Little Misfortune is really fun, it's mostly narrative based and the mechanics are pretty simple but I like it. it was made by a husband and wife team and their small studio. All the characters are really charming and it's genuinely pretty funny and touching at times. They started with a game called fran bow that some may know. My partner and I played through it a couple years ago and really enjoyed it.
A Bug Fable is maybe not super obscure but if you like Paper Mario it's a good game to scratch that itch. I didn't expect to like it all that much but it's actually really good and kind of is designed more for an adult audience mechanically than paper mario, i.e it includes a hard mode from the start and stuff.
A Place For the Unwilling is a pretty cool little game where you're a rich guy that inherits a friends store and have to run it while exploring a stratified industrial age town. There's a young child that sells a revolutionary newspaper and calls you a scab when you first talk to them if i recall. I never finished it but it's really cool and I keep intending to go back and play it. there's like a mystery or something but I cant remember the overarching plot as much but it hinges on class struggle
Eastshade is really relaxing. It's like an elder scrolls game kind of but without combat. You just vibe around on an island with anthropomorphic animals and do quests for them and paint landscapes. There's a mystery in a hotel at one point and I'm a sucker for quests like that.
If you like beat em ups, Tonight We Riot is a serviceable if a little rudimentary arcade style beat em up but it was designed by a leftist video game workers co-op. You literally beat up capitalists its pretty cool.
A Short Hike is a smaller experiment. It's basically like animal crossing style characters with BotW style climbing and gliding and you work on climbing a little mountain. It's a cute and entertaining little game that takes an hour or 2 to complete
Secret Little Haven is a game where you play it through a windows 95/2000 style interface and talk to friends on AIM and hang out in pre-social media forums. It's about a trans girl discovering she's trans and it's also very nostalgic for me having grown up with that era of internet. It's really emotional and well made.
Aviary Attorney it's ace attorney but all the characters are birds in victorian england clothes
I really like weird and unconventional games
Little Misfortune is really fun, it's mostly narrative based and the mechanics are pretty simple but I like it. it was made by a husband and wife team and their small studio. All the characters are really charming and it's genuinely pretty funny and touching at times. They started with a game called fran bow that some may know. My partner and I played through it a couple years ago and really enjoyed it.
A Bug Fable is maybe not super obscure but if you like Paper Mario it's a good game to scratch that itch. I didn't expect to like it all that much but it's actually really good and kind of is designed more for an adult audience mechanically than paper mario, i.e it includes a hard mode from the start and stuff.
A Place For the Unwilling is a pretty cool little game where you're a rich guy that inherits a friends store and have to run it while exploring a stratified industrial age town. There's a young child that sells a revolutionary newspaper and calls you a scab when you first talk to them if i recall. I never finished it but it's really cool and I keep intending to go back and play it. there's like a mystery or something but I cant remember the overarching plot as much but it hinges on class struggle
Eastshade is really relaxing. It's like an elder scrolls game kind of but without combat. You just vibe around on an island with anthropomorphic animals and do quests for them and paint landscapes. There's a mystery in a hotel at one point and I'm a sucker for quests like that.
If you like beat em ups, Tonight We Riot is a serviceable if a little rudimentary arcade style beat em up but it was designed by a leftist video game workers co-op. You literally beat up capitalists its pretty cool.
A Short Hike is a smaller experiment. It's basically like animal crossing style characters with BotW style climbing and gliding and you work on climbing a little mountain. It's a cute and entertaining little game that takes an hour or 2 to complete
Secret Little Haven is a game where you play it through a windows 95/2000 style interface and talk to friends on AIM and hang out in pre-social media forums. It's about a trans girl discovering she's trans and it's also very nostalgic for me having grown up with that era of internet. It's really emotional and well made.
Aviary Attorney it's ace attorney but all the characters are birds in victorian england clothes