>ITT: we recomend games that no-one knows about.
I'll start
Strike Vector: Everyone is in fighters that have unlimited boost and can switch between hovering and foward flight almost instantly, which also kills all their momentum. Is extremely fast and fun, but unfortunately, no-one plays it anymore.
>>340998078
>praising a game for being dynamic
>screenshot rather than WebM
>>340998078
1BitHeart.
Friend simulator, but like not realistic. Also time travel and hackers or something like that.
>>340999112
Couldn't get a webm, because it's that obscure
>>340999275
Then make some, OBS + Webm For Retards is a great combo.
>>340998078
It was a fun game, but being that it's online only and no one plays it. I would not recommend it since it'd be unplayable for whoever you recommend it too.
>>340999909
Also it looks exactly like GoD: Wingmen.
>>340998078
Dreadnought. It's a 5v5 third person spaceship combat shooter, and it's currently in beta.
>>340999582
its hard to make a webm of a multiplayer game noone plays
>>340998078
I wish I had the chance to play it when it had people playing
>>341000405
Not obscure, just doesn't sound fun.
>>341000582
A YouTube video you think is well representative of the gameplay then?
>>341000405
When can we actually play this?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/249680/
marlow briggs
when it's on sale it's like $1
>>341000405
Crossout : ships edition
Team Buddies for PSX
Cube collecting jelly beans build other jelly beans to collect more cubes to build weapons or vehicles to destroy enemy cube collecting jellybeans.
Shattered Horizon
Really fun multiplayer space FPS. Realistic sound and momentum in space and the ability to go "silent". Going silent made you invisible on the radar to both your teammates and enemies, but you couldn't hear anything, including voice chat. Good for stealth, because picking people out was actually relatively hard.
Deader than a door knob.
>>341000736
It is actually fun, trust me I've played it
>>341000737
You get into the beta right now by paying the devs $10, and you get to bring a few friends for free.
>>340999112
Is this poor mans starsector?
>>341001513
where can i buy it?
>>341001513
>>341000405
Fractured space is better tbqh
The best Zelda ever made.Don't touch the sequel.
>>340998078
Strike Vector used to my fucking jam. Everything was so fucking fast and you could pull off some crazy last minute macross-esque turns.
It died off quick though. It was extremely skill based so any new player that tried to join would get shit on endlessly by vets
The art in America is bad. It's Seek and Destroy here
>>341001640
https://www.greybox.com/store/en/
>>341001842
Keep telling yourself that, anon
>>340998078
This was the only multiplayer game I was ever even remotely good at. I still remember the few /v/ threads it had.
>>341001621
It already is what Starsector is slowly becoming.
That is, a game with really fun and weird combat.
On My Own is a survival game. Not Survival Horror, not survival fantasy, not survival co-op. On. My. Own.
It plays similar to Don't Starve, but good. The graphics are pixel junk, but they aren't so abstract you have to read a guide to figure out what you're looking at, and it is cheap. Like $8 cheap.
There is a demo for mobile too but the PC version is better. Will be even better after mods.
>>341001326
>tfw always wanted to play this
>Didn't have a strong enough PC for the longest time
>Get a job after high school
>Build my own rockin PC
>Not available for purchase anymore on steam
>Servers probably all shut down.
It still hurts to this day, its still in my steam wishlist too.
>>341002193
It is though. The scale of Dreadnought feels off and the combat doesn't feel like you're actually flying a giant ship
>>341002249
It looks too arcady for me. Star sector is like mechwarrior in space
>>341001326
Now there was a fun shooter while it was alive.
>>341002282
Devs were developing a sequel.No publisher wanted it.
>>341001621
Why is the Hyperion so edgy.
Project Reality was a total conversion mod for BF2 pitting teams of (usually) 50 against another 50. The game is essentially a standalone now and I would describe the gameplay as a mix between the likes of Arma and Battlefield. It's really entertaining to watch a team manage squads dedicated towards logistics, transportation, tanks, infantry, etc. work together. Don't bother playing if you don't have a mic though.
>>340998078
Shitty version of Project Sylpheed.
war of the human tanks, it's a super weeby strategy game that plays like a mix between advance wars and battleship. it's got a ton of levels and bonus shit in it, which i'm always a fan of
honestly i'm really surprised that i've never seen anyone mention it, since it's on steam and seems like it'd be right up /v/'s alley.
Defender's Quest is a pretty bitchin tower defense RPG.
Way more competent than you'd expect, and has some great musical talent behind the BGM.
All the characters in the between-battle cutscenes perpetually make the same retarded pose with their arms, but you learn to ignore it.
>>341002863
Whoops forgot pic.
>>341002947
We want to be cute little girls. Not order cute little girls to march to their deaths.
>>341002774
Everything Star Sector does Ring Runner does better
Ring Runner does everything better than you
>inb4 no it can't
>inb4 yes it can
>inb4 no it can't
>inb4 yes it can
>inb4 no it can't
>inb4 yes it can
>inb4 YES, IT, CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN
>>341001738
Most awesome shit I have seen all day. Even compared to E3
>>340998078
>Strike Vector
this game was a waste of effort
if they just attached a story to it they could have had a GOTY.
>>341002979
>Crimson Skies and BLACK will never be ported or remade for the current gen.
Just kill me now.
>>341002863
Oh god. I forgot about that game. If you're into arma I would suggest it though I don't enjoy it myself.
>>341003167
This webm looks fun. Does it have a RPGish campaign like Starsector? Or is it like arena fights? What I like about SS is that you can target sub systems and you need to manage energy and stuff. It's more tactical than arcade
>>341003187
Starsector is great. It's "Early access", but has a vast modding community. There's an EVE full conversion for example
>>340998078
super mario bros
you play as a fat dago from brooklyn and you run and jump to kill dennis hopper
>>341003116
They're mostly robots and love getting sent to their deaths though!
>>341003167
Nah senpai, just nah.
I see people recommend Unholy Heights from time to time, but never EVER see anyone discuss it. Ever.
Manage an apartment full of monsters in what is clearly the most brilliant world domination scheme. Evict shitty tenants by making them do battle alone without backup.
Pay your fucking rent, you stupid chickens.
The Secret World. Mostly dead now which makes doing dungeons hard... fortunately most of the content is best done solo anyway. Enjoy figuring out Hell and Bach, even with a guide.
>>341003362
Yes, and although there isn't subsystem targeting (ships getting crippled as they take damage is a bad mechanic anyway as it means if you're at an advantage your advantage grows and vice versa so the game is never hard but not too hard), you can do all sorts of things with energy. This ship saps energy on hit and gains energy when it is hit, and when overcharged it can't passively regen energy but it has 50% damage resistance and a 30% damage bonus.
>>341003603
In Ring Runner, you can do that solo!
>>341004137
Its really good as a single player experience. I just wish a lot of the best content wasn't in the cash shop.
>>341004184
You talk about something not being hard then talk about how you can easily solo something
Wayward Terran Frontier. Having played the shit out of Starsector, this game is still in early stages and I've sunk 40+ hours into it's current build and they're working on a massive revamp that'll make the game a lot easier to create content for.
It's like Starsector except that you can go into ships' interiors. Additionally damage to your ship appears both on the interior and exterior, meaning that if someone blows a hole in the side of your ship it'll decompress and you have to manually go repair damage in the heat of battle if they hit a really important component.
https://youtu.be/SnziWHWvDI8?t=1298
As shown here; bit of combat, docking with an enemy ship and attempting to hostile takeover the vessel so you can take it back to your base and mass produce it later.
Notice the interiors of the vessels actually showing damage from the fight.
>>341004630
I think a big mod or update for SS would be when boarding you enter a top down shooter mode. I think the creator said he'd be fine with modders doing it but right now he wants to focus on other things
>>341004630
Sounds interesting. Any moddings cene?
Moon Diver
Its like Strider, but you can do co-op with up to 4 players. It's only on PSN/XBLA though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiVH42HOTls&t=11s
>>341004384
I'm talking about how difficulty shouldn't scale with difficulty, which is something that happens when ships get weaker if they take damage.
It means it's rare that the challenge of the game will be hard but not too hard.
I recently picked up catacomb kids, and its fuckin great
if you can stomach another roguelite with a pretty mediocre art direction then the amount of shit you can do in this game is gr8
>>341005343
Is this out of early access yet
>>341004784
Well this already has that and additional stuff. The only thing that Starsector has that this doesn't is controlling entire fleets of ships, really.
>>341005495
nah, still chugging along
I'd pirate it if you're worried the dev will run out of fumes, but his progress has been pretty damn steady
>>341004876
Well one of the primary things the next big patch is intended to do is make modding easier. I don't know how much is available at the moment but the game features it's own custom ship building for interior layouts and such. The only limitation is the 'outline' of the ship, so to speak.
Duskers. It's a roguelike where you use drones to explore derelicts in a universe where sentient life has been apparently wiped out, and are infested with xenomorph-style ...things that can and will murder your expensive drones if they catch them.
I don't know if it would be classified as "obscure" (it's more "new" obscure than "never heard of" obscure) but a metroidvania called Ghost 1.0 released on Steam a few days ago.
>'skill tree' that unlocks more tiers depending on how many points you've already spent; can purchase things like icons on the map that keeps track of what is in rooms you've already visited like shops, save rooms, etc; can purchase your standard Double Jump(TM), air dash, etc.; can enable added difficulty measures like more augmented robots in certain sections, more robots with guns, etc.
>provides brief skippable story recap upon loading a save for the first time you've booted the client for that sitting so you don't forget what's going on
>main female VA is surprisingly good at what she does, has all the little nuances and mannerisms that you'd expect from a natural conversation
>tight controls
>huge bosses (only seen two so far, granted)
>lots of collectables including 'cosmetic' modifications (like you swing down a zip line and you let out a Tarzan yell or one that turns the graphics of energy cubes (currency) you pick up into penguins
I'm probably forgetting stuff but I've enjoyed the game so far with around six hours.
Distance ought to be the funnest survival racing game I've played possibly ever
the singleplayer content is super lackluster though, the 5 gazillion community levels have to carry it
>>341006513
It's more obscure than Starsector but not very obscure for what it is.
>>340998078
I was interested in it but the devs are retarded so I only played it for like 4 hours.
>unreal
>sensitivity bar with no numbers
>>341001738
Does the AI use the Hammer for it's intended purpose?
I saw it in a fleet once and it just hung back while in fights.
Fucking dumbass devs couldn't sort their servers properly. Couldn't implement bots.
I liked Strike Vector a lot but the learning curve was impossible for me to introduce new players to, because it wasn't possible to keep the really high-level players from coming in and shitting all over the new players while they figured things out, and no bots to practice against.
Now it's fucking dead. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJSDdvg3rWc
>>341006784
That looks pretty fuckin hardcore though, I can't see what multiplayer would offer except for shitters slamming into you to try and fuck you up.
>>341007291
It's not intended to be used by the A.I., just the player. I'd imagine that all it would do is just hang back and spam that tractor beam of his.
>>340998078
Perimeter/Vangers.Krokodil-driven ruskies are the best gamedevs.
>>341007448
Thought so but it's pretty weird a fleet spawed with it then.
>>341007365
the multiplayer is pretty shitty since you can't collide, so its just synchronized singleplayer sort of?
there are a bunch of other modes that include collision like football but they aint racing
I'd probably most compare it to how trackmania does things
>>341007528
It's probably some other mod you had that made it spawn, maybe starsector+(rip in piss) or Nexerelin.
>>340998078
I came in here because last E3 there was a game that was shown where it was a super fast paced sci-fi jet fighter multiplayer game and I thought your pic was from actual gameplay. I can't remember the name of the game I'm thinking of and it's really depressing.
>>340998078
>looks fun
>community is dead
Fucking hell
>>340998078
>>341007839
It led me to strike vector EX, the game I was looking for, thanks OP for your inadvertent help
Its the hot new game to meme on, but I'm still gonna recommend Odin Sphere HD, especially since combat has been revamped and is actually fun now. Great take on the Ring of the Nibelung story with Vanillaware's beautiful art and music direction.
Sure why not, I got one I'm fond of.
>ObsCure.
Apt title, innit?
Play as group of students who stay after school to search for their pal who dissipated under suspicious circumstances in this Resident Evil meets Alan Wake little doodad.
Unlike our old pal Alan Wake, shining light just reduces armour, it doesn't render enemies invulnerable. Despite the fixed camera angles, you've got analog movement, so you're a flighty little fuck.
Nice OST too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU21vutCTUc
Now this recommendation does come with some caveats. There's a braindead retarded companion AI system that just walks into enemies BUT you can ditch them at the hub and they'll just fucking stay there. And you should.
Otherwise it's a fun little game, well worth it, on Steam. Use a gamepad.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/254460/
Rate my shilling, /v/
>Strike Vector
>Shattered Horizon
>games I got from humble bundles only to find out they were already 6 feet under by the time I got a rig able to play them
I would've liked to at least know what they were like to play.
>>341003167
It's a shame it has such shit UI, then. I don't need this Realm of the Mad God shit in my face.
>>341006224
>roguelike
It's a rogue-lite. Pretty cool though.
>>341002774
I have a boner. How much is the game?
>>341008439
free if you have a torrent client
>Ultima 4
Probably one of the best old school roleplaying games I've ever played. The only thing you have to do is be able to put up with dos based controls and preferably print out a map and spellbook and a few other things. Try not to spoil yourself and look up how to do things unless you are absolutely fucking stuck
Plus it's free so why not try it
>>341008647
I mean purchasing price, ya dangus.
>>341008703
yes, it is free ($0.000000000000) if you have a torrent client
>>341006784
what map is that
>>341001948
Tfw the sequel was the only thing I got to play and slogged through it anyway. Is the first one really that much better?
>>341002863
Project Reality isn't obscure though. It's like top 3 played BF mods
>>340998078
>games that no-one knows about
But I do know about Strike Vector, I just haven't played it yet.
I think what you meant to say was:
Games that I have played, but nobody talks about them around here.
>>340998078
>no bots
>no one plays
>no SP campaign
>nothing but death match
>"too hard" for today's scrub gaymores
opportunity wasted
>>341009034
Looks like one of the earlier story maps
I have been playing Crookz and its actually kind of fun. It does manage to scratch my commandos itch which is pretty great. I only wish that i could take down guards permanently and just don't knock them out for a while. I get that it fits the theme but one thing that i always enjoyed about the commandos games was the slow and systematic way you went through a level and took out one guard at the time and by doing that conquering the map..
>>340998078
Why does those look like I-Gears from Space cowboy online?
>>341008265
I actually played this quite recently and it was alright. I didn't like the combat though and i can't stand respawning enemies in a game with ammo conservation. I got a couple of hours gametime out of it though so i can't complain.
it's wipeout
it's free
http://store.steampowered.com/app/473770/
>>341001326
>Deader than a door knob.
activision would make bank if they made their new game like this. Shame since I really wanted to play it
Ive been playing power stone simulator 2016 LASTFIGHT
>>341011185
>http://store.steampowered.com/app/473770/
also looks like shit
I bet OP is that guy who stalks every negative review and spams his shitty group to revive Strike Vector.
It's funny how devs abandoned it and made a game for consoles with singleplayer while those fuck didn't even bother to add bots to SV or make SV free to play.
Element4l
It's a plat former where you play as a bubble floating on wind. You can transform into an ice block to slide on slopes, a rock to crash down to build speed, and a ball of fire to launch yourself foward and bounce off walls
So it places as this crazy slope platformer where you have to use a combination of those to succeed. Despite being very cute and atmospheric it's actually really challenging.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/235820/
The trailer does a good job at demonstrating the mood and gameplay of the game but really oversells the story by a few tons and makes it to be more pretentious then it actually is
>>341006784
Can vouch for this
Also has psychological horror elements (I know, in a racing game, it's crazy)
>>341011996
yeah it looks like wipeout even has the ps1 texture jiggle
>>341012382
>psychological horror elements
Elaborate on some of them.
>>341001948
Shit controls, absurd isometric 3D and tedious enigmas: the game
It's worth playing, but not really enjoyable by itself.
>>341012510
I'll try to find a commentariless video that shows off the intial time it happens, hold on
>>341012420
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XASEBvDri4U
This has a style, unlike those shitty Unity textures gobbled together. If they made it look like a PS1 game it would be fine.
>>341012859
>>341012510
Here's the only decent video I cound find:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcoBoSV-m5w
prior to this point in the game for the past level or 2 the tracks suddenly had all their lights turned off and had hazards change poistiions along with sudden changes in movement, with the implication that something was "in the system" (since prior to this, again, it;s been tron like in aesthetic) trying to kill you.
Again, it's not ACTUALLY a horror game, but it has horror elements.
>>341013367
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Yeah I actually pirated it a long while back and played through a little bit of it so I was curious. I vaguely remember those parts but sure, it wasn't a strictly simple RACAN only game.
Virtual On. Made in 1995 for arcades (and with a sequel most people don't know about in 1999 that got a Dreamcast release), it was a 1v1 fighting game where you play as a huge fuckoff robot and try and shoot the other guy to death. Each player sat in their own cockpit, and the game had twin joysticks with tank-like controls. You didn't really have to rotate though, because jumping and then immediately canceling it, or alternatively dashing and then shooting would lock you on to your opponent immediately.
Fucking fun game. Sort of plays a bit like a low-key shmup where your opponent is responsible for all the shit that gets thrown at you.
>>341013367
scariest part of the game was whenit pretended to bluescreen me
>>341008265
best played with a friend
>>341002193
TBF Fract'd Space is in a way harder since you have to cap points and work as a team
unlike dreadnought where two tech ships can win you every game.
Not necessarily obscure, but a fucking gem for a game based off of a ok-at-best movie. Otherwise I don't buy a whole lot of obscure / unknown games unless off the recommendation of someone I know.
>>341016443
Can second this, best movie game ever
Controls are clunky as fuck but it's worth it.
I also really recommend an artbook for both the movie and the game called "The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island", which is fashioned after a field guide/biology textbook for the island and has a ton of worldbuilding for both. The art itself is fucking gorgous too.
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>>341016063
Dreadnought's devs are still adding things, I'm pretty sure that game modes based around map control and CTF are coming at some point.
