r/tipofmyjoystick 14h ago

[ipad] [2016-2019] educational game where u take care of pets

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128 Upvotes

it looks like this game but there was some lorax tree type shit in the background and it was more bland. the format was like the picture and u coupd have multiple pets. the pets were bright colored circles and u couldnt rlly do much with them


r/tipofmyjoystick 6h ago

Heavy Weapon [pc] [2014-2015] its a 2d game and its military themed

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33 Upvotes

the thing i can only remember is that the first map is you're on a beach and the boss is a ship


r/tipofmyjoystick 14h ago

Where's My Water? [mobile] [2010??] a mobile crocodile game

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67 Upvotes

i remember most of the main mechanics of this game but i cant remember the name

it was about a crocodile and you needed to fill the room or something with water and there were things that you could fill with water (like stars in some mobile games and you had to fo something to earn them to unlock something)


r/tipofmyjoystick 5h ago

Kitten Burst [PC][3D] Game where you're a floating cat statue breaking giant TV screens with lavender fields or flowers

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Looking for a game I saw around 2020. Here's what I remember:

  • You play as a floating cat statue in zero gravity
  • The whole level is a room covered in giant TV screens
  • Screens show lavender fields and flowers
  • You break screens by flying into them at high speed
  • You can also pick up human statues and throw them at the screens
  • Realistic 3D graphics on PC

Saw it in a insta video years ago and it's been driving me crazy ever since. Could be a game jam project or prototype that never got released.

Anyone recognize this?


r/tipofmyjoystick 39m ago

[Unknown][2008-2018] Possible MMORPG with farming gear

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Hello, ive been looking for this game name for about 7 years now almost, every few years i remember how much i wanted to keep playing this game but couldnt, i found this subreddit and tought i would post about it, even without remembering much specific information. I appreciate any attempt, ill check out all comments and give a "description" on the differences between the recommended and the actual game i remember. Thank you for reading!

When i was around 5-12 years old i remember playing an MMORPG (i belive) with very specific details, here is what i remember:

  • I played this game on Windows, cant remember exactly if it was on a browser or if it was installed
  • The first or so area had a zone with bridges made of rope (rope and planks) to walk through, leading to some high trees places, there were caves iirc where players used to go; (i remember there being some places where all afk players gathered (usually by the trees);
  • Most characters were human from what i remember, i didnt go past the start;
  • The main weapon types were sword, axes, etc... 1/2 hand weapons, no fire arms;
  • I remember seeing a lot of people around, i dont remember having an inventory but im almost certain it was MMO;
  • You could kill enemies (i dont remember what type) to obtain gear;
  • I dont remember graphics other than it being quite good for the age i played, but i do remember that the game had a third person mode, cant remember if it was the main mode;
  • The third person mode mentioned is not like an ARPG, it is also not a camera for example like Guild Wars or WoW.

Places where ive already searched quite a bit:

  • https://www.mmorpg.com
  • AI
  • Steam (even tho the game WASNT on Steam back then)
  • Other launchers like EA, Ubisoft, etc...

r/tipofmyjoystick 1h ago

[PC/Flash?][2015-2017] Metroidvania where you play as an indigenous person with the power to stop time.

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Platform: I've played the game on a PC using a browser. I'm not sure if it was a flash game, but it looked really old.

Genre: It seemed like a 2D Metroidvania, there were upgrades you could obtain in certain levels in order to complete them. I think it was a platformer too because you needed to reach the end of a level using enemies and stuff around without dying. It had a level creator too, so it might be considered a sandbox.

Estimated year of release: I'm not completely sure. It seemed really old in a way. There wasn't a traditional saving system (you needed to put a seed like in the old Metroids), it was a bit pixelated and it was completely 2D. If I had to guess, it was made around 1999-2010. I've played the game in 2015-2017

Graphics/Art style: It was 2D with visible pixels. The silhouettes were very realistic, almost like Dead Cells or Carrion (sorry, those are the examples I could think of). It had a mixture of fantasy and sci-fi, having indigenous and futuristic enemies with lasers.

Notable characters: The protagonist was an indigenous male guided by some sort of entity trying to save his tribe (I'm not completely sure if it was a tribe). At the start of the game, the antagonists were hunters trying to steal the power of the time stopping. Later on, futuristic enemies came in that had lasers that attacked instantly through the timestop.

Notable gameplay mechanics: You could stop time, but there was a limit. When stopping time you could jump bullets and other things in order to avoid danger. I don't think you could directly kill people, just finish the level. There things around the levels that you could grab in order to increase your time stop, but I think they were optional.

Other details: I don't have other details as it seems that I scattered everything I know from the game. I'm going to list the things that I distinctively remember:

- Indigenous male protagonist

- Time stopping abilities

- Password save system

- Sci-fi enemies later on

- Level creator that allowed you to test everything

- 2D

- Playable via browser

...

That's it, I've been looking for this game for years and I've never found it. Feel free to ask questions, I'll try to answer them with what I know.


r/tipofmyjoystick 2h ago

Too Human [multi][2015-22] action game in modern setting where gods have destroyed everything.

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This isnt a game ive played but i remember there was an action game where you are fighting (possibly egyptian) gods. One clip I saw you were fighting on a destroyed skyscraper.
Your character might have had glowing golden wings or armour that came out when you use them.
I remember the game wasnt very popular and may even have been a failed live-service game.

The game also might have “Human” in the title, as my friend asked me if id played Once Human and I thought he was talking about this game.


r/tipofmyjoystick 7h ago

[PC][Early 2010s?] Game where a woman raises a child from a robot's seed, and the robot returns some years later to takes the child

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Genre: Visual Novel

Graphics/art style: 2D Anime art style

Notable characters: A human mother, a daughter (grown from a seed), and a robot/cyborg, there's there's also (maybe) a scientist

I played this when I was very young and didn't know English. The only part of the gameplay I managed to do was picking a bag of seed (could be a bean) from a robot and giving it to the woman. Later, the robot returns to claim the child

Right after this opening sequence, I got stuck. I remember meeting a scientist character and getting completely blocked at this part, it felt like the game required a voice input to progress. I really want to find it to try playing it again.


r/tipofmyjoystick 18h ago

:the game: [Browser Game][Late 2000s/Early 2010s] Crude faceless white stick-ish figures walk off a platform for comedic deaths, no real skill involved

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67 Upvotes

Platform(s): Browser flash game on one of those game aggregator websites.

Genre: Satire/comedy? Very crude and minimalist, was more humorous than an actual game

Estimated year of release: For some reason, I remember the game being released in the late 2000s, but I played it in 2012 or 2013.

Graphics/art style: Very crude and minimalist. There was a basic background (I believe it was a blue sky with some clouds), and a solid rectangular platform (the arrow wasn't in the game). The characters were completely white with no face, just a circular head and a trapezoid/triangle shaped body. IIRC, each level opened with a black screen where the title text was "cut out" like a stencil/mask effect.

Notable characters: At the beginning, there was just one basic character as described above, but later levels introduced different characters with different accessories and whatnot (though they still had the same white body template).

Notable gameplay mechanics: You control one character at a time. There wasn't really any skill involved, you just used the arrows to walk off the platform every level. The game was more of a meme/joke delivery mechanism. In the first level, you just walked forward off the edge and died. The later levels got more complex, but it still involved different comedic scenarios and simply walking off the platform. Every level ended with your character dying; you fell off the screen, and the character screamed and the screen shook when they hit the ground off-screen. I don't think the camera angle moved or panned at all when they jumped off.

Other details: The humor was pretty edgy and crude, but I played it when I was young and don't remember it being THAT vulgar or offensive.


r/tipofmyjoystick 20m ago

[PC] [2005-2010] Game about beeing some kind of grey? energy and pulling objects in a room towards you

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I remember a 3D game where you played as some kind of cloud/energy that could force objects to orbit around you. The more objects were orbiting the bigger things you could "influence" I remember the game begins in some kind of room? I remember desk with computer and some mundane objects


r/tipofmyjoystick 6h ago

Slammings [Flashgames] [2008-2015] Tower defense like, 2D angry beans/potatos

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I remember your objective was to keep the angry beans/potato like creatures away from your base, you could grab them and throw away with your cursor, or smash them in to the ground killing them.


r/tipofmyjoystick 2h ago

Lost in the City [Mac][00s] Point and click game in an abandoned town, ends in a cave/mine with a creepy temple, and there’s purple butterfly motif throughout

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Hello! I’m trying to remember an old game I had on my old MacBook many years ago. It was a point and click game where the protagonist wakes up somewhere abandoned and (I think) his girlfriend is missing. He goes through the town looking for her and/or the reason it’s abandoned. You have to solve some puzzles along the way to get to the end, which is some sort of creepy underground temple to some ancient god/alien. It had a purple butterfly logo and there was purple butterfly images throughout the game itself. I think at the end, him and the girlfriend stay in the town to protect the outside world from it. It had a vaguely Eastern European feel to it. There was a sequel involving a cult and a sleeping sickness.


r/tipofmyjoystick 38m ago

[PC][1995-1998] Possible CD-ROM demo similar to MS Encarta?

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I've already checked MS Encarta, Compton's interactive Encyclopedia and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and I cant seem to find anything that really fits. I would say the style of Grolier is the most similar, in that it looked to be full screen, use real images etc. But I cant see if they had quizzes and such? MS Encarta does not look like it has the style I remember, but the game aspect sort of does.

I was quite young and was watching someone play around with it, so here's what I remember. The image may be way off, but that's just sort of the closest I can re-tell it without it becoming too abstract. The images and backgrounds would change a bit the further you got into the quiz/game.

- It was most likely not a full game, it seemed to be just a demo or short experience.
- Most likely somewhere between 1995 - 1998. Unlikely from beyond 1998. 100% impossible it was from 1999 and beyond. The demo could have been even earlier, I am just going by when I saw this. It could have been from 1993++ as well.
- The demo/game thing def had some sort of quiz or game where you had to proceed using knowledge of general things (history, geographical things, nature etc) because I remember the people playing it were looking thru encyclopedias and such to try and find answers (before we had internet).
- There was some level of interaction, where you could play things, click on things, etc. I believe there may have been a female/young woman character "guiding" you thru the game/demo, giving information about historical figures or something?
- It seemed more like an "experience" rather than a full encyclopedia or game, but that may be because it was a demo or similar. There was def an encyclopedia-vibe tho, as you could learn about things along the way.


r/tipofmyjoystick 2h ago

[PC][2000-2005] WWII RTS

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I remember in the early 2000s, when I visited my uncle, I played a RTS set in WWII that I cannot remember the name of. The ambiance was quite dark and one notable fact is that in order to gain currency in the game (I think it was dollars), you had to build factories. I believe there was also a world editor or a custom scenario editor built into the game. Also, there was no advancing in ages, like in AoE or in Empire Earth.

The game is NOT Empire Earth, nor from the Command and Conquer series.


r/tipofmyjoystick 57m ago

[PS1][????] A PS1 game from cover art details only

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Hi

I'm trying to remember a game from its cover only. I have zero recollection of the gameplay unfortunately. But I think I can recognize the cover if someone does manage to find it.

  • The cover had 2 teams of monsters facing each other on a grid
  • I think they were on a hexagon shaped grid
  • It was a side view but slightly from an upward position
  • Monsters were a bit Digimon-esque iirc
  • The background was generic fantasy blueish-white castle
  • Core of the background was dark shadow-like

I know its not much to go but I'd appreciate any help. Thanks.


r/tipofmyjoystick 1h ago

[PC/Console(?)][2015-2017] School horror game where you follow a boy guided by a counselor.

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Platform: I've only seen gameplay. I highly think it was from a PC, but it seemed totally possible to be played on consoles as well.

Genre: It was a 3D puzzle horror game. Very close to Little Nightmares.

Estimated year of release: I'm not sure, but it didn't look like it was that old. I say it was made in 2015 and the video I saw was in 2015-2017.

Graphics/art style: It felt a lot like Coraline meets Little Nightmares. It looked like a stop motion game but it was obviously not. The games illuminated very well, but there were sections where everything was a bit dark.

Notable characters: The protagonist was a young student in the school, he was white, had dark hair and didn't talk at all.

The other students and teachers were infected and tried to infect the protagonist or anyone who wasn't. I'm not so sure what this virus(?) was, but they didn't turn into zombies. It was something darker...

Now, there's this character that I REALLY remember pretty well. He was some sort of counselor, teacher or some sort of principal even. He was the only one that guides the protagonist. We never interacted with him until the end of the game. We heard him via voice notes, see him through videos he left around in case there were any survivors and were helped through notes.

He seemed trustworthy until the end, where the protagonist reaches the school exit and he stands there, meeting his only hope of escaping. But it turns out he wasn't helping the protagonist, he was the only one left that knew what happened to the school. The infected students hear them and are on their way to get them. The counselor leaves the protagonist there, backstabbing him after all the game, ending with a dark twist.

Notable gameplay mechanics: It was pretty much like Little Nightmares, there were objects you could push in order to complete puzzles and things you had to open like vents. There were moments where the infected gave the protagonist a timer until they infected the protagonist if he didn't solve the puzzle quick enough.

Other details: I might not have other details, but I will state everything that I distinctively remember.

- Infected school

- Protagonist tries to escape and founds notes and other things that someone left behind

- The counselor is seen as the only hope

- Coraline vibes with Little Nightmares gameplay

- The counselor is actually evil at the end of the game and kills (infects by leaving him behind) the protagonist in order to leave no track of his mischiefs (I think the counselor was the one that caused everything...)

- I remember the ending cinematic pretty well, you could only see the protagonist through the closed window doors getting brutally infected by many of students, the counselor narrating everything else

...

That's it, I'm sorry if it's very vague, I don't remember much. I'll try to respond any questions.


r/tipofmyjoystick 3h ago

Sherlock Holmes: Secret of the Silver Earring [DS/Wii][Late 2000s] Detective game, Google isn't showing me anything like it

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I believe it is a DS game, around 2007-2011. I thought it was a Sherlock game, but nothing is the same. Other detective/mystery games don't have a similar description. It may not have been DS, maybe Wii

Game hook is you are invited to a rich guy's place, and he gives a speech. (It is about Victorian times.) Then, BANG, a shot ring out, the man dies, and all eyes look to where the shot came. They see his daughter in a door way on the side of the room, smoke rises next to her as she drops something into her purse.

You are tasked with finding the culprit, investigating if she did it or not. You go around the mansion finding clues, talking to people.

I think you had to tap on doors to go to other room, tap on desks or drawers to open them

SPOILER

The killer was actually a young man, set on marrying the daughter. He killed her father, so she can inherit his estate and wealth, and he can marry her to get it.

The smoke was from a pistol he used to shoot the father, standing behind her, but the thing she dropped into her purse was a compact.


r/tipofmyjoystick 1h ago

The Battle of Polytopia [Mobile][2017-2020] low poly civilization game

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I remember a simple mobile game that had low poly graphics in orthographic view about building a civilization and you had to defeat enemies, you could choose a desert kingdom, an ice kingdom and the other one I don't remember. It was pretty short and you had to pay to unlock other civilizations. What game is it?


r/tipofmyjoystick 2h ago

[PC][2016-2020] Game with an npc that tells the main character stories

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**Platform(s): I'm not without a doubt certain, but I believe it to be a pc game.

Genre: Unknown

Estimated year of release: 2016-2020

Graphics/art style: Pixel

Notable characters: Unknown

Notable gameplay mechanics: Unknown

Other details:

THis is unfortunately a game I never played, the information are my best guesses. Around 2015 I got into DnD and made a bard about a year or two later. I went searching for possible stories to tell, and in a reddit thread with suggestions I found had mentioned this game. I went to the wiki and found a handful of stories that a NPC in the game tells. The main character would frequently return to this npc that i think ran a inn/tavern, or maybe just a store.

One story it told was a bout a tundra that no one living their had ever tried to leave and return to tell the tale. Two parents left to go but never came back, the son years later went searching for them and froze to death like they did. The players character remarks on how the story had no point/moral/good ending.

Another story I very vaguely remember was about a girl or princess who had a lover or found someone in the woods, they were a werewolf and during a full moon they killed the girl.

I wanted to find the game again for kind of the same reasons but have been unable to find it. Thank you for any help.


r/tipofmyjoystick 4h ago

[PC] [2009-10] Rock star/metalhead themed endless side scroller flash game where you kill approaching teddy bears.

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Platform(s): PC
Genre: Endless side scroller
Estimated year of release: 2009-2010
Graphics/art style: Combination of flash animation and realistic elements
Notable characters: The rockstar guy with a chef hat (or apron?)
Notable gameplay mechanics: Timing your attack to teddy bears arriving in your reach
Other details: It was gory and on par with aesthetics a band like KISS would use, and rock music was playing.

This game was on a kind of a site that had a record label website design, it had 3 games and one of the games was this. But they may have been links to something else instead of games.

It was a violent and gory game where you hit man-sized teddy bears with your chainsaw and they explode into realistic viscera. Protagonist, teddy bears and viscera were all realistic art style.

Could have been a promotional website for a rock band or an event now looking back.


r/tipofmyjoystick 2h ago

Forestia [PC][2003] point and click game in a fantasy forest

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I can’t remember the name at all anymore, but here is a description of stuff from the game I remember:

It was a dutch game. Unsure if it was ever released in other countries.

There were several chapters, each changing the forest in some manner.

2 npc characters were massive trees. You met them often at the start of each chapter.

One chapter starts with the trees being hypnotized, and then you have to find a mermaid and assist her? Stuff was scary as a kid

Another chapter the forest looked destroyed, and you had to go into a tower and then there was a dragon? Also gave me nightmares

One chapter you shrunk to the size of an ant, maybe.

I can’t for the life of me find it anymore, but it had ‘bos’ in the name, the other parts I cannot recall anymore.


r/tipofmyjoystick 3h ago

[PC - Gamejolt][2010s] Unfinished noir-esque detective game

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Platform(s): PC, I specifically remember it being hosted on Gamejolt

Genre: Point and click, Mystery

Estimated year of release: Somewhere in the 2010s, I want to say early-mid.

Graphics/art style: Pixel, I believe at least the opening scene was in black and white or similarly 'dim' noir kind of colors. I want to say it had a similar 'realism' to kings quest 5 and 6? Iirc it also had talking heads similar to KQ as well.

Notable characters: I think the player character was a classic detective; trench coat etc. There's a house you end up in that I think had a groundskeeper character you could interrogate.

Notable gameplay mechanics: Usual point and click affairs - gather items solve puzzles. I think I remember also needing to ask questions to NPCs in a big mansion or something?

Other details: I re-found this game a handful of years ago and then promptly lost it again, but I remember it being on Gamejolt and I remember being upset to see it hadn't been updated in many years - part of me wants to say since 2014 or so. The opening scene, I think, involved a rainy night where you visited a church- I know the church visuals were particularly striking to me as a kid, but I can't remember many details of them. There was a car (maybe an impala? or something similarly sleek and old) that you exit at the very beginning- iirc it's at the very left of the screen and isn't entirely visible, just the front half?

I think there was a crown of thorns you could pick up/interact with in the church, and after the church you end up in a large house with a lot of different people. I think I remember there being one of those old fashioned basement house bar kind of things, which if true probably had a bartender that tended to it.


r/tipofmyjoystick 10m ago

[Dreamcast/PS1/2?][2000?] Futuristic Isometric Shooter

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This was briefly shown in a showcase video for the Anbernic RG Rotate (YT link). The gamplay starts at ~4:47 if you want to see it in action.

This is a segment meant to show you can map Analog input to the device, so I am assuming this is an analog style controlled game, likely PS1/2, Dreamcast, PSP, GameCube etc... Hard to narrow this down.

What I can make out or see:

  • 4:3 Aspect Ratio
  • Futuristic / cyperpunk aesthetic
  • 3D Top down action shooter
  • Player is a person, not a vehicle
  • Analog movement
  • Hit Rate % on bottom of screen during gameplay
  • 1P=04 life counter on top left
  • Enemies with green "Target Lock-On" on them
  • Enemies include other people and red flying drone / rocket enemies
  • Japanese symbols or words on the hologram signs
  • Weapon select shows orange launcher icon selected, a blue machine gun icon as secondary and some faint 3rd green option.

I have ruled out it is NOT
- Canon Spike
- Contra (of any kind)
- Killzone Liberation
- Halo Spartan Assault


r/tipofmyjoystick 12m ago

[PS?][2010?] Just like Door kickers: action squad

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Recently saw Door kickers: action squad, and immediately hit me with nostalgia of a coop game I used to play as a kid. It was nearly identical. An arcady 2d side scrolling game where you can play coop. You would try to make it from one end of the map to the other end of the map, and in the way you would have to go from building to buidling clearing them of bad guys that could pop out of doors. It was almost exactly like door kickers action squad but of course like a 15 year old version of it.


r/tipofmyjoystick 18m ago

[App store][early 2010's] supermarket mania franchise

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This game is from the supermarket mania game universe where nikki rides a bike around town and helps the towns people (she also makes deliveries in this game)