Did you ever play a game that you just loved that did not seem to get the attention that it deserved? What do you think is the most under appreciated game that you have ever played? For me it has to be the Discworld games. I thought they had some of the best puzzles and the games were so funny. What game do you want to let other people know they are missing out on?

I have long felt that DROWNED GOD belongs in this category

The Dame Was Loaded, Anachronox, and Zelenhgorm.

And then there are two games from the Danish (defunct) developer Deadline Games: Black Out (1997), and Giften (The Poison - 1998), of which Black Out is bordering to a masterpiece. None of these games were translated into English. They made Swedish translations though, I'm happy to say.

In fact, these two games are so forgotten that I can hardly find any information about them at all on the internet. All I found was these screenshots from Black Out:

http://www.adventurearchiv.de/b/blackoutscreenshots.htm

and this page about Giften:

http://www.giantbomb.com/giften/61-29119/

If I ever made a top 20 list of my favourite games, these two would surely be on it.

Space...I agree...

The Discworld games to me are a classic..

I always thought Noctropolis was underrated - Alice was as well (if you go by sales).

Obsidian
Morpheus
Armed and Delirious
9: The Last Resort
all of Detalion's games from Reah through the Schizm games to Sentinel
and some of Arxel Tribe's games (Faust, Ring)

The kind of imagination that showed in the surreal design of the gameworlds in these games is something I'm really missing these days.

This is really an interesting thread. Thanx for all the input Boomers!!!!

Alida is one I would add to Jenny100s list

Hi Karsten

I actually have Black Out, but it's been so long since I played it.
I believe it came on 8 CD's, and I was quite annoyed with the disc swapping, lol.

As far as underrated, I wouldn't go that far - it was maybe innovative for its time, but underrated, nah.

I loved the Agatha Christie games, and most of all Evil Under the Sun. But all I've ever seen are people complaining about it. All the things they hated (comments between Poirot and Hastings, the fact that you are directing a character through another) I thought were wonderful...I thought that it was a unique idea!

"Noctropolis" for me too, InlandAZ !! It's a great game and one I still replay

And, skeeter93 .... I am one who certainly didn't hate the Agatha Christie series. In fact I too thought "Evil Under The Sun" was especially good

Anpther very old one that never gets a mention is "Dragonsphere".
Everything about it is totally ancient now of course but the story is excellent and it's another I still replay

I liked Evil Under the Sun too skeeter. I had a graphic problem but I changed a few settings in the game was was able to play.
Had fun too.
LOVED the ending hee hee

I've always thought that Shadow of the Comet and Prisoner of Ice were very under rated myself. These were both games based on stories by HP Lovecraft.

What a great topic!


Bad Mojo
Obsidian
The Dig

Loved Anachronox-a masterpiece if there ever was one! I am currently playing Psychonauts, another less well known 2005 game.

*Nightlong: A Union City Conspiracy* and one game that is a true classic but hardly anyone mentions *The Feeble Files*

Shadow of Destiny (called Shadow of Memories in Europe)

I never played Nightlong or Feeble Files but I have heard good things about both of those games.
I can't remember how much I liked the game Noctropolis but I do remember the graphics were beautiful. What a blast from the past. I had forgot all about that game.
Morpheus is a great choice. I am not a fan of third person games usually but I loved this game. The plot was very unique.
The music and plot of The Dig really won me over. Just about every game LucasFilms/LucasArts made was ok by me.
Thanks for all the great answers.

I second and third "The Feeble Files."

I guess I've been looking in the wrong places! Hello to the fellow fans Now if only they would make a new one for the PC... I got stuck 5 mins into ABC murders for the DS!

Hi,
Most of the games everyone has listed in this topic are quite old except for the newer Agatha Christie. I agree about Shadow of Destiny which I played on a console. I also agree with Nightlong although I could not complete it even with a saved game with the bug. Will try it one day on my older machine.
I was wondering about any newer games people thought were more deserving that aren't over 5 or 6 years?
Patty

Can't think of any myself

I feel most of the better "more recent" games got the good comments they deserved at the time they were released

Amerzone! Hands down, for me it was Amerzone! Found the game really cheap and played it 4 times! Just loved it!!

Great question!

Here is a game that I wanted to mention as deserving of praise. It isn't a game that you could play now due to how out of date the graphics are and the looping music but I thought it had some of the greatest puzzles that I have ever seen in a game. Did anyone else play Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders by Lucas Arts?

It's easier to identify a game that was underrated with the passage of time. A bit harder to do so immediately.

You might want to consider recent games that are a bit off the beaten track?

The Casebook games and Yoomurjak's Ring -- very good games that are FMV and have been available via download. The Enter the Story games -- based on classics of literature, also very good games available from the Enter the Story website. And you might want to consider Drawn: The Painted Tower, a casual adventure game, available via download or on disk in the US.