Emily is Away

I’m incredibly lonely

God damn Sacrifice, it was an RTS-esque third-person wizard game from 2000 or so. I remember the story and voice acting being quite good, and everything in that game being extremely weird looking. You could pick your god (thunder, fire, stone, life, and death IIRC) and they all had different spells and minions. You needed souls to summon minions, and you could get more souls by battling the other wizards’ minions and stealing their souls, by having some strange dudes with giant syringes take the souls and perform a ritual at one of your altars. The highest level spells were fucking awesome too, if you played as a fire wizard you could summon a giant god damn volcano on the battlefield. The goal was to sacrifice one of your minions at an enemy wizards main altar, and banish them from the realm (i.e. eliminate them from the game).

And holy fuck I’ve also just been informed that this game is available on Steam, brb

This one videogame I made as a hobby project. It sorta ties to my real identity, so I can’t exactly name it.

Metal Warriors is a fantastic SNES mecha side scroller where you pilot various types of mechs which you get hop in and out of (some parts of levels can only be accessed with your little jetpack guy) and it has split screen multiplayer pvp which I used to play on an emulator over an ip connection with my friend on dial up like 20+ years ago.

Blackwake. Super fun and unique team gameplay if you’re lucky enough to join a server that isnt overrun with toxic gamers. or if you’re lucky enough to play at all, since the game has been abandoned for a few years now and it’s pretty much dead in terms of playercount. In my opinion though, it could’ve grown to become a truly incredible and timeless game if it weren’t abandoned by the developer and left proprietary in an unfinished state so fans can’t pick up development.

Oh! I forgot my other one. Threads of Fate for the PS1! Very fun little Action RPG by Square. Didn’t make much of a splash. God I miss when big companies made small games like that :(

Pulseman

Egypt: Old Kingdom

ancient egypt simulator. 4x strategy game where you start as a couple guys on the banks of the nile river and soon create the Egyptian Old Kingdom and all of the various monument that came with it, featuring some very in depth history lessons on the side

Armed and Dangerous

Bombe is a game where instead of playing Minesweeper you program a Minesweeper-solving AI.

Space Trains is a nice puzzle/strategy thing about trains in space (probably costs more than it should though).

Bumbler Bee-luxe is a fantastic arcade style action game, but it was for Mac OS 8 and the emulators for that suck to set up.

Original War (it’s on Gog and Steam btw)

It’s an RTS that had a pleasant spin on the genre. Your dudes and dudettes are all people with their own voices, characters and skillpoints (in theory, if you get a lot of them they kinda become samey but anyway). You have three character classes; soldiers who shoot shit, engineers who build shit and scientists who science shit and turn neanderthals into pack animals by taming them, they also heal people. You can freely send a soldier into the science lab, but their skills in science are probably so low that they wont help at all.

The “hook” of the game is that you only so many troops, you cant train them from a barracks, and you also have limited supplies which pop out every once in a while somewhere into the hostile wilderness. So every times you hear the noise of a supply drop, you have to scramble some dudes to go check it out, and because soldiers cant carry the boxes you need to have engineers there with em. You COULD send the engineers (or neanderthals) to fetch those alone, but if there’s a saber-toothed tiger or an enemy soldier they’re absolutely fucked.

You can have tanks and vehicles, but gas is also a limited resource that pops up every once in a while. That’s why we have solar baby! The feeling of putting your heavy tank outfitted with solar panels into combat only for it to run out of power and everyone in the group is fucking erased sure is something. Nothing dies instantly though, everyone is injured first and lose consciousness, you have a few minutes to heal them to rescue them. All of the vehicles also break down just before exploding and you can send your engineers to repair them.

The story is pretty interesting too, the premise is that you’re playing as an amerikkkan soldier being sent back in time because the soviet union invented time travel, but the only resource capable of powering them is all in Siberia. So the United Snakes sends your platoon over to mine the “Siberite” and take it over to Alaska. The time machine isnt very precise though, so that’s why your dudes and dudettes and supplies just appear out of thin air randomly. Now the funny thing is that when you get to the past it’s filled with soviet troops, who are there to mine the “Alaskite” and bring it over to Siberia.

There’s some decent characters and the amerikkkan campaign atleast has three endings depending on your choices. The soviets are portrayed in a sussy light though, so proceed with caution.

I played a demo of this game back in 2003 maybe and found it later in a bargain bin. I never see anyone talking about it, so I must assume that I’m the only one to have played it.

Mine is a point and click adventure called Yesterday on Steam.

Here I’ll just screenshot my Steam review

cosmic jam

but thats because its a game I’m making and its not done

I invented a sort of solitaire that I play with the Cardcaptor Sakura clow cards where I have 4 columns and one must place and migrate cards that share 2 or more letters in their name. The goal is to deal out the columns with 0 (free space), 1, 2, then 3 cards, top are face up, and the rest gets (around 10 cards) placed in a pile and revealed one-by-one until all the cards are placed on the columns or else it’s a lose state. The deck consists of 50-something cards cards (minus the “jump” card which no other card shares 2 letters with) and is divided into 4 piles of 15-6 (i forget) for each round of this (prior to dealing). You win the game if you win 3 rounds out of 4.

I call it Clowitaire.

Definitely i’m not the only one who played them, but few niche ones from the top of my head:

• Yao Guai Hunter - Chinese version of Slay the Spire in supernatural Wuxia climates, imo better than StS.
• Omensight - It’s unusual for me to recomment action game, but this one is exceptional
• Shortest Trip to Earth - like FTL but better in all aspects
• Tale of Immortal - a full fledged Chinese xianxia webnovel experience. No shitting, if you ever read one of them and got the itch it’s were you go to scratch it.