r/OldPCGames

I’m trying to identify an old PC game I played sometime in the 2000s, probably on Windows XP. It was a fully 3D game with a colorful, cartoonish art style, and you controlled a character from inside the game world rather than looking down at a tabletop or traditional board. I remember a lot of green, outdoor, grassy, or forest-like scenery, and I’m fairly sure the game had lots of different minigames, activities, or at least a lot of gameplay variety. I may have been playing as a non-human character, and I vaguely remember insects or bug-like characters being involved somehow, although that could have been only one part of the game. I also have a fuzzy memory of dice being used somewhere, which originally made me think it might have been a board game, but I’m no longer confident that it actually was one. It may have had computer-controlled opponents and possibly voice acting. I don’t think it was a platformer, educational game, or cheap bargain-bin title; I remember it feeling like a solid, polished game. My best guess for the release window is roughly 2003–2008, although it could be a little older. Games I’ve already ruled out include Bugdom, Kooka Bonga, Barnyard, LEGO Island 2, Pooh’s Party Game, Titeuf: Méga Compet’, Rayman Raving Rabbids, Milo and the Magical Stones, Animal Town, a bugs life, and Teazle.

Vague memory of a game I played many moons ago. You would pick from various helicopters or planes and armaments to complete missions. I’m pretty sure a VTOL plane like the Harrier Jump-Jet was an option. You would fly sideways over terrains, bomb a target or drop supplies (I think) and then try to safely land again.

When I was a young child in the early 2000s the teacher of my school's REACH program would sit with me to play a selection of computer games (I remember Amazon Trail 3rd Edition in particular) but there's one in particular I'm trying to find again that I'm a bit stuck on. This would have been around 2004, but I'm pretty sure the program itself was older. I remember it being entirely or almost entirely in black and white (which I thought was unusual), having a top down view of a town or city that sort of resembled the original SimCity (I think you were able to place buildings and roads?), and I think the gameplay involved a number of pre-written stories (which I think were mysteries?), probably teaching reading comprehension or problem solving but to be honest I don't strongly remember what in particular it was teaching, this would have been when I was in Kindergarten. There may have been external assignments that we would complete before progressing on the computer but I can't be sure. My main memory connected to this game is I saw in the menu that you could create your own stories in the game and being really excited to try doing that, but I never got to because we didn't really have the time for it. I want to say it was a Windows program because every other computer in the school was running Windows, which I recognized from my home computer, but the black and white graphics make me think it may have been an older Mac program, I dunno.

[Platform(s)] PC (Windows). It was included in a categorized, bootleg "300 Popular PC Games" compilation CD from the early 2000s alongside games like Dark Fall: The Journal and Virtua Cop 2.
[Genre] 3D Platformer / Action / Chess-themed puzzle.
[Estimated year of release] Around 2001 - 2004.
[Graphics/art style] It had a dark, mysterious, and slightly eerie/abstract atmosphere. The levels consisted of stone structures or grids forming platforms floating in the middle of empty space (like a void or outer space). The colors were mostly dark and grey, but the very last level had a brighter, daylight sky.
[Notable characters] At the start of the game, there was a minimalist, dark character selection screen where you had to choose between two insects. I remember them being a grasshopper/mantis and a spider (or something similar). They were 3D models spinning on their axis with no other text.
[Notable gameplay mechanics]
The camera view was strictly Third-Person (behind the back of the insect).
The main goal of each level was to jump around and physically push or hit giant 3D chess pieces (like Pawns, Rooks, etc.) to knock them off the edges of the floating platforms into the void.
The chess pieces were alive, moving, and actively attacking you to push you off instead.
Different pieces had different AI and sizes (the Rook/Castle was huge).
In the final level, you had to defeat the King and Queen. The Queen and King had very smart, aggressive AI compared to the other pieces, actively predicting your moves and trying to corner you.
[Other details] It is NOT a popular game. It wasn't a flash game either (like Miniclip), it was a separate executable (.exe) file usually found in the "Platform" or "Strategy" section of shareware game CDs of that era.
Does anyone remember the name of this obscure game? Thanks in advance!

Its somewhere between 1995-2010. Because i played that game in 2011😭😭. It was on windows xp.

Heyy all !

Trying to find an old PC FPS from the 2000s. Details I remember: Genre: First-person shooter, fast and arcade-y ,shhot em all style Setting: Takes place on a spaceship or space station Enemies: Sci-fi aliens or monsterd Weapons: Big, oversized guns Main character: Bald or had a mohawk, very big/buff build, wore bulky sci-fi armor kind of like Warhammer 40k style, no helmet Publisher: I remember it opening with the EA Games logo (the round one), and I have a strong memory of the soldier character bursting through the logo in the intro — but I'm not 100% sure this is actually EA, could be misremembering How I played it: It was a demo bundled on a CD with an Egyptian tech magazine called لغة العصر (Lughat Al-Asr / Al-Ahram), so likely something mainstream/well-known enough to be included on a cover disc Any ideas appreciated, been trying to track this down for a while

Thanks in advance !!

Realistic (not cartoon) blonde boy, side-scrolling, exploring a house with multiple rooms, helicopter or plane at the end of the house I think. Played on an old box PC, possibly DOS or early Windows. Played around 2012–2013. Game could be from the 90s.

I remember my dad playing some military game on PC set in some jungle.
If I am not mistaken you could switch in between characters and it looked very realistic for me at that time.
Thats all i know.

I remember a game, it was a point and click game and it was a 2.5d game, possibly on newgrounds. Now, I've searched near and far for anything about this game, either it was archived somewhere and that website was taken down, or maybe it just fell into obscurity. If this post get's enough notice I'll post more about it.

Edit: Some new stuff came up. I remember watching a gameplay of someone playing it, and there were these massive monoliths all around the world, there was a border at the edge of the world, but the player walked through it and the game crashed.

https://preview.redd.it/o7r2t43ayejh1.png?width=380&format=png&auto=webp&s=b3fe200c480d6ac42c817cbd8c749f0c92d18421

This is what the game looked like

Hi,

I am looking for the name of a 2D racing game I played as a kid. The camera viewpoint is from above, similar as in GTA2. There were multiple racing area's, for example jungle, snow, desert. The thing I most strongly remember is for example in the snow map, you could change into a snowball to overtake people at high speed. And in the desert map you could change into a bullet to overtake.

Your help is appreciated!

Can somebody suggest some good websites which work legit for downloading pc games. I wanna download games which are a bit older like in the 2013ish kinda era.

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Platform(s): PC

Genre: Interactive read-along adventure with art themed mini games

Estimated year of release: Early to mid 90s

Graphics/art style: The art was a very simple cartoon style, very round with no hard lines. I remember the colors being soft and slightly washed out.

The format was that of a story book, going from page to page. The only one I remember clearly was the last page were the boy protagonist had become an artist, it showed him as an old man sitting and drawing, his back was to you and you could see the wall in front of him full of his drawings.

Notable characters: A little boy was the protagonist, He had brown curly hair. I don't think they ever showed the parents of his big brother even though they were mentioned.

Also his school teacher who inspired him to become an artist. I think there may have been an antagonistic teacher in the beginning who hated art or something like that.

Notable gameplay mechanics: It was point and click mostly with the exception of the art games which were very simple, even simpler than MS paint.

Other details: I remember playing this game when I was a child in the 90s.

The story was very simple, there was a little boy who loved drawing and for his birthday he got a big box of crayons. He was in primary school. I think he took them to class and got yelled at by a teacher who had something against him drawing all the time but in the next semester of school there was a new younger teacher (I think she may have had red hair but I'm not entirely sure) who was impressed by his drawings and inspired him in some way to keep on drawing with his crayons. By the end the story tells you he never stopped drawing and became an artist.

There was a voice-over narrating the story, I don't remember there being any written words, so I don't think it was an educational reading type of game. You could interact with random objects in the pages which would make sounds, move or the little boy would speak and tell you something about the objects or his life. Some special objects would take you to a sort of mini-game where you could draw or mess around with colors.

The one mini game I remember the most had to do with autumn leaves. There were different kind of stamps in the shape of various brown or orange leaves you could stamp on a blank canvas and then click a whirlwind that would turn your random stamping into a kaleidoscope-looking collage.

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to remember a 3D dark-themed sword-fighting game I played on PC around 2007 (though the game itself might be older).

Here are the exact details I remember:

• Camera & Controls: Third-person view (directly behind the back), standard attack buttons.
• Intro / Beginning: The game starts with the character waking up, guided/trained by their mentor, and fighting some monsters.
• The Boat Scene: There is a scene on a small boat where a character is stabbed/killed with a sword while struggling near death. (I'm not entirely sure if this happens near the beginning, middle, or end of the game).
• Character Switch & Enemies: After this death scene, you end up playing as the person who committed the kill. From there, you explore dark areas and fight skeletons and other creatures.
• Atmosphere: Very dark, grim, and action-focused.

Platform(s): PC Windows
Genre: RTS / Base Building
Estimated year of release: Probably between 1998–2006 (played around 2006–2011).
Graphics/art style: Isometric view. Dark, gloomy medieval forest atmosphere. Not colorful or cartoonish. The graphics felt smooth/pre-rendered rather than flashy 3D.
Notable gameplay mechanics: Started with almost nothing. Gathered wood, stone, and gold using workers. Built houses and defensive structures (possibly wooden archer towers). There was fog of war, and I remember exploring the dark map being scary as a child. I rarely attacked and usually stayed in my base until the AI attacked me.
I also remember ambient forest sounds (especially birds), and when ordering workers to chop trees there was a distinct axe-chopping sound. I vaguely remember small boats/rafts that could move units across water.
The game was in English, had save/load, and was not fantasy (no orcs, elves, magic), not sci-fi, not World War, and almost certainly not Roman-themed.
I played it on a Toshiba laptop around 2006–2011.

The closest visual atmosphere I’ve seen so far is Highland Warriors, but it’s definitely NOT Highland Warriors.

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[pc steam] [2008-2011]

It's like a game where you run a tribe and you have to invade other tribes

sorry for that title, i dont have a better way of explaining. today i got a nostalgia feeling about a mystery game i played over a decade ago but i have forgotten almost all of it. i have been asking ai but it didnt helped. so here is all the info i remember-

Looking for an old PC game I played over 13 years ago (so likely 2012–2013 or earlier). Details:

• Platform: PC — it was likely preinstalled/bundled on a Windows 7 laptop (possibly trialware).
• Perspective: First-person.
• Visuals: 2D static images for each scene/location, not a 3D environment.
• Characters: The main character is never shown on-screen, and there are no other human characters visible anywhere in the game either.
• Settings: Includes a jungle and a hut room, among other locations.
• Gameplay: You explore different rooms/scenes, find hidden objects scattered around each location, and manipulate/change items in the scene to unlock doors and piece together the story.
• Time travel: There's a time-travel element, but it's not the main focus — it only shows up for certain stages. Changes made in one stage/time period affect other stages as well.
• Framing device: The main character enters through a door to get into this magical/mysterious place at the start, and also exits through a door at the very end of the game.
• Music: Atmospheric background music — calm but somewhat serious in tone, not upbeat or cheerful.
• you can go back to previous stages as well

it was a simple puzzle game i found on my brothers pc that i fell in love with. some puzzles are ridiculous but overall it was a fine game. i dont remember a lot so this is all the info i can provide

I’ve been trying to identify something I played as a kid on my dad’s PC, and I remember very little about it except for a few extremely specific details.
This would’ve most likely been sometime around 2007–2012, although the software itself could have been older.

What I remember
It was running on a Windows PC connected to a TV in my dad’s basement.
It was third-person.
You controlled a realistic-looking adult male character.
I think he was a white guy with longer hair, but I’m less certain about that.
He wasn’t carrying a gun or any other item that I can remember.
The environment was a realistic tropical island with vegetation and water.
I don’t remember seeing any NPCs or other people. My memory is of the place feeling strangely empty.
There was a large structure on the island that I remember as a roller coaster, although it could have actually been a monorail, elevated rail, or some other large track-like structure.
Graphically, from what I remember, it looked surprisingly realistic for the time — approximately the same general generation/level of realism as Just Cause 2, although it was definitely NOT Just Cause 2.

The really weird detail
I remember controlling it using an actual BlackBerry with the physical trackball.
I specifically remember rolling the little trackball with my thumb and using it to control what was happening on the TV.
However, I DON’T necessarily think the game itself had BlackBerry support. My dad was a computer builder and was heavily into new technology, PC hardware, graphics demos, experimental software, etc. The BlackBerry may simply have been configured as a wireless input/remote for the PC.

Why I think this might have been a tech demo
My dad installed a lot of unusual computer/technology stuff, so there is a real possibility this wasn’t a commercially released game at all.
It could have been something like a:
GPU/graphics-card demo
NVIDIA/ATI/AMD demo
engine demonstration
Unreal/UDK project
CryEngine/CryDev project
DirectX demo
benchmark-related interactive demo
experimental third-person environment
random downloadable PC demo/project
The thing that sticks with me is that it didn’t feel like I was fighting enemies or completing missions. I remember walking a normal man around this beautiful but strangely empty tropical environment, with that big roller-coaster/monorail-looking structure nearby.

Things I’ve already ruled out
It is NOT:
Just Cause / Just Cause 2
GMod Tower / Tower Unite
PhysX Island
TrackMania
Far Cry/Crysis gameplay
Some of those have similar environments, but none are what I remember.
Unfortunately, the original PC no longer exists. It was destroyed in a flood, so I can’t search the old hard drive.
I’ve been trying to identify this for years. Even screenshots of obscure PC/graphics demos from this era would be useful. If anyone was into PC building, GPU demos, CryEngine/UDK projects, or experimental PC software around 2007–2012 and this sounds familiar, I’d love to hear your ideas.