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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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    [PC][2016 or Before] Main character wakes up out of cryogenic sleep in post apocalyptic/cyberpunk world

    Platform(s): PC

    Genre: Post apocalyptic, survival, top down, 3rd person, RPG

    Graphics/Art Style: Pixelated I think? Dark and gritty theme.

    Notable Characters: I can’t remember but there is an almost werewolf type beast that you kill and wear it’s hide as clothing. I think it’s the best armor in the game.

    Notable Game Mechanics: There is inventory management, like Dayz with slots. I THINK it is a tile system to explore the game world.

    Other Details: Ok so I believe the plot is you wake up out of cryogenic sleep in an abandoned place. The main character hears a monster werewolf type beast outside and runs for his life. You take refuge somewhere and find the world in shambles and try to figure out what happened. You end up at a city with giants walls and you can’t go in because you do not have the required item. Once you receive the item you go in and the city is cyberpunk-like. The city is authoritarian. You leave the city and end up back at the place you woke up at and you kill the “werewolf monster,” wearing it’s hide as a coat.

    I’m sorry for the word vomit but I am trying to be as detailed as I can. I really want to remember this game and play it for myself. I watched someone else play it on Youtube when I was younger.

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    2024/10/31
    09:56 UTC

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    [PC or Mobile][2010-2019] 3d game where you can build machines with wooden boxes and there's little people, you can create machines like bad piggies.

    You can put flamethrowers and make extendable contraptions, it's from an isometric moveable 3d perspective, the aesthetic reminds a bit of clash royale.

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    2024/10/31
    09:44 UTC

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    [Website] [2010s] Auto battler

    Anyone remember an auto battler that was on a website and the front screen had like a guy with a gi and a brown wolf looking thing in the back. You could fight only a certain amount of times per day and the battlers could drop their weapons if they got hit. It was a 11 type of a game can't remember what it's called Also the more you play the stronger your team would get almost like clash of clans where you keep getting stronger

    You could have pets and perks too i think it started with a B

    You could log on see who you beat out who beat you (they challenged you)

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    2024/10/31
    09:41 UTC

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    [PC] [Early 2000 od older] Top down shooter aliens vs marines on mars

    The game i'm trying to find is something that when i was playing it was very obscure. I believe i got it in a bundle burned CD with a bunch of random games at the local market.

    The game had Simple gameplay loop. In each mission you had to kill all the aliens on the map. Map was always fully visible or mosty if it was too big it scrolled when you got close to the border. Aliens probably had some spawners. There was always a group sometimes even army of marines on your side that was fighting by themselves. You could ,,recruit them" make them follow you. One hit from aliens killed you then you switched to other marine on map. There was always limited number of marines. There was local coop so you could play at one keyboard with two players. Maybe more was possible.

    Game had some kind of story, but i didnt understood the english then. But there was visible progression of story through the mapa. Pause first there was assault on the wideo open spaces and on further missions you were Underground in a lab.

    Graphics would fit well in today pixel type. It was one of those games that cant get old im terms of graphics. At least i remember it like that.

    Mine version of gamę didnt allow saving the progress i remember having very long run and being distressed with firend about losing progress. I think there was always a hard limit of attempts to repeat a map/mission throughout the campaign.

    In terms of progression there was not much of it, im not really sure if there were different types of gear. But i rember there was some power armor to wear when you got to Underground.

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    2024/10/31
    09:34 UTC

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    [mobile][2016ish] interactive dystopian story about a girl in a giant garden

    I played it on mobile, probably off the apple store, around 2016 or so. It was a interactive story game where you played as a girl (I don't remember if you could choose your character or not) in a giant dystopian garden with other kids who couldn't leave and were kept there by monks and eventually you escape the garden and go into the dystopian city. There were like 5 or so kids, a black boy and a kid who was basically feral are the only two I distinct fully remember. If anyone knows what it was called or have any ideas that would be great.

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    2024/10/31
    09:06 UTC

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    [Blackberry Playbook] [early 2010s] Fantasy city building game with floating islands

    Platforms: Mobile. For sure blackberry playbook potentially other mobile devices.

    Genre: city builder tap and wait style game

    Estimated time of release: early 2010s id guess somewhere between 2012-2014 at the latest

    Graphics/art style: I remember it being pretty colourful and it was isometric view. The islands were all square shaped

    Notable characters: I for sure remember the game having dwarves and elves it might have also had humans and orcs. I think you had trackers in the UI for each population. I don't remember if you ever got to see them walk around.

    Notable gameplay mechanics: the entire game was set in the sky with floating square islands. When you bought a new plot of land you would gain an island that you could place somewhere.

    Other info: I remember one of the buildings being a bowling alley and I think there was also a pig themed tavern.

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    2024/10/31
    08:48 UTC

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    [PC][Around 2016-2017] A princess Facebook game.

    Game I played as a child, there was a blonde princess in an abandoned castle. You had to unlock rooms with items u found basically like a puzzle game, I remember playing it on my mom's Facebook. There was a castle, a tower and outside forest, you needed to clean up rooks because they were abandoned. You could have move her around to pick up items and unlock rooms, the game was in 2D.

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    2024/10/31
    08:33 UTC

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    [Mobile][2010's] Racing game with low poly esthetic

    Hi, recently I got a flashback of a game I used to play on mobile around 7 years ago (I think) and couldn't remember the name of it. The game was a racing game with low poly models, with a driving style similar to trackmania (or so I remember), where one of the main features was jumping between platforms with your car. It's a solo game and has an almost synthwave like visual esthetic (there's not too many details in either the environment or the car). That's all could remember about it, any help is greatly appreciated 🙏.

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    2024/10/31
    08:26 UTC

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    [PC][2010's] A real time strategy tower defense game, 2 player

    Platform(s): Dont know, played it on a PC

    Genre: Real time strategy, tower defence, medieval( i think)

    Estimated year of release: Dont know, played it around 2013

    Graphics/art style: I think it was like a pixel 2d side scroller game.

    Notable characters: Dont know specifics, but they were like medieval troops

    Notable gameplay mechanics: You send out toops from your castle to fight ur friends troops

    Other details: I think there was a HUD at the top where you can see all the troops that you can send out, both players can play on the same keyboard

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    2024/10/31
    08:07 UTC

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    [XB][Early 2000s] A game where you must navigate a haunted house trying to save your friend who has been turned into a monster (not grabbed by the ghoulies)

    If it helps there was a grim reaper that would follow you around as well.

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    2024/10/31
    08:04 UTC

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    [Online Web Game][around 2020-ish] A team deathmatch shooter game

    I can only remember it taking place in space there's also a map where a giant spaceship is parked in the middle and the opposing team has to fight for it it's like king of the hill it also has characters that has jetpacks, guns and the characters could also jump high with jump pads, i remember one character from it called " Shocker " with a gun that can send out electric shocks and a surge of lightning (most likely a ball) it's appearance is a slim body and a blue suit with neon and a mask that looks like bumblebee's battle mask (not related to the game but by appearance only) and there's also another character called " Commando " from what i remember he has a gun and he's a space-soldier kind of thing. Also throughout the map there's floating hearts, green crosses, and pixelated ammo floating around waiting to be collected and there's also speed pads (more common in a map i remember that looks like a moon base). The title or the menu of it is entirely blue with a server selecting tab and a character menu also the character menu has a ton of skins and extra skins for the characters, there's also advertisements on the menu for some characters.

    im really desperate for the game name i have been trying to find it for 3 years now

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    2024/10/31
    07:42 UTC

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    [PC] [early 2010s] Please Help! Lion Pride Game

    Hi hi! First ever Reddit post, still trying to become familiar with the site. Forgive me for any errors when posting. I played this game a lot as a kid but never made it past the free trial and the one-hour limitation put on my playtime, I want to try and find this game now that I have the adult money to play it through, LOL.

    Platform(s): Windows PC

    Genre: Strategy or time management I think. Could be considered a tycoon game because you were meant to build up your pride. I believe it was top-down view, but I could be wrong on this.

    Estimated year of release: Sometime in late 2000s-early 2010s.

    Graphics/art style: It was 2D with a cute art style (could be considered "chibi") with little lions. Cartoony, with each lion having a different colored fur/mane, and some were super unique, like manes shaped like stars or moons based on their personality traits. On that note, the lions each fell into one category of personality traits that made them look different than one another.

    Notable characters: Once again, the little lions and their unique colors. I remember some being blue, pink, etc.

    Notable gameplay mechanics: You had your pride and you started off with a couple of lions, then you assigned them to do tasks (I remember distinctly you'd have to have them build little huts or clear logs or something, and you were trying to clear the land from pollution or something). The further along you get, the more lions you can get for your pride, the more mechanics open up, etc. There was a breeding mechanic as well where you could pair a male and female lion up to have a little cub. I think it went off real time, too, so it was one of those games you were supposed to check every few hours to progress.

    Other details: As mentioned above, I played it on my laptop and I downloaded one of those game-trial programs that was really just a trojan for a whole bunch of adware to infect your computer LMAO. It put a one-hour limit on each game, like a program full of game demos. I think it might've been WildTangent or some kind of knockoff. I just remember being a kid and downloading it to play all the animal games and suddenly every time I booted up my laptop I was met with a ton of pop-ups trying to sell me something. A few months ago I found this game for sale on Amazon, weirdly enough, and it was a download only sort of thing, but it seems that it's disappeared and I can't find it again, nor can I remember the name.

    Thank you so much! (:

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    2024/10/31
    07:39 UTC

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    [PC] [1998] Isometric RPG, similar to Baldur's Gate

    This is a turn based isometric view 2D game, similar to Fallout or Baldur's Gate. I remember that the icon was a green face, possibly an orc.

    You start with a party, in an interior, a stone room. The setting is fantasy.

    I think it's from late 90's,but it may have been very early aughts.

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    2024/10/31
    07:30 UTC

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    [PC][2010's] 3D Swinging platformer game with neon art style

    It's a swinging platformer game with a neon art style it was first person and it felt like you were spiderman, if you hit the walls or ground it was game over. the end levels of the game looked like hell(literally) and they were very difficult. I think it was a background game for a youtube video(maybe pyrocynical).

    sorry for bad english btw :)

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    2024/10/31
    07:26 UTC

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    [PS1][1990s] RPG (maybe) about a boy with a staff (not suikoden)

    Platform(s): PS1

    Genre: RPG (maybe)

    Estimated year of release: late 90s probably

    Graphics/art style: Birds-eye-view with (maybe) a polygonal 3D background with 2D sprite characters

    Notable characters: Main character is an adolescent boy who uses a staff as a weapon. No, it's not Suikoden. Maybe it was copying suikoden, but this specific game was not suikoden.

    Notable gameplay mechanics: there is one element that stands out in my memory as something very distinctive: the protagonist would spin his staff above his head and use it like a propeller to traverse obstacles.

    Other details: Seriously the propeller staff is the most notable element that I can remember. Any of the above details might be wrong or misremembered, even the platform, EXCEPT the propeller staff. I played it for a while as a rental, thought it was fun, then forgot about it completely. I want to play it again.

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    2024/10/31
    06:35 UTC

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    [PC][mid 2010's] Old looking rpg game with magic or wizardry in the game.

    Platform(s): PC

    Genre: RPG

    Estimated year of release: I played it in the mid 2010's, maybe 8 to 10 years ago but I don't have any other indication of when it could have been released. Before that for sure though.

    Graphics/art style: The graphics were old-fashioned in the same way barony's graphics are old-fashioned. Not exactly blocky but just chunky and old looking. Except this game's graphics were worse than barony's. Lower quality and not as sharp for sure. Maybe more like morrowind's graphics in the sense that they're blurrier than barony. I think that the graphics of this game were more cartoony than morrowind though.

    Notable characters: Don't remember characters.

    Notable gameplay mechanics: Quests, magic/wizard gameplay, standard 1st person rpg game things.

    Other details: I think it's one of those games that you'd download online on their website and play on your computer. Not an "officially" released kind of game but a game they were making and updating. I feel like I might remember a chat room of some kind PERHAPS, maybe one of those community type chat rooms that some single player games have(?) but that's a maybe and I might be confusing it with something else.

    When you started the game, you were in a city area and my memories tell me that the buildings around the city had stone walls and the city had a stone roads or courtyards or plazas or whatever you would call those.

    I sort of remember there being party members but I can't recall perfectly so this might be wrong.

    You moved sort of slowly, not very fast feeling at least. Also, the NAMES of games like planescape remind me of this game's name. But I can't remember anything more about the name than it being named similar to planescape. Some sort of realm or plane related online-based game? There might have been a wiki or some online article or blog things to read on the game's website. Which is why I think it's something that had been being updated by someone and hosted on their website somewhere or something. I specifically remember reading something about a depths type underground area. "Depths" in the same sense as Skyrim's Blackreach could reasonably be called depths. I don't know if that was the official label for the area or not though.

    I'm just trying to remember what the game was called and I keep drawing a blank after ending up thinking about planescape because the name sounds so familiar for whatever reason even though I have no PROOF it's close to that at all. And Planescape: Torment becomes the only thing that comes up when I search around using that word so it makes it difficult to figure out what it could have been even if it WAS close to that since there are so many articles about it and talks about it and all that. Portals come to mind along with realms and planes but that doesn't help much and might just be me word-associating from the initial planes thing.

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    2024/10/31
    06:30 UTC

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    [iPad,IOS] [2010-2015] mobile kids' hospital game

    Hi its my first time ever requesting something here but i've been thinking of this game i used to play and it was totally too good for that time and been searching for it ever since with no results. i'd appreciate it if somebody could help Platform(s): mobile IOS (not sure about android) Genre: Hospital games Estimated year of release: 2013 Graphics/art style: realistic but simple, third person pov (like hay day) no harsh lines in the animation drawings pretty comfy looking Notable characters: the same 6-8 kids that you would have to treat, they showed up randomly, i remember a blond white boy and i think their parents would be together in the waiting room Notable gameplay mechanics: it was pretty different from all the ones i've been searching so far: you were a doctor but like it was kind of first person so you wouldn't know how you looked like , there was a waiting room that you would call the kid to treat it and there were things you'd do like removing a bee sting, vaccinations, drawing blood, cleaning a rash and placing a band aid etc. Other details: there wasn't really a story regarding the gameplay you just had children show up at your waiting room and then you would treat them and the cases would be random but limited it was a pretty good game but seriously i cant find anything on it anymore

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    2024/10/31
    06:05 UTC

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    [PS2][2000s] Game set on an island with dinosaur-like monsters

    It is a first person game where the player(male) is on an island, mostly rocky and there are caves in the game. You also have a female companion that helps you with various tasks and you have to protect her throughout the game.

    The player has a pistol, and you can pick up spears from the enviroment or improvise and use sharp bones from bone piles as spears.

    The island has dinosaur-like monsters, and bugs. Most of the monsters look like they are based off or are prehistoric animals. (Like trilobites or pterodactyls). Your gun has limited ammo, so you usually have to resort to picking up spears and either stabbing or throwing them at the monsters.

    There were also puzzle parts where you have to use flame things on walls and shoot them with your spear, then they spread fire to burn bushes blocking your path. You could also light your spears with the burning bushes before they burn.

    There was also a part of the game where you had to protect the female protagonist from flying monsters as she climbs a wall, if she dies, the game restarts from the last checkpoint. This is how far i got into this game.

    I never got too far in this game because i was too young and too stupid to understand how the game works and what was going on

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    2024/10/31
    05:42 UTC

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    [IOS][~2010] Game similar to Age Of War.

    The game is basically a clone of Age Of War, you buy troops and they automatically walk to the right side of the screen to attack enemies. It had several factions to play as including Rome, Greece, Egypt and Carthage. The style was very simple, not photo realistic. You could level up your home base and upgrade your troops. The main menu has rock music.

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    2024/10/31
    05:11 UTC

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    [PS1][2007] Old game from PS1 or PS2

    Can anyone help me? I played a game years ago and I can't remember the name.

    I think it was a puzzle game, and as you progressed, monsters would appear, which you had to eliminate them. I don't remember if your weapon changed depending on which character you chose.

    The game started out with an old door, and the eligible characters were on either side of it. When you select one of them, the door opens and your character runs through it.

    The first area was like the backyard in Super Mario 64. Solving a few puzzles unlocks a door in one of the corners. As you get close to it, monsters will jump out at you, and if you're not careful, they'll hurt you. After you eliminate them, you go through the door that opened, walk down a passageway until you reach a lever, pull it, and the gate opens leading to the second area. You walk back, you find some monsters halfway, you eliminate them and you leave.

    The second area I would say is like a labyrinth, similar to the first area. But in this one bats appeared, which of course, if they touched you, they hurt you.

    This is as far as I got, because I never discovered what I had to do there.

    Does anyone know what this game was called?

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    2024/10/31
    05:04 UTC

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    [PS3][2000's to 2010's] Alien/Zombie game, Female Protagonist, Possible Single Player Story

    There was this game that I played as a kid, it had either aliens or zombies (I'm not sure) and it had a green atmosphere, and there was like a mission where you go into a cave and there was an animal in the cave maybe a pig or something that you save or it saves you? (I'm not sure) I might have been 8 years old when I played it. There was also guns I think.

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    2024/10/31
    04:57 UTC

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    [PC][Unknown] Side View Horror H game set maybe in Asylum/Hospital

    It could be a H game, I only saw it on Youtube and the video title might be in Japanese, I can't remember. The game was also in side view. The art style is dark and unsettling

    You play as a female characters in Asylum or Hospital maybe? The place is filled with monster or something like that cause there's a giant worm. I remember that in one moment of the game, our MC found presumably to be a demon baby in a bathtub as the MC say how horrendous and ugly it is. It's crying was also kinda scary, in the end she kill it. Then later, she eventually got pregnant by a monster in that place and was taken to a labor room. She then give birth to a demon baby and she's loving it like a mother loving her child.

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    2024/10/31
    04:49 UTC

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    [pc?][2010s?]

    game where you have to leave like a mall and eventually you get baited into thinking your leaving on like a small (yellow i think) tram and it eventually crashes into a ditch in the rails , i think dan tdm or messyourself played it

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    2024/10/31
    04:48 UTC

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    [PC][2000's]Strategy game about human-animal hybrids

    I saw this game on steam some time ago and haven't been able to find it again. It looks like the original isometric Fallout games but it is about evolution and mutant animal-human hybrid creatures. I think I saw some weird looking cheetah person.

    Please help me find this game!

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    2024/10/31
    04:47 UTC

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    [Online browser] [2010-2015] US presidential campaign game

    Trying to find a game I used to play on Miniclip. The basis of the game was you could pick which US presidential team you would campaign for and fight the other team to win states either turning them blue or red. You would sling mud at opponents or cover their state in rain clouds to chase them out and take over and if you win it throws confetti. That is all I have, Reddit do what you do please :)

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    2024/10/31
    04:30 UTC

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    [PC][2018] Online multiplayer game with racing mice

    I am trying to find an old online multiplayer game that I used to play. You play as a mouse and race other mice through different courses. I specifically remember racing other mice through a house. I think the last time I played it was in 2018 but I don't know when it first came out.

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    2024/10/31
    04:26 UTC

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