Mike Oldfield's MusicVR games are some of the most interesting pieces of old PC gaming I've seen. It's barely even a game, it's just Mike Oldfield taking you for a ride.
Actually one of the best games I have played, it's the main area OST is still ingrained in my mind and I can kinda hear whenever I am doing nothing in particular
Beeswing is really special to me so I won't leave an image. Just play it it's like 3 dollars on Steam. The Sluggish Morss games, Beeswing, and Judero are all made by Jack-King Spooner and you can find the rest of his work (+ the Morss games) on his itch.io (not Steam for Morss).
Also it's not as visually surreal as the rest, but it's worth mentioning that the greatest game ever made is Outer Wilds (only if you don't spoil yourself and play it completely blind).
I've yet to finish Hylics 2 (I am somehow astoundingly bad at it) but definitely the Hylics series is some of the cream of the crop, will for sure be checking Jacks games too, Judero seems like a blast!
This game isn't surreal just for the surrealness, this game is an artistic masterpiece.
Also, there was a thread almost identical to this with A LOT of responses, I forgot what it was but if anyone can dig that up I think OP will appreciate it, there was a ton more suggestions there.
- Cosmo D Studio games.
- OutSide Directors Company games.
- Brazilian Drug Dealer series.
- Hack and Slash Fury.
- Elation for the Wonder Box 6000.
- Counter Strike NEO -WHITE MEMORIES- (if counter strike having a jp visual novel game counts as bizarre to you, then check it out).
- DEVO Presents Adventures of the Smart Patrol (if you want to suffer).
- MTV: Club Dead.
I wished I could recommend the King's Quest, but the prompt commands, the RNG, and unfair deaths can make your mileage vary. Some games also got unwinnable situations. For those, I recommend the fan remakes.
Out of the Sierra catalogue, I recommend Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood, with its many ways to figure out a situation. There's also Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers with its gripping story and fun interactions (plus Tim Curry and Mark Hamill voicing the main character and one of his friends, respectively).
Lucasarts? You can't go wrong with Full Throttle, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and The Secret of Monkey Island. Loom is also one amazing game, and I also recommend the FM Town version and is quite quick to finish (around 2 hours) with a very unique gameplay. If you don't mind a little of 'out there' thinking, Sam & Max Hit the Road and The Day of the Tentacle are also fun games.
Broken Sword I and II are must plays, at last for me. The first one is amazing and it wowed everyone with its amazing graphics when it was released, and the story is pretty good. Top notch production all around. Can't wait for the 5tth game.
Myst I would personally recommend either the most recent remake or RealMyst that allows for free-roaming and some small retcons that integrates with the novels and the later games better.
Now, for a slightly deep cut? The Legend of Kyrandia trilogy by Westwood Studios. It kind of pokes fun at King's Quest taking itself so seriously sometimes, with a very himbo protagonist for the first game, Brandon. Then, in the second game, Hand of Fate, you play as the amazing Zandia, a smart and sassy-mouthed enchantress that helped you during the first game. And, lately, in Malcolm's Revenge you play as the villain of the first game and there is a morality system of sorts.
And if you want to use scummvm to play something other adventure game, apparently DND Eye of the Beholder 1 and 2 can be played effortlessly if you want some dungeon crawling.
I don’t know much about it but I’ve plunged into investing the ‘Spectral Force’ after playing ‘Spectral Force Genesis’ , it has 10 entries (from my knowledge), only 3 seeming to have English releases. (Even those have limited info regarding their contents except ‘Spectral Force 3’ which I’m not as interested in)
Screenshots of the first game ^
I was unable to find any translations, and I don’t know a lick of Japanese.
I’m extremely curious if anyone on the forum has any knowledge on it and didn’t want to make a whole new thread for it so I’m asking here
Screenshots from the second game
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Forgot to mention there’s also a very poorly rated Ova for the first game. It had 2 approximately 25 minute long episodes I need to watch
A decent Russian Fallout-like RPG with pretty interesting writing, although apparently some of it gets lost in translation due to how much is based off Russian prison terminology. I still liked it and enjoyed it enough during my time completing it. An apocalyptic vision of a prison colony on a planet and after some time I've kind of forgotten what else it's about. There's a sequel but it hasn't been translated and the fan-translation doesn't seem to be going anywhere fast.
For the Downloadable version of this software, visit:https://archive.org/details/GayBlade_by_Ryan_BestSAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- Egads! Empress Nelda has been...
Glover for the Nintendo 64.
Very weird platformer that I discovered after watching an obscure youtube channel covering it.
At first it looks like your typical n64 platformer, but it gets really weird once you start to go deep into it.
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