Share games that might have slipped through peoples notice.

Corty

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Aaaaand, I have more, but got bored copying.
 

expentio

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Afterimage!

The best Metroidvania I ever played!
No exaggeration!!!
Even with the big ones in mind like Castlevania that holds true to me. I basically loved everything about it.
The fighting system works great.
You got a lot of fun abilities, spells, weapon arts, and movement abilities. And bosses are all predictable in their patterns to be figured out.

The skill tree is huge and very satisfying.
As I said, you got spells, which pack a punch.
Elemental storms, necromancy attacks. One can't complain about variety later on.

But the weapons are nice as well. There are many different kinds. Swords, katana, double blade, scythe, greatsword etc., and I can tell you, they are all make for completely different styles to play. And even among the same category, in mid to late game, they'll always have special traits or new weapon arts, which keep them different. For example, one katana that covers everything in front with slashes. A sword that shoots projectiles. A life drain sword. So much stuff!

The story is pretty good, in my opinion. At the start, it may feel cliché and strangely cryptic, but the more you advance, the clearer it gets.
At the same time, the NPCs made the game lively. They interact, they move, it wasn't just a cold, dead world. I liked getting back to the main village.

Did I mention it got a cooking system? And for every dish you first consume, you get permanent stat boosts, which makes even gathering relevant.
The true end boss fight is still burned in my memory, as I was max level, and even then had to struggle.

And the world is totally vast!
The one tiny point might be that it's a very free game, where you can accidentally take the wrong turn. I also would recommend sticking at the start strictly to the questline locations, as I accidentally triggered a dialogue for far later, when I drove by boat to the wrong island.

Seriously, I don't regret anything about any investment I made into that game.
 

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Steambot Chronicles, too bad the sequel is canceled.



Zero Escape series
 

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Tale of Immortal. It is a chinese game, cultivation setting meets kenshi\mount and blade type of gameplay, a sandbox rpg. For a relatively cheap price you get a very fun sandbox. Nice art, nice music, gameplay is a bit grindy though. Overall it is way smaller when compared to 'big' and established sandboxes. Lacks depth if that makes sense. You can do a fair share of things, for example alchemy or artifact creation, but it doesn't drastically change the gameplay. However, the studio keeps updating the game and adds new content, so maybe they will address this issue.

Sands of Salzaar. Same as above but the setting is a desert.
 

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Tales of Xillia was probably my favorite game on the PS3, next to Arkham Asylum. It had one of the best stories of any video game I've ever played, and that's not just in "for a video game" standards. Not a lot of people played it, though. So...
 

Piisfun

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There was this game I played years back, a side-scroller. Something about Mages. You created your own Magic spells from like an insanely vast amount of options. All spells were created by you, so if they sucked, it was because you sucked.

I learned how to create spells that basically destroyed everything on the screen including the landmasses to the point that they would make the game go into lag-overdrive for a few seconds, and this was on a not quite top-of-the-line computer, but like just below top-of-the-line (for its time of course," so still better than average rig.

I CANNOT remember this game. I lost my steam account due to a screwy email account and since Steam lacks a customer support option, I lost it.
 

RepresentingWrath

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There was this game I played years back, a side-scroller. Something about Mages. You created your own Magic spells from like an insanely vast amount of options. All spells were created by you, so if they sucked, it was because you sucked.

I learned how to create spells that basically destroyed everything on the screen including the landmasses to the point that they would make the game go into lag-overdrive for a few seconds, and this was on a not quite top-of-the-line computer, but like just below top-of-the-line (for its time of course," so still better than average rig.

I CANNOT remember this game. I lost my steam account due to a screwy email account and since Steam lacks a customer support option, I lost it.
Noita?
 

ShrimpShady

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Y'all are sleeping on The Adventures of Darwin for the PS2 (actually probably not. the reviews aren't the best)

But it's pretty much Pikmin for the PS2 but you instead lead a bunch of monkeys that evolve into people, and one of the endings involves God giving your people the blessing of gun, leading to humanity's extinction.
 

BearlyAlive

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Y'all are sleeping on The Adventures of Darwin for the PS2 (actually probably not. the reviews aren't the best)

But it's pretty much Pikmin for the PS2 but you instead lead a bunch of monkeys that evolve into people, and one of the endings involves God giving your people the blessing of gun, leading to humanity's extinction.
So basically Murrica, The Game?

Lumionous Arc for DS, and Stella Glow for 3DS. Great games, but overshadowed by bigger releases, especially Stella Glow. But a SRPG with dating sim elements on the 3DS, while Fire Emblem exists?

Rune Factory series, especially 3 and 4. The progenitor of the blight that is "games with farming elements", but most people only know Stardew Valley, so RF gets stamped as "anime Stardew", even though it was there way before SV. Heck, RF started to run as "A fantasy Harvest Moon (now known as Story of Seasons)".

Ar Tonelico, especially 1 and 2 for the PS2, were true gems for JRPG fans. The soundtrack is something I'd put on the same level as the Nier games.
 

Bartun

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Drakan: Order of the Flame from 1999. I haven't played a better game to this day. I don't know how it went so unnoticed. :s_frown:
 

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Dwarf Fortress
Age of Wonders (three is my favorite, but the whole series is good)
Dungeons, War for the Overworld, Dungeon Keeper- any of those, but probably not all of them.
God Eater (any of them again)
Xcom (Pretty mainstream, but whatever)
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
Lord of the Rings: Battle For Middle Earth 2 (Also pretty mainstream at this point)
Disney's Treasure Planet: Battle of Procyon (I admit I haven't played it. Just the demo when I was a kid)
Holocure
Tales of Berseria (Again, pretty mainstream, but it's the only tales game I played so... It feels 'hidden')

I unfortunately haven't had a chance to play a lot of game recently, so this stuff is just what was in my steam library.
 
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