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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 "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 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.

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?