3 little known games that you love and would like to be better known by sharing

[KeldornOfLatria]

1 – My secret tip: The Cat Lady.
It's like a point&click horror adventure.

Nothing great by today's standards, but great atmosphere, many original ideas and only one guy made it.
This game made my girlfriend (who likes horror) play games, because it's easy to control and has a great story.

If you want to play it, don't spoil it by watching videos. It's relatively cheap on GOG.

2 – The Cube Escape Games by Rusty Lake. http://www.rustylake.com/ Most are free : ) The others are worth it if you liked the free ones.

3 – Panzer Dragoon Saga (Sega Saturn) – I own one of these games and even if you can't get it or play it, look it up. Read about it's development. Watch a playthrough. One of the greatest games ever. I still play it when I visit my parents on holidays, it's like a ritual for me.

 

[Draconifors]

The Cube Escape Games by Rusty Lake.

I've looked at that on Steam a few times, but not tried. I have, however, played the trilogy of Rusty Lake games (Hotel, Paradise, and Roots), and would recommend them to anyone who likes games that require a lot of thinking, logic, and also trial and error.

 

[KeldornOfLatria]

I've looked at that on Steam a few times, but not tried. I have, however, played the trilogy of Rusty Lake games (Hotel, Paradise, and Roots), and would recommend them to anyone who likes games that require a lot of thinking, logic, and also trial and error.

If you liked Hotel/Paradise/Roots: The other ones are free on their website, you can play it in flash (I recommend Theater and Birthday). They are all part of the same narrative world.

 

[Iszdope]

1 – My secret tip: The Cat Lady.
It's like a point&click horror adventure.

Nothing great by today's standards, but great atmosphere, many original ideas and only one guy made it.
This game made my girlfriend (who likes horror) play games, because it's easy to control and has a great story.

If you want to play it, don't spoil it by watching videos. It's relatively cheap on GOG.

2 – The Cube Escape Games by Rusty Lake. http://www.rustylake.com/ Most are free : ) The others are worth it if you liked the free ones.

3 – Panzer Dragoon Saga (Sega Saturn) – I own one of these games and even if you can't get it or play it, look it up. Read about it's development. Watch a playthrough. One of the greatest games ever. I still play it when I visit my parents on holidays, it's like a ritual for me.

I LOVE Panzer Dragoon. There is a remake on the Switch.

It still rocks.

 

[InferiorityCX]

...when the true Spock Prime came on with the voice over for the Federation. I couldn't not play it after that. Several days later, and I've come to love the Romulans and their battle cloaks. I'm going to end up spending countless hours on this now.

You also have Zachary Quinto as the new EMH in the Federation Tutorial.
Each faction - Federation, Romulan, Klingon - each have their own individual storylines that merge to form a larger overall storyline. They also tend to crossover a bit here and there. You can also play as TOS-era Federation, Discovery-era Federation and Dominion (boosted level 60 start) and have a dTOS-era Gorn complete with rubber-suit appearance.
There's plenty of famous voices in the game, well-known and little-known alike from all parts of Trek history. Awesome stuff.

 

[KeldornOfLatria]

I LOVE Panzer Dragoon. There is a remake on the Switch.

It still rocks.

Have you played Panzer Dragoon Saga, the RPG?

 

[Iszdope]

Have you played Panzer Dragoon Saga, the RPG?

D'oh! Missed the "Saga" bit. Think I just read Sega twice.

Unfortunately, as I recall, it never made it to us (Australia). If it did, it was in extremely low numbers, as the Saturn flopped pretty hard here & was all but dead by then.

 

[Cargan2016]

3 Kingdoms Of Amalur


A very good RPG that no one has heard of . A great story and great lore that deserved more love from gamers . I have heard of a re make you should check out


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a very good game was 360 exclusive but the remake is not and atleast so far everything in original is in the remake with better graphics im good 1/5th into the ps4 version of remake

 

[Nemo1117]

Terraria

Hard to provide a trailer since the game has been continuously updated for over 9 years.

First trailer:

Final major patch trailer:

Minecraft meets Castlevania is how I would describe it.

I somehow blew 786 hours in this game …

Edit: Just found this somewhat edgy "analysis" :

Factorio

Basically a factory simulator with a bit of survival gameplay on the side. It's really not as complicated as it looks.

Spent 445 hours in it.

No 3rd game

The only other games I can recommend are Skyrim and Witcher 3 which are already very very well known.

Maybe Exapunks if you want a small cyberpunk puzzle game. Downside is that it gets quite hard.

I never completed it. Made it about half way before the puzzles got too involved for my taste - spending nearly an entire day to solve a puzzle I feel is too much. Thought of picking it up again but was too lazy to relearn the assembly language needed to actually play.

 

[vyvexthorne]

Some more oldies I like

Nox I actually remember my PC not being able to run this.

Lionheart I don't think it was well reviewed at the time but I really enjoyed it. (lots of older games seem to have much better reviews now then when they came out.)

Anachronox At the time I was just looking for anything that looked similar to Omikron: The Nomad Soul.. I remember at first being disappointed in it but I no longer remember exactly what I was disappointed about.

 

[lelxrv]

I don't how little or rare these games are, but I never see them in any TOP lists, so there you go. All three are available on GOG, by the way.

1) Lula: The Sexy Empire. Erotic economics simulator from 90s. You need to build your own porn empire. I really like art style.

2) Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders + Heroes. Awesome beat 'em up + real-time tactic game from 15 years ago. Gamepad is highly recommended, because it was designed for OG Xbox. I played these recently and have no nostalgia for them.

3) Harvester. FMV quest from the dinosaur era. I never played it back in the day (thankfully, I was in my early teens at that time) and discovered it only recently, but it's the bloodiest damn thing I've ever experienced in digital space. The story is actually decent for a shlocky B-movie.

 

[Skirlasvoud]

I don't how little or rare these games are, but I never see them in any TOP lists, so there you go. All three are available on GOG, by the way.

1) Lula: The Sexy Empire. Erotic economics simulator from 90s. You need to build your own porn empire. I really like art style.

2) Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders + Heroes. Awesome beat 'em up + real-time tactic game from 15 years ago. Gamepad is highly recommended, because it was designed for OG Xbox. I played these recently and have no nostalgia for them.

3) Harvester. FMV quest from the dinosaur era. I never played it back in the day (thankfully, I was in my early teens at that time) and discovered it only recently, but it's the bloodiest damn thing I've ever experienced in digital space. The story is actually decent for a shlocky B-movie.

I loved Kingdoms under Fire: Heroes. Must've been one of the only tactics game on the original Xbox. I played it a lot and it was hard as bloody nails too.

Lula... ah-hem! Yep.

Looks like we grew up with similar games.

 

[Gillian_Seed]

Not sure how well known they are but they're old so probably not super well known.

Snatcher
Early Hideo Kojima game inspired by Blade Runner.

Xenogears
Incredible PS1 era JRPG every bit as good as FFVII if not better.

Rise of the Dragon
Old point and click style cyberpunk game.

 

[SigilFey]

Just because my libraries are so full of these obscure titles that I can't even keep track of them, here are 3 more:

Delver
A pixel-y, 3D, Action-Roguelite with tons of charm. Easy to play through an entire dungeon run in 1 sitting. You lose all of your items on death, but you keep all of your unspent gold. Cool mechanic. No classes or anything. Just build your character based on whatever gear you find and prefer. (Pretty possible to play whatever you want each run after the first level or two.)

Delver on Steam

Delve into the shifting dungeons on your hunt for the Yithidian orb, but getting it might just be the easy part. Delver is a single player first-person action roguelike dungeon crawler, just like you wished they used to make.

store.steampowered.com

Rodina
A free-form space exploration, combat, and adventure...thing. You can even custom design the internal layout of your ship exactly as you want it. Explore, discover the story as you go, and upgrade your ship with what you find. There's combat in space, in stations, on land, seamless atmospheric re-entry. Kind of like Dark Souls meets Freelancer meets Quake. Totally unique little game.

Rodina on Steam

A single-developer passion project. Seamless full scale solar system / balls-up action. Be part of the journey as a Universe is built from the ground up!

store.steampowered.com

Darkwood
A top-down Horror-Adventure romp. It's got far more psychological horror than cheap jump-scares. Don't want to say too much about the gameplay because that's part of its magic. Normally, I don't care for horror that much (I normally find it either campy or funny), but this game has style.

Save 75% on Darkwood on Steam

Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

store.steampowered.com

 

[2ndSnake]

F-ZERO GX: Ridiculously fast and hard racing game for the GameCube. The story is cheesier than 90's Era Power Rangers, but the gameplay is perfect (and bloody hard). It's part of the F-ZERO series of games that Captain Falcon originates from. To give you an idea of just how fast this game is, watch this video:

(So many rage flashbacks to Story Mode)

Undead Knights: Now, I only played the demo of this game on the PSP, I still played it over and over again. I still remember the feeling I got whenever I grabbed an enemy by the throat and choked him to death with one hand and proceed to watch him rise up as a zombie, nor the feeling of watching enemies get eaten alive as my zombies are ordered to attack him (I am not mentally unstable). Here is a video of some gameplay that I found:

(Sorry for the low quality, this was the only one I could find that shows the zombies eating enemies alive early on, still get that feeling I had from back when I played it)

Gladiator Begins: Again, another PSP game that I only had the demo for. This game feels like the only game where you are an actual gladiator (Ryse: Son of Rome wasn't a "gladiator" game, it was a Roman soldier game) fighting against other gladiators to earn your freedom. You would earn titles for doing certain things (for example, if you wore a mask into enough battles, you would earn a title), and you could buy weapons and armor with your earnings. Here is some gameplay I found:

(Skip to 11:40 if you just want gameplay)

And one for those who want an NSFW game, download Degrees of Lewdity. It's made by Vrelnir and is constantly being updated (something rare for a sex game). To describe it simply: Sex RPG. Here's a link to the main web page.
Degrees of Lewdity
(I'm not going to provide a video for this one for OBVIOUS reasons)

 

[Asad7]

All fromsoftware games for me

 

[227]

It's hilarious to me what some of you think is "little known," but then, I've spent three years digging into some seriously unknown games, so my frame of reference is totally skewed.

Lucah: Born of a Dream

Spoiler: The combat has lots of flashing, so maybe don't watch this if that bothers you

The best soulslike combat system I've ever seen. It looks totally incomprehensible, but there are intentional pauses in combat that give you lots of feedback about what's happening, so your brain learns to parry and dodge before your eyes figure out what you're looking at. It's surreal. The story, meanwhile, is weird and deeply personal, like falling down a Tumblr hole into someone's deepest, darkest thoughts and anxieties. The writing isn't my kind of thing, but it's at least mostly coherent by the time you reach the ending, which is more than can be said of most soulslike games. Lucah's 100% unique, but calling it the precocious lovechild of Bloodborne and Yume Nikki wouldn't be far off the mark.

Malfortune

Spoiler

Here's a game that has no user reviews on Steam despite being quite excellent. It's a twin-stick shooter where you find yourself in a strange world populated by the living incarnations of things like joy, death, war, fear, and time, and you have to beat them all in combat. Then you get to choose whether to kill them in exchange for a useful new power or spare them to try and go for the good ending. Killing them is fascinating, though, because whatever they represent ceases to exist. If you kill joy, the NPCs you occasionally meet between boss fights and (very light) puzzle rooms will be miserable. If you kill fear, no one will feel scared anymore. It's kind of a brilliant concept, and you don't have unlimited bullets like in most twin-stick shooters; you have a dash attack and each successful dash hit replenishes one bullet, so you have to time your dashes well if you want to deal ranged damage.

Of Gods and Men: The Daybreak Empire

Spoiler

If you have fond memories of emulating early Fire Emblem games, then getting frustrated and cheating so that you can brute-force your way through them, then this is definitely the game for you. The gameplay consists of small-scale tactical battles that feel like a simplified Fire Emblem (while using a short timing minigame to determine your damage output and whether you do a critical hit), and then there's an overworld element that forces you to split up your troops in order to conquer your neighbors more effectively. It's not the kind of thing designed to be played forever, but that lack of replayability allows it to be briskly paced.

 

[SuperRigger.808]

System Shock

Quarantine (DOS)

Elvira (Horrorsoft)

 

[Rhyzur]

Very emotional game.

 

[.Vileblood.]

Severance:BoD

Heroes of Might and Magic lll

American Mcgee's Alice