Can you guess Which game it is?

[R-T-B]

Appears to be some sort of spacecraft in the middle. KSP?

You got it. I tried to hide it but yeah lol, that's a reentry module. It's landed in a frozen perafrost region near kerbins icecaps, pretty but not sure how the plants are surviving (temps are near 0F / -17 C).

I wanted to showcase how good KSP1 can look with modern mods.

 

[Princess Garnet]

My mom used to work two jobs so I could have everything she never got to have growing up, so I got to pick a new game each week at Walmart.

Wow! Only child? (If that's too personal, feel free not to answer.)

Spoiler

I grew up with a handful of siblings and step-siblings (divorce and a remarriage) and neither parent was well off for the most part, so typically none of use were spoiled. The time frame that was sort of exception was in the early and mid 2000s when there were less kids in the house and both parents had much better income. Even then, we never got a game each week. We did rent games quite a bit though (up to two or three some months), some of which led to purchases after they realized "they are renting this particular game so often, it would be cheaper to buy it" haha. The most "spoiled" I recall us being insofar as games go is when we got the PlayStation 2 with around half a dozen games in the holidays of 2001. That would have been the holiday season a year after it launched here, which for us was "early" since we almost always got consoles pretty late in their life after they were super discounted. Like we got sort of just gotten the PlayStation around 1998. Uh, sorry to reminisce. A game a week sounds like a lot, even if that was just a $5 or $10 bargain bin deal most of the time. It sounds like she loved you.

On topic submission...

Hint: It released last year.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Wow! Only child? (If that's too personal, feel free not to answer.)

Spoiler

I grew up with a handful of siblings and step-siblings (divorce and a remarriage) and neither parent was well off for the most part, so typically none of use were spoiled. The time frame that was sort of exception was in the early and mid 2000s when there were less kids in the house and both parents had much better income. Even then, we never got a game each week. We did rent games quite a bit though (up to two or three some months), some of which led to purchases after they realized "they are renting this particular game so often, it would be cheaper to buy it" haha. The most "spoiled" I recall us being insofar as games go is when we got the PlayStation 2 with around half a dozen games in the holidays of 2001. That would have been the holiday season a year after it launched here, which for us was "early" since we almost always got consoles pretty late in their life after they were super discounted. Like we got sort of just gotten the PlayStation around 1998. Uh, sorry to reminisce. A game a week sounds like a lot, even if that was just a $5 or $10 bargain bin deal most of the time. It sounds like she loved you.

On topic submission...

Hint: It released last year.

That TV was a give away, that it definitely wasn't the '00s! Looks like at least the later-2010s. So it being very recent, doesn't surprise me.

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

That's a low bar, I'm afraid.



Challenge:

Spoiler: Hint 1

This screen is slightly atypical

Spoiler: Hint 2

Flash Game

Spoiler: Hint 3

"Henry" is the protagonist

 

[Princess Garnet]

That's a low bar, I'm afraid.

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Not Stray! Stray is older than last year.

 

[Space Lynx]

@Princess Garnet yes, I am only child

game is Copycat, and has been on my wishlist for awhile

 

[kilo]

That's a low bar, I'm afraid.

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Challenge:

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Spoiler: Hint 1

This screen is slightly atypical

Spoiler: Hint 2

Flash Game

Spoiler: Hint 3

"Henry" is the protagonist

Henry Stickman

definitely an age of empire era/theme game. that is the closest guess I could make

Try again

 

[Princess Garnet]

@Princess Garnet yes, I am only child

game is Copycat, and has been on my wishlist for awhile

Yes, that's it. I wasn't expecting someone to guess it based on natural recognition. I figured it was too small of a game and would be confused for Stray.

 

[kilo]

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Screenshot from the first mission (I don't have any old saves)

Spoiler: Hint 1

Released in 1999

Spoiler: Hint 2

This is a screenshot from the second title in the series and has the same name as the first. E.g. Adding a "2" at the end.

Spoiler: Hint 3

Plays and looks almost exactly like the first in the series

Spoiler: Answer

Rage of Mages 2: Necromancer

This was at a time where most lines are voiced, but graphics were still lagging behind, such as using a paper doll style inventory screen. Many of the monsters and traps cheese you into an early death and you can't go back in levels to get loot that was guarded by crazy powerful monsters. Aside from its flaws, I still enjoy it for all its goofy parts. Thankfully, there's cheat codes.

 

[Space Lynx]

Submission: RTS game, quite old

 

[mclaren85]

 

[Space Lynx]

Submission: RTS game, quite old

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hint: this is literally the opening scene of the games campaign, the very first part of it anyway

 

[Shihab]

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Original Resident Evil?

 

[mclaren85]

Original Resident Evil?

Exactly, thanks bro

 

[Space Lynx]

Exactly, thanks bro

i actually was thinking resident evil, but i wasn't sure which one so i didn't say anything. dangit!

cause all them playstation 1 ones look kind of blocky the same

 

[Princess Garnet]

I'm late, but I would have recognized that as Resident Evil right away.

I first played it on the Sega Saturn (my family was split and too poor to afford a PlayStation until a few years later) and that game seeded my love for the horror genre. It's funny how it's seen as campy today, and that was also somewhat true back then, but this was the era where a lean into horror and gore on the realistic side for video games was a bit of a new thing.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

 

[Space Lynx]

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Overlord II

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Overlord II

No, I've actually never played that.

Only hint I'll give is it isn't as old as overlord 2.

 

[Space Lynx]

No, I've actually never played that.

Only hint I'll give is it isn't as old as overlord 2.

it's tugging at my memory for some reason, but I just can't think of it...

Blades of Time?

edit: nm i think blades of time is older, i give up

 

[oxrufiioxo]

it's tugging at my memory for some reason, but I just can't think of it...

Blades of Time?

edit: nm i think blades of time is older, i give up

Na you got it blades of time is correct lol.

2012

The thing I remember the most about it is the protagonist talks way too damn much lol.

I was gonna do X blades but the protagonist is pretty recognizable.

 

[Space Lynx]

Na you got it blades of time is correct lol.

2012

The thing I remember the most about it is the protagonist talks way too damn much lol.

I was gonna do X blades but the protagonist is pretty recognizable.

I played Blades of Time not that long ago: I liked it personally, and the graphics scale nicely with higher res monitors

 

[oxrufiioxo]

I played Blades of Time not that long ago: I liked it personally, and the graphics scale nicely with higher res monitors

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Yeah it's not bad. X blades is similar just a older X360 era.

 

[Onasi]

Yeah it's not bad. X blades is similar just a older X360 era.

*gets flashbacks* Hell, I think I still have my original jewel DVD case for the initial 2007 release of Oniblade lying somewhere. I vaguely remember it being janky as hell. The late 2000s were peak slav-jank time period.
Speaking of obscure slav-jank:

 

[Space Lynx]

since no one can guess mine, it is Original War

Original War on Steam

An American geological expedition, under a UN mandate, assesses the natural resources in a distant part of Siberia, deep in the trackless steppes of Eastern Russia. But instead of oil, they discover a deposit of a hitherto unknown mineral.

store.steampowered.com

very fun old rts game from 2001, that still holds up well. doesn't scale very well with higher rez monitors, but at 27" 1440p it still plays and looks great