Really Obscure RPGs

Strange... freegamearchive.com is the english version of freegame.cz. There is no phising warning on the original website, but if I change language to english I can't access many of the games because Avast blocks them.

 

i can also confirm that kaspersky goes ballistic if i view freegamearchive.com. i don't know, maybe part of the site got taken over by cyber squatters, or it's a false positive

 

I dumped the game on my Mediafire just to be sure:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/4o9r9asit9w11m8/moribund_world.zip/file

 

Plot twist! It was JF's copy that has the virus!

 

I always pack a virus into my zips.

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It detects popamoles on your system and uninstalls them.

 

Or downloads 1TB of foot porn

 

I'm really not sure what this is, I briefly played a demo available on the dev's site not so long ago but it seems the site is dead now. It's very much some exploration, some combat and CYOA format texts with stat checks (the different classes to choose from have skills that the others don't), but one weird thing is that from the info I got from various sites I got the impression that the game was clearly developped for mobile devices but it's possible that it was eventually only released on pc. Also there are mentions of multiplayer features but not on the description of the available version so there are likely no longer available.

 

Thank you CryptRat ! I remember this game, I read about it some years ago but forgot its name.

 

"Pocket Quest!": Militant midget girl with sword and strange headdress running along four different circular boards, solving quests, kicking bad guys in the arse, leveling up, getting stuff, beating mini games. The girl has a giant snail (a so called giga-snail) as her buddy, a hilarious gastropod who likes to brag but cowardly hides in his shell as soon as a battle emerges. The game is basically a boardgame-RPG-mix and quite funny. The pixel art is very well done, animations are brillant and its full of funny and crazy ideas. A light-hearted, unusual type of game and one of the most unique and most lovingly crafted games I know in the RPG-Maker-engine.

https://rpgmaker.net/games/4610/?post=600829

The game download is in english but I wasn't able to find a proper video so here you go in italiano:

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http://www.dungeoncrawlers.org/game/knights-of-the-grail-rytiri-gralu/




http://www.dungeoncrawlers.org/game/the-infernal-tome/




http://www.dungeoncrawlers.org/game/xenomorph/

 

Lovely writeup of Xenomorph creation by the author himself at http://www.terrygreer.com/xenomorph.html

 

Clans is 81% off right now on Steam if anyone is interesting in experiencing this thing first hand.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/281430/Clans/

 

Someone showed me this just today.

http://www.doshaven.eu/game/parsifal-3d/

 

Great find! The crude 3D gives me some Lords of Midnight-vibes. The game it's based on seems to be another lost obscurity, impossible to find.

 

Those Xenomorph screenshots reminded me of Captive 2.

 

I went trough the thread and didn't see this old gem (I might have missed it though)




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIafV6AP3wE

It's a game based on the Swedish tabletop RPG Drakar och Demoner, something like our local version of DnD I guess you could say.
Not sure you can call it an actual RPG sadly, more of an isometric adventure point and click maybe.

 

It's right there on the first page:

 

It's ok. Any impression on one of those games is useful!

 

So, does anyone know if there even is an English version of this game, and if yes where to find it?

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/weird-wars-the-unknown-episode-of-world-war-ii-dxs

Myabandonware only has Russki, Polski and French versions.

The German version is still available on Amazon and has a few ebay offers, so I might bite if there's no other way to get it. The German one is called "Operation Pantherauge" but I couldn't find any downloads available for it.

 

If noone else has sacrificed himself until then, I'll pick the French version tonight and come back later on with my impressions.

 

Also, some more obscure shit:

Aspetra is a 90s style JRPG made by two teenage brothers in the actual 90s, before RPG Maker was a thing. Plays like an RPG Maker game because that's what 90s JRPGs were like (shit genre) but it's a cool historical curiosity.
https://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Aspetra.html

Before the Echo is a weird mix of RPG and... rhythm games. Yeah. It was also made long before rhythm roguelikes such as Crypt of the Necrodancer, so it gets points for originality.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/200910/Before_the_Echo/

Call for Heroes: Pompolic Wars is an utterly terrible action RPG. It's still for sale on gamersgate but you can find a free download on a certain abandonware site if you search a little.
https://www.gamersgate.com/DD-CFHPW/call-for-heroes-pompolic-wars

Cute Knight is a game where you play... well... a cute knight.
https://hanakogames.itch.io/cute-knight
It has a sequel:
https://hanakogames.itch.io/cute-knight-kingdom

Cops 2170: The Power of Law is a squad based sci fi RPG. It's apparently not very good but I haven't tried it yet.
https://www.gamersgate.com/DD-C2170/cops-2170-the-power-of-law

Decker is a cyberspace hacking RPG. It's freeware.
https://www.freegamesutopia.com/game/decker/72/

Defender of Boston has probably already been mentioned in this thread at some point, but it deserves mentioning again.
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/defender-of-boston-the-rock-island-mystery-1dr

Falling Stars is... uh... an RPG for kids. Haven't played it but I'll just assume it's a real RPG and not just a mis-matched genre descriptor.
http://legendsworld.net/adventure/game/8835

Harbinger is a Diablo-style RPG set on a spaceship.
https://oldpcgaming.net/harbinger/

Hard to be a God is pretty obscure I guess, although it's based on a popular Russian novel.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/391030/Hard_to_Be_a_God/

A Farewell to Dragons (also known as Not the Time for Dragons) is also an obscure Russian RPG. It used to be available on Steam but no longer is. The store link leads nowhere.
http://kranx.com/en/our-projects/a-farewell-to-dragons/
Googling also finds a store page on Gamersgate, but again this just leads to the store itself. The game seems to have been removed from sale everywhere. If anyone can hunt down a copy, that would be great!

Hero X is a Diablo-style RPG with a superhero setting. There aren't many superhero RPGs out there so it's worth it just for that.
https://oldgamesdownload.com/hero-x/

Legend: Hand of God is a terribly boring Diablo clone that I played way back in the day. I probably still have the torrented version somewhere on my old external hard drives.
https://www.mobygames.com/game/legend-hand-of-god

Shadow Vault is a squad-based strategy RPG:
http://legendsworld.net/adventure/game/4966

 

Oh yeah and this thing. I also found this thing.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/595560/Legend_of_Hand/

The art is amazing.

 

Hey fuckers, it's taken me ages to get through this thread, do you think I remember what's on the first page? I think not! I will bear the shame though, thank you very much.

 

It's fairly known in the Adventure subforum. It's really an Adventure, there are a few duels here and there and you can learn new moves as you progress, but that's it.

Developed by the same company as the Goldenland abomination, so don't expect much. The "disguise" mechanic was cool for the time though.

It's a roguelike IIRC. Think SRR's matrix more or less (the game was inspired by TT Shadowrun in the first place), maybe with more software variations.

From what I've read, it's very unfinished. Like, Lionheart level unfinished, only without its Barcelona. Should be available on the high seas, or at least it was last time I checked.