Really Obscure RPGs

[Litmanen]

I'm not giving any timeline, it will take AT LEAST a couple of months but, yeah, once found how to optimize time and resources, things are improving

I've also "worked" on several lines of text but there is a lot more to do.

I don't know if you want to be updated about this "project" and if, in case, this is the right place for it.

Anyway, I'm at the 0,6% of the translation. But now it is going way faster than at the beginning.

The problem is that I have to open the file with an hex editor on one side and a text editor on the other. Than I have to extract the text I want to translate via the text editor, delete every space between letters (i.e. "Ja, danke" is always written "J a , d a n k e "), understand what's there (I'm helping myself with some tools) and then be sure to replace the original sentence with the same number of characters with the hex editor (that has spaces but doesn't count them). I cannot simply replace "Ja, danke" with "yes, thanks". I have to replace it with something like "Thanks ".
With longer sentences is easier, to be honest, because english is usually shorter than german or hungarian (yeah, a lot of sentences are in hungarian). With single or few words sentences, sometimes it demands for compromise.

 

[AdolfSatan]

Are you even sure it’s worth the effort? Maybe try playing it for a bit with a screen or phone OCR translator to get a feel.

 

[Litmanen]

Are you even sure it’s worth the effort? Maybe try playing it for a bit with a screen or phone OCR translator to get a feel.

For sure this game is not worth the effort. What are we talking about? I thought that every single post in this thread wasn't worth the effort for games fairly forgotten.

But this game is that shitty from the start to the end that it's fascinating. I played it a bit and I also like the graphics.

And, translating it, I think people would like the tone of this game.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

Kind-of RPGs by A.Hagen, like Ramble Planet, Void Pyramid or Alien Squatter. Good and weird world-building. Well, not a full-scale RPGs, but it had some stats and a spirit of RPG'ish looting, exploration and puzzle solving. Available for your phones for free!

(If it was already mentioned, I will delete my post in shame)

Void Pyramid is pretty good, has some interesting design choices, since you mostly get your upgrades out of machines by paying for them. The rest you get by solving puzzles to get various extras. Alien Squatter, meanwhile, is kind of the same, except without combat, so you're just going around hoping to get the stuff you need to be in good shape for the next day. You're a bit too beholden to the RNG though.

 

[KafkaBot]

Kind-of RPGs by A.Hagen, like Ramble Planet, Void Pyramid or Alien Squatter. Good and weird world-building. Well, not a full-scale RPGs, but it had some stats and a spirit of RPG'ish looting, exploration and puzzle solving. Available for your phones for free!

(If it was already mentioned, I will delete my post in shame)

These look great, so thanks for mentioning them.

The creator has also published Xoo: Xeno Safari and Last Chance in Xollywood on Steam - have you tried those?

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

The creator has also published Xoo: Xeno Safari and Last Chance in Xollywood on Steam - have you tried those?

Haven't played Xollywood, didn't even know it existed, but Xoo could be said to be Pokemon, but without combat. Cute, basically takes a single afternoon to beat if you want to.

 

[BG_Zero]

Sorry if this is not the right tread (i didn't find any search system on this site) so im posting this here. So im searching for this old RPG that i played as a freeware from a game magazine CD. It was a long time ago probably around 2000 but the game must be older. What i remember was that it was similar to a JRPG. You have your party , there is an overworld view (top down bird eye) and combat view. The combat is like in final fantasy your team is on one side of the screen and the enemy on the other and you take turns. Unlike FF this game had "more realistic" depiciton of the characters and when they take dmg they will become covered in blood and bruised. If they die the corpses stay on the combat screen untill you revive them. You watch your charactes from the side - profile like. I remember you start in a castle of some sort i think the rooms were made from red bricks. You character was some blonde dude can't remember his name or who he was. After a while you get other characters to join you. I remember that you can get a water wizard ( a creature with blue robes and i think he had green dreadlocks or maybe snakes for hair it was very pixelated so you had to use your imagination) , you can get a red devil creature and some other humans thats all the characters i remmember. I think the game was ment for DOS. The resolution was very low , pixelated with llimited colour palette. It probably looked worse that the original FF. The main character in combat looked like a short stocky version of the Prince of persia main hero becouse of the blounde hair , white clothes and little pixel for a nose. I remember that in some dialogs there were still pictures of the characters talking in anime style , badly drawn anime

. As for the gameplay - standard fair you learn abilities , spells travel around the map to diferent locations. I remember that the first serious battle was when you left the starting castle. It was in a cave and you killed a cyclop. An other thing i remember was a black castle or a tower (made from grey or black bricks) and you are climbing to the upper floors. And there were these monsters in there who kind of looked like the Gizmo monsters from Shining Force. And the final thing i remember is that the hp potions were called "cure" like in FF.
If any one knows this game please let me know.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Sorry if this is not the right tread (i didn't find any search system on this site) so im posting this here. So im searching for this old RPG that i played as a freeware from a game magazine CD. It was a long time ago probably around 2000 but the game must be older. What i remember was that it was similar to a JRPG. You have your party , there is an overworld view (top down bird eye) and combat view. The combat is like in final fantasy your team is on one side of the screen and the enemy on the other and you take turns. Unlike FF this game had "more realistic" depiciton of the characters and when they take dmg they will become covered in blood and bruised. If they die the corpses stay on the combat screen untill you revive them. You watch your charactes from the side - profile like. I remember you start in a castle of some sort i think the rooms were made from red bricks. You character was some blonde dude can't remember his name or who he was. After a while you get other characters to join you. I remember that you can get a water wizard ( a creature with blue robes and i think he had green dreadlocks or maybe snakes for hair it was very pixelated so you had to use your imagination) , you can get a red devil creature and some other humans thats all the characters i remmember. I think the game was ment for DOS. The resolution was very low , pixelated with llimited colour palette. It probably looked worse that the original FF. The main character in combat looked like a short stocky version of the Prince of persia main hero becouse of the blounde hair , white clothes and little pixel for a nose. I remember that in some dialogs there were still pictures of the characters talking in anime style , badly drawn anime

. As for the gameplay - standard fair you learn abilities , spells travel around the map to diferent locations. I remember that the first serious battle was when you left the starting castle. It was in a cave and you killed a cyclop. An other thing i remember was a black castle or a tower (made from grey or black bricks) and you are climbing to the upper floors. And there were these monsters in there who kind of looked like the Gizmo monsters from Shining Force. And the final thing i remember is that the hp potions were called "cure" like in FF.
If any one knows this game please let me know.

Are you certain it isn't Final Fantasy VIII?

 

[Gandalf]

Sorry if this is not the right tread (i didn't find any search system on this site) so im posting this here. So im searching for this old RPG that i played as a freeware from a game magazine CD. It was a long time ago probably around 2000 but the game must be older. What i remember was that it was similar to a JRPG. You have your party , there is an overworld view (top down bird eye) and combat view. The combat is like in final fantasy your team is on one side of the screen and the enemy on the other and you take turns. Unlike FF this game had "more realistic" depiciton of the characters and when they take dmg they will become covered in blood and bruised. If they die the corpses stay on the combat screen untill you revive them. You watch your charactes from the side - profile like. I remember you start in a castle of some sort i think the rooms were made from red bricks. You character was some blonde dude can't remember his name or who he was. After a while you get other characters to join you. I remember that you can get a water wizard ( a creature with blue robes and i think he had green dreadlocks or maybe snakes for hair it was very pixelated so you had to use your imagination) , you can get a red devil creature and some other humans thats all the characters i remmember. I think the game was ment for DOS. The resolution was very low , pixelated with llimited colour palette. It probably looked worse that the original FF. The main character in combat looked like a short stocky version of the Prince of persia main hero becouse of the blounde hair , white clothes and little pixel for a nose. I remember that in some dialogs there were still pictures of the characters talking in anime style , badly drawn anime

. As for the gameplay - standard fair you learn abilities , spells travel around the map to diferent locations. I remember that the first serious battle was when you left the starting castle. It was in a cave and you killed a cyclop. An other thing i remember was a black castle or a tower (made from grey or black bricks) and you are climbing to the upper floors. And there were these monsters in there who kind of looked like the Gizmo monsters from Shining Force. And the final thing i remember is that the hp potions were called "cure" like in FF.
If any one knows this game please let me know.

Are you certain it isn't Final Fantasy VIII?

I have no idea. Does the game looked something like this?

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Sorry if this is not the right tread (i didn't find any search system on this site) so im posting this here. So im searching for this old RPG that i played as a freeware from a game magazine CD. It was a long time ago probably around 2000 but the game must be older. What i remember was that it was similar to a JRPG. You have your party , there is an overworld view (top down bird eye) and combat view. The combat is like in final fantasy your team is on one side of the screen and the enemy on the other and you take turns. Unlike FF this game had "more realistic" depiciton of the characters and when they take dmg they will become covered in blood and bruised. If they die the corpses stay on the combat screen untill you revive them. You watch your charactes from the side - profile like. I remember you start in a castle of some sort i think the rooms were made from red bricks. You character was some blonde dude can't remember his name or who he was. After a while you get other characters to join you. I remember that you can get a water wizard ( a creature with blue robes and i think he had green dreadlocks or maybe snakes for hair it was very pixelated so you had to use your imagination) , you can get a red devil creature and some other humans thats all the characters i remmember. I think the game was ment for DOS. The resolution was very low , pixelated with llimited colour palette. It probably looked worse that the original FF. The main character in combat looked like a short stocky version of the Prince of persia main hero becouse of the blounde hair , white clothes and little pixel for a nose. I remember that in some dialogs there were still pictures of the characters talking in anime style , badly drawn anime

. As for the gameplay - standard fair you learn abilities , spells travel around the map to diferent locations. I remember that the first serious battle was when you left the starting castle. It was in a cave and you killed a cyclop. An other thing i remember was a black castle or a tower (made from grey or black bricks) and you are climbing to the upper floors. And there were these monsters in there who kind of looked like the Gizmo monsters from Shining Force. And the final thing i remember is that the hp potions were called "cure" like in FF.
If any one knows this game please let me know.

There is a list of every game written in this thread and i even sorted by asian shit/jrpg shit. If no one knows this game just go through the lost and see if it was mentioned.

 

[BG_Zero]

Sorry if this is not the right tread (i didn't find any search system on this site) so im posting this here. So im searching for this old RPG that i played as a freeware from a game magazine CD. It was a long time ago probably around 2000 but the game must be older. What i remember was that it was similar to a JRPG. You have your party , there is an overworld view (top down bird eye) and combat view. The combat is like in final fantasy your team is on one side of the screen and the enemy on the other and you take turns. Unlike FF this game had "more realistic" depiciton of the characters and when they take dmg they will become covered in blood and bruised. If they die the corpses stay on the combat screen untill you revive them. You watch your charactes from the side - profile like. I remember you start in a castle of some sort i think the rooms were made from red bricks. You character was some blonde dude can't remember his name or who he was. After a while you get other characters to join you. I remember that you can get a water wizard ( a creature with blue robes and i think he had green dreadlocks or maybe snakes for hair it was very pixelated so you had to use your imagination) , you can get a red devil creature and some other humans thats all the characters i remmember. I think the game was ment for DOS. The resolution was very low , pixelated with llimited colour palette. It probably looked worse that the original FF. The main character in combat looked like a short stocky version of the Prince of persia main hero becouse of the blounde hair , white clothes and little pixel for a nose. I remember that in some dialogs there were still pictures of the characters talking in anime style , badly drawn anime

. As for the gameplay - standard fair you learn abilities , spells travel around the map to diferent locations. I remember that the first serious battle was when you left the starting castle. It was in a cave and you killed a cyclop. An other thing i remember was a black castle or a tower (made from grey or black bricks) and you are climbing to the upper floors. And there were these monsters in there who kind of looked like the Gizmo monsters from Shining Force. And the final thing i remember is that the hp potions were called "cure" like in FF.
If any one knows this game please let me know.

Are you certain it isn't Final Fantasy VIII?

I have no idea. Does the game looked something like this?

Nope the graphics was more primitive ( more pixelated and with lower color count the battle sprites were more "realistic" they remind me of the sprites in Prince of Persia 1 and 2 ). Your guys were on the left side ( you can have 4 ot 5 party members) and the enemy on the right ( that is why i think the game was a western clone of JRPG ) and it was a lot more gory - the bloodied , broken bodies of your dead party members stayed on the battlefield and if you lose a lot of hp they will bleed and have ripped clothes. And its not FF or any other popular JPRG i would know. I obscure for sure since it came on a disc from a game magazine , probably for DOS since it had a black boot screen before it stars. I lost the disc a long time ago. This was around 2000 - 2005 max. Thanks anyway i will keep searching.

 

[Gandalf]

game magazine

Do you remember maybe what is the name of the magazine?

 

[BG_Zero]

game magazine

Do you remember maybe what is the name of the magazine?

Its a Bulgarian magazine "Gamer's workshop" https://projectlazarus.bg/gamers-workshop/. Its long gone now. That's why i cant find the game and i don't even remember the exact issue.

 

[MurkrLurkr]

Sorry if this is not the right tread (i didn't find any search system on this site) so im posting this here. So im searching for this old RPG that i played as a freeware from a game magazine CD. It was a long time ago probably around 2000 but the game must be older. What i remember was that it was similar to a JRPG. You have your party , there is an overworld view (top down bird eye) and combat view. The combat is like in final fantasy your team is on one side of the screen and the enemy on the other and you take turns. Unlike FF this game had "more realistic" depiciton of the characters and when they take dmg they will become covered in blood and bruised. If they die the corpses stay on the combat screen untill you revive them. You watch your charactes from the side - profile like. I remember you start in a castle of some sort i think the rooms were made from red bricks. You character was some blonde dude can't remember his name or who he was. After a while you get other characters to join you. I remember that you can get a water wizard ( a creature with blue robes and i think he had green dreadlocks or maybe snakes for hair it was very pixelated so you had to use your imagination) , you can get a red devil creature and some other humans thats all the characters i remmember. I think the game was ment for DOS. The resolution was very low , pixelated with llimited colour palette. It probably looked worse that the original FF. The main character in combat looked like a short stocky version of the Prince of persia main hero becouse of the blounde hair , white clothes and little pixel for a nose. I remember that in some dialogs there were still pictures of the characters talking in anime style , badly drawn anime

. As for the gameplay - standard fair you learn abilities , spells travel around the map to diferent locations. I remember that the first serious battle was when you left the starting castle. It was in a cave and you killed a cyclop. An other thing i remember was a black castle or a tower (made from grey or black bricks) and you are climbing to the upper floors. And there were these monsters in there who kind of looked like the Gizmo monsters from Shining Force. And the final thing i remember is that the hp potions were called "cure" like in FF.
If any one knows this game please let me know.

Shadow Madness

 

[BG_Zero]

Sorry if this is not the right tread (i didn't find any search system on this site) so im posting this here. So im searching for this old RPG that i played as a freeware from a game magazine CD. It was a long time ago probably around 2000 but the game must be older. What i remember was that it was similar to a JRPG. You have your party , there is an overworld view (top down bird eye) and combat view. The combat is like in final fantasy your team is on one side of the screen and the enemy on the other and you take turns. Unlike FF this game had "more realistic" depiciton of the characters and when they take dmg they will become covered in blood and bruised. If they die the corpses stay on the combat screen untill you revive them. You watch your charactes from the side - profile like. I remember you start in a castle of some sort i think the rooms were made from red bricks. You character was some blonde dude can't remember his name or who he was. After a while you get other characters to join you. I remember that you can get a water wizard ( a creature with blue robes and i think he had green dreadlocks or maybe snakes for hair it was very pixelated so you had to use your imagination) , you can get a red devil creature and some other humans thats all the characters i remmember. I think the game was ment for DOS. The resolution was very low , pixelated with llimited colour palette. It probably looked worse that the original FF. The main character in combat looked like a short stocky version of the Prince of persia main hero becouse of the blounde hair , white clothes and little pixel for a nose. I remember that in some dialogs there were still pictures of the characters talking in anime style , badly drawn anime

. As for the gameplay - standard fair you learn abilities , spells travel around the map to diferent locations. I remember that the first serious battle was when you left the starting castle. It was in a cave and you killed a cyclop. An other thing i remember was a black castle or a tower (made from grey or black bricks) and you are climbing to the upper floors. And there were these monsters in there who kind of looked like the Gizmo monsters from Shining Force. And the final thing i remember is that the hp potions were called "cure" like in FF.
If any one knows this game please let me know.

Shadow Madness

Nice game but it's not it. As I said the game was older not 3d but 2d sprites , low resolution like the 1st FF.

 

[SixDead]

Diamond Sword, Wooden Sword (2008)

Poor rusjank game based on the book of the same name by Nik Perumov, most famous Russian high-fantasy novelist, for russians he is kinda like what Sapkowski for poles. One of his work, Godsdoom, was translated to English, someone compared it to Steven Ericson.

Anyway, the game. This is shit, uninspired action-rpg with fixed protagonist. There are 3 standart classes (assassin, mage, warrior), that you can "change on the run". Game was ass-blasted in reviews, the only good thing in it - dungeon descriptions taken directly from the book.

The interesting (not interesting) thing is that an action-adventure game of the same name was announced this year, and there will be TV-series based on the book (in it, bad guys are called Order of Rainbow, so I expect some anti-lgbtp commentaries)

 

[Vic]

Sorry if this is not the right tread (i didn't find any search system on this site) so im posting this here. So im searching for this old RPG that i played as a freeware from a game magazine CD. It was a long time ago probably around 2000 but the game must be older. What i remember was that it was similar to a JRPG. You have your party , there is an overworld view (top down bird eye) and combat view. The combat is like in final fantasy your team is on one side of the screen and the enemy on the other and you take turns. Unlike FF this game had "more realistic" depiciton of the characters and when they take dmg they will become covered in blood and bruised. If they die the corpses stay on the combat screen untill you revive them. You watch your charactes from the side - profile like. I remember you start in a castle of some sort i think the rooms were made from red bricks. You character was some blonde dude can't remember his name or who he was. After a while you get other characters to join you. I remember that you can get a water wizard ( a creature with blue robes and i think he had green dreadlocks or maybe snakes for hair it was very pixelated so you had to use your imagination) , you can get a red devil creature and some other humans thats all the characters i remmember. I think the game was ment for DOS. The resolution was very low , pixelated with llimited colour palette. It probably looked worse that the original FF. The main character in combat looked like a short stocky version of the Prince of persia main hero becouse of the blounde hair , white clothes and little pixel for a nose. I remember that in some dialogs there were still pictures of the characters talking in anime style , badly drawn anime

. As for the gameplay - standard fair you learn abilities , spells travel around the map to diferent locations. I remember that the first serious battle was when you left the starting castle. It was in a cave and you killed a cyclop. An other thing i remember was a black castle or a tower (made from grey or black bricks) and you are climbing to the upper floors. And there were these monsters in there who kind of looked like the Gizmo monsters from Shining Force. And the final thing i remember is that the hp potions were called "cure" like in FF.
If any one knows this game please let me know.

You should ask this in r/JRPG

 

[Saldrone]

I just found a RPG duology called "Dark Disciples" from 2004



There was somebody on the GOG forum asking for official aviability alongside their manuals

 

[Gandalf]

I just found a RPG duology called "Dark Disciples" from 2004



There was somebody on the GOG forum asking for official aviability alongside their manuals

There's even a third game called Dark Disciples 3: Temple of Eternity.

 

[Gandalf]

SixDead huh?

 

[mindx2]

I just found a RPG duology called "Dark Disciples" from 2004



There was somebody on the GOG forum asking for official aviability alongside their manuals

Definitely get Exile type vibes from this.

 

[JarlFrank]

I always thought of Dark Disciples as being not that obscure, because both games appeared on abandonware sites quite regularly and are among the more well-known freeware RPGs of their time IIRC. I've known about them for over a decade now. Wasn't aware of a third game though, nice to find out about it!

Played the first and second game a couple of years ago. I remember them being very puzzle-focused, almost adventure game like, with pretty decent exploration and a mostly linear structure (you start in one area and solve the quests and puzzles there, then proceed to the next, each being its own self-contained landscape and/or dungeon). I needed a walkthrough for some of the puzzles at some point. but from what I remember it has some of the more interesting ones of the genre. Was fun to play. The second game was better than the first, IIRC.

 

[spookyheart]

fragile dreams easily that one its just so amazing and beautiful imo.