Less well known games you want more people to play
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Zeno Clash is breddy gud
This game used to be my absolute fucking shit back when it was popular.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/216259/93fe9ebf-7db6-49f6-a2d9-e11305a0c74b/image.png
It's a real shame that it's (nearly) dead population-wise, I made countless good experiences with this game and I really miss it.
Hexen 2. It's Quake engine and open source so it could so easily get all the mapping and modding enhancements made for Quake but so few people play it that there's no demand for it.
It would be such a good base for gameplay overhauls and RPG mods and all kinds of stuff
Not really sure if you'd really consider this a game but I really like it.
Choice of Robots: Interactive sci-fi novel based around your robots and how they will change the world. I think the story development and settings is fantastic, and there is plenty of replay-ability to explore different story arcs and the impacts of your different decisions. Plenty of pop-culture references for those who like these things as well.
Angels Fall First
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l73nvWCXzQE
God, this game is like SWBattlefront 2 and Battlefield 2142 combined, so fucking good.
Playing Alice 1 right now. Think I just found my new favorite series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkkBh6aN9Sg
Alpha Protocol is fantastic. One of the few games where your choices really do affect the story
Lakeview Cabin Collection. I think that would be a good one considering its packed full of jump scares for first-time players and it's also a good laugh.
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this is my childhood right here, I've spent so many hours playing this when I was younger
Albino Lullaby isn't exactly less well known, but I haven't met too many people who have actually given it a try. It's basically a more explicitly horror oddworld-esque game with a wicked dark sense of humor. The game is episodic and the devs are taking their sweet ass time making each episode, so that may be why people have lost interest or never checked it out.
Zeno Clash is neat too
All my free time has been going to Descenders, it's a downhill mountain biking game with procedurally generated levels. Next week they are adding a new area/biome: a volcano.
Made a thread a little while back for it with some more info: Descenders
If you want to end up suffering from both an existential crisis and depression at the same time, check out SOMA. Its best you go in completely blind, and be warned that it's a walking simulator with a few monsters sprinkled every now and then, but the storyline alone drove me to keep pushing through and left me feeling absolutely horrible throughout the entire experience, and it was glorious.
The Surge is another Souls-like from the makers of Lords of the Fallen, which I've never played but everything I've read about makes it seem like you either fall in love with it or despise it as a spawn of Slaanesh that should be burnt at the stake, and The Surge has the same reputation. The combat and controls can be terribly clunky and the difficulty transitions about as much subtlety as a freight-train smashing through your house at mach speed, but if you actually manage to adapt and not gnaw your hands off at the wrist out of frustration, it can be a quite enjoyable experience IMO. Although, that's if you're willing to endure dying 50 times trying to make sense of the combat, which as I've said before can be VERY unruly and mind-numbing.
Kero Blaster, no idea why it isn't more well known, considering it was made by the same guy who created Cave Story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej2AtlVNvjM
Brigador, Isometric mech game with challenging gameplay and a kick ass soundtrack. (also a cool audio book if you're into that)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDe05fV6Rv0
Doki Doki Literature Club is surprisingly good, but not for everybody. You gotta go in blind, that's for sure.
Like I said it's not for everybody.
I uninstalled after Yuri looks at you with the realistic eyes
Yeah that's understandable, it only gets crazier after that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omdm7p6ZpkE
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The earliest game I can remember playing that had copious amounts of gore.
Good times
Mount & blade series
Does the game based on the Peter Jackson King Kong movie count as "less well known"? Because I'd definitely recommend it. PC port's a pile of crap, but Amazon sells a DRM-free version of it. Once you re-kajigger it with the help of pcgamingwiki it's a blast. Just like the movie, though, it's not as fun once you hit New York, but that section's only two short levels so it evens out.
I'd also ask people to at least try Trespasser: Jurassic Park for funsies. It is not a good game by any stretch of the imagination but I still have fun with it in spite of (or maybe because of?) it's quirks. Lord Richard Attenborough reprising his role as John Hammond for the last time is worth going through this game for, especially if you get the secret ending where he reads Percy Bysshe Shelly's "Ozymandias".
Fistful of Frags
The 2006 starship troopers game is fun, too bad its abadonware.
you can still pick it up on myabandonware
as for steam i want to see more people play ground branch, its like the OG ghost recon and OG rainbow six had a baby. its also made by the same developers
of both!
TTT should be stand-alone and the whole concept more popular almost like battle royael
Seconded. It really has a ways to go in regards to feel though. Something's just off with the way guns behave.
Regardless, if you're a fan of either or both the games Pavlov mentions, it's worth a go. You got Capital v Capital space battles - Those capitals being player/bot-crewed, mobile, controllable ships - with all manner of smaller Cruisers, Destroyers, Corvettes and Strike-Craft that are all playable. You can even take a dropship, board the enemy capital ship and destroy its subsystems from the inside, steal a fighter from its bay and escape.
That's not all though, there's ground battles that play something like BF3's Rush (With 1-4 objectives in play at a time, but each set must be tackled before moving on to the next) and has Jeeps, APCs, Tanks and Gunships for each side, and infantry-only Domination-style modes on the same map.
Some Space maps feature both (minus the vehicles). The battle starts out in space, with the attackers destroying key structures and completing objectives before landing in the defenders' space station, while the defenders are still launching fighters and bombers to take out the attacker's capital ship. It's a blast.
Another game it compares to somewhat is Eternal Silence, an old HL2 mod, but that's closer to Battlefront 2 in how its space battles played out, more focused on the space combat and lacking any crewed ships except the fighters/bombers.
Anyway, I came here to talk about
S P A C E B E A S T T E R R O R F R I G H T
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR8pSBCb1tY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRtmmHDuSWI
shit dog I was going to bring that game up.
like I got my xbone for gears of war and halo and I saw this game neat looking for five bucks and I thought "oh hey this should be a whirl"
then like hours later I am all "WOAOAAAHHHHHHHH". Seriously, this was me right here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9O6U0eiqeM
totally unrelated to my background image but ittle dew 1 and 2 is an adorable top down puzzle game pls play
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