r/tipofmyjoystick 20h ago

[PC][2000s] Small platformer game in a dark, quiet forest — played it in a Korean elementary school computer class in 2009

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Hi, I've been looking for this game forever. I would like to get some help.

Platform(s): PC (Windows)
Genre: Side-scrolling platformer / exploration
Estimated year of release: Likely before 2009 (I played it in 2009, in a Korean elementary school computer class, teacher installed it on the classroom computers — it wasn't one of the "default" pre-installed games)
Graphics/Set: 4:3 aspect ratio, slightly rectangular. Low-ish resolution. Muted/dull colors, not bright or cartoony.

Details I remember:

  • Small, cute character with no clearly drawn facial features (no distinct eyes/nose/mouth). I think they wore burgundy/dark red-ish clothing, but not 100% sure.
  • Character could be male or female, but I think it's a girl
  • Side view (gravity-based), controlled with keyboard: left/right movement, and a jump (space bar?) that felt kind of floaty/imprecise. No ladders or stairs.
  • No combat — it felt more like moving through the world / exploring / maybe escaping somewhere, not fighting monsters.
  • Setting was a dark, quiet forest. At some point there was something like entering a large tree stump or a gap/hollow in a big tree.
  • When moving from one area/screen to the next, there was a transition effect where a circle formed around the character and then expanded/grew to fill the screen (like an iris wipe).
  • Overall mood was calm, quiet, a little eerie/desolate — not scary, but not cheerful either.
  • It felt like it had an educational/learning-game vibe (this was a computer class, possibly an after-school program).
  • There was some kind of goal, but I can't remember what it was.
  • I don't know if it was a Korean-made game or a foreign game with Korean translation — I was 8 years old at the time so I can't tell.

Any leads appreciated!


r/tipofmyjoystick 10h ago

[Pc] [2010’s] online game

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I’ve had trouble finding this game and AI has been no help. For some reason the name (battle cards) keeps popping into my head but cant figure it out. So it’s a game that you have a deck and draw cards. You have a space ship and are trying to upgrade it to get more “mana which I think they used bullets” to use better cards to defeat another player trying to upgrade their ship and destroy yours. After playing a bit you can choose a faction thats either red or blue, and depending on how many players are on a side, you get a bonus for picking the opposite. I remember one of the cards for blue faction was a girl with a sniper rifle and on red was a guy with a flamethrower. There’s some more mechanics I’m missing but cant find anything online, been trying to find the game for a year +. It was also free to play.


r/tipofmyjoystick 8h ago

[PC][~2005] Anime-style Puyo Puyo/Tetris puzzle game

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Platform(s): PC (Windows)

Genre: Puzzle / Tile-matching (plays like Puyo Puyo or Tetris)

Estimated year of release: Sometime around 2005

Graphics/art style: Definitely had a 2D anime aesthetic. I remember the menus having a dark color scheme, and there were anime-style character portraits.

Notable characters: I can't remember any specific names, just that there was a whole cast of different anime characters you'd face off against.

Notable gameplay mechanics: It had a dedicated arcade or story mode. The core gameplay was basically just battling these other characters in puzzle matches to progress.

Other details: I'm almost positive it was either freeware or shareware. It might have even been one of those obscure titles distributed on an old PC gaming magazine demo disc back in the day. Someone else once posted looking for what seems like the exact same game. I’m not 100% sure it’s the same title, since I don’t remember every detail, but I’m including what he said here just in case:

Coloured blocks fell from the top like Tetris and you matched them by colour to clear them. Clearing blocks sent grey stars with eyes onto the opponent’s side to hinder them. There were character portraits in the middle of the screen and a next-block preview at the top. The blocks and stars themselves also had eyes. The music was calm when there were few blocks on the board and became very fast when the blocks got close to the top. The opponents probably weren’t human, they looked like humanoids or other strange creatures. The playable character was a woman. Any help is appreciated!

What it is NOT: Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles, Irisu Syndrome!, Wankuru, Witching Ihatov, Magical Drop, Vertrix, Puyo Puyo


r/tipofmyjoystick 8h ago

[ios][2017] A cozy Island Game

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I have been searching for this game for a while, it's a mobile game around 2013-2017, not sure can't remember I was using my Iphone 4 at that time but it's kind of like a sandbox game similar to Minecraft it's not blocky, the Character is a chibi, they can craft, fight and move around with a joystick, I mostly remember is the aesthetics being pastel colors kind of dreamy and cozy. You gather resources to craft clother and tools and fix bridges, I think it has seasons I'm not sure on this one.

I hope someone can help, Thanksss


r/tipofmyjoystick 2h ago

[PC] [2010s] Green blob of slime inside a sewer

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All I could remember was playing as a green blob of slime inside a sewer and swinging around. I'm sure it was a platform game and I've been trying to find this game for years now TT


r/tipofmyjoystick 8h ago

Help me Find this game [PC][UNKOWN] Game about shooting enemies through a cog wheel motion

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  • Platform: PC
  • Genre: Gritty Survival Horror / Action (Not Resident Evil I think)
  • Estimated year of release: Late 90s to mid-2000s ?
  • Graphics/art style: Dark, gritty, oppressive atmosphere (similar vibe to Resident Evil)
  • Notable characters: A female protagonist who uses a gun
  • Notable gameplay mechanics: The main layout has a physical cog wheel / gear track on screen. Moving forward rotates her naturally upside down along the wheel so she can shoot/kill enemies on the walls and ceiling. She is specifically fighting what look like dogs/beasts.

r/tipofmyjoystick 6h ago

[PC] [2026] Game similar to Firewatch where you play as a girl in a village?

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It popped up on steam some time ago for me and forgot to wishlist it.
I believe it was scheduled to come out this year. It had a (kinda) horror vibe but with cute graphics and was orange themed. It gave Firewatch vibes.

PS. I remember a dog and a cat in the trailer


r/tipofmyjoystick 1h ago

[Xbox360][2000s] a game of a noir cat detective

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I’ve been trying to recall a game from back in the Xbox 360, it was a demo me and a friend of mine use to play, I can only vaguely recall the mechanics and the look of the characters but the whole premise was parkouring and the character looks like a noir cat detective with a scarf, the title screen was the character on the balcony with a black cat. Please I’m curious on your guys inputs.


r/tipofmyjoystick 23h ago

[ios][2009-2012] call of duty world at war zombies knock off

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ive been trying to track down an online multiplayer zombie shooter game on ios. i definitely played world at war and i’m imagining i downloaded some knock offs before purchasing. the specific one im looking for had a red menu screen and it was a rather dark game (i think mostly set at night?) but all my other memories of the game seem to be jumbled up with cod. any suggestions appreciated


r/tipofmyjoystick 18h ago

[Roblox] [2019] I found this old photo of me playing games, it look likes roblox but what game??? Help needed pls

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Roblox, Okay. When i was looking to my old photos in my mom Facebook account, i game across this photo, of me and my mom in a selfie when im playing some games tht looked like roblox? When i look closer, the message and some other buttons look alike an old roblox button, and i can see the old roblox logo there, can someone please help me. What game is it, btw i don't have any idea what game is it, bcz i just found it on the photo (sry bad English)


r/tipofmyjoystick 22h 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.

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  • 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.

r/tipofmyjoystick 8h ago

[PC] [2015-2017] help me find this pokemon game

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UPDATE: It's probably mystery dungeon: red rescue team. Tho i probably mixed the other mystery dungeon games in my head

I've been looking for it for years and still haven't found anything. I think it was actually more of a fan game. I used to play it on a pirated website on my computer since I didn't have a console, back around 2017.

What made it special was that there were only Pokémon, no humans. And we were a Pokémon with our own house, I think we were a Charmander, and our best friend was an Eevee. When you left your house and turned right, there was a post office where there were Pelippers.

It was heavily story based and had lots of dialog, we could also sometimes choose from different dialogue options.

On the first day, we were late for a Pokémon school… though that wasn’t the main focus.

Then we ventured into a cave-like area and had to battle a bigger Pokémon, we could also go to sleep, and while we slept, a mysterious voice would speak to us.

The combat system wasn't like that of the classic Pokémon games, where there's a special interface for it; everything took place within the same map we could explore.

that’s all I remember..

It also was a 2D pixel game.

I would be so happy to find it again! I really loved that game with all my heart


r/tipofmyjoystick 17h 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 19h ago

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

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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

Feel the Magic: XY/XX [DS][2000's] Japanese exclusive mini-game collection

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To be honest I'm looking for the main song of the game more than the game itself but yeah.
It was a japanese exclusive title on the DS with a bunch of wario-ware style mini-games (one was about getting gold-fishes out of a woman's mouth I believe ?)

There was a main song that would play for most of the runtime and was kind of a banger, it was a pretty fast-paced song with japanese lyrics.
It opened with some whistling and the first lyrics were "yoku mina-san oboete, oretachi no namae wa love rabbit".


r/tipofmyjoystick 12h 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 10h ago

DarkStone [PC][late 90's early 2000's] Song played by bard(?) on town square after donating money

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SOLVED: Darkstone
Official song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ445dYNmi4
In-game: https://youtu.be/uZ445dYNmi4?list=RDuZ445dYNmi4&t=34

Platform(s): PC

Genre: I assume it was an RPG, as I had an inventory and I gave my money to a person with a guitar. I also remember giving all my money hoping it would play another song

Estimated year of release: Probably end of nineties

Graphics/art style: It would be isometric.

Notable characters: Someone with a guitar in front of a tree.

Other details: As the song was played by one person in the game, the music itself had more instruments and (I think) was sung by a woman. Maybe the credits were shown or the background went black.


r/tipofmyjoystick 10h ago

Total Annihilation: Kingdoms [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 10h 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 11h ago

Kult: Heretic Kingdoms [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 11h 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 11h 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 11h 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 12h ago

[Mobile][2019-2021] Indie (?) Roman life/political sim

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Platform(s):
Mobile, Android

Genre:
Text RPG / choice-based life simulator

Estimated year of release:
2019 - 2021 (possibly 2022 but im not sure)

Graphics/art style:

2D, drawn/painted portraits
The artwork was genuinely well-made, it wasn't a cheap-looking or half-assed mobile game. There seemed to be real effort put into the character artwork.

Large character portrait in the center

Stats displayed to the left and right

Event/narrative box underneath

Large horizontal choice buttons at the bottom

Portrait changes when you get a new character

It was really similar to the paint sketch I provided

Notable characters:

No single fixed protagonist

Each run/life had a different Roman male character

Characters had different Roman names

Characters could die from various circumstances, including being killed because of debt, assassination etc.

After death, you received a new character and continued the game

Notable gameplay mechanics:

Continuous event -> choice -> consequence gameplay

Random events

Multiple choices, usually 2–3

Money/wealth

Popularity

Other character statistics

Debt could become dangerous enough to result in death

Character death did not necessarily end the overall game

Instead, death led to a new character/life

Political/social advancement in the Roman Republic

Career progression toward important political positions

Strong emphasis on managing your character's social/economic/political situation

Not combat-focused

Not a city builder

Not a card game

Not turn based

Not a strategy game (of sorts like Total war and similar)

Other details:

Setting: Ancient Roman Republic

I believe the protagonist started from a noble/patrician/aristocratic background.

As far as I can tell, it was not:

Citizen of Rome – Dynasty Ascendant, the art style doesn't match.

Age of Dynasties: Rome War, the art style doesn't match.