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openA fantasy RPG where one of the factions' leader claims to be God Videogame
So, there was a trailer for a game. It seemed to be an RPG, probably a Strategy/Tactics RPG. The trailer focused on the game having various factions/kingdoms with their leaders, like a Fire Emblem game.
So, the catch is that the last faction is like a religious city and the leader is someone that claims to be God for realsies. They don't say if he really is or is he faking it, cuz that's the hook.
openDemon game + Detective game Videogame
So I got 2 really old (likely late 2000s - early 2010s) flash/web games I want to find. In the first one, you play as a demon in Hell shooting beams from your mouth at angels/souls that are for some reason falling from (presumably) Heaven. When shot at, they will die and turn to skulls which you can catch and eat. The goal is to just survive and not let anything reach Hell's surface. The second one is a point'n'click game where you play as a detective finding suspect on an escalator. There are a couple of photos on the right showing you the one's you're supposed to catch, and your job is to identify the right person from all the people going up and down. Later on, the photos can be messed up in multiple ways, making it harder to identify suspects. Also, the detective is female, IIRC. There's a scene at the beginning where she changes her clothes and her underwear can be seen. Yes, I remember that part. And BTW, I believe the cutscenes are presented as comic pages.
Edited by Jason444openGirl with a robot arm? Videogame
I'm trying to remember a video game that features, among other characters, a girl with a robot arm that she built herself. It's not Overwatch or Borderlands but has been compared to both of those. The girl grew up on a farm, was I think explicitly stated at one point to be seventeen years old, and is entering some kind of fighting or robot-fighting or something tournament that I think is the focus of the game. I think the game is some kind of MMO. It would have been released not too long ago (or maybe it hasn't been yet).
openAn MMORPG where you fuse mons? Videogame
so an old MMORPG where you are followed by mons, most of which looks sort of like lemental slimes, and the mechanics are so that you fuse them in different combinations to get better stronger mons.
anyone?
openA Star Wars PC game on Win95/98 Videogame
When I was a kid and had Windows 95/98, I remember having this Star Wars game that was a top-down movement-on-grid affair. You controlled Luke and would get in your Snowspeeder to travel to locations, with a lightsaber for melee weapon and a limited-ammo blaster. You also had R2-D2 as an inventory item (strangely eonugh) which you'd click onto things and it would display a helping text box about stuff. I vaguely remember the levels being grassy and snowy, possibly.
openprincess game w/ cursive, car mechanics, and escaping palace Videogame
when i was younger, i played this game about a princess. she was blond and lived in a palace. in the palace lived her friend emily, who was an older woman with short brown hair, as well as her parents. the game would have you complete certain minigames and tasks, such as writing in cursive, escaping the palace to see the love interest, who was a car mechanic, and helping him work on the cars. there was a collectible currency which could be spent to get new patterns for outfits. you could get options for different outfits, such as a dress, jeans, and pajamas i believe. there was also a dancing minigame, and the end of the game centered around dancing with the love interest, i believe? i think there was also a plot about the princess being lonely because she hardly spoke to her friends, but she could run into them at a cafe. i think the game was for the ds
Edited by probotypeopenDinosaur game on ds Videogame
So basically it was a ds game where you went around this sort of desert area looking for dinosaur fossils and you restored them back to good clean Dino bones.
There were some fossils that weren’t dinosaurs like an old English red phone box. The gameplay was basically find dinosaur draw an outline of the Dino head on the bottom screen and I think there might have been a rock paper scissors element I don’t know but I want to know what it is.
openNo Title Videogame
Here are three games I remember playing as a kid (2000, 2001). They were likely DOS games, as I played them on my dad's laptop along with "Monster Bash with Johnny Dash" and "Commander Keen", but they could have also been emulated games since my dad was really into emulation. Here are three games I remember playing:
1. This game was a platformer where you played as an elf-like character. The graphics made it so that he didn't have a face, but you could see the signature hat. For the first part, you ran through a forest or mountain, than entered some structure, probably a castle. Along the way, there were little gems to collect and keys to unlock doors.
2. This game was a top-down game similar to The Legend of Zelda. The main character was a viking (or a dwarf). There were two or three levels. I think the player would eat apples to get points or restore health points. One part I remember quite clearly was in the first level, where you entered a cave and the perspective changed to 2D, again much like The Legend of Zelda. After climbing some ladders, there was a part where several snakes extended down from the ceiling and you had to time it so you didn't get hurt as you ran under them. Every time the player was injured there would be this crazy-loud grunt that would sound.
3. This game was also top-down, but it was a shooter and the graphics were better (perhaps 16 bit). I strongly believe the title of the game had the word "Dogs" in it. There were several levels, and I'm fairly sure the first one was indoors. I don't remember the story, but there were several enemies to kill as you moved through whatever the building was.
openNo Title Videogame
(I originally posted this on the forum, but was pointed here.)
Someone on another forum is trying to find the name of a game, but the thread on that forum has thus far not managed to turn up the title, it seems. I'm hoping that increasing the pool of potential minds considering it might help, and so bring the question here!
To the best of my knowledge, the following is what we've been given regarding the game:
- It ran on an older version of Windows, possibly Windows 98.
- It was a puzzle game.
- It took place in a fantasy setting.
- The garden area had a chess puzzle.
- It was being played in the late 90's, so it presumably didn't come out later than that.
- The art style was cartoony. ("very 90s cartoony")
- It starred a knight.
- The villain was a jester; when he entered a room his "happy-go-lucky" theme music played.
- The goal may have been that of rescuing a princess.
- The CD box showed a castle.
I believe that the following titles have already been rejected:
- The Legend of Kyrandia
- Adventure at Chataeu d'Or
- Hodj-Podj
- Mystery at Greveholm
- Panedemonium
Any ideas?
openNo Title Videogame
There's this video game, I think for PC, it's a platformer. The main character has a gun, I think. It's NOT I Wanna Be The Guy.
I remember there was a boss that looked like a giant gold sun, and there was a house filled with skull enemies.
I remember two lines of dialogue:
Main Character (when he sees the golden sun statue): I'm gonna be one rich bastard!
NPC who lives in the skeleton house: The cellar is evil! 666!
Edited by BinaryStepopenEducational Games from the 80s Videogame
I remember this game we had at my middle school back in the 80s. (I specifically remember they had it in 1986.) The game had the player mixing together chemicals to create various creatures. Which chemicals you used would alter the creature's different body parts (face, eyes, arms, etc). As you can guess, the title escapes me. Unfortunately, so does the model of computer it ran on. (Back then, it was more than just Mac or PC.)
On a side note, I remember that the publisher also had a game where you set up devices on an assembly line and they would decorate a title for you. The devices would rotate the title, paint a stripe on it, or punch holes in it. I can't remember the name of this one either.
openAn Old Point and click adventure game(I think) involving finding a rare bug for a competition Videogame
The main character was a bug catcher and his talking dog. The premise was finding this rare bug for a competition against his rival who taunted him in the intro with a hologram message. The rare bug was a character which could speak and had jet engines/some sort of mechanical elements in it.
There was an optional sequence involving the characters feeling bad for a moth getting closer and closer to a candle, leading to them putting out the candle to spare the moth.
openMr. Potato Head clone for PC Videogame
A late 90s or early 2000s game, most likely a shareware program, that's basically Mr. Potato Head but with fruit. I also remember the facial features being animated once you put them on.
openArmy based game I played on Facebook Videogame
So there was this game I played on Facebook were you are an army leader and you have to balance food and people. You combat other leaders in multiplayer I think it was 2d and at the end your leader fights if your army is all dead. Both leaders will fight at the end if both sides are wiped out. I think there is orcs humans maybe a few others. I've been looking for a year and can't find it. I don't think its Facebook exclusive just was on Facebook. And I remember on one page there was a half nude drawn woman and I played the game in the kitchen so my mom was in there and I would try to hide it lol, it was a fun game though. Oh, also a lot of grunts when soldiers were hit.
Edited by TapWateropenAI Takeover Flash Game Videogame
I remember playing a flash game on Kongregate. It was a series of puzzle games where you look into a person's emails and try to access the locked folders. Obviously the passwords are hidden in the emails, through pictures you have to decrypt and stuff like that. Anyway in the end of the series, it's revealed you're helping a malevolent AI with a female voice getting out, and the ending shows her appearing through electronic billboards and stuff. Does anybody remember the name?
openWeb game about a strange woman in your house Videogame
This is a web game from the 2010s maybe a little earlier. I don't remember where it was hosted. You're in a house or apartment and there is a strange girl in the house with you. She had white or pink hair and it's sort of unclear what your relationship is with her. She's friendly, but there is something slightly off about her. Sometimes she seems like she can be a ghost or computer program and will sort of glitch.
There are multiple endings and in the ending where you stay with her because you love her it comes off as the bad ending.
Really eerie and interesting game. I'm almost positive it has a tvtropes page because that's how I found it in the first place.
open90's edutainment game with a space robot? Videogame
There was this game I had for Windows when I was very young. I'm fairly certain it was an Edutainment Game. Note that since I was so young, there is a lot I don't remember about it, but I'll do my best to describe it.
From what I remember, I'm pretty sure it was released sometime in The '90s. The sprites had a 3-D, early CGI look to them. The game starred a cute little robot living in outer space.
I'll try and describe the robot as best as I can, since that's really the only thing I remember about the game: I'm pretty sure the robot was female. She had a round head with two antennae, and a cone-shaped body to look like a skirt. Rather than legs, she had a little thruster that shot out sparks so she could fly. I think she also had springs for arms.
We used to have a mousepad with a picture of this robot character, but it may have just been custom-made. I, or one of my siblings, must have really liked the game back then.
Anyway, does anyone have any ideas on what this is? I know it's not much to go on...
Edited by DrNoPumaopenGame Like Nevermind, But Not Nevermind Videogame
I wish this game wasn't rotting at my brain because I had it saved a while ago. But I'll try to remember as much as I can.
First of all, this game is going to sound a LOT like Nevermind. It's not Nevermind. It's not Ether One, either.
This was a free to play first person PC game that put you in the role of a psychiatrist/psychologist/therapist who could go into the mind of their patient (may have been in a coma). Your task was to go through memories of this poor woman and solve puzzles to collect photographs. These were out of order and needed to be placed on a large tree in the 'backyard of her mind' to figure out the cause of her trauma. One of the rooms was a study with a dark atmosphere, a moose's head over a fireplace, an owl statue near a window and lots of books. The puzzle was collecting pieces to form in the shape of a star of David or something similar that connected with colorful light lines. This was inside her childhood home and outside of a room you couldn't enter, you could hear her parents arguing pretty loudly.
In the kitchen area of this same house, the area would fill with milk as you were trying to go through memories (AGAIN I can't stress, this is not Nevermind! I've never touched Nevermind, never paid for Nevermind, never played Nevermind, or watched a Let's Play I'm confusing with it either. There was also no ongoing narration.)
You'd go out the door into the backyard to put these pictures up on a tree. As you got deeper, the surrounding got scarier. Until finally you were in a tall room with a lot of disfigured faces and trees (the graphics weren't polished but they were alright). The last photograph you found told the story of your patient who was traumatized from her parents fighting and then seeing a truck crash into their car and explode it into a fireball, which is where her fears came from.
It was really well done and with a lovely soundtrack too. I just can't remember the damn thing's name. (Once again, with feeling: NNM!)
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you so much!

I remember a video game i played on emulator years ago (using offlinelist)... It could have been a homebrew but i know it was created around the SNES era. The main character was white and (i'm not sure about that...) vaguely looked like pac-man with arms and legs but could run like sonic. The only part i really remember is where i had to run on some metallic structures which made half loops. To give you an example, the closest character i have in mind is Dizzy, but it could run like sonic and it was a fast platformer.