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resolved Trying to find a Pokémon spin-off. Videogame
I vaguely remember hearing about a Pokémon spin-off that was apparently a Programming Game, yet I cannot find any information about it. The only other detail I can recall about it is that the protagonists had an Orange/Blue Contrast (boy wore blue, girl wore orange). Anybody willing to help me find it?
resolvedAPP I Found This From A Video Game I Don’t Know The Name BUT I Know The Trope for This Videogame
resolvedAPP I Found This From a VIDEO GAME I don’t Know the Name BUT I Know The Trope for This Videogame
resolved Game about working in a giant robot controlled warehouse Videogame
You're the only human left in the warehouse and you're on a hovering scooter thing, you wanna see your family again but you have to complete your job first. I know it exists I just can't find it.
resolved Visual novel where you play as a princess with a lot of ways to die Videogame
it had an anime-esque art style and the death scenes had a chibi art style. i remember there was a video on youtube of somebody playing it and the thumbnail was one of the death scenes
resolved Single-word title Videogame
There was this semi-recent game that I'm trying to see again because I've all but forgotten about it, and the title completely eludes me.
The title of the game was some synonym for the word "hurting" or "suffering", I'm pretty sure it was a verb or noun of some sort that refers to pain and agony. You're in a world of fleshy suffering mutants and you control one of them, I think yours was a pair of heads with arms and nothing else. The game is a 2D platformer so you need to overcome various terrain and puzzles. One of the things you can encounter early on is a big "mole-like" mutant that charges at you, and you have to back off or it kills you. The first "boss" is a singing one that's also suffering, but you help them by destroying nearby pustules; once they're all gone, they smile in gratitude and open a path in the bottom allowing the player to progress. I think there was also a section involving rats.
resolved Old Flash Game About A Girl Charming A Bunch Of People In A Mall? Videogame
Basically this game was a side scroller, about you being a girl, in a mall I believe, going around the floors essentially gathering power by charming everyone you came across into following you in a long line, sometimes getting into battles with rivals who were doing the same thing, and ultimately the goal was to charm a specific boy (because of course it is).
As a kid, I remember only occasionally coming across it on Y8, although I'm not sure where it was originally from. Trying to find it on Flashpoint is difficult, given that I don't remember what it could have been called and the tagging system is so broad.
resolved "What a weak and miserable boss you are!" Videogame
Another from my dad. He says he and his brother played this NES game a lot during the 80's or around that era. He describes it as a Kung Fu fighting game with a translation he explicitly compares to Zero Wing in the sense of being done in an overly literal way. The thing he mainly remembers was that you had a servant, and when you get a Game Over, you get a screen of your servant saying "What a weak and miserable boss you are! I'm leaving!", though he fully admits that he might be remembering this line wrong; he says his brother used to quote this line at work.
Given my last question had a bit of a Mandela Effect to it, this may also have one, which, again, he fully admits can be the case.
resolved side scrolling horror game Videogame
I saw a let's play of this game, I think it was Markiplier who played it but I forgot which video. It was a side-scrolling horror game set in a decrepit futuristic setting. You play as a sentient suit of cybernetic armor, and the human wearing you is dying so you're trying to find help for them.
resolved "Vs. Zoe and Mr. Lobster"? Videogame
On this countdown of boss themes
, number 8 is a theme titled "Vs. Zoe and Mr. Lobster", however the list doesn't mention what game it is from (or any game really besides number 9). I have no clue where this is from, and searching for it turns up anything but the music. Does anyone know what game this is from.
resolved A 2d point-and-click adventure flash game that ends with the player hitting an old woman in the head Videogame
I'm copying and pasting from this reddit forum because it's sound like the same game im trying to find.
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- Platform: Online flash game.
- Genre: Point and click adventure
- Estimated year of release: can’t be later than 2015
- Graphics/art style: 2D, cartoonish, lots of dark colors, mostly blacks and greys. Everything seems all worn down and abandoned in my memory. Imagine a set from Courage the Cowardly in grayscale.
- Notable characters:
You play as a small black gremlin-thing. Imagine Scratchy from the Simpsons but with the height, proportions, and handless arms of a Power Puff Girl. I don’t think it ever made any facial expressions, it was just kind of cross eyed. I’m not entirely sure whether or not there was some sort of villain protagonist situation going on or not.
There were these enemies, they were these kind of ape-like blobs made of shadow. You either had to avoid them or shine light on them, and they’d turn into these cute little teddy bears in the light. At one point you use a flashlight on one blocking your path.
This old woman, in a pink nightgown I think, was at the end. I think killing her was your goal the whole time, but it came as a kind of surprise. I don’t know if she deserved it or not. It’s like it’s blocked from my memory.
- Notable gameplay mechanics: there was of course the light shining. I think you had to hide before hitting the old woman.
- Other details: This game feels like a dream, I was on a road trip with family and we’d stopped at somebody’s house and they let me play on the computer.
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I been looking for this game for a while and i don't if i broke any rule here by copy and pasting.
resolved looking for a racing game Videogame
I;m looking for a racing game i saw on twitter where you are able to cause a plane crash to stop the other players.
resolved Browser game where you train superhero expies Videogame
This was a browser game I probably played on Kizi
that I forgot the name of.
The premise is that you manage an organization that trains heroes to be great crime-fighters, and you win cash, reputation, and maybe gems (that give special battle effects) from successful fights. As you level up, you earn more heroes to your cause. Also, I think most of these heroes were Marvel Comics expies (like Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye, Captain America, etc.).
You start off with two or three heroes and two out of nine (underground) lots unlocked (the rest have to be purchased with money earned from successful battles), with the first serving as a default/rest area for the heroes, and the second a training room, likely with punching bags. There are four trainable stats, each enhanced by a certain training room (eg. the punching room enhances strength/attack, the treadmill room enhances speed/agility, I forgot the other two). The more you put a hero in a training room (which takes minutes irl), the more the respective stat goes up.
Battles come as they are announced, and a red siren is sounded as a pop-up window shows what crime is taking place and where. You can choose to dismiss these if you think your heroes aren't ready yet, but it will cost you some fans/reputation. The battles are automated and how well they fight depends on their trained stats. Said crimes can be minor like bank robberies, but near the end of a level, they have bigger stakes (like an alien invasion). As for gems (maybe earned from battles or elsewhere), you can give one to each of your heroes to enhance or give another special ability, but you can only hoard as many gems as your storage allows.
Edited by FaithfulMacabreresolved Video game similar to Silent Hill Videogame
I forgot the name of this game but I remember the details vividly. It's set in a dark setting and the aesthetics/characters are reminiscent of Silent Hill. The plot is that the main character (a chick in an Ethereal White Dress) is trying to escape her Evil Uncle who wants to capture her and do experiments on her. The rest of the family was involved in his scientist shenanigans too. I think there was a wolf too.
resolved Top down Space Immersive Sim Videogame
It had its own article and you were either a bounty hunter or a rebel. I remember there were assassination missions you could do and you could completely blow off parts of a ship with the right tools

https://youtu.be/2iCdCFqAuw0?t=355
Edited by Malady