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This is a subreddit for finding the name of a game that you can't remember. Read the rules, post your description, and hopefully someone will be able to identify it. Be sure to help out if you think you may have an answer to someone else's post!

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    [IOS][2014] App with little knights and fantasy characters on battlefield

    Hello, I’m looking for an app I had back in 2015 that involved spectating a medieval fantasy battlefield. There were these little cartoon knights and other fantasy characters that you used to build your army. There were guilds you could join I think. It’s not clash royale, it was 2D and the battlefield was horizontal I believe.

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    2024/04/29
    10:55 UTC

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    [PC][2000-2010]Disc game where you play an animal to run away from farmers

    This game was on a physical cd and I played it on a Dell desktop.

    You played as an animal where you navigate through a farm to run away from farmers. On one level the farmer will be in a watch tower with a shotgun and if he spots you he could shoot you. There were several levels.

    There were also these silver traps you had to avoid stepping on

    Platform(s): PC

    Estimated year of release: 2000-2010

    Art style: It was pixel art kind of, something you would expect to see in that era.

    Notable characters: An animal, who you play. Farmer(s) who you try to avoid

    Notable gameplay mechanics: You could move up, down, left, right and you had to avoid the farmer from seeing you. It was based in a farm. Some levels there was a watch tower with a farmer with a shotgun and would shoot you if he saw you

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    2024/04/29
    10:48 UTC

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    [GirlsGoGames][ -][between 2010-2016][ -][ girl in red dress , girls with heart eyes][ use mouse to put weapons to attack girls][ -]

    platform : GirlsGoGames Genre : - Year of release: (between 2010 - 2016)

    artstyle : - Characters : main character is a girl in red dress Gameplay ; So the game is about a girl who saves her boyfriend from other girls who have a crush on him by using cute weapons like perfumes to attack the girls , the image of the game was bunch of girls with hearts in thier eyes and a worried boy and the angry girl holding two cakes on her both hands ..

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    2024/04/29
    10:40 UTC

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    [PC][90s-2000s] a CD-ROM for kids that featured educational games. The cover had a train with the letter H on the front.

    Platform(s): PC

    Genre: Educational / Kids

    Estimated year of release: 1990’s - 2000s

    Graphics/art style: 2D / Cartoon

    Notable characters: the cover had a train on the front with the letter H on the front of it

    Notable gameplay mechanics: I think it was mainly point and click although I really can’t remember

    Other details: I know this game was NOT jumpstart preschool. The train with the H really sticks out in my mind. It’s possible the name of the game started with the letter H as well and it’s possible the title also included some variation of ‘vania’ in it

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    2024/04/29
    10:36 UTC

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    [PC Flash Game] [2000-2010] Ufo abduction game

    Platform(s): Pc Flash Game

    Genre: Mouse Only?, Action, Aliens

    Estimated year of release: Between 2006 - 2016

    Graphics/art style: 2D

    Notable characters: Giant UFO, Farmers, citizens and cows.

    Notable gameplay mechanics: You have to use the mouse to move around the city, kidnapping as much people you can. I believe in one part of the game you also have to avoid the shots from farmers.

    Other details: The story was about some aliens who were starving until one of them suggested a way to make more food made by human meat and which was conserved in cans.
    The screen was divided in two, the wider was the one where you actually play the game abducing humans, the other one was thin and you could see the people you abducted being murdered by some saws and being stuffed in a can of food.
    There was also always a human dressed like Elvis Presley.

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    2024/04/29
    10:31 UTC

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    [Ios][puzzle][2013-2020s]

    There was a puzzle game that i played on iOS long ago, but i forgot the name. The game is about a girl trying to escape a high building being struck by natural disaster and you have to do the puzzle to help her deal with dangerous objects such as electricity from damaged power cord. I dont remember exactly but i think you have to control both the character and objects to get through the level

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    2024/04/29
    10:29 UTC

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    [Ios/PC?][2010s] game about managing car traffic

    I used to play this game as a kid on my parents' iPad. You'd manage traffic in order to safely lead blue hybrid cars that make bubbles out of a jam and get bad yellow diesel cars to crash together. I couldn't find it in our app history for some reason.

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    2024/04/29
    10:21 UTC

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    [Nintendo DS] [2000-2013] [Short girly magazine making game]

    Platform(s): nintendo ds

    Genre: touch screen/casual? it's a kids game

    Estimated year of release: 2000-2013

    Graphics/art style: It looked like the bratz artstyle. it was sparkly!

    Notable characters: I can't exactly remember

    Notable gameplay mechanics: You'd do fill in the blanks for pages of your magazine, and when you're done you use the touch screen to throw them at houses from your car

    Other details: that's all i got!

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    2024/04/29
    10:15 UTC

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    [PC][2000-2012] cyborg fps game (halo clone?)

    hi guys, a long time i've played an fps game where you play as a cyborg (space marine?) I remember a snow map, mars map and a shuttle map. It was futuristic and i think it could have had cyborg in it's name. You could drive some vehicles and i think it had some movement shooter mechanics to it but i think it was only low gravity and high jumps.

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    2024/04/29
    10:04 UTC

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    [Android game][puzzle/platformer][no longer on playstore] one eyed green creature whose limbs/bone size u had to manipulate to solve that particular level.

    It's an old game....it used to be on playstore, I can no longer find it anywhere.....it had brownish paper like background art...and a green creature with one eye whose limbs and joints u were supposed to drag & resize to solve the puzzle by moving that creature. That's about everything I remember. P.S.- IT IS AVAILABLE ON PLAYSTORE.

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    2024/04/29
    09:59 UTC

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    [Arcade] [1990-2005] Contra clone-esque game where one of the bosses is a giant robotic version of hitler heads.

    Hello around 20 years ago i used to play a retro game pack cd on my brother‘s ps2 because some of the games on there were decent. but i distinctly remember really enjoying one game because of the art style and craziness of it. it was like contra but it was top-down view version of it and you move in 2 directions. you have different weapon pickups like a shotgun, rocket launcher, etc. you kill all sorts of enemies but i only remember one of the bosses which is giant mech version of hitlers head. through out the fight his face becomes more and more mutilated as you damage him until its revealed its he’s actually an alien.? it was a wild game hope to find it again.

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    2024/04/29
    09:57 UTC

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    [PC][2000-2010] Game similar to age of empires except it was fantasy and magic I remember there being like an elf race I think and maybe a goblin race? I feel like one race used plants and mushrooms as buildings to spawn your units? Don't remember much more than that unfortunately

    Exact same style of play as age of empires collect resources build buildings/plants to spawn your army and defend against the enemy

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    2024/04/29
    09:45 UTC

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    [PC Browser][2005-2010] Online minigame/miniclip game where you sent "troops" between blobs to turn them your color

    Platform(s): Browser, possibly flash or java or similar

    Genre: Strategy/tactics?

    Estimated year of release: Mid-to-late 2000s (2005 - 2010?)

    Graphics/art style: Very simple, maybe even minimalistic, just some blobs/circles turning your color when you send your dots to it, and the number of dots you have in each blob

    Notable characters: Nothing, just the dots you sent from blob to blob to "conquer" them

    Notable gameplay mechanics: You were represented by a color, and started with one blob, and some "troops" (dots?) in the blob, represented by a number... I want to say from 0 to 100? The number increased slowly inside each blob. Some blobs had bonuses like "growth x2", so they were strategically more important. The goal was to turn all blobs your color. Some blobs were gray (neutral), but the machine, which managed other colors, also controlled other blobs, and sent troops to turn blobs their color.

    Other details: It was a single player game, if I remember correctly, and you advanced through levels, which had different shapes, like different "war" scenarios

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    2024/04/29
    09:45 UTC

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    [PC][Early 2000s]A Game Where We 1v1 With Mythological Creatures

    There was a game I played when I was very young, with a 3D third-person, where we had 1v1's with mythological gods like Cerberus and probably Zeus. I remember that the game consists of different bosses with the same mythology theme. The character we played was wearing something Corona Civica style, and his clothing was similar to the Romans and even the clothing style of Ancient Greek citizens.

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    2024/04/29
    09:04 UTC

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    [computer][2010s] a game about the ocean??

    So I grew up in north east England and in the primary school I went too we had a library with computers and all I remember is sitting there must have been around 2014ish and playing this game that involved mermaids and a net (possibly had to catch them??), I'm unsure if it was a browser game or downloaded too which dosnt help but it's a very vague memory but it's there and I would go in and play every lunch up until I moved school it would be really cool if someone knew what I was talking about but obviously I have basically no info so wouldn't be suprised if nothing came out of this, but if anyone has any sort of idea it would be great to know thanks!

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    2024/04/29
    08:40 UTC

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    [xbox360] [unkown] game about a guy in mediaeval times who loses his sister

    Xbox 360 games RPG is based in mediaeval times where you lose your sister and you have to have good honour to join the army That is kinda like an open world, you’ve gotta do chores to up your honour and you can run around naked and you can rob it like a small village where you talk to like this guy. He says you have to have a good honour to join the army. I think it’s got a brown cover. similar to dark souls.

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    2024/04/29
    08:33 UTC

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    [Nintendo DS][~Early 2000s] Dungeon crawler JRPG with character select

    Platform(s): Nintendo DS

    Genre: Fantasy

    Estimated year of release: 2000s. I got the Nintendo around 2009 or 2010, but it could've been earlier.

    Graphics/art style: Pixelated. I think it was similar to old Pokemon games in terms of aesthetics.

    Notable characters: I remember being given the option to pick between a few characters, with the ones you don't choose showing up in the overworld. There was a generic guy, only one girl, and a big furry thing that I think was blue. Whenever I picture the furry thing in my head, imagine a blue Big the Cat. It's been around a decade so I could be wrong.

    Notable gameplay mechanics: It was a dungeon crawler. I don't remember too much of the gameplay since I was too bad to get far, but I vaguely remember grids being involved.

    Other details: There was likely a class system, but I was too bad at games to understand that.

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    2024/04/29
    08:20 UTC

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    [PS2] [2000s] Jak And Daxter/Ratchet And Clank Type Game With A Clown Level

    It was a big room with a "well" to an abyss in the middle, and if you fell down the "well" you would die. I remember there being some type of clown or something laughing, maybe when you died or maybe just laughing continuously.

    I remember the game also may have had slug like creatures that took over the world.

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    2024/04/29
    07:50 UTC

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    [Browser] [A little before 2015] Artsy abandoned place click through browser game from 2015. Looked like a collage. There were animated parts. Thanks! :)

    Platform(s): Browser, PC (It MIGHT have been Flash, but I don't think it was complex enough to even need it. But what do I know?)

    Genre: Horror?, Point and Click, artsy

    Estimated year of release: Somewhere before or on 2015

    Graphics/art style: Real images (or, maybe, realistic) Photoshopped together. It was flat 2D, like a collage. It's aesthetic was greyish with red accents. The whole thing was grim looking, and some levels were dark and dingy, but others were "hopeful" and had light and sun peeking through open holes in the walls. It looked like an abandoned asylum, hospital, warehouse. I do not recall there being any kind of medical instruments, but a friend called it the "abandoned hospital game" when we discussed it. There was graffiti throughout, hence the artsy genre.

    Notable characters: You don't have a model, and there is no life I can think of besides maybe plants. There's one "character" which scampered past a doorway. It looked like a fennic fox made of the stock burn scar flesh seen frequently in media. Think Freddy Kruger. This happened so fast that it was hard to make out - I only saw it by taking a picture with my Ipod as the animation played. (Because I was an idiot, and didn't know how to screenshot. :( )

    Notable gameplay mechanics: It was a VERY simple point and click. Actually, there was no pointing. You clicked through a 'level', which was one collage, and things happened, allowing you to click more. There was little to no actual puzzling. Like I said, it was pretty much interactive art. Once you complete it, there's a level select screen. It's just a screenshot of each level in little squares.

    A level I remember - One half of the screen is made of these overlapping panels, like PO boxes. The other half was a blank, dirty concrete wall. Above that is possibly a hole with sun peeking through. It was light and mostly grey. You solved it by clicking something, which moved the panels over to reveal either lungs or a heart, with the accompanying sound effects. The heart or lungs (ribcage?) was black graffiti, and it was animated. Then you move to the next level.

    Another level - Underground, it is dark. You face an open doorway, the type with an arch on top. You solve the level somehow, and the ending animation is a smallish, pinkish, hard to make out creature. It scampers from one half of the doorway to the other, very quickly. It makes a gross scampering noise.

    Other details: This game was spread through word of mouth or youtuber nonsense. It might have come from "Take me to a useless website PLEASE", but probably not the Bored Button. It had to be somewhat viral for me to know about it. Also, I'm not crazy, because a friend confirmed having played it with me. Unless we both are! It is also probably not very scary. More ambiance. I have been up google's ass looking for this. I'm no expert on googling, but I have on many occasions found pretty obscure shit for both myself and friends.

    Games it is not:

    - The House: There are no jumpscares with stupid screamer faces.

    - Asylum: I did not have access to downloadable games at the time. It had to be entirely browser based.

    - Black Asylum Escape: Screamers, and too complex.

    - Exmortis (1 or 2): Wrong aesthetic. Too many words. Silly faces.

    Games it PROBABLY isnt:

    -The Dead House: There's one article I could find even mentioning it on some shitty website with a broken link to the game.

    Of course, that's all out the window if you can find the damn levels I have made pictures of in those games.

    Some pictures of what it looked like: (God I hope this works lol. I'm not good at making posts) Also, if you cant make something out then tell me... graphic design is clearly my passion...

    The level with the fox thing. \"Brick? | Back wall | Thing. | loop | Subway system? | CLOSE UP! | not very gorey... like kruger | swirled flesh | Hard to make out | 1 or 2 frame animation | tail maybe?\"

    The level select screen. \" Level select screen. | Level you are on | thumbnails | translucent background\"

    The main level I remember with the lungs. I've shown two shots of the same level. The panels slide out of the way. \"Sunny | Old + broken | Panels for maintenance? | click! | *breathing* | Lungs/ribs/heart idk\"

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    2024/04/29
    07:23 UTC

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    [PC][2005-2011] Educational game featuring a variety of characters and minigames

    Platform: PC. Downloaded onto the disk.

    Genre: educational game, I remember

    Estimated year of release: 2005-2011, I remember playing it during kindergarten (The year before primary school)

    Graphics/art style: bright colours, cartoony. Characters had voice lines, the crocodile was green and wore a labcoat

    Notable characters: There was a variety of different characters that were featured in their own house, there were at least 3-4 different houses with their own variety of minigames focused on certain education areas.

    Notable gameplay mechanics: point-and-click computer game. Simple puzzles that showed science and other educational topics

    Other details: the only minigame I remembered was about seasons. You were given the task to reassemble snippets of a "movie" showing a snowman melting in the correct order. I remember laughing so hard when I made the snowman come back to life and got a happy ending.

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    2024/04/29
    07:12 UTC

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    [PC/Web Browser]] [2008-2012] Point and click eerie adventure game with isometric perspective

    Platform(s): Pc web browser (windows)

    Genre: Point and clic Horror-adventure

    Estimated year of release: 2008 - 2012

    Graphics/art style: 3d realistic style with an isomectric view of the rooms of an abandoned facility

    Notable characters: The main character was just a normal man completly alone at the start,

    Notable gameplay mechanics: The character moved with mouse clicks and interacted with elements of the rooms, each time you clicked on an item in the room it made a small cutscene of the character picking up the object

    Other details: The game starts with the upper isometric view of a warehouse illuminated only with a dim red light, there is a bulldozer on the center of the room and you have to use it to break a wall in front of it by crashing the bulldozer several times, after that the character enters the hole made on the wall and gets to a better illuminated laboratory that seems to be abandoned and with overgrown plant life, there are dry bloodstains on the floor and several bloodbags wich the character may pick up.

    Thats all I can recall from the game, it had an eerie feeling and had a view perspective that reminded me of fallout 1, the controlls were purely point and click (or thats how I interacted with the first two levels), I cant recall an accesible inventory but pickung up items displayed a small scene of the character picking said item.

    Thanks in advance!

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    2024/04/29
    07:05 UTC

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    [Sega Dreamcast][around 2005] Arcade truck racing game

    I remember a truck racing game from my Dreamcast. It wasn't a race as in Nascar race but rather you had to haul your cargo to the destination faster than your opponent. The first level I believe you either started or finished at the Florida Keys.

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    2024/04/29
    06:59 UTC

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    [PC] [1990-2000s] [Arkanoid] help me find the Arkanoid from my childhood [Sci-fi, Space]

    Hello friends! please use my description of what I remember about the game

    Platform(s): PC

    Genre: Arkanoid

    Estimated year of release: before 2002

    Graphics/art style: 3D low poly, and sprites based on 3D low poly.

    Notable gameplay mechanics: The main feature of this arkanoid was that between levels you could buy weapons and upgrades for the platform in the next level in the store. currency in the store for blue crystals that fell out of blocks and had to be caught. It is noteworthy that each weapon had cartridges, they also had to be purchased and they ran out in battle. the blocks were mostly destroyed by weapons purchased before the level, the ball also took part in the game, it had to be hit, and classic upgrades for the ball fell out of the blocks. Another feature was the end of the level, when all the blocks are destroyed: the platform controlled by the player transforms into a spaceship. he starts flying forward like in Tyrian and you need to dodge asteroids. during a collision, the asteroids knocked crystals out of the ship, thereby losing currency for the store. asteroids could be shot with weapons.

    Other details: Space theme of the game design, dynamic effects, explosions, high-quality animation. I remember that there were many different weapons. rocket launchers, miniguns, lasers (you could put several on the platform, it looked cool how shell casings fell when firing from machine guns). in the store the products were in the form of 3D models and when hovered they rotated around an axis

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    2024/04/29
    06:46 UTC

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    [Andrioid][2010's] A game about a knight saving a princess.

    Genre:
    Adventure

    Est. Year of Release:

    2009-2015

    Graphics:

    A cartoony artstyle with small blocksized characters.

    I remember playing this in the early 2010's. It has been a pretty long time since then so I have forgotten most details and information about this game.

    The only picture still intact in my monkey-sized brain is the main character and the princess sitting side by side watching the castle from a hill at night.

    If I do see a screenshot of it, I may recognize the game.

    [Andrioid][2010's] A game about a knight saving a princess.

    Genre:
    Adventure

    Est. Year of Release:

    2009-2015

    Graphics:

    A cartoony artstyle with small blocksized characters.

    I remember playing this in the early 2010's. It has been a pretty long time since then so I have forgotten most details and information about this game.

    The only picture still intact in my monkey-sized brain is the main character and the princess sitting side by side watching the castle from a hill at night.

    If I do see a screenshot of it, I may recognize the game.

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    2024/04/29
    06:44 UTC

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    [iOS/Mobile] [Sometime around 2013] a 2d hidden object game about finding your friends

    I remember playing a game where you have to find your colorful friends after they got seperated in some cloud world and you have to traverse through doors and weird holes so you can reunite together again. I never got that far into the game but I can faintly remember one level where you travel to an area where your friend is taken hostage by a giant vine/plant.

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    2024/04/29
    06:42 UTC

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    [PC] [STILL ACTIVE] MMORPG Anime-like with old 3d graphics

    I remember to play this one like 6 months ago, it was a mmorpg, i see it on tiktok and now i cant find it, it was an anime-like rpg, i think it is still active, it started with you meeting a group of people that suddenly was attacked by a dragon, then you run away and arrives to the main village, i remember that one of the first bosses was a rat or smt like that. There was some classes like bow, axe, magic staff, etc.

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    2024/04/29
    06:41 UTC

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    [PC] [before 2009] old multiplayer shooter game with 3rd person view available

    I remember playing this game, where the most I can remember is that you can choose between these classes which are actually like robot exoskeleton suits and for example heavy class has a red and big suit which is slower to walk, but light class is small and blue and fast. Both classes have a high jump and I think you also have a jetpack?

    The objective is hold the flag, or capture the base, not really sure. The game reminds me of tribes 2 or halo but its own style and really cool. Also the game is somewhat in cyber military style and im sure its before 2010 or 09

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    2024/04/29
    06:32 UTC

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    [PC] [2010] GAME IF YOU THROW ROCKS AND THE DESIGN IS LIKE ALLADIN

    I played this game between 2010 and 2015 on my grandfather's computer, that is, the game can be from well before, basically I think it was a fighting game inside a ring and for some reason I remember a character throwing stones or the scenario having stones rolling, in fact I don't remember if it's a fight game but I remember that you could choose several characters, and the game had an Alladin type aesthetic and I think it was 3D, if it's not 3D I think at least it's a 2.5D, and the view is top-down

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    2024/04/29
    06:23 UTC

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    [PC] [Beginning of 2000s] Real-time sci-if strategy similar to Earth 2104

    Edit: SOLVED, thanks to u/whereismydream, the title has been found: State of War (2001)

    Hi everyone!

    So I'm trying to find this game I used to play a lot. This was no mainstream game by any measure (AFAIK), so I could not find anything on Google yet, no matter what keywords I tried.

    Platform(s): Windows (XP)

    Genre: Sci-fi RTS

    Estimated year of release: circa 1998-2004

    Graphics/art style: VERY similar to Earth 2140. The whole feeling of the game is similar. The graphics may have been a bit less smooth, a bit more pixelated, but I'm not sure about that.

    Notable characters: Not a character, but there was one very specific vehicle that was similar to an AT-ST walker from Star Wars, only it had a more rounded, almost bubble canopy on top instead of a squared one. This specific machine was also on the cover of the CD case (besides this you mostly had futuristic tanks and airplanes).

    Another very specific machine was a UFO/flying saucer like aircraft, which looked a bit like a beer cap. You had it from the first mission, and it could hoover (very slowly) above almost any enemy object and destroy them with a downward firing laser. This saucer could only cause damage if you were straight above the enemy, could not fire sideways. You had to install many air defense rocket launchers to fend off the enemy saucer.

    Notable gameplay mechanics: It was a classic real-time strategy. If I remember correctly, you could upgrade your vehicles even during the missions, using your own flying saucer. Usually both teams had HQs that were similar in structure to the Empire State Building, it was a tall building with a spire, and the mission was over if it was destroyed. If I remember correctly this was the only building above which the flying saucer could not fly, if it did, it blew up immediately. There might have been a factory in certain missions where you could resupply your army, bit it was somewhat slow so if the enemy damaged your army faster than the production rate, you were in trouble. 

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    2024/04/29
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    [CD-ROM][3D/3RD-PERSON-POV][SINGLE-PLAYER][CARTOONISH GRAPHICS][2005-2012] looking for game from childhood with cartoonish character in a mountain valley

    when i was pretty young there were three of four cd-rom games i owned. most i don't care to remember, but one in specific hold's a good memory in my brain and the name entirely escapes me. i can't remember much but i remember it being in third-person pov, using 3d graphics, having a lot of blue colors in the landscape, and taking place in a mountain valley. the characters were smaller and had small proportions and i think they had weird hairstlyes, very cartoonish. you could walk to a little village area and past that there was a beach with water. i think there was an ability where you could jump really high but i'm not sure. may have been something with a paintbrush or some staff-like object held in the characters hand. it definitely felt catered towards children and i'm pretty confident it wasn't attached to some larger franchise.

    i was probably 4 or 5 when i played it, so it would''ve been 2011-ish, but i a had an older sibling in the house at the time who later moved out that it might've belonged to, possibly dating it back to 2005/2006-ish. not sure if i was just in a hub world for some bigger game, but this is what i remember most vividly.

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