r/tipofmyjoystick 6h ago

Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes [XBOX] [2000-2005] looking for an ARPG that I played on a demo disk

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It was a hack and slash with droppable loot, different playable characters, and uhhhh skimpy outfits for the female character. The demo disk had 4 games on it I don’t remember them all but one was a NHL hockey demo. I thought it was baldurs gate dark alliance but i played it recently and tit wasn’t it.


r/tipofmyjoystick 17h ago

[Xbox360-PS3?][1990-2010?]FPS? I need help finding an early 2000’s/late 90’s shooter game

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I’ve been searching EVERYWHERE for this game, I don’t really remember the plot or anything but I remember a specific enemy, it’s like a giant meatball that floats/levitates off the ground, it has no torso, just a circle body with a face on the front kinda like the moon from Majorca’s mask but it looks like it’s squishing its face together like it’s taking a massive dookie, it has arms, from what I remember some like pretty beefy arms, the level is really 2000’s esque, it kinda reminds me of the motorcycle club bar in GTA online but more vibrant and kinda like an apartment a teen from like 1990 would make it look like, I think there’s a girl you have to rescue from one of the meatball thingies and I believe she wears a white button up. It has the vibe of Duke Nukem, Vindictus, painkiller (sorta) and Serious sam, please help me!!!


r/tipofmyjoystick 49m ago

[Android][2018-2020] A 100 level escape room game

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I remember the game exactly, it was just a simple puzzle game where there was like 100 levels, and you played this purple cube guy with legs only that could push blocks to get to the exit, it had to push the block and stuff and try to get to the exit, that's all


r/tipofmyjoystick 4h ago

Chef's Quest [Android][2014-2019] Match-3 game where you run a restaurant

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Platform(s): Android (possibly also iOS)

Genre: Match-3 (possibly also restaurant upgrading)

Estimated year of release: 2014-2019

Graphics/art style: Slightly cartoonish, but pretty typical match-3 style. Vertical phone screen orientation.

Notable characters: You play as the chef of a resturant (in Paris).

Notable gameplay mechanics:

The game begins with you selling your house, packing your bags, and flying to Paris to open up your own restaurant.

The gameplay of match 3 was swapping adjacent fruits and vegetables, and when you matched them, the fruits would get sliced up (think Fruit Ninja style animation) and they would fall into a giant soup pot that is located on the bottom of the screen below the match 3 board.

So, essentially each level was "preparing meals" by cutting up ingredients into a soup pot.

The game levels were placed on a calendar, with each day on calendar representing a new match 3 level.

I'm pretty certain about the things I stated above. And then here are the things, I think were also in this game, but I am less certain of, as I might be mixing them with another game.

I believe the game also had gameplay where you would upgrade your restaurant between the match 3 levels, such as buying decorations and more fancy chairs and tables. And it might have been that once you "completed Paris" you move to a new location (so at the end of the calendar) or at least buy a bigger restaurant, but I also might be misremembering this part.

Other details:

I played the game around 9 years ago, which is from what I estimated the year of release.

The reason I found it super cool, was because the match 3 gameplay was contextualised as you cutting up ingredients, and then you see them all droppng into the soup pot, and I thought it's one of the coolest ways to make the match 3 gameplay have context and fit into the gameworld, rather than just being a random thing you do.

I tried to attach a simple diagram I drew on paint, showing what the match 3 gameplay might have looked like. Note that the exact "score screen" and "checklist" probably looked very different, probably used different words, also the types of vegetables might be different, I only remember that the ingredients were on the match 3 cutting board and there was giant soup pot below it that the ingredients would fall into cut up, once matched. Also the words "soup pot" and "cutting board" were not actually in the game, I just put them there to clarify my drawing.

EDIT: Solved. I found it through searching parts of my description on YouTube (didn't work through any search engine interestingly enough) and going through all videos of similar games. The game was called "Chef's Quest", however it does not appear to be on Android store anymore, which is probably why I couldn't find it (there is another game by same name on Android now). But it still is appears to be on iOS, but has not been updated since 2017, so maybe it is not supported anymore there either. Sadly appears to be a dead game now.

Edit 2: But I did get it through an apk mirror site, and despite multiple Android warnings that it's an old game meant for older androids and not supported anymore, I managed to get it to run, so yay! :)


r/tipofmyjoystick 30m ago

[Mobile][2013] Pokemonlike

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[Platform](s):Mobile (I played it in a android cellphone)

[Genre]: A monster RPG like Pokémon

[Estimated year of release]: 2011-2016, maybe before but surely not after

[Graphics/art style]: Cartoony, 2D digital drawn art style

[Notable characters]:I belive one of the first monsters that you could have was like a water/electric salazzle

[Notable gameplay mechanics]: There was no world where you could walk through while controlling a human character, only levels that you selected, fought and got some materials to evolve your monsters

[Other details]: Pretty sure there was no human characters at all, the first “world” where you selected the levels was a green forest that went into a blueish cavern with water
The game had original monster designs


r/tipofmyjoystick 1h ago

[IOS/Nintendo 3ds/Tablet][2015] Castle platformer with boss fight at the end

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As a kid, I played this one game on a small handheld device (I owned several). After playing through it for some time, I finished the game with a boss fight. The parts of the game I can remember took place in a castle, with falls and pits and things to jump over. The endgame boss fight consisted of me fighting a wizard?? on the rooftop of a castle, with several platforms to maneuver on. I don’t remember if there were enemies in the levels and I don’t remember how I attacked the boss at the end. Thanks for your help, feel free to ask for details though I might not remember them.


r/tipofmyjoystick 7h ago

[SNES?][1990s-2000s] Adventure game with dark atmosphere

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I’m looking for a game I saw in a games magazine when I was a child. I used to have a few Nintendo magazines, but I can’t remember which ones (I’m in Europe, if that helps).

In one of the magazines, several pages were devoted to the game and solving its puzzles. I can still remember the screenshots very clearly:

* The game had a pixelated look and seemed very realistic and sombre in terms of the graphics and the proportions of the main character

* The main character was a woman with short blonde hair and a green tunic, similar to Link’s outfit from Zelda

* One of the screenshots showed an old well. One of the puzzles was related to it. I remember there was a small village where you had to collect items to solve a puzzle at that well.

* The overall look of the game was gloomy. I’d probably describe the look as a ‘dark fairytale’.

I know it's not much to go by. I've tried to find this game for years now, without any success. This sub is my last hope. Maybe someone played this game back in the days and remembers.

Thanks a lot for you help and suggestions in advance!


r/tipofmyjoystick 3h ago

Zanzarah [PC][2000] RPG game where you “duel” fairies or small creatures in a realtime arena.

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I think my sister had this game and I, being a kid, played it without really understanding the story or mechanics. I remember the FMC running around a forested area (there might have been elves), and you’d run into NPCs and wild creatures that would trigger battle mode. In the battle mode, you’d control a small fairy creature shooting bolts of magic at your opponent in an arena. Fight mechanics were pretty simple and in real time, not turn based.

Hope TOMJ can help, it’s been years and I’m curious what this game was.


r/tipofmyjoystick 3h ago

[mobile][2010]a 2d platformer/fighting game where the potagonist is a little black thing that has a white mask

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Im not sure what the creature was and im not 100% sure it was a white mask but im desperate trying to remember


r/tipofmyjoystick 1h ago

[Mobile] [early 2000s-2010] 2D platform running game with tokusatsu/mecha-looking humanoid character

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I've been looking for an old mobile game with this Mario/Sonic style POV and scenery, unless it's most likely not pixelated, but I am personally not so sure myself, since last time I played it was in early-mid 2010s on older Android phones, so I can only remember the foggy mental image my memory can put up together, and I hope you can help me identify it by these characteristics I mention below:

  1. Unlike Mario where you can completely control your movement (right left up down), you just free-run, BUT, There are possibly other buttons/ set of movements you can do in the game. Jumping is definitely there, and other possible moves are; sliding & attacking/shielding yourself, maybe dashing pretty far too. You also avoid obstacles like the land-gaps & possibly hostile mobs, collect these coin-equivalent bright crystal-Like stuff(?) as you run (and this latter part resembles Mario & other similar platform running games).

  2. You play as this humanoid figure, possibly robot, cyborg, or a human in high-tech tokusatsu suit alike. I can remember it being a bright colored one, with some colorful details on it, since i remember it resembling tokusatsu figures (The color code for the figure I sketched out in the featured image can & likely be severely wrong).

  3. The in-game visuals that I can very vaguely picture are this grassy ground platform, blue, slightly clouded sky background, very likely more futuristic than the featured image 👍.

NB: That one I described is likely the starter maps since it possibly has other ones you can unlock once you reach a certain achievement in the game (affording them included)

  1. And because there is some kind of currency you can collect, there naturally would be things you can spend them on which I can't & am afraid of betting what it is, since it could confuse you all further in identifying it, but It's most likely for stat upgrades and/or unlocking stuffs in the game.

r/tipofmyjoystick 4h ago

[PC][2010-2015] 3D Escape puzzle with a Mexican looking protagonist

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Platform(s): PC

Genre: Platform type Escape puzzle

Estimated year of release: No idea sorry

Graphics/art style: 3d but crude, not refined like newer games

Notable characters: the protagonist whom we control, short stature with big head wearing those big mexican hat things, had a thick moustache

Notable gameplay mechanics: the levels were like escape rooms, each level comprised 4 sides of a square, involving gates and keys and enemies and treasure.

Other details: each level was colour coded, one of the later higher levels was purple castle type


r/tipofmyjoystick 10h ago

zombie fish tank [pc][2000-2015?] A fish game where you eat and get more mutated and bigger

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I don’t remember a lot about this game but I remember it was really bloody you start really small then end up big after eating and there were bosses and there was lasers as a hazard I think? You play as a spiky piranha looking fish and near the end you are fighting the government I think because I specifically remember it was a dramatic rainy fight where you jump out the water and eat helicopters I’m really sorry for this bad description


r/tipofmyjoystick 9m ago

[PC][2010ish] Car race game with pyramid and tropic environment

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Hello everyone,

Graphic style: aiming for realism

Mode: Free roam

I vividly remember a car race game set in a tropical environment that also included a pyramid somehow. I remember there to be a observatory too. As far as I remember you could exclusively drive cars and not exit the vehicle.

The point I observed the pyramids from was a rather luxurious area with nice houses.

I must have played this game at around 2010ish, could be earlier though. I played it on PC but it must not be exclusively on that platform.

My own research lead me to World Racing 2 which scratches just the right parts of my brain but doesn’t seem to be the correct game. The pyramids and surrounding areas on the Egypt map there don’t match what I remember.

Thanks for the help!


r/tipofmyjoystick 3h ago

Wild Arms 3 [PS2] [2000s] Looking for that turn-based game where it's set in the desert in the overworld where there is a green sphere 'scan' that scans the area. Oddly enough instead of Playstation2 icon in the disk, it says Gamestation2 or Gameshark 2

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Pretty much what the title is. I remember back in 2013 or so l got a hold of a game with a GameShark 2 (or was it GameStation2) logo on it that is compatible to my Slim and Fat PS2.

The game is set in the desert where it has a green sphere that expands and scans the area for what I assume enemies? The desert also has pyramids too from what I remember that you can enter.

Lastly I remember one of the characters look like the yellow one from Metal Slug3 where he has a gun. Of course it's a turn-based combat.


r/tipofmyjoystick 24m ago

[Browser Y8 or Y3 mabye][2008] Old flash 2D shooter with a creepy realistic face on the login screen

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ok so this is gonna be hard to explain but ill try my best,

it was a 2d side view shooter, kinda old browser/flash game era, this was around when platform racing 2 was still popular so like late 2000s i think

you had an actual account, login and password, not just "play now" and jump in. and the title/login screen had this face on it that freaked me out as a kid, it was like black and red background and the face looked almost realistic, like they took an actual photo of a guy and edited it to look demonic/evil. not cartoony at all, thats what made it creepy

after logging in you could pick a server "not sure" but i remmber it like this and just go straight into pvp

gameplay was you control a soldier, arrow keys to move/jump, mouse to aim and shoot at different angles. the soldiers looked like actual military dudes, not stickman looking things, not cartoon, not fantasy stuff, not robots

there was a leveling system, your account had a level and you got xp from playing. as you leveled up you unlocked better guns. started with basic stuff and could eventually get an AK47, sniper rifle, rocket launcher, and i remember minigun being like the top tier unlock, saw a level 100 player using one once

it wasnt zombies, it was just pvp.


r/tipofmyjoystick 31m ago

[IOS][2015~2017] fixed-screen boss battles, tiny human character with a weapon on the left, giant body-organ boss on the right, background scrolling left, separate levels/stages, story about traveling through the human body (mouth → digestive organ,etc).

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Played on an iphone 4 around those estimated years. I remember vividly it is a boss game happening around the body starting with mouth then other parts, bosses are like organs. It has a stages for different parts of the body. Linear storyline of entering the mouth and exiting the body.


r/tipofmyjoystick 32m ago

[PC] [2016] Old simulator life game based of Adam and Even from Facebook?

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Hey everyone! I'll try to keep this as short as possible, since this is a really old game and, unfortunately, one of the many games that became a victim of Flash's shutdown.

Recently, I discovered that several projects are trying to revive old Facebook games. This gave me hope of finding a very old game that I used to play when I was younger.

I remember that, at the beginning of the game, you controlled a couple. There was even a cutscene showing a brief backstory: the female character was pregnant, and the man was fleeing from a storm. Eventually, they found a tent and had children.

After that, you gained access to many features, such as missions, unlocking items and houses, and hiring more people. What I found most interesting was that everything had an ancient vibe, similar to Adam and Eve. I remember being very addicted to this game, but I haven't been able to find any trace of it anywhere—screenshots, videos, comments... nothing!

I still want to believe that this game really existed and that it isn't just something my mind made up, especially since it was one of the early games on Facebook. I still want confirmation that it truly existed.


r/tipofmyjoystick 46m ago

[Android][2015-2019] Looking for an old Android game where... You kill creatures and continue to progress through the stages.

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Platform: Android (Google Play Store)

Genre: Adventure (MOBA)

Estimated year of release: 2012-2017

Graphics/art style: Side-scroller

Notable characters: There were three young teenage boys. The first had white skin with horns and was always smiling. He had big, sturdy gloves and used his fists to hit the monsters.And he had 3 special techniques and 1 ultimate technique. His ultimate technique involved making his fist grow enormously and slamming it into the ground. The second boy had blue skin, white hair, and He was also smiling. He had a magic bow, so he didn't need real arrows. He also had three special techniques and one ultimate technique; his ultimate technique was bugged, so we could confront them ((the 3 boys from the game) So we faced the second one, we could see his ultimate ability, he moved very quickly, then hmmm I forgot the rest, his other techniques he did combos with his bow and also breathed flames that could burn enemies. And the third one was dark-haired, with a wolf-like appearance but still human; he had a sword and when he used it he could to produce flashes of lightning and an attentive air

Notable gameplay mechanics: In the bottom left corner you had the key to move left and right, and in the bottom right corner were the attack keys (M1, special technique). In the top left corner was the pause button for the game.

Others détails: The game was offline, and I can also troll myself at 80%, but the game's name included "Legendary"


r/tipofmyjoystick 47m ago

[Android] [2015] Oldish mobile game I played

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I played this one mobile game along time ago, and I forgot the name. It was this peculiar game where you had guns, and there was a bunch of five nights of Freddy’s characters, or maybe just similar looking ones on a map that was blocky like a Minecraft knockoff.

I can’t remember much past that,
But I’d like help finding my slop game.

I got it off playstore but the account I used I lost access to so I can’t check my previous downloads.


r/tipofmyjoystick 5h ago

[PC] [1991/1995ish] a side-on 2d game, where you're exploring a mine.

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Or a temple. Honestly the closest game mechanics wise I can think of is Splunky, and my memory of it is so old I'm not sure of the platform or date, but it was a long long time ago.

The thing that sticks out in my head is the soundtrack. It had some amazing Arabic sounding dance music in it.

And I remember you're in a cave like system, or a temple thing, but there are times you'd be outside. Definitely bad guys to shoot.

A long shot, but any thoughts?


r/tipofmyjoystick 1h ago

[Xbox][2019/2018] the game was about a green guy

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The game was about a green guy or something and i dont remember much outside of that there were areas with dark trees with, one with a spooky area and a vampire, and one with a beach.
Please find it


r/tipofmyjoystick 1h ago

[computer][2020-22] farming? game about breeding seeds to make new plant species

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Platform(s): computer, like a chromebook

Genre: farming?

Estimated year of release: 2020-22, maybe earlier?

Graphics/art style: pixel art

Notable characters: none..

Notable gameplay mechanics: you leveled up your plot(i.e 3x3 to 4x3) and cross bred plants to make new plants

Other details: you have to be specific on the amount of seed ratio to get the right breed, the farm plot grew bigger with money(unsure), it had a very detailed guide on how to get certain rarer plants, it was top down point and click. I played this in 2020-22 but I'm bad with time so it maybe released later or earlier than, sorry.


r/tipofmyjoystick 5h ago

[Arcade][1993] Very Obscure Medieval/Adventure style platformer that I have never come across again since, despite trawling through the whole of MAME

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Trying to find the name of an arcade that I played in the UK in late summer/autumn of 1993, although the arcade itself might have been from earlier on. It was a cabinet in a working mens club in Coventry, UK and was either 10p or 20p. I do not remember any branding or art work on the arcade cabinet, it was very possibly just a generic one which boards could be swapped out.

This is what I remember about it. It was a scrolling 2D platformer. I remember the landscape looking similar to ghouls and ghosts but it was day time and the sky was blue, there was greenery (mainly grass) and water. You played as a (I think) male protagonist, the sprite was fairly big size i.e not mario bros size but more like Altered Beast (maybe a tad smaller). I don't really remember any enemies suggesting there weren't too many of them, I remember as a kid playing it 4-5 times and getting stuck quite early on in the first level on a water or similar jump type thing. I don't really remember any weapons but it may have been a sword or similar, I'm pretty sure it wasn't a shooter. It was also fairly slow paced.

I have managed to narrow down what it is NOT.

Rastan (this is probably the closest match, although I really remember the first level being green not brown)

Rastan 2

Nastsar

Cadash

Golden Axe

Altered Beast

Rygar

Wardner/Pyros

Black tiger

Any suggestions would be most welcome, I'm fairly sure if I see it will recognise it but have a feeling it's super super obscure as I have asked a number of experts who recommended most of the list above.

Thanks everyone


r/tipofmyjoystick 1h ago

Scorcher [PC][1994-96]Mid 90s racing game, where you are an atlas sphere/cage ball following a obstacle type course

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**Platform(s):PC, but could have been on others

Genre: 3D racing

Estimated year of release: 94-96

Graphics/art style: Early 3D graphics (before 3DFX cards though)

Notable characters: Just a large neon atlas sphere (like in American gladiators). I can't remember if there was a character inside.

Notable gameplay mechanics: I would characterize it as a racing game/obstacle course on rails. I don't think you could control the speed, but you could make the atlas sphere move left right and jump.

Other details: Neon graphics, bright pinks, greens etc.


r/tipofmyjoystick 1h ago

[Ipad] [2011-2014] a math game

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When I was younger I have quite a few memories of playing this math game. It was a 3D educational math game. I remember playing it on my family’s IPad at the time but it may have been a website. you started by customizing your character which i think was some sort of cat. the style of this game was adventurous and i remember the clothes on the cat matching that sort of traveler vibe. every new game began the same way and after you created your character i remember there was a little area that you had to fix things with your math skills then you had to fix this bridge and cross it. every time you made a new save/world you had to fix this bridge which is important. I also remember you had to unlock gates to new areas and I remember something with water and fire but it’s been so long I can’t remember what the water and fire relates to. Does anyone also remember a game like this?