Any kind of game
EDIT: changed from suggested to mentioned and made the title more clear
Herzog Zwei on the Sega Genesis was one of my favorites back in the day!
I really loved a game called “Island: A Game Of Survival” which was loaded onto school computers in my Canadian province during the DOS days.
Escape Velocity Nova
That game is the shit. It’s even easy to play on Windows now, which was very much not the case back in the day.
Snake. There are many good versions of it, but I’d say my favourite is the one from coolmathgames.com .
I came across Blade Runner on GOG. I don’t remember when but I think it was on sale. I didn’t touch it for at least a year or two until two days ago. It is so amazing. It has the old school 90’s point and click vibe while being an amazing detective story (one I could imagine even being made into a movie itself).
I think I’ve got that but have never played it. Must get it running one day!
Enjoy! Only advice I’ll give for the game is to check every nook and cranny for clues.
Especially because certain aspects of the storyline are random on each playthrough. Who is and isn’t a replicant is not always the same, nor is how certain characters will react to the same dialog questions on subsequent runs. Depending on how the cards fall, this arguably also includes you.
Yes, I still have this on all four original CD’s.
Descent
Descent 2 earthshaker multiplayer was my jam. Went through so many joystick hats!
Incredible series. I’m glad we got Overload, even if it’s not quite the same caliber
I picked up a copy of Overload somewhere on the high seas. The graphics on that game are so intense that my poor little laptop can only get like 3 frames per second at its absolute lowest resolution and quality settings ☹️
Maybe one day I’ll get a better system worthy of high end games. It’s just not high on my priorities list now, as I don’t play games nearly as often as I did in my teens and 20s.
Always liked Power Pete, and if you don’t have vertigo, the Descent series.
Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters
The original creators are doing a follow-up!
After the lackluster “sequels” (Star Control 3 and Star Control: Origins) that were made largely without the original developers input, I had pretty much given up the franchise for dead till now.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pistolshrimp/free-stars-children-of-infinity
For those of you not in the know, you can get Star Control 2 for free on Steam and see what the pinnacle of DOS adventure gaming was all about :D
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2645580/Free_Stars_The_UrQuan_Masters/
Yep, I backed the Kickstarter and hang out in their Discord. Wasn’t sure on the rules about promoting stuff like that so I didn’t mention it. :-)
Favorites come and go with the seasons, but objectively, the one game that we have played more than anything in my house is Silver.
We’ve bought all the expansions and created our own variation of playing with ALL the cards.
All time biggest time sinks are probably Civilization 2 and Factorio.
Biggest time sink you’ve never heard of is Ancient Dungeons of Mystery, a one-man Roguelike dungeon delving passion project.
Civ II was peak of the series imho… Immersive gameplay trumps graphics
You have never seen Factorio being mentioned on the internet?
Do you play ADOM?
Spent some time with DCSS but in the end I felt it just got tedious, the need to get lucky somehow too. Adom was hard because of the graphics IIRC even got stuck where I couldn’t hit the enemy, so that ended my check-out of ADOM :-).
You never read comments you reply to till the end?
The boardgame Heat is one of my all time favorites. Thunder Road Vendetta is right up there too, and I am waiting to put them together for an all road race/rage saturday with my boardgame peeps.
Tf2 maybe ? Honorable mentions: Tetris, Dwarf Fortress, stormworks, bg3
You have never seen anyone recommend Baldurs Gate 3 or Dwarf Fortress?
Looks like I miss understood the question.
A saw every one of them recommended. However I didn’t play them because of these recommendations.
The way I interpreted your title was “has not already been mentioned in this thread”. Every game ever made has been recommended, idk how you expect people to answer this lol
I tried to make the title more clear
I dont think every person has seen every game being recommended. I havent heard anyone mention the game I Wanna Maker
New title is much more indicative of your intent.
From your original comment I thought you meant just not recommended at all (ie no ads, never seen a comment or video online, etc) and was like… how would I have played the game if it wasn’t somehow recommended, how would I have heard of it?
I think you’re looking for smaller games that aren’t constantly being recommended online, which is much less restrictive, haha
Not every person has seen every game being recommended or just mentioned on the internet. But they’ve likely seen every game, they played themselves, on the internet, except for pre-internet or analog games that they never looked up somehow.
If that’s what you’re looking for, that is an interesting question, but I’d assume that most answers here are just as incorrect as this one.
Your original question reads like it’s limited to this thread, not games you’ve seen recommended anywhere and everywhere
No One Lives Forever
To this day I have no idea why I bought it. And I bought it close to its release date. I would only do that if I had been absolutely obsessed for months with previews and stuff. But I remember none of that.
And still it ended up becoming one of my all time favourites.
Game of the year! Is it just you or is it hot in here?
Either way I think you need a cold shower!
Are you talking about 1 or 2? I always thought 2 was better and introduced a load of mechanics (to me at least) that are commonplace nowadays. This was the first FPS game I played where getting found during a stealth mission didn’t completely ruin everything. And the concept of unkillable enemies that you can only run from.
Definitely 1. The second one wasn’t bad. I mean, nothing beats a katana fight in trailer a flying through a tornado. But something about that game was always missing for me. I couldn’t lay my finger on it (apart from Cate’s actress changing). And I hate the endlessly respawning enemies.
Two very niche board games from the 70s: “Snit’s Revenge” “Lie, Cheat, and Steal”
And an old Avalon Hill wargame: “Wooden Ships and Iron Men”
Lie, Cheat, and Steal!!! We used to play that as kids! Excellent call.
Did you play the Mad magazine game where the objective was to lose all your money?
No… Tell me more.
My memory fails me, I just remember that one and Lie, Cheat and Steal from childhood.
Looks like someone on Amazon is selling the Mad magazine game for $150!
Jade cocoon 2 for the PS2.
A brilliant mix of tactics and Pokemon. You have a box composed of 8 slots surrounding you, 4 edges of different coolers, and 4 corners that combine 2 colors, you get to pick of 6 monsters to fill those 8 slots, each edge is a different style of move, red is attack, blue is defend, green is heal, yellow is cast, some monsters only have 1 color affiliated with them, some have 3, you select which side/color of box you want to attack your opponent with, if you don’t have a monster in the middle of that color they can attach your hit point pool directly.
I rarely see it mentioned, and I think that’s a shame, it was very creative for being in a very popular genre
