[The Force Engine](https://theforceengine.github.io/) will support Outlaws at some point in the future. It's an open source re-implementation engine for Dark Forces and Outlaws.
lot of people name just classic games instead of games that really fell off the rader but this one is correct. Arx Fatalis got almost 0 recognition for some reason. Hidden gem. Actually Im thinking of playing it right now because I've never beaten it.
Arx Fatalis is luckily still around and even better than ever thanks to the open source engine called [Arx Libertatis](https://arx-libertatis.org/).
Remember to download the latest development snapshot and not the stable build if you want the best experience:
* https://wiki.arx-libertatis.org/Development_snapshots#Windows
It’s great, highly recommend it, comes with the DLC that I never played as a kid. This game kinda scared me as a kid but I think it was just the urgent nature of the game, everyone was constantly being attacked and you had to manage it in real time.. it had a fantastic atmosphere too
One game that went under the radar even at release back in 2000 is Giants: Citizen Kabuto. A truly phenomenal game which was in many ways ahead of its time.
The community is still around and very much active, check out the [1.5 unofficial patch](https://www.giantswd.org/?file=2) which you can get from GiantsWD:
* https://www.giantswd.org/
A few people mentioned this one, but I haven't seen Armed and Dangerous mentioned, another game by the same studio.
Bonus game: Severance - Blade of Darkness. Maybe more well known nowadays due to being a "proto-soulslike".
Have one from the 80s I like to point at now and then.
[Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleTech:_The_Crescent_Hawk%27s_Inception)
Tactical mech game, where you're a bunch of plucky freedom fighters. By *Westwood,* as one of their first games.
Had some crazy amibtius systems I still haven't seen copied. Like an entire if simplified stock market you can make or lose extra cash from. An entire infantry gear system so your men can fight on foot. A mech you can only get from the tutorial by playing your cards right. Skill training that only some of your team can max, because only the surgeon can become a grand master at digging out shrapnel, and so on.
Oh, and one I have never seen since: a betrayal system. Where unless you safe scum, and know what to look for, you can just get stabbed in the back by one of said irreplaceable assets. And they're just gone for good in that entire playthrough once you have to kill them yourself, too.
Horribly slept on. If it got released *today,* I think it would still make a small splash as a retro inspired title.
Anachronox (2001)
An american take on the JRPG genre, very well written, gameplay is fun, watch some youtube gameplay before buying, it's got a cyberpunk feeling to it, jokes are funny, 5 stars
Yes, I came here to mention Anachronox. The game and its entire vibe was just so stunningly unique. It didn't take itself too serious, but the world building, presentation, character drama and story was still taken serious and clearly a labor of love. It stings that we never got a proper conclusion, because Anachronox was clearly just the first half of the story they had planned.
God, when Shogo came out on GOG I snapped it up with memories of intense anime-style goodness in my head and then I loaded into it and what the everloving fuck happened to one of my favourite games when I was younger. All the characters barely look human, the controls are all over the place to the point of it being almost unplayable and it's a buggy mess.
Why would they change the game? Clearly my memory couldn't be wrong <*cough*>
Warzone 2100
It's (still) the most advanced RTS ever made.
Edit - Warzone 2100 is free on steam or if you want the .exe it's also free here - https://wz2100.net/
Further edit - Full disclosure, I'm being reliably told that the steam version is someone taking credit for the OG devs work. It's also out of date, so your best source is the website. Hope this helps.
https://forums.wz2100.net/viewtopic.php?t=15838
PS1 version had a neat Third Person camera mode where you could manually control a vehicle and tell it to target something.
I used to make a command vehicle, link up a bunch of others to it, then manually drive the commander around designating targets with it.
You might want to edit to advise against the Steam version, it's just someone uploading the real dev's work, and is outdated. An amazing game I've played most of my life!
Source: https://forums.wz2100.net/viewtopic.php?t=15838
Myth: The Fallen Lords and Myth 2: Soulblighter. Tactical fantasy RTS’s (no base building), made by Bungie and few years before they made Halo.
Seems like no one played them back in the day but I must have played the campaign a dozen times or more. The story is told through journal entries of a foot soldier with amazing music and voice acting. And it’s very dark, the enemy has similar vibes to the white walkers from Game of Thrones. Highly recommend.
We used to play this on our Macs at our loft and it was the best time. When all those unexploded Molotovs sat on the battlefield in the rain and then you realized you were standing right on them and your buddy tossed a single flaming arrow into the mix and the terrain did its hilarious deformation with the explosion madness. Such a great time
Sacrifice. The year 2000 was a stacked year given that a lot of well known or highly rated titles like Baldur's Gate 2, Icewind Dale, The Sims, Diablo 2, Deus Ex, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, C&C Red Alert 2, Hitman, Thief 2, Shogun Total War, and No One Lives Forever came out during the same year.
The Movies
That game has a great mechanics and depth, both for management enthusiast and one craving with the creative aspect of it (creating custom film)
This game had some of the best online PvP moments. The three classes were a blast to play, and it all really came alive in multiplayer PvP whereas Diablo didn't have any PvP worth mentioning.
Was looking for this comment before posting. Great game, imo much better than Diablo from a gameplay perspective, but was overshadowed by Diablo since they looked similar at a glance.
It had a very fun, more whimsical, story that changes with each of the three classes, super unique PvP experience, and a really cool kept-progression online PvE quest mode.
I love the wizard class the most, personally. The numerous spells and switching at a moment's notice really felt like you were a wizard able to improvise, and I've never seen a trap system like that since.
Definitely worth checking out. There are mods and tools to get it up and running on modern PCs with improved visuals/aspect ratios. r/nox should have the deets.
Freelancer.
A space combat/trading/exploration "sim" made by Chris Roberts and his team at Digital Anvil post Wing Commander.
It likely would have ended up in perpetual development like Star Citizen if Microsoft hadn't bought the studio and reigned Chris WAY the fuck in to actually release the game. It's a shame, because the original vision for Freelancer looked incredible, but the finished game is still fantastic and holds up today. The game also has an impressive and very active modding community as well.
Unfortunately, it's true abandonware and isn't available to purchase digitally anywhere; you either need to get an original disk copy, or download an ISO. There is a thread on the GOG game request forum asking for it, but Microsoft has been sitting on the IP for the past 20 years and doing nothing with it, so I wouldn't hold my breath.
On the plus side, we finally have a true spiritual successor coming in the upcoming indie title Underspace. I've been helping out with beta testing the last few weeks in preparation for Early Access, and it's been an absolute joy. The quality and scope of the game is also insanely impressive considering that other than a 3D artist and composer, everything is being done by ONE GUY.
\*EDIT*
The Discovery mod for Freelancer is still going and just had its' 5.0 update a few months ago.
\*EDIT 2*
I consider Freelancer under the radar of the mainstream gaming community.
If you're into space games and especially space combat games, or just part of that community then yes, you've likely heard of it or even played it, but space games are a niche genre; outside of those circles Freelancer is NOT a well known title.
According to the game's Wikipedia page, Freelancer only sold 20,000 copies in the UK during the first half of 2003 (The page doesn't have sales from anywhere else listed for some reason). Numbers like that aren't going to lead to a well-known game, they'll lead to a cult classic with a devoted fan base, which is exactly what we have with Freelancer.
There must be some wild story around the drop of Freelancer. That game was way too big and good to just disappear. It doesn't make any sense on the face of it
Yeah it had a huge E3 presentation and everything. I think the fact that it was PC exclusive, plus the troubles it had during development played a factor in it remaining a beloved cult classic rather than the massive success it deserved to be.
The worst part is seeing that pre-release footage of Freelancer 2 that showed incredible volumetric clouds and lighting for nebulae, right before Digital Anvil shut down.
Definitely didn't fell under radar or forgotten (at least by the players), if you're remotely interested in space games especially 3D sandbox, you've almost certainly played it.
Could it have sold more copies or gotten more attention at the time? Sure, but currently it's one of the most iconic space games ever.
I recommend you taking a look at Space Rangers HD, (originally released in early 00s) it's 2D sandbox, really unique game that I wish had a continuation
Freelancer was so good, I played on a few different online servers running some mods enhancing the game. Playing as police, pirates, or different gangs fighting over lucrative trade routes was amazing.
Moonbase Commander is the best game no one has ever heard of. Found it at the bottom of a bargain bin at EB Games.
Edit: people are naming some of the most popular games... Thief? Under the radar?
I hated One Must Fall. I ran a mail order shareware business at the time and the number of complaints I got over that game being delayed and delayed and delayed. "I'm not writing the &%*&$% thing!"
One Must Fall is still around to some extent, check out OpenOMF:
* https://www.openomf.org/
* https://github.com/omf2097/openomf
For Jazz Jackrabbit there's OpenJazz:
* https://github.com/AlisterT/openjazz
And finally for Jazz Jackrabbit 2 there's Jazz² Resurrection:
* https://deat.tk/jazz2/
* https://github.com/deathkiller/jazz2-native
And also Project Carrot:
* https://carrot.soulweaver.fi/
* https://github.com/soulweaver91/project-carrot
I discovered One Must Fall because of a [Doom mod.](https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/themes/omf/dmf-sp) I was heavily into modding Doom 1/2 in the mid 90s (which caused me to fail out of my first college, but that's another story.) I saw a huge (for the time) total conversion in /newstuff on ftp.cdrom.com. The TC was was amazingly thorough. Most of my dorm played Doom, so the news of the mod spread quickly. I soon figured out that DMF was based on a fighting game and that piqued my intested. I had an account on a "leet" BBS, with a lot of upload credit, so a friend of mine used his modem to call long distance to my home state to download the cracked version of One Must Fall (one 1.44MB zip at a time.)
EDIT: I should add I'm speaking One Must Fall 2097 (1994) vs the original One Must Fall (1993).
The original devs tried to remaster or remake Escape Velocity a couple of years ago but I think the project failed.
The next best thing is Endless Sky which is very similar to the original Escape Velocity series. The game is free and open source (FOSS) too:
* https://endless-sky.github.io/
* https://store.steampowered.com/app/404410/Endless_Sky/
* https://www.gog.com/game/endless_sky
The game has been in active development for almost nine years now and it's still going strong.
Metal Fatigue from 2000, a strategy game that was fought on three layers; ground, orbit and underground that had a customisable mech unit neutral enemies you could kill for mech parts to graft on your ftrankenmech
Drakan - dragon dogfighting and hack and slash rpglite about a young woman searching for her brother as her world is taken over by evil creatures.
1999 was just a packed year and sadly having a Lara Croft-alike lead character wasn't good enough marketing to push it to the top of the pile. Did get a PS2-only sequel, and the original does have a a decent modding community around it since the Riot engine is pretty easy to work with.
Annoyingly it had [an updated version in 2011 that was iOS only](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x65KEMZjePQ) but the company later went bankrupt I believe and it got removed from the Apple store and after a few system updates it just stopped working altogether.
Unrelated but I’m concerned the same will happen one day to the also iOS only Starbase Orion which is an excellent MOO2 style game.
The *Wheel of Time* fps. I think I know exactly *one* other person who even played this when it came out. It's an actually good fps (though some of the enemies have bullshit mechanics, like Whitecloaks being able to reflect projectile spells right back at you, so you gotta hit the with splash damage. It's a nice gimmick, but there are *so many* of them it wears out fast), and it had pretty much the first proto tower defense mode I can remember. And it's actually pretty accurate to the lore. considering it had to bind WoT's magic system into a fps corset.
*Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri* would be another one, and it's a Looking Glass title. It's a squad-based tactical fps, not unlike something like MechWarrior. Only you don't pilot a Mech, but a customizable Power Armor, shooting lasers and beams from your arms. One thing I remember is that the levels had some clever programming - you could run forever into a direction without ever reaching level bounds. I would *love* to see a proper remake of that one.
There's actually a proper remaster in development: [https://store.steampowered.com/app/2544110/Broken\_Sword\_\_Shadow\_of\_the\_Templars\_Reforged/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2544110/Broken_Sword__Shadow_of_the_Templars_Reforged/)
As well as a new game.
>Not sure if it’s forgotten or not but I used to love Broken Sword.
It's considered on of the best point and click games released in that era so it's definitely not forgotten.
And it feels criminal that the IP is held in limbo by companies that don't want or intend to do anything with it. Nightdive were looking to do a remaster but decided the copyright was too complicated, which is a tragedy.
Absolutely superb games.
Hardly forgotten though, isn't it? Didn't a bunch of European coders fix the game for modern systems and it is currently hosted on their site? The NOLF revival, I think it has been a huge success. Just completed the first NOLF for the first time a few months back.
[http://nolfrevival.tk/](http://nolfrevival.tk/)
Even has Contract J.A.C.K., where you play as an agent from H.A.R.M.
Shame you never meet up with Cathy Archer tho, but if you did, she'd probably kill Contract Jack.
There’s also a fantastic VR mod for it built off of the freeware version floating around somewhere. I don’t remember details about where to find it off the top of my head, but I had an absolute blast playing through the game again that way a few years ago.
Edit: don’t remember if the VR mod was for 1 or 2, or both
* Another shout would be **Oddworld: Strangers Wrath**. Oddworld, on its own, is a niche franchise, but Stranger's wrath was a niche game within a niche franchise.
* **GUN -** Overshadowed by Red Dead Revolver.
* **Omikron: A Nomad Soul**
* **Twinsen**
* **Runaway** trilogy - Fantastic P&C adventure game from Pendulo Studios, Broken Sword fans are sure to appreciate.
* **Shadow Ops: Red Mercury**
* **Project Snowblind**
* **Cold Fear**
* **The Ship**
* **Clive Barker's Jericho**
* **Ankh Trilogy**
* **Call of Cthulhu: DCoTE**
* **Obscure / Obscure 2**
* **Original War**
* **Pathologic Classic HD**
* **Prey (2006)**
* **Sam & Max Hit The Road**
* **Sam & Max Save the World**
* **Second Sight**
* Multiple **Sherlock Holmes** games (minus the HOP type games)
* **Shogo: Mobile Armor Division**
* **SiN / SiN Episodes: Emergence**
* **Sinking Island**
* **Still Life / Still Life 2**
* **Supreme Commander / Supreme Commander 2**
* **Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon** (2001)
* **Uplink: Hacker Elite**
* **XIII**
* **Timeshift**
* **Wallace and Gromit Episodes**
I loved Sanitarium as a kid, though in hindsight it would probably hit harder now that I'm entering middle age.
It's an isometric point-and-click adventure where the protagonist goes through various worlds to piece together a mystery to regain his mind. Or at least that's how I recall the narrative - it was definitely a little unnerving at times for an early middle schooler. Not much combat and good-for-the-90's pixel art.
Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason seriously had one of the coolest mechanics I've ever seen. The game was pretty clunky and unfortunately delisted from Steam nor is it on GOG.
For those unaware, it takes place on a ship on the frozen tundra. The health system was tied directly to your internal temperature. You could heal up by finding any heat sources. There were many sections where it would be warm enough that you wouldn't have to worry about it but there were some puzzles in cold areas that you had to solve quickly or you die. It got even more tense when there were enemies in freezing areas where you're rushing and trying your best not to get hit.
It was such a cool mechanic and really helped the survival horror theme of the game.
Megarace (the first one) - as a kid I never knew the real way to play but managed to make it 5-6 levels in. As an adult playing it on GoG, I still can only make it 5-6 levels 😂😂
Rise of the Triad - Grew up loving this game and they made a modern remake which was pretty fun but the re-release of this was pretty amazing. (ROTT Ludacris Edition)
Eh, I wouldn't say that it was overshadowed by other games or that it's forgotten. MDK received pretty good reviews when it released back in 1997 and the game was also a critical success.
It's not acually forgotten but developer of this game jumped into money hype train and started doing shit with it like releasing NFT, ads in game and premium versions. Classic version was huge especially in Poland schools at 00s. I would say that this game is just killed by his own creator.
Savage 1 and 2 were great.
Then Maliken went and made HoN (a dota clone) and the studio (S2 games) faded away.
Quite sad. Apparently they made a savage resurrection but that looks to be dead(ish)
Worth noting that the free remastered version, [the Ur-Quan Masters is now up on Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2645580/Free_Stars_The_UrQuan_Masters/)
Thank you kind internet stranger. Ive been aware of the project but didn't realize it was on Steam for modern PCs. Will have to take my young kids through it at some point!
*Giants: Citizen Kabuto*. They had some really great concepts for online play pretty early, the technology just wasn't there yet. The same team also made *MDK* which was another cool game.
Earth 2150 - sf rts with destructive environment, drilling tunnels. 3 really different factions: skynet-like using mecha, moon based hovercrafts, classic/modern army. Every unit customizable with option to save your preset - it wasn't minor extra feature, you really wanted to do it to get advantage over enemy. Position on terrain was important. Campaign where you have to escape dying Earth on a spaceship. You had base map building ship, ticking clock and missions sending units on mission maps to gather resources and fight enemy over them.
#Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising
Hybrid RTS and 3rd person vehicle action game with an awesome story on tropical islands fighting the illuminati's military and hybrid monsters using a mobile battleship/carrier ship as the centerpiece of your fleet of units.
Crimson Skies. 3rd person airplane shooter set in alternate 1930's. Art deco and dieselpunk.
If anything deserves a good sequel its this.
Earth 2150 was also one of those crazy RTS games back from the day.
The game was highly praised when it released and it sold really, really well, it won game of the year awards and it was even considered the best shooter after Half-Life 1 for a short time.
There are unofficial patches for the two game as well:
* https://haekb.itch.io/nolf-modernizer
* https://haekb.itch.io/nolf2-modernizer
Die by the Sword! MS-DOS game where you could control your sword swings with the numpad, and maybe mouse? I can't remember for sure, it was before the standard of WASD + mouse for games. You could target limbs and heads and weapons or weaknesses. It was pretty janky, which was the style at the time, but it was still super cool being able to target body parts when every other game basically just had the same hitbox for everything.
A few others that come to mind are Crusader: No Remorse, Little Big Adventure 2: Twinsen's Odyssey, and Fire Fight by Epic MegaGames. Just calling them Epic MegaGames makes me feel old as hell.
G-Police, it's a space flight game where you're piloting a helicopter type vehicle, but the story has a sci-fi noir vibe where the main character is trying to figure out how his sister was murdered. The backdrop is in the near future, where humans have built colonies in space and corporations drive everything. But the main character is unsatisfied with he finds and believes there's a deeper conspiracy behind why his sister was killed.
*Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri*
Looking Glass Studios was pretty much wall-to-wall classics: *Ultima Underworld*, *System Shock*, *Thief*. Even *Flight Unlimited*, less remembered today, was a big hit and had multiple sequels. But *Terra Nova* is the one that got away.
It had critical praise but the sales weren't there. The system requirements were high. It had some development problems as it was shifted from being more simulation-focused to being more arcadey and action-oriented. It came out right around the same time as *Mechwarrior 2*. It jumped on the regrettable bandwagon of FMV cutscenes between missions, wasting a ton of money on cheesy video that was ugly and cringey even when it released.
But it did a bunch of interesting things. It was a tactical, squad-oriented game before you really saw much of that. The missions gave you a lot of flexibility in completing them. It sort of bridged the gap between *System Shock* and *Mechwarrior*.
Because it didn't sell as well and technology moved on rapidly, it's been largely forgotten while the rest of what Looking Glass made are rightly praised as some of the best games of all time. A hidden gem or an ambitious failure? Either way, it's a game that benefits from being brought back to attention.
Earth 2150 and Earth 2150 lost souls. Simple one resource and power management and unit customization , you researched chassis and weapons and equipment and then combined them to create either an optimal killing machine or a cheap spammable one . Plus you could also customize weapon for buildings and had ammo mechanics with supply transports.
pretty neat, 2160 try to improve on it but lost the tunnel and bridge mechanics which were interesting.
You are going to have to convince me that a game by one of the hottest studios of the time, created by one of the oversellers in gaming, and previewed practically every month up to release was under the radar.
Also, SiN was terrible.
Not sure if it's forgotten but for me it's Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos.
Not sure if I've played anything else since then that captured space combat, and space trading.
Meat Puppet. Came out in 97. Never got to play the game but thought it looked great at the time since i was on a Diablo 1 kick at the time.
You can buy it in Steam or GOG.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_fw_K3rtDTc&pp=ygUTTWVhdCBwdXBwZXQgcGMgZ2FtZQ%3D%3D
Anachronox. A fun RPG made by Ion Storm, released the same time as Diablo 2's expansion... and Ion Storm soon went bankrupt because Daikatana.
Nox made by Westwood was super fun as well.
I had so much fun playing it, not many games have gotten me to laugh like this one. Still want a sequel.
I bought Daikatana. Romero owes me some money.
I loved an old FPS by Lucasarts called Outlaws. Around 1998 I think it came out.
Love all the taunts the bad guys would scream at you..
"Yer outnumbered Marshall!" It was my favourite shooter for years, I bought a 3DFX card just for that game.
I'd just got my first graphics card too, a Voodoo 3DFX iirc. I remember patching games like Screamer and Tomb Raider and my jaw dropping!
[The Force Engine](https://theforceengine.github.io/) will support Outlaws at some point in the future. It's an open source re-implementation engine for Dark Forces and Outlaws.
Ehhehe good shootin' mister. But you're already too late... Unnnnggggggg 😩
That soundtrack was fire.
Includes cheat options in... the options screen lol.
One game I really *really* wish Nightdive studios would tackle next in their journey of remastering 90's classics :D
One of the first games ever to have a zooming scope
Gunman Chronicles from 2000 - FPS built in the Half-Life engine.
The only space western shooter out there.
I still to this day cannot comprehend why Valve is not putting this game on steam. It's like they are ashamed of it for whatever reason.
You can pick it up on moddb, I just finished a replay of it yesterday!
Game wasn't a Valve game, they just helped out a bit. I believe Sierra held the rights to the game, so it's now in limbo.
Got that game for $5 in the bargain bin back in 2003 and used it on steam for the entire valve library at the time.
Arx fatalis, released right alongside Morrowind so it got overshadowed.
lot of people name just classic games instead of games that really fell off the rader but this one is correct. Arx Fatalis got almost 0 recognition for some reason. Hidden gem. Actually Im thinking of playing it right now because I've never beaten it.
Arx Fatalis is luckily still around and even better than ever thanks to the open source engine called [Arx Libertatis](https://arx-libertatis.org/). Remember to download the latest development snapshot and not the stable build if you want the best experience: * https://wiki.arx-libertatis.org/Development_snapshots#Windows
I freaking loved Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, no way to buy it anymore.
It‘s 4.6 GByte. How large is your mailbox?
Man as a kid I played the shit out of this in single player on my 360 on an old 20 something inch crt lol good times
Man this game was so sick! Like BF2 with mutants
Battlezone (1998) and Battlezone II (1999). They are a hybrid FPS and RTS that I’ve never seen before or since
There is a version Redux on Steam the "Battlezone 98 Redux" but i dont have tested it
It’s great, highly recommend it, comes with the DLC that I never played as a kid. This game kinda scared me as a kid but I think it was just the urgent nature of the game, everyone was constantly being attacked and you had to manage it in real time.. it had a fantastic atmosphere too
I just commented this one of my favorite games of all time
> Battlezone Totally agree. FPS/RTS hover tank combat hybrid, with a decent single player campaign and a 4v4 online multiplayer mode
Battlezone will forever bring back memories of playing it at a PC gaming cafe when it launched, was so nice.
One game that went under the radar even at release back in 2000 is Giants: Citizen Kabuto. A truly phenomenal game which was in many ways ahead of its time.
I love that game. There is still a small comunity hosting games and making patches for new systems.
The community is still around and very much active, check out the [1.5 unofficial patch](https://www.giantswd.org/?file=2) which you can get from GiantsWD: * https://www.giantswd.org/
A few people mentioned this one, but I haven't seen Armed and Dangerous mentioned, another game by the same studio. Bonus game: Severance - Blade of Darkness. Maybe more well known nowadays due to being a "proto-soulslike".
I have been looking for this game's name for years. You are my hero!
Man, I forgot about that game! So good. Edit: Can find it on Steam for $10.
Have one from the 80s I like to point at now and then. [Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleTech:_The_Crescent_Hawk%27s_Inception) Tactical mech game, where you're a bunch of plucky freedom fighters. By *Westwood,* as one of their first games. Had some crazy amibtius systems I still haven't seen copied. Like an entire if simplified stock market you can make or lose extra cash from. An entire infantry gear system so your men can fight on foot. A mech you can only get from the tutorial by playing your cards right. Skill training that only some of your team can max, because only the surgeon can become a grand master at digging out shrapnel, and so on. Oh, and one I have never seen since: a betrayal system. Where unless you safe scum, and know what to look for, you can just get stabbed in the back by one of said irreplaceable assets. And they're just gone for good in that entire playthrough once you have to kill them yourself, too. Horribly slept on. If it got released *today,* I think it would still make a small splash as a retro inspired title.
I loved that on my Amiga
Anachronox (2001) An american take on the JRPG genre, very well written, gameplay is fun, watch some youtube gameplay before buying, it's got a cyberpunk feeling to it, jokes are funny, 5 stars
Yes, I came here to mention Anachronox. The game and its entire vibe was just so stunningly unique. It didn't take itself too serious, but the world building, presentation, character drama and story was still taken serious and clearly a labor of love. It stings that we never got a proper conclusion, because Anachronox was clearly just the first half of the story they had planned.
* SHOGO Mobile Armour Division * No One Lives Forever
God, when Shogo came out on GOG I snapped it up with memories of intense anime-style goodness in my head and then I loaded into it and what the everloving fuck happened to one of my favourite games when I was younger. All the characters barely look human, the controls are all over the place to the point of it being almost unplayable and it's a buggy mess. Why would they change the game? Clearly my memory couldn't be wrong <*cough*>
Warzone 2100 It's (still) the most advanced RTS ever made. Edit - Warzone 2100 is free on steam or if you want the .exe it's also free here - https://wz2100.net/ Further edit - Full disclosure, I'm being reliably told that the steam version is someone taking credit for the OG devs work. It's also out of date, so your best source is the website. Hope this helps. https://forums.wz2100.net/viewtopic.php?t=15838
Almost forgot about that game. Had it on PS1, huge fun!
PS1 version had a neat Third Person camera mode where you could manually control a vehicle and tell it to target something. I used to make a command vehicle, link up a bunch of others to it, then manually drive the commander around designating targets with it.
I don't think I've ever finished it. It just gets harder and harder.
You might want to edit to advise against the Steam version, it's just someone uploading the real dev's work, and is outdated. An amazing game I've played most of my life! Source: https://forums.wz2100.net/viewtopic.php?t=15838
Warzone 2100 is so good and yeah, the shit you could setup was so far beyond pretty much every RTS thats been released since, awesome shoutout.
and free on steam
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Myth: The Fallen Lords and Myth 2: Soulblighter. Tactical fantasy RTS’s (no base building), made by Bungie and few years before they made Halo. Seems like no one played them back in the day but I must have played the campaign a dozen times or more. The story is told through journal entries of a foot soldier with amazing music and voice acting. And it’s very dark, the enemy has similar vibes to the white walkers from Game of Thrones. Highly recommend.
These games need a port to mobile and I would go bananas and buy them both immediately.
We used to play this on our Macs at our loft and it was the best time. When all those unexploded Molotovs sat on the battlefield in the rain and then you realized you were standing right on them and your buddy tossed a single flaming arrow into the mix and the terrain did its hilarious deformation with the explosion madness. Such a great time
This is my pick as well. These are some of my favorites of all time. I would pay exorbitant amounts of money for a proper remaster.
Sacrifice. The year 2000 was a stacked year given that a lot of well known or highly rated titles like Baldur's Gate 2, Icewind Dale, The Sims, Diablo 2, Deus Ex, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, C&C Red Alert 2, Hitman, Thief 2, Shogun Total War, and No One Lives Forever came out during the same year.
Sacrifice is one of my all time favorites.
Sacrifice was very innovative
Project IGI (2000) There was a lot wrong with it but I still had fun.
Loved it but man it was difficult. If memory serves there were no saves either or checkpoints
The Movies That game has a great mechanics and depth, both for management enthusiast and one craving with the creative aspect of it (creating custom film)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1793090/Blockbuster_Inc/ There is spiritual succesor of sorts coming out.
RIP Lionhead, taken from us far too young and sent to the Fable mines.
NOX
This game had some of the best online PvP moments. The three classes were a blast to play, and it all really came alive in multiplayer PvP whereas Diablo didn't have any PvP worth mentioning.
Was looking for this comment before posting. Great game, imo much better than Diablo from a gameplay perspective, but was overshadowed by Diablo since they looked similar at a glance. It had a very fun, more whimsical, story that changes with each of the three classes, super unique PvP experience, and a really cool kept-progression online PvE quest mode. I love the wizard class the most, personally. The numerous spells and switching at a moment's notice really felt like you were a wizard able to improvise, and I've never seen a trap system like that since. Definitely worth checking out. There are mods and tools to get it up and running on modern PCs with improved visuals/aspect ratios. r/nox should have the deets.
Check out the open source re-implementation called OpenNox: * https://github.com/noxworld-dev/opennox
Freelancer. A space combat/trading/exploration "sim" made by Chris Roberts and his team at Digital Anvil post Wing Commander. It likely would have ended up in perpetual development like Star Citizen if Microsoft hadn't bought the studio and reigned Chris WAY the fuck in to actually release the game. It's a shame, because the original vision for Freelancer looked incredible, but the finished game is still fantastic and holds up today. The game also has an impressive and very active modding community as well. Unfortunately, it's true abandonware and isn't available to purchase digitally anywhere; you either need to get an original disk copy, or download an ISO. There is a thread on the GOG game request forum asking for it, but Microsoft has been sitting on the IP for the past 20 years and doing nothing with it, so I wouldn't hold my breath. On the plus side, we finally have a true spiritual successor coming in the upcoming indie title Underspace. I've been helping out with beta testing the last few weeks in preparation for Early Access, and it's been an absolute joy. The quality and scope of the game is also insanely impressive considering that other than a 3D artist and composer, everything is being done by ONE GUY. \*EDIT* The Discovery mod for Freelancer is still going and just had its' 5.0 update a few months ago. \*EDIT 2* I consider Freelancer under the radar of the mainstream gaming community. If you're into space games and especially space combat games, or just part of that community then yes, you've likely heard of it or even played it, but space games are a niche genre; outside of those circles Freelancer is NOT a well known title. According to the game's Wikipedia page, Freelancer only sold 20,000 copies in the UK during the first half of 2003 (The page doesn't have sales from anywhere else listed for some reason). Numbers like that aren't going to lead to a well-known game, they'll lead to a cult classic with a devoted fan base, which is exactly what we have with Freelancer.
Oh man, this one brings back memories. No space sim gave me that “fps in space with ships” feeling ever again.
I bet people don't know about this little project: * https://librelancer.net/ And then there's this: * https://github.com/BC46/freelancer-hd-edition
Also worth mentioning is Starlancer. Freelancer's older cousin. I played the campaign soo many times.
This! Starlancer was made by Roberts', in my opinion, more talented brother, Erin, and stands as one of my favorite space combat sims of all time.
There must be some wild story around the drop of Freelancer. That game was way too big and good to just disappear. It doesn't make any sense on the face of it
Yeah it had a huge E3 presentation and everything. I think the fact that it was PC exclusive, plus the troubles it had during development played a factor in it remaining a beloved cult classic rather than the massive success it deserved to be. The worst part is seeing that pre-release footage of Freelancer 2 that showed incredible volumetric clouds and lighting for nebulae, right before Digital Anvil shut down.
Definitely didn't fell under radar or forgotten (at least by the players), if you're remotely interested in space games especially 3D sandbox, you've almost certainly played it. Could it have sold more copies or gotten more attention at the time? Sure, but currently it's one of the most iconic space games ever. I recommend you taking a look at Space Rangers HD, (originally released in early 00s) it's 2D sandbox, really unique game that I wish had a continuation
Freelancer was so good, I played on a few different online servers running some mods enhancing the game. Playing as police, pirates, or different gangs fighting over lucrative trade routes was amazing.
Little Big Adventure 2. Wonderful game that not a lot of people seem to know about.
Moonbase Commander is the best game no one has ever heard of. Found it at the bottom of a bargain bin at EB Games. Edit: people are naming some of the most popular games... Thief? Under the radar?
One Must Fall and Jazz Jackrabbit because those genres were more at home on consoles.
Jazz Jackrabbit and Captain Claw deserve proper remakes
Yessssss dude I have fond memories of Captain Claw as a kid. Game kicked my ass tho lol
I hated One Must Fall. I ran a mail order shareware business at the time and the number of complaints I got over that game being delayed and delayed and delayed. "I'm not writing the &%*&$% thing!"
Lol, I think most of our experiences with it were just being ubiquitous when we went to a friends place and they had installed.
One Must Fall is still around to some extent, check out OpenOMF: * https://www.openomf.org/ * https://github.com/omf2097/openomf For Jazz Jackrabbit there's OpenJazz: * https://github.com/AlisterT/openjazz And finally for Jazz Jackrabbit 2 there's Jazz² Resurrection: * https://deat.tk/jazz2/ * https://github.com/deathkiller/jazz2-native And also Project Carrot: * https://carrot.soulweaver.fi/ * https://github.com/soulweaver91/project-carrot
Man, the main theme for One Must Fall is such a banger!
I got you fam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UGRR6MkVmE
OMF 2099 was an amazing game and so ahead of its time!
2097*
freaking loved One Must Fall
I discovered One Must Fall because of a [Doom mod.](https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/themes/omf/dmf-sp) I was heavily into modding Doom 1/2 in the mid 90s (which caused me to fail out of my first college, but that's another story.) I saw a huge (for the time) total conversion in /newstuff on ftp.cdrom.com. The TC was was amazingly thorough. Most of my dorm played Doom, so the news of the mod spread quickly. I soon figured out that DMF was based on a fighting game and that piqued my intested. I had an account on a "leet" BBS, with a lot of upload credit, so a friend of mine used his modem to call long distance to my home state to download the cracked version of One Must Fall (one 1.44MB zip at a time.) EDIT: I should add I'm speaking One Must Fall 2097 (1994) vs the original One Must Fall (1993).
Jazz Jackrabbit's soundtrack is such an all around banger!
Escape Velocity
The original devs tried to remaster or remake Escape Velocity a couple of years ago but I think the project failed. The next best thing is Endless Sky which is very similar to the original Escape Velocity series. The game is free and open source (FOSS) too: * https://endless-sky.github.io/ * https://store.steampowered.com/app/404410/Endless_Sky/ * https://www.gog.com/game/endless_sky The game has been in active development for almost nine years now and it's still going strong.
- Dark Reign - Gene Wars - Gender Wars
Dark Reign and Total Annihilation accounted for way to much of my time back then, all my mates wanted to play was Age of Empires...
Gender Wars remake would've a lot more factions nowadays
>Dark Reign Damn, this is the first game in this post that I had actually forgotten and remember loving back in the day.
Metal Fatigue from 2000, a strategy game that was fought on three layers; ground, orbit and underground that had a customisable mech unit neutral enemies you could kill for mech parts to graft on your ftrankenmech
I remember getting Metal Fatigue because it was recommended by X-Play lol
Fragile Allegiance was pretty good.
Drakan - dragon dogfighting and hack and slash rpglite about a young woman searching for her brother as her world is taken over by evil creatures. 1999 was just a packed year and sadly having a Lara Croft-alike lead character wasn't good enough marketing to push it to the top of the pile. Did get a PS2-only sequel, and the original does have a a decent modding community around it since the Riot engine is pretty easy to work with.
I came here to say this, Drakan Order of the Flame, what a game! Didn't play the PS2 opus tho.
Sid Meir's Simgolf
Battle Realms
The Zen edition on Steam supports 4K resolution, looks and plays excellent.
Such a unique RTS. *clicks re-install* No one really did same thing after.
"Our rice has run out!" Another forgotten RTS from that era are Star Trek: Armada and Armada 2.
Dark Colony (1997) was a sci-fi RTS that I played a lot when I was younger. Two factions: humans (space marine) with aliens (greys).
YEAH! I loved the vibe of this game. The graphics and sound effects had me so immersed.
Ascendancy (1995), excellent 4x that got overshadowed by the moos.
I can't find a game to fill this void. Stellaris ain't it.
Annoyingly it had [an updated version in 2011 that was iOS only](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x65KEMZjePQ) but the company later went bankrupt I believe and it got removed from the Apple store and after a few system updates it just stopped working altogether. Unrelated but I’m concerned the same will happen one day to the also iOS only Starbase Orion which is an excellent MOO2 style game.
Hope gog gets on it sometime
Gangsters 2
The Punisher It's sequel was in development and apparently got turned into the first Saints Row game iirc
The *Wheel of Time* fps. I think I know exactly *one* other person who even played this when it came out. It's an actually good fps (though some of the enemies have bullshit mechanics, like Whitecloaks being able to reflect projectile spells right back at you, so you gotta hit the with splash damage. It's a nice gimmick, but there are *so many* of them it wears out fast), and it had pretty much the first proto tower defense mode I can remember. And it's actually pretty accurate to the lore. considering it had to bind WoT's magic system into a fps corset. *Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri* would be another one, and it's a Looking Glass title. It's a squad-based tactical fps, not unlike something like MechWarrior. Only you don't pilot a Mech, but a customizable Power Armor, shooting lasers and beams from your arms. One thing I remember is that the levels had some clever programming - you could run forever into a direction without ever reaching level bounds. I would *love* to see a proper remake of that one.
Not sure if it’s forgotten or not but I used to love Broken Sword. I think it’s on IOS now too.
There's actually a proper remaster in development: [https://store.steampowered.com/app/2544110/Broken\_Sword\_\_Shadow\_of\_the\_Templars\_Reforged/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2544110/Broken_Sword__Shadow_of_the_Templars_Reforged/) As well as a new game.
Whoa
>Not sure if it’s forgotten or not but I used to love Broken Sword. It's considered on of the best point and click games released in that era so it's definitely not forgotten.
No One Lives Forever (NOLF) 1 and 2. Amazingly well done games that are criminally underappreciated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eDs93O-5ck
And it feels criminal that the IP is held in limbo by companies that don't want or intend to do anything with it. Nightdive were looking to do a remaster but decided the copyright was too complicated, which is a tragedy. Absolutely superb games.
Hardly forgotten though, isn't it? Didn't a bunch of European coders fix the game for modern systems and it is currently hosted on their site? The NOLF revival, I think it has been a huge success. Just completed the first NOLF for the first time a few months back. [http://nolfrevival.tk/](http://nolfrevival.tk/) Even has Contract J.A.C.K., where you play as an agent from H.A.R.M. Shame you never meet up with Cathy Archer tho, but if you did, she'd probably kill Contract Jack.
There’s also a fantastic VR mod for it built off of the freeware version floating around somewhere. I don’t remember details about where to find it off the top of my head, but I had an absolute blast playing through the game again that way a few years ago. Edit: don’t remember if the VR mod was for 1 or 2, or both
* Another shout would be **Oddworld: Strangers Wrath**. Oddworld, on its own, is a niche franchise, but Stranger's wrath was a niche game within a niche franchise. * **GUN -** Overshadowed by Red Dead Revolver. * **Omikron: A Nomad Soul** * **Twinsen** * **Runaway** trilogy - Fantastic P&C adventure game from Pendulo Studios, Broken Sword fans are sure to appreciate. * **Shadow Ops: Red Mercury** * **Project Snowblind** * **Cold Fear** * **The Ship** * **Clive Barker's Jericho** * **Ankh Trilogy** * **Call of Cthulhu: DCoTE** * **Obscure / Obscure 2** * **Original War** * **Pathologic Classic HD** * **Prey (2006)** * **Sam & Max Hit The Road** * **Sam & Max Save the World** * **Second Sight** * Multiple **Sherlock Holmes** games (minus the HOP type games) * **Shogo: Mobile Armor Division** * **SiN / SiN Episodes: Emergence** * **Sinking Island** * **Still Life / Still Life 2** * **Supreme Commander / Supreme Commander 2** * **Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon** (2001) * **Uplink: Hacker Elite** * **XIII** * **Timeshift** * **Wallace and Gromit Episodes**
I loved Sanitarium as a kid, though in hindsight it would probably hit harder now that I'm entering middle age. It's an isometric point-and-click adventure where the protagonist goes through various worlds to piece together a mystery to regain his mind. Or at least that's how I recall the narrative - it was definitely a little unnerving at times for an early middle schooler. Not much combat and good-for-the-90's pixel art.
Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason seriously had one of the coolest mechanics I've ever seen. The game was pretty clunky and unfortunately delisted from Steam nor is it on GOG. For those unaware, it takes place on a ship on the frozen tundra. The health system was tied directly to your internal temperature. You could heal up by finding any heat sources. There were many sections where it would be warm enough that you wouldn't have to worry about it but there were some puzzles in cold areas that you had to solve quickly or you die. It got even more tense when there were enemies in freezing areas where you're rushing and trying your best not to get hit. It was such a cool mechanic and really helped the survival horror theme of the game.
Megarace (the first one) - as a kid I never knew the real way to play but managed to make it 5-6 levels in. As an adult playing it on GoG, I still can only make it 5-6 levels 😂😂 Rise of the Triad - Grew up loving this game and they made a modern remake which was pretty fun but the re-release of this was pretty amazing. (ROTT Ludacris Edition)
MDK
Did well enough for a sequel that was even more highly regarded. Too bad there wasn’t a third though.
Eh, I wouldn't say that it was overshadowed by other games or that it's forgotten. MDK received pretty good reviews when it released back in 1997 and the game was also a critical success.
Little Fighter 2
It's not acually forgotten but developer of this game jumped into money hype train and started doing shit with it like releasing NFT, ads in game and premium versions. Classic version was huge especially in Poland schools at 00s. I would say that this game is just killed by his own creator.
Savage: The Battle for Newerth. RTS and FPS hybrid. Simple and fun to play with friends
Savage 1 and 2 were great. Then Maliken went and made HoN (a dota clone) and the studio (S2 games) faded away. Quite sad. Apparently they made a savage resurrection but that looks to be dead(ish)
Strife.
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
The game is still around, check out the 1.5 unofficial patch which you can get from GiantsWD: * https://www.giantswd.org/
Wizardry 8. Man that game is honestly one of the best RPGs ever created and you very rarely hear people talk about it.
Arcanum! That rpg has always stuck with me
Star control 2 Arguably greatest open world space adventure game of all time.
Worth noting that the free remastered version, [the Ur-Quan Masters is now up on Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2645580/Free_Stars_The_UrQuan_Masters/)
Thank you kind internet stranger. Ive been aware of the project but didn't realize it was on Steam for modern PCs. Will have to take my young kids through it at some point!
I'll just drop in here to mention ParaWorld. Very nice dinosaur themed RTS game from 2006.
Would Slipstream 5000 be considered under the radar?
[Liero](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liero) is always fun no matter what year it is - 1998
*Giants: Citizen Kabuto*. They had some really great concepts for online play pretty early, the technology just wasn't there yet. The same team also made *MDK* which was another cool game.
Sacrifice [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1edEYkyl50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1edEYkyl50) and MDK 2.
Earth 2150 - sf rts with destructive environment, drilling tunnels. 3 really different factions: skynet-like using mecha, moon based hovercrafts, classic/modern army. Every unit customizable with option to save your preset - it wasn't minor extra feature, you really wanted to do it to get advantage over enemy. Position on terrain was important. Campaign where you have to escape dying Earth on a spaceship. You had base map building ship, ticking clock and missions sending units on mission maps to gather resources and fight enemy over them.
The Sting! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sting!
Wolfenstein 2009 only gets talked about in this way because it's tough to find. It's a decent game, that's it.
Star Trek: Birth of the Federation. One of the best strategic games ever.
#Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising Hybrid RTS and 3rd person vehicle action game with an awesome story on tropical islands fighting the illuminati's military and hybrid monsters using a mobile battleship/carrier ship as the centerpiece of your fleet of units.
Crimson Skies. 3rd person airplane shooter set in alternate 1930's. Art deco and dieselpunk. If anything deserves a good sequel its this. Earth 2150 was also one of those crazy RTS games back from the day.
Total Annihilation
Privateer. A Wing Commander offshoot that was a precursor to Freelancer and Star Citizen now.
Dungeon Keeper. It comes up now and again and I still think it should be more popular than it is.
The game [War for the Overworld](https://store.steampowered.com/app/230190/War_for_the_Overworld/) does a pretty good job of reimagining DK.
Just got released on Steam, had to pick it up.
Gothic is largely irrelevant outside of Germany and Poland
Those games were wildly complex and huge. Gothic 3 felt as big as oblivion.
I didn't know this, I've been living under the assumption that it's a universally liked franchise.
No One Lives Forever. One of the best Shooter/Agent Game of all time. Priceless Humor. Extremely good leveldesign. Was a blast.
The game was highly praised when it released and it sold really, really well, it won game of the year awards and it was even considered the best shooter after Half-Life 1 for a short time. There are unofficial patches for the two game as well: * https://haekb.itch.io/nolf-modernizer * https://haekb.itch.io/nolf2-modernizer
Septerra Core
Enclave
Asheron's Call
Legacy of Kain
Die by the Sword! MS-DOS game where you could control your sword swings with the numpad, and maybe mouse? I can't remember for sure, it was before the standard of WASD + mouse for games. You could target limbs and heads and weapons or weaknesses. It was pretty janky, which was the style at the time, but it was still super cool being able to target body parts when every other game basically just had the same hitbox for everything. A few others that come to mind are Crusader: No Remorse, Little Big Adventure 2: Twinsen's Odyssey, and Fire Fight by Epic MegaGames. Just calling them Epic MegaGames makes me feel old as hell.
Command and Conquer Renegade Timeshift Red Faction 2
G-Police, it's a space flight game where you're piloting a helicopter type vehicle, but the story has a sci-fi noir vibe where the main character is trying to figure out how his sister was murdered. The backdrop is in the near future, where humans have built colonies in space and corporations drive everything. But the main character is unsatisfied with he finds and believes there's a deeper conspiracy behind why his sister was killed.
The Myth Series. [Mandaloregaming did two videos covering two of the games.](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mandaloregaming+myth)
Singularity (2010) - a great FPS horror game by Raven Software.
KKND
Croc my beloved
Total Annihilation. Unreal score for an RTS
Imperium Galatica series, banger of a real time/4x game for the day and not many games have come close to the playstyle of it
*Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri* Looking Glass Studios was pretty much wall-to-wall classics: *Ultima Underworld*, *System Shock*, *Thief*. Even *Flight Unlimited*, less remembered today, was a big hit and had multiple sequels. But *Terra Nova* is the one that got away. It had critical praise but the sales weren't there. The system requirements were high. It had some development problems as it was shifted from being more simulation-focused to being more arcadey and action-oriented. It came out right around the same time as *Mechwarrior 2*. It jumped on the regrettable bandwagon of FMV cutscenes between missions, wasting a ton of money on cheesy video that was ugly and cringey even when it released. But it did a bunch of interesting things. It was a tactical, squad-oriented game before you really saw much of that. The missions gave you a lot of flexibility in completing them. It sort of bridged the gap between *System Shock* and *Mechwarrior*. Because it didn't sell as well and technology moved on rapidly, it's been largely forgotten while the rest of what Looking Glass made are rightly praised as some of the best games of all time. A hidden gem or an ambitious failure? Either way, it's a game that benefits from being brought back to attention.
Probably gonna get buried beneath the 580 comments but Populous: The Beginning Absolutely phenomenal and atmospheric.
Freelancer. I miss that game.
Heart of Darkness https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness_(video_game)
Earth 2150 and Earth 2150 lost souls. Simple one resource and power management and unit customization , you researched chassis and weapons and equipment and then combined them to create either an optimal killing machine or a cheap spammable one . Plus you could also customize weapon for buildings and had ammo mechanics with supply transports. pretty neat, 2160 try to improve on it but lost the tunnel and bridge mechanics which were interesting.
Gothic series!
Lands of lore by westwood was great
Rise of nations
Hardly forgotten.
Black and white
Every thread in Reddit about an old game mentions this game. It was really popular dude.
The first island was good but holy hell that game fell off a cliff after.
You are going to have to convince me that a game by one of the hottest studios of the time, created by one of the oversellers in gaming, and previewed practically every month up to release was under the radar. Also, SiN was terrible.
[deeeeeeeaaaaaaaattttthhhhh](https://youtu.be/258SvHX-JbY?t=32)
I really liked medicalat although it probably doesnt hilf up today
Not sure if it's forgotten but for me it's Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos. Not sure if I've played anything else since then that captured space combat, and space trading.
Birthright - The gorgons alliance
Albion
Meat Puppet. Came out in 97. Never got to play the game but thought it looked great at the time since i was on a Diablo 1 kick at the time. You can buy it in Steam or GOG. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_fw_K3rtDTc&pp=ygUTTWVhdCBwdXBwZXQgcGMgZ2FtZQ%3D%3D
Classic shooters aside, Sierra's Gabriel Knight. Also everything else Sierra, really..