Games you love, but no one else has heard of/played?

[MaxiP62]

Are there any games you love, which no one else has even heard of, or ever actually played?

For me, this is Crash Time 4.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1LngQDCMnc

It's an open world racing game, with some pretty interesting multiplayer modes, either way it hasn't been released outside of Germany! Thus meaning me and a friend had to import it.

There's a demo for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3, you guys should check it out It's also being released in the rest of Europe on April 27th, about 2 and a half years after it was first released in Germany!

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

For me it's the Flash game series called Exmortis. A horror title based on H.P Lovecraft's stories on the Necronimicon. Freaking terrifying, but I love them :'D

 

[Kahunaburger]

Outpost 2, man. Not very good as an RTS and therefore basically unknown, but the premise and worldbuilding were awesome. Plus, it was (some stuff like the Blight aside) hard SF, which isn't something you see all the time in games.

 

[Scrustle]

Muramasa: The Demon Blade. It's a really gorgeous metroidvania/RPG/action game on the Wii which surprisingly few people who have a Wii have heard about. Or at least from my experience anyway. It's made by the same people who made Odin Sphere, and from what I can tell shares a lot with it. So if you like that game you should check it out.

 

[Suicidejim]

For me it's the Flash game series called Exmortis. A horror title based on H.P Lovecraft's stories on the Necronimicon. Freaking terrifying, but I love them :'D

God I loved/hated those games. Few others made me crap myself quite so badly.

OT: This guy was my childhood.

Such an amazingly fun game. It may be better known than I suspect, but nobody I've ever talked to seems to have played it.

 

[The Hot Sauce Thief]

Jet Set Radio series (specifically Jet Set Radio Future). I rarely find a person in real life whose ever even heard, let alone played, one of these games.

It's getting a HD re-release on the PSN/XBLA/Steam so maybe I can convince a few of my friends to buy and try it. If you haven't played one of these games, I highly recommend them for what it's worth

 

[Sp3ratus]

OT: This guy was my childhood.

-Tombi snip-

Such an amazingly fun game. It may be better known than I suspect, but nobody I've ever talked to seems to have played it.

I was lucky enough to be one of the people who played it. My best friend had it and we played it all the time. Since then, I've been trying to track down a copy and then finally, last year, I finally found one. It's still today a great game and a long one at that too.

As for my own suggestions:
Eufloria. RTS light, where you control seedlings to attack/defend asteroids and use those same seedlings to plant either production, to make more seedlings or defense trees, to protect your asteroids from attacks. I quite like it and the small, but dedicated modding community helps extend the lifetime of the game.

Lode Runner 2. Puzzle platformer, where your objective is to gather all the gold of the given level you're in and get to the exit without getting killed. I've spent a lot of time playing that game, especially since there's a timer and it's always fun to try and beat the top time.

Desert Strike. A shoot'em up, where you control a helicopter from an isometric perspective. This entry takes place in a desert country(probably Iraq from the 90's) and there are a bunch of different objective, like blowing things up, rescuing hostages and such. It can be quite challenging, if you're not careful with how you handle things.

Fate of the World. This one might not be so obscure, but I haven't seen a lot of talk about it. It's a turnbased strategy game, where your objective is to save the world from global warming, while making sure it doesn't descend into financial chaos. It's really challenging, especially some of the later levels, where no help is given. I've spent somewhere around 50 hours, but I still haven't beaten the last mission. Still, it's great and quite informative.

 

[Leemaster777]

Muramasa: The Demon Blade. It's a really gorgeous metroidvania/RPG/action game on the Wii which surprisingly few people who have a Wii have heard about. Or at least from my experience anyway. It's made by the same people who made Odin Sphere, and from what I can tell shares a lot with it. So if you like that game you should check it out.

I played it. It was okay, but too repetitive. Also, an english language track would have been greatly appreciated. Still, it's easily one of the prettiest games I ever played, and at least in the top 5 best-looking Wii games.

For me, I'm gonna go with Freedom Force.

Such a great strategy RPG. But I don't think a whole lot of people on this site have played it.

 

[Rawne1980]

Little unknown title called Mass Effect 3.

I rarely see any news about it so i'm assuming it's unheard of.

 

[Don Savik]

The Haunted : Hell's Reach

Its a third person survival game where you kill the forces of hell like a freakin' badass. It was originally a Unreal 3 mod that won the "make something unreal" contest one time. Its made by only 3 people, but man, its so over-the-top amazing.

 

[scorptatious]

Little unknown title called Mass Effect 3.

I rarely see any news about it so i'm assuming it's unheard of.

I see what you did there.

OT: The only thing I can think of right now is the Katamari Damacy series. Specifically "We Love Katamari".

It's a very fun game in which you play as a Prince and you must use this sticky ball called a Katamari and make it bigger by rolling up tons of stuff. From paper clips, to cats, to cars, to buidlings, to continents, to celestial beings, and if from what I've heard about the later games (which I haven't played) entire planets. The soundtrack is pretty awesome as well: