Obscure Videogames (24)

1 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2019-05-12 02:14 ID:SXQuGfgX

Post your most interesting discoveries in gaming.
It can be random shit off of itch.io or glorioustrainwrecks.com
It can be some extremely rare Japanese ps1 game
As long as not many people know about it

2 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2019-05-13 03:24 ID:aT7+r1Wm

probably the most obscure games on the english speaking internet are VIPRPGs (with the exception of the horror ones people sometimes fan translate because they're gay for yume nikki)

https://mimidoshima.wordpress.com/2019/03/02/medetee/

3 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2019-05-25 02:12 ID:SXQuGfgX

>>2
Great article. I agree with the bit about subcultures and such, stuff that is not made for mainstream appeal but for a small niche is always more interesting. I know of VIPPERS (maninly because of SAoVQ) so its cool to hear about other stuff they did.

4 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2019-06-02 07:48 ID:T4wr1FUB

Go ahead and check out roguelikes. You might know the popular ones like Dwarffortress or NetHack but there are many many others that have been developed and just faded into obscurity.

RogueBasin is a good place to start but they can be pretty exclusive and byzantine when it comes to defining what a "roguelike" are.

5 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2019-06-11 07:48 ID:DE4B9bnT

6 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2019-06-11 18:24 ID:aT7+r1Wm

> steam
> obscure

pick one

7 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2019-06-12 13:06 ID:IOjy2MMz

>>6
Who are you quoting

8 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2019-06-12 17:47 ID:aT7+r1Wm

>>7
lord gaben, by whose grace any game with a steam page instantly becomes mainstream trash

9 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2019-07-16 07:13 ID:Heaven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYvlcP1OheI
Don't know if I would call this obscure but I certainly don't hear about it often.

10 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2021-10-03 16:03 ID:aHGwm8qd

Not that obscure but I want to give a shoutout to ADIDAS POWER SOCCER INTERNATIONAL '97. Lots of fun arcadey skill moves, you can deliberately handball Maradona-style and sometimes get away with it, karate kicks as tackles... if you hit a PREDATOR SHOT, the goalie gets knocked over and a little boot with PREDATOR SHOT comes up. At halftime, you were shown little FMV adverts for Predator boots and Fingersave gloves. It also had an aftertouch system so you press L1/R1 after you shoot to curve the ball, it was really satisfying curling shots in from 30 yards. It also had delightfully crap commentary.

Like a few other PS1 games I have, there are odd sound glitches when played on a PS3, which I quite like!

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11 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2021-10-09 20:36 ID:W6T79RLu

dub

12 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2021-10-10 06:10 ID:Heaven

>>8

>lord gaben
>any game with a steam page
>instantly becomes . . . trash

wew, the salt on this one.

13 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2021-10-10 18:48 ID:vUvcMVSo

hes right though

14 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2021-10-11 15:32 ID:4LJaDcCt

most obscure thing I've played would be the first legacy of flan
it's pretty much unplayable
also not too obscure since Scott Cawthon made it but the number of people who have heard of it or played it are still really low for sure

15 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2022-02-03 10:06 ID:C0ycAdW2

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/you-are-empty-f1j
This is a pretty good slavjank FPS.

16 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2022-03-04 22:49 ID:ZpdYI8vT

>>15
oh come on, Civvie 11 covered that game on youtube.

17 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2024-02-03 04:09 ID:qcu67uke

18 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2024-02-05 04:18 ID:EJ2IIKPy

>glorioustrainwrecks.com

lol what website sucked, maybe it wasn't so bad in 2019 though
and by the way, as long as something is on the internet it's not obscure
the only games you can really call obscure are those rare japanese pc games on yahoo japan for 200000000 dollars, which haven't been uploaded because they're bad and nobody gives a crap

19 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2024-02-06 02:48 ID:AuWVtzwf

Al-Qaeda released their own game (well more of a mod really) which allows the player to hunt down and kill Bush
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_Bush

I've seen it on some abandonware sites but downloading it is probably not a good idea.

20 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2024-02-06 07:02 ID:htw3iJs9

Anarch, based anticapitalist Doom clone
https://drummyfish.gitlab.io/anarch/

21 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2024-02-27 17:34 ID:eghQ7X9l

I've been hankering to try Mizzurna Falls since it received a fan translation

22 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2024-03-01 23:14 ID:qQckB8yH

Anyone played Rule of Rose?

23 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2024-03-06 17:57 ID:Yyx7TYVG

>>22 I've been looking to buy a copy for my girlfriend, it was her favourite game but she lost it

24 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2024-03-11 10:44 ID:4czQiqxB

>>22
Yes! Multiple times, and I've 100%ed it too. It's a very special game to me, even if I can't in good conscience recommend it to others given how godawful the combat and gameplay is.

>>23
Good luck with that! Physical copies are extremely hard to get your hands on, but my ex managed to pull it off so you might too.

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