What is your favorite unknown game?

[Rusted Gold]

Every once in a while I like to boot up Whip-Lash, by no means a excellent game, but you play as a weasel handcuffed to a rabbit and try to break out of an animal testing lab.

More people need to know about this game it has it flaws but it's fun for an quick hour or two.

[WickedWolf]

I actually loved both Viva Piñata games. I don’t know how exactly unknown they were, considering they had a TV show, but no one I’ve talked to has ever heard of them. They were just fun little games to unwind to for the most part.

[Sylentmoogle]

Its probably not that "unkown" since it has a tone of games, but I love the Ys series, especially the older ones.

[zeorhymer]

Recettear: An Item Shop Game. Yes, it's an item shop game. You manage a store and price things. Sure it's monotonous, but there's a charm to it. Others include Tobal No1, Einhander, Shadow Hearts to name a few.

[Collierider12]

"Einhander"... My man.

[Sorain]

Recettear is good stuff. So is Einhander.

[humanevil]

the one that comes to mind is Rodina the guy is a little jealous of other companys but the game is real good for what it is and seems to get better and better especially as its a one man team

[matatattat]

Alternate Reality: The Dungeon
Not played it in a good while but it blew me away when I played it on my C64.
Years later when the internet arrived and I found out more about how the game was made and read about plans the creator had for the series it blew me away again.

[Matcam89]

My favorite unknown game is/was SuperPower 2

It is a Geo-Political simulator - Take command of any country in the world and shape its politics,economy and military.

Now on its own this game can get boring fast - What made this game so amazing was its online component - Believe you could play with 32 other players and mods would eventually make it higher and combine this with a great community that roleplayed their nations, formed alliances, plotted against other nations, formed secret deals.

Imagine being a Nuclear power and secretly selling nuclear weapons to an unstable North Korean leader - It was a game limited only by the players imaginations,

[007]

Probably Rescue Rover.

It's an overhead puzzle game by id Software, and one of my favorite DOS games to pick up and play a stage here and there.

[Hyperweasle]

Custom Robo on the Gamecube was fun, and doesn't seem to be that popular either. Also it was the first T rated game I got has a kid, so it holds some nostalgia.

[Sabre]

Yes I loved that game!

[GeminiSprk]

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

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.