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openFlash game with burning vampire Videogame
I found this game on one of those sites that collect flash games, Kongregate or Newgrounds or one of them. It's a sidescrolling platform game where you play as a vampire trying to get somewhere. If you go into a sunny area you catch fire, but there are fountains where you can douse yourself again.
opensci-fi shooter type flash game with furries? [SOLVED!] Videogame
This game has been driving me crazy for at least a week. I found it around 2010 and it was one of those platformer-shooter games, like Armor Mayhem or Raze, but it was purely singleplayer and the two main characters were furries. It had a lot of comedic fourth wall breaking moments, like one character telling the other character the controls and neither of them knowing what they mean. The character you played was a male grey cat I think, and I think the second character was a female with red hair, and the second character would talk to the player character through a computer and give advice and maybe hack things?
Edited by KindaExplainingThingsopenA game described as weird Videogame
I saw a stream of a game where the player character apparently is having the worst day of his life.
Several of the levels have him being chased by a giant metal globe, another level had him strapped to a cot where he gets electrocuted if he answers wrong, and the following level has him haphazardly tossed out of it and onto the road where he has to steer around oncoming traffic and barricades.
It as described as a weird game by the person streaming it.
openGiant Transmedia Game Videogame
I can't recall the name but it was a game in a website (kinda indie) and as you would play you would go through "pages" each of these pages was a mini-game in of itself or had some comic pages or other transmedia interactions and each one would lead you to the next one but not in a linear way (like you could skip from page 20 to like 84 and come back to 21 depending on where you'd click); I'm pretty sure I found it through Youtube in 2011 and I think it already had like 900 pages or something like that.
openCD-ROM Children's Encyclopedia (UNSOLVED) Videogame
When I was young, I had a children's encyclopedia on CD-ROM that had a host called Annie (short for Annuit Coeptis), a female, floating green pyramid who looked like "the weird pyramid thing on the back of the dollar bill," as she described it. She had a floating round eye where the Eye of Providence was, and introduced herself and explained the meaning of the Great Seal upon bootup. I think we sold the disc at a flea market. And yes, I'm asking mainly because Bill Cipher reminded me of her.
Edited by rjd1922resolved Small girl waits in her haunted room. Videogame
I remember a gameplay video of an indie game where a small girl was supposed to wait in her room for her parent to come home. But the room was haunted or something and depending on your interactions with it, there were different outcomes.
The graphics were minimalistic, looked like hand-drawn and the environment was mostly white.
openDating sim where I can only remember one character. Videogame
Dating sim, eroge, possibly visual novel.
One of the love interests is the protagonist's (older?) sister, who has blue hair (usually in a ponytail), a striped shirt, and possibly striped underwear. Think Akihisa's sister from Baka & Test, only athletic. Looks like an actual young adult (somewhere between 18 and 25), not the generic 14-year-old look many dating sims use regardless of character age.
99% sure it was on Windows, so it was either a Windows or an in-browser game.
May take place at a boarding school or a college (if so, some of it takes place in off-campus housing).
open[SOLVED] Gory flash game starring a cat Videogame
Back in the days when I was muddling around on Y8.com, I stumbled upon the category "Blood". I have no why I clicked on it, and this one game that stands out in my mind even many years later is this one game (I think series?) of this zombie/Frankenstein's monster/mummy/whatever cat with huge eyes, and blood was just everywhere in the thumbnail(s?). I don't have enough specific info to even search it up in Google.
Edited by Monolaf317openOld Racing Game for the PC (Still Unsolved) Videogame
I remember, back when I was a kid, I had a go on this old racing game for the PC (as the title suggests). Well, I say racing game, I can't actually remember if you race anyone or if you just had to get from point A to B. I distinctly remember the physics behind kind of floaty and it was easy to wreck your car. Plus, you could see your driver, who looked kinda like a low-poly Serious Sam.
The levels/tracks had pretty diverse settings; I remember a volcano/mountain kind of place, a city in a desert, a ski slope, and the wastes of the antarctic. The tracks all had NPCs wandering about, including wildlife. The thing I remember the most about the game was that, if you wreck your car, you get a little scene where your driver frustratedly kicks their wrecked car while surrounded by a circle of that level's NPCs - for instance, on the city level they'd be surrounded by police cars, and on the antarctic level they'd be surrounded by penguins.
I remember liking it a lot, actually, which is why I'm annoyed I can't remember what it was called. I thought it might have been one of the Carmageddon games but it wasn't nearly as violent - if I recall, if you ran over a person or animal they just ragdolled off into the distance like in Smuggler's Run, but were otherwise unharmed. Somehow. I was a kid, never questioned it. :V
Edited by PresidentStalkeyesopenToyline, Web Cartoon, Online Game, about creatures that live and fight inside computer chips. Videogame
I remember back when I was a kid around the mid-to-late-2000s, there was this line of toys that was about microscopic creatures similar to dust mites that live inside silicon and come alive to fight when a silicon chip is being used. There was also a web cartoon about a kid that discovers them and tells his science teacher or something and he also tells his friend about it and I think they mention a Kool-Aid oath. The toyline included detailed figures of the bugs, as well as a Digivice type electronic game based on the thing the kid from the webtoon made that discovered the dust mites. There was also an online game that I think used codes found on the figures, as well as a second version that didn't require the toys. There was also a series of You Tube videos made by the evil science lab from the webtoon showing the dust mite being killed in various ways. I think it had the words "nano", "byte", or "bug" in the name. I know this is a lot of stuff to look for, but if anyone could at least tell me the name, that would be great!
Edited by BrodyTroperopenAn Edutainment Game about Frogs (UNSOLVED) Videogame
Back at my Elementary School, there was this Activity Center game that starred an Older Female Brown Frog and her Younger Male Green Frog friend. If I remember correctly it was a series with two installments.
Edited by WolfThunderopenTrying to remember a surreal Fantasy FPS Mod Videogame
Salvete fellow tropers, I'm looking for an old video game that was very unique but had an impossible to remember name. As the title suggests, it was an FPS Mod (Unreal or Quake I think) with a semi fantasy setting where nothing looked human, your character was a floating, one armed wizard/demon thing (and I think the main villain all along?), and everything was generally alien looking like Oddworld or Zeno Clash. I think the name started with a "Z". I'm kinda new at posting here on the forums so if you have any advice on that as well, please share (I originally posted this on the forums, I'm that new)
open2D Beat 'Em Up video game featuring Lincoln, Gandhi, Hitler etc Videogame
I remember playing a 2D Beat 'Em Up video game on PC in the last 15 years (probably 2003-2010) where you controlled parodies of famous historical characters like Lincoln, Hitler, Gandhi, etc and you had to jump around and fight the other characters. It was a very fast-paced game where you had to keep jumping around the screen and punching or kicking the other characters. It was a small, indie game as far as I remember. The characters were either chibi/super deformed or tiny with large boxing gloves.
Edited by 42edopenTactics based game between humans and skeletons Videogame
Hey all!
My friend and I are looking for an old game we played together in elementary school. It was a tactics-based where you would deploy your units near a building of importance. I can't remember if it was a church or a castle, but it was definitely something of the sort.
These units were often assigned into companies, or squads - or, in the case of the 'superman' as we called him (he wore a red cape, don't judge us!), all on his lonesome. You could deploy archers, swordsmen, and the 'superman', whom I now understand to be a Wizard of some kind; he created fireballs/meteors. - I believe there was cavalry, and a commander, too, but don't quote me on that.
Anyway, after having placed our units, the skeletons would spawn. These skeletons also moved in groups like your own units. They had units that mirrored our own; archers, footsoldiers, and a skeletal wizard, etc.
During the battle, little portraits would come up of the units - depicting them shouting orders, like "Open fire!", the skeletal mage saying something about "You're surrounded", or maybe it was "close around them" - we really didn't have a good enough grasp of english to understand back then. It would also depict them when an entire unit was wiped out, or when they were fleeing in surrender.
The Game was among the many demos on a cereal-box promotion disk (I seem to recall it being a small disc). And we cannot for the life of us remember what it was called. We do know that we played it roughly 15 years ago, as we did not have that good an understanding of the english language and that was around the time we began to have english in elementary school. (We thought 'Open fire!' meant that there was a literal open fire burning somewhere. We never found one and it puzzled me for years afterward.) I also believe there was a demo of Descent amongst the other games on the disk, as we played that too, and I firmly remember it only having three levels.
Edited by TheharboopenGame about decisions in nuclear apocalypse Videogame
I remember reading about a game on here. I think it was mainly a visual novel. You play as a female and you have to find shelter before a nuclear bomb falls? There were lots of decisions to make and the game will remember if you've played it before and alter events.
openWeird travel game? Videogame
I have a vivid memory of playing a PC game where you walk around on a flat monochrome map trying to do something. Once you achieve that, you could board a train or flight to get to another map. You also had an energy meter where if it ran out, you'd fall asleep for a while to restore it. It could also change from day and night. You could play as either a male or a female, who were also monochrome like the map. The CD had a monochrome globe on it as well. I played this when I was about 5-7 (2005-2007). I don't remember what language it was in because I didn't really know how to read when I played it.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Or was this just some weird dream I remember very vividly?
openMobile RPG? Videogame
There was this game on the IOS store that I played around 2016-17. It was about your avatar being in a guild, collecting and upgrading equipment and skills, unleashing boss monsters to decimate your foes, and playing alongside other players. I can’t recall the name of it now, but it had either Union or Guild in the title. The game was amazingly fun, and I wish to play it again. Can anyone help me find the game? Edit: The game was 2d, not 3D.
Edited by DaisyGameGirl4openSalt pillar Videogame
Hi guys! Some years ago I stumbled upon the wikia of some games and, If I remeber correctly, under the section "objects" or "creatures" there was a thing called Salt Statue or maybe Salt Pillar. I'm sure it was the crystallized body of a once-living thing. The game had the graphics of Tibia or Space Station 13. Please help
openCommunity Flash game builder Videogame
There was this game/service i used to frequent, but for the life of me i cant remember what it was called. I remember that it was 2-d games, i dont know for sure if there were any games/levels made by the creators, but i do remember that there were different ways of making objects react to the world around them, and that there were a number of different playable characters in the editor. I also remember one of the really popular levels was one where you played as one of the female characters running thru a mirrored landscape, and you had to jump over obstacles in the reflected world, and another popular level was a sort of town exploration thing. This would have been around 2010-2012, and i think i first found it on Jayisgames, but i couldnt find it there.
Edited by gert10
This is a very obscure game. I remember a surprising amount of it. It's a 2D platformer/Metroidvania with a world map, it stars a character who looks more or less like this[1]◊. He's a chancellor, I think. He can only do basic platforming initially, gaining the ability to wall jump/wall climb (I don't remember which) halfway through the game, and gaining the ability to double jump during the final level (and only the final level. You can't double jump outside of it).
The game features an 8-bit aesthetic during levels, 8-bit music with a side of MIDI stank (the music reminds me a lot of Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, actually, at least in terms of sound), and a main map with an oil painting look.
The first few levels happen at night, while the last few levels take place in space. The final level is called Far Far Star. The game has like 3 boss fights, one of which takes place in a stone bridge, the second one takes place in a tunnel, and has you go against a giant wooden contraption with wheels. I assume that there's a third boss fight against the big bad, but I was never able to finish the final level. Speaking of big bad, the big bad is a magician.
One of the optional levels has you use more than one character. It's an escort mission with a female character. You use her to do some jumps you wouldn't be able to normally, I think.
I bet a lot of these details are wrong, but then again, it's been almost a decade since I last played it, back when I still had a Windows XP PC. This has been bugging me for a long time. I really want to go back and finish that game! I'll be very disappointed if this game's been somehow lost to time.
Edited by LucasRCD