What is your favorite unknown game?

[Lehran]

Geist for the gamecube. It hasn't aged the best, but it's story was great and unique.

[Lehran]

Custom Robo needs to make a switch comeback. Having a console quality version of that game you can play with people on the go would be great.

[supersid333]

100% Orange Juice is a really fun game, it has a pretty decent community and its a fun time. Its basically a Mario Party style game where you move around the board trying to score Stars or KO's and turn them into a home space without dieing along the way. It has a little bit of deckbuilding, the characters are pretty iconic and have unique playstyles based around their passives and stats, and everyone has game changing Hyper cards that do nonsensical stuff like KOing all one health characters, littering the field with mines, putting bombs in the community deck, or even becoming invincible for a turn.

My only real gripe with the game is that its an RNG hell and if you're unlucky a bad roll or two can have dead on the ground for turns on end, but even then with luck you can catch a lucky break and still steal the game with good cards and some lucky fights. That plus its cheap, I bought like 4 copies of it since it was 14 bucks to get that many and dragged a couple (unfortunate) friends along for the ride. Also, the music is good and every character has a unique theme that kicks in when you turn in a point.

[Sorain]

Evil Genius. Picture a dungeon keeper style game, with you playing a Bond Villain and reveling in the inherent silliness of that premise. Yeah, it's like that. Great stuff.
Edit: as an example, each of the super agents is a send up of a classic movie protagonist or archtype, including imitation Rambo. You can only permanently defeat them by finding their weakness via scouting operations and using it on them, a remarkably risky thing to do as capturing them is just as dangerous as you'd think.

Honorable mentions for:

Project Nimbus. It's essentially what happens when someone likes Ace Combat, Zone of the Enders and Gundam, then decides to make a game that rolls ideas from all of that into a single game. Also, the playable bosses you fight? They're not cheating, the AI's dodge game is that good.

Space Beast Terror Fright. Imagine being the Colonial Marines, only funded by the lowest corporate bidder and expected to die 95% of the time. This is that game. The 'persistence' of progression is only until you die, and you will be dying a lot, which is why you earn stuff back swiftly. It's not finished yet but dang if it doesn't work well so far.

Achron. Meta-Time Strategy game. They're not kidding. If you can stand the simple unit design and god awful GFX, maybe you'll wrap your head around a bog standard C&C style RTS... with time manipulation by you and your enemies alike. Yes including killing the factory you made your army with in the past so it vanishes, or the builder unit that made half your base. Other features include 'Counterfactual Scouting' (Send a unit to a place, look at the future to see what it spots, go back to when you ordered it to move and cancel the move order.) as a basic strategy.

Seraph. 2d platforming/shooting in randomly generated levels with progression you keep in roguelite fashion. Also includes a rather original story if you care to pay attention to it.

[Sorain]

Recettear is good stuff. So is Einhander.

[Turnikman228]

Codename Outbreak by GSC Gameworld. Released very early 2000s to mediocre to bad reviews but this game is a masterpiece. You use a multi-gun and fight across large maps with a kickass NU metal score for combat music.

[GeminiSprk]

I had Custom Robo Arena on NDS. An excellent game it is.

[GeminiSprk]

I have to go with Dragon Quest Monsters Joker for the NDS. It was a strange turn in the Dragon Quest series to go the Pokemon route, but it certainly kept me coming back for more. In fact, I STILL have it! Capture all the monsters, breed them into the most epic unfair killing machine you can imagine, dominate every Scout that dares to cross your path. I bread a max lvl cap Captain Crow with the skills of himself, The Dragovian Lord and Dr Snapped. I made a Metal Kaiser Slime with over 80 hp. I named a Wild Boarfish SeaBacon! I put hundreds of hours into the game and still come back to it from time to time.

[Lysander Nemoinis]

Mine is definitely Lone Survivor. It's on PS3, PS4, Vita, WiiU, and PC. It's this freaky little sidescrolling survival horror game in very blocky pixel art style. Without a doubt, it's one of the better horror games you could play and deeper than it might look at first glance. It's definitely a game you should go into as blind as possible and just see what happens. The music is outstanding as well, especially the title screen track, and there are some oddly humorous moments scattered about. I seriously cannot praise this game enough, and it's made all the more impressive by the fact a single guy made the entire game, music and all, by himself.

[Lysander Nemoinis]

I love Chime! The music is just amazing.

[lostaname]

Mine would probably be Holiday Island because it was only played by a handful of people in the windows 95 days. It didnt help newer versions of windows stopped having the stuff to run it despite the so called competability mode. Too bad i have no clue how virtual machines work.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=holiday+is...ai=f-3RVpEphXw

[Sirgeorge]

Asking to pick just one is too hard. I was always a flash games kind of guy in my earlier days so I'll pick a download based successor as my answer. For me, I pick Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville. If you were around for Rebuild 1 and 2 you'll love this iteration. Effectively, it's more of the same "rebuild the city to take it back from the zombies" as the previous two itterations. The stories intertwined are more polished (barely, but still) and there are a few tweaks and expansions on the mechanics (smoother trading and more tweaked trading to show up more when needed). The beauty with this game is that you can literally try the first two on Newgrounds (or others) if you want to get a good idea of what you're getting into before you go into the third game. The fifteen bucks for most people won't allow them to stomach purchasing it if they've played the first two but I loved this game enough to gun for it. Give it a shot.

[thatwonguy]

For me it was a Diabldo-like game called Record of Lodoss War. No, not the anime.. though I vaguely remember liking it too. It was a game on the DreamCast, to this day I think that console was ahead of it's time.

[Dr.buttcheeks90]

You guys remember Maximo: Ghosts to Glory on the ps2? Or Goblin Commander: Unleash the Horde for the original xbox? It's good stuff lads

[Sabre]

Yes I loved that game!