LaTex Fetish posted:

are there puzzle games out there that let you have a character and feature some sort of minor combat/other mechanic like zelda does but with more puzzles than zelda?

elf help book posted:

i recommend drod

No Such Thing posted:

Brain Lord is the same style, but with both harder puzzles and combat.

Meme Emulator posted:

DROD is even free. Well King Dugans Dungeon is, the first one

Schnedwob posted:

The Talos Principle, but the combat is exclusively philosophical

Eye of Widesauron posted:

Is that the one with the weird fairy things that flew around you and the giant cockroach boss?

Bobnumerotres posted:

Flanky posted:

Bomberman Quest

I don't think there are more puzzles explicitly but it's bomberman so fighting is kind of a puzzle already.

Doctor Goat posted:

Goof Troop for the SNES.

Complexcalibur posted:

On this note, Bomberman Tournament.

SeXReX posted:

Ittle Dew is literally a 2d zelda where the "combat" is more like "puzzles that can kill you"

mysterious loyall X posted:

lolo

Doctor Goat posted:

Goof Troop for the SNES.

Doctor Goat posted:

God of Thunder for DOS.

If anyone knows where I can get a list of the AOL shareware archive from the mid 90s i would appreciate it because i'm going through dos games and i can't find a few

mysterious loyall X posted:

try your local garbagge dump

mysterious loyall X posted:

those were the only good games on it except exil

Doctor Goat posted:

apogee's games, one must fall 2097, descent, terminal velocity, blake stone, the doom engine game demos, jetpack, catacomb abyss, scorched earth

tons of good stuff that was on aol archive

i like the exile games and i was super excited when 3 came out

some dude from dosgames.com who cant find it either posted:

-it was shareware
-when the game started, there was a WAV sound that played, something like a horse noise and then some choral singing
-it had an overhead POV, like zelda (but no real-time battles, they were turn-based)
-your character wasn't animated (he had a single frame), he was a guy in a blue cloak
-your character started in a house with his "master", who looked similar to you, but was a different color. when you left the house, you were on the world map. to the immediate east, there were mountains. to the east and south, there were towns and dungeons.
-there were kings and guards in the towns
-you could go to bars and recruit people, sometimes they would ask money to join and money to stick with you, sometimes they'd join free. Often the ones who joined free were lumberjacks. You could also buy drinks in the bars and you'd hear a gulp sound over the chatter sound of the bar.
-you could have up to four party members
-battles were on a grid, you could attack specific body parts
-you could also equip different body parts
-you could pick or break locks
-there were lizardmen in a cave somewhere in the game, one such cave had sections in it where if you walked into them, the game would say something like, "this area is available in the full version"
-I'd guess the game came out somewhere between 1992-1995
-it used to be in the AOL game archives, or whatever that was called, around AOL version 2.0 or 3.0, that long list of shareware games that AOL made available to download

Doctor Goat posted:

my dad was an ace at terminal velocity and breezed through the game but he could only fly upside down, if he flew rightside up he couldn't aim or fly right

ok here's the description of the game i can't find and maybe someone here knows what it was

Pablo Gigante posted:

I figured out what it is, it's called WarWizard. I downloaded a copy to test in DosBox and when you start it up it plays a horse sound and a chorus kinda song