Braid and Trine (both are puzzle games that you can get from steam)

Just so that you know, I am someone who's usually interested in having recommended games to, but if you provide no information at all besides the name then you could just save your breath as I won't bother to find out about the game if it isn't even worth writing a sentence or two.

I just played the first few minutes of Pathologic last night, and it is the most terrifying game I've ever played. I couldn't sleep after playing a few minutes, and I'm not a person who scares easily. Holy shit.

the white tower

An open-source game using an open-source engine (Dead-winter or something).
The game is a point-and-click adventure-mystery-psychological game. Kinda like Myst, but shorter, having an anime art style, and a bit more gory (and frightening). It's comparable also to interactive fiction, e.g. choose-your-own-adventure books.

As far as I know, there are 4 "death" endings resulting in termination of the player's character. There are 2 "completion" endings, one of which is a "good" ending (includes fanservice ;o ) and the other is the "bad" ending.

Use ESC to bring up the save/load/quit menu. Mouse for movement. Right-click objects to interact with them. Move your mouse to the top of the screen to open your inventory. One part of the game will require you to use the keyboard and spacebar (the droid part).

The game is about a girl who finds herself in a coffin and waking up to find herself in a space station, of which is completely abandoned. Slowly, the story is revealed as to what happened on board the space station, while the character seems to suffer from hallucinations.

I highly recommend this puzzle-story-interactive-fiction game. If you need to, you can use Google to find a quick walkthrough. The game itself should end before an hour passes (unless you get REALLY stuck). Power-playing it can take 10-15 minutes. It's very short, but worthwhile to play if you're into stories and mysteries.

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Are you kidding me? its hardly meant to be scary, it's just in a morbid setting. The only thing that's scary is the kids who wear the horse skin head or something like that, if that. Keep playing plz. I wanna get this game eventually and i really doubt its that scary but it guess that's a good thing.

Since someone posted the white CHAMBER then i think it would be safe to talk about other adventure rpgs (that have hardly any rpg elements)

First lets start up with the 'cult' followed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yume_nikki

Its basically a game that has random events happen. I think it might be scary i'm not really sure. It DOES have a point of collecting certain things but how you get the is randomized and such. tl;dr it's random.

Then their is LSD. Its a dream emulator that i guess works even better if your on LSD. Look up youtube videos for this PS1 game and prepare to get headache and a face full of the fuck?

Also their is The Path. like the other games i posted it runs on the random feature. Events pop up and they are random and blah blah blah but it's indie and if its indie and you play it then it makes you more of intellectual. We know this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Path_%28video_game%29

Also theirs CUBE 2

http://sauerbraten.org/

I havent tried it yet but from what i THINK it is it's a cross of UT,Quake, and Minecraft in one. It's a FPS with a IN GAME level editor so you can edit shit with your fucking pals while your editing what they edited after it got edited. Imagine if star craft was a FPS without a plot and i THINK you would get this game. Like I said i haven't tried it and hardly read up on it and know nothing for sure other than it's made by dem germans.

Voy seems to know more about it so ask that guy.

INB4 Bio torrents LSD and shits himself silly when he doesn't try to explore anything out of fear of everything :3

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Mar 31 2010, 1:25 am by MadZombie.

Sauerbraten was a very good game. It's like Quake/UT with its core gameplay, but you edit stuff while you're playing. It's more like mapping terrain and playing starcraft.\

EDIT:
I just looked up LSD gameplay and I'm too scared to torrent it o.o
I have a mind that is easily... I don't really know how to put it. Disturbed? Normal scary things don't affect me, but mindfucks affect me horribly. I can easily empathize with my character, and by that I mean I can easily imagine myself in that situation, and play accordingly. I feel like the game is an extension of my mind.

EDIT:
HOLY SHIT I WANT THAT EMULATOR GIMME LINK

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Mar 31 2010, 2:28 am by BiOAtK.

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wat?

So do you want to play LSD or not? I can't give you the link because your going to need to torrent it unless you meant the mulator for ps1/x ? That just requires a google search.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Dragoon <-- One of my favorite games of all time. I will never get tired of playing this but sadly i somehow lost the third CD so i cant beat it anymore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_Bandits <--- love this game but the CD is too scratched to play it anymore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_Fencer_Musashi <-- another fun game you might want to check out

• Pathologic
  
• The Void
  
• Yume Nikki
  
• The White Tower
  

Those are next in my list. Anon expects to be delivered with terror and not just horror.

Dread. The best word to describe Yume Nikki. It is not scary, no way it can be scary, but it makes me feel so uneasy...

I saw this shouted the other day and thought I'd give it a go.
It reminds me of a (far superior) version of those point-and-click adventures you find on Flash game websites (though it has a lot deeper of a story than "Man, I drank so much last night ... what happened? ... where am I?").

There are 8 endings total ... it says so on the website (and I played until I got all of them. It's easy to do once you understand what is going on.). 4 death endings, like you said, but there are 4 completion endings. Two are bad, one is fan service, and the other is awful (but it's supposed to be the best).


I told my friends to play it, assuring them that nothing bad will happen, the game is super-friendly, and it is soft and cuddly... like care-bears! And towards the end is a super-safe and fun jungle gym that I would totally let my 5 year old play on!

It was quite an experience, playing Yume Nikki.

Elite Beat Agents for the DS has to be one of the most underappreciated games I've ever played. So addictive and fun, and yet it sold really poorly. You can pick up a used copy for like $6 and it's totally worth it.

DEFCON is a fantastic game for LAN parties full of intrigue, backstabbing and paranoia. Players control one of six territories as the DEFCON clock runs down - as the tension mounts more abilities are unlocked, like launching fighters and bombers, until at DEFCON 1 nuclear missiles become available.

Outpost 2 is a fantastic little RTS/colony management game that's freeware now! It may be a bit dated, but I grew up on it dammit! Worth a shot playing over Hamachi.

Minecraft is another little gem. While there are modes available to play for free, the real draw is the "indev" alpha version - mine ore, craft tools, build forts and prepare yourself for the onslaught of monsters in the night. Preordering the game gets you access to indev and at about $10 with constant updates, it's totally worth it.

gate88 is what can only be described as a hybrid of an RTS and maybe something like Asteroids? You fly your ship around, build structures and fighters, upgrade weapons, and attack players. Another awesome LAN party game.

Armed and Dangerous


The game has the funniest cut-scenes I have ever seen in a video game.
It also has some pretty fun weapons like: The Land Shark Gun, Topsy-Turvy, and The World's Smallest Black Hole.

Fallout 1 and 2.
They probably have the BEST sci-fi universe in ANY videogame EVER. The storyline is amazing and great for people who love old sci-fi novels. The game itself is really open ended and well done in terms of character development, but there are some bugs and useless skills. IE: Doctor. The inventory system is a bitch and sucks terribly. The barter system is annoying.

Fantastic Contraption (one of my designs, it only barely makes it in the end) is a terribly fun physics game where you are able to design your own machines using wheels and axles. I've seen people make anything from dancing robots to catapults to "ball and chain" attacking machines. It's a flash game.

I think RPG Maker 2K through VX would qualify, it's widely played but barely known and there are some fantastic things being created by the community every day. Good games come out rarely, but there are several games created that could revolutionize RPGs if any of them ever got on-board with a developing company.

Just google RPGM2K, RPGM2003, RPGMXP or RPGMVX and you'll get a ton of sites devoted to the making of games.

Immortal Defense

By far, one of the most intense and immersive storylines I have ever seen. It's quite unique in its category of tower defense. Not to mention the effects are beautiful, check these out:

I heard this game was pretty epic for it's immersion:
ICO


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ico

Yes...




ALSO this game deserves some mention of some sort for its lack of sales but critical acclaim. The essence of this topic or it's ITT:. Anyways check out cell shaded okami.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ckami
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Edit: Now with more duke nukem

http://www.moddb.com/games/wgrealms-2/

WG Realms 2 is a stand alone game based off of Duke Nukem 3D. Has you play as Duke fighting of a horde of creature in some human kingdom from another diemension or something like that.


Also for anyone who was/is waiting for Duke Nukem forever, well they made a mod for Duke Nukem 3D called Duke nukem Eternity

http://www.moddb.com/engines/eduke32/
-Get Duke nukem 3D somehow (just the .GRP) Or get the HIGH DEFINITION Duke ( I think it's like 2 gigs worth, normal being 50 megs)

-Get Eduke32 to play the old duke nukem without the need for a DOS or anything.

Anyways that mod is the closest thing to Duke nukem forever atm so yea... It's graphics look like xbox graphics though so it's not quite there... Still it's duke nukem.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Apr 16 2010, 1:47 am by MadZombie.

Bumping for the love of god.

Try out some Flotilla.

It's like a What the fuck version of a space combat game with a turn based system. Link provides videos of gameplay AND a demo. Being indie the full game comes with a light price tag. But who really pays attention to price tags when the internet is so modest
http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2010/03/indie_game_pick_flotilla_blend.html

More reviews and pics and links and vids and whatever else you would need to check the game out.
http://www.giantbomb.com/flotilla/61-29932/

Next game on the list is Outcast. Released in 1999 it was pretty much top of the line when it came out.



Didn't sell well because it could only be run with computers that where really high end at the time, now it could probably be run on a basic laptop. But hey man it's an Action Adventure game, who doesn't love one of those?
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/outcast/review.html

I don't really know much on this next game but it's called "Sleep is Death" and as you can tell by it's site
http://www.sleepisdeath.net/
... People seem to "OMG THIS WAS LIFE CHANGING D': " all over the place but then again who wouldn't put comments like that on their page to boost their game. Your going to have to research this game on your own as I have no clue how the game works or what it's about but it seemed note worthy.

Oh and SPELUNKY FUCK YEA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelunky

One more thing i wanted to add to this thread although I think i'd be the only one who would even care for the genre is "Art games". Games that are usually only 50% "game" and 50% " deep Inspiration"

For example:
http://www.flashninjaclan.com/zzz4648_Air_Pressure.php

Doesn't really have much of a point but in some cases or depending on your situation it might leave you thinking.

Note: To get the full effect out of Air pressure Download the song "Endless Skies" by VNV Nation and playing it while you play this game. I accidentally had this song playing while i was playing and I thought it was part of the soundtrack or something. It really adds to it so much. Without it the games pretty meh and loses the atmosphere it had while the song played.

Anyways I like these kinds of games (if that lol) and if theirs anyone who shares the same taste who knows some good ones please link em.

fuck yeah. Epic game.