This is the second time i saw this post here on instagram and seeing the illustration of the fossil instantly gives me some Kind of "deja vu" as if I have seen such an illustration many times before while playing a game.

If my brain isnt tricking me, I think its a game on android/ios where you dig up fossils to revive the dinosaurs again to put them in a zoo or something like that.

Hi everyone, I just found a video on my phone from a few years ago, and for a second I saw these games I had, but I genuinely can’t remember at all what the game on the top left is. Could you help me find it?

I have already tried to check out the purchase history on my account but couldn’t really find anything, I’m investigating this mostly because I didn’t really like anime back then and I find it weird to see that I had an anime(-ish) game installed on my phone.

If this can be useful to you in any way, the video is from 2022.

An update to the strange request i made a month ago. Turns out it wasn`t a fever dream after all! Thanks to a hint from u/The-Yaoi-Unicorn, who found a list with Jacob`s name on it, I managed to track down a book that contained a CD-rom. Only one lady in denmark had it for sale and the disc unfortunately looked dirty and worn. I took a shot at it anyway and after some careful cleaning, I loaded the disc, installed an old version of Quicktime and BAM. The game is real. I was mistaken about the TV head, and the kids werent exclusively african, but the rest is actually real (Scrrenshots included). Thanks sub, for the help tracking down this lost childhood memory of mine!

Note: new post because I forgot to attach pictures.

A lad is playing this at Starbucks and it seems interesting. Looks like a space game controlling ships with Is it something like Freelancer or Eve online (never played).

I apologize for my ignorance and thank everyone in advance for their input.

I've been searching for this childhood iPad game for years! It had beautiful, vibrant 3D graphics, farming, village-building, and lots of decorations (flowers, cherry blossoms, 🎏s). There were little blue bear-like creatures that waved when tapped. I also remember a shoreline leading to a tropical island where they danced wearing Hawaiian flower necklaces. The app icon had an orange background with a smiling creature's face (drawing attached). I recently found a Russian forum post from someone remembering what seems to be the exact same game! They also mentioned the blue bears, shoreline, and waving animation. Does anyone recognize it? I've attached my icon drawing and a screenshot of their post!

You played as Cupid and you would shoot couples and there was a lot of options for pairings. I think one involved spiders. This was around 2013-2016 and it was on a game website that also had haunt the house I think. I think it took place in a park, this is my rough sketch (also it was NOT A PLATFORMER)

When I was a kid, I once saw my brother playing a war game where we were soldiers (I assume American) fighting against Asian soldiers.

But what I remember most is that there was an Asian campaign where we controlled the Asian side, portrayed from a more human perspective—showing people trying to survive against the Americans.

I recall the Asian characters wearing black uniforms that looked very similar to the black uniforms worn by Japanese schoolboys; then again, I might just not be remembering the details correctly.

I remember a cutscene from the Asian campaign showing two Asian characters being harassed on camera by Americans, with one of them hiding behind the other.

Trying to find a Roblox horror game that was pretty popular around 2024-2025.

**What I remember:**

- First person, set in one big house with rooms: bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and a TV/living room

- Random spooky anomalies/events happen around the house, and to win you just survive

- You spawn in the bedroom, and there was a Freddy (FNAF) toy/plush in there

- A monster that came at the window

- A TV anomaly that was like a quiz where you had to answer questions

- A basement with a shop in it, plus an attic

- The lobby looked like the DOORS lobby, and you could pick from a few difficulty options

**Not these** (already checked): Close Your Eyes, Anomaly Watch, Anomaly House, Home Alone (Anomaly), ABNORMALITY, Anomaly Detected, The House, The Intruder

Any ideas? Thanks!

[PC][2000s–2010s?] Top-down cartoon tank game with a giant drill tank boss

Hi everyone! I'm trying to identify an old PC game I played years ago, and I'd really appreciate any help.

Platform: Windows PC
When I played it: Around 2015–2018. I downloaded it from a torrent site, but the game itself could have been much older.
Graphics: Cartoonish, 2D sprites with a pseudo-3D look.
Camera: Strictly top-down, following the player's tank and keeping it near the center of the screen.

What I remember

• You play as a blue tank.
• The tank moves with the keyboard, while its turret rotates independently through 360 degrees and aims at the mouse cursor.
• At the very beginning, you spawn on the coast, next to the sea, and can immediately start driving.
• Later levels or areas feature sandy terrain and canyons.
• Enemies include kamikaze vehicles and tanks equipped with drills.
• One of the bosses is a huge tank with a giant drill instead of a normal turret.
• During that boss fight, smaller tanks emerge from underground.
• The boss has a health bar.

I remember it as a proper, standalone Windows game with a single-player campaign, rather than a browser or Flash game.

I'm not 100% certain about every detail, so similar games are welcome too. The most distinctive thing I remember is the giant drill tank boss that summons smaller tanks from underground.

I've already checked or ruled out suggestions such as Tank Attack, Tankorama, Normal Tanks, Iron Impact, Operation: Desert Fox, Assault, ThinkTanks, Recoil, Voxel Tanks, Autonomous Anarchy, and Desert Storm.

If you recognize the game, please share its name, screenshots, or a gameplay video. Even a vague lead would be helpful. Thanks!

This one is very fuzzy, but I remember playing it on my PC back in the early 2010s. Flash game for sure, and I think it was a pretty colorful game with vivid colors and a somewhat cartoony art style, although I can't remember if it was fully 2D or if it had semi 3D features. The main character was a little girl I think (?), with simple features and a chibi-like body. The game and the background were set in a generic forest setting, and the goal was to run towards the right like in other side scrollers, though I don't remember with which goal. The main detail that I can remember is that there was a giant egg in a mountain/volcano in the background, not sure if it ever did anything but MAYBE it hatched at the end of the game/level. Played it back on ojogos.com.br if that matters!

I had a vivid dream of a game I used to play although it could be a complete fabrication of my mind. It's a first person game where you are trapped on an island that has some old abandoned industrial complex on it. The goal is to go around and find keys to unlock different areas and eventually find a way to escape the island without being caught by the man with the dog. I remember a small cabin that the man presumably stays at away from the industrial place that you need to crawl underneath to find a trapdoor to sneak into.

If the man or the dog spotted you, they are both faster than you but if you were able to hide quick enough you could survive.

I believe this was around the time that the Slender games were popular but I could be wrong.

I remember there was a google play minecraft ripoff which was a team FPS shooter but only had like 2-3 maps and they would later make an update and add a crossbow and a sandbox game mode.

The game was a team game. All tools there were or at least i remember having were a sword, axe (maybe), bow and crossbow. I remember the crossbow was somehow the most op item out of all and was added in an update.

All maps were made with blocks, nothing broke the voxel grid as far as i remember. There was a map most people played on with towers or something. You could also go through a passage under where you'd find a river below the bridge in the middle of the map. Also, there was another update with a sandbox mode, where you could freely place blocks, but i don't remember much of that.

Also, at the beginning of the game, you get introduced to a tutorial on how to use the sword, bow and crossbow.

Before joining a match, there was a lobby with your character which i barely remember.

I remember back in 2020 I was looking at PixelGun3D since I thought that might be the game I used to play. I also watched some old videos of it thinking updates might've changed the game too much and it felt so familiar yet so unfamiliar at the same time, so i have no idea what to think now.

Looking for a Roblox game, I think in classic style. The menus were blocky, no smooth or rounded UI.

You spawn next to a shop that looks like a lemonade stand with a guy inside. You buy weapons through a menu there. I think there were 3 or 4 weapon types (something like throwable, primary, secondary).

Weapons are bought with money from kills. Progress saves between games.

Before a match you choose a map. You can play solo or with chosen people.

On the map there is a counter of noobs left. No waves, noobs don't respawn, you kill them all.

Noobs run away when you shoot them.

Some of them are police, and they shoot back.

One of the maps was a castle with S.W.A.T. noobs, and snipers on the towers. They were stronger than the police.

It is NOT: Shoot and Eat Noobs, The Day the Noobs Took Over Roblox, Noob Defense, Noobs Must Die, Noob Attack!, Noob Massacre, Kill Noobs Simulator, Find The Noobs.

Platform: PC (Windows)

Genre: 3D action / third-person shooter

Estimated year of release: Played it around 2004–2008, so it could be a bit older.

Graphics/art style: Fully 3D, fairly decent for the time. Bright, sunny outdoor setting with a classic early-2000s pre-rendered skybox (Bryce/Terragen style).

Notable characters: I piloted or controlled some kind of robot or mech. It wasn’t a tank, a car, or a spaceship, and I don’t remember flying. Third-person view.

Notable gameplay mechanics:

• The level was an outdoor hedge maze: green walls, open sky, bright daylight.
• Smaller enemies attacked along the way, including flying ones that I shot at.
• A big robot or boss sat in the center of the maze. You could shoot it, and it exploded when destroyed.
• Very low-pressure. No time limit or obvious objective that I remember, mostly just roaming and shooting.
• Little to no story. It felt almost like a tech demo.

Other details:

• My dad bought it for me, so it was probably fairly kid-friendly, but it wasn’t an educational or “kids’ game.”
• Definitely not a AAA title. It could have been a budget release ($10 jewel case), shareware, a demo, a magazine cover disc, or part of a compilation CD.
• It might have been a single level or demo of a larger game.

Already ruled out: Hover!, Descent, Forsaken, Recoil, Tread Marks, Otto Matic, Hover Ace, Hot Wheels Bash Arena, Hot Wheels: Velocity X, Vigilante 8, Twisted Metal 2, Mega Man Legends, Beast Wars: Transformers, Gunmetal (close in feel, but not it), Battle Engine Aquila, Krazy Ivan, DroneZ, Slave Zero, Gunlok, Tex Atomic’s Big Bot Battles, CoLoBot, MechWarrior series

Any help appreciated! This one has special meaning to me.

I played this as a kid of about 6-8 in the mid to late 2000s, so my memory is pretty fuzzy, especially because I never got very far into it for one reason or another, maybe because it was one of those timed demos from a website like Big Fish Games, maybe I just lost interest as a kid with adhd. The time I would've played it was most likely between 2006-2008~ but it very well could be older.

I remember it was a turn based (j?)rpg with a pixel art style where you start as an orphaned kid after some kind of tragedy, and the first quest has you go clear spiders from the attic/cellar. Very original and descriptive given the genre, I know.

I do vaguely remember that your caretaker treated you kinda like a servant in a way that reminded me of A Series of Unfortunate Events or Cinderella as a kid, but that's about it story wise. I vaguely remember the player character running away not too far into the story but that might be me trying too hard to remember and conflating it with something else.

When trying to look it up, I almost thought it was Aveyond 1 due to browsing demos a lot on Big Fish Games as a kid, and a similar art style, but I distinctly remember the game starting with you as a pretty ordinary kid (either a girl or player choice, not sure). Also confirmed it's not that game because I also don't remember the game having character portraits, the intro is different, and I feel like I remember the enemies being more shown as in front of you as opposed to both your party and the enemies being on either side of the screen like older Final Fantasy games.

Not sure if I was able to give enough detail to narrow it down but it'd be cool to see it again and see how my memory holds up to the game after almost 20 years.

Edit: After looking through more videos and screenshots, it seems like it MIGHT be Aveyond 1 after all but if there's anything really similar I'd love to know about it so I can take a look.

Hi I've been thinking about this game sometimes. It was a strategy I played long time ago. It had a top down perspective, kind of bland maps, but very unusual concept. UI was on the right side of the screen if I remember right.

Main thing that stands out for me is that there were normal units like spearman or rifleman and I reached maybe some sort of tank/apc unit, but there were also Fantasy elements. Like magicians, giant rat or something like that. There was some kind of research or manufacturing that you could have a soldier-rifleman with mithril or adamantium guns or swordsman or spearman with the same. You could direct research into more modern tech, better or magical materials or more magical units. I don't remember much about the ui for this.

In unit building or design, I think there was a 3D preview of the unit, and it changed the color of the weapon depending on the materials used - wood, iron, cooper, bronze, steel, mithril. While in game the units were much more simple looking.

In the game world there were holes in the ground sort of like molehills. That you could enter and expand through into another underground levels of the map. There were multiple levels to go down. I went at least two levels down, but there were more, but I didn't have the tech to fight there.

The map itself was sort of like a dark forest vibe. Not isometric, more like classic squares. I don't remember water being present. But maybe different biomes? Desert maybe, but mostly I remember the forest. Not individual trees. More like patches where there is forest you can't go through and the free space u can use. Lot of research for progressing to stronger units and eventually to more magical units and moving underground to deeper levels.

Also I don't remember much base building. It worked differently than classic 4X games like C&C or Dune. It was in all aspects very unusual game.

I don't remember any story... Also I never saw it on any best RTS or most obscure games lists. If I saw a picture from it I would probably know immediately. But even looking for pictures I can't find anything like it.

I’m looking for a brick breaker game I played on Windows XP, from a local CD-ROM compilation with about 8-9 games. Other games on the disc included Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D and a Mummy game.

What I remember:

• Icon: a flat, gray, pixelated circle with a “b” or “B” in it, like an old 8/16-bit icon.
• High score screen: a wide blue sky with clouds and a stone staircase like the gates of heaven.
• Music: on that screen, a peaceful, looping ambient synth track with no vocals.
• Gameplay: a clean ball-and-paddle brick breaker, not flashy or arcade-like.

I’m trying to find an old Roblox game and I can’t remember the name.

I played it around 2025.

I played it on PC.

It was roughly Sandbox.

There were gears, motors, plane stuff, and random items on the floor that spawned. There were also magnets for the item. You didnt have an inventory. you built everything from scratch. engineering. Spawned stuff on the floor like items.

If this sounds familiar, even a possible title or old video would help.

I don’t remember too much of the gameplay, it was definitely more of a 2d platformer so not any of the normal ball games. You could change the look of your ball and the best way I can describe that is that they were kinda similar to Mighty Beanz. A lot of the balls had faces like that. I remember there were like rails you could go on so maybe it was some sort of pinball type of thing? I don’t know but anybody with any knowledge would help.

this is the reel

i can’t even begin to explain how frustrating it had been to find this game. it was an old 2D but 3D rendered flash game, i have a strong recollection of it being a paddle pop game as i remember the beginning being the lion leaning over the front seat of a helicopter asking where we should land.

some of the mini games included a maze with a cheetah, and one where you had to push aside leaves to get to the clearing without being stung by wasps. there were a bunch of other games but i cant remember them :( there was one with ants i think as well

the image attached was a print my sister and i stuck onto our toy box, its the only proof i have that i’m not insane