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resolved Stop Cats from Stealing Fish Videogame
A PC video game where the player holds down then releases their cursor to fling cats off the screen before they make off with all of the fish on the field. The title contains the word "frenzy" and the icon is a fish, making me mistake it for Feeding Frenzy at first.
Edited by seasaltcaramelcookieresolved Dungeon crawler with fighting game random encounters? Videogame
I'm not sure if any of this will make sense but earlier today I was talking about Ehrgeiz: God Bless The Ring with some friends and how that game had a dungeon crawler mode. That conversation reminded me of a game I remember seeing / reading about that had 3D dungeon crawling but whenever you got into an enemy encounter the gameplay would switch to a 2D fighting game playstyle.
I'm not sure if the dungeon crawler thing was part of the "main" game or if it was simply a side mode in a game that's otherwise entirely fighting. I also think the game was for the PS1 or PS2 / had low-poly graphics? I don't remember anything else about it so I might've just thought it up, but any help would be appreciated!
Edited by Rex-Blanchimont-ZEROresolved jrpg with a mean cat sidekick who turns out to be evil Videogame
not OFF, let me explain.
a while ago i was browsing some trope or other and saw an example of a JRPG with a cat character, i think described as irish, who was openly mean, and later turned out to be evil. the entry said this was an Obvious Judas for western audiences, but caught japanese audiences completely by surprise, because the cat appeared to be a harmless annoying mascot character they automatically tended to ignore.
the game itself was japanese, and i'm pretty sure it was a later installation in an established series of games.
i can't remember exactly what trope it was. i ctrl+f'd "cat" in ObviousJudas.Video Games, The Dog Was the Mastermind, AmericansHateTingle.Video Games, LostInTranslation.Video Games, and TomatoSurprise.Video Games, but found nothing.
Edited by iwantedtoaddsomethingresolved Video game about a little blob Videogame
There's this game I remember seeing, whose main character we play as is a little blob-like creature. The backstory (revealed in comic form) was that this blob was actually a scientist that was forcibly turned into this creature as the head researcher for this spaceship (?) noted that she was the only one with a compatibility for some energy source they had found and were studying. i remember that the blob ends up fighting a lot of different enemies, and even a robot, in order to reach the end. the end consists of a battle with a creature that looks just like the blob, but doesn't have all its memories. this final boss had actually been sending out iterations of the little blob character in order to rescue it, and with each one it loses more of its memories. the good ending consisted of the playable blob giving the final boss its memories, i think. the soundtrack was really amazing in the game, and this game is also the only one that the sound design studio has composed the ost for. Does anyone remember what this game was called? I believe the name of the blob was in the title, followed by a : and the rest of the title. I'd really appreciate the help!
Edited by StrayShardresolved Painting program for kids Videogame
Years back, I used to play this on this kids' paint program on my parents' computer. I remember that it had a wood-grain border around the picture, you could either draw or do some flood-fill painting (IIRC), and the sound for undoing a mistake was a cartoonish voice saying "Whoops".
Does anybody remember what it might be? I don't remember the name, and I doubt it was a version of Kid Pix, because it looked and sounded different.
Edited by DongwaChanresolved Sad video game music Videogame
What's the background music in this part
of Schaffrillas Productions's Steven Spielberg movie ranking? I know I've heard it in some game before, most likely an SNES JRPG.
resolved A sci fi roguelike Videogame
I remember the game is 3d with an isometric view, you fight your way through some huge sci fi building and the enemies and decor is based on Babylonian mythology or similar.
resolved Mobile game about trying to connect living jelly(?) Videogame
I remember playing this one mobile game about trying to connect what I think was a bunch of square living jellies? It started on just a table and after each chapter it would get larger and larger in scale. I remember that on what I think was the 2nd to last chapter they added a gimmick that let you clone the jelly.
resolved pokemon snap rip-off Videogame
i had a game on my ipad around maybe 6 years ago? it was a pokemon snap rip-off in the woods and you ride a horse and you can feed the horse, and wash the horse. it might have been taken off the app store, but idk
resolved Nintendo DS game set in Paris around the time of the Great Exhibition, Layton-esque. Videogame
There's a game I vaugely remember that was somewhat like Professor Layton set in Paris around the time the Eiffel Tower was built but I'm blanking on everything else. I think it was called Doctor BLANK and the BLANK of the Labyrinth but that's as close as I've got.
resolved ball animals Videogame
in the game there were ball animals? and in the house there was this door and when you go through it, it was like a wormhole, maybe it was something like running through a log but that's the only part i remember of the game, and i don't know if i'm making it up. I think it also had part where you can trace letters. i think it was on a leapfrog thing
Edited by Doenutresolved Game with Retraux mode Videogame
So there is a game which in a moment all the characters' current style changes to a Retraux style. I don't know if it is a mode that you can change, but I think it involves an arcade or something like that (IDK). It is also a 3D game.
EDIT: Nevermind, I found the game, it is Hi-Fi RUSH
Edited by StalkerGamerresolved Creepy giggle Videogame
Where is this laugh
from? I know I've heard it in a game before, but I can't put my finger on it. I thought it was either Boos or Midna, but I searched those and they don't match.
resolved game demo i played a few years ago Videogame
there was a game demo i played a few years back (sometime before 2020) that i haven't been able to find. i remember the game like this: a boy wakes up in an old room with a piano in it and heads outside. there, he finds out from another child all the adults in his town have disappeared with no explanation. he goes inside a house and finds a mirror with the sentence "i will be BAC" or something to that effect written on it. going inside the piano room and playing B-A-C will open a door with a razor inside which he can use a weapon of sorts. after that he goes outside the village to a field where there's a man stuck in the top of a well. you have to go get a syringe to put in him (i don't remember why he needed the syringe), which is in an area with some shadows. in the background there's some graffiti which says "the slice wuz here" (the slice is the protagonist's nickname in-universe). after he gets the syringe, he sticks it directly in the man in the well and he falls into the well. the protagonist then has no other option but to fall down the well, after which the demo ends.
there also might have been another character who followed the protagonist around as a helper (think Navi from Ocarina of Time). i may have misremembered some things, since i was still kind of young when i played this and my memory is generally not very good.
resolved physics videogame that takes place in a body? Videogame
im pretty sure it was on the switch but not a nintendo title, but it also could have been on itch.io. the game takes place in like a body? it had really cool pixely graphics like qomp and eatgirl. the gameplay is like you shoot blocks at the wall and they stick and you can make like bridges with it. anyone know what game this is?
resolved [SOLVED] A Famicom/NES game from Contra series Videogame
I remember playing it as a kid, but it was on a borrowed cartridge, and I wasn't able to find it on the Web. What's worse, it could've been ported unofficialy from some other console.
It was definitely a Contra game, I think it was just called "New Contra". As far as I remember, it only had about six levels. First level featured a city, with attack helicopter as a boss. Later levels involved underground bunker with metal walls, something akin to ancient sewers, and later an even more decrepit abyss with jumping satyr-like enemies.
Another notable difference was that flamethrower (F weapon) wasn't like in, say, classic Contra. Typically F weapon sends a projectile flying in circles, back and forth, while inching forward, but in this game it just shot an expanding ball of fire.
Edited by Vindicarresolved Point and Click adventure game with lots of references Videogame
It was a point and click adventure where you played as a skeletal kid who had died because your friend accidentally gave you plums(?) which you were deathly allergic to and your goal was to find your friend before halloween ended. It took place on the day and night of halloween and a few big youtubers played it.
resolved Small girl waits in her haunted room. Videogame
I remember a gameplay video of an indie game where a small girl was supposed to wait in her room for her parent to come home. But the room was haunted or something and depending on your interactions with it, there were different outcomes.
The graphics were minimalistic, looked like hand-drawn and the environment was mostly white.

I played it years ago and I can't remember the name, but I do recall a lot of details. I think all the characters were anthropomorphic animals, and you were a new office worker. The atmosphere was very bleak; it seemed like a satire for oppressive work culture. Early on in the game, you get a revolver in order to fight invisible monsters in your company. You had to listen for sounds, and then hit a key; the game would shift to a first-person perspective, and you had to listen closely for where the sound would be centered to hit the monster.