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Games with a stark, bizarre atmosphere

Jarpie

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The Legacy for dos, Veil of Darkness for dos too, both from 1993 I think.

Mindfighter too, little known game from the 80s for C64, aniga etc.
 

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War Wind. Second rate Warcraft 2 clone with strange alien atmosphere, which is just about the only thing i remember about the game.
 

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The usual Mother 1-3 saga + its clones, if these haven't been mentioned already. Also, several French games do so as well (if not the majority of these).
 

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Oblivion. Just playing it for five minutes made me feel like I was in a bizarre nightmare world where nothing made sense.
 

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Come to think of it, a lot of the LGS games played out the same way--Thief, System Shock, etc. I also throw down a second mention of Realms of the Haunting, and you should definitely try Soul Reaver & Shadow of the Colossus, if you have a game machine in your house.
 

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Divinity: Original Sin Divinity: Original Sin 2

I was actually planning to mention this one in teh Lost & Forgotten thread. As far as the visuals and atmosphere go, think of side-scroller equivalent of Souls and KF games.


(also, curious that certain game from whence my nickname originated wasn't mentioned yet)


I recently bought this game on ebay after watching this video.
I felt I really have to own it and add it to my game collection.
 

Axe Father

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Going to resuscitate this thread because I realised I forgot to mention Drowned God. It's a Myst-like adventure game from '96 that is engrossing, for lack of a better word. Its got a handful of interesting puzzles but the real draw is that it is all based in mysticism, UFO folklore, and theories of alien interference in human history. I'd say it's not a very good game overall, but the passage of time and the fact that you're most likely going to play this now-a-days by downloading it means it is easier to recommend as an "experience".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiwFvZ4j4-I
(Video owner doesn't allow embedding, sorry for the inconvenience.)

Also interesting is the mastermind behind the game, Richard Horne (pen name Harry Horse). A Political cartoonist, children's book author, and musician, he based the game on a forged manuscript he wrote and attributed to the poet Richard Henry Horne. In 2007 he killed his wife and then himself, but it was originally thought they committed suicide in a pact with one another. Pardon me for regurgitating information you can easily find on Wikipedia, but I found it intriguing enough to want to type it myself.
 
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