What is your favorite unknown game?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Lehran]

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

[[Formerly]NEET]

Steambot Chronicles was a PS2 game I had found at my local Gamestop some 10+ years ago and fell in love with it.

You have a mech you can pilot and run around in, can play around 6 different musical instruments with a band and earn money, go hunting for fossils to fill a museum. The music in the game has still stuck with me to this day and I went out of my way a couple of years ago to track down a copy of it, and had to pay a pretty penny for the game.

COMRADES!!!

For me, it was -

Metal Saga - PS2 - the wacky enemy designs & names (What would you call an enemy with the shape of half-buried, unexploded missile?a Dud!) and the ability to customize your Tanks and one of your party member. And the theme!

Wizardry : Tales of the Forsaken Land - PS 2 - My 1st introduction to the Wizardry franchise. I've been hooked since then and played other Wizardry titles in the franchise.

Deception : Dark Delusion - PS - The grisly combination between weak girl, deadly trap and awesome way to kill your enemy. Still playing it on emu.

[starracker]

My best unknown game is Neverhood, an old point and click adventure game made out of slime!!!!
Plus, as a child it was the first time i was introduced to multiple ending games.

[Morax]

Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy on the Xbox. The ancient Egyptian art style was fantastic, especially the level design. I also remember spending loads of time trying to collect all the monsters for the museum in Abydos.

I don't hear much about it, likely because it's an Xbox exclusive and never had a sequel, although they did release a remaster on PC recently.

[Zoltor]

This is a hard one, I'm older then time its self, and I play so many great unknown games, but if I am only allowed to choose 1 game, I would have to probally go with Hoshigami(don't play the DS remake, It's watered down, play the original playstation game published by ATLUS).

It does right what every other Tactic/RPG seems to do wrong. It's in the vain of the original Tactics Ogre, but infinitely better. It's the hardest Tactic/RPG ever made(woot woot, finally a tactic/RPG that's truly hard, and punishes every little mistake you make), there's a lot of towers/side quests, there's branching paths galore, yet unlike any other game with branching paths, there is actually a way to recruit everyone. The story is not only top notch(as is the music), but for every char that's alive, and that you recruited by the end of the game, actually effects the ending(there's a lot of characters too).

It's so awesome, I generally rate it as my favorite tactic/RPG ingeneral(and I have basically played them all, so that's saying something).

[SnarkyJay]

I also had Einhander back in the day. I enjoyed that game quite a bit. Thanks for mentioning it, as I haven't thought about it in a long while!

[EdaGos]

hmmmm my "unknown" game is "call of Juarez Gunslinger" it is very fun Single player FPS game

[bogusdata]

liked this game despite bugs, sequel II is crapolah

[SnowyJess]

I can think of a few.

There's Hamster Ball which is a lot like Marble Madness except you control a hamster in a ball
Petz 5 - still the best virtual pet game I've ever played
Luxor Evolved - I would consider it the best game in the Luxor series
Chao Resort Island - as someone who spent more time in the chao garden than the main game in Sonic Adventure 2 I really appreciate a fangame like this
Supertux and Pingus - a Mario clone starring Tux, the Linux penguin, and a lemmings clone with penguins
Platypus - a side-scrolling shooter with a claymation aesthetic
Hopmon, Petwings, Troy 2000, and Mage Bros - as far as I know these all appear to be from the same developer
Seiklus - a rather charming little game
Space Moth - a bullet hell game where you play as a moth
The Inner World - a pretty good point and click adventure
Windosill - a very short point and click thing, there's even more stuff like it on the Vectorpark website
Ikachan - a short game from the creator of Cave Story
Knytt, Knytt Stories, Within a Deep Forest, FiNCK and other assorted projects by Nifflas

[bogusdata]

that's not a few mate

[TheDorkyDane]

Kings Quest from 2015.

This is a game, clearly created by the fans for the fans. Fans of the old time Kings Quest series should be happy with this, I was actually blown away by how good it was. It was a GREAT new point and click adventure, with humorous story telling and a love and adoration for the source material.
Also... This game has the honor of being one of the few things in the world that made me cry like a little bitch for an hour straight. I am not joking! The very last chapter in the game is genius and it is just heart breaking. You know what is coming, you know where this is going, the way the game tells it is very clever and I am crying like a bitch, I just.... Man.


Dunno if these counts for "unknown." but... The two "Shadow hearts." games I feel like are severally under appreciated as well.
And I wish they had a greater following so they could get a remaster or even remake, the concepts and stories are very unique and interesting, but well.

I would also put the Drakkengard games in there but... They do have a cult following don't they? And "Nier Autometa." which is a sequel to a spin off of Drakkengard did really well, so yeah, the series live.
.... Only this bloody series could get away with making a sequel to a spin off and it's the best game yet -_-;

[Animusisters]

Can't have a favourite thing I don't even know.