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[Remilia]

Ya' know, the games that aren't that too obscure that it has a decently sized fanbase, but if you asked somebody obsessed with games like it, they'd wouldn't know what you're talking about.
My favorite would be .flow. It's a horror game that doesn't rely on jumpscares (it has a few though) to make it scary.

Spoiler: Some Screenshots

 

[autisticdragonkin]

Ya' know, the games that aren't that too obscure that it has a decently sized fanbase, but if you asked somebody obsessed with games like it, they'd wouldn't know what you're talking about.
My favorite would be .flow. It's a horror game that doesn't rely on jumpscares (it has a few though) to make it scary.

Spoiler: Some Screenshots

.flow is one of my favourite games. I loved trying to figure out what was going on in the game.

 

[sugoi-chan]

This probably doesn't apply so much since Crusader Kings 2 came out and became crazy popular, but Paradox-style strategy games seem to come as a surprise to a lot of my friends who love strategy/military/map-painting games, especially around the EU3 era.

 

[c-no]

Don't know if this counts but I feel Kings Field is relatively unknown enough to have its own fanbase. It was the first series From Software ever worked on.
It's a first person game where you pretty much explore areas and swing your weapon at bad guys and monsters. Anything from the Souls games such as the Moonlight sword and the health and stamina bar can be traced back to King's Field.

As for the fandom, there use to be a fan site that stood around for a long time until maybe around 2013 where it pretty much died as in the website just redirects to those sites that give of similar or search links.

 

[Lacquer Head]

There's this mod thats pretty much dead for Half Life 1 called Brainbread that is really really fun. Its a poorly made zombie mod that has perks, weapons, the ability to play as a zombie and really bad levels but its so much fun. Me and a few friends are literally the only people left who play it sometimes

 

[Conrix]

Strife: Quest for the Sigil was one of my favorite "unknowns" until it got a Steam release, now I'm not so sure "unknown" applies to it but I still think it was a unique take on a Doom-styled game at the time.

The reason it was obscure in the first place is because it used the Doom engine during the time Quake was coming out and not many people wanted sprite shooters because of polys making their way in.

 

[SP 199]

I'm not too sure how obscure this is but there's Convoy

It's basically FTL but on land you crash on the planet and have to gather the crap needed to take off again

I like to be a complete nerd and imagine the Ship is my one from FTL

tl;dr Imagine a love child between FTL and Mad Max

 

[Remilia]

tl;dr Imagine a love child between FTL and Mad Max

that sounds awesome
gonna check that one out

 

[YI 457]

Kurushi. EDIT: AKA Intelligent Qube in 'Murica and I.Q.: Intelligent Qube in Japan.

 

[Kusottare]

Contact for the DS
Some relatively unknown RPG game thing where you have to control a kid who has to collect fuel for this spaceship
You collect weapons and outfits that unlock various skills for the main character
It's quirky and pretty original
Plus the art isn't too bad either

 

[Surtur]

Crystalis for the NES

 

[DuskEngine]

I've plugged this several times before, but whatever;
Sunless Sea. Exploration/horror RPG with a few roguelike elements for the PC.

London got pulled down into a netherworld under the earth and you sail around it and do things.

Heavy on words, and very well written. Obtuse as fuck, though. If you liked not knowing what the hell was going on in Dark Souls, that's how the story in this is presented.

The companion game/prequel, Fallen London, is also really good. It's a free-to-play browser CYOA game, so not much to look at unless you like text-heavy games.

 

[Molasses Assassin]

There was a game called Whiplash. It was kind of shoddily made and not the greatest game ever but the concept and characters were pretty fun. You played as a weasel chained to a small rabbit trying to escape an animal testing facility while freeing other animals and smashing things. The weasel uses the rabbit as a wrecking ball and just puts him through hell, but the rabbit is invincible because make up testing or something. The ending doesn't really make that much sense.

 

[Count groudon]

An oldschool computer game I used to play with my cousin called wasteland. Its an RPG where you play as a survivor of a nuclear apocalypse fighting mutants, zombies, and random gangs of outlaws while trying to find out more about the war and how much it affected the world.

Sound familiar? That's because it was one of the main inspirations of the fallout series, and a few of the people who worked on fallout actually originally worked on wasteland. Its a bit of a cult classic with a decent sized fanbase, I remember a few years ago there were soms guys were trying to petition for a remake of the original wasteland game but I dont think anything really came of it.

 

[Quijibo69]

The only reason anyone should own a Sega cd:

 

[Conrix]

An oldschool computer game I used to play with my cousin called wasteland. Its an RPG where you play as a survivor of a nuclear apocalypse fighting mutants, zombies, and random gangs of outlaws while trying to find out more about the war and how much it affected the world.

Sound familiar? That's because it was one of the main inspirations of the fallout series, and a few of the people who worked on fallout actually originally worked on wasteland. Its a bit of a cult classic with a decent sized fanbase, I remember a few years ago there were soms guys were trying to petition for a remake of the original wasteland game but I dont think anything really came of it.

I downloaded that on Steam, actually.

Also, MIDI Maze is another good unknown one to know about since it's basically 16-player FPS Deathmatch from 1988, over a decade before Halo came out. And it was also ported to GameBoy as Faceball 2000, with a rumor that you could daisy-chain a bunch of four player adapters to play 16 player there and an anecode of the devs trying such a thing.

 

[Coster]

Way of the Samurai has always been a series near and dear to my heart since I was a kid, and I've been playing the hell out of WotS 4 on PC seeing as the port for it finally came out.

Spoiler: Meet my intentionally shitty character, Samurai John

 

[Mater Lachrymarum]

I have one obscure game from my childhood that's really dear to me. It's called Mitsume ga no Tooru, based on anime of the same name and was never released outside of Japan. At least, officially.

I got my hands of bootleg cartrige for bootleg NES/Famicom machine, that looked exactly like this:

Spoiler: Ugly-ass bootleg cartrige

It was quite standard platformer that would maybe bore Megaman fans, but when I still dig the aesthetics today.

Spoiler: Screenshots

 

[Coster]

https://kiwifarms.net/attachments/mitsume-jpg.39384/

Haha, , gotta love how that bald character's artwork is literally ripped from Dragon Ball. Also, trollkin dolls lmao

 

[Remilia]

The only reason anyone should own a Sega cd:

ms paint the game