Have you ever loved something, only to realize it’s a commercial flop or just obscure? What’s something that deserves more light than it got?
M.U.L.E. - old Commodore 64 and Atari game
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Netherbeast Incorporated is a weird but charming vampire office comedy from 2007, featuring Darrel Hammond, Dave Foley, and Steve from Blues Clues. And a small appearance by Robert Wagner as President James Garfield.
It's kind of dumb, but I love it. I have never met another person in real life who's seen it.
Headbangers: Rhythm Royale. I really want to see the alternate universe where this game took off, it's a really fun rhythm based battle royale.
However when you can't find players to play with gameplay against bots feel give 0 challange, you don't really get the satisfaction out of winning.
Ahh I see theres no local multiplayer. Games like this need that.
My two all-time favourite videogames, one of them kinda obscure and the other very obscure: What Remains of Edith Finch and Kentucky Route Zero respectively.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a ~2 hour story where you explore your family home as Edith Finch. The Finch family has had a lot of bad luck, and most of its members do not get old. As Edith, you explore the house room by room to see the respective person's last moments. It's not a horror game, though I should put a trigger warning for child and infant mortality for the game. Play it in a single sitting, treat it as an interactive movie. I cannot recommend it enough.
The other one, Kentucky Route Zero, is a bit harder to recommend to a general audience. The synopsis is as follows: Conway drives deliveries for an antiques shop, the last one he will ever do as the shop is closing down. On his way to his destination, he asks for directions, and is told he needs to take Kentucky highway 0, an underground highway with a hidden entrance. As the game goes on, we explore the mysterious underground world of Kentucky, with its strange inhabitants and culture, and expand our cast of characters along the way. I honestly cannot give a more accurate description of it without giving stuff away. This game has no puzzles or interesting game mechanics. You cannot alter the story much either. What it offers, though, is a glimpse into a surreal world filled with hope, longing, loss, regret, and, most of all, mystery. The game will not answer all your questions. There is no grand reveal before the curtain closes. You can puzzle things together from your exploration only.
I think that, for many people, it will be quite boring. But it pushes buttons for me that no other media I have encountered does. It is best played at night if you're tired, as the whole game kind of feels like a weird dream that you struggle to recall as you wake up. If that sounds up your alley, well, here you go.
I think Disco Elysium players could get into KRZ pretty well
I think the actual issue I had at release with edith finch was that it was 20 bucks for a 3 hour non replayable experience
Thankfully it's much cheaper whenever a sale is on these days :)
Little King's Story presents as a cutesy Pikmin-like on Wii and Steam (I played it on Wii. Not sure about the port.) but it's got deep, challenging gameplay and the story absolutely pushes boundaries of video game narrative. I only played it the once years-and-years ago, but it really worked its way into my psyche. It deserves a place in the conversation about video-games-as-art alongside standouts like Shadow of the Colossus and Journey.
Dilberts Desktop Games was a cooky arrangement of several different mini games that were fun for kids whilst satirical enough for adults to enjoy.
It came out as a demo on PC Shopper, back when Adams' politics was tame. The game absolutely bombed on reviews, but the music and the elevator game live rent free in my head
I still have my original CD-ROM! Techno Raiders was great fun.
"if i keep walking the halls, everyone will think I'm really busy"
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PeopleWatching. Im acctively mad that it doesn't get a fraction of the attention it deserves.
An old game called Whiplash! Where you and 15 other NPCs, one of them a team mate, battle it out on track-mania style tracks.
Or if you have a ipx/spx network, or tcp/ip, you and 7 friends can battle it out at your next LAN party.
In terms of current games, I have to say Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Uses the Far Cry formula as a jumping off point for a very immersive experience that's about the beauty of Pandora. It's one of the most beautiful games I've ever played and really deepens the Avatar franchise. It's also the rare action game that is also cool to just hang out in and walk around, explore, forage for materials. It offers a kind of escape that games like Animal Crossing do in that regard (even though you're not building anything; it's just such a rich immersive world that you feel like you're actually in Pandora).