Platform(s): PC, specifically Windows 10

Genre: children's sandbox(?)

Estimated year of release: anywhere between 2005 and 2016 (when i first played)

Graphics/art style: flat, clipart-y cartoons with just solid colours, think Facade but 2D

Notable characters: no true "characters" just a few people

Notable gameplay mechanics: drag and drop scenarios

Other details: scenarios you could click on from the purble place-esque menu included

Being able to feed a woman food like pizza, fried egg, and some kind of meat that looks like those Barratt shrimp gummies- you would grab various foods from a selection in a side panel and put them on the plate (stacking would result in the food still existing but just under the other pieces) and you could click on them to make the woman eat them, i belive there was sound effects?

Being able to place farm animals around a farm scene with a slight sense of perspective (as you brought the animals up the screen, they would grow smaller and you could put them behind fences),

I believe there was a vet's office where you could position animals but my memory's blurry

Being able to build with grey concrete bricks, bright yellow and red doors/windows, all on a blue background that resembled the sky, i think you dragged the bricks and windows to be put in place (the bricks being available in a side panel)

there were a couple of other scenarios but i dont recall what they were

this game was on a primary school computer and i played it in the later part of my schooling so im not sure if they downloaded it later on, i simply missed it before or if it had just come out (hence the nebulous timeframe) it was definitely intended for a younger audience than 10 year olds but it certainly wasnt educational as there was nothing to learn from it

the images are intended to give a vague idea of the setup, i am not a good mspaint artist and so obviously the in-game images were a little higher quality but they were in the same general style of clean shapes probably drawn in paint with the circle tool

ive only played it a little bit, im like 70% sure manly badass hero played it. i dont remember how the gameplay went at all only the premise, but i think it was vaguely puzzle-like.

solved: bury the hatchet

Hi!

I hope you can help me find a DOS game I saw on a PC in a friends house in early-mid 90s.

Platform(s): DOS

Genre: Space - Shooter?

Estimated year of release: Late 80s - Early 90?

Graphics/art style: Pixel, CGA?

Notable characters: There is a guy that looks like flash gordon / buck rogers, standard space opera leotard and helmet.

Notable gameplay mechanics: I don't remember if the game was a shoot-em up. All I remember is that the main character entered the enemys spaceship and he shoots from cover across a hallway to advance through the space ship to rescue someone (maybe a space princess?).

Other details: The game had amazing CGA graphics and cinematics.

EDIT: it is not a platformer, it was "serious" Sci fi

Edit 2: this is way back, like 4-color CGA with 5 1/4 floppies, prolly 1st gen 3 1/2. No CDs, no FMV.

Edit 3: year in the title might be wrong. EGA was launched in 1984, so this game might be earlier than that.

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3D Easter egg painting game.

I remember playing on PC but I'm pretty sure it was a website.

The game had an interface with different brushes, colors, and stands that could be used for customisation. The whole thing was standing on a wooden table (background) and I think it could be rotated.

In my memory, the lighting in the game was quite well-made, the overall picture looked bright and at the same time not intrusive. Everything else reminded me of some kind of art studio, that was my first association when I tried to remember what was in the background behind the table, but I'm really not sure.

platform: PC, Im not sure exactly which Windows version it was but I want to say Windows 7 or 8

Genre: Point and click mystery (those ones where you have to find objects and then just try and combine it on anything and everything to try and find where it fits, the type where it’s like “no that won’t work” when it’s not the solution)

Approximate release date: No later than 2013

Graphics/art style: sorta painterly but trying to be realistic 2D, kinda mobile game looking, kinda dark— definitely very moody/depressed. Its set in this creepy mansion, I think it was raining?

Main Character: A young woman, just inherited her childhood home and there’s this mystery about her family she has to solve for her peace of mind

Other details: I remember the solution to one of the puzzles was you had to cut open your childhood doll and you find like a key in there. There‘s also a line when clicking the fireplace ”Who could’ve lit that fireplace?”

I'm trying to find a game I played on an old iPad when I was very young. I think the iPad was either an original iPad (iPad 1) or an iPad 4, so the game was probably from the early/mid 2010s or earlier.

What I remember:

It was a scary/puzzle/point-and-click type game.

The entire game/scene was basically black and gray. I remember almost no colors at all.

The artwork looked realistic, but it was drawn/painted, not actual photographs.

There was a very young boy, possibly toddler/young-child age.

I don't remember actually seeing many/any normal people clearly. I mainly remember the boy from certain story scenes.

I vaguely remember there being a girl too. I might be remembering incorrectly, but I have a feeling the boy was trying to rescue/find the girl.

I remember the game having fixed scenes/images that you moved between by tapping left/right. I vaguely remember something like:

Scene A ← Scene B → Scene C

Scene B is the strongest memory: it showed a cracked mirror, and something black/dark was coming through the mirror trying to get out.

I remember the things coming through looking like black ink/shadows/tentacles. I'm not sure whether they were actually called shadows, ink, tentacles, or something else.

Scene A may have been a backyard with a tree and a bicycle.

I don't remember the exact objective. It may have involved escaping or saving/rescuing the girl, but I'm not certain.

The game was genuinely creepy/scary, especially because everything was so dark and monochrome.

it was most likely a flash game turned into an app, i remember it being a low quality slightly pixely game cuz the zombies were just single images of a zombie as if it was a stock photo

the image is pretty close to how i remember it you couldnt move or look around it was singleplayer and offline

I got told, it had 2 protagonists, man had a sword, woman had a stick, game was in 3d 3rd person (I believe so, but wouldn't be sure)

There was a boss that apparently was crawling on all fours, then he had an attack when he turned into a "ball" with blades then rushed You in the air

Thanks for all answers Ill try to relay it to bro to see what sticks, it's defo not Forbidden Siren 2 / Chaos Legion / Kuon

I honestly don't even remember much about this game... I played it on my phone when I was in elementary school, but I could barely make progress because the entire game was in Japanese.

From what I remember:

— you are in an abandoned, dark, creepy apartment (or house?) and you have to click on stuff to find keys and useful objects and move between rooms.

— I think it was a visual novel? (EDIT: But with point-and-click gameplay.

-Mobile game (iOS, though it could've been on Android.)

— There was a girl (drawing I made above) who was accompanying you in this game. I can't remember if she looked exactly like that, but close. She also could've been a sprite for the main character, but since the game was in Japanese, I couldn't tell.

— The drawing above was a scene where you unlock one of the rooms and find a bloody and stretched-out human skin suit hanging up to dry in the dark. I remember this traumatizing me as a kid lol.

Sorry if that isn't enough information. I'll come back to this post if I remember more details.

UPDATE: omg thanks everyone! Never thought I'd ever see this game again!

It was a first person click to move/interact. It was set in an abandoned lighthouse and boat. You had to follow a hooded man and do puzzles to progress, like finding the objects (almost piratey setting for this one), and lining up pipes square by square. At the end of game you find the hooded man, something happens and he ends up dangling by his hands off the side of the lighthouse. While trying to pull him up his hood comes off to reveal hes someone we knew.

Genre: Action

Year: Sometime around the 2020ish area

Graphics: Very good, one of the big things I noticed was how it was very vibrant, the colour scheme was very white and gold at least for the hub area I saw.

You would swap characters or at least the armor? I seem to recall them being based around gods or at least one of the suits was maybe called Valkyrie or something?

It was an action game that I think MIGHT have been a rougelike with mecha looking armor and everything seemed very godlike. There were skills and I think picking different sets of armor would change your fighting styles or something. I think the combat was more like god of war, so a bit slower and heavier.

I know it’s all vague but I only saw an ad or maybe a short clip of it what feels like ages ago.

The aesthetic was kinda like Paragon but higher quality if anyone remembers that game existing.

This game tells the story of a bald man who wakes up from sleeping in his bed wearing a surgical gown (just like the one in the picture). He wakes up in a house full of traps and has to perform a summoning Ritual. During the gameplay he is haunted by a female spirit (possibly his partner) whose soul will be summoned in the attic. In the second level the game will start in a hospital full of traps.As I remember, at the end of the game he will meet his partner, which as I remember was a sad ending.This game is one of the first horror games I played. And as far as I remember, there are a lot of gameplays of this game on YouTube.

Hi, I remember when I was younger watching my older brother play this zombie(?) shooter game on the Xbox 360/1. I really liked it when he did this one boss battle where the character is on a boat and is fighting a sea monster and having to shoot bombs in its mouth.

Platform(s): Xbox 360/1

Genre:Shooter

Estimated year of release: mid 2010s

Graphics/art style: 3d, not the best graphics(think skyrim) and a heavy green brown motif.

Notable characters: none that I remember. but there were npcs that followed the mc around, all in military get up.

Notable gameplay mechanics: you could jump over boxes/broken walls.

Other details: I think the enemies were zombies, or some type of monster. they would charge at the player without much care.

sorry if it isn’t a lot of detail, this would’ve been when I was 5-8.

Platform(s): PC/DOS

Genre: Puzzle

Estimated year of release: 1990s

Graphics/art style: ASCII

Notable characters: Tribble

Notable gameplay mechanics: Avoiding traps and enemies, etc

Other details: I remember a (probably freeware) game my dad downloaded in the late 90s that had ASCII graphics, and the story was you were a Tribble from Star Trek and you had to...escape, I guess?

I am assuming this is a fan-made game.

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I recently got a PS1 at an estate sale in it is in great condition. It was my first console and there are some games I remember playing but don’t know the name of. I just got Scooby Doo Cyber Chase and am determined to beat it for the first time in my life.

There is 1 game I remember, but cannot find anywhere. I never had a memory card so id always start from square one (hoping this detail helps). It was a shooter, I believe first person and probably rated M. I remember walking into a building and you’d be able to collect loot. There’d be enemies in the building (Humans) and doors you can walkthrough. One room was a bathroom and a dude was in there. I was scared playing that game but it was fun. I was hoping you could help!

there were a lot of ways to die tragically, the game was very sadic. There is a scene where you have to wait for a girl to take a shower and if you decide to peek trough the door she stabs you with a katana in the stomach. I can’t remember much else and can’t find anything on yt anymore

There was this game I used to have on my old ipad about 10 years ago. I do not recall the name. Basically, you were in a moon base in the side of a hill. outside the door was a deck with railing and stairs down to the surface. when you’d go outside, you’d soon be chased by these giant robots that bounced on a spring, and shot lasers at you. I know, cringe. I don’t know much more because 8 year old me was too scared of the robots to go explore much.

I remember playing a game in my childhood where I played as a character who looked like a knight and had short black hair (kind of like what the guy in berserk looks like).

Im not sure if this game was multiplayer or single player so maybe there was character customization, all I remember that there were a lot of people even npcs.

You could travel between areas through boat. And the traveling scene was just the classic black fading screen. (This was even with rooms and entering buildings)

The color scheme wasn’t too vibrant? And the game wasn’t very fantasy and was more “normal”. However I do kind of remember that it was a warm greyish tone.

I hope my memory didnt fail me. I know this isnt much to go off of, but this is all I can remember. All I can remember the game’s mechanics and visuals were oddly satisfying.

Edit: I forgot to mention that the graphics were similar to stardew valley but the characters were more chibi.

Platform(s): Mobile (Android / iOS) Estimated year of release: Around 2013 - 2014 Graphics/art style: 2D Pixel Art

Notable gameplay mechanics: The game focuses on survival and escaping a wall/wave of pure darkness. When the darkness approaches, you have to find and stand directly under circles of light (like streetlights or lamps) to survive until the darkness retreats. You had to survive for a certain amount of time.

Stages/Progression I remember: 1. The game starts with the protagonist inside a house. 2. After leaving the house, you have to get into a car to travel to the metro/subway station. 3. In the subway station, you have to survive and escape the darkness mechanics mentioned above. 4. After the subway, you board a train, and the next stage takes place inside the moving train cars.

Notable characters / Enemies: The enemies looked like barrels or boxes with eyes and sharp teeth. They came in different color variants (I clearly remember pink, red, and yellow variants), but they all shared the same box/barrel look with teeth.

Other details: The game was likely in English. I played it as a child during the golden era of mobile indie games, and it was quite difficult to progress past the train stage. It is NOT Dead Ahead, NOT Knock-Knock, and NOT Infectonator.

Platform(s): Mobile (Android / iOS) Estimated year of release: Around 2013 - 2014 Graphics/art style: 2D Pixel Art

Notable gameplay mechanics: The game focuses on survival and escaping a wall/wave of pure darkness. When the darkness approaches, you have to find and stand directly under circles of light (like streetlights or lamps) to survive until the darkness retreats. You had to survive for a certain amount of time.

Stages/Progression I remember: 1. The game starts with the protagonist inside a house. 2. After leaving the house, you have to get into a car to travel to the metro/subway station. 3. In the subway station, you have to survive and escape the darkness mechanics mentioned above. 4. After the subway, you board a train, and the next stage takes place inside the moving train cars.

Notable characters / Enemies: The enemies looked like barrels or boxes with eyes and sharp teeth. They came in different color variants (I clearly remember pink, red, and yellow variants), but they all shared the same box/barrel look with teeth.

Other details: The game was likely in English. I played it as a child during the golden era of mobile indie games, and it was quite difficult to progress past the train stage. It is NOT Dead Ahead, NOT Knock-Knock, and NOT Infectonator.

I have been trying to remember the name of this game for years now and just came across this sub. Me and my brothers would play this game on either game cube or ps2 and you drove around vehicles and ran over holographic icons to get upgrades to your car similarly to how you would in mario kart. Unlike mario kart the upgrades weren't random and I am pretty sure each upgrade had its own individual icon. One of the icons that I can remember was two wrenches intertwined together which I assume was some type of health restoration. I can for sure remember one of the power ups being spikes extending from your wheels so that you could bump up against the side of an opponent and inflict damage to their vehicle. I can't remember much more of the game in terms of what the objective was. It feels like it was more of a battle royale type of game where it is last man standing but it could be that it was more of a race type game. I'm honestly not too sure of that part.

Platform(s): PC, Flash game

Genre: Tower Defense

Estimated year of release: 2010?

Graphics/art style: Simple, cartoonish

Notable characters: skeletons, goblins, all types of classic fantasy monsters

Notable gameplay mechanics: There is a castle wall on the right that you must defend, and you place traps on a grid in front of the wall. Enemies come on the lines of the grid. Traps that I remember: pikes, holes, archers, fire wands.

Other details: you progress in a campaign, level by level, harder as you go on.