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1. Monster Party​

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A side-scrolling action game where you play as Mark, a kid armed with a baseball bat who teams up with a gargoyle named Bert to fight through bizarre horror-themed levels. The game is a fever dream of surreal enemies, from a giant onion ring to a killer fried shrimp. Its sudden shifts in tone—from goofy to grotesque—make it an unsettling experience.

2. Wurm: Journey to the Center of the Earth​

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A hybrid of side-scrolling shooter, platformer, and first-person adventure. Players control a drilling machine through underground caverns filled with hostile creatures. The game’s genre-blending mechanics and its oddly philosophical storyline make it stand out. The narrative dives into existential themes, which is unusual for an NES game.

3. Zombie Nation​

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A shooter where you control a giant floating samurai head named Namakubi, who spits out eyeballs and vomit to destroy enemies and save America from an alien invasion. The concept of playing as a decapitated samurai head that shoots projectiles from its mouth is bizarre enough, but the game's strange enemy designs and chaotic levels take it to another level.

4. Clash at Demonhead​

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An open-world action platformer where you play as Bang, a secret agent trying to stop a doomsday device from destroying the world. The game features a non-linear world, quirky characters, and a plot that includes ancient demons and cybernetic enhancements. The mix of sci-fi, fantasy, and humor is refreshingly odd.

5. A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia​

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A puzzle-platformer where you guide a boy and his blob companion through a series of challenges using jellybeans that transform the blob into various useful shapes. The concept of feeding jellybeans to a blob to solve puzzles is strange enough, but the game’s quirky mechanics and lack of explanation for anything happening around you make it truly weird.

6. Taboo: The Sixth Sense​

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Not a game in the traditional sense, Taboo is a tarot card reading simulator that offers vague predictions about the player's future. It’s more of a digital fortune-teller than a game, with no actual gameplay or objective. The idea of using your NES to predict your future feels out of place and odd.

7. Time Diver: Eon Man​

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A side-scrolling platformer where you play as Dan Nelson, a man who must travel through time to prevent disasters that could alter history. The game was never officially released in North America, and its mix of time-travel narrative with bizarre enemies like mermen and robots in anachronistic settings is disorienting.

8. Mendel Palace​

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A puzzle game where you must flip floor tiles to defeat hordes of animated dolls and clear each stage. The game’s surreal, doll-themed enemies and the fact that the entire gameplay revolves around flipping tiles give it an unusual feel. The unsettling atmosphere of battling doll-like creatures adds to the weirdness.

9. Yo! Noid​

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A platformer where you play as the Noid, a mascot for Domino’s Pizza, as he battles his way through New York City. The idea of a pizza mascot being the protagonist of an NES game is already strange, but the bizarre mini-games and the fact that it’s a reskinned Japanese game just make it even weirder.

10. Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom​

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A text-based adventure game where you play as Sir Cucumber, tasked with rescuing Princess Tomato from the evil Minister Pumpkin in a world inhabited by anthropomorphic vegetables. The entire game is a vegetable-themed adventure, with puzzles and dialogue that are as quirky as the concept. The sheer absurdity of a world where cucumbers, tomatoes, and pumpkins interact like humans makes it one of the strangest NES titles.
 
To this day it amazes me that Zombie Nation is a real game and not some fever dream I had. I think the head is different depending on if you are playing the North American release vs the Japanese release. I remember it being that way anyways.
 
This isn’t showing up on home page for some reason ::lol, probably set manually.
Good read though cuz as an NES nut I can’t get enough learning about weird nes games. I’m surprised like 80% of these went under my radar. I do know about Noid and Blob. Mainly know about Noid because how at one point the internet would talk about him a lot.
 
hey people!! this is my first post on here I love this website so much::yay, Anyway my first question is does anyone know any odd or cool scummVM games on here? I just downloaded Grim Fandango and I wanna find other games like it.
 
Well the whole compatibility list is right there on the site.
My own picks would be Myst/Riven (classics, but in a vacuum I suppose they're weird) and the Quest For Glory series (neat Point 'n Click and RPG hybrid, even has save game transfer, also goes easy on Sierra's obtuse copy protection practices). Gobliiins was an interesting play, but too much trial and error for me to recommend. its sequels, and sister game Ween, look damn good. To be honest most of the catalogue is pretty out there at least aesthetically. Just try stuff out and see what you really like.
(e: misunderstood the question, luckily every game I mentioned is "here" already)
 
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There's Kings Quest and Gabriel Knight series but they can be hit or miss with some people and I'm not too sure if they're considered 'cool'.
 
For a good start, Rain's a game I barely hear anyone talk about nowadays.
Never heard of rain. What's it about?

I still have a working ps3, but I admit I haven't played even half of the games I have on the hd. Rarest one I own is probably Folklore. A fairly interesting action adventure with fairytale aesthetics and monster catching elements.
 
Never heard of rain. What's it about?

I still have a working ps3, but I admit I haven't played even half of the games I have on the hd. Rarest one I own is probably Folklore. A fairly interesting action adventure with fairytale aesthetics and monster catching elements.
Basically, a puzzle-platformer (kinda like Limbo or Inside, but in full 3d) where you're some invisible kid that can only be seen in the rain, or when he walks on puddles etc. chasing after girl that's just like him.

It's a bit short, but I liked it a lot back in the day.
 
Battle Princess of Arcadia was fairly forgotten, I think it released very late on the ps3 life cycle + it had no physical release outside of japan, quirky little action rpg from NIS.
 
Not entirely obscure but anyone who’s in to Jrpgs and hasn’t played eternal sonata should try it. Playing as a real life European composer in an anime style dream world was a really cool idea. And it had some unique elements in the battle system
 
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Also, all games for Wonderbook.

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If I had the financial aid, I would’ve played way more PlayStation move games. Was always a neat little novelty.
 

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