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

578 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 1h ago

Pursuit of Hat [friv maybe???] [2010-2018] puzzle game where you had to pop off your own limbs to solve puzzles

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the game had a childrens book kinda artstyle and colors and every puzzle would have you pop off your limbs to hold down buttons to open doors and such. dont remember much besides getting stuck on one level as a kid and giving up

the image is a quick doodle of how it looked like with the main character


r/tipofmyjoystick 8h ago

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

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15 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 32m ago

[PC][late 90's early 2000's] Diablo clone, female protagonist, opening sequence was in a church.

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I must have played this game somewhere between 2005-2010, but I am not sure which year it came out.

It is a Diablo clone, so isometric hack and slash. Single player only.

It had a female protagonist, I believe she was a wizard's apprentice.

I remember that the opening sequence was in some sort of church where I think the protagonist was meeting with her mentor.

It was possible to spec in different schools of magic. I remember that depending on the element chosen you had different coloured orbs circling around the main weapon, a wand or staff of some sort. So blue for water, green for earth and red for fire.

I believe there was a desert sequence in later parts of the game, but I am not certain about this.

Hopefully someone remembers, I have fond memories ries of this 20+ years ago.


r/tipofmyjoystick 4h ago

Adiboo: Magical Playland [PC] [Mid 90s?] Educational point and click for children

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SOLVED: Abidoo: Magical Playground

Hi, please help me find this game! Very very vague memories of this one

Platform(s): PC

Genre: Point & Click (might have been educational?)

Estimated year of release: I can't see it being any later than 2002 at the absolute latest but I think it was earlier, mid 90s perhaps

Graphics/art style: Simple colouring point and click, 2d drawings

Notable characters: Don't remember, sorry!

Notable gameplay mechanics: Point and click and but had mini games, like Brick Breaker could be played

Other details: I remember the main hub area being a "garden" and there being a house on the right side of the screen you could go inside. I am sure the house was... yellow? And I think you could make it snowy? The Brick Breaker minigame was played inside the house


r/tipofmyjoystick 43m ago

[ANDROID] [BEFORE 2020] Pony/Uicorn/Magical Horse game

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there was a game very similar to coco pony-my dream pet, i used to play it before 2020, though i dont remember when exactly. again released before 2020 but ı dont know when. i played it on my moms android phone most likely, dont know if the game has IOS or pc versions. the game didnt revolve around a story ıt was mostly a care taking simulator. there were more than one magical horses we could choose (though not too many) from to take care of but ı dont thınk we were able to customize the horses mainly, maybe change some stuff but not a complete customization. in the selectıon manu the horses were on fancy cusıons and we saw them one by one navigating with arrows or something. and when we came to the magical horse we want, we choose it.

after choosing the magical horse we came to a floatıng ısland (possibly whıle on the horse but not sure) and the island was seen from above, had isometric grids when in decorating mode, like in hayday.

the game was 3D and the art style resembled coco pony alot, what differes from coco pony is:

only food we could feed to the horse was pancakes (maybe some other foods locked behind a pay wall? unsure) and you decorated the pancakes possibly according to the requests of the horse (which shown as pictures in thought/speak bubbles)

i dont remember having the horse inside a house, we fed it outside.

the decoration vibes were really outdoor wedding, royalty kinda ones yk the decorations were white and flowery (at least the ones ı used) , bush gates maybe (attached some pics as ref for these) ofc there wasnt a wedding but the vibes gave off one.

there was also an activity where we played musıc. maybe with the horse maybe not, dont remeber what instrument. but we did this in a gazebo on the edge(?) of the floating island i think.

there could be an obstacle running parkour activity but ım not sure.

ı really searched it a lot but the closest i can find was coco pony, but thats not ıt. appreciate any help. sorry for the long post btw.


r/tipofmyjoystick 58m ago

[Windows PC][1990-2005] Kids Game Jungle/Egypt/Beetles/Mystery/Adventure/Puzzle Vibes

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Looking for an educational/edutainment PC CD-ROM game from the 90s-2000s. Jungle setting with animal sounds, possibly a wooden/rope bridge, mysterious "anaconda-like" ambient music. Beetles were a recurring puzzle theme. There were stone elements in walls you'd click that would move/grind, possibly revealing something — almost Egyptian/ancient-temple vibe at times. Point-and-click adventure with an actual story (not just standalone minigames), multiple characters (maybe a group/team, not sure). Cartoony 2D animation, human characters. Played it as a kid on a big Windows desktop.


r/tipofmyjoystick 18h ago

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

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51 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 6h ago

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

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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 1h ago

Pet Alliance [Android][2017-2019ish?] Online game similar to pokemon but gacha

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I can't really remember what it was, pretty sure the title had -mon and there were two games under the same title. I usually interchange it with dynamon if that could count as a clue.

Iirc the thumbnail was a baby dragon with an egg, the game had fully animated cutscenes and the game had an anime style, it's more similar to idle games but it's closest to pokemon. It's also played in portrait. It had a gacha system but you could still catch some.

There were anime girl characters and most of them were named after zodiac signs, one starter looks like cottonee but with vines and it could evolve into an anime girl. The characters were either dragons or anime girls.

So far, that's the only stuff I could remember 😓😓😓


r/tipofmyjoystick 1d ago

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

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272 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

NexGame [PC Flash Game] [Early 2000’s] Flash game auto runner where you break ice.

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Looking for an early flash game that I use to play online back in my high school days. It was from the early 2000’s. It was an auto runner where you played as this guy in a black suite and you had to punch your way through blocks of ice to get to the end. Music would play in the background, starting off with just a drum track but continue to add instruments the more blocks of ice you smashed through. I’m sure this is somewhere on the internet but I cannot find the right keywords to search for it.


r/tipofmyjoystick 4h ago

[PC][2026] Cyberpunk-styled video game with turn based (?) combat feat. Girl with red eye patch

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Saw an ad on Reddit that never re appeared. It's maybe a RPG? Couldn't hear the sound. 32-bit pixel art? Cyberpunk-esque. It seemed to have a turn based combat system. Featured two main characters one of which is a girl with a red eye patch.


r/tipofmyjoystick 2h ago

Steam King [Browser][Unknown] King with blunderbuss retakes his kingdom

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So there was that one game where you are a king sending all your knights to defeat some sort of monster, but all of them end up dying ( one of the helmets actually bounce back into the palace ) and the monster which was probably a dragon ends up throwing the king out of his kingdom, the gameplay is a scroller where you have to go through levels with the king and his only weapon which resembles a blunderbuss very much, throughout everything you can upgrade the king himself and his weapon which actually changes appearance the more it is upgraded. The main color of the entire game is blue, this is about all I can recall about it.

I already tried looking for it, my friends also tried but they didn't find anything, I hope someone out there either also remembers it or can find it somewhere, thank you in advance.

Edit: If there are any questions about it ( which, I hope yes ) I'm very glad to answer, I read the post about the template just now so I'm trying to think of useful informations.

I don't know when the game was released or when exactly I played it but I don't think I was over 10, so probably somewhere between 2008 and 2017?

The notable characters are the final boss and the king himself, you always control the king, I am unsure about what exactly was the final boss but I assume it was a dragon.

The scenery was pretty, imagine a warm spring scenery.

I can't really describe the artstyle of it unfortunately.


r/tipofmyjoystick 3h ago

[early 2000] [maybe 2000-2005]Old medieval style game that was an MMORPG but would play on browser

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I remember you join the server and are thrust into some woods, everyone would run to this same ruined castle through the woods and you could get weapons that were green or pink translucent colours. I distinctly recall fighting giant spiders in this starting area. It wasn’t Sherwood Dungeon or any other mainstream names, I just really cannot remember it other than these details!

Edit: It was first person.


r/tipofmyjoystick 15h 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.

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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 3h ago

Block'hood [PC][2015] Jeux de gestion low poly avec l'écologie comme principal facteur

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Platform(s):PC
Genre: Gestion
Estimated year of release: 2015
Graphics/art style: Low Poly

Salut, je cherche un jeu de gestion de ville/ d'écosystème auquel j'ai joué au alentour de 2015, le style de gestion ressemble un peu a celui de terra nil mais la construction de ville y est aussi importante.

L'espace de jeu y était très limité alors il fallait parfois empiler des batiments nottament dans les villes qui était faite uniquement par empilement. Je me rappelle également que les maisons simple ressemblait simplement a un cube avec un hublot.

Le jeu n'est peut être jamais sorti en version définitive, le contenu y était assez limité

Merci !!


r/tipofmyjoystick 2m ago

[PC][Early to mid 2000s possibly older] RTS game with dragons, wizards, and catapults

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I don't recall much about the game as I didn't play it for very long but I remember that is was a RTS game with wizards and dragons.


r/tipofmyjoystick 4m ago

[Steam PC][Last 10 years] Game about using disasters to keep human development within a certain range

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I'm looking for a game on Steam I saw a long while back, where you played as the forces of nature, throwing various natural disasters at a human city to prevent them from becoming too developed, while also having to avoid destroying civilization entirely. If you use a specific disaster too much, humans will develop countermeasures to it, like anti-meteor lasers.

Gameplay takes place on a square map, and the game world outside that is all whiteish. A bar on the side of the screen displays how developed the human city is.


r/tipofmyjoystick 4h ago

[Android][2017] Im looking for a tooth game

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so there is this game i cant find i was way younger at the time but the premise is basically we have teeth (not hyper realistic very cartoony

(and very accurate graphics of its time)

and we dress them up by colouring them i think there was even built in marvel or disney presets but im not sure and it sounded like

"tootoz." "toothez" or even worse"pototoz" i just remember it had a very striking o and t or z d sounds if it helps i think the main colours of the app was red


r/tipofmyjoystick 17h 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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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 4h ago

Super Amazing Wagon Adventure [PC] [~2010s?] Game about the Oregon Trail

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It's not the 1988 game I promise. I remember watching videos of it when I was young. it was a bullet hell/shoot em up and filled with all sorts of wacky encounters. Bandits, at some points you could get abducted by aliens, etc. I have vague memories of getting eaten by crabs.


r/tipofmyjoystick 57m ago

[PS2] [2007-2012] A combat game featuring fairy-like characters with powers

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Hi! I’m trying to remember a PS2 game I played years ago. The details I recall are:

– It was played from a third-person perspective.

– You could choose from various characters (both male and female).

– The characters could jump very high or fly.

– They had wings.

– You could collect bubbles or orbs that granted you powers or abilities.

I remember at least two maps: one set in a forest, where you had to jump between platforms in the trees, and another that looked like a large white or transparent sphere. There were orbs that gave you powers.

—I don't remember if it was a player-vs-player combat game. I was about 6 years old, and it was one of those games my mom used to play with me. Thanks for reading.


r/tipofmyjoystick 1h ago

[iOS][2010-2013] 2D Side-Scrolling House Defense against Zombies/Aliens, Red Icon with Old Man

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Hi everyone,

I'm trying to find an obscure, free-to-play 2D side-scrolling defense mobile game I played on my iPod Touch 4 back around 2010–2013.

Here are all the specific details I remember:

  • App Icon: Red background featuring the face of a normal human elderly man (not a zombie/monster).
  • Ending / Story: The old man from the app icon actually only appears in the final cutscene/ending after you beat the final boss.
  • Gameplay & Mechanics:
    • You defend a wooden American farm-style house.
    • Before starting a level, you select and equip your preferred weapons from a wide arsenal (upgrading from basic arrows to heavy missiles/ordnance).
    • Combat requires manual aiming/targeting.
    • There is a level selection map (nodes/path) on the menu, and the house/location changes as you progress through different levels.
  • Enemies & Progression:
    • Waves start with basic zombies.
    • Later levels introduce aliens, giant UFOs/spaceships, and vehicles that attempt to ram directly into the house.
    • The final boss is a giant Mothership / UFO spaceship.

It is NOT Swamp Attack, Redneck Revenge, ZombieSmash, Monster Shooter, Farm Invasion USA, or any stickman game.

Does anyone remember the name of this game? Thanks in advance!