Less well known games you want more people to play
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I wouldn't exactly say its an obscure game, but there needs to be more people playing Unreal Tournament. It's sad that the series (and arena shooters in general) haven't been very relevant recently.
Hopefully, Quake Champions will help with reviving the arena shooter genre.
UT 2004 continues to be a fantastic game. However, I tend to recommend Cube 2: Sauerbraten to people, as it has extremely good lag compensation that effectively means you can play with anyone from anywhere.
I'll hold you at Gunpoint if you don't play all of these:
(links = free download, play these NOW)
Iji - a System Shock tribute about a gril surviving an alien invasion
Trilby: The Art of Theft - a Thief tribute about Yahtzee stealing shit with his fedora trilby
Tooth and Tail - an RTS where you're a guy rallying peeps around you (no it's not bad like Brutal Legend)
Teslagrad - you're a lil' guy solving electric/magnetic puzzles, environmental storytelling
Super Crate Box, Luftrausers, Gun Godz, Nuclear Throne... anything by Vlambeer, actiony-arcadey stuff
Sine Mora - a dieselpunk shmup about hungarian furry time-bending jews and nazis from outer space
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse - a comfy retro metroidvania with tiddies
Dust: An Elysian Tail - a hack'n'slash metroidvania that's just really fuckin pretty and fun
Offworld Trading Company - an RTS where instead of fighting, you run an East India Company-type operation on Mars
My Summer Car - vittujen kevät ja kyrpien takatalvi
Intrusion 2 - a physics-based 2D shooter, probably the best boss fights in existence
Full Bore - a puzzle metroidvania about a cute boar that digs in dirt
Duck Game - a super fast-paced multiplayer arena improvise-it-up
Door Kickers - Hotline Miami except slowed down and made into a tactical Rainbow Six game
Convoy - FTL meets Mad Max, but more about immediate combat tactics than building the right meta build
Absolute Drift - a buddhist game about learning to drift a car with precision
So many VR indie games lack players, many are free too. Taphouse VR is a worthy mention
Id like to stick a mention in for Ballistic NG, even if all it is is a re-doing of the first three PS1 wipeout games.
Okay but real talk. You. Reading this right now. Play Space Station 13 right now. You won't regret it.
Space Lords/Raiders of the Broken Planet
Fun little f2p pve shooter, but it does have some flaws like no private co-op lobbies and also pretty grindy.
But if you can get 3 other people to play, it can be pretty fun.
Vampyr is a really unique game that's fairly new that I think some people should try - a game where consequences actually matter.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/225139/4729cd69-6c9a-47eb-a3e8-0fc742aa1ba7/Thirdagebox.jpg
Granted, the actual plot is some sort of self-insert fan fiction-tier oddity turned up to eleven, but I was younger and on my personal Peter Jackson's LoTR movies craze at the time, so I still kinda remember the game rather fondly.
Which is even more surprising as I absoluty loathe turn-based roleplaying videogames and this game is full of unspeakably nasty and incredibly sudden difficulty spikes even if there are plenty of abilities and build you can abuse to your advantage (the boss fight pictured on the very cover being the most brutal example)
Know it's late but thanks for mentioning this, bought it instantly.
Klonoa. Cute little side scroller where you end up fighting cosmic horrors by the end, not unlike Kirby
Furi. A beat em up/bullet hell boss rush game with some fantastic bosses and and a great OST worked by a lot of the same people that made Hotline Miamis. If you enjoyed games like MGR or Bayonetta it's well worth it to give it a shot, it has the same "over the top awesome boss fights" from those games but with its own twist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8qjW_SQeCc
Shrek 2. Legit one of the best movie tie-in games I've ever played.
dying light bad blood
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