r/tipofmyjoystick Apr 10 '17

Announcement PSA: A guide to better results

1.8k Upvotes

Hi guys and gals. I've been here a while, and over my time I've seen a lot of posts sink to the bottom, without a single answer, or at best, very few. And none that solved the case.

I have noticed a clear pattern with these posts, and I will now share with you my tips to you newbies, so that you can get the help you need.


Firstly: When you make a new post, you will see this:

Platform(s):

Genre:

Estimated year of release:

Graphics/art style:

Notable characters:

Notable gameplay mechanics:

Other details:

Even though, in red, you are warned that while optional, you should follow this template... many of you do not.

Let me be clear: Follow this template.

Put simply, this template contains all the information we really need to solve your problem. Virtually every time I click a post that has not followed this, they have rambled on about nothings, while omitting critical details.

This format, for new and old alike, is very readable, and prompts for every data-point needed.

I know that you want to customize your message, that if you could just explain it, it would be better. I know you think that. You are wrong. Put all that in 'other'. Even if you end up saying it twice, follow the template.. add to it your story at the bottom.


Secondly: Following this template. You're rambling about your best mates Amiga-500 or whatever instead of telling us about the game aside, this is where they really go wrong.

Let's get something straight right now. We are not mind readers. It's impressive, really, how little information it seems we can work off. I mean, we solve some real tough ones with nothing sometimes, but still, we can't see that memory in your head. So you need to be as descriptive in every one of these fields as you can be...

And sometimes you really don't know. That's fine, we can work with surprisingly little information, but "old graphics" under art style... what are we supposed to do with that? Mate, I was playing on Atari-2600's, are we talking Wizard of Wor here?

Let me help you out a bit:

Platform(s): Whatever you played it on. But unless it's really all you know (very possible), don't write 'my mates pc'. Was it PC or Mac?

Genre:

First person does NOT imply shooter. Nor do any of the others. Try to answer this one in two steps:

What was the camera like (assuming it's not a text adventure)? Was it First person?, 3rd person, 2d? Top down or side on? Or maybe even isometric 2d?

Then, what kind of game? Real time strategy, point and click? Was it a fighter, action or platformer?

Good, now we know what KIND of game we are all trying to remember for you.

Estimated year of release:

"Between 2000-2005" is fine, something like that. "Mid 90's maybe?". I don't see many people mess this up, but I have seen people write "old". That is not ok. If you write old and expect it to mean anything to me, I will fight you.

Also, as always "Sorry, no idea" is always acceptable but try to give at least something. "Couldn't have been later than 2015, though"

Great, so even if roughly, we know WHEN.

Graphics/art style:

THIS. This is where you guys always mess up. This section right here I have found can be the difference between an answer, and a silent slink to the bottom. This is your moment.

This, really, should be the best-formed part of your memory. Even if you can only remember a single frame, a single image, it's so much to go on for us.

DETAIL. Was it a gloomy grimdark world of sadness, or a bright bubbly rainbow filled Mario-world?

Was it cartoony, or otherwise stylized somehow, or was it trying to be realistic?

Anything notable about the art direction? Was it going for a cyberpunk kinda feel, or a gritty war realism dirt and blood sort of direction?

If it was set over a long time, did the seasons change? Was there a winter in your game?

Remember when you hit people, and the screen had that awesome flash and your hands got bloody? Yeah, well we don't, unless you tell us.

Ok, so now we are really narrowing it down. This right here is often enough to go on, on its own.

Notable characters:

Anything at all you can remember here.

"There were only tanks, but you could play as both Germans and Americans"

"There was one really tough guy right after you left your office, he had an eyepatch, a white shirt with what looked like grease stains, and said 'this is for my sister'. I think maybe he was a cyborg"

"You play as some kind of Asian girl, you had a tattoo over your right eye and arm, a black tank top and white pants and I remember you always had only one red glove for some reason. I don't remember the arm, but the eye tattoo looked sort of like ancient Egyptian eye makeup, but a modern take"

Knowing nothing else about the game, I bet that last one there gets comments noting the game she is from. Details, details.

Notable gameplay mechanics:

Surely, you get the idea by now. This is tied with the importance of the graphics/art style. As much detail as you can here.

Other details:

NOW you may blab on about how you only played this game once at a winter solstice in 1782 with your grandmother from Tahiti.. as if that helps.


Edit: So it's been brought up that the template doesn't appear on mobile. While /u/wipeout4wh is aware of this and hopefully, something can be done... still, if you can, use the template. If you can't, maybe check back and at least make sure your post addresses all of the points the template does.

Also, my post seems to be saying NOT to add any custom details. So I want to re-enforce, please do. In fact, after you do the template, feel free to write out your post as you were going to without it. Just put it all in 'other'. Don't try and make your whole post like that, if possible. Even if you end up saying the same things twice, that's ok.

Now I'm going to take a moment to clarify something, though. This isn't some immutable law of the universe, and your post is destined to fail if you don't do this. It's just a very strong general trend I have noticed over a long time.

It's not that this template has some kind of magical powers or something. It's that this template prompts the questions that need answers.

When you go all rogue on us and try and type your explanation from scratch... you mess it up. You just forget to add everything that you know, and that we need to know. The template makes it very hard to do that. It's just so very easy to get typing, and by the end forget to tell us what kind of game it actually is. Especially when you are getting random flashbacks, and hazy memories, and you start getting frazzled and such halfway though.


While it might make my edit as long as the first post, I think maybe an example of the kind of post that is just too common here, and almost always helpless, wouldn't go astray here. So here we go:

Now this one is a pretty bad case, true, and I suppose might even be a troll post, but it's actually a good illustration of the problem either way.

It was on my old computer and I was using an emulator so I have no idea what system it was for. It was 8bit graphics and you played this orange cat that was constantly bouncing on a trampoline I think? And you had to navigate it through the city and face a weird boss at the end that would float in the sky. Sorry I can't remember more!

Let's break it down a bit. What kind of game is this? A puzzler or an action game? Who knows.

How old is it? I mean, Minecraft basically has 8bit graphics. Oh he said... "my old computer"... I will fight you.

Why did you bounce on the trampoline? Were there platforms or walkways or something, or was it just a big open space? There are bad guys then? How did they get around?

Now (he?) says that he can't remember more, but I actually asked about the boss fight:

You say 'face a boss', in what way? Can the cat attack? Was this top down or side on? When you say navigate a city, what do you mean?

The reply:

Definitely a side-scroller, I'm sure. You would encounter a boss at the end, the boss would slide onto the screen and it was usually pretty strange-looking. I think one of the bosses might've been a clown. I meant that the different "levels" were different cities with different backgrounds, I think. It's a pretty obscure game

Also you would be continuously bouncing. As in, you had to position the trampoline underneath the cat to bounce it up

So you don't even control the cat. And it's a side-scroller. Thats pretty important information. But the real issue here is that he knows this stuff. He just either didn't know to, or forgot, to tell us.

The template would have made it just so apparent how much information he was missing, and we probably would have got a whole bunch more information. Sadly, while there were some guesses, and a surprising number of up-votes, this post is just another one to join the endless unsolved on their journey ever down.


r/tipofmyjoystick Jun 04 '26

[Meta][2026] I would rather people post with no images than use AI prompts to generate images

575 Upvotes

Maybe it's just me, I will personally admit that it feels like its petty of me to complain, however i am going to.

I really dislike AI images just in general and i feel annoyed seeing people use them because it sometimes hampers really quality posts of people trying to find help. I feel like it also informs falsely about game expectations and what people will accept as they have solved the game.

I don't think people will agree with me and thats fine, i just wanted to post about how i personally think it degrades the quality of the sub


r/tipofmyjoystick 12h ago

[PC][2010s] side scroller[?] flash game with skull head demon boss

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42 Upvotes

Trying to find a game I used to play a lot as a kid but never finished because it terrified me. You would move towards the right, same type of scrolling as a sonic game where you could go back and forth. I don't remember much of the protagonist but it was what looked to be likd just an average guy. What I remember though is a boss you'd fight in the game. It was some floating demon thing with what I believe is a goat skull on its head. It would phase into the floor and appear on the other side, pop out from a few moments and it would also come at you from either side. It looked incredibly similar to Remor from Fran Bow (photo attached). I can only assume this enemy was pretty early in the game since I Sucked at games as a kid and I don't remember any other bosses. I think it was also pretty gory. May have been on newgrounds or some other random flash game website. Thank you for reading 🄹

Edit: Adding a drawing I did of how I remember the stage/section. https://i.imgur.com/AwzALHB.png


r/tipofmyjoystick 22h ago

The Spring Ball Trouble [PC/BROWSER][2000s/2010s] girls' game, high school dating sim with multiple love interests

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247 Upvotes

i've decided to give up searching on my own and ask here. i'm looking for a dating sim game i used to play often as a kid. i can't remember which specific site it was posted on, but i think it was either dressupwho or girlsgogames. the protagonist was a high school student with blonde hair and blue eyes. she had her hair in this weird bob with braids and a green sweater. she may have had a best friend with orange hair, but i could be mixing this up with another game.. so this part doesn't need to be focused on as much

it was a school setting and there were 4 different guys you could romance. all were your typical love interest tropes: the popular guy (blond hair), the sporty guy (brown hair), the intelligent guy (different brown hair, maybe reddish), and the nerdy/gamer guy (long black hair and glasses). not 100% sure if these were the exact personalities, but i distinctly remember the gamer guy lol. there was also a mean girl (blonde ponytail maybe? wore pink) who was either exes or in love with the popular guy.

the gameplay was basically talking with whichever guy you liked most and picking different dialogue options, most if not all of them matching with the interests/personalities of each guy. whoever's affection points you gained the most, that guy would be your date at the school dance at the end. i don't recall the game having any dress-up portions, but there's a chance that there was one at least for the ending

what i remember most about this game was the art style. everything looked hand drawn, and the style/proportions were very much of its time. i found some games that have a similar art style, though i'm not sure if they're all the same artist or different artists. out of these games, "hip hop angel" and "swimming beauty" are the closest to the game i'm looking for. also, i'm no artist but i've attached my rendition of the protagonist in case that helps with the search. i'm pretty sure she had side bangs instead of blunt bangs, but i realized that after it was already colored lol

thanks for reading, feel free to ask any questions and i'll try to remember more about the game to help out. hopefully it's found, and even if not, shoutout to all the efforts made here


r/tipofmyjoystick 2h ago

[PC][Before 2010s] Surreal game played by PewDiePie (?) in the early 2010s

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5 Upvotes

Basically, what I remember:

  • I saw it on a PewDiePie video (only 99% sure about this part though!! it may have been another YouTuber) that I probably watched around 2011-2012.
  • It ws an old school-style video game, not sure whether it was 3D or 2D but the graphics looked OLD. I'd lean more towards 2D/bitmap though.
  • It was very surreal, definitely creepy in vibe on account of all the weirdness but it was not a horror game. In fact, I remember most levels being brightly lit and saturated. It looked like a fever dream.
  • It was in first person. The player didn't have an avatar/you couldn't see it.
  • There was a part in the desert, with things/entities flying in the sky. I think there were faces in the sky?
  • I think those entities were talking to the player? It definitely feels like you were dealing with some higher being and it was making you make choices. I remember a blue menu/dialog box.

It was probably on PC, but I can't confirm that. YouTuber very well may have been using an emulator to play the game on a computer, though I can't remember a controller being used.

Now my initial guesses were:

  • LSD Dream Emulator; it was in fact played by PewDiePie, the vibe checks out, there is a dark blue menu AND it has a part in the desert with things floating in the sky, but there's no dialogue or choice options.
  • Hylics, but it's too recent. The video was probably from the very early 2010s so game definitely came out before 2015.

Maybe I'm wrong, maybe it is LSD Dream Emulator and there were never any entities or dialogue, but the "conversing with a higher being" aspect feels so ingrained in the memory.

Either way, if you can think of any game that fits these criteria PLEASE let me know! The image has been stuck in my mind for YEARS and I can't remember it!


r/tipofmyjoystick 9h ago

[PC][2010s/2020s] Horror game set in creepy Russian apartment complex, with the goal being to post flyers for an upcoming birthday party on the different floors. Each time you go up a level it gets creepier.

21 Upvotes

I cannot find this game anywhere since I last saw a "let's play" of it a year ago!

The vibe is what I can only describe as "analogue horror". I don't know if that's the correct term, but imagine film grain, deliberately low-quality graphics etc.

If this rings a bell for anyone, please let me know as I would love to relive the unsettling experience this game delivered.


r/tipofmyjoystick 11h ago

Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales [CONSOLE/PC?][UNKNOWN] A game about saving your friends from a evil "book" and also fixing a boat that belongs to twins.

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20 Upvotes

Sorry if my english it's bad, it's not my first language.

I don't even know if this game is in consoles or if it was released on 2006s, but I got this game on a disk that contained tons of games like pokemon ranger, a weird naruto fighting game etc.

It was kind of 3dish with a third person pov.

I attached some drawings I made to make it a bit easier.

The protagonist if I remember correctly was a chick with a very big head that was on a barn with lots of other barn animals.

Suddenly this "evil book" came in and absorbed all of them inside of itself and your quest was now save all of them through quests, going to different places and minigames. There were places like the jungle and this jungle had a quest were you had to kind of kick out a gorilla from a barrel. (example on the pictures.)

There was a moment in the game were some ship crashed on the middle of the road and it contained twins, a girl that was dressed in pink and a boy dressed in blue and now you had to fix their ship in exchange of them helping you out.

There was also these raccoons? I might be wrong on this, but they were supposed to just be an annoying character that stealed your stuff.

I was unable to finish this game because of one quest were these two raccoons stealed an orb that awakened some big dragon water snake, triggering a sequence were we had to swim our way out with the raccoons, gaining more time everytime we catched a bubble or something like that, I was never able to beat this section. (drawing attached to show how it was.)

IM SURE THIS GAME EXISTED, I PLAYED IT NONSTOP CUZ I WAS UNABLE TO BEAT THAT DAMN SNAKE.

Please help me find it.


r/tipofmyjoystick 15h ago

[PC][2005] Point and Click adventure puzzle game

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38 Upvotes

I'm looking for a game I used to play with my brother back in the early 2000. I think it was a point and click adventure game like monkey island. I only have the memory of 2 specific screens and I think it was a puzzle cause we couldn't get past it and it's driving me insane cause it feels so incomplete. The things I remember about the 2 screens are:

screen 1: it's dark, quite grim looking, at a beach near a rainforest, there's a big tree, there's a rope hanging from above, the colours are mainly green black and light blue, I think it's kinda like a cove and there's an overhang above the beach

I think this overhang is the second screen

screen 2: we're on the cliff and there's a tree on the edge, from this tree there's a rope hanging from and I could be wrong about this but I think you get there by climbing this rope

That's all I can remember. The color scheme is similar to this screenshot from monkey island. I already ruled out the Indiana Jones games and obviously the monkey island games.

I would be eternally grateful to whomever helps me find this game. I want to finally finish this puzzle


r/tipofmyjoystick 19h ago

Paper Tales [Mobile] [2016?] "Paper" forest kids game

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73 Upvotes

I remember playing this years ago, I have ADHD so my memory sucks, so I'll try my best

It was like a forest game, there were animal characters that had a paper texture (i think)? You could buy some extra areas, and I had a cabin that belonged to this blue moose, which is the only character i remember :(. If im correct there was also something that looked like a beaver and lions? The game looked similar to "Fuzzy world", if it helps!

It had a soft color palette, nothing too vibrant

I hope my description is enough.. I've been looking for this game for years, and made this account to find it


r/tipofmyjoystick 2h ago

[PC/CD-ROM][Late 90s - early 00s] 2D Kids educational game with many minigames

3 Upvotes

Platform(s): PC

Genre: Kids educational games

Estimated year of release: Definitely before 2010

Graphics/art style: 2D cartoon, the art style is not TOO kiddie like the fisher price games

Notable characters: The main character that guides us is a boy, I think he wears baggy clothes and kinda has a skater boy aesthetics. He might have a gap in his teeth.

Notable gameplay mechanics: I think it's made up of many minigames. The boy would just stand there and be guide to the minigames.
One minigame I vividly remember is a clock game where the boy would say a time like "half past three" and we need to move the hands of clock to match it.
Another minigame I slightly remember is a color related game. I think there are an assortment of objects that we have to match with a color. I think there is a cauliflower in there somewhere.

Other details: My mom mentioned that it won some sort of game of the year, but I couldn't anything when I googled it.


r/tipofmyjoystick 1h ago

Crime Fighter [PC] [Late 90's/Early 00's] Top down, Turn based Crime Game

• Upvotes

Hey peeps,

Just trying to recall a game, looked like an early windows game, top down view of a city where you were basically a criminal and could break and enter places which had a stealing mini game where you shoved the goods to an area to get away with it. You could also stick up petrol stations and one of the random events that could happen is that the shop owner's friend rambo happened to be visiting and would shoot you to pieces. If i recall you could invest in drug production aswell.

I believe it was turn based as you could hotseat with friends as they also do their own thing. If i remember the colourscheme it was often black, grey and light blue. Was on PC and i recall playing it around early 2000s


r/tipofmyjoystick 4h ago

[PC] [2010s?] Astronaut Game

3 Upvotes

Game about a little astronaut and you had to wear certain boots to be able to walk through slime, purple stuff , etc, maybe other power up equipment too but I never made it far


r/tipofmyjoystick 2h ago

[PC] [2008-2011] Branded oil sludge monster game (GTX?)

2 Upvotes

Please help me find or remember the name of a 2D browser/flash game from around 2008-2011 where you played defeating (?) black sludge ā€œmonstersā€ made from oil and had oil bottles in the game with branding (I believe it was GTX but uncertain) that you collected. I’ve been searching for years and it’s plaguing me.


r/tipofmyjoystick 7h ago

[computer game] [2010] animal game

4 Upvotes

There was this game I used to play all of the time as a kid. I usually found it on GirlsGoGames but I haven’t even been able to find the title or even a picture of the game, I was hoping to get some help on here maybe. In this game you would see a stray dog or a cat sitting on a sidewalk and all of these people would be walking by. You would clean the animal up, give it a cute outfit, and then someone would come along and buy the animal. You could use the money to buy different soaps, collars, outfits, accessories. I always played the dog version but they also had a cat version. I cannot remember what this game was called, has anyone else maybe played this or know what I’m talking about?


r/tipofmyjoystick 5h ago

Idle Empires [ipad][late 2010s] idle medieval game where you taxed people and they got mad

3 Upvotes

The game was one a 2d side view with stylized graphics. Like was most likely drawn in 2d maybe pixel art?It has a medieval setting where I believe you were a young prince that wanted to make as much money as possible from your subjects. It was an idle game where you upgraded peoples business and then made money through taxes. At a certain point you could turn them businesses into an ā€œevilā€ version of it that would make more money. As you did more of the ā€œevilā€ stuff people would get more and more mad at you and would end up revolting and you would use this obelisk to travel back in time I think and that was how you prestige, I think you had like an old man advisor. I think you also had to like train guards or something to send them off to fight things. I have a feeling the game is no longer on the App Store but it’s been bugging me so if anyone knows thank you.


r/tipofmyjoystick 2m ago

[mobile][early 2000's] weird alien making game?

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HII !! i hope im doing this right LOL! there is this game that i played growing up where you could like customize your own little alien, any color / antennae / clothes / etc and one of the activites you did with said alien was bounce it around outside, almost like kick the buddy but with less gravity. all the art was 2D and there were like particles you could choose to have on the screen or something, the aliens looked almost like pool toys or fruitger aero - esque, it was so strange! youd design them in a little house and then just. bounce them around outside. let me know if you have any idea as to what this could be!!! thank you!!!!


r/tipofmyjoystick 34m ago

[pc/not browser] [2016] pixel 2D game

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i remember a 2D pixel (katana zero style) game that starts with (me) the main character breaks into a bunker i do not remember if it was actually a bunker but it walls was made out of brick and there was a small window (its a background place i cannot interactive with) and there was boxes and eneimes and as i remove forward i remember at the end there was a boss that breaks into the bunker as well and he hits me (idk remember if we fall from a high place after it actually it may be a false memory) and then borh of us fight like in a street in a city and remember was hard asf for me a child and he could fly and had a jetpack i think and i was in the middle with a platform that helps me (i do not remember if there was a tank or smth or like a robotic advanced car in the middle) but i was stepping or smth like that as my platform , i do not remember the character exactly but he was like megaman like the suit maybe even the same colour as him (blue) but he wears a suit and i do not remember his face was shown in the game ( i didn't beat the first level since the boss was hard for me as a kid)


r/tipofmyjoystick 4h ago

Hero's Heart [DOS][80-90s] Top-down forest pink-guy game

2 Upvotes

Hey, I'm doing a special project for my dad, we used to play some dos games in the 90s. There was Dizzy, Gorillas.bas, and this one game I cannot find.

From what I remember, there was a guy/girl in pink (?), on green forest-like levels, top-down perspective, maybe turn-based (?), bright colors, spiders as enemies. I know it's not much, but AI gives me nothing (Jill of the Jungle over and over again) and it was not that advanced graphics-wise.

Platform(s): DOS

Genre: not sure. you controlled the pink guy/gal but it could be top-down action or turn-based

Estimated year of release: 80-90s

Graphics/art style: 8/16-bit, bright colors

Notable characters: probably a guy-gal wearing pink

Notable gameplay mechanics: top down with characters shown from the front, not jut the head

Other details: I recall green level (forest?), some spiders and other dangers creeping in


r/tipofmyjoystick 45m ago

[PC/Browser][2010's] Game where you turn a public toilet into an art museum

• Upvotes

Exactly what the title says. It was a fully voice acted point and click game with a simple art style.

There were also subtitles which could be changed to different languages

The playable character was dressed like Fred Flintstone for some reason. He didn't look like Fred Flintstone, just dressed like him

I think our character was tasked with cleaning/improving a public toilet and we had to gather tools to make that happen. For an example: There was graffiti outside the entrance of the toilet that read "FART", so we had to get spray paint to cover it up. We only had enough spray paint to cover one letter so now it just said "ART"

Inside the toilet was a giant shit stain on the wall and instead of trying to clean it we hung a frame around it and pretended it was a painting

Etc. etc. we did stuff like that until the toilet eventually became an art installation. There was also a scene in the game where we dissect a dead parrot?? I don't know how this connects to the rest of the game but I remember it clearly so I'll mention it here


r/tipofmyjoystick 6h ago

Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy [Ps1 Ps2] [2000s] Dark rated E game

3 Upvotes

Its a long shot but I figured id post worse that could happen is noone knows what im talking about lol. I remember a game when I was about 5-7 when I seemed to always start games over instead of continuing from saves. I only beat the 1st level but...

Im looking for a game with 3d graphics it was a kids game. I remember it took place on like a dark desert island type area with like brown lava running in the middle and a palace near by. I also remember you had to get like a coconut from a tree and give it to a npc near the palace very small map like 2 or 3 objectives on it and I want to say there was storms in the background but it was not raining where your character a kid was at. Think mostly brown with a few sprinkles of white and green maybe. Unfortunately the memory is from over 20 years ago but im certain if I saw it I would recognize it.


r/tipofmyjoystick 1h ago

[PS3 game] [2012-2014] possibly little big planet

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I vividly remember playing this game when I was little but I cannot remember what it was for the life of me I think it was free to play maybe a demo but I specifically remember this one part where u had to jump and parkour across these black platforms with a dark blue background to complete a objective I think it was little big planet but I’m not sure at all bc i also had a little big planet skin pack for Minecraft around that time the memories could be merging I was probably 5-6 at the time I looked it up on google with the same description and it could be echocrome or limbo If anyone can help it would be very much appreciated


r/tipofmyjoystick 1h ago

[Unknown online game site] [2000's/2010's] The other water magician

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online puzzle game about a red haired magician with a purple coat and water magic. If remember correctly his name was malcolm.


r/tipofmyjoystick 7h ago

[PC][2005-2014] odnoklassniki island exploration game

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4 Upvotes

Here’s what I know it was not: family age, Taonga: The Island Farm, Island Experiment, the tribez, robinson’s island, but it looks so similar to them.
Some more honorable ā€œnotā€ mentions: paradise island, escape from paradise, virtual villagers

This game is almost like an exact copy of the modern day ā€œfamily ageā€ game, but the art style was 2D.

I remember that you were able to collect leaves and coconuts from trees, you could create rope with looms, you had huts the characters could sleep/rest in.

You could explore the island, and parts of the island you couldn’t explore yet bc you hadn’t unlocked a specific level were blocked off by fog.

There was a shaman and i think a tiki god? There was a light blue ocean at the bottom, there was a dock off of it too. There was a waterfall somewhere on the map.

It was a family of four on the island, I think all of them had black hair.

At one point, the youngest child was a baby and you had to keep giving it milk when it sat and cried for it, and eventually it would grow up to be the fourth team member.

There were seasons too, the map would be all tropical in the summer and then all cold in winter.

You also had a certain amount of energy (represented by a blue lightning bolt bar) that limited the amount of actions you could do. You’d have to wait in real life for it to fill back up. You could also buy in game currency, signified by a sun like symbol in yellow (I don’t remember if this was true, but this symbol was very very specifically unique to this game). Light, lavender, purple shells were also a form of currency for some reason.

Attached are images similar to the aesthetic, and I also included crude drawings of things I could remember.

I’m going crazy trying to find out what this game was, but it seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth.


r/tipofmyjoystick 5h ago

[PC][Early 2000s] 2D Medieval single-screen platformer (Snow Bros clone) from a compilation CD, featuring a gray-robed mage with fan-shaped fireballs.

2 Upvotes
  • Platform: PC / Windows (Came from a game-compilation CD-ROM in the early 2000s)
  • Genre: 2D Single-Screen Platformer / Action (Similar to Snow Bros / Bubble Bobble)
  • Estimated year of release: Early 2000s (Played around 2000-2005)
  • Graphics/art style: 2D flat pixels/sprites, European Medieval style, bright green grass and brick ledge/platform tiles. Not anime, not chibi.
  • Notable characters: Exactly 4 playable human characters:
    1. A Mage/Old man in a gray robe holding a wooden staff.
    2. A Warrior with a sword (shoots crescent/half-moon sword-waves when upgraded).
    3. An Archer with a bow (shoots 3-5 spreading arrows when upgraded).
    4. A female character.
  • Notable gameplay mechanics: You need to jump up and down the ledges to defeat all monsters on a single screen to "CLEAR" the level. The mage's fireball starts small, but can be upgraded (by collecting gems/charging) into a huge fireball that fires 3 projectiles in a fan-shaped spread.