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openMatch 3+ Magic Flow Puzzle Game Videogame
I vaguely remember playing a certain puzzle game on my grandma’s computer. You’d have a rather large level (like, multiple screens large I believe) on a square grid, where every tile had some colour of gem on it. Your task is to guide a flow of… mana energy? Towards some destination. Along the path, stone tiles would interrupt your progress, and you had to form links of gems above them to break them. Links would be formed by clicking on one gem, then dragging outwards (even diagonally) to other gems of the same colour. The longer the chain, the bigger and more powerful a bonus explosion at the chain’s tip would be, sometimes it could even fill the whole screen.
Collecting enough gems of the same colour would give you a single-use special ability that you would have to recharge, and in some sections you’d get grid chunks outside of the main path, so you had to collect powerups. Levels are also timed, and the only way to lose is to run out of time.
After every four levels, you’d get a mini-game of comparing two Tarot-like cards and spotting their differences, and every 16 levels you would have beaten one quarter of the game and got rewarded with a hidden objects sequence themed after the quarter you just played through.
You also got a fairy companion who would tutorialize you.
Once again, it’s been ages, so I might be misremembering stuff, but if anyone has a name, I’d be immensely grateful!
openBug game (< not THAT one) Videogame
1 2 3 that’s enough for me. Anyways this one is for a game, (on roblox) it’s a role play game I enjoyed back then, the story is that humanity got teleport (by a big comet) to some A.U. where bugs had minds and stuff. Ants hate humans, ladybugs accepted humans, I believe there were spiders and crickets too(probably just the spiders) there’re also human-bug hybrids.
openA point and click video game with a vampire girl with a curse and a monster best friend Videogame
Who gives his life to save her/turn her normal again.
Also its an old game. I mean literaly 90s or extremely early 00s at most.
Edited by AegisPopengame i used to play when i was younger Videogame
There was this app I played all the time on my grandma's iPad when I was younger, like 3 years old. I forget what it was called exactly, but it would teach about simple stuff, like living things and weather and numbers. There might have been numerous apps in one series, I don't remember exactly. Anyways, there were a group of characters who would teach you the stuff. There was a female voice over, so the characters were only there for show really. Most of them were children, but the only two characters I remember are this purple furry monster guy (fittingly named Purple), and this African-American girl named Mimi, who had her hair in buns if I recall correctly. I'm pretty sure the characters had like...beady eyes or something. When I tried to search for the app in my grandma's downloaded app history, I couldn't find it anywhere. I'm pretty sure it got taken down. But does anyone know what it was called?
openVillage game from late 2010s (deleted?) Videogame
Hello, I remember a village game that was probably on most phone and tablet app stores back in the late 2010s. It might have been deleted, I don’t know.
It is closest to the game Virtual Villagers in its gameplay. You would try to grow this community and see it progress. The villagers were cartoony humans.
The map had a river in the upper part and land everywhere else. There was a major quest where you had to save a child that was in a basket. The child was supposed to be in the river and you had to craft a thing to help them get out.
I’m pretty sure it existed.
openPainting program for kids Videogame
Years back, I used to play this on this kids' paint program on my parents' computer. I remember that it had a wood-grain border around the picture, you could either draw or do some flood-fill painting (IIRC), and the sound for undoing a mistake was a cartoonish voice saying "Whoops".
Does anybody remember what it might be? I don't remember the name, and I doubt it was a version of Kid Pix, because it looked and sounded different.
Edited by DongwaChanopenreverse angry birds Videogame
title says it all pretty much, it was like a reverse angry birds game where you had to build a structure with a set of given parts that would stand up to an attack, that attack being from cats and the structure being made of household objects
openStop Cats from Stealing Fish Videogame
A PC video game where the player holds down then releases their cursor to fling cats off the screen before they make off with all of the fish on the field. The title contains the word "frenzy" and the icon is a fish, making me mistake it for Feeding Frenzy at first.
Edited by seasaltcaramelcookieopenshort, deliberately "so bad its good" rpg maker game parodies video game tropes Videogame
I never directly played this, but I viewed either a Let's Play or a straight playthrough on youtube. The backstory was that the game was part of a "game jam" where participants were challenged to create an entertainingly bad game on the rpg maker engine in a short period of time. The main thing I remember is the very end being a parody of Suspicious Videogame Generosity: In The Very Definitely Final Dungeon, your party finds a ridiculously long corridor with no enemies and every step you take there's some power-up or weapon that's much stronger than anything you've previously encountered in the game - which also serves to make the Overly Long Gag of traversing the hallway even longer, as the gameplay pauses every few seconds to show you whatever new item you just got. Before you reach the end of the corridor, a message appears on screen saying that this is the end of the playable demo and you have to purchase the paid version to get any further (of course, there is no paid version and it's a free game).
opencreepy puzzle game? Videogame
There was this game which may have been an escape room/puzzle game on mobile i played anywhere from 2014 - 2017 the game was in a painting-like art style where it was mostly still images as backgrounds. at the beginning there is a guy who talks to you before you enter the house sometimes when you entered the room with the stairs (right infront of the front door), the dog that sits by the stairs is missing its head? although most of the time it had a head. up the stairs there where a few rooms where maybe when you tried to unlock the door or enter the door (im not sure) there was this creepy lady who might have been a doll. that is all i really remember about the game as i was young when i played it.
openMobile game with floating islands Videogame
In this game, you control a small creature, I think it had spiky green hair and no arms. You would walk on floating islands (or oddly-shaped small planets?) and the gravity would change depending on which side you were on, so you could walk under the island, and jump to different islands and collect coins. There were enemies that were killed by jumping on them, and the final boss looks like a bigger version of the playable character. Along the way there are signs that tell you how to play. There's a level where you had to collect every coin on the level on a time limit, and another where you rescue creatures who look like the protagonist but smaller and with differently colored hair.
Edited by HqamiopenZombie apocalypse mobile game Videogame
I doubt this would have a page on here anyways, but maybe somebody will remember! There was this zombie apocalypse mobile game that I used to play, probably around 2012/2013. IIRC the premise was basically that you had this town (sort of like a compound) that you could slowly add people to, called survivors, and slowly the town would grow and expand while defending itself from the zombies. I feel like the survivors were also categorized into different categories of survivors, with different skills (maybe one was "warrior" and another was "dreamer"?). There was a front gate where one of your survivors would sit and protect the town and also sometimes new survivors would show up and I think you could choose whether or not you wanted to rescue them? There was also like a minigame with this blue pickup truck (I remember that color very specifically lol) where you would like ride out into the wildland and try to pick up other survivors and kill zombies for points/supplies or something. The art style was kind of like Scribblenauts, very cartoonish and characters with blocky heads. Basically I remember everything except the title :/ big thanks to anyone who might remember!
openFree-2-Play Top Down Game with Character Classes and... some other stuff? Videogame
This is going to sound horribly vague, horribly ramble-y as I try to stitch together memories of over ten years ago when I was still in junior high, if not ever earlier, so apologies if this sounds insane.
I vaguely remember a couple of then-friends convinced me to give this game a shot. I don't remember if it had its own launcher or if it was browser-based. I DO remember it being free-to-play, mostly because that was all I could afford at the time.
It was a multiplayer game with classes, where each class had distinctive costumes (male and female), weapons and abilities. It was something akin to a very simple fighting game, or perhaps a weird arena brawler hybrid, as knocking people off the stage or emptying their life bars would score you points. Whenever someone was knocked out, you could pick up their weapons/parts of their costume.
The perspective/camera was top down with a slight tilt. The art style... well, the in-game models looked chibi-esque, but actual art didn't.
Out of all classes, I remember one by name — Desperado — and another one looked like an astronaut.
I am definitely sure this existed and isn't some Mandela Effect thing or fabricated memory.
I can only say which games this one was not — it was not Spiral Knights as it is completely different and, well, I played it a couple of months ago, and it was not Nos Tale.
openBeen plauging me for days. Videogame
There's this one flash game where you played as a cube rolling around on a tower, and you unlocked different emotions for the cube's faces. Does anyone else remember this?
Edited by NessTheTroperopenPC game from around 2010 where you’re part of a team escaping from monsters Videogame
I saw just a brief clip of this on YT about a year ago. All I remember is that you’re part of a team (archeological??) and you either fell down a hole or become trapped somehow, only to discover monsters down there that can’t be killed.
I seem to recall the setting taking place in a sandy location (Egypt??), was mainly dark (set at night??), you could open wooden doors where the monsters might be lurking and it was First Person.
Please can somebody help me…?
Edited by The10thGeekopenGame with an intro where a dinosaur kills someone Videogame
I'm posting this on behalf of a friend. Here is what he said:
"It was a very simple memory really, it's a friend I used to visit in the 90s, I'm fairly sure this was on the N64 though I have looked into other consoles of the time since. He was showing the games he had and he had one in particular that his parents didn't let him play until he was older, I assume he got it on like a thrift sale and they didn't check, but then later when he booted it up and they saw him they figured he couldn't play it yet
Anyways
I was so curious and I asked him to boot it up anyways because I wanted to see, he was reluctant at first because he said that it scared him on top of his parents not letting him playing it, but I eventually convinced him to just let me peek, he didn't have to see
He turned it on, it may have gone through the usual company logo or whatever. What I remember next was some sorta dark room, looked kinda like a damp cave
It was not very well illuminated, kinda poor textures that seem a lot like something from PS 1 or N64 age
And the camera was on one of the corners of the room, facing against one of the walls
You could see the shadow of what looked like some sorta monster, but it really looked like a dinosaur and what I believe was a person
And the camera was just panning around the room, though you couldnt really see the person. It showed the wall shadows a bit and then it looked like the "dinosaur" suddenly attacked the person while he screamed
I watched that a bit and then he shut off the console suddenly being all like "See? I told you it was too scary" and I just kinda nodded and agreed even though I didn't think it was THAT violent, just a bit disturbing
There may have been some blood. Then we went on to eat some food or whatever lol"
He said he thought for sure it was Turok, but he can't find the intro anywhere. Since then, he said he's looked up the intros for tons of games from the n64, PS 1 and other but can't find it. He said he thinks it might have been a dream, but that it's so vivid he could recreate it on a 3d program if given the chance.
openMonkey Handheld Game Videogame
I can barely remember from when I was a kid (like 2005-2010).
"Handheld game" doesn't mean like a DS title. It means a relatively inexpensive toy with a small selection of themed electronic minigames. I remember it being cylinder shaped and mostly blue.
The visuals were monochrome black. sprites were maybe 4 or 8 bit? we're talking like $20-$30 level of quality/content for the time, not $3 quality.
I remember one of the mini-games or events being Bonanza (or Bananza?), and another had "Hazard" in the name.
It's possible I'm misremembering things, which sucks to say given how scant my memory is anyway.
I remember seeing this in around the early 2010s, but I recall seeing some sort of space adventure game that has a group of 4 people. One of them could even get a randomized superpower. I think the last section of the game involved a parkour section