I wouldn't call Leisure Suit Larry and Maniac Mansion obscure, though. Sierra and Lucasarts still have a ton of fans that still play the oldies.

Anyway. Here are some of mine.


Drakensang. Plays like NWN2\DA:O but with a more complex system. Joinable companions as well. It is available on Steam, I believe.


Draconus for the commodore 64. Kind of a platform\action adventure game. Cool music and sound effects, and great for exploration.



Lethal Weapon for the Amiga. Insane soundtrack, and fun gameplay.


It Came From The Desert. Adventure game with great replay value. Some strategy and fps involved as well.



Blood. Kind of a gothic fps game. Came out around the same time as Duke Nukem, but didn't get enough credit.



LOTR: War in the North. Action rpg. Split-screen function. Great story. What's not to like?

So many threads popping up that I want to make lists for, but I know putting in the time and thinking about it could become a looooong thing. X3

FTR, Blood is still one of my favorite FPSes ever. The Build engine games in general were all really solid, but Blood stands out cause of course if you know me, you know gothic horror is a very quick way to get to my heart.

As for my own list... Hrm. I might do some tweaking on it as more things come to mind but I'll throw out a few for now:

-The Last Express (One of my favorite adventure games everrrr. WWI era stuff has a special place in my heart, and there's really not enough of it around in general)

-Clive Barker's Undying (huge Clive Barker fan in general and Undying does a lot of things so so right for me. The scry ability is wonderful and can create such sudden "Holy shit..." moments when used in the right location. Not to mention, the sound design is great.)

-Pathologic (I love this one so goddamn much. There's a book I could write here about how the original localization, back before Ice Pick Lodge became kind of a cult favorite darling and got the money, was hampered in a mess of too many chefs spoiling the soup because of the three playable scenarios, they all were translated by different teams and thus, they range from not really all that bad to very unintelligible, which is a shame because it's another gothic horror title, amazing atmosphere and fantastic music. Luckily, after 10 years, Ice Pick did a Kickstarter and we're not only getting a remake, but they also did a retranslation of the original game, so I'm incredibly happy there.)

-Realms of the Haunting- Part adventure game, part FPS, full on cosmic horror. Love it to pieces.

There's probably a ton more I can add, but coffee is still trying to find its way into my blood stream, so I'll leave it there for now.

Just seeing the word "Mappy" makes this start playing in my head and it probably will not stop for several hours. So thanks for that. Thanks a lot.



that game. The graphic designers sure did love their pastels.

And that Karon Town theme was just ...hnngg.



As for me, my go-to answer for this is without a doubt Gladius, a tactical rpg for the PS2/GC/Xbox.

I'll probably think of more later on.

KILLING TIME!



Hunter Hunted

Need Dungeon Siege 1 to play it. But I guess that makes it even more obscure. I highly recommend it, though. Ultima 5 with "modern" graphics.

The latter two are objectively the best games ever made and if you disagree with me I'll fucking fight you IRL.

Very much so in fact. What's funny here is I was meaning to pop in and also mumble about Septerra Core cause you know I adore it (Shadow Hearts is a given and we won't open that wall of text fangirling...) but I kept forgetting, so you covered it for me.

Singularity.

That time-shifting device was dope...