Obscure Games?

[Anonymous No.4811678]

What are some obscure games that you would recommend, /vr/? And when I use the term "obscure," I don't mean games that used to be obscure but are relatively well-known nowadays (such as LSD Emulator, for example). I'm talking about games that are obscure on the level of "One small advertisement was made for this, and less than a thousand people bought it".

[Anonymous No.4811684]

Preferably, outside the realm of shareware or existing before 1990.

[Anonymous No.4812764]

Eastern Mind is made by the same dude who made LSD, but it's actually a good game

There was also a game called Project Cerebus I played years and years ago, it's a weird M&M 6 clone but in a modern setting, I think it's available online somewhere. I'm also pretty sure Saint Timmy had a playthrought of it

[Anonymous No.4812798]

>>4811678
Outbound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BxXWQkThhg

U.R.B.A.N. The Cyborg Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq2r9zO1LdQ

SideLine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM5XD7I0_5c

Dark War 1 & 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQsUtU7BfCw

[Anonymous No.4812858]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEqIO3Zet-o

[Anonymous No.4812863]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axDNNQJkrpA

[Anonymous No.4812867]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKAECEVizz4

[Anonymous No.4813118]

[Anonymous No.4813121]

[Anonymous No.4813161]

>>4812764
Eastern Mind is more known than LSD, and is incredibly popular
Don't post popular games

[Anonymous No.4813165]

>its an Accursed Farms thread
awesome.

[Anonymous No.4813215]

>>4812798
Oh my NIGGER, I've been looking for the name of Darkwar for ages!

[Anonymous No.4813309]

>>4812798
>>4813215
Someone else played Darkwar? Fuck yes, I remember getting these in the Retro Gamer Magazine coverdiscs and playing the shit out of them. Just found them years later and installed them again.

[Anonymous No.4813317]

>>4813161
>More known than LSD

Where, in Japan?

[Anonymous No.4813323]

>>4813317
In Ãmerica. Look it up on youtube and you get multiple million views videos

[Anonymous No.4813391]

>>4812764
That thing has DSL's

[Anonymous No.4813404]

theme to this thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr5FUY0qQvM&list=PLOxFyCVa6u1v9GlLFhk8bs9Cj6OnGAtI7

[Anonymous No.4813413]

When I was a kid, I came home one day from a dentist's appointment to find my brother playing this game. I didn't understand what was going on, and I don't think he really did either, but I found the idea quite cool. I had forgotten the name of it up until a few months ago. In retrospect, it looks kind of shitty and depressing, but I haven't really seen it talked about anywhere, aside from a couple of relatively small Youtube channels.

[Anonymous No.4813626]

>when having 5 CDs was a FEATURE in your videogame back in the 90's

[Anonymous No.4813890]

Yoyo puzzle park on ps1

[Anonymous No.4813930]

I bet you brainlets can't get this running.

[Anonymous No.4813946]

easily one of the most fucked up games I have ever played. Really disturbing and spooky

[Anonymous No.4814018]

>>4813323
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[Anonymous No.4814112]

>>4811678
FMV garbage, but cool soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhomM2Qu9Ic

[Anonymous No.4814135]

Games made my Bloodlust Software.

[Anonymous No.4814328]

>>4814018
>129k views
>Not popular

[Anonymous No.4814332]

>>4813946
What's fucked up about it? Looks like a encyclopedia based dealie to me

[Anonymous No.4814424]

>>4814328
>129k views
>over 1 million views

[Anonymous No.4814437]

>>4813161
Weird, this is the first time I've seen Eastern Mind posted here (or even heard about it). LSD gets mentioned across multiple boards all the time.

[Anonymous No.4814468]

>>4812764
>Project Cerebus
Sounds interesting, but I cant find it anywhere.

[Anonymous No.4814512]

no clue how good just remember my uncle telling us we couldn't play it. we we're like 5.

[Anonymous No.4814523]

>>4812863
the music in this game was god tier

[Anonymous No.4814531]

I mention Horde: Northern Wind in most obscure game threads. There is some information about it on the web but it seems to be largely unknown outside of Russia, and even here I don't know anyone who's played it.

It's a Warcraft: Orcs and Humans clone but with two unique features: it's based on slavic mythology and has an open-world campaign where you can move freely between different maps.

[Anonymous No.4814535]

Any of Ska Software's old games back when they were known as Totally Screwed Software.

Now Ska Software is pretty dang popular with the whole Dishwasher and Salt and Sanctuary games. But a while ago (early 2000's) they also made some badass games too. Blood Zero is a zelda-like RPG but instead of fantasy it's all crust punks blowing up zombies and cops and shit. Zombie Smashers X is like river city ransom but with 500 powerups and lots of gore. Survival Crisis Z is probably their most popular old game. It's an abysmally dark zombie apocalypse sandbox game that actually doesn't suck, is actually creepy and moody, and is actually finished with a real ending.

You can find Survival Crisis Z on the internet but Blood Zero and Zombie Smashers X have all but fallen off of the surface of the earth. I can upload my full registered copies if anyone cares.

http://www.i-mockery.com/game-features/bloodzero/default.php

[Anonymous No.4814564]

[Anonymous No.4814567]

>>4814437
You must not have been around a few years back.
There was a group dedicated to tracking down everything that guy released. They had at least one anon actually in Japan helping find stuff out.

[Anonymous No.4814586]

>>4814567
https://www.reddit.com/r/OsamuSato/

[Anonymous No.4814594]

>>4812858

[Anonymous No.4814602]

>>4812858
I got that on some floppy compilation of games together with Fury of the Furries, some game where you navigated a couple of furballs in a puzzle maze similar to Heartlight, and I think S.C.OUT.

[Anonymous No.4814674]

>>4814535
>I-mockery
Holy shit that takes me back
And yes, I would very very much appreciate it if you were to upload those, especially blood zero

[Anonymous No.4814745]

>>4813946
Not really a game but still pretty awesome. Still wish I could find the Japanese version.

[Anonymous No.4814772]

>>4814535
>Ska Software used to be Totally Srewed
Holy shit dude what

[Anonymous No.4814837]

>>4814535
>I can upload my full registered copies if anyone cares.
Please do

[Anonymous No.4815401]

>>4814535
Interested too!
I hate when games disappear from the internet...

[Anonymous No.4816174]

>>4813161
>Eastern Mind is more known than LSD
You're fucking delusional. LSD is prime let's player bait.

[Anonymous No.4816239]

Deadly Rooms of Death, or DROD. The best puzzle games no one knows about due to nonexistent marketing. They even survived to steam. Start with Gunthro or King Dugan's dungeon.

[Anonymous No.4816241]

>>4814531
why does this look like HoMM, especially the thumbnail

[Anonymous No.4816243]

>>4813161
Literally never heard of it

[Anonymous No.4816250]

>>4816239
I've heard of it, because the developer, Webfoot, made some of the DBZ games for the GBA.

[Anonymous No.4816262]

The Adventures of Maddog Williams in the Dungeons of Duridian

Awesome comfy DOS adventure with some action rpg elements. It become a victim of obscurity since it was originally programmed it for the Atari ST and they couldn't get any publisher interest; by the time they ported it to PC (1992), publishers felt the game was too dated. Then when they decided to self-publish through shareware, whoever they hired to take orders through a 1-800 number suddenly disappeared. I somehow got a copy of the shareware version as a kid but could never remember the long ass name until I randomly came across it again recently. It's a genuinely great little game that reminds me of that game Tom Hanks is playing at the beginning of the movie Big.

The original dev still runs a website where he hosts a preconfigured dosbox version of the game and some background biography.

[Anonymous No.4816264]

>>4816239
DROD RPG is also great if you want a colossal resource management puzzle.

[Anonymous No.4816315]

>>4816262
sequel neverever

[Anonymous No.4816330]

>>4812798
holy fuck i played an outbound demo, kick ass music

[Anonymous No.4816493]

Ayy lmao

[Anonymous No.4818637]

>>4814535
You alive anon?

[Anonymous No.4818898]

>>4814535
Yep I'm alive! Sorry about that! Uploading my registered copies now.

[Anonymous No.4818924]

>>4818898
>>4814674
>>4814837
>>4815401
>>4818637
>>4818898
Alright, I made a big old Google Drive folder containing the 3 Totally Screwed games that I have.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XD2EcUoPDmEvcmOkApsauWp_knur3RUV

Included with each game, as well as floating around in the folder, is the installation package for Visual Basic 6 runtime, which I had a HELL of a time trying to find on the internet stand-alone. I was sick yesterday so all I did was stay at home trying to hunt that shit down. You'll need to install that to play any of the games.

So far, Blood Zero and Survival Crisis Z are the only games to run basically flawlessly on my computer, aside from very slight cosmetic issues, like tile alignment being slightly off on shadows. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit. Zombie Smashers X fucks up when drawing the sprites, but everything else seems fine, so you might have better luck with a virtual machine running Windows XP. Compatibility mode does fuck-all.

I have tried numerous hooker apps and none of them force the games into windowed with any luck. Also none of the games react very well to alt-tabbing. Just an early PC games thing to deal with! Be sure to save before you alt-tab in any of the games.

Also included, free of charge, are unlocked cheats for most of the games, as well as some of my my saved games in Blood Zero that I can't figure out how to delete.

I do remember Totally Screwed having a few more games that they made. One was a platformer where you controlled Yuki (who appears in Blood Zero as a party member), a vampire ninja who could devour civilians for health and leap 50 feet in the air and all sorts of other cool shit. I can't remember if they made any other games, but if someone wants to go on a digital quest, there's something.

Glad to see people are interested in resurrecting dead games! Warms my heart. Spread these games and upload them wherever you can, because they are simply too good to be forgotten.

[Anonymous No.4818935]

>>4818924
Also it should be noted that if anyone wants SCZ advice that game was basically my LIFE during middle school so we might have to make a separate thread for that because it's just so, so, so good.

[Anonymous No.4818976]

>>4811678
The Last Eichhof is an adver-game made by a beer company in Germany in 1993. It is legitimately one of the best 2D vertical shoot 'em ups ever. It is also freeware, so you have no excuse for not playing it immediately. You'll need DOSBox, but it should run fine.

[Anonymous No.4818979]

>>4811678
>>4812764
Speaking of which, how the fuck do you even get LSD running? Is there an easy download that comes with an emulator and everything set up already?

[Anonymous No.4818982]

>>4818979
Not that hard. Just need a PSX emulator, BIOS image, and LSD image or rom.

[Anonymous No.4819009]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMCoNXlWRks

Zeddas 3/Labyrinthe has been found, and apparently since quite a long time. The guy who had a copy of the game and ripped it was an asshole and never shared it publicly, only on a private torrent site and threatened to stop uploading obscure games if someone shared them, but the guy never uploaded anything more obscure in a long time so some guy shared it anyway.

[Anonymous No.4820023]

Now I don't know much about this game but it looked a lot like FF8 however it was a horror game(Not parasite eve or anything square related, possibly anyways) you walked around in like hospitals and shit and it was more of an adventure type of game you could drive around and see fucked up shit when you explored these buildings.

[Anonymous No.4820039]

>>4814332
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FrW54npKP0w&t=0s&index=12&list=PL4AF6D68AF243DB8

It's gore is pretty bizarre, helps that the game is pretty weird as is.
>>4820023
Do you mean D? Horror adventure game that takes place in a hospital.

[Anonymous No.4820221]

>>4818924
Thank you anon

[Anonymous No.4820229]

Despite its flaws, I loved this one.

[Anonymous No.4820232]

>>4820039
Christ, what the fuck is this game? It's so eerie.

[Anonymous No.4820243]

>>4818924
Alternative links:

https://anonfile.com/Cdg5L2e4bf/VB6_Full_Runtime_Setup.exe

https://anonfile.com/E8g5L4ebb2/Blood_Zero.zip

https://anonfile.com/F5gdLee8b5/SCZ.zip

https://anonfile.com/Idg0Lbedb5/ZSX.zip

[Anonymous No.4820251]

>>4820243
Thanks dude!

I also found the original installation executable files if anybody wants a totally clean install. It's in the google drive folder but here's some alt links as well:

https://anonfile.com/O9g0L3ebb2/zsx1.exe

https://anonfile.com/N0gaL4e5b2/scz.exe

https://anonfile.com/Pdg0Lfecb9/bloodzero.exe

[Anonymous No.4820286]

>>4820232
It's more of a sort of non linear adventure game that uses Japanese mythology, religion, amd philosophy.

Interestingly this is known as the only game Roger Ebert, who disliked games, reviwed and enjoyed.

[Anonymous No.4820445]

>>4816493
Holy shit this game, playing this as a kid was one fucking hellish experience. Never finished it though.

[Anonymous No.4821173]

>>4819009
>Zeddas release
Good job you fuckwits, now literally nothing is going to be found for the next 20 years or so. Don't underestimate the power of an autistic rich kid with too much free time, he's gonna hide literally every game

Should have just uploaded it to archive.org on the down low

[Anonymous No.4821215]

>>4820286
It's funny, Ebert was apparently obsessed with TMNT for NES for a bit.
https://kotaku.com/5721837/roger-eberts-past-game-addiction-made-him-sad

"I got one of these sets (NES) at home, and I started playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with it. And after a while, after a week of this, I'd find that every time I had a spare moment and every time I came home, I was in front of the set playing with these mutant turtles."

Continuing, Ebert said, "It got to the point where it was making me quite unhappy, because I was so obsessed with it, and I finally unplugged the machine and said, 'That's it for Nintendo.'" Ebert added that his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game was so hypnotic and so repetitive that he didn't think it was good for his mental health. While he apparently quit Nintendo cold turkey, Ebert did review a PC game in 1994."

[Anonymous No.4821376]

>>4820251
Thanks mate!

[Anonymous No.4821630]

>>4814564
I always loved the intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ulSQT_ANE

Just imagine this being played with real instruments, having live footage of blooming forests and fields, and then the tone suddenly drop into dark and gloomy with nightmarish apocalyptic visions like in the beginning of Terminator 2.

[Anonymous No.4821638]

Probably not super duper obscure, but it's a game I never hear anyone talk about. It's not particularly good, but it has lots of charm and heart to it. The biggest flaws of this game are the obviously rushed and unfinished sections, lots of red herring that is obviously unintentional. This game reminds me of Deus Ex in many way, except for the obvious shooting and killing which this game has none of. You walk around in strange city at night, the streets are empty, and you're clicking on things in first person perspective.
I wish there were more first person adventure games.

[Anonymous No.4823210]

>>4812764
>>4814468
Please tell me more about this Project Cerebus

[Anonymous No.4823218]

>>4814468
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrhb3v5s1N0

[Anonymous No.4823547]

>>4813626
they were pulling sean murray before sean murray made it popular - it felt like an amazing bargain for having hundreds and thousands of floppy disks worth of data capacity for the price of just one game, even if it was read only.

[Anonymous No.4823553]

>>4821638
let's set up a rule - if it's available for purchase today (on Steam/GOG), then it's not obscure enough.

>Probably not super duper obscure, but it's a game I never hear anyone talk about.
because it's shit (or at least, generally accepted as such)

[Anonymous No.4823597]

>>4823218
looks like shit

[Anonymous No.4823601]

>>4823553
I mean, yeah it isn't labyrinthe or anything but cmon it's pretty obscure

Also most very obscure games are shit, there's a reason they weren't popular

[Anonymous No.4823703]

>>4823601
>most very obscure games are shit
Pop ! isn't shit! Airxonix ain't shit as well, but i've literally never seen anybody mentioning any of the two

[Anonymous No.4823779]

The Sword Quest RPG duology on PC is pretty damn obscure. Before we crack open the Pandora's Box that is endless DOS shareware titles and flood this thread with crappy Ultima and Sokoban clones nobody cares about, I mention these two games because they are very specifically Dragon Quest clones made for PC, which makes them very unique amongst PC titles. How often do you run into western-made JRPGs in this era?

They're actually not bad either, except the enemy power ramp is fucked on random encounters in the first game. You have to really work around it if you want to succeed. The second is a much better experience, and is open world too.

[Anonymous No.4823790]

>>4816493
>>4820445
friendly reminder that the creator of this game killed his wife, his doggos, then himself

[Anonymous No.4823795]

Addictive game ahead of its time.
I don't see it ever posted here.

[Anonymous No.4823801]

>>4823795

[Anonymous No.4823940]

"The Game of Robot" is a series of puzzle/adventure/rpg hybrids from Germany that are sort of like ZZT with actual graphics.
They had a small cult following back in the day and are baffingly still commercially available on the devs website.

[Anonymous No.4824001]

Some news on phil's mental health leave:
https://obscuritory.com/uncategorized/temporary-leave/

[Anonymous No.4824021]

Titanic: Adventure Out of Time. It's a point and click adventure game where you can't stop the sinking but there's a conspiracy on board and you might be able to prevent a few world wars.

[Anonymous No.4824241]

>>4814745
I'd definitely play the original version

[Anonymous No.4824260]

Warrior Dragon, DQ1 freeware clone: http://www.lumental.com/wdragon.html

I didn't think it was very obscure but I can only find a couple of YouTube videos with a few hundred views and some shitty background music instead of the real one.

[Anonymous No.4824584]

>Armed & Delirious
I feel nauseous even thinking about that game

[Anonymous No.4824641]

What's a good starter list for these obscure games? What should I check out first, and what are some experiences you can't find in any other game?

[Anonymous No.4824672]

>>4824641
Check out Osamu Sato's game, specifically Eastern Mind and it's sequl.. Look up the intro to the game and you'll see what sets it apart from other games.

LSD is fine too I guess

[Anonymous No.4824674]

>>4824672
Yeah, I've been playing Eastern Mind

[Anonymous No.4824707]

Roly Poly's release when?
I need me some THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG

[Anonymous No.4824710]

>>4824674
Armed and Delirious is a lovely game

[Anonymous No.4824740]

>>4816262
If you didn't play this out of love for Hugo's House of Horrors then you haven't lived.

[Anonymous No.4825602]

bump

[Anonymous No.4826105]

>>4824641
Hugo's house of horrors
Normality
Cosmology of Kyoto
Project Cerberus
Worlds.com
Roly Polys

[Anonymous No.4826179]

>>4821638
there are two dubs, usa and british, only one is available

[Anonymous No.4826331]

>>4826179
What are you talking about It's possible to find both, I think GOG only has one though

Get the british dub though, the american dub for the main character made me want to stick needles in my ear, he's so fucking unbearably obnoxious it's ridiculous

[Anonymous No.4826376]

>>4811678
Try Steel Saviour. It was a spanish (i think) R-Type-type SHMUP that even got f cjuple of positive reviews but ultimately i don't remember anyone talking about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXxNZJkRNlA

[Anonymous No.4826380]

>>4826331
The murican voice actor is Corey Feldman. I heard many people prefer the american version and say it's the superior release, but I also think it was way too obnoxious. The british voice acting is great, the voice of Kent has charm and sounds like a realistic 90s slacker with just the right amount of cartoonish tone to it.
The american dub goes way too overboard with the 90s radicool attitude.

[Anonymous No.4826385]

>>4814135
I remember that one fightan of theirs having pretty impressive blood effects and framerate for DOS game.

[Anonymous No.4826428]

>>4814531
It had a weird hot seat mode where players take turns playing for a limited time. I remember the rumors that it was built in Assembler and still have CD somewhere.
Another obscure russian one: Пpoтивocтoяниe/Ostfront/Counter Action

[Anonymous No.4826457]

>>4823703
Pop! was good and i liked it, but game being shit is quite usually the reason for it to be forgotten.
t. different anon.

[Anonymous No.4826672]

We should really extend a hand to someone like Clint from LGR to get a hand in getting games like Roly Polys, I'm sure his e-celeb ""status"" and money will help us a bit

The guy does like weird edutainment shit

[Anonymous No.4826779]

>>4826376
this looks like my type of game, thanks

[Anonymous No.4828663]

bump

[Anonymous No.4828857]

>>4811678
Outcast is one of the deepest action-adventure experiences in gaming. An absolute must play if you're into 3D adventure games.

[Anonymous No.4828864]

>>4811678
Crime Cities is basically flying a car around the city from Blade Runner, but without an official Blade Runner license.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm3EuZlsJH0

[Anonymous No.4828942]

>>4813323
No you won't.

[Anonymous No.4828971]

>>4811678
OP gets all pissy about people posting Eastern Mind.... fucking starts thread with Armed & Delirious.

What a cuck.

[Anonymous No.4830118]

>>4828971
What?
What are you on about?