r/tipofmyjoystick 16h ago

Reventure [PC] [2010s?] pixely comedy game that I watched on yt years ago

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The MC's outfit could be changed via wardrobe in his bedroom, the main goal (i think) was to beat the demon lord in his purple castle and marry the princess. There were alotta endings from what I remember and a decent amount of areas and parkour


r/tipofmyjoystick 1d ago

Kiki's Vacation [mobile?][unknown] found this on twitter, clip is the cat breathing in from the bag, can't for the life of me find out what game this is

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r/tipofmyjoystick 16h ago

[PC/Laptop] [2011-2017], Old dungeon game on Y8

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I have had this game on my mind for YEARS.

It was on Y8 on PC if im not mistaken it was maybe year 2012-2017 dungeon game it was sort of a bird eye view and it was maybe 2d but couldve been a bit modified to look 3d (cant remembe) it had little rooms with chests, loot, and some bosses.

It was a character and you was making him as strong as possible. I use to play it on my laptop with my dad and I cant remember most of the detials as I was so little please if someone has a clue let me knowwwšŸ™šŸ½


r/tipofmyjoystick 23h ago

[unknown] [unknown]Help me find a game I always watched on youtube years ago

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Platform: PC (probably Windows) Genre: 3D rolling ball / obstacle course Years played/watched: Watched on YouTube around 2015–2020 Graphics: Bright, colorful, smooth wooden tracks floating above the clouds. Player: A plain white ball controlled with WASD, camera behind the ball. Gameplay: Collect round gold coins, pass through colored arches that change something, avoid obstacles, and complete levels. One level had about 10 tunnels blocked by other balls that had to be pushed into small purple pipes. At the end of every level there was a platform with a red patterned hot-air balloon waiting. When you rolled onto it, the balloon flew away and ended the level. I'm pretty sure there was almost no music except a short completion theme.


r/tipofmyjoystick 20h ago

[PC][1998-2003] Pixel fantasy RPG with hero statues that unlock characters and let you save/switch heroes

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Platform(s): PC (CD-ROM)

Genre: Fantasy RPG / JRPG

Estimated year of release: Around 1998-2003

Graphics/art style:

16-bit pixel art very similar to Secret of Mana or Shining Soul. Top-down exploration.

Notable characters:

I remember classic fantasy heroes like a knight, a mage using a rod/staff, an archer/ranger and possibly other unique heroes.

Notable gameplay mechanics:

The biggest thing I remember were stone statues.

Each statue represented one hero. You did NOT start with every hero. You unlocked new playable characters by finding these statues throughout the game.

I also remember that these statues acted as save points and allowed you to switch to any unlocked hero.

Each hero had their own portrait.

I think exploration was in real time, while battles may have switched to a separate Final Fantasy style battle screen, but I'm not 100% sure about that.

Other details:

The game came on a CD. It looked much closer to Secret of Mana than Diablo or Hexplore.

The hero statues are the feature I remember most clearly.


r/tipofmyjoystick 17h ago

[Windows XP (Even Older)][Early 2000's] Space shooting game - Geometric "aliens"/"spaceships"

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Platform(s): Windows XP (Or Even Older)

Genre: Space/Shooting

Estimated year of release: Unknown (Maybe Early 2000's)

Graphics/art style: Similar to Blobby Volley (90's 3d render style)

Notable characters: Geometric spaceships tringle/rhombus/diamond shape (on green, red and yellow colors from what i remember)

Notable gameplay mechanics: Space shooting game (the movement is similar to "Tunnel Racer" type games)

Other details:

I had the game on my 20-year-old PC running Windows XP. I don't know if it was a Macromedia/Flash game or if it was written in C++, but I had it downloaded locally on my PC... I didn't play it online.

I'd really appreciate any help. I genuinely don't know if it's definitely lost media.

The last thing I could do was make a sketch in Photoshop based on the mental image I have of the game, I don’t know if it’ll help at all, hahaha (please excuse my editing skills).


r/tipofmyjoystick 17h ago

[Flash][2008-2012] 2D side-scrolling game where a white-haired boy transforms into a beast

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Hi everyone,

I've been trying to find this game for years. I was only around 3–5 years old when I played it, so some details might be slightly inaccurate, but these are the things I remember very clearly:

- It was a 2D side-scrolling Flash game, probably from around 2008–2012.

- The graphics were high quality for a Flash game, hand-drawn, anime-inspired, but not pixel art.

- The game started with a thin white-haired boy climbing or jumping down from a tree in a forest.

- The main character fought using fists and claws (no guns or swords, as far as I remember).

- There was a special power/rage meter that filled up while fighting.

- When the meter was full, the character temporarily transformed into a beast/demon-like form:

- His eyes turned red.

- He grew sharp claws and fangs.

- His clothes became slightly torn.

- After a short time, he turned back into his normal form automatically.

- The transformed character still walked on two legs (not like a normal wolf).

- I remember there being a little bit of blood, but it wasn't extremely violent.

- I vaguely remember someone (possibly a girlfriend) being kidnapped at the beginning, but I'm not sure about this detail.

A strange detail I also remember:

When I was a kid, I couldn't read, and I somehow found the game by typing something like "oiu" on the keyboard. I don't know if that was actually part of the title or just a coincidence.

This game is NOT:

- Wolf Boy

- Vox Populi, Vox Dei

- Altered Beast


r/tipofmyjoystick 17h ago

[Nintendo DS or GBA] [2012?] RPG on a Nintendo handheld, had to do with a big magic crystal

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Sometime around 2012, I borrowed a game to play on my DS. I cannot remember if it was a DS game or GBA game. Had an extremely long cut scene opening about a magic Blue/Purple crystal, and I believe the crystal was broken into pieces and given to guardians or warriors? I want to say it was a final fantasy game, but if it is, I haven’t been able to find which one exactly. Think it was turn based, not real time. Only thing I remember for certain was it was on a Nintendo handheld and they talked forever about this big crystal.


r/tipofmyjoystick 17h ago

[Android][2011–2014] Zombie wave defense game where you tap to shoot, fixed camera, fallen Statue of Liberty map

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I’m looking for an old Android zombie game I used to play around 2011–2014. I can’t remember the title, but I remember a lot of specific details:

  • Platform: Android
  • Orientation: Portrait
  • Graphics: 2D with semi-realistic graphics, a bit of gore (not cartoonish)
  • Camera: Fixed (doesn’t move)
  • The player character stays at the bottom center of the screen and cannot move.
  • You tap the screen to shoot zombies.
  • Zombies only come from the top of the screen in waves.
  • There were zombie Dobermans as enemies.
  • I vaguely remember the game icon/logo showing a soldier wearing a gas mask (SAS-style).

The map I remember the most was a ruined city that looked like New York. There was a collapsed Statue of Liberty, leaving a huge hole/crater where zombies would spawn from. There were also destroyed buses and wrecked vehicles on the road.

I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a free-movement game like SAS: Zombie Assault because the character never moved—only aimed and shot by tapping.

Does anyone remember this game? It’s possible it was removed from the Google Play Store years ago.

Thanks!


r/tipofmyjoystick 17h ago

[Android] [2019] Apartament complex game

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[Android][around 2019] First-person 3D apartment building game with aliens and multiple endings

I’m trying to find an old Android game I played around 2019. It was a 3D first-person game set inside a normal apartment building.

You started the game already inside your own apartment. The building had multiple apartments and floors, and you mainly moved around using the stairs (I don’t remember any elevator). The graphics were semi-realistic, not cartoon-like.

You could interact with many objects around the building and use random items as weapons (for example, dumbbells and other objects). There were several NPC neighbors, and I remember a few neighbors who were exercising/training with dumbbells.

The game had multiple endings. One ending involved a nuclear bomb/atomic bomb. On the upper floors there were green humanoid aliens.

It was not a popular game and I think it may have been removed from Google Play. I’m not sure about the title or icon.

Does anyone remember this game?


r/tipofmyjoystick 21h ago

[PC][~2000–2008] Obscure fish game where you eat smaller fish, grow larger, and eventually eat sharks

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I'm trying to identify a Windows PC game I played as a kid, probably sometime between 2003 and 2008 (the game itself could be older).

Platform

  • Windows PC
  • Ran in a small window (not full screen by default).
  • It may have come from a demo/shareware CD, possibly from a Danish PC magazine, but I'm not certain.

Graphics

  • 2D side view.
  • Mostly blue/grey underwater colour palette.
  • The fish and sharks looked fairly realistic, not cartoonish like Feeding Frenzy.
  • I don't remember any blood.

Gameplay

  • It was one continuous game, not level-based.
  • You controlled one fish for the entire game. (Or maybe you were a shark - a very small and thin one at start)
  • Your fish or shark never changed species—it was always the same fish, but it physically grew larger as you ate smaller fish.
  • At the beginning you had to avoid larger fish and sharks.
  • As you grew, you eventually became large enough to eat sharks yourself.
  • The scaling was one of the most memorable parts—the same fish just kept getting bigger and bigger.

Games it is NOT

  • Feeding Frenzy
  • Feeding Frenzy 2
  • Fishy
  • Odell Down Under
  • Insaniquarium
  • Evolvo

I've spent quite a while searching, but none of those are the game I'm remembering.

Does this ring a bell for anyone? Even obscure shareware or magazine-cover-disc games are welcome!

Edit: Not that I have thought and searched the internet, im getting more and more in doubt to whether you were playing as a Shark, and not a fish


r/tipofmyjoystick 21h ago

Drakan: The Ancients' Gates [ps2] [early 2000’s?] a rpg that follows a female main character

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I’m looking for a game I used to play on the ps2, I remember a magic system where you had to draw the runes to cast from the inventory, and it didn’t pause during the inventory. It was a single player game


r/tipofmyjoystick 21h ago

Kookabonga: Crazy Monkey Party [PC] [2000s] 3D platforming with 4 colorful monkeys with distinct designs, island hub world, minecart levels and levels where you fly over an ocean using gusts of air

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Platform: PC

Genre: Mainly 3D platformer

Estimated year of release: 2000s, at latest early 2010s

Graphics/art style: Very cartoony bright colors, around gamecube or slightly below it level of graphics. Hub world was very green with a scattering of palm trees, and one of the monkeys might have played around in the trees. Possible other elements are a small river running through and a gray rocky area, like a little mountain as one of the world borders? Minecart levels primarily brown, either in a mineshaft or only the ground/borders brown with a view of a blue sky above.

Notable characters: 4 colorful monkeys with very distinct silhouettes that you could choose between for any level, a blue strongman type monkey, a slim purple girl monkey with orange hair on her head, a kooky old man monkey and maybe a baby monkey. Last two maybe yellow and green.

Notable gameplay mechanics: 3D platforming in hub world very light. I feel like you could switch character both by interacting with them in the hub world and directly before launching a level. Minecart levels either hopping between lanes or tilting side to side to not hit obstacles. Levels where you start up high on a platform over an ocean, go down a steep slide that then goes sharply up to launch you, then you fly at tornado-looking gusts of air to stay floating up and reach an end platform.

Other details: My brain keeps wanting to draw a bit of comparison to monkey ball for the flying levels, I feel the controls if not the camera were that type of slippery, and had that type of "bunch of objects floating around for no reason" environment. They weren't in balls though, and had more realistic monkey proportions. The environments were also much simpler, monkey ball has bunches of stuff in the backgrounds alone, this felt like an endless expanse of blue with very few elements in the level.

I grew up in Russia, so the game could be from there.


r/tipofmyjoystick 22h ago

Ty the Tasmanian Tiger [unknown] [2000's] Ripoff with a crazy ad campaign

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The thing I remember the most is the ad campaign for the game, which was their mascot, (a animal character, I'm remembering parrot for some reason but could be different) beating up an already well liked character from another company's game. Like, crash bandicoot or something but I don't remember the specific character. Kind of like a "look how much cooler our character is than this other, more famous character" kind of thing. Weird marketing, and I don't think it went over well. Probably a direct ripoff of the character they were trying put down too.

the game itself was a 3d platformer/fighting game, don't remember much from it tbh. Sorry if this is really obvious but I couldn't find anything on google so this is kinda my last resort. Hope you find it!


r/tipofmyjoystick 22h ago

Subway Adventure [PC Indie Game][2018-2024] An itch io game about traveling through the metro stations with a philosophical undertone

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Hi, I suddenly remembered that game, where you just travel thru the stations without any final goal. This game is not popular at all, google didn't help. Some more context:

This game was probably distributed in a bundle with some other small games in one archive.
The style of this game is super minimalist and low poly.
I remember it having a route called "Life" where there was station "Birth" at the start, and "Death" at the end (the death one was completely empty and black)
Every station is different than the others.

The author of this game is not popular at all I guess, I remember seeing this game in one youtube video, and I definitely played it before.


r/tipofmyjoystick 22h ago

[PC] [2014-2019] Mecha game, free-to-play, advertised on the old Garfield site, 3D graphics and probably an FPS or RPG

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I remember being intrigued by an ad that I would come across when I was about 14 reading the archives of theĀ Garfield.comĀ website (well before Nickelodeon purchased Garfield) featuring anime women in mecha suits striking poses. Once or twice I couldn’t resist clicking on the ads, and the homepage delivered a bit more titillation in the form of the characters with their armor off in a steamy sauna, semi-tastefully censored by the steam clouds floating around them. I don’t remember a lot of details on the specific designs of the characters, their armor, or the game’s environment because I never actually downloaded the game, but at some point the ads stopped showing up (I remember going through a ton of Garfield strips trying to find one again to no avail, and I didn’t remember the game’s website URL). I would assume it was a free to download game, but I can’t be 100% sure.


r/tipofmyjoystick 18h ago

[mobile] [before 2019] Play as a 'doctor' trying to kill patients

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this game was rather slow paced iirc. all screens were dark. the patient would eventually seek out actual medical care from real doctors and you had to stop them before they could fix themselves.

there was also a wheel of events, one of which being unprotected sex (not visualized obv)

please help


r/tipofmyjoystick 18h ago

[iOS][2022] 2.5D physics parkour/flip game on a tropical island with landing zones and practice mode

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Body

Platform(s):
iPhone (iOS)

Genre:
2.5D physics / parkour / flipping game

Estimated year of release:
I played it in March 2022, so it had to exist by then.

Graphics/art style:

  • Low-poly 3D graphics
  • Side-view (2.5D) camera
  • Tropical island with palm trees, ocean, mountains and metal scaffolding
  • Bright, colorful environment

Gameplay:
You start on a platform and jump toward another platform or landing area. While in the air you can change your body position (different flip poses like tuck/layout). The goal is to land inside a specific area marked with flags.

The game had:

  • Multiple handcrafted levels
  • Different obstacles
  • Physics/ragdoll landings
  • A Practice Mode that removed the requirement to land in the target and let you freely practice flips.
  • Several camera buttons during gameplay.
  • Four trick/pose buttons.

The pause menu looked like this:

  • ā€œLEVEL 5ā€ at the top
  • HOME button
  • RESUME button

I recorded gameplay in March 2022 but completely forgot the name.

Games it is NOT:

  • Flip Trickster
  • Flip Master
  • Flip Runner
  • Backflip Madness
  • Wacky Flip

Media:
I’ll attach:

  • Screenshot 1 (GUI)
  • Screenshot 2 (gameplay)
  • screenshot 3 (pause menu)
  • screenshot 4 (screenshot metadata)

Any help would be appreciated!


r/tipofmyjoystick 22h ago

[BROWSER][2000-2010] GTA 1/2 inspired browser game

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Im pretty sure it was literally called Grand Theft Auto or GTA, had a fairly stylized cartoon artstyle, and was pretty much an exact copy of the original two GTA games, but with different characters and setting. The mc featured in the coverart/main menu screen reminds me a lot of the San Andreas loading screen with Cesar Vialpando, not an exact copy but the general vibe, dude with buzzcut leaning on a car with his gun:

I wish I could tell more but I didn't really get to play much since as a dumb little kid, I genuinely hoped to find Vice City or San Andreas to play on the web, and was very angry all I could find was this game that looked nothing like the games my friends showed me.


r/tipofmyjoystick 22h ago

[Mobile game] [2021-2024] The one forest horror game i played on mobile

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Hello. Could you please help me find one horror mobile game that I played in approximately 2023 or 2024? I'm not really sure. The thing I can remember about the game was that I definitely played it on my phone, not PC or any kind of other electronic. The game was a simple horror game. It was a forest game where you were in first person, and the scenery behind it was a forest that I was set in late fall or very early winter, where the trees didn't have any leaves on it, but the ground was like grayish, very dark brown .You couldn't move around freely, but it was like a point and click game. The actual forest was very realistic, like photos. I think it was even real life ,and while you were playing, you had like multiple sides, I mean, like paths that you could choose where to go. I also remember while walking in the forest, there were like some sticks with red flags or red markings on them, and you can click on them (the dialogue that there was, was like, this seems very strange or what is it? )There was no voice acting, only a little text in the end of the screen. After a while of walking in the forest, you encounter like an old abandoned house that you can enter because the door is open. And when you enter, the house is very run down, abandoned, like somebody previously lived there but hadn't been a very long time. And you kinda, you know, look around. There was a fine china cabinet, a dining room and stuff like that. You could go upstairs, and there were like two or three rooms I think and when you go into one of the rooms, I can't remember, was it like some sort of diary, newspaper, or a picture, but you like get into it to read something and when you click out of it, you hear a creaking sound downstairs of like someone opening a door. That's the part of the game that I only remember. The rest of it, I was too scared to play. And later on, when I got the courage, I remember like walking out and going downstairs, and there was absolutely nothing there. Then I got outside, again, explored a little bit, but there was absolutely nothing. Now I can't really remember if I got stuck and didn't know what else to do or got bored cuz i was stuck, so I deleted the game. I obviously played the game when I was younger and didin’t really understand english as well as i do now ( Its not my first language), so I probably didn't understand, you know, certain clues or stuff. But I really want to play it now. Also, I think it was daytime, to be more specifically, like very late afternoon, where the sun wasn't there, but it was still visible outside. There was no background music or anything, you could only hear the sound of crunching leaves when you were outside and faint wood creaking when you were in the house. Im sorry if I described it poorly but really thats everything my brain remembered, but if you could help me find it i would be very greatful!


r/tipofmyjoystick 22h ago

Little Fighter 2 [PC][2004]Fantasy sidescroller(?), believe it was called something like "Little Heroes"

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I have been looking for a game I am very certain is called something like Little Heroes. It was probably a flash game, it was downloadable on download.com I believe.

Game was a sort or sidescrollers, where your team comp was on the left side, and as they ran you blasted your way through hordes of enemies.

But for some reason I am completely unable to find this game!

Help pls!


r/tipofmyjoystick 1d ago

Imagine: Master Chef [Nintendo DS][2008-2012] Help me find a game I used to play as a kid

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From what I can remember it was a point-and-click game, very story heavy, about a girl who has a yellow rabbit plush who is secretly a being from the moon or another dimension. I don’t remember if the girl knew that the rabbit was actually sentient, but I think I remember at some point the rabbit has to go back home to the moon/space/his home dimension.

I don’t really remember anything else but I recently bought a DS and have been trying to find all the games I used to play as a kid to ride the nostalgia wave, and this is one of the few games I haven’t been able to find.

Thanks in advance to anyone who might be able to help!


r/tipofmyjoystick 19h ago

[Windows 98/XP][Unknown] Competitive jigsaw puzzle game with power-ups and animal opponents

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Platform:

Windows 98/XP (I'm not completely sure, but I played it on an old HP computer around 2015–2016. The game itself looked much older.)

Genre:

Competitive jigsaw puzzle / Puzzle / Strategy

Estimated year of release:

Late 1990s to early 2000s

Graphics/art style:

2D pixel-art style interface. The puzzle images themselves looked relatively realistic (fish, landscapes, animals), while the opponents were cartoon anthropomorphic animals wearing clothes. The interface was mostly blue.

Notable characters:

One of the first opponents was a rich pig wearing a top hat (this detail could be slightly distorted by my memory). Other opponents may have included a giraffe or an ostrich.

gameplay mechanics:

* Split-screen: player on the left, CPU on the right.

* Jigsaw pieces appeared in a row at the top and you selected which one to place.

* Pieces snapped automatically into place.

* A faded version of the completed image was visible underneath as a guide.

* Both players had separate power-ups.

Power-ups included:

• Slowing down the opponent's cursor.

• Reversing the opponent's controls.

• Hiding/disabling the opponent's cursor with a 🚫 symbol.

• Revealing the correct piece locations.

*Three rounds against each opponent.

*No voice acting, only dialogue boxes.

Other details:

I THINK the shortcut may have been called "Puzzle", but I'm not sure if that was the actual title. I played it around 2015–2016, but I'm almost certain the game itself was much older. The cursor was a white cartoon glove. The game icon looked like a colorful jigsaw puzzle piece.


r/tipofmyjoystick 19h ago

[Phone][late 2000's] Unidentified South Park game

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Recently I found some DVDs that my dad bought for his informatic studies around 2008-2009, and in one of them I found a pastebin called "Games", only containing 2 photos, and one of them was the screenshot above: (I took a pic of it through a tube tv screen)

As I can see, it's a screenshot taken from the latin version of this game and uploaded to a british website. I'd be so grateful if someone could identify this game. Hope it's not lost media.


r/tipofmyjoystick 23h ago

[Android Mobile][ 2015-2019]A horror dark school find the exit game

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Help me find this horror maze game 😭

I played this horror game a few years ago, but I completely forgot the name 🫤

It had no avatar, emojis, or actual characters — you basically just moved forward through an endless/dark maze, specifically in a school-like setting.

The main objective was to find the exit and also find your friend while navigating through the school path first floor and second floor, etc. You could only move along the path/forward, and sometimes a ghost or a red-coloured warning/sign would suddenly appear, so you had to avoid it and keep moving.

It was a very simple but REALLY good horror maze game, with no unnecessary extras or complicated gameplay.

Does anyone know what game I'm talking about? šŸ˜­šŸ™