Any kind of game
EDIT: changed from suggested to mentioned and made the title more clear
Idk, I remember hide-and-go-seek being pretty sick as a kid. I don’t often see it mentioned.
Ahhh shit, I just did and now I can’t say it.
Two very niche board games from the 70s: “Snit’s Revenge” “Lie, Cheat, and Steal”
And an old Avalon Hill wargame: “Wooden Ships and Iron Men”
Lie, Cheat, and Steal!!! We used to play that as kids! Excellent call.
Did you play the Mad magazine game where the objective was to lose all your money?
No… Tell me more.
My memory fails me, I just remember that one and Lie, Cheat and Steal from childhood.
Looks like someone on Amazon is selling the Mad magazine game for $150!
Commander Keen might be one of the few old enough not to have been mentioned to me since the internet became well-known.
Also, Squarez.
Commander Keen
Only if you never watch CV-11.
Hero’s Quest by Sierra (Later renamed to Quest for Glory)
Shallow Thought Of The Day: Any game mentioned in this thread twice is automatically someone who didn’t read all the comments before posting.
Dungeon Keeper
Def one of my all time favorites.
Me too! I do play KeeperFX though, which is an amazing remake.
I don’t know how to link the Dungeon Keeper community here on Lemmy but I made on lemmy.world for it.
Haven’t seen it mentioned here, but my favorite game of all time is one that is Rarely mentioned - if ever,
The World Ends With You, originally for the DS, now on Switch.
MC Neku has 7 days to figure out wtf is going on in The Reaper’s Game, but he can’t remember anything.
Fun combat mechanics, the DS version had you fighting 2 combat encounters at the same time, one on the top screen, and the main one on the bottom screen. The sound track was amazing! I still have multiple soundbytes from that game as ringtones.
Plus it has some bitchin songs https://youtu.be/i0569Wt-cZ0?si=xZ84zeNmAzgehLln
Love Calling, its actually my ringtone :D
That’s funny, I’ve actually been playing through it for the first time recently. I played NEO 2 years ago and loved that, and I definitely love the og game too.
Really cool and creative game, both from gameplay and story. And mate, the music, its fucking art. Like the rest of both games, yeah.
Since most games are often mentioned on the internet, I’m going to reach waaaaaaaay back to my childhood and mention Cartooners:
This was a game for kids to make their own cartoons. I spend so much time making all kinds of funny and weird stories. It was very basic, but it had me giggling every time.Board game: Sheriff of Nottingham, i just love social deception games.
Video game: BETON BRUTAL, 3D platformer with similar parkour like Minecraft, but more polished. Overall pretty chill to sink some time into.
Jade cocoon 2 for the PS2.
A brilliant mix of tactics and Pokemon. You have a box composed of 8 slots surrounding you, 4 edges of different coolers, and 4 corners that combine 2 colors, you get to pick of 6 monsters to fill those 8 slots, each edge is a different style of move, red is attack, blue is defend, green is heal, yellow is cast, some monsters only have 1 color affiliated with them, some have 3, you select which side/color of box you want to attack your opponent with, if you don’t have a monster in the middle of that color they can attach your hit point pool directly.
I rarely see it mentioned, and I think that’s a shame, it was very creative for being in a very popular genre
I really like backgammon but no one ever wants to play with me
The Sexy Brutale!
It’s a murder/puzzle game and I really enjoyed it.
I really liked that game!
Descent
Incredible series. I’m glad we got Overload, even if it’s not quite the same caliber
I picked up a copy of Overload somewhere on the high seas. The graphics on that game are so intense that my poor little laptop can only get like 3 frames per second at its absolute lowest resolution and quality settings ☹️
Maybe one day I’ll get a better system worthy of high end games. It’s just not high on my priorities list now, as I don’t play games nearly as often as I did in my teens and 20s.
Super dodgeball for the NES.
Deceptively simple, but much deeper than it seems on first glance. Each character has 2 different special abilities that change the way you throw. Especially if you can get a few buddies to huddle around the tv with you, will keep you all entertained for hours.
I never see Cultist Simulator recommended but it’s one of my favorites. It really captures the idea of studying the esoteric arts, and has a surprising amount of world building given how simple the presentation is.
