Carcassone on low settings.

One of the 1000 Qix clones in existence?

Battleship?

All reasonable suggestions but no hits yet.

Puzzle quest: revenge of the Tutti

A little more.

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Mork and Mindustry?

Helsing’s Fire?

Paradroid?

Nice call

Nothing yet…

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Etrian Odyssey?

So have you just played everything already, which is why you’re forever posting obscure pixel games? :)

etrian

Also, for the record, Etrian Odyssey is a goddamn masterwork of a dungeon crawler and everyone should play it.

when I post Mario Kart 8, nobody guesses it either, because it’s too obvious! I am stuck between a rock and my crotch.

I knew that colour was awfully familiar in three first couple of shots, I am relieved to finally having placed it. It’s the best game for anyone who liked drawing maps of 3d dungeons. It’s weird nobody tried to copy that aspect of the game: instead its legacy is that it spawned a bunch of RPGs with questionable character design!

There’s a Mario Kart 8? See this is my problem, I’m happy to guess anything I can ID but there’s a broad swath of gaming I’m no longer up on.

Right? And it’s a tragedy, because the mapping is so great. Though admittedly, I don’t know how you’d capture that feel without the DS’s pad and the stylus. I bought a DS specifically for the Etrian games, and don’t regret it.

Anyway, I shall guess Dead Cells and be comically wrong.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Maybe an high def Wii U version…

But not having seen any other takes on that genre on the DS is still a bit sad. Beyond the fascinating single handed map drawing, Etrian’s bugs, grind and balances quite hampered my fun.

Can’t really speak to the balance, but I didn’t have any bug problems. And grind? I got through the whole first game without ever replaying anything, as I recall.

Oh and… uh… Monster Hunter Ultimate?

Dungeon warfare 2