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Which PC game had an island surrounded by swamps, skeletons, pinkish giants and huge spiders?
Game Mechanics: This is a third-person perspective game (similar to this) that I played about 10 years ago. The main character is initially placed in a small island surrounded by swamps. The tasks are ...
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Game identification from scene: two soldiers forget that they're enemies while in a dungeon
I'm looking for an old fantasy computer RPG that I played in the 90s and only remember from a particular dungeon. The party is trapped in a magical labyrinth (could be a psychic prison), where they ...
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PC game about a boy that uses a magic book while exploring different planets
I played this game when I was a kid so I probably misremember some of the details. What I do remember is that this boy wakes up and gets this enchanted book as a gift or something and throughout the ...
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Tandy CoCo 2 Game involving managing a set of shops in a fantasy world
I have, unfortunately, forgotten a lot of these details, but somewhere in the late 1980s to the early 1990s (we got the computer in mid elementary school, and I'm pretty sure this was before high ...
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PC game involving a dungeon, deadly traps, and a clockwork/robot girl
Somewhere around 8-10 years ago (around 2008-2010), I downloaded a number of Japanese games and tried to get them working on my machine. One of them, which came to mind recently, I never got working, ...
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Seeking 90s game about flying in high speeds down a valley or trench
This was a game of the 90s, early 3D, most likely before Descent. It was NOT Terminal Velocity, which had 360o control; instead, in this game you could only strafe left or right (and maybe reduce ...
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Game identification in which the human protagonist gets infected by an alien green virus, eventually giving Hulk-like powers
I am starting a video-game remembrance series with my father. After recalling Inca, Discworld and still looking for other that I might ask for here, we have looked a lot for this one to no avail. ...
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Early 2000s sf game with kangaroo-like enemies
Late 1990s or early 2000s (not later than 2005) PC game (could be console as well, I played on PC).
Set in a Sci-fi setting. Shooter. If I remember correctly 1st person.
I only remember what I think ...
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Video game based around the Turing test where optional information says that you never interacted with any humans to begin with
A friend and I are looking for a video game based around the Turing test, where you can find or discover an audiolog or text or something (not sure) that reveals that the whole time there were no ...
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Looking for a puzzle game for young children
I am trying to find a game again I played as a young child. I played it roughly in 1992-1994 in Germany on Windows 3.1 from a floppy disk. I was around 4 years old.
Here is what I still remember:
It ...
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2000s-2010s RPG Maker zombie survival game (not combat-oriented)
I downloaded this three-part zombie RPG somewhere in 2015 or 2016. No idea how old it could have been. It was in 2D, probably made with RPG Maker, and I think I downloaded it on itch.io, so likely an ...
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Old PS2 or O.G. Xbox video game where a sorcerer takes control of armor
PS2 or O.G. Xbox game:
Sorcerer has to take control of knight's armor that is on display to use to get across a bridge.
The first mission starts off in a battle; you play as knight then though the ...
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Early-to-mid 2000s PC game about a monster hunter with a strange staff
Some time time ago, probably in the early- to mid-2000s, I played a demo of a video game. It was on PC, in a third-person over-the-shoulder perspective with what was probably pretty good 3D graphics ...
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Video game for PS4 with anime transforming military girls fighting against robots
In 2017-ish, I came across a Hack-and-slash video game with Anime-style girls as a budget game on my PS4.
The characters were military girls and they fought robots. They could also transform like they ...
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What is this turn-based, hex-based iOS strategy game? Light-hearted fantasy RTS about wizards and towers
I played a really great turn-based strategy game on iOS several years ago (mid-noughties) and i'm trying to find it again. I can't even see it in my list of previously-downloaded apps (which does show ...
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Finding a BASIC program for teaching middle schools students about environmental science
When I was in seventh grade in Salem, Oregon, one unit in our Life Science class involved playing a game programmed in AppleSoft Basic, about managing a large colony on an alien planet. It was ...
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2000s starship co-op game with ships like red and blue fighter jets and a human-face ship boss on a desert planet and in space
I need help trying to remember an old starship computer game. I wish I could remember how the title screen looked, but it was a co-op game. Player 1 was controlled by mouse, and it was a red fighter ...
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Science fiction game involving a family of aliens on a trip who are separated by an evil guy in a spaceship
I remember being obsessed with this game from 2017-2019. It was a puzzle game that I played in school but I don't think I was allowed to, and it was supposed to be for kids but it was actually really ...
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90s Cyberpunk TV Series or Video Game ID: Hooks for surviving subway passage
I recall, as a kid in the late 90s, seeing a clip on TV showcasing either a live action TV series, or a video game with full-motion video elements, involving a gritty cyberpunk setting.
The scene took ...
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3D PC game where you could build a vehicle to collect containers (and parts) that would allow you to access more difficult areas
About 2010 (maybe earlier) I played a 3D PC game where you needed to navigate around a series of interconnected indoor areas with a range of platforms (at a wide variety of heights), long spindly ...
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Early 2000s pc game identification: Killing alien in a town
I'm looking for a game which I played in the early 2000s. I only remember few things about the gameplay. It's a first person shooter, 3D, PC game where you have to kill aliens (not an alien game or a ...
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1996-2006 Point and Click Website with Arcimboldo Painting Puzzle
Platform: Web
Genre: Puzzle/Point and Click
Original Release: Yes
Estimated year of release: 1996 to 2006
Audience: All. No nudity nor gore. Puzzles were solvable by kids but difficult.
Locale: Text ...
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River City Ransom clone for the Windows PC that included zombies, toxic vomit, and the ability to tear an opponent's heart from their chest
I think I played this in the early 2000s, although the memory isn't firm. It used the large cartoony graphics like River City Ranson, including oversized heads. And, as with that game, you could buy ...
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2010's flash game, either on Discovery/History Channel website
This game was similar to a tower-defense game. The towers however, were in a fixed position and could be controlled by the player/computer/neutral depending on whose resources were occupying the area ...
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Flash game based on the 2004 TV series Lost about staying alive on the island
I'm looking for a flash game which I played on the Internet some time between 2004 and 2010, based on the events of the 2004 TV series Lost.
The idea was that we are one of the survivors of the plane ...
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Old obscure 90s cartoon
There was a cartoon I used to watch as a kid in the 90s that had a featured two boys and I'm pretty sure a girl. They played a VR video game where an UFO would land and they'd go through waves of them....
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Old game - platformer, dinosaurs, woman protagonist
Definitely a PC side scrolling platformer with a female main character. I think she fights dinosaurs but I could be wrong, maybe there are some lizards or big birds.
From the way I remember graphics ...
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Please help me identify this Android party-based turn-based dungeon-crawler
I have played an Android game some time in the past, on one of the phones I previously used that no longer works now, and I want to play this game again.
If I remember correctly, I played this game in ...
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Web game where a boy invents a device that lets him see tiny creatures made of electricity
I remember being a fan of these promotional animations for a web game which I can't find. The plot was that a boy invents a device for reading electricity but instead it allows him to see tiny ...
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Cartoon/puzzle mini games where the objective was to blow up a tower, kill someone etc
I found this franchise when it was around 2002-2006. It just keep stuck in my head until now.
These are some points that I am sure of:
I am sure it was not anime. It is more of like cartoon-style ...
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Short-story about a boy's obsession with a video game about war
I have been searching for so long now for the title of a short-story I read in the late 1990s, I think. Possibly early 2000s. The plot goes along something like this. There is a boy, I think he may ...
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Old pc game featuring a pirate
A game from around 2012 or older where the player controlling a bulky-old pirate in 3rd person. The graphic is not cartoonish. I think its similar with RE 4. In the early gameplay the pirate is inside ...
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Android pixel RPG where, around the midpoint, it's revealed that the world is a simulation for survivors of some disaster
I think I played this around 2010 as a free RPG, possibly via Amazon Gaming (they frequently offered free games, and I went through a rash of "buying" each just to have it in my library). ...
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90s PC space game where the enemies resembled Imperial probe droids
I have been trying to find a 90s pc space game. All I can remember is that your spaceship was in the middle of the screen and enemies that looked like Imperial probe droids. (But they were not and it ...
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Web-based fantasy action game reminiscent of Times of Lore
I was reminded today of a Web-based video game that I think I played about fifteen years ago. It was not that long or that fancy, but I rather enjoyed it. Given the time frame and what I remember ...
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Does anybody remember a Facebook game about a floating island and goblins?
I used to play this game around 2014-15 on Facebook but I neither remember the name nor its main goal. What I do remember is that you appeared on a floating island where a big goblin is standing doing ...
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Soldier vs. Warrior
I remember a conversation between two characters in an RPG a "Soldier"(Lawful good type) and a "Warrior" (neutral-evil type).
I don't know the exact dialog but:
Warrior:
Talks ...