So Evennia is interesting in that it’s not really programming. You basically go inside your empty game and start building it with commands. It’s pretty neat: https://www.evennia.com/docs/latest/Howtos/Beginner-Tutorial/Part1/Beginner-Tutorial-Building-Quickstart.html

You can run scripts that basically auto create stuff to save time, but I find the live environment pretty cool because you can test things as you go along. There’s also a lot of preexisting stuff available for it to get started.

There really are just so many!

These are also some of my own game picks just off the top of my head:

Toonstruck - A point and click adventure game starring Christopher Lloyd. There was a lot of FMV garbage around this time, but this game is actually very very well done. I honestly haven’t played a ton, but I need to go back and play for real.

Little Big Adventure - Been a long time since I’ve played this but I have fond memories.

The Chzo Mythos games - A series of adventure games dealing with serial killers and occult stuff. I remember liking really this overall.

Space Funeral - A weird (but fun) RPG maker game with an amazing soundtrack.

Dope Wars - An old text based PC game where you fly to different cities and buy and sell drugs.

Dead of the Brain - A PC-98 horror game with a fan translation that I played fairly recently. Has neat art, cool music, and a terrible but entertaining story line.

I remember Shadow of the Beast and Lemmings, but wasn’t sure what Psygnosis did after that era. Looks like they made some pretty cool stuff!

Kor is awesome and everyone reading this should go check it out immediately :3

This other game looks pretty cool too! I’ll have to check it out, but I also have a massive list of games to check out thanks to this thread so might take me some time :D

I used to be way into MUDs back in the day, and I think Mirkwood was the one I played the most. I still play Aardwolf sometimes. More recently I experimented a bit with Evennia and it was surprisingly not as difficult as I thought it would be. Would be relatively easy for a group to make something together in it… HexMUD when??

Either? Or both? I’d think most obscure PC games that people remember fondly would also be old.

Oh I absolutely loved that one. I also played Space Funeral around that same time and group them together in my head. Both of them are great.

A friend of mine very graciously gifted me his old Steam Deck and I’ve been hard at work putting emulators and roms on it. It’s really amazing how far emulation has come. I got achievements and cloud saves set up on it and I’ve also found that it runs most Switch games quite well. If Switch 2 is as easy to emulate as the Switch, I have no doubt that we’ll have Switch 2 roms being played on Steam OS. Or similar devices.

I’ve also been focused on adding fan translated games that were never released outside of Japan, including a bunch of PC-98, Super Famicom, Saturn, and PS1 stuff. Anyone have any recommendations of older games I probably haven’t played but should?