r/thetipofmyjoystick

Looking for an old English-language first-person 3D PC game (low-poly, 2000s era, I think it was on Steam).

You play as the main character exploring a labyrinth-like area. There’s a small abstract companion (red or black, very simple/abstract design) that guides you through the maze and has the only voice lines in the game.

In the bad ending the companion gets flipped upside-down and suddenly looks like a little devil. He tricks you, a cage rises up, and you’re trapped.

To progress properly in the story you have to distrust his directions and deliberately take the opposite path.

One specific bad-ending scene I remember: a closed room with a checkerboard-pattern floor over lava. You have to walk across a walkway/bridge to a platform to grab a key (or similar item).

Pure exploration with some light psychological horror elements, no real combat as far as I remember.

I even drew the companion roughly (normal and flipped versions) if that helps. (sry im shii with ms paint)

Any ideas?

Hi all,

I’m looking for an old game that I can’t seem to find listed anywhere. I don’t remember the title at all.

I’ll describe the game and roughly the era it came out.

It came out around 1999 to 2003 and I played it on the original Xbox. Not sure if it was available on other platforms.

I remember the house I lived in when I had it so I know roughly when it was out.

It got buried by another game that launched around the same time.

Possibly GTA 3( 2001). It did not sell well and I picked up a preowned copy from game stop.

It was a 2 player co-op, first person shooter.

I remember it was a wave defence game. You had a wall fortress that you ran around and repaired in between waves.

It had multiple levels and it had mounted heavy machine guns in multiple locations.

I’m took place in a box canyon with 3 roads that came down into the box canyon.

You got to mount weapons or use a rifle during the wave.

I remember we were blue skinned people. The game did not have any progression or levelling up mechanics

Any help is appreciated.

Solved! It is Rouge Trooper but it’s a game mode called StrongHold. It’s not the regular game. It was 3rd person so I got some details wrong.

This video is the game I remember.

https://youtu.be/O5loAwC-V9k