Extremely Weird And Obscure Games

[lukebuskin]

I couldn't agree more

This game treads the line between the kind of game you'd look at and believe was real, and one of the games that was faked as a gag in early Homestuck.

 

[FreshDinoBone]

This game treads the line between the kind of game you'd look at and believe was real, and one of the games that was faked as a gag in early Homestuck.

Lol, it really does look like a fake game, and it doesn't help that it's an exclusive for the gameboy color of all consoles

 

[Viviana Santos]

Planet Laika is definitely one of the best psychological horror games I've ever played in my entire life, up there with Silent Hill 2 as my favorite horror game of all time. Amazing story and fascinating psychological themes, exploring delicate topics such as neurodivergence and trauma (such as Dissociative identity disorder (DID) and Childhood trauma, and also Psychological/Mental/Physical/Sexual abuse), It's definitely one of the most impactful experiences I've had with a piece of media, I literally cried while playing. It's not for everyone as it can be incredibly disturbing and upsetting, But it's also incredibly beautiful, powerful and cathartic.

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

Paranoisascape, the only horror pinball game I have ever played.

 

[Kid Dynamite]

Getting Over It

 

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

Tadaima Wakusei Kaitakuchuu! (1995)

 

[Jeff]

I'll just put this up as the weirdest game.

 

[Hotwer]

Takeshi's Challenge from the creator of Takeshi's Castle

 

[abu2411]

An obscure game I know of from looking at art on pinterest is Volfoss.

 

[Minterfresh]

Phantom Dust is a weird stage-based arena fighter with deck building, originally for Xbox. It had a remake announced, then canceled, and got put on the Microsoft Store for free. I never hear about it in general, but a handful of people still stream its multiplayer. I love its art style and combat system, recommend trying it.

 

[NobodyHere]

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

 

[Moreno909]

Takeshi's Challenge from the creator of Takeshi's Castle

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Takeshi is in the Battle Royale movie

 

[Hypogastrium]

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.

 

[WesternYokai]

Takeshi's Challenge from the creator of Takeshi's Castle

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Takeshi Kitano is my favorite artists of all time, no joke. I love how he's such a weird guy with a W I D E range of multimedia projects.

 

[kingofdragons]

How about this?

Gayblade (Windows 3.1 Version, 2.0) : RJBest Company (Ryan Best and John Theurer) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

For the Downloadable version of this software, visit:https://archive.org/details/GayBlade_by_Ryan_BestSAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- Egads! Empress Nelda has been...

archive.org

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

For me, it's REZ by SEGA.
I love REZ by SEGA.
Playing REZ by SEGA with the TRANCE VIBRATOR accessory is a transcendental experience.

 

[TheCartoonFan9890]

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.

 

[Cosmiken]

 

[Emerald Flowsion]

I would be surprised, if anyone knows this game.

 

[Cosmiken]

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I would be surprised, if anyone knows this game.

I don't know what game that is but I know an Antonio Inoki when I see one.

 

[beefbowl]

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I would be surprised, if anyone knows this game.

Need this on the repo STAT

 

[spacebear]

You pilot a chopper and fire bomb people infected with Ebola. I'm not kidding.

 

[WarmMash]

The better version of Osu!

 

[Amakuchi]

Some odd ones I can think of atm, the latter was actually one of the first games to use digitized sprites.

 

[Daughter of Janus]

Serious:
Armed & Delirious, a goofy point-and-click adventure, looks like a cartoon. You play as Granny, who has to find her missing family and cookbook in a crazy world made by the Great Rabbit. The puzzles are weird and funny, like a wacky cartoon gone mad. Almost like the developers where smoking something... not quite legal

The strangest game I’ve ever played