What is your hidden gem of a game?

[Arcane]

Headhunter on the Dreamcast.

 

[JBeck]

Axelay on Super Nintendo. Fantastic side scrolling / Mode 7 space shooter with awesome level design and music.

Tenchu on PS1, this was quite underrated iirc but I loved it and completed it many times.

 

[budge1972]

Polybius helps me lose myself in VR
It's something else.

 

[sparkymark75]

Do you have any hidden gems of games that aren't that popular, or its never talked about much. But when you loaded it up, you loved it and played many hours on it?

I have 2 of them

The first is a game called The Saboteur. I played it on the PS3, but I think its out on other formats. It was an open world game and the main character is an irish guy. It's set in Europe as the Nazi's are trying to take over. So you have to go around doing various missions. In my opinion it was a very underrated game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saboteur

When I read your post title, the first game that came to mind was this. I played it on the 360 and loved it. The style was interesting where areas of the map that you hadn't yet completed still rendering in black and white. Once you completed missions in that area, it would then render in colour.

 

[bigjonnyauk]

pirates adventure ----commodore 64 .....yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

 

[Pighardia]

Army Men RTS.

Played the hell out of it when it came out. Loved it

 

[aoaaron]

Trails in the Sky FC/SC.

 

[8myers8]

Bandits At 3 o'clock on the
BBC Micro

 

[Crizzy]

Tenchu on PS1, this was quite underrated iirc but I loved it and completed it many times.

Tenchu was great, loved that game.

 

[Kerplunk]

Mafia.

I was on work experience one day way back when, and had an hour lunch. Popped into WHSmith and saw it, not really sure what made me buy it! Just did. Still have the box now, something about it just captures the time period. Of course it is clunky but that is it's charm...

 

[KraniX]

Warzone 2100 - was such a great game.

Edit: seems to be free and open source now - https://wz2100.net/

 

[robfosters]

Mafia.

I was on work experience one day way back when, and had an hour lunch. Popped into WHSmith and saw it, not really sure what made me buy it! Just did. Still have the box now, something about it just captures the time period. Of course it is clunky but that is it's charm...

I loved the second one. Got a bit sad at the ending.

 

[Kerplunk]

I loved the second one. Got a bit sad at the ending.

Did you ever play the 3rd one? Completely ruined it for me

 

[robfosters]

Did you ever play the 3rd one? Completely ruined it for me

Started it, lasted about 2 hours then never played it again. Awful game.

 

[Amatsubu]

The first Mafia was a bloody masterpiece, the second one was good, the third one was... ugh. Wasted potential.

 

[GGizmo]

Started it, lasted about 2 hours then never played it again. Awful game.

Same here. It got very repetative.

 

[x-st]

Soul Bubbles on the DS is an incredible game...so soothing and with amazing sound design, it's just an incredibly well designed little experience.

 

[Kerplunk]

Started it, lasted about 2 hours then never played it again. Awful game.

Yeah, I lasted abit longer, as I kept convincing myself it would be a good game - Just lost interest in the whole thing and didn't feel at all like a Mafia game

 

[Scort]

The first Mafia was a bloody masterpiece, the second one was good, the third one was... ugh. Wasted potential.

I concur, but the third was quite enjoyable after putting some hours into it - it's a real struggle to call it a "Mafia" game mind, but I did enjoy it - and the head shots were brutal! Not Soldier of Fortune brutal, but some of the most gory for a while - it certainly made gunplay fun.

 

[robfosters]

What’s the heaviest mafia influenced GTA game?