Tell me what is the most recent game that you played that could be considered obscure to the average person. For me it would have to be cdda/cataclysm:Dark Days Ahead. This screenshot was made by me if you’re wondering.
Cataclysm on Lemmy? Hell yeah, shout out to Rycon one of like 3 total Cataclysm content creators. As for obscure games I’ve played…
I guess it’s more of a sub genre but the rhythm + other game genre like for example the most popular being Hi-Fi Rush and Crypt of the Necrodancer. But have you heard of Metal Hellsinger or BPM: Bullets Per Minute? All excellent games in my opinion that take a game genre like in BPM’s case the rougelike genre and changes things up by mixing it in with rhythm game mechanics.
I just played through Dark Messiah of Might and Magic and it was really good. Sold less than 500k copies. Fuck the entire catacombs though.
Levelhead is essentially the “Mario Maker on PC” people have been begging for and it released with 0 fanfare. The game is amazing and the devs put a lot of effort into it (including a ~10 hour campaign) but it just never got that many players.
There’s still a ton of fantastic levels and a semi-active community, the game is a lot of fun, but in terms of most underrated games it’s definitely up there.
Sounds interesting, looked it up and it’s already in my library, must have been in a bundle. Check out N++, it’s an excellent platformer with thousands of levels as well as online scoreboard/replays and level creation/sharing: https://store.steampowered.com/app/230270/N_NPLUSPLUS/
I do like N++ but I think it’s a bit too minimalist for me. The levels all blend together and there isn’t that much variety.
Vagrus - The Riven Realms.
Essentially it’s Oregon Trail game in fantasy world. But effectively, it consists of many different genres. There’s caravan management, choice making, strategy, tactical combat, profit making, cRPG… It’s highly complicated, challenging but also very fun.
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You might also enjoy bitburner which is free on steam. It’s a JavaScript based hacking game with a focus on automation.
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Shadows of Forbidden Gods - a map-based strategic game where you play as an Old God seeking to destroy the world. You mostly interact with the world through your agents and the forces of good will seek to stop you so you need to sow chaos and strife in the world, cause war, plague, famine and death to keep heroes occupied until you bring about the end.
The UI is… not good. But the game ends up being really fun anyway and there is a good payoff of seeing long laid plans come to fruition.
Super hydelide, what a ride
TIS-100. I saw a friend play it and got it shortly afterwards. Essentially, you have a bunch of small compute units with a few available instructions each that can pass data to adjacent ones and have to solve “puzzles”, which are essentially assembly programming assignments. Despite the game being rather new, distributed e.g. via steam and gog, all you get is a full screen console line interface to code in. I love it.
All of the Zachtronics games are great.
I’ve been playing this game called crop duster with the fam
You try to sneak up behind them and fart and leave without them even knowing you were in the room. If they even catch you in the room or if you don’t drop a SBD you lose a point. The goal of the game is to get them to yell “Dammit who farted!” Speaking of which we should probably start keeping track of points.
