What are your favorite underrated video games?

My top 20 most underrated games more people should know about (I did gameplay videos for all these):

1) Rise of Legends (a fantastic RTS that takes inspiration from Starcraft)

https://youtu.be/Lt4P-fnu0SY

2) Sleeping Dogs (amazing open world GTA clone except you’re a kung fu wielding triad double agent)

https://youtu.be/GCR7O4ltvE4

3) Dark Sun: Shattered Lands (awesome early DOS D&D RPG)

https://youtu.be/h-fAyjH3A0o

4) Anachronox (awesome cyberpunk RPG)

https://youtu.be/r4hcgO3hnxE

5) Catacomb Abyss (primitive but creepy early horror DOS FPS)

https://youtu.be/6O3puxWU3Sk

6) Leisure Suit Larry 6 (I’m not afraid to admit I played games with early 90s sexual humor)

https://youtu.be/yDnyLhYigbE

7) Freelancer (Microsoft’s forgotten space management shooter)

https://youtu.be/u8t-DttyOdY

8) Warlords Battlecry III (makes the list just based on ridiculous number of races you can play as in this RTS)

https://youtu.be/9Ncq5TX50qE

9) Traffic Department 2192 (DOS shooter involving a sociopathic protagonist, mind control, aliens, cyborgs and cloning)

https://youtu.be/gFbvlhk9LGQ

10) Quest for Glory IV (Dark Lovecraftian horror inspired adventure / RPG)

https://youtu.be/IsLpRJ4WGHo

11) Cloudpunk (awesome cyberpunk voxel art indie adventure)

https://youtu.be/-a7QtdBYm8M

12) Eastward (Earthbound inspired charming indie RPG)

https://youtu.be/SvG2F0HRWaI

13) Nox (tongue in cheek Diablo II clone)

https://youtu.be/yC8qqKTz_TI

14) NEO: World Ends with you (an improvement upon the original in every way very unique urban inspired JRPG)

https://youtu.be/R7WX6Va0lf0

15) Policenauts (along with Snatcher, my favorite Hideo Kojima game)

https://youtu.be/sy8uKqFYElo

16) Close to the Sun (imagine Bioshock but leaning more into the horror aspect)

https://youtu.be/kh22dHc7DYs

17) 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (combination japanese adventure / strategy game with some time travel thrown in)

https://youtu.be/mq6142kS76s

18) Sakura Wars (fun mecha JRPG with visual novel elements)

https://youtu.be/gK75kAMcYEQ

19) Shadow Warrior 3 (fun FPS romp with Shang Chi like main character)

https://youtu.be/S-3kIzGJgHQ

20) Akiba’s Trip (JRPG where you defeat vampires by stripping them. nuff said)

https://youtu.be/Fpkgt7EJFYo


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