pouch company like Kool-Aid or Capri Sun. Not sure which one. And I want to say there was a way to access these games from the Nickelodeon website, but they didn't actually belong to Nickelodeon
openhidden object adventure games Videogame
I played a lot of hidden object adventures when I was little, and I don't remember the names of many, but I remember one heavily featured snow leopards and had scenes with a bear trap and a broken ski lift, and another was set in China and had magic in it. The third one I can remember had vampires, with the main character being turned into a vampire to save her life and in turn she helps the guy vampire rescue his girlfriend from an evil lady vampire. any help would be appreciated! ^-^
openPixeline Videogame
Played the first two games in the series as a kid. A cherry, feminine little girl with (in the Norwegian dub, at least) weird voice teaches kids about stuff in various screens and games. Also remember some of the songs (especially the bicycle one from the second game). An edutainment game series from the mid-90's from Denmark, similar to the edutainment games from America.
openDinosaur hunting Videogame
Dinosaur Hunting has Tyrannosaurus with a feather mohawk. Surprisingly, in this game they are mere mooks (although one is a mini-boss), and easy to bring down if you have the right formula. Later near the end, two T. rex corpses were found, torn to pieces by an unknown gigantic predator. Implied to be a giant mutated ceratosaur who the final boss, which also kills a Spinosaurus. I was trying to find any video that showed this ceratosaurus but couldn't find the game or had any clue where to see it so long as its legitmate and legal.
Edited by oneforneutralpeaceopenitch.io visual novel Videogame
It was about purchasing an android and you would either romance it(?) or treat it as your child, everything was shown as a diorama and in the ending i got it was revealed that the entire story's framing device was that of a diorama presentation your android kid was giving in class. i think there was something about civil rights for the androids in the story too.
it was hosted on itch.io or gamejolt i don't remember which
Edited by masterpenguopenWeird module for ZZT Videogame
This is probably gonna be a hard one but here goes: There was this game/module/whatever someone made for ZZT where you are a kid in this school where the teachers are really mean so you go around shooting them. I remember at one point you face the principal whose name is something like Mr.Dias. When you talk to him he asks a riddle "Is a sphinx good" and says he will rip your heart out if you answer wrong your possible answers are Yes, No, and Nope. If you say Nope he says "yes but you used improper grammar and rips your heart out. Only if You guess No do you beat him. I played it around 1995
Edited by BootlebatopenZombie Hunting Video Game With Tycoon Characteristics Videogame
Yes, I am serious, I remember a game just like that. In that game, you had to go to various maps and kill all the zombies. You even got a jetpack for the task at hand. That was the zombie hunting part, now the tycoon part. When you kill the zombies, they would be turned into juices which you must then sell to various customers, unaware of the origin of the ingredients. With the money your business earns you, you can then buy more stuff to kill more zombies and make more money. Pretty sure it was a free game.
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openA PSP game about finding train pieces Videogame
This is for a friend.
According to her, it was a 3D, PSP game.
The main character was an angel that could see what happens in Earth using a portal. At some point we travel using a train to go to a city, but this had some sort of problem and falled from the skies. After that we arrive into a lake, and someone helps us to get out.
The point of the game is to gater the train pieces scattered around to fix the train, hop on it and return to Heaven.
It had a third-person pov, and she is sure that is not a game called Riviera: The Promised Land
She doesn't remember anything else.
openHunting Game With Story Mode Videogame
When I was younger, back in 2016 or 17, I remember watching a zero-commentary Youtube video on a hunting game with a story mode. It had pretty decent graphics even for today and the cutscenes resembled pages from a novel. The main story is that a boss contracts the Main Character to hunt some wild African animals for him. In the end, the Main Character becomes The Starscream and kills their boss with a gun. He then settles down with their One True Love and they lived Happily Ever After somewhere in Africa. I remember that one of the missions had the player battle with wild buffalo to retrieve an Ancient Artifact.
Edited by PiotrHeat

What's the Pokémon music used in the background here?