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
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)
> steam
> obscure
pick one
>>7
lord gaben, by whose grace any game with a steam page instantly becomes mainstream trash
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.
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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dub
hes right though
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
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/you-are-empty-f1j
This is a pretty good slavjank FPS.
>>15
oh come on, Civvie 11 covered that game on youtube.
Karnov's STUN Revenge
https://youtu.be/He3Pgoidx9U?t=232
>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
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.
Anarch, based anticapitalist Doom clone
https://drummyfish.gitlab.io/anarch/
I've been hankering to try Mizzurna Falls since it received a fan translation
Anyone played Rule of Rose?
>>22 I've been looking to buy a copy for my girlfriend, it was her favourite game but she lost it
>>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.
https://filesfound.net/articles/forceofsex
This might be the most obscure videogame possible (up until this article was written and the guy uploaded a ROM, anyway)
space station 13
Here are some weird obscure games for a obscure British PC called the Acorn Archimedes;
Big Bang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ6Ygd7q1KI
Revolver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTMW9HF2Ybs
Hamsters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlXJIECTJYE
They are all pretty fucking weird in their own rights.
I watched a playthrough of Iru! for the PS1 and it's kinda neat.
Lovecraft inspired walking sim with Twilight Syndrome vibes.
The reverence it has for Lovecraft's works makes it almost "canonical" in the sense that it's not 'loosely inspired' by the works like so many modern media, but takes efforts to be extremely accurate to the source material to a level I've not often seen, despite being set in a totally atypical location (Japanese school).
A while back I found a pretty obscure early 00's era Chinese game called Tien, which is a third-person 3D hacky-slashy type game I would loosely summarize as "a bit like Rune but Wuxia instead of Nordic". Seems to be built on the Lithtech engine. There's a version (no idea if official or a fan thing) where interface text is English at least. A real hidden gem.
>>28
I'm glad you realize "lovecraft inspired" is as meaningless as "earthbound inspired" in terms of video games
>>31
for sure, basically what I mean is "lovecraft inspired, no for real this time, like every character is fucking quoting paragraphs of Lovecraft's shit given any possible opportunity"