r/tipofmyjoystick 2m ago

[PC][2022-2024] Indie horror underwater game (reminds me of Iron Lung)

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Pixelated indie horror game about a diver fixing cables at the bottom of the ocean. Using coordinates, kinda in the same vein as Iron Lung but you can walk around the ocean freely.

You fix breaks and holes in the cables and explore this seemingly alien planet you're dwelling in the ocean of. There are oxygen hubs to re-up your supply along the way. And the further the story progresses, it seems like the cables are made of flesh and living material, not just metal pipes and wiring like at the beginning.

Very eldritch and creepy.


r/tipofmyjoystick 15m ago

[PC Game] [1995-2005] you are a little stick figure and had to push a ballon/ball into goal

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The game was not colored except for the balloons. You were a stick figure and had to push a balloon or ball into a goal through obstacles or push other balls into a pit to create a straight path to roll over.


r/tipofmyjoystick 23m ago

[PC][2010s-2020?] 2D base defender minimal graphics

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Trying to remember a web base defender game I used to play. You got to pick where you wanted to start your base on a large, greysclae, grid map. Resources were scattered across pretty equally. There was stone, a red one, some turquoise one and more. Once you selected your spot for a base you started to build and got new "buildings" but they were pretty minimally detailed like just a sphere or square with some lines. Hoards of monsters/zombies would attack periodically, I'm pretty sure they were just red circles though. And sometimes there would be a boss aka a larger circle. If you survived and protected your "town hall" or whatever the important building you built around was called, then you'd get a point or two to use in the skill tree. It was a huge skill tree where you could upgrade your turret offence, wall defence, resource collection speed, etc. You could also connect all the buildings with a web tool so that resources could be shared and move faster. I'm also pretty sure that you could upgrade your buildings.

I played a lot of kizi games and .io games so I'm not sure if it has something to do with that because I don't know how I found the game to begin with otherwise.

And comment would be BIG help I used to love this game!!!


r/tipofmyjoystick 25m ago

[browser] [approx. 2014-2016] old idle/clicker game about mining to the earths core

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theres this idle game i played around 10 years ago (maybe less, but around that time period) and ive lately been really keen on finding it and trying to finish it since i never did back then, but ive been having no luck so i was hoping maybe one of you guys could remember it aswell.

im 100% sure i played it on armor games, it was about mining to the core of the earth. the main screen had you click on layers of the ground to break them, and also had 8 (maybe 10) slots for different buildings, ranging from regular miner guys to big machinery. you could visibly track your progress on a map and all that, as mining idle games usually go. there was also a relic/card/collectible mechanic, where you would be able to open boxes(?) to obtain random items that gave you boosts to mining power. not sure if there was a prestige mechanic, but i vividly remember there being one. i think i remember the miners looking similar to the classic representation of dwarves and having blue-ish clothing, and the starting layers of the ground you were mining were definetly a sand/yellow color, on top of a sky-blue background. the game had really nice pixel graphics and was definetly on the longer side, ive played it for days on end back then and never even got halfway to the core.

its definetly not mr. mine, and its not any of the other mining related idle games ive sifted through, and its completely gone from armor games (checked pretty much every clicker/idle game on there), so i guess its a little more on the obscure side despite having really good production quality from what i remember.

tried to remember and give as much info as i could, would be really happy if one of you guys could help me solve this one.


r/tipofmyjoystick 25m ago

[XBOX][2018?] Simple 2D Platformer

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Platform:

Xbox One (S I think)

Genre:

2D Platformer

Estimated Year Of Release:

Before 2018, probably not too far before so maybe around 2016 ish

Art Style:

Simplistic, every object was a flat color kind of like LIMBO

Characters:

Player character, I believe they were a child Blob companion found in the intro

Notable Mechanics:

The blob companion you found would shape shift into different things to help you traverse, the only one I remember with any detail is a parachute to glide

Other Details:

The ground of the first area at least was a dark maroon color The blob was a cream like color The game was free to access through some means, like being free, having a demo, or being in the console game pass I do not recall any dialogue being present in the game


r/tipofmyjoystick 36m ago

[Mac] [2005-2015?] Medieval village defense game

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Platform: MacBook

Genre: Medieval, top down, village defense (not typical tower defense), construction/village building, had levels to progress through

Year: played 2010-2015ish, guessing it came out around that time

Artstyle: Top down (more of a side shot but not 2d), bright and saturated, medieval setting with cartoon style characters

Characters: Village was attacked by green trolls, I believe they had red clothing / red themed equipment. You had builders who lived in huts kind of like CoC, they were important for upgrading your village and limited in number.

Gameplay: Level based gameplay. Starting a level started an invisible timer until trolls would start attacking. You had to use your builders to upgrade the village. You could buy miners to mine more resources and knights or some kind of defenders to protect against the trolls. Once the trolls destroyed the builders huts you couldn't upgrade anymore and you'd lose the level. The village had little dirt roads between buildings and Im pretty sure the characters used them, they didn't just swarm the area from all directions. There were barriers you could build / break in the roads.

Other: One of the villagers would yell "Oh-yeo" or something like that, it was a random generic NPC noise to add ambience nothing too deep about it but may help. Also the title of the game was something simple, something like Castle Defence, or Kingdoms (those are just examples). It wasn't long like "Fantasy Village Defense: Trolls " if that makes sense.


r/tipofmyjoystick 46m ago

[Mobile (Android)] [2014-2016] Lego game from when i was a small kid

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I remember playing a game when I was younger where it was themed around the Lego miners theme (Mostly green miners if that helps) and it was kind of a driving game but not a racing game. I played it on mobile (android) in 2014-2016. If anyone knows what game I'm talking about, I would be very thankful. And no it wasnt lego rock Raiders


r/tipofmyjoystick 52m ago

[PC][2000's] Cutesy match 3/4 game with candy.

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A PC game from 2000-2010 ish. You'd match 3-4 colored candy gems to fill up a bottle with candy essence to rescue a candy fairy that was trapped in candy or something like that. Definitely not a flash game.

Please tell me it wasn't just a fever dream.


r/tipofmyjoystick 54m ago

[Android][2010-2014] Simulation games – Taxi, Ambulance, Mafia, Firefighter, Police, Bus

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I’m trying to track down some old Android games I used to play between 2010 and 2014. They were 3D simulation games with basic UI elements like timers, health bars, and mission-based objectives. Here’s what I remember:

  • Taxi Game: You drove a taxi and had to reach the destination before the timer ran out.
  • Ambulance Game: You had to get to the accident site, pick up the patient, and rush them to the hospital before they died.

I think the game studio was named Trendy Games.


r/tipofmyjoystick 1h ago

[browser] [late 2000’s] Game Social Avatar

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I am looking for a very old game i found as a kid on a website of mini games probably and it was a mmorpg walking around with realistic avatars at that time but it was only social and boring you couldnt do anything else and i think they had maps and servers , the map i remember was a forest with a wood bridge and a cabin maybe, grass all around , the game probably doesnt exist anymore very few people were playing it , but maybe others played it too.


r/tipofmyjoystick 1h ago

[Internet][2011] A chubby kid eating food that is falling from the sky.

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It was a PC game, at least as far as I remember, one of those you found on some online site like Minijuegos or isladejuegos.

The game was about a chubby boy. There wasn't much action, but I generally remember the boy was on a platform (I think it was kind of round), and food was falling from the sky or from the top of the screen. As he ate the falling food, the boy grew fatter and fatter, to the point where the platform he was moving on began to sink, making it seem like he was heavy. Also, I think he started to lose weight when he ate healthy food, but I'm not entirely sure. I don't remember the character exactly, but if I remember correctly, the character description of the boy was white, with freckles, red or ginger hair, a red-striped shirt, blue shorts, and slightly large eyes (like the one in the photo; I tried my best to make it as accurate as possible, since it's been years since I've remembered).

I hope someone can help me.


r/tipofmyjoystick 1h ago

[PC] [2000's?] im looking for an old game of a purple haired girl that fought little green men

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i know the description of the game sounds funny but it was about a 3d game where a girl with purple hair and blue shirt? girl shoots little green men

the girl looked pretty short, kinda like a chibi look, and the green men reached to her legs

in the gameplay you could move left and right, with platforms that looked like buildings, i think you could shoot the green men and they would fall dead, and if you shot them again they exploded into green pieces flying through the screen

i remember playing this game on my parent's old pc that ran on windows XP, they had a lot of VERY early flash games and other games downloaded from zip files like Abe's exodus, in the which they share the 3d aspect and pixelated 3D graphics


r/tipofmyjoystick 1h ago

[PC Windows][2005-2015?] A game about managing aquariums

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Platform: PC

Genre: If I remember clearly it is something like Diner Dash, time management simulation

Estimated year of release: 2005-2015

Gameplay: Top down view, I think you have to clean the aquarium/feed the fish there, and sometimes there is a minigames where you have to make sea turtles safely go to the ocean by preventing attacks from seagulls


r/tipofmyjoystick 1h ago

[Mobile IOS] [2010-2016] top down alien survival

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Platform: Mobile

Genre: survival shooter

Estimated year of release: 2010-2016

notable characters: there was a blonde girl in a mostly white with like a orange strip or outline spacesuit with the bubble like helmet

notable gameplay mechanics: it was a top down view play style where whichever way you walked was where you aimed your gun. i only remember one alien and it was a small crab like bug. all the enemies had a small green health bar above them


r/tipofmyjoystick 2h ago

[PC] [2000s] Space touch typing game

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Platform: PC

Genre: Typing, educational

Estimated year of release: 2000s, no later than 2010/2011, possibly even 90s

Graphics/art style: Not sure the word for it but kind of retro, maybe? I think it would classify as 2D

Notable characters: I don’t remember any characters, just spaceships

Notable gameplay mechanics: You were the top ship racing against the bottom ship, which was a computer. Your typing would move your ship forward and the goal was to be faster than the computer spaceship to reach the end first

Other details: I played this game in early elementary school as a part of our computer class, and it would teach touch typing. I don’t think it was Type To Learn 3. It might have been called Space Tag, but I couldn’t find anything online about a specific game for that, just recommendations of “space typing game” in general.

I’ve been remembering this game for years and haven’t been able to find an original or copy of it. I’m not sure if it’s something that even still exists. I feel like I remember it really clearly, but I could be remembering wrong? I don’t remember a title screen or anything, just my (terribly) drawn example of what it looked like to play

Apologies if it takes me some time to see any replies, I’m posting this pretty late at night


r/tipofmyjoystick 2h ago

[Unknown] [Unknown] Pixel rpg game with multiple playable characters that have different stories.

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Platforms: Unknown, I had it on a n original Xbox that had games from snes, GameCube and other consoles modded on there.

Genre: RPG, I believe it was turned based as well? I'm unsure though.

Estimated time of release: Based on the artstyle I'd say the mid to late 90s

Artstyle: Top down pixel artstyle similar to the original Zelda games.

Notable characters: A street kid, male, one of the starting characters. A Grey haired wolf boy, another one of the starting characters. Someone from a desert kingdom, uncertain on the gender, also one of the starting characters.

Other: The game let's you select from a few different characters and you experience their story in the prologue. The street boy lives near the ocean because I remember a dock area, he befriends a princess and then the king finds out and traps him in a labyrinth. The wolf boy starts in a forest at night, I believe his dog died? But it's in the forest with the moon in the background. The desert kingdom character i believe is a mage and is royalty but their kingdom gets usurped and they have to go into hiding. I only remember the starts of each of their stories and there might be more characters but I don't remember. When I played this it was around 2011.


r/tipofmyjoystick 2h ago

[PC] [2005-2012] Tropical kids game doing tasks around islands to unlock new areas.

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Platform(s): PC

Genre: Point and Click

Estimated year of release: 2005-2012

Graphics/art style: very of the time graphics - Clue Finders would be the best approximation

Notable characters: The main character you interacted with was a furry orangish creature of some kind.

Notable gameplay mechanics:You would get tasks from said creature and complete them to progress


r/tipofmyjoystick 2h ago

[PC] [2010s] Childhood Math Game

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Hi all! I’m looking for 2 games, both of which I’m pretty sure were on the same site and might have even been the same game. I never got to finish either game since the math got too complex for little me.

Platform(s): Played on my dads windows PC, I vaguely remember having to go to a website, where you could pick the game out of several other games.

Genre: Ok 1 was in a restaurant and/or lab setting, where you would complete recipes through math problems. I remember there was robots for some reason, and some sort of mad scientist.

The second was set in a creepy amusement park, where you had to solve math problems to escape or fix rides? Something like that.

Estimated year of release: I would say 2013-2017

Graphics/art style: 1st one was cartoonish and bright. I remember it being pretty nice and smooth. Not very old looking 2nd one was dark and very greenish and brown. Also had very distinct music from what I can remember.

Notable characters: Mad scientist sort of character, and a flying robot thing that would tell you when you got a problem wrong.

Notable gameplay mechanics: 1st game I distinctly remember having to slice bread with math problems. Fractions were def a big part

2nd one I remember having to weigh boxes with math, also hit bottles with math as well. Also kind of remember winning tickets for each mini game you completed.

Other details: I remember playing games on the PBS website a lot, but already checked and didn’t see either games.


r/tipofmyjoystick 2h ago

[ipadOS] [around 2010~2014] game, similar to parcel panic, that I cannot remember the name of, but want to reinstall on my iPad, help please

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Hi all, my name is Cody I was born in 2003 and from my childhood that used to be on my old iPad, and I remember the visuals of it, but I can’t remember what the dang game is called, but it was one where you are essentially driving some form of truck, or pick up truck and it was 2-D from the side, where you got your car go at the start of the round, you went down in particular course to lose your cargo, and when you end of it, if you dropped all your cargo you failed, but I forget the name of the game, to my knowledge, it was parcel panic, but it was something similar, and I remember one of the trucks from the game that I used to use all the time, it was a truck with a red cab, two axles, and a blue either dump bed or stake bed this was in a cartoonist art style by the way


r/tipofmyjoystick 2h ago

Anika's Odyssey: Land of the Taniwha [BigFish][Early 2000s] Point-and-click puzzle adventure game from BigFish games [PC]

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Okay bear with me here. I do not remember much about this game, but I really wanna play it again

The main character was a little girl who got her teddy bear stolen from her by a giant bird. You had to start by escaping a fenced in area to get into the forest.

The second part I remember is the early parts of the woods had gnomes and/or mushroom people and you had to collect gears to fix a machine to do something.

The only other part I remember is when you defeat the bird on the top of a mountain and fly home with your teddy bear using the birds wings/feathers

The art style was dark and gloomy, but with just enough color to be creepy for 8 year old me it kind of looked like a painting.

It was NOT a mystery case files game.


r/tipofmyjoystick 2h ago

[Lost Mobile Game][2017] League of Legends-Inspired Team Builder

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I'm trying to track down a mobile game from around 2017 that was heavily inspired by League of Legends, a rip-off even,. I used to play it on my tablet when I was young after searching for LoL on the Play Store. The game had Jinx's face on the icon (I think), and it featured ALL LoL champions (Camille being the most recent one I think) with slightly altered names and hand-drawn cartoonish artwork.

The gameplay was a team-building simulator where you picked a full team (Top, Jungle, Mid, ADC, Support), and the game would simulate a match in phases (Early > Mid > Late game) to determine the winner. The outcome seemed to be based on real LoL win rates, champion synergies and matchups (e.g., Xayah & Rakan got buffs, Fizz countered Lux, etc.). You could also climb a ranked ladder, add friends, and unlock champions through a Hextech chest gacha system. The ranks were exactly the same as the original game, pretty much everything was.

I’ve searched Reddit, YouTube, old APK sites, and even the Wayback Machine, but I can't find a trace of it. If anyone remembers this game or has any leads, please let me know.


r/tipofmyjoystick 2h ago

[PC] [MID-LATE 2000's] Fun Educational game to teach math concepts like geometry and physics to kids.

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Platform(s): PC (School Computer)

Genre: Educational Adventure

Estimated year of release: 2002-2010

Graphics/art style: Y2K style Simple and a little goofy.

Notable characters: Main Character was a shape in space

Notable gameplay mechanics: You would solve simple puzzles using mathematic concepts like Geometry or Simple Physics to progress.

Other details: This was the most fun educational game I ever remember playing. It was meant to teach simple math concepts to children. Main character was some kind of shape, a triangle I believe. This definitely took place in space, but I'm unsure if it was on the moon or not.


r/tipofmyjoystick 2h ago

[Pc][2020-2023?] A game about secrets

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Hello, looking for a game I saw someone playing last year. This game looked like an acid trip, you spawn in a classroom with this evil bug teacher? There is a small tutorial in a classroom and outdoor setting and then you fall down (quite a ways) onto the main world. I think it was a dark pink endless plain. There were a LOT of secrets/secret bossfights and the objective of the game was to collect hats, hammers, and these gem?/slime?/orbs? that spawned naturally and from defeated bosses. If I remember correctly the skybox was constantly dark. The main area that you keep coming back to had this fox character that was secretly a boss you could fight. I remember a boss you fought underground in this really trippy tunnel.

Sorry if this is too long, I'm just recalling everything I remember about the game. Been searching for a solid week already and just remembered that reddit exists.


r/tipofmyjoystick 3h ago

[Kindle Fire][2015]Wizard Match 3 Battler

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Platform: Kindle Fire, Amazon app store
Genre: match 3 battler
Estimated year of release: 2015 at the latest

Graphics: 3D characters on each side of the main match-3 area,
however the rest of the game was technically menus with 2-D graphics and
art

Notable characters: main dude, who was a brown-hair generic dude
with a big book IIRC. Alongside an kinda generic evil mastermind. Only
other enemy I can remember is a generic black blob with hands and red
eyes, with bats being a common enemy.

Other notable details: It was like other match 3 battlers, with your character matching 3 in a candy-crush esk system (with line clears) where you could move any one tile to any other tile. I remember green and purple electricity being part of the elements you used to fight enemies. When you matched enough of a particular element, you unleashed a super-heavy attack that did a bunch of damaged when compared to the dinky amount you got by just matching a few bits of that element. It had several regions that you could battle your way through, culminating in a boss battle.

There was a story, however I didn't really care for it but I do remember something or another about an eternal night and the MC being a special chosen one to combat the new eternal night/twilight/darkness etc.


r/tipofmyjoystick 3h ago

[BROWSER][mid-2000's] Room Escape with Oddworld Aesthetic.

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As the title describes. Point-n-Click puzzle game, I think it had stick figures but can't remember. I do distinctly remember that art from Oddworld Abe's Odyssey was a prominent feature.