Any kind of game
EDIT: changed from suggested to mentioned and made the title more clear
Tzolk’in is my favorite game, I think. It is a board game that incorporates time in an interesting way for a worker-placement style game.
This has one of the best boards in my collection.
Gameboy color dinosaur JRPG / metroidvania that seemingly no one else has ever played. Called Dinosaur’us. I had to google the name there and it turns out there is a wikipedia page so it’s not totally obscure - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur’us
I loved this game as a kid! There are surprisingly few good dinosaur games (although admittedly a lot of good dragon ones).
Edit: only ever released in the UK - that explains a lot of why it was so obscure. The ROM is on emulator sites though if you are curious.
My current phone game is ∞ Loop. Just a simple puzzle-type game.
I also like a variety of solitaire card games, but the app I used to like has become quite enshittified, and I haven’t found a good replacement.
Has gotta be either Dusk or Ultrakill. Especially Ultrakill. I’m really bad at it, but it’s so good that I couldn’t care less.
Battlezone 2: Combat Commander. When I started playing that, my brother and I had to face each other and use our laptops’ infrared ports.
Hammershlagen
A game that’s never mentioned on the internet? Probably would have to be something that came on those shareware discs in the 90s then.
I’ll go with the Adventures of MicroMan
Based recommendation, microman was one of the earliest platformers I played. I still remember insert to shoot being an awkward keybind.
Enters first room
YOU WILL DIE
Quite the opening to that game.
Thinking about it, reducing my entire game library to not suggested titles anywhere decreases its size drastically. It easily knocks like 20 games I would list normally.
With that said, Last Command was a nice bullet hell game. Would reccomend
I don’t know about favorite, but a game I remember playing ball in the Nintendo, super Nintendo days was a game called Another World. Never met another person who has played it except one of it irl friends. Wikipedia claims it’s one of the best video games ever made, oddly.
Kind of a platformer, kind of a puzzler, very surreal.
Absolutely loved this Another World (Out of This World in the US)! It looked like nothing else, had cut scenes, even a little load time (not common on a SNES). Early polygon look before Star Fox came out even.
Out of This World! No wonder the name looked weird to me. I had to look it up because it’s been so long I forgot the name!
Xcom 2.
A friend recommended it to me because he thought I would like it. It’s my favourite game and I have 100% it.
Board game: Sheriff of Nottingham, i just love social deception games.
Video game: BETON BRUTAL, 3D platformer with similar parkour like Minecraft, but more polished. Overall pretty chill to sink some time into.
I love Sheriff, even if I’m terrible at it lol.
Other favorites in our group are Coup, Resistance, and for really big groups we play Two Rooms and a Boom.
Sorry if you know this game, but I’ve met plenty of people who haven’t and I’ve never seen it mentioned online until I searched for it today: Contact!
Fragile allegiance. Desperately needs a redo with a first person mode and better ui
Airborne Kingdom
Pioneer
It’s open source, and if you’re on Linux, it’s probably in your repos.
Kinda like a cross between Elite and Kerbal Space Program.i don’t know about “cross” :P it’s a bit-for-bit reimplementation of Elite 2. i loved that game as a kid and pioneer is a great version of it.
