NetherWorld is a pixel art action-adventure narrative experience, and also a dark and decadent land full of filthy creatures.
After being abandoned by his wife, Medoo faces his disgrace going to the nearest bar to drown his sorrows in vodka. What started as a marriage crisis will soon become an unexpected, surreal and twisted journey surrounded by quirky fellow travelers.
Jack King Spooner is possibly the king of making "artsy" garbage with minimal gameplay.
He modeled this entire fantasy world out of clay just so you could listen to NPCs complain about the constant oppression they face as homosexuals in 2025.
blood soaked bastard is 1,25 reais on steam, i might bite the bullet and buy it as it's so cheap to see how it is, as it's one of those "games so obscure that no website bothers pirating".
Sparky video made me find this random video with what seems like some weird horror rpgs
1-Look outside: Been mentioned before
2-Thrones (demo)
This seems to be a fear and hunger clone that i literally cannot find online because the name makes it extremely awful to search for it. Turns out when you google [Throne game] you get results for Game of thrones!
Somehow i found the dev itcho account, but no youtube videos or demos. Apparently they removed the first demo years ago and i cannot find it anwhere. Not in the itcho nor in rpg maker forums nor in youtube videos. The game in the page looks nothing like the demo in the video above.
To my surprise, the dev worked on this since 2019 meaning it wasn't actually riding the fear and hunger popularity wave. Looking at new screenshots, it seems the dev reworked the whole game to not look like funger.
3-Slimes
A badly drawn monochrome + plus rpg maker about a man who hates slimes like he's goblin slayer or something, but the slimes seem intelligent and fear death here so the MC friend thinks it's inhuname to genocide them. I think this is all a metaphor for DEPRESSION and TRAUMA.
Released in 2020 but i cant find a way to pirate...
This rpg looks to be a bit quirky and spooky but it seems a bit too ugly even for me. I hate how you cant see you mp in the battle hud. The game's been out since 2017 and i can't find a download in my usual pirate sites either...
Played the browser demo for a bit, the writing is weirdly poetic and dramatic, as if this is definitely going to be about DE PRE SS ION. Sadly it seemed to crash when i ate a mushroom?
6-Materialization of memories
I had no idea this game existed until this video and i can only describe as "Fear and hunger FURRY DEVIANTART SHARKONA edition".
Despite the premise, it seems to play itself completely straight as a standard zombie apocalypse survival horror rpg with choices. I heard you can save any time but the game is frustrating with invisible traps, cryptic secrets and oneshots so you want to exploit that and shoot enemies in the overworld like funger 2.
This game has a pretty unique artstyle and asthetics to mask the fact that it's rpg maker. The combat seems more like a 1 vs 1 system with minigames and you can choose to spare or kill enemies and it changes the story according to the steam page. It's +18 for violence and EXPLICIT SEX which i did not expect but explains the horny designs.
I have spotted this game in the wild and saw it described as "OFF but Dark Souls" which sounds highly cursed but looking at the trailer it does seem to fit that exactly. It's also free so i might check it maybe maybe.
In the comments i spot the dev saying it was inspired by mothlight, a game inspired by OFF that looks more like an OFF fangame, but it is free on steam. I can't find a youtube trailer.
This game is not very quirky but it's the dark souls of rpg makers. No, for real, i played this demo a bit and it reallly wishes it was dark souls. The way characters talk and look is the same. The first boss fight even says some "forgive me zanzibart" tier shit unironically and it has 3 phases where the music gets sad in the final phase.
I think the game originally had a different name going by the itchopage
I played the demo and it has ideas. Not necessarily good ones. You have estus flasks that recharge on bonfires (yea) and can even change them into mp or revive estus but combat is a pain and not fun. I pretty much dodged every enemy until i got 3 party membes where i can only kill the weak soldier and the stronger soldier stomps me every time and there are multiple of them.
edit: I forgot to say this is only a demo and i did not finish it, only the first chapter. It seems you switch protags between chapters which is interesting at least. I quit cause i felt like every enemy was trial and error
Either way i think the lesson we learn of this post is that fear and hunger has done irreparable damage to indie rpgs and to my youtube search algorhytm (i knew this game before it was cool now every youtuber has an essay).
I love horror rpgs and i see we are getting a lot more nowadays but it's a shame most are clearly are inspired by Funger, Omori and Dark souls so they have mid or frustrating gameplay.
The funger dev has to be feeling some type of way. He explicitly set out to make a very off-putting and disturbing game with the first one, and the dicks everywhere should have almost guaranteed it can never blow up on streams or youtube. Yet, here are are, stylistically copied down to the goofy power stances.
As an aside, I don't have it in me to play a ton of RPGs, but I appreciate getting to read about all these obscure games.
The funger dev has to be feeling some type of way. He explicitly set out to make a very off-putting and disturbing game with the first one, and the dicks everywhere should have almost guaranteed it can never blow up on streams or youtube. Yet, here are are, stylistically copied down to the goofy power stances.
As an aside, I don't have it in me to play a ton of RPGs, but I appreciate getting to read about all these obscure games.
It's weird how i played funger back in 2019~ and thought it was shit. You have no clue what to do and just die and get raped. But at least i respected the dev having the balls to make an edgy game that is edgy. Then some faggy hyperdramatic video essayists like eyepatch worlf make it explode and it has a "fandom" now, attracting every kind of weird copycat.
Anyways, i bring a new weird game that i spotted cause a random redditor mentioned. It's called, no joke, Bad Bitch Blasters.
>but lucassomething this game looks and sounds like garbage
You're right and i agree. But i thought it so much that i actually played it because the website i go actually pirated unlike other obscure games i actually was interested. And after playing it, i must say... It still looks and sound bad... but isn't? Surprisingly, i played the whole thing and enjoyed it.
In case it you didn't see the trailer, this is an obvious shitpost comedy rpg maker game and it does what every comedy game SHOULD do, be extremely linear, short and tight. It even calls itself "arcade" cause there is no bullshit leveling or mana, you attack to get fire that enables stronger attacks and battles are quick.
"Bad Bitch Blasters" is a story about a bad bitch named Jennyfer blasting people. The game starts with 2 henchmen talking about this day being bored and the protagonist blows the door. I can't screenshot my game so i foudn the only playthrough on youtube to screenshot but it's on low resolution. This is her first line.
This game has a very specific sense of humor that i don't how to explain what is but i'd call 2000~ edgy teenager forum commenter. It's stupid, horny, cringe, violent and full of typos and dead memes. It's looks like those shitty MS paint webcomics and characters are garish deviantart OCs. Jennyfer is a 31 magical girl with a horn, sword, gun.
Jennyfer finishing move is called "ULTRACYBER SWORDFUCK 2". Did i mention it's cringe? At first i thought it was really cringe too because IT IS. But it helps that this game will rapidfire jokes are you constantly so you're never bored.
But i learned to appreciate how this game has some light restraints to not be a retarded mess. It has some suicide jokes and drops a retarded once (wow) but i didn't see any DUDE WEED LMAO joke or AIDS surprisingly. It also has sane characters that can keep the world semi grounded despite Jennyfer insanity and convincing friendship dynamics. It doesn't feel like the joke is swearing or edgyness itself like say hazbin hotel or class of 09.
The game starts with Jennyfer invading this building and killing everyone in her path. She calls help from "Intel", a deergirl who gives you the tutorial and every time she greets calling herself a longer title, with the first being best murderer in the world. The game is simple. There is blue atk/def and yellow atk/def, and jennyfer can sword for blue or shoot yellow. That's her whole kit. But you can get new attacks from chests, most optional. The first she gets is bulelt rain that makes her shoot 3x.
After killing some enemies, Intel says we can run with shift and Jennyfer says fuck the shift button and now you automatically run forever. We get her plan then.
So Jennyfer wants to destroy the world by unleashing a demon i guess. Intel only says OK. After this we get our first choice wether we let intel give us tips or not. The game says all choices matter and i thought this one wasn't one of them (i was wrong and i'll explain later). Jenny says it would take a long time to destroy the building then Norma appears, our first party member.
(ok then)
Norma is a bizarre Blue man with batwings and bear claws. Everyone in this game has horns, claws, wings and tails for no reason. His kit is very simple as he is a blue attack specialist who can self buff, stun once and has stronger attacks. He's kinda horny and hyperdramatic.
(his self buff animation)
After this fight intel says we have different routes which is fake. This is the only time you get a route and both take to the next room where you see the same scene. (this person ran back after and Intel actually admits she lied lol) Some people are talking about hiding Tainah and "Jennyfer is over there we gonna perish". There is an animal girl in purple and what looks to be our obvious rival with reverse colors.
Jenny explains the little one is FU and the other is bella donna but is interrupted before she can explain.
After this we get some gear and skills. Character have slots and can equip everything, but it's better to focus on the stat they scale with like blue atk for Norma.
(i started to like them oh no am i cringe)
Next we get tutorial on NEVER GO BACK, that are fights in a row that you can't back out. We also get explanation on blue and yellow enemies, they take half damage from their color. Norma is blue so he takes half blue while Jenny is white and takes full damage from everything. So to fight a yellow enemy you want blue attacks.
(ok this was the first gag in the game where i felt i was playing agame with potential)
We go next fight and Jenny wishes Ronaldo was here since he's yellow and Norma asks who the fuck is ronaldo. Then the announcer scream RONALDOOO and the appears to fight the enemy on the other side of the room.
This is the never go back song and i really like it, it's high energy and zany and feels VERY nintendo 64 bomberman/kirby/megaman coded.
(thats what ronaldo looks like btw)
This colorblind question is curious cause i said no at first, but i reloaded to see the other path and clicked yes to see what happened and what i got was NOT a colorblind mode but... A fucking new character named "Abel" simply appears out of nowhere and says he'll help Jenny too. He has the power to remove enemy color resists with an attack and a strong AoE that costs 3 fire but he has low hp and only 3 equip slots.
That's not just an optional character, it's one who has A LOT OF DIALOGUE OVER THE WHOLE GAME hidden behind a fake colorblind assistance question. Even funnier, later on Jenny admits she misunderstood the question and thought all the blue and yellow stuff was in her head.
Remember when i said the Intel choice? That's another one. If you refuse intel tips she will leave... and join you later in the game as a playable character. This game is full of nonsense like this.
Here is the thing about comedy. Some think comedy is subjective, others think it's a science. I am on the side of science but i cannot explain why this bullshit sent me into a giggle fit. If you're not brazilian you won't get it but even if you are it shouldn't be this funny. Not only surprise gratuiotus brazilian portuguese but it's something childishly stupid like "metranca furiosa" (a gheto way of saying furious machinegun). It made me instantly wonder if it was a BR game and i refuse to believe it but later on it was clear.
Anyway a few more battles and we get ronaldo. Ronaldo is a catboy in yellow clothes, he plays a mixtape in his radio but Jenny says "ok bro i know you have swag but it's time to move on". His kit sounds simple at first but he has a fire and ice attack described as having "secret unknown properties that are too hard to explain". I thought this was another troll and one was yellow other blue (duh) but nope, ronaldo actually has ice and fire magic on top of his yellow attacks meaning there is an hidden fire and ice elemental resistance system and sometimes he does double ou zero damage. His final skill is literally the "IMA FIRE MAH LAZOR" meme.
Ronaldo is basically the third protagonist and the main trio has a very strong "teen edgelord fucking around with friends and saying my dick is bigger" dynamic. And yes, there is a lot of my dick is bigger jokes, with Jenny starting most of them. But anyway this game is 3 hour long and is better played than read online.
Combat is simple but character get very weird and unique overtime. You can hire Recca sorry i mean Rxcca early and she spawns an item when battle starts and has a skill that creates apermanent stat booster. Another character whole gimmick is to buff the team and leave the fight so it gets replaced for another one. There are some optional bosses that are actually hard and many endings to get.
The main issue i'll say is that there a lot of hidden stuff and party members, with 3 of them requiring items that are randomly generated by a friend that gives you items (i never got 2/3 of them) and one party member that is mandatory for the good ending (i think?), that i did not get as i didn't recruit them and i don't think any sane person is getting them without a guide, which there is only one on steam. But the game is short enough that you can replay fast and you can put cheat codes to start with certain units and ensure the 3 items.
But i will put one spoiler here about what happens at the ending because it's BIG. If you plan on playing this game and/or care about the story then DO NOT READ THIS as it will significantly impact your experience.
Over the story you'll see many characters call Jennyfer "margaret" and explicitly ask why she doesn't remember. Especially in optional hard zones. Eventually when you reach "the organization" and it's the same place you started the game. The game turns a dark twist and someone asks Jenny why she wants to die. At this point most character are silent but jenny and that one and there is no music.
It's then revealed that Jenny was originally Margaret, who i think was a guardian magical girl but became some kind of immortal creation godess who split into Jennyfer and Belladona, with Jennyfer trying to destroy the world and bella stop her. The whole game is a loop with Jenny killing her own creations to avoid facing reality and never suceeding. Tainah is supposedly a sealed demon who can kill anything, even Margaret and that's what Jenny wanted
This is not a shitty attempted twist, it's foreshadowed many times, especially if you recruited Abel, who thinks multiple times "(Why can't she just create one?)". Hell, the intro makes it obvious as Intel, Norma and Ronaldo are basically spawned after she wishes she had help. She even says "I can run like the GOD i am!"
In the end some characters say she went too far and try to stop her. If i lose i get an end where she "dies" but wakes up in a rehab hospital and they say she has no powers anymore. Jenny cries but is thankful that it's over. If i win, Jenny and bella fuse back into Margaret, starts smoking, has a fucking Evangelion elevator cutscene, releases Tainah to kill her and the world. I did not get the "happy ever after" end yet.
There is also a "rotten heart" ending where Jenny has to be evil and actively kill innocent people, with her black and white "omori version" telling her to keep up. I'm gonna take a guess thats a bad end.
I saw this twist coming because the game has these moments of sanity and a few conversations with more calmer characters trying to sort out Jenny's problem. Urabe is a suicidal boy and sees something wrong with Jenny, and Bo keeps telling her to stop dodging her problems, and she says he's "smokebombing" her (she means gaslighting).
Note that there is still swearing and comedy inbetween too. I love how Urabe telling jenny that "it's okay to feel like shit and think life is worthless and realize you have no reason to exist and-" and Jenny says "NO IT IS NOTBITCH"
And you know what this means kiwis.The reason we are all here today.
It was, afterall, a quirky indie jrpg about depression.
If you want to play or pirate, some pro tips
-Rotate all 20 saves so you don't get potentially stuck, especially if you enter an optional boss zone.
-Examine everything, it has gags and secrets everywhere. Especially the small mushroom in the library.
-Combat is easily broken if you exploit Rxcca skill to span stat boosters, so much that she is disabled in hard mode.
-If you hate the combat and want endings, play on ez and use the, i kid not, PENIS and VAGINA (it has to be all caps) cheats( to get two gears that give 99 attack. Some ends will probably require a guide.
-The codes kEy / bOTTLe / sOCKs give you the items to ensure those 3 party members.
Oh yea, the art and soundtrack is good too. Dev tried to make "shitty ms paint" and fucked up. When i think of that i think sweet bro and hella jeff. This is good MS paint art. The designs are unique, the poses are dynamic, the colors and composition is nice to look at. This is better than most games that try and fail to look good.
And if you want some braziliancore songs, have these two.
In this song a guy starts singing out of nowhere completely nonsensical lyrics like "TRANSMUTED DOGS WANT TO BITE ME BECAUSE I SMOKE AND NOW I'M LOST IN SÃO PAULO!" and then there is a fucking rap session.
This song is actually AWFUL but if you're brazilian it's a kind of shitposty awful that you can't help but flinch. It samples funk, memes, Don Ramon from El Chavo and the watzap message noise with the worst audio quality i ever heard.
This one's grabbed me by the short and curlies. Think Rule of Rose without child sexual abuse innuendo, a lot more occult, and combat that's actually pretty good. Also a surprisingly large amount of content than it seems.
It's weird how i played funger back in 2019~ and thought it was shit. You have no clue what to do and just die and get raped. But at least i respected the dev having the balls to make an edgy game that is edgy. Then some faggy hyperdramatic video essayists like eyepatch worlf make it explode and it has a "fandom" now, attracting every kind of weird copycat.
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I guess it was just a weird bug for me because I can do it now, weird. I still stand by what I said though. Fuckboy's was a product of its time, but I can still look on it fondly for the edgy shitpost it was. Bad Bitch Blasters is trying to have that same energy without understanding what made it so fun in the first place.
I will remember "inhale my dong enragement child" for the rest of my life, and yet the joke where Jennyfer counts plants feels very forgettable and tryhard.
It's hard to sell a game's comedy through screenshots in a vaacum and i guess trying to sell it AT AL ruins it because you raise other people's expectations. I recommend not going into BBB or "funny games" hoping for a laugh riot like your favourite game, go with high curiosity. It's a 3 dollar game i almost feel bad pirating (but i dont).
Barkley for example is way better experience the less you know and expect, i am really glad i played it completely blind and it never became mainstream.
Anyway, saw some interesting games, here is weird trippy one: Mind Control Bloody Renessaince:
In this rpg maker game inspired by killer 7, you're a ghost (??) who possesses a few suicidal people and try to stop a terrorist demon cult from blowing up a skyscraper. Combat and exploration is more like a survival horror game. You have turns but shoot enemies with your mouse to damage them. Artstyle is kinda ugly weird but different enough. The premise is very strong.
Sadly the game is obscure enough that i cant find online to pirate.
Anyway, i had the bright idea of actually glancing at itcho for once to look for indie games and found some weird stuff. First of all here is "Neurotoxic"
This game is like a mix one of my most beloved games, Shin Megami Tensei Digital Devil Saga, with one of my most hated tropes, literal furry garbage. And it says it's like deltarune?
edgy trailer with BLOOD
real game trailer:
The dev does not explain the game at all and the demo i played doesn't either. From what i gather, you play 4 furry animals and they can literally turn into what look like superhero demon forms. The combat is literally SMT press turn system but i guess worse cause there is no elements so i don't get it. The first trailer is pretty edgy with with the MC being half morphed and bloody.
Either way, i played the winter demo i think and it's very short, just 3 fights some talking and a literal pizza tower ripoff section where you run away through the map that makes no geographical sense (you can't go to the right in one room but you can go to it from the right room?).
The game's biggest weakness is it's absurd visual pollution.
(did fucking Vivzie Pop design this? the profiles during battle are all hyperanimated so it's tiresome to track)
This game made me realize how clean bad bitch blasters actually looks cause this one feels like everything detracts from the other. Just moving my eyes around the combat screen is hard.
The protagonists are all garish looking and all of them are mostly pure white in color. Their demon forms ALL have this same red accents that make them bleed together and too many colors. It's animation style really wants to be pizza tower but pizza tower characters are simple as hell while here they're busy and all are moving at once.
I also do not like it's attempts at "humor" like the MC yelling FUCK! when you touch an enemy in the overworld, i think it will get tiresome fast. Combat in the winter demo didn't feel good either. I don't know why we start with like 8 HP max and one of the mobs will deal 50 dmg per hit as if to troll you. When you win you get a rainbow screen with a shitty mspaint cat meme that hurts to look. There is a neurotoxic meter that raises with specific attacks and has its rules but i have no clue to manage that with MP at the same time. Thankfully it's very short.
In the demo i played you meet a snowelf boss that stole our christmas gifts and it's creepy looking and it's played serious scary but might also just be a demo only thing? I don't know if the game is meant to be edgy dark or a badly drawn furry shitpost.
