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Ok people i may not be alot help on this one but here we go, I remember getting the game from a cheap bin from Walgreens. 1. It was a old school RTS game I believe 2. You could either be a human civilization or a Monster civilization 3. Monster civilization included if i remember a few, Minotaur and some kind of snake monster 4. Humans could build alot of buildings 5. Monsters had to build "nests" by npc civilization to gain resources and produce human troops 6. I think it rode the age of empires hype train especially Age of empires 2 I believe

I'm trying to find an old PC game I played around 2008, though it might be older — I got it from a stick full of games a family friend brought over.

What I remember:

You control a spaceship, viewed from a slightly 3D/isometric angle (not straight top-down)

You never leave the ship — all combat is done by flying and shooting

The setting is space, with a very dark, almost pitch-black background, and random asteroids floating around

There were different "zones" you'd fly through/explore

Enemies were dark-colored, alien-looking creatures with tentacles, sometimes with smaller creatures near them (not exactly waves/swarms, more like a big one with little ones nearby)

I don't recall fighting any bosses

It was NOT pixel art — it looked fairly "realistic" for the time, kind of dark and unsettling/scary

There was a lot of blood/gore when you killed enemies (enough that my mom didn't want me playing it as a kid)

I played it on Windows XP

Not sure if it had a story

I've already ruled out Alien Shooter and Starscape. Any ideas would be hugely appreciated — ive been trying to find it with claude for the past half an hour with no luck...so he suggested this draft for a post on this subreddit so were am i :))

I’m looking for an old rts pc game with mechs and building mechanics like age of empires or something like it. I’m pretty sure you could either make a ‘basic’ mech or a more advanced version that I swear was golden or yellow in color and took more time than two of the basic ones… but could hold off three of the basics with on. then beat them handily with two. The units could look in four directions at most I believe.

last thing I remember was a massive ‘flat’ building that looked like a. super massive hole base. that required **alot** of two resources and a flat area to build it on. oh! and I remember needing to destroy enemy square ‘bases’ while defending my own from the enemy units… and both the first ‘level‘ and tutorial had me and the enemy starting on landmass‘s split by a river/ocean.

I **think** it had one of the upgraded better mechs on the cover of the game but I don’t remember any major details.

in the past i remember playing a south park game but i cant find it now. its 2d and you play as kenny and the level was snowy and i remember that mr.hankey was in the game and he jumps around and if he touches you you die
i cant seem to find this game anywhere and this makes me feel like it doesnt exist at all and im starting to think that it doesnt exist at all
idk if anyone knows what im talking about but i wish to find it

Hi guys, so I'm looking for an old game i played once on PC, i remember i played it before 2010 and i was so young probably 7-9 years, i remember it was a horror comedy game, it was about ghosts, i remember it was 2D and kinda narrative, and not sure but maybe it was a flash game, so please help me find it

Oh yeah btw i remember a scene of someone pooping and poop 🙂😂

Edit: i found it guys! It's ghost motel!

Really all I remember about the game is it was about colony management and some warfare. There were, I think, 3 species including Humans, some sort of insect species, and a third that I cannot really remember.. Rock people maybe?

Anyway, all 3 species had a specialty. Humans being sort of all rounders, the insects being very zergy, and the other being more defensive maybe?

Your armies would stack up on your settlements before you sent them to war against the other species.

My biggest memory I guess is that the insects were fun to play because they developed SO FAST but I think their units might have been more flimsy or something.

Edit: Sorry, I can't believe I forgot to mention it's not Starcraft.

Edit2: Thinking a bit more on it I remember that it wasn't so much isometric as top down perspective. Pretty simple sprites too for the unit graphics. I don't recall it having like anything you would consider 3D rendering.

If I had to guess it was probably made before RTS/City builders really got into their 3D/Isometric POV era

For ages I’ve been able to remember the music from a game I used to play. It’s definitely a chiptune, so most likely PC, using the PC speaker. But I also played on Atari ST before getting a DOS PC, so could possibly be that.

Vocaroo here: https://voca.ro/1iFkH10Gc0E3

I vaguely remember it being medieval themed, and this bit of music playing while you were exploring a town, possibly at night. The music would loop as in the Vocaroo. It was possibly an edutainment game, but not entirely sure.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Hi all.

Ive recently been watching old playthroughs and walktheoughs of old pc games. I am reminded of one I use to play way back when. All I remember is that there were planets, an alien race, and that after every mission it would play the graduation song/macho man theme.

I wish I could remember more.

Here's everything I remember:

Name : (maybe) battleground

It was a single-player, story-driven FPS. The game took place mostly on a desert-like planet, similar to Mars. Most enemies were human soldiers, not aliens. The combat wasn't very hectic; enemies appeared in relatively small groups. You could drive futuristic rover/buggy-like vehicles in some missions. In a few locations, there were large bipedal mechs parked on the map. You could enter them whenever you reached them. When entering the mech, the camera switched to third-person. The mech could walk and shoot, but I don't remember it flying or transforming. One mission took place inside a large industrial/nuclear reactor facility. At least one weapon had a digital ammo counter displayed on the weapon itself. I vaguely remember the title containing a word like "Battle" or "Renegade", but I'm not confident about that. It was not Halo, Pariah, Breed, Chrome, Battlefield 2142, Battle Engine Aquila, Parkan II, Gene Troopers, Project Snowblind, or Command & Conquer: Renegade.

I'm trying to remember a PlayStation 1 game that I played many years ago.

Here's everything I remember:

- PlayStation 1 (100% sure)
- 3D game with a third-person camera behind the character
- Stage-based action game
- The main character was a human boy with cat ears and a tail (possibly part of his outfit, but they were visible throughout the game)
- I think he used a sword, but I'm not completely sure
- Anime-style graphics
- His hair was either blond or green (I'm not completely sure which one)
- One of the early stages looked like a cave

I've been searching for this game for years, so any guesses are welcome. Thanks!

(Reposting from r/tipofmyjoystick, as nobody seems to know what I'm talking about 👀) I'm trying to identify an educational PC CD-ROM I played in Italy sometime around 1998–2003. The game itself may have been older.

Here's what I remember:

• It was in first-person (you never saw your character).
• It was fully 3D, not point-and-click. I could walk around freely.
• The setting was a large, empty citadel surrounded by walls. The walls looked medieval, but many of the buildings inside were made of white marble and reminded me of Greek temples or classical architecture.
• There were roads connecting the buildings.
• Each building contained educational activities or quizzes (I remember subjects like maths and science).
• The interiors were also rendered in 3D.
• There were no NPCs, no enemies, and (as far as I remember) no voice acting.
• The atmosphere was very quiet and almost eerie.
• Outside the citadel was an endless grassy meadow with almost nothing in it. I remember being able to leave the city and just keep walking into the empty landscape.
• The sky had a purple/violet tone (this is one of the strongest memories I have, although it could have been dusk rather than literally purple).

I played it in Italy, so it was either originally Italian or localized into Italian. It may have been bundled with a school textbook or another educational product rather than sold as a normal game.

The closest thing I've found visually is Chemicus: Journey to the Other Side; not because the gameplay matches, but because the rendered 3D environments have a similar feel.

Does this ring a bell for anyone? Even if you're not sure of the title, suggestions of Italian educational CD-ROMs from around that time would be hugely appreciated!
I've been looking for this "game" for literal YEARS, and I shall not have peace until I scratch this itch.

I remember owning a CD titled “Click to Play 4” which had a purple interface and lots of games packed in it. There was Lion King game, Tarzan, Brother Bear game, a game about a worm in an apple helicopter fixing houses, and many more.
I realise that it might have been a sort of pirated emulation software with baked-in games but I want to know if it exists. Any and all help is greatly appreciated and welcome.
Thank you and please.

Guys there was a game that I used to play when I was a little child (I was born in 2002 btw). In one scene there were plenty of turkeys just chilling or looking at you I don’t really remember. It was a story based game and had some realistic cartoon style. I tried to find it via AI but sadly couldn’t have any clue. Could you help me find this game? Anyone remembers something like it?

There was zero educational elements, math, or typing—it was pure arcade survival. You used only the 1, 2, and 3 keys on the keyboard to quickly switch lanes or steer down the center of the path. As you drove further, the game sped up and the dotted path physically bottlenecked and shrunk, getting smaller and smaller until it was nearly impossible to stay inside the lines without crashing.We always just called it "Driver" at school. It was likely a lightweight shareware or freeware executable (.exe) passed around by students on floppy disks rather than a retail commercial game.

Details I remember:

• The launcher/shooter was at the bottom of the screen, and the marbles moved above it, with the camera/background scrolling vertically (felt like flying/accelerating upward).
• The launcher platform itself had angel-like wings , it visually flapped like it was flying.
• The background was mostly green and very colorful/vibrant.
• The art style was beautiful, hand-painted/hand-drawn for the teen exist in it, with a fantasy/medieval feel — almost like an anime style with elves, that kind of aesthetic.
• There was a separate hero character (not the launcher itself) — a young man wearing silver armor — who would periodically pop up from the side of the screen (left or right) during gameplay, like a hand-drawn illustration, and "talk" to you (motivational/encouraging messages).
• As you progressed through the game (mid-game, not just level-to-level), this character's armor would change color from silver to gold, as some kind of progress/achievement indicator.
• There were also abilities/upgrades that strengthened your launcher platform.
• I'm fairly confident it's NOT: Sky Kingdoms, DragonStone, Luxor (any version), Sparkle, Mythic Pearls, Marble Duel, Charma, Bengal Game of Gods, or Quadrium — I've already ruled these out.
• Likely a smaller/indie studio, not a big-name developer.

Any help identifying this game would be hugely appreciated!

Can't remember the name but it was a computer game where you control soldiers (normally wearing blue or yellow) and it's overhead point and click and kill soldiers and mech i think, it had futuristic gun i think, (potentially a mmo can't remember)

This may be a bit too old for this group, but..... Back in the late 80s I had a game which i can't remember the name of. I think it was on my C64. It was a literal bull running through a china shop. Subpar graphics , even for that time, but i can't for the life of me remember what it was called. I've tried Google many times to no avail. It might have been on cassette or floppy. HELP!!

So these last few years Ive been going crazy trying to find this PC game I got to play as a kid. It was part of a demo disc that I believe came with a PC gaming magazine. I don’t remember the name of the magazine but all I remember was that a demo of the first Half Life was on the disc as well.

As far as gameplay of the alien game it self goes it was very simple. You got to play as 3 different alien types; a slender, speed-based alien w/ a pointy head (reminds me of XLR8 from Ben 10), a bulky, hulk-type alien and a basic alien who’s abilities I dont remember lol. There was some pretty basic customization I think were you could change the attributes or colors of the aliens using some sliders

The game was set on a like a desert type planet and you had to fight your regular degular run of the mill bug looking aliens.

Help me PLEASE!!! Lol