• super_mario_69 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    God damn Sacrifice, it was an RTS-esque third-person wizard game from 2000 or so. I remember the story and voice acting being quite good, and everything in that game being extremely weird looking. You could pick your god (thunder, fire, stone, life, and death IIRC) and they all had different spells and minions. You needed souls to summon minions, and you could get more souls by battling the other wizards’ minions and stealing their souls, by having some strange dudes with giant syringes take the souls and perform a ritual at one of your altars. The highest level spells were fucking awesome too, if you played as a fire wizard you could summon a giant god damn volcano on the battlefield. The goal was to sacrifice one of your minions at an enemy wizards main altar, and banish them from the realm (i.e. eliminate them from the game).

    And holy fuck I’ve also just been informed that this game is available on Steam, brb

      • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        It’s a fun little look at a non-Pokemon game from Gamefreak. Note, it suffers from Sega anti-rental difficultly at some points towards the end so save states and rewind is advised.

        It also has the most voice clips I’ve ever heard from a Mega Drive game. They’re so crunchy and the good kind of cheesy (IMO)

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    Blackwake. Super fun and unique team gameplay if you’re lucky enough to join a server that isnt overrun with toxic gamers. or if you’re lucky enough to play at all, since the game has been abandoned for a few years now and it’s pretty much dead in terms of playercount. In my opinion though, it could’ve grown to become a truly incredible and timeless game if it weren’t abandoned by the developer and left proprietary in an unfinished state so fans can’t pick up development.

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    Oh! I forgot my other one. Threads of Fate for the PS1! Very fun little Action RPG by Square. Didn’t make much of a splash. God I miss when big companies made small games like that :(

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    Egypt: Old Kingdom

    ancient egypt simulator. 4x strategy game where you start as a couple guys on the banks of the nile river and soon create the Egyptian Old Kingdom and all of the various monument that came with it, featuring some very in depth history lessons on the side

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    Metal Warriors is a fantastic SNES mecha side scroller where you pilot various types of mechs which you get hop in and out of (some parts of levels can only be accessed with your little jetpack guy) and it has split screen multiplayer pvp which I used to play on an emulator over an ip connection with my friend on dial up like 20+ years ago.

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    Bombe is a game where instead of playing Minesweeper you program a Minesweeper-solving AI.

    Space Trains is a nice puzzle/strategy thing about trains in space (probably costs more than it should though).

    Bumbler Bee-luxe is a fantastic arcade style action game, but it was for Mac OS 8 and the emulators for that suck to set up.

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      Bumbler Bee-luxe

      I have (very vague) memories of playing this one on my IMac. Very much a memory unlocked moment.

      I’ll wishlist the other two. Thanks!

      Also owls are very good at answering this thread.

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    Definitely i’m not the only one who played them, but few niche ones from the top of my head:

    • Yao Guai Hunter - Chinese version of Slay the Spire in supernatural Wuxia climates, imo better than StS.
    • Omensight - It’s unusual for me to recomment action game, but this one is exceptional
    • Shortest Trip to Earth - like FTL but better in all aspects
    • Tale of Immortal - a full fledged Chinese xianxia webnovel experience. No shitting, if you ever read one of them and got the itch it’s were you go to scratch it.
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    I invented a sort of solitaire that I play with the Cardcaptor Sakura clow cards where I have 4 columns and one must place and migrate cards that share 2 or more letters in their name. The goal is to deal out the columns with 0 (free space), 1, 2, then 3 cards, top are face up, and the rest gets (around 10 cards) placed in a pile and revealed one-by-one until all the cards are placed on the columns or else it’s a lose state. The deck consists of 50-something cards cards (minus the “jump” card which no other card shares 2 letters with) and is divided into 4 piles of 15-6 (i forget) for each round of this (prior to dealing). You win the game if you win 3 rounds out of 4.

    I call it Clowitaire.