Fury of the Furries (73 votes)

One of the best platformer games ever. You control one of the furry Tinies on a quest to rescue a king. The gameplay was considered to be very unique back then. Basically you can change a color of your furry friend and thus gain different abilities. Yellow can shoot fireballs, green can produce rope and swing around or use it to pull some blocks, red can eat some blocks and finally blue can dive and shoot bubbles to defeat water enemies. You can choose any color in every level! In some levels you are restricted to one or several colors in others you will find gates that will change the availability of a specific color - if you can't use let's say green, after crossing this gate you'll be allowed to do so. But if you can access it then after crossing it green will become restricted. The game has 8 worlds and each of them consists of 10 levels. Each level is unique in its design. Music, artstyle and most important of all - gameplay focus is changed in every world. In a forest you can expect a lot of green action, swinging a rope, long jumps etc. Lagoon is obviously the world of a blue Furry and pyramid levels are full of nasty traps and secret passages. The game contains a lot of cool pop-culture references like Dune universe, Indiana Jones, Shakespeare, Pac-man, Batman, Star Wars, Little Red Riding Hood, Jaws, Milka chocolate, Dracula and possibly many more! The game was also released with changed graphics as Pac-In-Time (Pac Man as a protagonist). Seriously, this game is great! Trine is pretty often compared to The Lost Vikings whereas it's clearly more similar to Fury of the Furries (In The Lost Vikings each character is present at the same time while in Trine you can switch them as you go, just like in Fury of the Furries). Long story short - I can wholeheartedly recommend it!


Mobygames entry

Hexplore

261 votes on the wishlist.

Awesome team based RPG/puzzle game from 1998 in glorious voxels. You play as adventurer Mac Bride during the Crusades of 1000AD. Your army of crusaders is overtaken by the minions of the evil wizard Garkham, and it's your job to rescue them from his evil clutches... and stop him from gaining ultimate power over the world! =O
You team up with three other characters, chosen based on their different stats for their respective classes: Adventurer, Archer, Warrior, Wizard, and use the team to fight monsters and bosses, and solve class specific puzzles that overlap and require... teamwork to ultimately solve.

This game has just got to come here, the original developer was Heliovisions Productions.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/hexplore

<span class="bold">The Horde</span> (112 votes)

A very unique game which combines simple city building and hack & slash. First, you develop your village and then you have to defend it against nasty monsters. If you succeed in defending your village you'll have more resources to spend to develop it even further, get better equipment and set some traps. The game is quite challenging and sometimes it's better to load your save and try again because Pyrrhic victory won't do you any good. The game also features hilariously cheesy live action cutscenes :)

Mobygames entry

Egypt III: The Fate of Ramses (otherwise known as The Egyptian Prophecy)

It's a point-n-click game taking place in ancient Egypt (aka normal point and click mechanics, easy to understand for both p-n-c junkies, like myself, and normal people-plus the manual gives a brief walkthrough for the first 10 mins of the game-ain't that nice?). The protagonist, a half-Egyptian, half-Hittite young witch, has to find out what hides behind the mysterious illness of the Pharaoh and the equally mysterious deaths of some important Egyptian men. It is a very atmospheric game, with beautiful locations, likeable characters and puzzles that tend to be on the easy side(with the exception of one lock-key puzzle). It also had an unexpected plot turnaround at the end. I highly recommend this game! :-)
Forgot to note: Included in the game is a very nice mini-encyclopedia about Ancient Egypt, for those wanting to learn more about this subject...

Wishlist link (only 14 votes so far, however :-/)

Commander Blood (91 votes at present)

A sequel to the utterly unique Captain Blood (which should also be here, though the Amiga version is much superior), this goes in a different direction and is more of an adventure game. The aliens are portrayed using either 3D renders or muppets, with the latter being especially charming and/or bizarre. The conversations are great, the music enjoyable, and the storyline completely mad in that way that only the French can do. And to top it all off it's a proper good adventure as well.

The Immortal

An isometric action/adventure game with cryptic puzzles and a decent amount of gore for its time.

QUEEN: THE eYe (currently 262 votes)

This is a rare collectible for Queen (yes, the band) fans. If you have a look at the mobygames page

Vote for it!

Civil War General 2

Tactical strategy game on a hexagonal grid.

Soldiers of Anarchy

Great game where you could actually take AND keep vehicles through the entire game...well, assuming they were not destroyed when you use them in a map.

The previous maps would all for the player to keep most if not all of the stuff you captured. Want that jeep? Pop the guy driving it and its yours! Need a tank? Figure a way to get the drivers out and its yours! From Jets to Jeeps and even equipment, you had a decent story and a good action game with RTS feel. You wouldn't actually make anything though. It was kinda like Syndicate Wars in the way you took a crew to do stuff, then knock over the in game bank to get cash on the side. Characters could be lost or upgraded from each experience and you would have them be better the longer you kept them.

Google it! =D

updated the list!

Creature Shock (73 votes)

This game was a lot of fun. I remember the gameplay and atmosphere more than anything, and that I had a blast with it.

<span class="bold">Psychic Detective</span> (Currently 33 votes)


Eric Fox is a psychic who lives in San Francisco and earns his living performing magic shows in seedy nightclubs. This changes when Eric meets Laina, a mysterious woman who trains him to venture inside other people's minds. Laina then hires Eric as a private detective to travel into the minds of the people who attend a wake held in honor of her father, which has died under unclear circumstances.

Psychic Detective is an interactive movie with adventure elements. The player can choose people whose minds Eric is able to read, and also interact with objects for further insight into the storyline. Many of these decisions and interaction choices branch the storyline, leading it to different endings; one of these endings is reached if the player chooses not to interact at all and let the movie unfold by itself.


Playthrough video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2lBwyRqAfY

euhm is the search function for the wishlist broken atm? It doesnt work for me so I can't check how many votes my picks have...

edit: strangly enough it works now...

EDIT 2: Kiss Psycho circus!

just a polite reminder, posts which do not fit the format won't be taken into consideration for the list on the OP. in this case, number of current votes :)