07-19-2019, 01:27 AM
What are your favourite obscure games? Anything from 90s Mac CGI adventure games to indie games with 20 downloads is fair game.
They cast a pretty big shadow in JP indie game history, but the works of game studio Love-de-lic and its offshoot studios are eternal favourites. Recently, Onion Games was formed by the creator of Chulip (who was from Love-de-lic originally), and they've been coming out with the incredible mobile releases Dandy Dungeon and Million Onion Hotel as well as the Switch shooter Blackbird. Dandy Dungeon was recently rereleased on Switch as well. You guys HAVE to play these games, the art, music, and writing is incredible, with varying degrees of comprehensibility.
I got a PSP recently for 1000 yen and a few games for it, including Boku no Natsu Yasumi. This series is a cult classic in Japan but was never released in English as far as I know. Basically, you are a kid who goes to visit relatives in the countryside for summer vacation. You catch bugs, talk to the townsfolk, do chores, etc. and there are multiple endings depending on what you do or don't do during the month. With the large amount of time dependent sidequests and events, it plays a little differently than Animal Crossing or Harvest Moon or the like.
In more typical indie news, .flow (one of the first copycat games of Yume Nikki) recently updated for the first time in a good handful of years. I haven't gotten to play the new version and I think the game itself leans on gore too much to provide its horror as opposed to Yume Nikki, but it's interesting to see that development continues on one of the classic RPG Maker "walking simulators".
They cast a pretty big shadow in JP indie game history, but the works of game studio Love-de-lic and its offshoot studios are eternal favourites. Recently, Onion Games was formed by the creator of Chulip (who was from Love-de-lic originally), and they've been coming out with the incredible mobile releases Dandy Dungeon and Million Onion Hotel as well as the Switch shooter Blackbird. Dandy Dungeon was recently rereleased on Switch as well. You guys HAVE to play these games, the art, music, and writing is incredible, with varying degrees of comprehensibility.
I got a PSP recently for 1000 yen and a few games for it, including Boku no Natsu Yasumi. This series is a cult classic in Japan but was never released in English as far as I know. Basically, you are a kid who goes to visit relatives in the countryside for summer vacation. You catch bugs, talk to the townsfolk, do chores, etc. and there are multiple endings depending on what you do or don't do during the month. With the large amount of time dependent sidequests and events, it plays a little differently than Animal Crossing or Harvest Moon or the like.
In more typical indie news, .flow (one of the first copycat games of Yume Nikki) recently updated for the first time in a good handful of years. I haven't gotten to play the new version and I think the game itself leans on gore too much to provide its horror as opposed to Yume Nikki, but it's interesting to see that development continues on one of the classic RPG Maker "walking simulators".
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