What is your hidden gem of a game?

Arcane · 22 Mar 2019 at 11:48

Headhunter on the Dreamcast.

JBeck · 23 Mar 2019 at 21:47

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 · 24 Mar 2019 at 08:09

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

sparkymark75 · 24 Mar 2019 at 10:44

BowdonUK said:
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 · 25 Mar 2019 at 16:01

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

Pighardia · 25 Mar 2019 at 17:28

Army Men RTS.

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

aoaaron · 28 Mar 2019 at 21:39

Trails in the Sky FC/SC.

8myers8 · 29 Mar 2019 at 00:00

Bandits At 3 o'clock on the
BBC Micro

Crizzy · 30 Mar 2019 at 18:20

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

Tenchu was great, loved that game.

Kerplunk · 30 Mar 2019 at 20:35

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 · 2 Apr 2019 at 17:36

Warzone 2100 - was such a great game.

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

robfosters · 2 Apr 2019 at 23:05

Kerplunk said:
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 · 3 Apr 2019 at 22:14

robfosters said:
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 · 3 Apr 2019 at 22:43

Kerplunk said:
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 · 3 Apr 2019 at 22:57

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

BowdonUK · 3 Apr 2019 at 23:03

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

Same here. It got very repetative.

x-st · 3 Apr 2019 at 23:46

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 · 4 Apr 2019 at 11:53

robfosters said:
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 · 4 Apr 2019 at 12:32

Amatsubu said:
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 · 4 Apr 2019 at 15:41

What’s the heaviest mafia influenced GTA game?