I’m looking for strange/interesting/obscure PC games. Could be anything from Windows, DOS, Mac OS (old school), PC-98, Amiga, or whatever else I’m missing there. Let’s hear ‘em!
Yume Nikki
I would also say Yume Nikki, but I played a yume nikki fangame called .flow so that’s probably more obscure
.flow
Worth playing?
I think I liked it when I was really into yume nikki. There are a ton of YK fan games (which are pretty much the same) I think I remember that one being one of the good ones
thanks for the recco, I’ll check it out
petz horsez 2
for some fucking reason this game is a murder mystery with branching paths and multiple endings
Discworld MUD
Where my fellow mudders at?
I used to be way into MUDs back in the day, and I think Mirkwood was the one I played the most. I still play Aardwolf sometimes. More recently I experimented a bit with Evennia and it was surprisingly not as difficult as I thought it would be. Would be relatively easy for a group to make something together in it… HexMUD when??
Oh hell yeah I’d be down
I’ve had several characters throughout the years, but right now my (rather low level) character is a priest which is great for support
for a sense of scale, this is just one of many cities in the game
and many of the buildings have their own maps
So Evennia is interesting in that it’s not really programming. You basically go inside your empty game and start building it with commands. It’s pretty neat: https://www.evennia.com/docs/latest/Howtos/Beginner-Tutorial/Part1/Beginner-Tutorial-Building-Quickstart.html
You can run scripts that basically auto create stuff to save time, but I find the live environment pretty cool because you can test things as you go along. There’s also a lot of preexisting stuff available for it to get started.
Astral Entertainment made some interesting stuff. Pac Guy/Pea Guy springs to mind, but they also had some other stuff. Some detective game that had a sudden shift on the final boss, complete with you going ham with your service pistol and there was a big robot and some excessive Wilhelm screaming.
I remember one where you had to peel potatoes
and another where you were a birthday cake in a maze getting attacked by forks
It’s classic early 90s edu-tainment, but I have very fond memories of 3D Dinosaur Adventure.
This really brings me back, good find.
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are we talking obscure games or old games cause the list is mostly old games
Either? Or both? I’d think most obscure PC games that people remember fondly would also be old.
Fine Artist for DOS/early windows. and the hobbit videogame
Psychopomp is an ambient horror dungeon crawler that costs just ten bucks on steam for its full version but also has its original version for free as a demo, it’s very mindfucky and the protag (who’s in my pfp) is Literally Me (Trueanon listener)
Disillusion ST is another mindfucky dungeon crawler I really like but with more of a focus on ENA-style surrealism than on rust-and-bloodstains decay
There was a company called Parroty Interactive for a few years in the 90s that specialized in making terrible parodies like Pyst and Star Warped. Looking at the list of personnel, they actually had some notable names: Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn and even John Goodman. Too bad they don’t really count as games and are also incredibly unfunny.
I have always been such a huge fan of the Myst series & worlds, I remembered reading about Pyst ages ago and was always curious about trying it despite everyone saying it was bad, the premise is interesting, right? Eventually got around to downloading a copy and setting it up in an emulator. The game is just so bad and not even in a funny way. It is not funny at all. Waste of time. I was so excited about it.
My favourite part is that more people worked on Pyst than Myst.
Any Commander Keen heads in here?
Commander Keen, Jazz Jackrabbit and the OG 2D platforming Duke Nukem are all in that kind of same vein for me.
Are you me?
Yes. The call is coming from inside the house.
I remember Bio Menace for being a super gory Apogee platformer.
My dad had this weird game on a 3.5" floppy called Heaven and Earth but we had no manual for it so it was particularly hard to figure out how to play. But it had a really interesting aesthetic and pretty good graphics for its time. This is actually the first time I’ve been able to search and find any trace of information about it
It’s maybe not so obscure now since it’s on GOG but Rage of Mages 1 & 2, also known as Allods, famously connected to the horrible Allods Online MMO. I had a CD and even played it online. I remember people made custom farming/cheating maps where a stationary dragon would repeatedly kill high level orcs and you could sneak in and take the loot out of their bags before it got you. The art, animations (especially in the shop), and the music stick with me to this day.
capsule with arms. i think the number of humans that have witnessed this is double digits. maybe triple.
There was this one game I played once that left an impression on me but I can’t remember the name at all. It was set in a Nordic country in medieval times, it had a top down view of 2D sprites, and it had a super hardcore survival simulation. I remember chopping down a tree taking multiple in game hours (depending on your skill and tools) and a big focus being put on starting and keeping your campfire going in order to stave off hypothermia.
